Michael J Cohen: 17 books
by Michael J. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Churchill's exalted position in the pantheon of Jewish and Zionist heroes has been almost taken for granted. This book looks beyond the myth and makes a sober reappraisal of the British statesman's attitudes and policies towards the Jews and to Zionism.
Britain's Moment in Palestine
Retrospect and Perspectives, 1917-1948
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
In 1917, the British issued the Balfour Declaration for military and strategic reasons. This book analyses why and how the British took on the Palestine Mandate. It explores how their interests and policies changed during its course and why they evacuated the country in 1948.
During the first...
The World's Water 2008-2009
The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Produced biennially, The World’s Water provides a timely examination of the key issues surrounding freshwater resources and their use. Each new volume identifies and explains the msignificant trends worldwide, and offers the best data available on a variety of topics related to water. The 2008-2009...
Palestine to Israel
From Mandate to Independence
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This collection of articles analyzes the underlying motivation, strategy and interests which lay behind "Great Power" (British and post-World War II American) involvement in Palestine and the Middle East, from 1917 to 1948.
The World's Water Volume 7
The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Produced biennially, The World's Water is the mcomprehensive and up-to-to date source of information and analysis on freshwater resources. Each new volume examines critical global trends and offers the best data available on a variety of topics related to water.
Volume 7 features chapters...
Long March Ahead
African American Churches and Public Policy in Post-Civil Rights America
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2004
Analyzing the extensive data gathered by the Public Influences of African American Churches project, which surveyed nearly two thousand churches across the country, Long March Ahead assesses the public policy activism of black churches since the civil rights movement. Social scientists and clergy...
The Dark Issue 33
The Dark, #33
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Edited by award winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallace and brought to you by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:
“Molting Season” by J.B. Park
“Harvest Song, Gathering...
by Marvin A. Cohen, Michael J. McCann
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005
The Broome Dusters played their first home game at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena on October 18, 1973. The game was symbolic of what was to come. Down 6-0, they fought back only to lose 8-7. Their fan support followed a similar pattern, lukewarm at first and then ferociously loyal. Hockey...
Foundations in Music Psychology
Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
A state-of-the-art overview of the latest theory and research in music psychology, written by leaders in the field.
This authoritative, landmark volume offers a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of the latest theory and research in music perception and cognition. Eminent scholars from...
by Richard G Delisle, Fabrizzio McManus, John de Vos
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Contributors from a range of disciplines consider the disconnect between human evolutionary studies and the rest of evolutionary biology.
The study of human evolution often seems to rely on scenarios and received wisdom rather than theory and methodology, with each new fossil or molecular analysis...
Human Subjects Research Regulation
Perspectives on the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Experts from different disciplines offer novel ideas for improving research oversight and protection of human subjects.
The current framework for the regulation of human subjects research emerged largely in reaction to the horrors of Nazi human experimentation, revealed at the Nuremburg trials,...
T’ai Chi & Qigong for Your Health
Historical and Scientific Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
T’ai Chi and qigong are popular because of their great reputations as exercises with numerous health-related benefits. Can these benefits simply be results of placebo effects? Chapters in this e-book not only provide an interesting historical backdrop in which taiji...
Paws, Claws, and Magic Tales
Fellowship of Fantasy, #5
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
There's just something magical about cats.
Fierce hunters content to rest upon our sofas. Sweet friends but stubbornly independent. Fluffy little murder balls with jellybean toes and razor-sharp claws. It's easier to answer what cats aren't than what they are.
In this purr-fect collection,...
Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
A Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005
As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...
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