Michael Woods: 16 books
by Michael Woods
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2011
Cats in the Mouse House launches a mystery/techno thriller series in the spirit of Rex Stout and Michael Crichton. Created by Michael and Mary B. Woods, co-authors of 50 published books on science and technology, the Nicholas Drake novels unfold from Towering Oaks, an updated Civil War era plantation...
Rural Geography
Processes, Responses and Experiences in Rural Restructuring
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2004
"Michael Woods has taken on the formidable task of giving an overview of rural places and society in advanced economies as a single author and has presented a book that rightly deserves to be called state-of-the-art."
- Geographische Rundschau
"With Rural Geography Michael Woods...
Bleeding Kansas
Slavery, Sectionalism, and Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas Border
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Between 1854 and 1861, the struggle between pro-and anti-slavery factions over Kansas Territory captivated Americans nationwide and contributed directly to the Civil War. Combining political, social, and military history, Bleeding Kansas contextualizes and analyzes prewar and wartime clashes in Kansas...
by Michael Woods
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Olduvai Countdown, a compelling medical thriller in the tradition of Michael Crichton, Robin Cook, and Michael Palmer, tells the story of Jack Cann, a world-renown virologist, tired of navigating the arcane politics of a highbrow Ivy League school, who returns to his Midwestern Kansas roots to lead...
by Michael Woods
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
The division of ‘rural’ and ‘urban’ is one of the oldest ideas in Geography and is deeply engrained in our culture. Throughout history, the rural has been attributed with many meanings: as a source of food and energy; as a pristine wilderness, or as a bucolic idyll; as a playground, or a place...
Cultivating Soil and Soul
Twentieth-Century Catholic Agrarians Embrace the Liturgical Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Even before Vatican Council II, individuals like Virgil Michel and Catholic social movements like the National Catholic Rural Life Conference attempted to promote greater social justice by reconnecting rural life in the United States with the liturgical life of the church. Efforts to remedy this dislocation...
An Introduction to Political Geography
Space, Place and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
An Introduction to Political Geography continues to provide a broad-based introduction to contemporary political geography for students following undergraduate degree courses in geography and related subjects.
The text explores the full breadth of contemporary political geography, covering...
Contesting Rurality
Politics in the British Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Rural issues have gained national prominence in Britain in recent years. The future of hunting, the Foot and Mouth outbreak, farm income and agricultural reform and housing development have all claimed political and media attention, promoted by a vocal rural lobby and headline-grabbing protests and...
by Michael E. Woods
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
The sectional conflict over slavery in the United States was not only a clash between labour systems and political ideologies but also a viscerally felt part of the lives of antebellum Americans. This book contributes to the growing field of emotions history by exploring how specific emotions shaped...
Cryopolitics
Frozen Life in a Melting World
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
The social, political, and cultural consequences of attempts to cheat death by freezing life.
As the planet warms and the polar ice caps melt, naturally occurring cold is a resource of growing scarcity. At the same time, energy-intensive cooling technologies are widely used as a means of preservation....
Equity and Full Participation for Individuals with Severe Disabilities
A Vision for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
What key issues and challenges affect the lives of people with severe disabilities today's and what should tomorrow's professionals do to address them? Aligned with the core values and agenda of TASH, this visionary text prepares professionals to strengthen supports and services for people with disabilities...
by Michael Muckian, John A Woods
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
With hundreds of ready-to-use model business letters that you can adapt for your own business correspondence!
These clear, easy-to-follow sample letters cover the most important type of business correspondence:
Proposals and requests for bids or information
Claims, complaints, and policy...
The Annotated Secessionist Papers
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
A collection of essays, articles and papers that discuss secession from a legal, constitutional and historical perspective.
The Green Thread
Dialogues with the Vegetal World
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking...
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