Richard Wilson: 90 books
Incitement on Trial
Prosecuting International Speech Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
International and national armed conflicts are usually preceded by a media campaign in which public figures foment ethnic, national, racial or religious hatred, inciting listeners to acts of violence. Incitement on Trial evaluates the efforts of international criminal tribunals to hold such inciters...
Antidemocracy in America
Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences...
Thomas Jefferson and Philosophy
Essays on the Philosophical Cast of Jefferson's Writings
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Thomas Jefferson and Philosophy is a collection of nine new essays on philosophical elements in Jefferson’s writings. The first of its kind, this collection should lead to further philosophical analysis of Jefferson’s thinking—especially by philosophers, who tend to appreciate Jefferson only...
by Nick Adams, Erik Bergstrom, Simon Billinton
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
This is the tale of a town on the fringes of fear, of ordinary people and everyday objects transformed by terror and madness, a microcosm of the world where nothing is ever quite what it seems. This is a world where the unreal is real, where the familiar and friendly lure and deceive. On the outskirts...
Strengths and Challenges of New Immigrant Families
Implications for Research, Education, Policy, and Service
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Immigration to America is an issue that often sparks intense emotional reactions_from passion and compassion to anger and even rage. Often missing from the dialogue, however, is discussion of the strengths of immigrant newcomers_the abilities and positive characteristics they bring as individuals...
At the Edge
Sci-Fi and Fantasy from Australia and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Step up, as close as you dare…
…to a place at the edge of sanity, where cicadas scritch across balmy summer nights,
at the edge of town, where the cell phone coverage is decidedly dodgy,
at the edge of space, where a Mimbinus argut bounds among snowy rocks,
at the edge...
Harvard Classics Volume 42
English Poetry 3: Tennyson To Whitman
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2017
Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)
Let Nobody Turn Us Around
An African American Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the early years of slavery to the end of the 20th century. The essays, manifestos, interviews, and documents assembled here, contextualized with critical commentaries from Marable...
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
At War
The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
The country’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its interventions around the world, and its global military presence make war, the military, and militarism defining features of contemporary American life. The armed services and the wars they fight shape all aspects of life—from the formation of racial...
by Peter Bergerson, Margaret Banyan, William K. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
The 2012 congressional elections played an equally vital role in determining the future course of America as the presidential race that topped the electoral ticket. Readers of this book will gain insights about the formative aspects of the 2012 campaign season as well as in depth coverage of key races...
by Richard M.S. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Many enquiries into the state of accounting education/training, undertaken in several countries over the past 40 years, have warned that it must change if it is to be made more relevant to students, to the accounting profession, and to stakeholders in the wider community.
This book’s over-riding...
The Hedge Fund Book
A Training Manual for Professionals and Capital-Raising Executives
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
An accessible guide to effectively operating in the hedge fund arena
Hedge funds are now in the news more than a thousand times a day and yet it is hard to find clear, factual information about how they operate, raise capital, and invest. The Hedge Fund Book provides real-world case studies...
by Richard M.S. Wilson, Colin Gilligan
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This third edition of Strategic Marketing Management confirms it as the classic textbook on the subject. Its step- by- step approach provides comprehensive coverage of the five key strategic stages:
* Where are we now? - Strategic and marketing analysis
* Where do we want to be? - Strategic...