Authors:Virginia Wilson, James Litle, Gerald Lee Wilson,
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: issues, implications, future, trends, handbook, social, studies, teaching
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1993-01-30
List price: $86.95
ISBN-10: 0313278814
ISBN-13: 9780313278815

This valuable reference overviews the past, present, and future of social studies in elementary and secondary schools. The work begins with informative introductory chapters that overview trends and themes common to all disciplines of history and the social sciences. The chapters that follow summarize and assess the development of teaching and research in particular social science disciplines. Each chapter begins with a section of reflections on the history of a discipline, followed by a section on current issues and trends, followed by a final section of projections for the future of the disc

Authors:Guy Sternberg, James W. Wilson, Jim Wilson,
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Keywords: landscapes, american, north, trees, native
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 2004-02-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0881926078
ISBN-13: 9780881926071

Trees are natural focal points of any landscape --- living structural elements. They inspire an appreciation of nature as well as providing food and shelter for wildlife. For all these reasons, the choice of a tree for your landscape should be carefully considered. Many common native trees are just as beautiful as cultivated exotics. Since they have evolved with local conditions and are well adapted to their climate, soil, and pests and diseases, native trees often require less maintenance than exotics and won’t escape to invade a balanced ecosystem. The authors have spent their live

Authors:James Q. Wilson, David Q. Wilson,
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: legal, system, threaten, excuse, judgment, abuse, moral
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1998-04-11
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0465047335
ISBN-13: 9780465047338

In Moral Judgment, James Q. Wilson demonstrates how our judicial system has compromised its obligation to discriminate between right and wrong. Citing highly publicized verdicts, he makes an erudite case for re-examining the ethical drift of contemporary jurisprudence. Today’s headlines he claims, are proof that our judicial system relentlessly subjects itself to forces that limit its capacity to resolve even the gravest moral issues: judging guilt or innocence in the most grievous capital crimes.Moral Judgment provides a much needed antidote to these ambiguities, and a triumph for one of ou

Authors:Edward T. James, Janet Wilson James, Paul Boyer,
Publisher: Belknap Press
Keywords: volumes, three, dictionary, biographical, american, women, notable
Number of Pages: 3152
Published: 1971-01-01
List price: $63.00
ISBN-10: 0674627342
ISBN-13: 9780674627345

This superb biographical dictionary covers the lives of exceptional women throughout three and a half centuries of American history. Here are artists, lawyers, reformers, educators, entrepreneurs, physicists, writers, pioneers, presidents’ ladies, film stars. Here are those known for their deeds and those famed for their looks--the genteel and the disreputable, the highborn and slave-born. Here are the famous in all areas of endeavor--names like Ruth Benedict, Jane Addams, Willa Cather, Isadora Duncan, Carole Lombard, Sojourner Truth, Pocahontas, Texas Guinan, the Everleigh sisters, Ca

Author: James F. Wilson
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: structures, offshore, dynamics
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2002-10-09
List price: $210.00
ISBN-10: 0471264679
ISBN-13: 9780471264675

Unique, cutting-edge material on structural dynamics and natural forces for offshore structures Using the latest advances in theory and practice, Dynamics of Offshore Structures, Second Edition is extensively revised to cover all aspects of the physical forces, structural modeling, and mathematical methods necessary to effectively analyze the dynamic behavior of offshore structures. Both closed-form solutions and the Mathematica(r) software package are used in many of the up-to-date example problems to compute the deterministic and stochastic structural responses for such offshore structure

Author: James Q. Wilson
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Keywords: brief, government, american
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2008-12-23
List price: $108.95
ISBN-10: 0547212763
ISBN-13: 9780547212760

This popular brief edition text for the one-semester or one-quarter American Government course maintains the framework of Wilson’s complete text, emphasizing the historical development of the American political system, who governs, and to what end. Completely up to date, AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, BRIEF, 9e offers new coverage of such key and emerging issues as creationism and the establishment clause, tactics from the 2008 presidential campaign, Congressional ethics, repercussions from the Valerie Plume scandal, national debt, the Social Security debate, military involvement in Iraq, and much

Author: James Q. Wilson
Publisher: AEI Press
Keywords: contemporary, political, thought, landmarks, wilson, essays, james, character
Number of Pages: 243
Published: 1995-06-25
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0844737879
ISBN-13: 9780844737874

These essays argue that to have good character one needs to have at least developed a sense of empathy and self control.