William E : 630 books
Rant & Dawdle: The Fictional Memoir of Colston Wilmott
As Imagined by
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Rant & Dawdle is a fictional memoir comprising thirty-eight interwoven stories from the perspective of a grumpy old man living on a small island off the west coast of Canada and an expectant young boy born into the poverty of WW2 English working class. The old man dreaming in retrospect,...
by William E. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
It is often assumed that software testing is based on clearly defined requirements and software development standards. However, testing is typically performed against changing, and sometimes inaccurate, requirements. The third edition of a bestseller, Software Testing and Continuous Quality Improvement,...
This New Ocean
The Story of the First Space Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
It was all part of man's greatest adventure--landing men on the Moon and sending a rover to Mars, finally seeing the edge of the universe and the birth of stars, and launching planetary explorers across the solar system to Neptune and beyond.
The ancient dream of breaking gravity's hold and...
African American Identity
Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Jas M. Sullivan and Ashraf M. Esmail’s African American Identity: Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience is a collection which makes use of multiple perspectives across the social sciences to address complex issues of race and identity. The contributors tackle questions about what...
Elgin, Illinois
Wish You Were Here
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2001
Elgin, Illinois, was founded in 1835. However, the community truly came into its own at the end of the Civil War, when the Elgin National Watch Company moved there and took the city name as its own. The name Elgin became synonymous with quality for over 100 years. Elgin, Illinois: "Wish You Were Here"...
Classical Form
A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2000
Building on ideas first advanced by Arnold Schoenberg and later developed by Erwin Ratz, this book introduces a new theory of form for instrumental music in the classical style. The theory provides a broad set of principles and a comprehensive methodology for the analysis of classical form, from individual...
by William E. Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Nelson identifies three principal institutions involved in conflict resolution: the twon meeting, the church congregation, and the courts of law. He subsequently determines the type of cases over which each institution had jurisdiction and studies the procedures by which each functioned. He examines...
They Nearly All Died
The Nineteenth Indiana Regiment in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Ten young men from a small Indiana town volunteer to take up arms against the Confederates as war breaks out between North and South. The men will prove their mettle as part of Company K of the Nineteenth Volunteer Regiment, part of the Union Army of the Potomacs Iron Brigade. Known as fierce fighters,...
Alexander Wilson
Enlightened Naturalist
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
When talking about the Enlightenment, ornithology is seldom the first topic of conversation. Still, Enlightenment and ornithology converge in one important respect, that of abundance. In our time, new-wave ornithologists have renewed their faith in eighteenth-century expectations for the discovery...
Religious Worlds
The Comparative Study of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
From Gods, to ritual observance to the language of myth and the distinction between the sacred and the profane, Religious Worlds explores the structures common to all spiritual traditions.
by Louis Jacolliot and William E. Felt
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
[We intend to] "interpret and explain the Agrouchada-parikchai, which is the philosophical compendium of the Hindu spiritists; we shall tell what we saw with our own eyes, and shall faithfully record such explanations as we received from the Brahmins.
We shall pay particular attention...
Exit with Honor
The Life and Presidency of Ronald Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Few presidents have sparked as much interest in recent years as Ronald Reagan, already the subject of a large number of biographies and specialized subjects. This biography, based on recent research into the Reagan archives and synthesis of the large memoir literature, explores the shaping of his...
The Politics of Historic Districts
A Primer for Grassroots Preservation
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2006
The worst thing in politics is to be right and to lose. This how-to guide will give citizens who are fighting to designate a local historic district the political know-how to win the support of fellow residents and city hall. Everything is here: learning to think politically, mastering the political...
From God To Us Revised and Expanded
How We Got Our Bible
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Where did the Bible come from? How do we know the right books are in the Bible? Does the Bible contain errors? What are the oldest copies we have of the Bible? How do we know that the Bible hasn't been changed over the years? Why are there so many translations of the Bible, and which one should I...