Michael Williams: 193 books
Galvanizing Performance
The Alexander Technique as a Catalyst for Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
The Alexander Technique is a specific form of mind/body practice that focusses on improving efficiency through learning and understanding movement and behavior. Galvanizing Performances applies the teachings of this practice to the performing arts. Through theatre, music, and dance, the contributors,...
Advancing Variable Star Astronomy
The Centennial History of the American Association of Variable Star Observers
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Founded in 1911, the AAVSO boasts over 1200 members and observers and is the world's largest non-profit organization dedicated to variable star observation. This timely book marks the AAVSO's centennial year, presenting an authoritative and accurate history of this important association. Writing in...
Security Beyond the State
Private Security in International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Across the globe, from mega-cities to isolated resource enclaves, the provision and governance of security takes place within assemblages that are de-territorialized in terms of actors, technologies, norms and discourses. They are embedded in a complex transnational architecture, defying conventional...
by Marc Williams, Ph.D., FAAAAI
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Wildlife Toxicity Assessments for Chemicals of Military Concern is a compendium of chemical-specific toxicity information with discussions on the rationale and development of Wildlife Toxicity Reference Values (TRVs) intended for use on terrestrial wildlife for risk assessment applications. Substances...
The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting
Essays on Trauma, History, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting: Essays on Trauma, History, and Memory brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines that draw on multiple perspectives to address issues that arise at the intersection of trauma, history, and memory. Contributors include critical...
by Michael Ann Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1995
The Great Smoky Mountains, at the border of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, are among the highest peaks of the southern Appalachian chain. Although this area shares much with the cultural traditions of all southern Appalachia, the folklife here has been uniquely shaped by historical events,...
by Michael Dyer, Clark Murdock, Thomas Karako
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
For decades, the United States has led the effort to stem the spread of nuclear weapons, both among potential adversaries and among its allies and partners. The current state of deterrence and of the nonproliferation regime, however, is open to many doubts. What happens if the nonproliferation regime...
Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis
The Role of International Law and the State Department Legal Adviser
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2010
Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis grew out of a series of meetings that the authors convened with all ten of the living former U.S. State Department legal advisers (from the Carter administration to that of George W. Bush). Based on their insider accounts of the role that international law...
The Politics of Heresy in Ambrose of Milan
Community and Consensus in Late Antique Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Ambrose of Milan is famous above all for his struggle with, and triumph over, 'Arian' heresy. Yet, almost all of the evidence comes from Ambrose's own writings, and from pious historians of the next generation who represented him as a champion of orthodoxy. This detailed study argues instead that...
Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies
Conversations on Race and Racializations
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies is a unique collection of essays derived from a series of dialogues held in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Los Angeles on the issues of racializations, gender, communities, and the positionalities of scholars involved in Japanese American studies. The book brings together...
Ocean Dynamics and the Carbon Cycle
Principles and Mechanisms
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
This textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students presents a multidisciplinary approach to understanding ocean circulation and how it drives and controls marine biogeochemistry and biological productivity at a global scale. Background chapters on ocean physics, chemistry and biology provide...
Pushed out the Crack House into God’S House
How to Allow Your Past to Push You into Your Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Have you ever lost hope in life because of your past? Has a situation taken hold of you? Are you a backslider? Its okay! It is never too late to be who God has created you to be. NOW, is the acceptable time for you to allow your past to push you into your destiny! God led me from a house that had...
Endocrinology
Modern Practical Nursing Series
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Endocrinology presents the study of the endocrine system, including a number of specialized organs found in the different areas of the body.
The book enumerates the different endocrine glands of the endocrine system, and then details how each gland functions and the parts they play in the metabolism...
by Michael J. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Infected with the deadliest plague the world had ever seen. The world must unite to combat and defeat a parasitic mutation that has engulfed the world for thousands of years with its incurable diease.