Michael Smith: 358 books
by Michael B. Ballard, Stephen Nathaniel Dossman, William B. Feis
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Ulysses S. Grant’s ingenious campaign to capture the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River was one of the most decisive events of the Civil War and one of the most storied military expeditions in American history. The ultimate victory at Vicksburg effectively cut the Confederacy in...
by Becky Heaver, Michael Barton, Andrew Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
In this rich and diverse collection, 28 writers describe what positive experiences they have had as an autistic person, and show how the most unexpected subject areas can be a source of the positive. They demonstrate that individuals can, and do, experience life in positive ways, sometimes in the...
Studies in Culture Contact
Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.
Studies in Culture Contact:...
Urban Development and Civil Society
The Role of Communities in Sustainable Cities
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The world's population is rapidly urbanizing but the affluence and development often associated with cities are far from equitably or sustainably distributed. Where it was once taken for granted that responsibility for urban development lay with the state, increasingly the emphasis has shifted to...
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...
City and Nation
Rethinking Place and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This compendium offers a textured historical and comparative examination of the significance of locality or "place," and the role of urban representations and spatial practices in defining national identities. Drawing upon a wide range of disciplines - from literature to architecture and...
by Michael D. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
When a star thirty-four light years away vanishes, leaving the infrared signature of a Dyson sphere, Supreme Commander Jack Commer readies the untested Typhoon V for Iota Persei, assigning talented Physician/Engineer Laurie Lachrer to the ship and asking a reluctant Will Connors, traumatized by old...
by Elizabeth Milroy, Catharine Dann Roeber, Emily Mann
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world, known both as a leader in the movement for religious toleration in England and as a founder of two American colonies, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As such, his career was marked by controversy and contention...
by Elisabeth Lambert Abdelgawad, Jean-Marc Akakpo, Zeynep Arkan
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This book examines the political and legal challenges of regional governance of the 28 countries of the European Union and the 48 in the Council of Europe. The contributions, dilemmas, and moral hazards from this record of nearly seven decades of regional inter-governmental institutions has kept the...
Gerrymandering in America
The House of Representatives, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Popular Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
This book considers the political and constitutional consequences of Vieth v. Jubelirer (2004), where the Supreme Court held that partisan gerrymandering challenges could no longer be adjudicated by the courts. Through a rigorous scientific analysis of US House district maps, the authors argue that...
Second Language Learning
Theoretical Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
A survey and analysis of second language theory discusses the development of ideas in this expanding area of language studies. It looks at the implications of these ideas and directions for future research. Contains study questions and activities as well as practical guidelines on the use of available research resources.
March's Advanced Organic Chemistry
Reactions, Mechanisms, and Structure
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
The new, revised and updated 7th edition of March’s Advanced Organic Chemistry clearly explains the theories and examples of organic chemistry, providing the most comprehensive resource about organic chemistry available.
Readers are guided on planning and execution of multi-step synthetic...
by Michael B. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
The Compendium of Organic Synthetic Methods serves as a handy desktop reference for organic chemists to browse new reactions and transformations of interest, facilitating the search for functional group transformations in the original literature of organic chemistry. Volume 13 contains both functional...
We Reason & We Prove for ALL Mathematics
Building Students’ Critical Thinking, Grades 6-12
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2018
Sharpen concrete teaching strategies that empower students to reason-and-prove
What does reasoning-and-proving instruction look like and how can teachers support students’ capacity to reason-and-prove? Designed as a learning tool for mathematics teachers in grades 6-12, this book transcends...