Mark Thomas: 285 books
Couleurs locales
13 nouvelles régionales américaines
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1966
Eh bien, il va falloir se faire une raison : l’Américain-type, ça n’existe pas ! Tant pis pour la belle ordonnance des idées toutes faites ; d’un Américain à l’autre, le caractère, les mœurs, la stature même diffèrent. Bien sûr il existe, chez tous les habitants du Nouveau Monde,...
Taking Chances
The Coast after Hurricane Sandy
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Humanity is deeply committed to living along the world’s shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandy—which took hundreds of lives and caused many billions of dollars in damages—shines a bright light at how costly and vulnerable life on a shoreline can be. Taking Chances offers a wide-ranging...
The Killing Spirit
An Anthology of Murder of Hire
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
Chilling works of literary noir: “Hopler has tracked down a remarkable number of hit-man stories by a remarkable collection of authors.” —New York Press
This unique collection of writings about hired killers includes stories, screenplays, and even poems—plus an appendix listing hit-man...
In Search of Humanity
Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of “humanity” as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative of—and also a replacement for—formerly more...
Handbook of Soccer Match Analysis
A Systematic Approach to Improving Performance
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Appealing to a wide audience, this ground-breaking handbook takes an in-depth look at soccer match analysis, highlighting the latest in match analysis research and the innovative technologies now being used by professional soccer clubs around the world.
Bridging the gap between research, theory...
Honor in the Modern World
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
After a century-long hiatus, honor is back. Academics, pundits, and everyday citizens alike are rediscovering the importance of this ancient and powerful human motive. This volume brings together some of the foremost researchers of honor to debate honor’s meaning and its compatibility with liberalism,...
by Stephen Chapis, Andrew Thomas, Mr Mark Postlethwaite
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Allied fighter pilots began encountering German jets – principally the outstanding Me 262 fighter – from the autumn of 1944. Stunned by the aircraft's speed and rate of climb, it took USAAF and RAF units time to work out how to combat this deadly threat as the Luftwaffe targeted the medium and...
Midnight Gore
Bloody Christmas
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2018
Short stories of Holiday Horrors to brighten and frighten your Christmas spirit.
Midnight Gore
The Serial Killer Newsletter
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
You will be introduced to Serial Killers and follow them on their killing sprees. Each story is an unedited account by the Serial Killers, themselves. Documented footage through the eyes, and brains that others question and study.
Millennial Culture and Communication Pedagogies
Narratives from the Classroom and Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
This book examines the ways in which faculty and staff at the higher education level teach and communicate with their millennial students and colleagues. The contributors address how millennials' academic and non-academic interests and everyday performances within and outside of higher education influence...
Sexual Disorientations
Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Sexual Disorientations brings some of the most recent and significant works of queer theory into conversation with the overlapping fields of biblical, theological and religious studies to explore the deep theological resonances of questions about the social and cultural construction of time, memory,...
Spring Data
Modern Data Access for Enterprise Java
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
You can choose several data access frameworks when building Java enterprise applications that work with relational databases. But what about big data? This hands-on introduction shows you how Spring Data makes it relatively easy to build applications across a wide range of new data access technologies...
by Mark Jenkins, Thomas J. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
More than 50 million Americans suffer from high blood pressure, and most of them control it by taking prescription drugs with potentially dangerous side effects. But there is a natural, affordable, and easy-to-manage alternative to medication: the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet....
Enlightenment and Secularism
Essays on the Mobilization of Reason
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Enlightenment and Secularism is a collection of twenty eight essays that seek to understand the connection between the European Enlightenment and the emergence of secular societies, as well as the character or nature of those societies. The contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines including...