M C T : 156 books
The Daily Show and Rhetoric
Arguments, Issues, and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
The Daily Show and Rhetoric: Arguments, Issues, and Strategies examines the popular Comedy Central program from a rhetorical perspective to uncover the ways in which Jon Stewart, the cast, and writers critique mainstream media and politicians. This volume analyzes the nature of The Daily Show, the...
by Trimiko Melancon, Kimberly Juanita Brown, Courtney J. Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Western culture has long regarded black female sexuality with a strange mix of fascination and condemnation, associating it with everything from desirability, hypersexuality, and liberation to vulgarity, recklessness, and disease. Yet even as their bodies and sexualities have been the subject of countless...
Material Constitution
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 1997
The only anthology available on material constitution, this book collects important recent work on well known puzzles in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. The extensive, clearly written introduction helps to make the essays accessible to a wide audience.
Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2004
Plato's Euthyrphro, Apology, and Crito portray Socrates' words and deeds during his trial for disbelieving in the Gods of Athens and corrupting the Athenian youth, and constitute a defense of the man Socrates and of his way of life, the philosophic life. The twelve essays in the volume, written by...
by John S. Grabowski, Montague Brown, Roger Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
It has always been understood that the central claim of Christianity—that Jesus born of Mary is the Son of God—is as much a declaration of the mystery of the human as it is the mystery of God; just as the claim that in virtue of this identity he is the Christ who restores, and more, transforms,...
The Unresolved National Question in South Africa
Left thought under apartheid and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The re-emergence of debates on the decolonisation of knowledge has revived interest in the National Question, which began over a century ago and remains unresolved. Tensions that were suppressed and hidden in the past are now being openly debated. Despite this, the goal of one united nation living...
by J. Crocker, P. DalCin, R.A. Fallon
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
New techniques make it possible for investigators to examine and sometimes quantify various aspects of nuclear morphology and function; now they can derive clinically and biologically useful information about the nucleus. This book draws together a series of techniques which have been successfully...
Lost City, Found Pyramid
Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
*Lost City, Found Pyramid delves into the fascinating world of sensational “pseudoarchaeology,” from perennial discoveries of lost pyramids or civilizations to contemporary ghost-hunting and reality TV. It examines how nonscientific pursuit of myths and legends warps both public perceptions of...
Facing the Consequences
Using TIMSS for a Closer Look at U.S. Mathematics and Science Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Facing the Consequences presents a perspective on US mathematics and science education that is developed from data gathered as part of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). TIMSS is the most extensive and far-reaching cross-national comparative study of mathematics and science...
Entrepreneurial Profiles of Creative Destruction
Courage, Imagination and Creativity in Action
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Entrepreneurial Profiles is intended to help students and practitioners of entrepreneurship think about what it takes to create a significant business, with focus on what it may take to create a successful and significant business.
by G. Abel, R. Bos, I.H. Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The European Union beyond the Crisis
Evolving Governance, Contested Policies, and Disenchanted Publics
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
This volume explores institutional and policy developments in the EU and its member states in a parallel examination of citizens’ views of the effectiveness of crisis response reflected in public trust, output legitimacy, and satisfaction with democracy. Our approach to understanding the crisis...
by D. T. Quigley, M. D., F. A. C. S.
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Since the first use of the word "vitamin" the problem of nutrition has been more or less confused. With the discovery of new vitamins confusion increased. When minerals were added to the necessary articles required for good nutrition the bungling and muddling connected with pontifical pronouncements...
by D.O. Adams, A. Akbar, H.B. Benestad
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The European Study Group for Cell Proliferation held its XVth Meet ing at Sundvolden, Norway, in September 1987. The program included a symposium on the cell kinetics of the in flammatory reaction, with invited speakers. This volume of Current Topics in Pathology contains the manuscripts submitted...