Mclaughlin: 452 books
Christian Theology and the Status of Animals
The Dominant Tradition and Its Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
The author argues that there are conflicting traditions with regard to the question of what is the moral standing of animals according to Christianity. The dominant tradition maintains that animals are primarily resources but there are alternative strands of Christian thought that challenge this view.
48 Hours Chicago
Timed Tours For Short Stays
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
Short on time? Discover the “Second City” of the United States with this compelling guide to the sights and sounds of Chicago. In spite of the vast geographical scope of the city, you'll feel you have truly explored its unique offerings.
Sustaining the Nation
The Making and Moving of Language and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This book is an ethnography of labor mobility and its challenges to the idea of the nation. Using the example of francophone Canada, it examines how social difference-race, ethnicity, language, gender-has been used to sort out who must (or can) be mobile and who must (or can) remain in place in the...
Machiavelli’s Prince
Traditions, Text and Translations
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
One of the high-points of Italian Renaissance humanism, Machiavelli’s The Prince immediately transcended the time and culture from which it had sprung, circulating throughout Europe and paving the road to an astonishing variety of discussions on power and liberty for centuries to come. Indeed, one...
Scribbling Women & the Real-Life Romance Heroes Who Love Them
28 Bestselling Romance Writers Share Their Real-Life Love Stories
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
28 bestselling romance authors dish on how they met and married their real-life spouses!
At times whimsical and laugh-out-loud funny (Nikoo and Jim McGoldrick’s "Soul Mates for a Thousand Lifetimes"), at others poignant and bittersweet (Elf Ahearn’s "A Lost Friend, A Movie...
by Tompkins Mclaughlin
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
This is a high quality book of the original classic edition. This is a freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work. These few paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside: This is a...
Disability Classification in Education
Issues and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
This edited volume examines current disability classification systems, the dilemmas educators face in categorizing students with special needs, and alternative options based on recent challenges and trends.
Freedomland
1960-1964
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Freedomland opened on June 19, 1960, in the Baychester section of the Bronx, New York. Designed by Marco Engineering of Los Angeles for International Recreation Corporation, it was the third and largest innovative theme park built across America to mimic Disneyland. Constructed in the shape of the...
Radicalism
A Philosophical Study
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Confusion, controversy and even fear surrounds the political phenomenon of radicalism. This book attempts to make conceptual and historical sense of this phenomenon, both as a kind of practice and as a kind of thought, before defending it in a traditional if unfashionable form: a form that is historically progressive and politically humanistic.
Poisoned Chalice
How the Tories Self-Destructed
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1994
Poisoned Chalice chronicles the fateful end of the federal Progressive Conservative government in Ottawa. The Progressive Conservative Party sought to remake itself by choosing the first woman prime minister in Canadian history, but failed to heed the lessons of Meech or Charlottetown. Their strategy...
by Richard D. Howard, Gerald W. McLaughlin, William E. Knight
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Institutional research is more relevant today than ever before as growing pressures for improved student learning and increased institutional accountability motivate higher education to effectively use ever-expanding data and information resources.
As the most current and comprehensive volume...
B-17 Flying Fortress Restoration
The Story of a WWII Bomber's Return to Glory in Honor of the Veterans of the Mighty Eighth Air Force
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
The arrival of the WWII B-17 bomber at the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force in January of 2009 ini-tiated a great adventure for a group of warbird lovers from the nearby commu-nities as they united to restore that B-17. The dream of the volunteers was to honor the WWII veterans of the...
Kitchener
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 1983
The history of Kitchener is unique among cities in southern Ontario. Although Kitchener shares so much of the character of the region today, its past was considerably different. Until 1916, Kitchener was Berlin, “Canada’s German capital.” Over two-thirds of the residents were of German origin;...
Transmissions of Memory
Echoes, Traumas, and Nostalgia in Post–World War II Italian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Transmissions of Memory: Echoes, Traumas and Nostalgia in Post-World War II Italian Culture discusses cultural products—films, poetry, fiction, architectural buildings, autobiographical writing, and social media—to individuate through them the dynamics of memory. The field of analysis is Italian...