Michael D Ward: 13 books
by Michael D. Ward, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Spatial Regression Models illustrates the use of spatial analysis in the social sciences within a regression framework and is accessible to readers with no prior background in spatial analysis. The text covers different modeling-related topics for continuous dependent variables, including: mapping...
Maximum Likelihood for Social Science
Strategies for Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
This volume provides a practical introduction to the method of maximum likelihood as used in social science research. Ward and Ahlquist focus on applied computation in R and use real social science data from actual, published research. Unique among books at this level, it develops simulation-based...
Bringing Columbia Home
The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Timed to release for the 15th Anniversary of the Columbia space shuttle disaster, this is the epic true story of one of the most dramatic, unforgettable adventures of our time.
On February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on reentry before the nation’s eyes, and all seven astronauts aboard...
Transforming the Academy
Faculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
In recent decades, American universities have begun to tout the “diversity” of their faculty and student bodies. But what kinds of diversity are being championed in their admissions and hiring practices, and what kinds are being neglected? Is diversity enough to solve the structural inequalities...
by Russ Crossley, J. D. Brink, Blaze Ward
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In the tradition of classic pulp crime fiction these talented writers are sharing their takes on strange and weird detectives in strange worlds:
Paranormal detective, Amanda Dark, seeks answers at the haunted Moonrise Diner from the ghost of her dead uncle.
Dean Wesley Smith asks the...
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Blaze Ward, Douglas Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Flights of imagination needn't be long in order to weave a wonderful tale. Join these authors in their shorter flights for a broad array of fabulous short stories in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and more. Perfect imaginative getaways for commuting, breaks and lunchtimes, bedtime reading, or anytime...
Heroic Tales
A Collection Of 19 Great Tales- Novels, Novella, And Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Imagine: you are seated about a blazing campfire, your and the other bards. Tales of Achilles, Beowulf, Alexander, Odysseus, Conan, Tarzan, Joan of Arc and other heroes are told, along with new ones that carry on with the Jungian archetypes so central to our very nature. Men and women who brave the...
by Dean Wesley Smith, Sabrina Chase, J. D. Brink
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
It's time to take flight and fight the good fight on the final frontier! The excitement never ends as you launch into a starry realm of intergalactic battles, adventures through space, and ultimate rewards for high-tech genius and bravado. Leap between universes and soar through the stars, led by...
The Out of This World Bundle
A Sixteen Book Box Set
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
Explore the future and the universe with this exciting ebook bundle of science fiction and fantasy short stories, novellas, and novels.
Discover how people will survive, and thrive, as they encounter challenges in outer space or deal with struggles here on Earth.
Mystery and adventure,...
After the Factory
Reinventing America's Industrial Small Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
The most pressing question facing the small and mid-sized cities of America's industrial heartland is how to reinvent themselves. Once-thriving communities in the Northeastern and Midwestern U. S. have decayed sharply as the high-wage manufacturing jobs that provided the foundation for their prosperity...
North America
The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North...
Corey Village and the Cayuga World
Implications from Archaeology and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The Cayuga are one of the original five nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy,
a powerful alliance of Native American tribes in the Northeast, inhabiting
much of the land in what is now central New York State. When their
nation was destroyed in the Sullivan–Clinton campaign of 1779, the Cayuga
endured...
by Rick D. Saucier, Michael J. Messina, Lori L. Lohman
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book explores the challenges of an academic teaching career. The authors discuss the issues that may arise in the tenure process, scholarship activities, publishing, and providing service to their academic communities as well as how to keep teaching lessons relevant and fresh.