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America's Fiscal Constitution: Its Triumph and Collapse
by Bill WhiteWhat would Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, Truman, and Eisenhower have done about today's federal debt crisis?America's Fiscal Constitution tells the remarkable story of fiscal heroes who imposed clear limits on the use of federal debt, limits that for two centuries were par... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Uppity: My Untold Story About The Games People Play
by Bill White • Willie MaysThere are very few major personalities in the world of sports who have so much to say about our National Pastime. And even fewer who are as well respected as Bill White.Bill White, who's now in his mid 70s, was an All-Star first baseman for many years with the New York Giants, St.Louis Cardinals an... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Reducing Reoffending
by Bill Whyte • Fergus McNeillReducing Reoffending provides a critical overview of social work and community justice in Scotland, taking full account of recent developments. The book is divided into three comprehensive sections. Part one of the book provides a critical analysis of the challenge of reducing reoffending in Scotlan... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Sister
Raised with twelve brothers in a part of the segregated South that provided no school for African American children through the 1940s, Sylvia Bell White went North as a teenager, dreaming of a nursing career and a freedom defined in part by wartime rhetoric about American ideals. In Milwaukee she a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
Intrepid: The Epic Story of America's Most Legendary Warship (Redbooks)
The first official history of the legendary aircraft carrier that fought in World War II and Vietnam and continues to serve as a major air and space museum in New York CityThe USS Intrepid is a warship unlike any other. Since her launching in 1943, the 27,000-ton, Essex-class aircraft carrier has sa... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Essentials of Water Systems Design in the Oil, Gas, and Chemical Processing Industries
Essentials of Water Systems Design in the Oil, Gas and Chemical Processing Industries provides valuable insight for decision makers by outlining key technical considerations and requirements of four critical systems in industrial processing plants--water treatment systems, raw water and plant water ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
How to Win Friends and Influence Enemies: Taking On Liberal Arguments with Logic and Humor
by Will WittPolitical commentator and media personality Will Witt gives young conservatives the ammunition they need to fight back against the liberal media.Popular culture in America today is dominated by the left. Most young people have never even heard of conservative values from someone their age, and if th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison: Poems (American Biography Ser.)
First published in 1865, Belle Boyd's memoir of her experiences as a Confederate spy has stood the test of time and interest. Belle first gained notoriety when she killed a Union soldier in her home in 1861. During the Federal occupations of the Shenandoah Valley, she mingled with the servicemen and... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1998 -
Developments in Social Work with Offenders
by Gwen Robinson • Fergus Mcneill • Barry Goldson • Tim Chapman • James Bonta • Iain Crow • Gill Mcivor • Loraine Gelsthorpe • Shadd Maruna • Frank Porporino • Chris Trotter • Sue Rex • Sam Lewis • James Mcguire • Steve Wormith • David O'Mahony • Peter Raynor • Bill Whyte • Maurice Vanstone • David O ''MahonyDevelopments in Social Work with Offenders explains the organisational and legislative changes that have occurred in social work and probation across the UK in the past 10 years, in the context of the accumulating body of knowledge about what constitutes effective practice in the assessment, supervi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
PV and the NEC
by Bill Brooks • Sean WhiteUsed throughout the United States and many other countries, the National Electric Code (NEC) is the world’s most detailed set of electrical codes pertaining to photovoltaic (PV) systems. Photovoltaic Systems and the National Electric Code presents a straightforward explanation of the NEC in everyda... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
PV and the NEC
by Bill Brooks • Sean WhiteUsed throughout the United States and many other countries, the National Electrical Code (NEC) is the world’s most detailed set of electrical codes pertaining to photovoltaic (PV) systems. PV and the NEC presents a straightforward explanation of the NEC in everyday language. This new edition is b... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Irish Volunteer Soldier 1913-23
The political situation in Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century was characterised by crisis and change. Armed rebellion against the British Crown, the prosecution of the Anglo-Irish War, the emergence of the Irish Free State, and the eruption of the Civil War over the treaty with Great Brita... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
Urban Blue Spaces: Planning and Design for Water, Health and Well-Being
by Simon Bell • Lora E. Fleming • Friedrich Kuhlmann • Mathew P. White • Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen • James GrellierThis book presents an evidence-based approach to landscape planning and design for urban blue spaces that maximises the benefits to human health and well-being while minimising the risks. Based on applied research and evidence from primary and secondary data sources stemming from the EU-funded BlueH... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Fear No Evil: A Test of Faith, a Courageous Church, and an Unfailing God
by Bill Hybels • Brady BoydIn the years following the senseless and tragic shooting on the campus of New Life Church in northern Colorado Springs, Colorado, Senior Pastor Brady Boyd has received countless questions from the faith-filled and faithless alike. As the nation watched the suffering congregation reel from the gunman... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Management in the Age of Digital Business Complexity (Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology)
Management in the Age of Digital Business Complexity focuses on how the digital age is changing management and vastly speeding up complexity dynamics. The recent coevolution of technologies has dramatically changed in just a few years how people and firms learn, communicate, and behave. Consequent... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
The Nature of Hope: Grassroots Organizing, Environmental Justice, and Political Change
by Cody Ferguson • Adam Tompkins • Bill McKibben • Brinda Sarathy • Michael Egan • Kyle Powys Whyte • Sophia Cheng • Monica Mariko Embrey • Hugh Fitzsimmons • Paul Hirt • Jill M. Holslin • Anna J. Kim • Charles Laurier • Jeffrey C. Sanders • Adam M. Sowards • Ellen StroudThe Nature of Hope focuses on the dynamics of environmental activism at the local level, examining the environmental and political cultures that emerge in the context of conflict. The book considers how ordinary people have coalesced to demand environmental justice and highlights the powerful role o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Tourism Crisis and Disaster Management in the Asia-Pacific
by Ulrike Gretzel • Brent Ritchie • Catherine Catherine • Jie Jie • Jeremy Jeremy • Emily Emily • Kom Campiranon • Jing Bill Jing • Leanne White • Vorawan Vorawan • David Beirman • Ken Ken • Scott Richardson • Chin-Chin Chin-Chin • Lori Pennington-Gray • Birgit BirgitThe Asia-Pacific area is notable as one of the fastest growing tourism regions and not surprisingly, tourism in this region has become the major driver of global tourism in general. Nonetheless, tourism industries in Asia Pacific has been challenged in recent years by a number of major crises and di... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Planning for Rural Resilience: Coping with Climate Change and Energy Futures
by Ralph Martin • Chris White • Wayne J. Caldwell • Erica Ferguson • Emanuel Lapierre-Fortin • Jennifer Ball • Suzanne Reid • Paul Kraehling • Eric Marr • John Devlin • Tony Mcquail • Margaret Graves • Bill Deen • Christopher BryantClimate change and an evolving non-renewable energy sector threaten the future viability and sustainability of communities across the country. While rural communities have a special place in the national fabric, they often lack the resources to tackle these important and evolving threats. Planni... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Tourism Crisis and Disaster Management in the Asia-Pacific (CABI Series in Tourism Management Research)
by Ulrike Gretzel • Catherine Catherine • Jie Jie • Jeremy Jeremy • Emily Emily • Jing Bill Jing • Leanne White • Vorawan Vorawan • David Beirman • Ken Ken • Scott Richardson • Chin-Chin Chin-Chin • Lori Pennington-Gray • Birgit BirgitThe Asia-Pacific area is notable as one of the fastest growing tourism regions and not surprisingly, tourism in this region has become the major driver of global tourism in general. Nonetheless, tourism industries in Asia Pacific has been challenged in recent years by a number of major crises and di... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)
by Richard Bell • Jonathan W. White • Robert J. Cook • Frank J. Williams • Thomas G. Clemens • Brian Matthew Jordan • Frank Towers • Timothy J. Orr • Martha Jones • Sharita Jacobs-Thompson • Jessica Millward • Rob SchoeberleinCONTENTS:Introduction, Jean H. Baker and Charles W. Mitchell“Border State, Border War: Fighting for Freedom and Slavery in Antebellum Maryland,” Richard Bell“Charity Folks and the Ghosts of Slavery in Pre–Civil War Maryland,” Jessica Millward“Confronting Dred Scott: Seeing Citizenship from Baltimore... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Biodiversity and Human Health
The book provides a common framework for physicians and biomedical researchers who wish to learn more about environmental concerns, and for members of the environmental community who desire a greater understanding of biomedical issues.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1997 -
Unwatchable
by J. Hoberman • Jonathan Rosenbaum • Boris Groys • Susie Bright • Vivian Sobchack • W.J.T. Mitchell • Noel Carroll • Bill Nichols • Jonathan Crary • Stefano Harney • Jan Olsson • Barbara Hammer • B. Ruby Rich • Fred Moten • Mattias Frey • Abigail De Kosnik • E. Ann Kaplan • Jeffrey Sconce • Meghan Sutherland • Michael Boyce Gillespie • Christophe Wall-Romana • Jennifer Malkowski • Asbjørn Grønstad • Jack Halberstam • Jared Sexton • Rebecca Schneider • Frances Guerin • Peter Geimer • Alexandra Juhasz • Julian Hanich • Samuel England • Mauro Resmini • Katariina Kyrölä • Erika Balsom • Kenneth Berger • Alex Bush • Alec Butler • Mel Chen • Lynne Joyrich • Nathan Lee • Akira Lippit • Brandy Monk-Payton • Danielle Peers • Raul Perez • Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi • Philipp Stiasny • Bennet Togler • Leshu Torchin • Alok Vaid-Menon • Meir Wigoder • Emily Wills • Federico Windhausen • Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa • Genevieve Yue • Alenka Zupancic • Poulomi SahaWe all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us as... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Life's Work: Alan Alda
by Alan Alda • Leslie A. Perlow • Pankaj Ghemawat • Daniel Mcginn • Adi Ignatius • Robert C. Pozen • Greg Welch • Erin Meyer • Robert S. Kaplan • Elizabeth J. Altman • Jill Avery • Sandra J. Sucher • Eunice Eun • Matthew Preble • Forest Reinhardt • Ethan S. Bernstein • Michael W. Toffel • Ryan W. Buell • Andrei Hagiu • Constance N. Hadley • Alison Beard • Oliver Sng • Melanie Whelan • Kimberly A Whitler • Neil A. Morgan • D. Eric Boyd • Caren Fleit • S. P. Kothari • Melissa A. Schilling • Ginni Rometty • Joe TripodiBest known for playing Hawkeye Pierce on the TV series "M*A*S*H," actor Alan Alda is also a director, scriptwriter, book author, science-show host, and founder of two organizations that help people improve their communications skills. In this interview, he shares his insights on the value of the imp... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023