Robert Ward: 72 books
by William Warren Rogers, Robert David Ward
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
In the late 1870s, Jefferson County, Alabama, and the town of Elyton (near the future Birmingham) became the focus of a remarkable industrial and mining revolution. Together with the surrounding counties, the area was penetrated by railroads. Surprisingly large deposits of bituminous coal, limestone,...
Accelerated Expertise
Training for High Proficiency in a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Speed in acquiring the knowledge and skills to perform tasks is crucial. Yet, it still ordinarily takes many years to achieve high proficiency in countless jobs and professions, in government, business, industry, and throughout the private sector. There would be great advantages if regimens of training...
Fields Watered with Blood
Critical Essays on Margaret Walker
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Representing an international gathering of scholars, Fields Watered with Blood—now available in paperback—constituted the first critical assessment of the full scope of Margaret Walker’s literary career. As they discuss Walker’s work, including the landmark poetry collection For My People...
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...
Forged from the Wilderness
The Lives of John and Elizabeth Bunyan
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
The England of the seventeenth century, with its political and religious turmoil, was really not so different from the America of the twenty-first. Since the fall in the Garden of Eden, there has always been Gods way and mans. Hence the timelessness of John Bunyans allegorical masterpiece, The Pilgrims...
Constructing Narratives in Response to Trump's Election
How Various Populations Make Sense of an Unexpected Victory
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
This book analyzes narratives on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election victory by and for diverse populations. The narratives are designed to help students, women, young Christians, evangelicals, parents of internationally adopted children, white nationalists, etc. understand the meaning and...
William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life
The Cries of the Wounded
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Virtue theory, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism: these are the basic moral theories taught in “Ethics,” “History of Philosophy,” and “Introduction to Philosophy” courses throughout the United States. When the American philosopher William James (1842 – 1910) find...
Alabama
The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
A new and up-to-date edition of Alabama’s history to celebrate the state’s bicentennial.
Alabama: The History of a Deep South State*,* Bicentennial Edition is a comprehensive narrative account of the state from its earliest days to the present. This edition, updated to celebrate the state’s...
by Robert DeCourcy Ward
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The advance of meteorology as a school study has been much hampered by the lack of a published outline of work in this subject which may be undertaken during the school years. There are several excellent text-books for more advanced study, but there is no laboratory manual for use in the elementary portions...
Young People's Transitions from Care to Adulthood
International Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
The transition from care into adulthood is a difficult step for any young person, but young people leaving care have a high risk of social exclusion, both in terms of material disadvantage and marginalisation.
In Young People's Transitions from Care to Adulthood leading academics gather together...
by Blaze Ward, Knotted Road Press, Leah Cutter
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019
The world is ending.
Right here.
Right now.
How?
Why?
What’s next?
Join us to explore eighteen different interpretations of the end of the world, from the amazingly silly to the darkest nightfall.
Be sure not to miss every issue of Boundary Shock Quarterly, available everywhere you get your books.
by Robert Alan Ward
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Seeker, a young woman from the city of Commonplace, wanders into the Lifestyle Shoppe, seeking a life. The shopkeeper explains to her its three rooms: Broadway, Striveway, and Narrow Way. Seeker resolves to try out each room before deciding where to buy. On her journey through each room, she encounters...
Metal-Based Neurodegeneration
From Molecular Mechanisms to Therapeutic Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Neurodegenerative diseases of the human brain appear in various forms, resulting in disorders of movement and coordination, cognitive deterioration and psychiatric disturbances. Many of the key factors leading to neurodegenerative diseases are similar, including the dysfunction of metal ion homeostasis,...
by Robert Alan Ward
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
In ancient times, Melitene is ravaged by violence, poverty, addiction, and unrest. The new governor, Trebonius, is charged by the emperor to bring stability to the island. He seeks the counsel of two leading Melitenians who represent diametrically opposed world views. Solon is a humble seeker of his...