Michael D George: 20 books

Book cover of Critical issues in plant health: 50 years of research in African agriculture
by Dr Kenton Dashiell, Dr P. Lava Kumar, Dr Georg Goergen
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019

Plant health covers topics such as the safe handling and movement of germplasm and seed, as well as the range of biotic threats faced by crops and the ways they can be managed to optimise yields and ensure safety and quality in crop production. These threats include viral, bacterial and fungal diseases...
Book cover of Life, Death, and Meaning

Life, Death, and Meaning

Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions

by David Benatar, Margaret A. Boden, Peter Caldwell
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010

Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
Book cover of The Taste of American Place

The Taste of American Place

A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods

by Cary W. de Wit, Stephen Frenkel, Marjorie A. Hoover
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999

Tracing the intertwined roles of food, ethnicity, and regionalism in the construction of American identity, this textbook examines the central role food plays in our lives. Drawing on a range of disciplines_including sociology, anthropology, folklore, geography, history, and nutrition_the editors...
Book cover of Greeks in Chicago
by Ph.D., Michael George Davros
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009

Greeks arrived in America with the expectation that freedom would permit their families to thrive and be successful. With hard work, belief in the Orthodox faith, and commitment to education, Greeks ascended in Chicago, and America, to positions of responsibility and success. Today Greek Americans are...
Book cover of Leo Strauss, The Straussians, and the Study of the American Regime
by Kenneth L. Deutsch, John A. Murley, George Anastaplo
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1999

Responding to volatile criticisms frequently leveled at Leo Strauss and those he influenced, the prominent contributors to this volume demonstrate the profound influence that Strauss and his students have exerted on American liberal democracy and contemporary political thought. By stressing the enduring...
Book cover of New Perspectives on the Union War
by Michael Caires, Frank Cirillo, D.H. Dilbeck
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019

Eight prominent and rising scholars come together to grapple with the seismic shifts in the study of the North's decision to wage Civil War in the wake of Gary Gallagher's The Union War (Harvard University Press 2012)
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