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The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams And The Transformation Of American Politics
Why has John Quincy Adams been largely written out of American history when he is, in fact, our lost Founding Father? Long relegated to the sidelines of history as the hyperintellectual son of John and Abigail Adams, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), has never basked in the historical spotlight. Rememb... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Approaching Civil War and Southern History
Initially published between 1970 and 2012, the essays in Approaching Civil War and Southern History span almost the entirety of William J. Cooper’s illustrious scholarly career and range widely across a broad spectrum of subjects in Civil War and southern history. Together, they illustrate the broad... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Jefferson Davis, American (Vintage Civil War Library)
From a distinguished historian of the America South comes this thoroughly human portrait of the complex man at the center of our nation's most epic struggle.Jefferson Davis initially did not wish to leave the Union-as the son of a veteran of the American Revolution and as a soldier and senator, he c... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000 -
We Have the War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861
In this carefully researched book William J. Cooper gives us a fresh perspective on the period between Abraham Lincoln's election in November 1860 and the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861, during which all efforts to avoid or impede secession and prevent war failed. Here is the story of the men w... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings
Jefferson Davis is one of the most complex and controversial figures in American political history (and the man whom Oscar Wilde wanted to meet more than anyone when he made his tour of the United States). Elected president of the Confederacy and later accused of participating in the assassination o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
Writing The Civil War: The Quest To Understand
No event has transformed the United States more fundamentally - or been studied more exhaustively - than the Civil War. In Writing the Civil War, fourteen distinguished historians present a wide-ranging discussion of the vast effort to chronicle the conflict - an undertaking that began with the reme... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1998 -
American South: A History
In The American South: A History, Fifth Edition, William J. Cooper, Jr. and Thomas E. Terrill demonstrate their belief that it is impossible to divorce the history of the South from the history of the United States. The authors' analysis underscores the complex interaction between the South as a dis... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
In the Cause of Liberty: How the Civil War Redefined American Ideals (Southern Biography Series)
In this remarkable collection, ten premier scholars of nineteenth-century America address the epochal impact of the Civil War by examining the conflict in terms of three Americas -- antebellum, wartime, and postbellum nations. Moreover, they recognize the critical role in this transformative era of ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Escaping From Predators
When a predator attacks, prey are faced with a series of 'if', 'when' and 'how' escape decisions – these critical questions are the foci of this book. Cooper and Blumstein bring together a balance of theory and empirical research to summarise over fifty years of scattered research and benchmark cur... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Controlling Cholesterol the Natural Way: Eat Your Way to Better Health with New Breakthrough Food Discoveries
Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper's all-new plan to lower cholesterol without drugs! The Old News: Elevated levels of cholesterol put you at risk for heart attack and stroke. The New News: Now you can control cholesterol naturally! Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper, a leading authority on controlling cholesterol, s... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
The World's Beaches
Take this book to the beach; it will open up a whole new world. Illustrated throughout with color photographs, maps, and graphics, it explores one of the planet's most dynamic environments--from tourist beaches to Arctic beaches strewn with ice chunks to steaming hot tropical shores. The World's Bea... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Applied Behavior Analysis
This text provides an accurate, comprehensive, and contemporary description of applied behavior analysis in order to help readers acquire fundamental knowledge and skills. Applied Behavior Analysis provides a comprehensive, in-depth discussion of the field, offering a complete description of the pri... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Management
The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Management is a critical, authoritative review of tourism management, written by leading international thinkers and academics in the field. Arranged over two volumes, the chapters are framed as critical synoptic pieces covering key developments, current issues and debate... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Management
The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Management is a critical, authoritative review of tourism management, written by leading international thinkers and academics in the field. Arranged over two volumes, the chapters are framed as critical synoptic pieces covering key developments, current issues and debate... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
The Christmas Carol Reader
Like that Biblical, astronomical star of Bethlehem, The Christmas Carol Reader guides readers on their quest for information about Christmas songs. Studwell gathers a composite picture of the world's most important and famous carols and includes an ample selection of lesser-known Christmas songs. Al... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1995 -
The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Management: Theories, Concepts and Disciplinary Approaches to Tourism
The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Management is a critical, state-of-the-art and authoritative review of tourism management, written by leading international thinkers and academics in the field. With a strong focus on theories, concepts and disciplinary approaches to tourism studies, the chapters in this... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Management: Theories, Concepts and Disciplinary Approaches to Tourism
The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Management is a critical, state-of-the-art and authoritative review of tourism management, written by leading international thinkers and academics in the field. With a strong focus on theories, concepts and disciplinary approaches to tourism studies, the chapters in this... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Management: Applications of Theories And Concepts to Tourism
The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Management is a critical, state-of-the-art and authoritative review of tourism management, written by leading international thinkers and academics in the field. With a strong focus on applications of theories and concepts to tourism, the chapters in this volume are frame... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Management: Applications of Theories And Concepts to Tourism
The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Management is a critical, state-of-the-art and authoritative review of tourism management, written by leading international thinkers and academics in the field. With a strong focus on applications of theories and concepts to tourism, the chapters in this volume are frame... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Educational Supervision in Social Work: A Task-Centered Model for Field Instruction and Staff Development (Critical Perspectives On Animals Ser.)
This book provides a comprehensive examination of instructional supervision and introduces the Task-Centered Model for Educational Supervision (TCS). It begins by reviewing the history of educational supervision in social work and principles of effective teaching practices in the field. While theori... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
Trade Liberalization and the Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry
The economic impact of free trade among the North Atlantic countries on the Canadian pulp and paper industry is here discussed in a detailed analysis of costs and marketing.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1968 -
Journeys (Houghton Mifflin Reading)
by J. David Cooper • John J. Pikulski • Kathryn Au • William K. Durr • Rita M. Bean • Nicholas A. Glaser • M. Jean Greenlaw • Hugh Schoephoerster • Mary Lou Alsin • Rosalinda B. Barrera • Joseph E. Brzeinski • Ruth P. Bunyan • Jacqueline C. Comas • Frank X. Estrada • Robert L. Hillerich • Timothy G. Johnson • Pamela A. MasonGrade school textbook for reading. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1986 -
Global Climate Change and Coastal Tourism: Recognizing Problems, Managing Solutions and Future Expectations
by James Andrew Cooper • Salvador Anton Clavé • Stephen William Boyd • Jeremy Buultjens • Abdullah Akbas • Nazan An • Angela Anthonisz • Paulo Borges • Huong T. Bùi • Helena Calado • Rita Cannas • Janice Cumberbatch • Osman Cenk Demiroglu • Denyse S. Dookie • Danielle EdwardsClimate Change and Coastal Tourism includes case studies on climate change and coastal tourism that explore current threats to, and consequences of, climate change on existing tourism coastal destinations. It assesses management and policy options for the future sustainability of threatened tourism ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Cerebrum 2010: Emerging Ideas in Brain Science
by Andrew Newberg • James Traub • Benjamin S. Carson • Emily A. Kuhl • William E. Narrow • Darrel A. Regier • Paul Mchugh • Mahlon R. Delong • Russell A. Poldrack • Natalie Denburg • Lyndsay Harshman • Marcelo O. Dietrick • Tamas L. Horvath • Michael Posner • R. Douglas Shytle • Paula C. Bickford • Dimitrios Kapogiannis • Jordan Grafman • Scott A. Huettel • Julian E. Asher • Lisa J. Merlo • Mark S. Gold • Michael F. Huerta • Brenda Patoine • Scott T. Grafton • Howard Gardner • Jay N. Giedd • Douglas A. Gentile • David J. KupferIn this fourth annual edition, drawn from Cerebrum's highly regarded Web edition, some of the foremost experts in brain science present the research-and their take-on debates that capture the harmony as well as the discord in the complex and evolving relationship between neuroscience and society.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010