Walter James: 113 books

Book cover of Frontier Fighters

Frontier Fighters

On Active Service in Wazristan

by Cumming, James, Cumming
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010

These are fascinating memoirs of a British officer who fought the legendary Pathan tribesmen of the North-West Frontier, right up to the beginning of WW2. He describes desperate battles against this highly skilled and ruthless enemy. Pathan atrocities were commonplace and no prisoners were taken....
Book cover of Mass Communication and American Social Thought
by Jane Addams, Theodor Adorno, Gordon Allport
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2004

This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies...
Book cover of Editing Lives

Editing Lives

Essays in Contemporary Textual and Biographical Studies in Honor of O M Brack, Jr.

by Matthew Brack, Leslie A. Chilton, Loren Rothschild
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013

Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. The life of our fellow human beings, and how we know and tell lives, is one such area of modern knowledge...
Book cover of The Idea of the Public Sphere
by Hannah Arendt, Seyla Benhabib, James Bohman
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010

The notion of 'the public sphere' has become increasingly central to theories and studies of democracy, media, and culture over the last few decades. It has also gained political importance in the context of the European Union's efforts to strengthen democracy, integration, and identity. The Idea...
Book cover of A History of Horncastle (Illustrated)
by James Conway Walter
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014

“A recent historian has said “In the 13th century the northern counties of England were so unsettled that there was little security north of the Humber, and in 1250 the powerful Bishop of Carlisle found it necessary to buy the manor of Horncastle (his own residence in the north, Rose Castle, having...
Book cover of Lessons from Hurricane Ike
by Philip B. Bedient, James B. Blackburn Jr., Shannon S. Van Zandt
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012

If Hurricane Ike had made landfall just fifty miles down the Texas coast, the devastation and death caused by what was already one of the most destructive hurricanes in US history would have quadrupled. Ike made everyone realize just how exposed and vulnerable the Houston-Galveston area is in the...
Book cover of Root Cause Analysis Handbook

Root Cause Analysis Handbook

A Guide to Efficient and Effective Incident Investigation

by ABS Consulting, Lee N. Vanden Heuvel, Donald K. Lorenzo
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014

Are you trying to improve performance, but find that the same problems keep getting in the way? Safety, health, environmental quality, reliability, production, and security are at stake. You need the long-term planning that will keep the same issues from recurring. Root Cause Analysis Handbook: A...
Book cover of What Do We Expect from Our Government?
by Alison Brooks, , Chanin
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012

Much has changed in US politics since the historic 2008 election. While the press covers the actions and agendas of the new administration, other impacts of this political shift have not received as much attention. These changes have forced the nation to rethink the necessary role of government, the...
Book cover of Case Studies for School Leaders

Case Studies for School Leaders

Implementing the ISLLC Standards

by William Sharp, James K. Walter, Helen M. Sharp
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 1997

Whatever your profession, a common base of knowledge and standards of performance are required for admission to practice. As an educator, while it is true that the individual states administer actual licensure procedures, they do so based on core standards established across states. These case studies,...
Book cover of The Backstagers #2
by James Tynion IV, Walter Baiamonte
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016

The rest of the stage crew kids might be used to all the magical weirdness that goes on, but Jory is thrilled to discover more about the worlds backstage.
Book cover of Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)
by Various, William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Robert Louis Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

For two years it had been notorious in the square that Sam'l Dickie was thinking of courting T'nowhead's Bell, and that if Little Sanders Elshioner (which is the Thrums pronunciation of Alexander Alexander) went in for her, he might prove a formidable rival. Sam'l was a weaver in the tenements, and Sanders...
Book cover of Modern Cable Television Technology
by Walter Ciciora, James Farmer, David Large
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2004

Fully updated, revised, and expanded, this second edition of Modern Cable Television Technology addresses the significant changes undergone by cable since 1999--including, most notably, its continued transformation from a system for delivery of television to a scalable-bandwidth platform for a broad...
Book cover of Pediatric Cardiology

Pediatric Cardiology

The Essential Pocket Guide

by Walter H. Johnson, James H. Moller
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014

Caring for children with heart disease is extremely complex, requiring a different and often tailor-made approach compared with adults with similar cardiac problems. Built on the success of previous editions and brought to you by a stellar author team, Pediatric Cardiology: The Essential Pocket...
Book cover of Thinking from the Underside of History

Thinking from the Underside of History

Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation

by Karl-Otto Apel, Michael D. Barber, Enrique Dussel
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2000

Enrique Dussel's writings span the theology of liberation, critiques of discourse ethics, evaluations of Marx, Levinas, Habermas, and others, but most importantly, the development of a philosophy written from the underside of Eurocentric modernist teleologies, an ethics of the impoverished, and the...
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