W Allen: 173 books
Midway Submerged
An Analysis of American and Japanese Submarine Operations at the Battle of Midway, June 1942
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Scholarly studies on the Battle of Midway are prolific, yet few have examined the pivotal role American and Japanese submarines played. Fewer still have challenged the prevailing wisdom held among historians that US airstrikes on vulnerable Japanese fleet carriers marked a turning point in the war,...
Michael Allen's Online Learning Library: Successful e-Learning Interface
Making Learning Technology Polite, Effective, and Fun
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Michael Allen's e-Learning Library
Most e-learning that is produced for classroom training is created using instructional models that were introduced more than thirty years ago. To update design solutions for today's online learners, Michael Allen's e- Learning Library offers a review of the...
The Institutional Revolution
Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Few events in the history of humanity rival the Industrial Revolution. Following its onset in eighteenth-century Britain, sweeping changes in agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, and technology began to gain unstoppable momentum throughout Europe, North America, and eventually much of the world—with...
Leader of the Pack
The Fleet Submarine Uss Batfish in World War Ii
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Leader of the Pack recounts the incredible history of USS Batfish, a record-setting American World War II fleet submarine. Batfish entered the pantheon of military lore during its famous sixth patrol in February 1945, where it sank a record three Japanese submarines in seventy-six hours. In addition...
The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1
Racial Oppression and Social Control
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no “white” people there. Nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. In this seminal two-volume work, The Invention of the White Race, Theodore W. Allen tells the story of how America’s ruling classes...
Life in Utah
Centennial Selections from BYU Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
Life in Utah has never been easy. Thin soil and thick politics challenged everyone as Utah grew toward statehood in 1896. Native Americans, Mormon and gentile settlers, federal officials, LDS Church leaders—these Utah men and women all filled crucial roles. This book contains the best articles...
Michael Allen's Guide to e-Learning
Building Interactive, Fun, and Effective Learning Programs for Any Company
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Explore effective learning programs with the father of e-learning
Michael Allen's Guide to e-Learning: Building Interactive, Fun, and Effective Learning Programs for Any Company, Second Edition presents best practices for building interactive, fun, and effective online learning programs. This...
The Gift
A True Story of Life, Death, and Trust
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Charles Allen, loving husband and father in a family of eight, shares his personal experience of conquering the heartache and tragedy of losing two children to cystic fibrosis, and both his oldest daughter and wife to cancer. Through the details of Allen’s experiences of coping with the loss of...
by Jeff W. Allen
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Advances in surgery have reached an exponential scale, and the changes of the last decade of the twentieth century have become common prac tice. Imagination and foresight are the more visible standards for profes sional appointments than ever before. The fiber optic cable, computer, and Internet...
by Isabelle Wilkins, Lyndon M. Hill, Barbara Cohlan
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
The quick-reference guide for the diagnosis and treatment of fetal anomalies – completely updated with a new full-color design
Structural Fetal Abnormalities delivers practical, authoritative coverage of the detection and treatment of 125 of the most common fetal anomalies, grouped by organ...
by W. Allen Wallis, Prof. Harry V. Roberts, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Focusing on everyday applications as well as those of scientific research, this classic of modern statistical methods requires little to no mathematical background. Readers develop basic skills for evaluating and using statistical data. Lively, relevant examples include applications to business, government,...
The Invention of the White Race, Volume 2
The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, Martin Luther King outlined a dream of an America where people would not be judged by the color of their skin. That dream has yet to be realized, but some three centuries ago it was a reality. Back then, neither social practice nor law recognized any special...
Designing Successful e-Learning
Forget What You Know About Instructional Design and Do Something Interesting
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2011
This is the second volume of six in Michael Allen’s e-Learning Library—a comprehensive collection of proven techniques for creating e-learning applications that achieve targeted behavioral outcomes through meaningful, memorable, and motivational learning experiences. This book examines common...
Speed Trap
eighty robberies and fifty years
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
“In this personal account that reads like a novel,
Allen describes the exhilaration of his youthful rule-breaking behavior
as well as the crushing reality that followed.”
– William Stephens, Ph.D.