John Michael: 772 books
Countering Coercion in Maritime Asia
The Theory and Practice of Gray Zone Deterrence
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
In the past decade, tensions in Asia have risen as Beijing has become more assertive in maritime disputes with its neighbors and the United States. Although taking place below the threshold of direct military confrontation, China’s assertiveness frequently involves coercive elements that put at...
Mindfulness and Critical Friendship
A New Perspective on Professional Development for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Mindfulness and Critical Friendship: A New Perspective on Professional Development for Educators assembles an international community of scholar-practitioners from multiple disciplines who utilize different methodologies and ideological perspectives to reflect on and interrogate contexts that situate...
by Marc Blecher, John P. Burns, Du Jie
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2003
Over the past two decades, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has paradoxically steered the development of a thriving capitalist economy. Unlike many faltering post-socialist states with fragile economies and weakly institutionalised democratic structures, China has witnessed a tide of economic entrepreneurialism...
Negative = Positive
"Only If You Want"
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
"Have you ever dreamed of being what youve imagined, by doing what you want to do, how you want, when you want, and overall being who you wanted to be. You can, simply by knowing yourself." With a combined gallery of Self made quotes. This book allow you to think about all the negative things...
Immigrant Children
Change, Adaptation, and Cultural Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Over the past several decades, the demographic populations of many countries such as Canada as well as the United States have greatly transformed. Most striking is the influx of recent immigrant families into North America. As children lead the way for a 'new' North America, this group of children...
The Fire that Never Sleeps
Keys to Sustaining Personal Revival
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Get Revived . . . and Stay On Fire!
“I had such a powerful experience with God. He touched my heart so deeply… and after that one encounter, I wanted to live for Jesus every day for the rest of my life.”
Then life went back to normal.
Sound familiar?
Perhaps you’ve had...
Texans on the Brink
Threatened and Endangered Animals
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.
Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...
by David Alvis, Martha Bayles, James W. Ceaser
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Democracy Reconsidered provides an enlightening study of democracy in America's post-modern context. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Peter Augustine Lawler explore some of the foundational principles of democracy as they have been borne out in American society. The essays included in this volume examine...
The Search for Mabila
The Decisive Battle between Hernando de Soto and Chief Tascalusa
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
One of the most profound events in sixteenth-century North America was a ferocious battle between the Spanish army of Hernando de Soto and a larger force of Indian warriors under the leadership of a feared chieftain named Tascalusa. The site of this battle was a small fortified border town within...
Deconstructing Reagan: Conservative Mythology and America's Fortieth President
Conservative Mythology and America's Fortieth President
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Although he left office nearly 20 years ago, Ronald Reagan remains a potent symbol for the conservative movement. The Bush administration frequently invokes his legacy as it formulates and promotes its fiscal, domestic, and foreign policies. His name is watchword for campus conservatives who regard...
by Michael D. Doubler and John W. Listman
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2007
The National Guard is the compelling account, in words and pictures, of the nationÆs oldest military institution. From the defense of the Jamestown settlement in 1607 to peacekeeping missions in the Balkans and, most recently, to their participation in the war on terrorism, the citizen-soldiers of the...
Chaucer’s Dream Visions
Courtliness and Individual Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Chaucer used the dream device to engage with the work of French and Italian authors and to explore the philosophical content of their poetry. His four dream visions therefore represent an important conduit through which the influence of European writers was received into English, enabling a profound...
Studies in Culture Contact
Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.
Studies in Culture Contact:...
Sterne, Tristram, Yorick
Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Sterne, Tristram, Yorick: Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne derives from the Laurence Sterne Tercentenary Conference held at Royal Holloway, University of London, on July 8–11, 2013. It was attended by some eighty scholars from fourteen countries; the conference heard more than sixty papers....