Promotions - Title Listings - "Technical & Reference, May 5, 2017"

Exposes how self-appointed officials created the Common Core, who really benefits from it, and why it is so bad for American kids, parents, and teachers on the ground.

In this study, Kathryn Blair Moore challenges fundamental ideas within architectural history regarding the origins and significance of European recreations of buildings in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Nazareth.

Ullrich reveals the man behind the public persona, from Hitler's childhood to his failures as a young man in Vienna, to his experiences during the First World War, and to his rise as a far-right party leader.

A young writer's sincere search (with his dog) for an authentic life - buying a ruined house in Detroit for $500, fixing it up nail by nail, and, in the process, participating in the grassroots rebirth of the city itself.

Impeccably researched and beautifully told, in Jonathan Swift Stubbs has found the perfect subject for this masterfully told biography of a reluctant rebel - a voice of withering disenchantment unrivaled in English.

Collection of over a decade of Jonathan Lethem's finest writing on writing, with new and previously unpublished material, including: appreciations of forgotten writers and overlooked books, critical essays, and personal accounts of literary encounters and discoveries.

This book provides a comprehensive critique of the proportionality principle, and particularly of its most characteristic component, balancing.

Essays reflecting Hegel's view of morality, the concept of Sittlichkeit, the modern family, the nature and tensions of civil society, and the question of the modernity of the Hegelian state.

This illuminating study evaluates the role of professionalism, regulation and law in seeking to improve safety. It brings together literatures on professions, regulation and trust, health and safety, and coronial law.

A close friend of Antonin Scalia, David Dorsen explains the flawed judicial philosophy of one of the most important, outspoken, and controversial Supreme Court Justices of the past century.

Develops a novel legal argument about the voting rights of refugees recognized in the 1951 Geneva Convention, and argues that recognized refugees are a special category of non-citizen residents who deserve to have a place in the world.

In this groundbreaking study, William G. Ross examines the social, political, economic, and legal forces that generated the rapid change of the American legal system after the First World War.

The biology of agitation is discussed, followed by specific chapters on substance abuse, medical causes, personality disorders, and treatment in pediatrics and the elderly.

Celebrated theologian Anthony Thiselton provides clarity on these complicated, long-misunderstood theological concepts and the practical pastoral problems they raise for Christians.

Entering into Rest offers O'Donovan's mature reflections on questions that have engaged him throughout his career and provides a synoptic view of many of his main themes.

These essays cover such subjects as the Orthodox understanding of Eucharistic sacrifice; the metaphysics of Paradise Lost; Christianity, modernity, and freedom; death, final judgment, and the meaning of life; and many more.

In this breakthrough, Italian classicist Schiavone explains what might have happened in that brief meeting between the governor and Jesus, and why the Gospels - and history itself - have made Pilate a figure of immense ambiguity.

Along with an overview of how Jesus and the first Christian writers read the Old Testament, Goldingay offers a straightforward intoduction to the Old Testament in its own right.

Karl Barth cites thousands of Scripture texts and offers extensive exegetical discussion of numerous passages. In this book, twelve leading theologians and biblical scholars examine Barth's exegesis of particular passages in the Gospels.

As it becomes clear that the West's historic power and influence is receding, Gideon Rachman offers a road map to the turbulent process that will define the international politics of the twenty-first century.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the theory of linear and nonlinear Volterra integral equations (VIEs), and acts as a stepping stone to the literature on the advanced theory of VIEs.

This book studies the collateral framework in the euro area in detail, and levers this analysis to provide an account of the euro crisis from the perspective of collateral policy.

Deborah Piscione's twelve-step process is a comprehensive guide to success for leaders that shows them how to harness the creative energy in their organization, thereby bringing better products to market.

Aimed at leaders seeking strategies for sustained innovation, and at the quickly growing numbers of managers involved with creating new products, The Power of Little Ideas provides a logical, organic, and enduring way to innovate.

This volume addressed three primary topics: the measurement, predictors and consequences, the social context, and the prevention of workplace aggression.

For centuries following the spread of Islam, the Middle East was far ahead of Europe. Yet, the modern economy was born in Europe. Rubin examines the role that Islam played in this reversal of fortunes.