Joseph Miller: 45 books

The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema interrogates notions of the child as a symbol of futurity and also loss. By exploring the ways children function discursively within a dystopian framework we may better understand how and why traditional notions of childhood are repeatedly tethered to sites of...

These essays are gleaned from articles published in Wichita Falls Medicine, the Wichita Falls Times Record News, Private Practice, and one from the unlikely pages of the Archives of Internal Medicine.  I threw out some I thought were awful.  Other than that exercise in self-protection, they flew from the computer in no particular order.  I chose them if they made me smile.

Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad...

The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our understanding of the modern catastrophe that is Hurricane Katrina. Five years after the storm, its profound impact continues to be felt. This new edition explores...

The tie that binds all Americans, regardless of their demographic background, is faith in the American system of government. This faith manifests as a form of civil, or secular, religion with its own core documents, creeds, oaths, ceremonies, and even individuals. In The Rhetoric of American Civil...

Jesus said, Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. An attempt is made to identify the Few. One learns there will be many more people who are not among the Few. The problem is complicated in that most Christians are not true Christians....

Recent U.S. immigration reform proposals have focused almost exclusively on regulating the population of low-skilled foreign workers. High-Skilled Immigration in a Global Labor Market contends that policymakers should focus more on attracting immigrants with exclusive skill sets-professional, technical,...

Completely revised to feature a new, more modern design, Orthopaedic Surgical Approaches presents all of the latest imaging modalities and techniques used in orthopaedics today. This medical reference book captures the changes in this rapidly evolving field, equipping you with an expert, illustrative...

We must discover the real world. All generations are struggling for truth! Truth is our heritage and gift to the next generation, so we must support education for all people. Some generations have essentially halted progress, and others are making progress only because of a few. In our world,...

What is Obedience? If one is guilty of one sin they are guilty of all sin. (James 2:10) Obedience is absolute! Our studies and our experiences make our knowledge and with them we develop the facts of our lives. Our faith must be with works. Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone....

The men and women of Tucker, Texas are split on the need for new library, which the women want,  or a gymnasium and weight room for the high school's sporting teams, which all the men support.  Ms Maybelle, the owner of the Paris Salon, takes a page from Lysistrata, and suggests that the ladies of the town withhold their sexual favors unless the men change and vote a library.

There is a rapidly emerging and developing area of music therapy practice that uses electronic music technologies in a range of therapeutic and clinical settings to help clients with complex needs. This edited volume explains cutting edge technologies and how to apply these tools in practice. With...

Bubba's Rules for Country Living comes from my own experience at the country Store at Lake Kickapoo in Northern Archer County in North Texas.  I moved to a small place at the Lake when disability forced me away from medical practice.  A wonderful life awaited me.  I was born in Ohio and raised all over the Midwest, but had the lasting good fortune to move to Texas and to marry South.

In the 1930's, H.L. Mencken said of the people who fled the dust bowl, "They are simply, by God's inscrutable will, inferior men, and inferior they will remain until by a stupendous miracle, He gives them equality among his angels."  This is the story of one such "inferior" man.  We first meet Jared as a child, walking away from the Kansas Dustbowl with his mother.