Richard Smith: 228 books
by William Binning, Jerry McBeath, Walter Clark Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The 2014 midterm congressional elections provided a view of the attitude of American voters in the sixth year of Barack Obama’s presidency. This book provides insight about the formative aspects of the 2014 campaign season as well as in depth coverage of key races for Congress. The first section...
by Richard D. Smith, Port Washington Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Port Washington is a picturesque community on the shores of Lake Michigan, just a short drive north of Milwaukee. It celebrates its 175th birthday in September 2010. This book is a vivid description of the city�s history, from the Native Americans who lived on these shores when the voyageurs first...
Improving Learning in College
Rethinking Literacies Across the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
What's the problem with literacy at college? How might everyday literacy be harnessed for educational ends?
Based on the first major study of literacy practices in colleges in the UK, this book explores the reading and writing associated with learning subjects across the college curriculum....
by Wei Shyy, H. S. Udaykumar, Madhukar M. Rao
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This text describes several computational techniques that can be applied to a variety of problems in thermo-fluid physics, multi-phase flow, and applied mechanics involving moving flow boundaries. Step-by-step discussions of numerical procedures include multiple examples that employ algorithms in problem-solving.In...
The Presidential Expectations Gap
Public Attitudes Concerning the Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
For decades, public expectations of U.S. presidents have become increasingly excessive and unreasonable. Despite much anecdotal evidence, few scholars have attempted to test the expectations gap thesis empirically. This is the first systematic study to prove the existence of the expectations gap and...
As Thick as Thieves
Foolish Felons & Loopy Laws
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
This tongue-in-cheek miscellany of the most bizarre offenses committed in Britain, the peculiar punishments that have been meted out here through the ages, and a variety of badly bungled crimes, is shocking, absurd, and amusing in equal measure. Also featuring a plethora of acts that are still considered...
Ind13 Issue 2
Indie Games Developer Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
What’s the big idea?
IND13 has been created to fill a gap discovered in the magazine and publishing market – a title aimed at people interested in independent games development. Our team of people working in the independent gaming indstry came together and created IND13 to fill that gap....
The Influence of Airpower upon History
Statesmanship, Diplomacy, and Foreign Policy since 1903
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
From early zeppelins, to the Luftwaffe and the Enola Gay, to the unmanned aerial vehicles of today, air power has long been regarded as an invaluable instrument of war. However, nations have employed aircraft for many other purposes as well; they provide security and surveillance, and they are vital...
Indigenous Homelessness
Perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Being homeless in one’s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands. The legacy of that dispossession and related...
Thinking about Oral History
Theories and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
A companion to History of Oral History, Thinking about Oral History presents parts III and IV of Handbook of Oral History, an essential resource for scholars and students. Guided by Charlton, Myers, and Sharpless, the prominent authors capture the current state-of-the-art in oral history and predict key directions for future growth in theory and application.
Home of the Brave: Confronting & Conquering Challenging Times
Confronting & Conquering Challenging Times
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
In good times and bad, in times of economic downturn and times of wartime peril, we as Americans have shown our mettle. There is something in the historical DNA of this people - a resilience, a power, a talent for innovation, a unique and empowering bravery - that has carried us forward as a nation...
Once Upon a Christmas
A Collection of Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
**ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS is a collection of short stories, all with Christmas settings, plots, and sentimentality. ** The author writes of his own boyhood Christmases, eighty-some years ago, and the Christmases of characters drawn from his imagination. He prepares us for each story with a commentary...
by Sunil Ahuja, Margaret E. Banyan, Peter Bergerson
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
The Roads to Congress 2008 offers readers straightfoward and detailed case studies of the campaigns, candidates, key issues, and outcomes of over one dozen of the most important and interesting races of 2008. This includes both House and Senate campaigns, contests from all regions of the country,...
To Breathe into Another Voice
A South African Anthology of Jazz Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
‘Writing about jazz is like dancing about architecture,' observed TheloniousMonk. It's possibly one of the few times he was wrong. Jazz poetry is almostas old as jazz itself. Poets such as Thulani Davis, Langston Hughes and ourown Keorapetse Kgositsile and Mongane Wally Serote have long heard thepatterns...