W M James: 192 books
Comrades in Health
U.S. Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Since the early twentieth century, politically engaged and socially committed U.S. health professionals have worked in solidarity with progressive movements around the world. Often with roots in social medicine, political activism, and international socialism, these doctors, nurses, and other health...
International Folkloristics
Classic Contributions by the Founders of Folklore
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. Twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its...
Lincoln's Enduring Legacy
Perspective from Great Thinkers, Great Leaders, and the American Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Coming on the heels of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, Lincoln's Enduring Legacy offers highly readable and accessible perspectives on Lincoln at 200 in terms of his impact on great leaders and thinkers and his place in American history. The book explores how Lincoln's words and deeds...
by Patty Jo Watson, Janet Rafferty, Joseph M. Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States.
The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research...
by James W. Sipe and Don M. Frick
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Offers a skills-oriented approach to acquiring the most critical competencies of effective servant leadership, all without overlooking matters of the heart and soul that make it
With Us Always
A History of Private Charity and Public Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 1998
Although welfare reform is currently the government's top priority, most discussions about the public's responsibility to the poor neglect an informed historical perspective. This important book provides a crucial examination of past attempts, both in this country and abroad, to balance the efforts...
Peace versus Justice
Negotiating Forward- and Backward-Looking Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
This book examines the costs and benefits of ending the fighting in a range of conflicts, and probes the reasons why negotiators provide, or fail to provide, resolutions that go beyond just 'stopping the shooting.' What is the desired and achievable mix between negotiation strategies that look backward...
Troubling Intersections of Race and Sexuality
Queer Students of Color and Anti-Oppressive Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2001
In recent years, researchers have considerably expanded our understanding of the experiences of students of color and of students who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning (ie. Queer). They have provided us with rich resources for addressing racism and heterosexism; however, few...
Creepies 2: Things That go Bump in the Closet
Creepies, #2
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
From the masters of horror at Writers, Poets and Deviants:
Prepare for terror…
- An exterminator meets his match in a family's attic…
- A cuddly toy with a disturbing origin is all the rage…
- A boy's survival of a deadly accident turns out to be more curse than miracle…
- A man...
The Future of Prejudice
Psychoanalysis and the Prevention of Prejudice
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2007
Established psychoanalytic/psychodynamic researchers and theorists bring the exploration of prejudice to a new level by examining how psychoanalysis might elucidate strategies that will eliminate prejudice.
The Problem of Evil
New Philosophical Directions
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
This book engages the problem of evil from a variety of philosophical viewpoints, traditions, methodologies, and interests. For millennia, philosophers, theologians, and people outside of the academy have thought about evil and its relation to religious belief. The Problem of Evil: New Philosophical...
Atlas of Surgical Techniques for Colon, Rectum and Anus E-Book
(A Volume in the Surgical Techniques Atlas Series)
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Master the full range of colorectal procedures performed today with Atlas of Surgical Techniques for the Colon, Rectum, and Anus. In this volume in the Surgical Techniques Atlas Series, top authorities provide expert, step-by-step guidance on surgery of the large bowel, rectum, and anus - including...
Rethinking Social Movements
Structure, Meaning, and Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2003
This landmark volume brings together some of the titans of social movement theory in a grand reassessment of its status. For some time, the field has been divided between a dominant structural approach and a cultural or constructivist tradition. The gaps and misunderstandings between the two sides—as...
by Christopher Caldwell, Paul A. Cantor, James W. Ceaser
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Professions are institutions which, through their small size, self-governing elements, and sense of social mission, can assist in maintaining a sound civic culture. As mediating institutions in our democratic society that are neither entirely birthed by the state nor are entirely private, the individual...