W W Wood: 44 books
The Rock 'n' Roll Classroom
Using Music to Manage Mood, Energy, and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Pump up the volume to increase student learning!
Drawing on educational and neuroscientific research, the authors unlock the mystery of managing mood, energy, and learning with music in this one-of-a-kind handbook. No matter what subject or grade you teach, ***The Rock 'n' Roll Classroom ***provides...
by Sol Stern, Peter W. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Why Conservatives Should Stop Opposing the Common Core (Common Core: Yea)
by Sol Stern
In the past few decades as progressives gained influence in universities and schools of education the idea of a coherent, content-rich curriculum has been erased from America’s classrooms. Now, for...
Or Go Down in Flame
A Navigator's Death Over Schweinfurt
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Though Anglo-American air power may be unrivaled in today’s world, this was certainly not the case during Europe’s last great war. Decades ago, when our airmen flew against Germany, horrific casualties resulted on both sides, and certain battles fought by the Allied powers can be termed nothing...
by Allen W. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Allen W. Wood presents the first book-length systematic exposition in English of Fichte's most important ethical work, the System of Ethics (1798). He places this work in the context of Fichte's life and career, of his philosophical system as conceived in the later Jena period, and in relation to...
Dynamics of Human Reproduction
Biology, Biometry, Demography
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Awarded the W. W. Howells Award for the Outstanding Book in Biological Anthropology, this volume presents a comprehensive, integrated, and up-to-date overview of the major physiological and behavioral factors affecting human reproduction. In attempting to identify the most important causes of variation...
Intellectual Virtues
An Essay in Regulative Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2007
Out of the ferment of recent debates about the intellectual virtues, Roberts and Wood have developed an approach they call 'regulative epistemology'. This is partly a return to classical and medieval traditions, partly in the spirit of Locke's and Descartes's concern for intellectual formation, partly...
by Edward W. Wood, Jr
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Is any war a ôgood warö? In Worshipping the Myths of World War II, the author takes a critical look at what he sees is AmericaÆs dedication to war as panacea and as WashingtonÆs primary method for leading the world. Articulating why he believes the lessons of World War II are profoundly relevant...
Leaders and Battles
The Art of Military Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2009
No one man can win a battle by himself, but battles have been won and lost because of the strength or failings of one individual: the leader.
What went on in the minds and hearts of a select group of military leaders at critical moments in battle is the theme of this book. In Leaders and Battles,...
Bible Animals
Being a Description of Every Living Creature Mentioned in the Scripture, from the Ape to the Coral.
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents and Index
CONTENTS
PREFACE.
MAMMALIA.
THE APE.
THE BAT.
THE LION.
THE LEOPARD.
THE CAT.
THE DOG.
THE WOLF.
THE FOX, OR JACKAL.
THE HYÆNA.
THE WEASEL.
THE FERRET.
THE BADGER.
THE BEAR.
THE HEDGEHOG, OR BITTERN.
THE...
Epistemology
Becoming Intellectually Virtuous
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2009
How do we know what we know? What have wisdom, prudence and studiousness to do with justifying our beliefs? Jay Wood begins this introduction to epistemology by taking an extended look at the idea of knowing within the context of the intellectual virtues. He then surveys current views of foundationalism,...
The Meaning of Pentecost in Early Methodism
Rediscovering John Fletcher as John Wesley's Vindicator and Designated Successor
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2002
John Fletcher's theology of Pentecost is generally unknown today, and this book is the first comprehensive treatise on this subject. His writings were in large part responsible for shaping the theology of early American Methodism, especially his treatise on Christian Perfection, which highlighted...
by Allan W. Wood, Chris Bottomley
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Blackpool isn’t a particularly old town and its rapid development has primarily been fuelled by tourism in the last 150 years or so. To cater for the millions of visitors that arrive each year, Blackpool has more licensed premises than anywhere else in the country outside of Central London. Like...
Fort Clark and Its Indian Neighbors
A Trading Post on the Upper Missouri
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
A thriving fur trade post between 1830 and 1860, Fort Clark, in what is today western North Dakota, also served as a way station for artists, scientists, missionaries, soldiers, and other western chroniclers traveling along the Upper Missouri River. The written and visual legacies of these visitors—among...
by W. J. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
A military historian’s “eminently readable” look at the strategy and tactics at Bunker Hill, Trenton, and other battles of the American Revolution (George F. Scheer, author of Rebels and Redcoats).
This groundbreaking study argues that the Americans did not simply outlast the British...