Michael George: 163 books
Our Prince of Scribes
Writers Remember Pat Conroy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In...
by George Alecusan, John E. Alvis, Donald R. Brand
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists,...
The Greatest and the Grandest Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 from Reconstruction to Today
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
In this volume ten expert historians and legal scholars examine the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the first federal civil rights statute in American history. The act declared that all persons born in the United States were citizens without regard to race, color, or previous condition of slavery. Designed...
by Sheree N. Alexander, Mariella I. Arredondo, Tabetha Bernstein-Danis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
This volume examines the school-to-prison pipeline, a concept that has received growing attention over the past 10–15 years in the United States. The “pipeline” refers to a number of interrelated concepts and activities that most often include the criminalization of students and student behavior,...
The Texas Right
The Radical Roots of Lone Star Conservatism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
In The Texas Right: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Conservatism, some of our most accomplished and readable historians push the origins of present-day Texas conservatism back to the decade preceding the twentieth century. They illuminate the initial factors that began moving Texas to the far right,...
The Command to Look
A Master Photographers Method for Controlling the Human Gaze
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
The Command to Look was one of William Mortensen's most influential and sought-after books, and has been out of print for fifty years. Reproduced here in full, this book includes an essay by Michael Moynihan on how its images influenced the occult "lesser magic" of the founder of the Church...
The Chiropractic Way
How Chiropractic Care Can Stop Your Pain and Help You Regain Your Health Without Drugs or Surgery
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Chiropractic has become America’s most popular form of alternative health care, offering lasting relief from pain--and many other health benefits--to more than 25 million patients annually. Yet many people still wonder exactly how chiropractic heals, and even experienced patients may be able to...
From the Pleistocene to the Holocene
Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies...
Becoming a Word Learner
A Debate on Lexical Acquisition
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2000
Language acquisition is a contentious field of research occupied by cognitive and developmental psychologists, linguists, philosophers, and biologists. Perhaps the key component to understanding how language is mastered is explaining word acquisition. At twelve months, an infant learns new words slowly...
My Story of America
Inspirational Stories of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Follow the gripping stories of eight individuals as they experience the trials of faith and freedom; the battles of life and liberty; and the pursuit for peace and prosperity. This book chronicles their stories of perseverance through extraordinary circumstances. Check out some excerpts below......
Lean Six Sigma
Combining Six Sigma Quality with Lean Production Speed
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2002
The Breakthrough Program for Increasing Quality, Shortening Cycle Times, and Creating Shareholder Value In Every Area of Your Organization
Time and quality are the two most important metrics in improving any company's production and profit performance. Lean Six Sigma explains how to impact...
by Drake, Arnold; Kashdan, George; Zaccara
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Presenting the first comic book adventures of the U.S.S. Enterprise and her crew! Fully re-mastered and with a new throwback cover, Star Trek Gold Key Archives, Vol. 1 collects issues #1–6.
by David R. George III, Steve Mollmann, Michael Schuster
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
It’s been said that for any event, there are an infinite number of possible outcomes. Our choices determine which outcome will follow, and therefore all possibilities that could happen do happen across alternate realities. In these divergent realms, known history is bent, like white light through...
Magical Muse
Millennial Essays on Tennessee Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
In this unique and engaging collection, twelve essays celebrate the legacy of one of America's most important playwrights and investigate Williams's enduring effect on America's cultural, theatrical, and literary heritage.
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Like Faulkner before him, Tennessee Williams gave universal appeal...