Matthew Green: 29 books
The Speaker of the House
A Study of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Matthew N. Green provides the first comprehensive analysis of how the Speaker of the House has exercised legislative leadership from 1940 to the present. Green finds that the Speaker’s party loyalty is tempered by a host of competing objectives, including reelection, passage of desired public policy laws, handling the interests of the president, and meeting the demands of the House as a whole.
Underdog Politics
The Minority Party in the U.S. House of Representatives
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
In the first comprehensive study of the subject in decades, political scholar Matthew Green disputes the conventional belief that the minority party in the U.S. House of Representatives is an unimportant political player. Examining the record of the House minority party from 1970 to the present, and...
Choosing the Leader
Leadership Elections in the U.S. House of Representatives
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
The first comprehensive study in more than forty years to explain congressional leadership selection
How are congressional party leaders chosen? In the first major study since Robert Peabody’s classic Leadership in Congress, political scientists Matthew Green and Douglas Harris draw on newly...
Philanthrocapitalism
How Giving Can Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
For philanthropists of the past, charity was often a matter of simply giving money away. For the philanthrocapitalists-the new generation of billionaires who are reshaping the way they give-it's like business. Largely trained in the corporate world, these "social investors" are using big-business-style...
Beyond 1776
Globalizing the Cultures of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
In Beyond 1776, ten humanities scholars consider the American Revolution within a global framework. The foundation of the United States was deeply enmeshed with shifting alliances and multiple actors, with politics saturated by imaginative literature, and with ostensible bilateral negotiations that...
Existere 37.2
Journal of Arts and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
A story is never one-sided. There will always be other perspectives,
other points of view, that someone can take—and why shouldn’t we?
Using these different perspectives helps us observe, understand and
learn from our experiences—they help us grow. Putting forth the
effort to take on these points...
The Greatest Gothic Classics
Frankenstein, The Castle of Otranto, St. Irvyne, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Phantom Ship, The Birth Mark, The Headless Horseman, The Man-Wolf, The Beetle, The Phantom of the Opera...
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Frankenstein The Orphan of the Rhine Nightmare Abbey The Tell-Tale Heart The Fall of the House of Usher The Cask of Amontillado The Masque of...
The Antipodean Philosopher
Public Lectures on Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Philosophy in both Australia and New Zealand has been has been experiencing, for some time now, something of a 'golden age', exercising an influence in the global arena that is disproportionate to the population of the two countries. To capture the distinctive and internationally recognised contributions...
The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens
Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019
The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens examines the political interests, relationships, and practices of two of the era’s most prominent politicians as well as the political landscapes they inhabited and informed. Both men called Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, their home, and both were...
by Matthew J.S. Green
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
In the small town of Elgin, a horrendous storm strikes forever changing the lives of everyone who lives there. A young man is struck by lightning and miraculously survives, left only with three circles on his chest that glow a brilliant blue. Then he discovers that it has done more than scarred him,...
Rethinking the Enlightenment
Between History, Philosophy, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
One of the most persistent, troubling, and divisive of the ideological divisions within modernity is the struggle over the Enlightenment and its legacy. Much of the difficulty is owed to a general failure among scholars to consider how history, philosophy, and politics work together. Rethinking the...
Apple Pro Training Series
Xsan Quick-Reference Guide, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2006
by Matthew J. A. Green
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The first book-length study to address Moore’s significance to the Gothic, this volume is also the first to provide in-depth analyses of his spoken-word performances, poetry and prose, as well as his comics and graphic novels.
Studio-Based Approaches for Multimodal Projects
Models to Promote Engaged Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Studio-Based Approaches for Multimodal Projects examines a cross-section of strategies for studio approaches and models that enable process-oriented multimodal projects and promote student learning. This collection features seven chapters authored or coauthored by leaders and innovators in studio-based...