List 37 of books by Michael Thomas

Heroes of Helios (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 3)

by Michael G. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012

Heroes of Helios is the third book in the epic 'Nexus' series, part of the growing Star Crusades universe that chronicles humanity's first steps away from Alpha Centauri and beyond. A strike group of the dozen most advanced ships in the Alliance is assembled and sent to a summit of the remaining...

Champions of the Apocalypse

by Michael G. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011

A devastating apocalypse has left the world in ruins with entire regions choked by a deadly sickness. There is no form of communication and no central government, just a loose alliance of towns and warbands under the banner of the League. This loose alliance fights a desperate struggle against the...

Mirror Empires: Sky Lords of Khartoum

by Michael G. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018

Welcome to the Mirror Empires, where reality is distorted, and war threatens to engulf the world. It is 1898, and soldiers armed with the latest weapons clash with the unstoppable power of the Sky Lords and their aerial armadas in new and uncharted realms. Jack never expected to spend his nineteenth...

(Un)Believing in Modern Society

Religion, Spirituality, and Religious-Secular Competition

by Jörg Stolz, Judith Könemann, Mallory Schneuwly Purdie
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016

This landmark study in the sociology of religion sheds new light on the question of what has happened to religion and spirituality since the 1960s in modern societies. Exposing several analytical weaknesses of today's sociology of religion, (Un)Believing in Modern Society presents a new theory of...

The Securitization of Climate Change: Australian and United States' Military Responses (2003 - 2013)

by Michael Durant Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017

This book examines how the armed forces of the United States and Australia have responded to the threat posed by climate change to national security. Drawing on established securitisation frameworks (‘Copenhagen’ and ‘Paris’ Schools), the author uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative...

The Changing Nature of Pain Complaints over the Lifespan

by Michael R. Thomas, Ranjan Roy
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013

A landmark contribution to chronic pain literature, this contemporary text measures the intricate relationship between chronic pain and life transition events. Researchers and clinicians will appreciate The Changing Nature of Pain Complaints Over the Lifespan for its linking of life transition theories...

Educating Monks

Minority Buddhism on China’s Southwest Border

by Thomas A. Borchert, Mark Michael Rowe
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017

Most studies of Buddhist communities tend to be limited to villages, individual temple communities, or a single national community. Buddhist monastics, however, cross a number of these different framings: They are part of local communities, are governed through national legal frameworks, and participate...

Auf Hochtouren

by Lars Eighner, R. S. Thomas, Matthew Rettenmund
Language: German
Release Date: May 2, 2017

Zwölf schwule Sex-Geschichten rund ums Reisen - jede ein echt heißer Trip! Irgendetwas am Reisen ist verdammt sexy. Es macht Spaß, alles Alltägliche und Gewöhnliche im Leben hinter sich zu lassen, und sei es nur für ein paar Tage im Urlaub. Die hier gesammelten Geschichten spielen rund um den...

Lords of War (Star Crusades: Mercenaries, Book 1)

by Michael G. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014

Lords of War is the first novel in the epic new ‘Mercenaries’ series that chronicles the violent struggles of the sprawling Centauri Alliance. The Great Biomech War left millions dead, colonies burned, and cities turned to ash. Millions continue to endure in the harshest of conditions....

Fossil Fungi

by Thomas N Taylor, Michael Krings, Edith L. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014

Fungi are ubiquitous in the world and responsible for driving the evolution and governing the sustainability of ecosystems now and in the past. Fossil Fungi is the first encyclopedic book devoted exclusively to fossil fungi and their activities through geologic time. The book begins with the historical...

Economic Development and Environmental Protection: Economic Pursuit of Quality

Economic Pursuit of Quality

by Thomas Michael Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015

This text takes issue with the notion that economic well-being of people derives only from quantitatively expanding commercial business activity. It argues that economic qualities flow from the natural and social environment, and that they are public, not private, in character.

Unternehmerisches Wagnis in der stationären Pflege

Rechtslage und Quantifizierung der Vergütung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Regelungen des dritten Pflegestärkungsgesetzes

by Frierich Detlef, Benjamin Herten, Thomas Neldner
Language: German
Release Date: January 15, 2018

Im dritten Pflegestärkungsgesetz hat der Gesetzgeber explizit die Berücksichtigung eines „angemessenen Unternehmerrisikos“ im Rahmen der Pflegevergütung für die Träger der stationären Einrichtungen und ambulanten Pflegedienste verankert. Die Konkretisierung bleibt den Akteuren der Selbstverwaltung...

Planungshilfe Biogasanlagen aus Beton

Planung, Bemessung, Ausführung

by Matthias Middel, Harald Feldmann, Florian Pelzer
Language: German
Release Date: March 20, 2013

Der Bau von Biogasanlagen zur Erzeugung umweltfreundlicher Energie hat in den letzten Jahren einen Boom erlebt, der sicher noch einige Jahre anhalten wird. Der Betrieb dieser Anlagen stellt hohe Ansprüche an die Baukonstruktion. Gleichzeitig erwarten die Betreiber - Landwirte, Kommunen und Investoren...

Mit Gott neu beginnen

Die Zeitdimension von Theologie und Kirche in ereignisbasierter Gesellschaft

by Michael Schüßler, Gottfried Bitter, Kristian Fechtner
Language: German
Release Date: October 10, 2013