John Wall: 13 books

Book cover of Streamliner

Streamliner

Raymond Loewy and Image-making in the Age of American Industrial Design

by John Wall
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018

Born in Paris in 1893 and trained as an engineer, Raymond Loewy revolutionized twentieth-century American industrial design. Combining salesmanship and media savvy, he created bright, smooth, and colorful logos for major corporations that included Greyhound, Exxon, and Nabisco. His designs for Studebaker...
Book cover of Moral Creativity

Moral Creativity

Paul Ricoeur and the Poetics of Possibility

by John Wall
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2005

In Moral Creativity, John Wall argues that moral life and thought are inherently and radically creative. Human beings are called by their own primordially created depths to exceed historical evil and tragedy through the ongoing creative transformation of their world. This thesis challenges ancient...
Book cover of None But Christ
by John Wall
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016

None But Christ by the Puritan John Wall is 33 chapters on Paul's statement, "I determined to know nothing among you save Christ and Him crucified." In typical Puritan fashion Wall exhausts his subject, that nothing but Christ matters, and why that is so. It is a God-honoring, Christ-exalting book that will help you fall more deeply in love with the Savior.
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The Children's Table

Childhood Studies and the Humanities

by Annette Ruth Appell, Carol Singley, James Marten
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013

Like the occupants of the children's table at a family dinner, scholars working in childhood studies can seem sidelined from the "adult" labor of humanities scholarship. The Children's Table brings together scholars from architecture, philosophy, law, and literary and cultural criticism to provide...
Book cover of Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur

Honoring and Continuing the Work

by Lorenzo Altieri, Pamela Anderson, Patrick Bourgeois
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011

This collection of essays is dedicated to the prolific career of Paul Ricoeur. In his lifetime, Ricoeur made significant contributions to many fields, such as theology, aesthetics, narratology, linguistics, and of course, philosophy. Within philosophy alone, he engaged many currents of thoughts, always...
Book cover of Children's Rights

Children's Rights

Today's Global Challenge

by John Wall
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016

This accessible and authoritative book provides the first systematic overview of the global children’s rights movement. It introduces both beginners and experts to child and youth rights in all their theoretical, historical, cultural, political, and practical complexity. In the process, the book...
Book cover of The Search for Human Chromosomes

The Search for Human Chromosomes

A History of Discovery

by Wilson John Wall
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015

​This book is a broadly historical account of a remarkable and very exciting scientific story–the search for the number of human chromosomes. It covers the processes and people, culminating in the realization that discovering the number of human chromosomes brought as much benefit as unraveling...
Book cover of A Christian Stroll Through the Hebrew Bible
by John F. Wall, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014

A Christian Stroll through the Hebrew Bible will be a welcome resource for both Christians and non-Christians who feel that their grasp of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) is tenuous. John Wall walks the reader through the major stories and lessons of God’s wonderful message. The story is one of...
Book cover of Genetic Influences on Addiction

Genetic Influences on Addiction

An Intermediate Phenotype Approach

by Mary-Anne Enoch, Tamara L. Wall, Susan Luczak
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013

A comprehensive review of research examining intermediary mechanisms to understand the link between genetic variation and addiction liability. Although there is scientific consensus that genetic factors play a substantial role in an individual's vulnerability to drug or alcohol addiction, specific...
Book cover of Bluegrass Renaissance

Bluegrass Renaissance

The History and Culture of Central Kentucky, 1792-1852

by Stephen Aron, Shearer Davis Bowman, Gerald L. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012

Originally established in 1775 the town of Lexington, Kentucky grew quickly into a national cultural center amongst the rolling green hills of the Bluegrass Region. Nicknamed the "Athens of the West," Lexington and the surrounding area became a leader in higher education, visual arts, architecture,...
Book cover of Health Humanities Reader
by Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014

Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire...
Book cover of A Dictionary for Episcopalians
by John N. Wall
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2000

This illustrated dictionary for the Episcopal Church is an essential reference to its terminology, worship, structure, and polity.
Book cover of Faster than Nyquist Signaling

Faster than Nyquist Signaling

Algorithms to Silicon

by Deepak Dasalukunte, Viktor Öwall, Fredrik Rusek
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014

This book addresses the challenges and design trade-offs arising during the hardware design of Faster-than-Nyquist (FTN) signaling transceivers. The authors describe how to design for coexistence between the FTN system described and Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, enabling...
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