William G Martin: 11 books
After Prisons?
Freedom, Decarceration, and Justice Disinvestment
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
As recently as five years ago mass incarceration was widely considered to be a central, permanent feature of the political and social landscape. The number of people in U.S. prisons is still without historic parallel anywhere in the world or in U.S. history. But in the last few years, the population...
Making Waves
Worldwide Social Movements, 1750-2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Making Waves unearths the successive, worldwide waves of revolts, rebellions, and revolutions that have shaken and remade the world from the eighteenth century to the present. It challenges us to rethink not only our limited conceptions of social movements but the very character and possibilities...
Reclaiming the Game
College Sports and Educational Values
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
In Reclaiming the Game, William Bowen and Sarah Levin disentangle the admissions and academic experiences of recruited athletes, walk-on athletes, and other students. In a field overwhelmed by reliance on anecdotes, the factual findings are striking--and sobering. Anyone seriously concerned about...
by William F. Martin, John M. Lippitt, Timothy G. Prothero
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Hazardous Waste Handbook for Health and Safety provides instructions and guidelines to supervisors responsible for occupational safety and health programs at hazardous waste sites.
The manual presents the health and safety risks of hazardous waste sites; ways to implement and carry out hazardous waste...
Griechische Einladung in die Politik
Erzählungen, Geheimnisse und Rezepte
Language: German
Release Date: January 22, 2015
In Griechenland ist die Politik in aller Munde. Jeder, der einmal im Kafeníon seinen Frappé getrunken hat, kennt dieses Phänomen von den Nachbartischen. Es wird temperamentvoll diskutiert, mit Händen und Füßen gestikuliert und jedes Handeln von Regierung sowie Abgeordneten lautstark kommentiert....
Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...
Nature, Politics, and the Arts
Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in conversation with Woodring’s teachings on literature and visual art and his commentaries on American...
Interdisciplinary Essays on Environment and Culture
One Planet, One Humanity, and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
This is a collection of essays about the media, the environment, and the whole of humanity at the brink of extinction. As the demands of overpopulation and of an unsustainable consumer economy dry up existing natural resources and destroy vital ecosystems that we need to survive, the corporate-controlled...
African Americans in Central Texas History
From Slavery to Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Bruce A. Glasrud and Deborah M. Liles have gathered over thirty years of scholarship—articles, book excerpts, and new, original essays—to offer for the first time an overview of the history of African Americans in Central Texas. From slavery and agriculture in the nineteenth century to entrepreneurship...
A Century of Controversy
Constitutional Reform in Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This timely examination of Alabama’s severely criticized state constitution will serve as an indispensable guide for legislators and citizens considering reform of the outdated document.
Alabama’s present constitution, adopted in 1901, is widely viewed as the source of many, if not most,...
Field-cycling NMR Relaxometry
Instrumentation, Model Theories and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
Field-cycling NMR relaxometry is evolving into a methodology of widespread interest with recent technological developments resulting in powerful and versatile commercial instruments. Polymers, liquid crystals, biomaterials, porous media, tissue, cement and many other materials of practical importance...