Matthew David: 193 books
The Book of Light
The Heart Opening
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
The Book of Light is a series of five small books that bring the reader back into the light. Are you curious about bringing your heart and mind into oneness? Do you want to tap into the innate wisdom of the heart and God? Learn about:- The Foolish Storyteller and how to let it work for you and stop using...
Imaginarium 3
The Best Canadian Speculative Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Imaginarium 3: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing is a reprint anthology collecting speculative short fiction and poetry (science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism, etc.) that represents the best work published by Canadian writers in the 2013 calendar year.
Featuring Colleen Anderson,...
by David Stuart Davies, Matthew Booth
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This exciting anthology brings together the work of two much admired Sherlock Holmes writers. In these stories Holmes and Watson are engaged in daring exploits applying their razor-sharp intelligence in new cases.
By David Stuart Davies
The Reichenbach Secret
The Adventure of the Brewer's Son
The...
Zones of Control
Perspectives on Wargaming
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts.
Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...
Presidents, Parties, and Prime Ministers
How the Separation of Powers Affects Party Organization and Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
This book provides a framework for analyzing the impact of the separation of powers on party politics. Conventional political science wisdom assumes that democracy is impossible without political parties, because parties fulfil all the key functions of democratic governance. They nominate candidates,...
Cryopolitics
Frozen Life in a Melting World
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
The social, political, and cultural consequences of attempts to cheat death by freezing life.
As the planet warms and the polar ice caps melt, naturally occurring cold is a resource of growing scarcity. At the same time, energy-intensive cooling technologies are widely used as a means of preservation....
by Angela N. H. Creager, Sigrid Schmalzer, Matthew Shindell
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.
The Cold War period saw a dramatic expansion of state-funded science and technology research. Government and military patronage shaped Cold War technoscientific...
by Virginia Jackson, Daniel Rosenberg, Travis D. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Episodes in the history of data, from early modern math problems to today's inescapable “dataveillance,” that demonstrate the dependence of data on culture.
We live in the era of Big Data, with storage and transmission capacity measured not just in terabytes but in petabytes (where peta-...
by Mark Thompson, Jon Thoday, Amanda D. Lotz
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
A guide to the nature, purpose, and place of public service television within a multi-platform, multichannel ecology.
Television is on the verge of both decline and rebirth. Vast technological change has brought about financial uncertainty as well as new creative possibilities for producers,...
by Matthew Wisnioski, Humera Fasihuddin, Leticia Britos Cavagnaro
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
A critical exploration of today's global imperative to innovate, by champions, critics, and reformers of innovation.
Corporate executives, politicians, and school board leaders agree—Americans must innovate. Innovation experts fuel this demand with books and services that instruct aspiring...
Processing Inaccurate Information
Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying, understanding, and remediating people's reliance on inaccurate information that they should know to be wrong.
Our lives revolve around the acquisition of information. Sometimes the information we acquire—from other people, from books, or from the...
Riots
An International Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
The past ten years have been marked by a series of high profile and heavily mediatised riots across the globe. From the overspill of racial tensions in Sydney to anti-police riots in London, democratic societies have witnessed powerful and costly outbursts of anger and violence. But what are the causes...
An Integrative Approach to Treating Babies and Children
A Multidisciplinary Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Working with babies and children is most successful when therapists have a complete understanding and overview of all appropriate treatment options, and the effects of early influences on child health and development. This book shows therapists how to consider these factors in order to work more effectively...
The Battle for the Court
Interest Groups, Judicial Elections, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Once largely ignored, judicial elections in the states have become increasingly controversial over the past two decades. Legal organizations, prominent law professors, and a retired Supreme Court justice have advocated the elimination of elections as a means to choose judges. One of their primary...