Michael Francis: 44 books

Book cover of No Way Out?

No Way Out?

Government Intervention and the Financial Crisis

by Michael D. Bordo, Ethan Ilzetzki, Greg Ip
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013

In response to the ongoing financial crisis, the U.S. government has significantly expanded its role in economy, resulting in new legislation and both public and private policy overhauls. But these hasty efforts to buoy the economy may ultimately do more harm than good. In No Way Out?, Vincent R....
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Brainfit

10 Minutes a Day for a Sharper Mind and Memory

by Corinne Gediman, Francis Michael Crinella
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2005

Brainfit is a training program designed to reclaim your brain. In 10 to 15 minutes a day individuals who are beginning to feel the effects of memory loss will see immediate reversal of the mental aging process. The 9 distinct, fast and fun weekly workouts focus on a different aspect of brain fitness....
Book cover of Journal of Corporate Governance
by Ituah Imhanze Lim, Aclarb, O.Y. Abdul-hamid Ph.D
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017

The bi-annual Journal of Corporate Governance contains well-researched articles on the control factor in the separation of ownership and management of companies operating within groups, Board practices in the Nigerian banking industry, Board processes and effectiveness, shareholder associations, corporate...
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Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context

Learning from the Sex Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church

by John P. Beal, Francis J. Butler, Patricia M. Y. Chang
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005

Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled. Well-known scholars, religious clergy, and laymen in the trenches...
Book cover of Expert Oracle Application Express
by Doug Gault, Dimitri Gielis, Martin DSouza
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015

Expert Oracle Application Express, 2nd Edition is newly updated for APEX 5.0 and brings deep insight from some of the best APEX practitioners in the field today. You'll learn about important features in APEX 5.0, and how those can be applied to make your development work easier and with greater impact...
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Saving America

For Our Children and Grandchildren

by Francis Michael Del Vecchio
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011

I'm not a writer so I don't give a damn if you read this book. It is a book to my grand children and everyone in their age group. This book is what I think and feel regardless of what is broadcast on radio, TV, internet and in the written media. The day will come when you will look for the book and...
Book cover of The DuPont Highway
by William Francis, Michael C. Hahn
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009

The original DuPont Highway, found on maps as Route 13 between Dover and Wilmington and as Route 113 between Dover and the southern border with Maryland, was the nation's first divided highway when its expansion between Dover and Wilmington was completed in 1934. It had been officially dedicated 10 years...
Book cover of Love in the Time of Ethnography

Love in the Time of Ethnography

Essays on Connection as a Focus and Basis for Research

by Lucinda Carspecken, Phil Francis Carspecken, Jana Clark
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017

Love in the Time of Ethnography explores love – variously defined – as an important facet of human life and a worthy focus of study. The authors look at love in association with an Alevi and Sunni couple in Turkey, organizers of Mexican American and immigrant youth movements, Christian missionaries...
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Brushfyre

A Rebellious Nation

by Robert Francis Michael Pullman
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017

Dreaming of you, my secret beloved. Its not your hearts affection but your mind that I covet. Are you a blessing or a curse in disguise? Are these feelings true, or am I living a lie? In a diverse collection of poems fifteen years in the making, Robbie Pullman shares a...
Book cover of From Children to Citizens

From Children to Citizens

Volume I: The Mandate for Juvenile Justice

by Thomas Bearrows, Mark H. Moore, Jeffrey Bleich
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

From the preface: "History has dealt the juvenile court (and, more broadly, the juvenile justice system) a cruel blow. What began as a promising social experiment has disappointed nearly everyone... Inevitably, disillusionment has weakened the mandate of the juvenile justice system. Conflicts...
Book cover of Augustine and World Religions
by Michael Barnes, Olivier Dufault, Paula Fredriksen
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2008

Augustine and World Religions examines Augustine's thought for how it can inform modern inter-religious dialogue. Despite Augustine's reputation as the father of Christian intolerance, one finds in his thought the surprising claim that within non-Christian writings there are 'some truths in regard...
Book cover of Rice insect pests and their management
by Prof. E. A. Heinrichs, Dr Francis E. Nwilene, Professor Michael J. Stout
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017

The rice plant is an ideal host for many insect species. All of the plant parts are vulnerable to insect-feeding from the time of sowing till harvest. There are over 800 insect species damaging rice in one way or another, although the majority of them do very little damage. In tropical Asia only about...
Book cover of The Crisis of Authority in Catholic Modernity
by Michael J. Lacey, Francis Oakley
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011

One deep problem facing the Catholic church is the question of how its teaching authority is understood today. It is fairly clear that, while Rome continues to teach as if its authority were unchanged from the days before Vatican II (1962-65), the majority of Catholics - within the first-world church,...
Book cover of Guide for the development and implementation of curricula for plurilingual and intercultural education
by Jean-Claude Beacco, Michael Byram, Marisa Cavalli
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016

Understanding and experiencing the diversity of languages and cultures is both an aim of and a resource for quality education Plurilingual and intercultural education is a response to the needs and requirements of quality education, covering the acquisition of competences, knowledge and attitudes,...
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