6569 results for '"Sargent, Thomas J.'

The War Scientists puts inventors of world-changing military technologies under the microscope. In doing so, it reveals the faces behind these innovations. Craughwell examines their motivations,...

Can American cities respond effectively to pressing social problems? Or, as many scholars have claimed, are urban politics so mired in stasis, gridlock and bureaucratic paralysis that dramatic policy...

This book is a study of the legal rules affecting the practice of female prostitution in Rome from approximately 200 B.C. to A.D. 250. It examines the formation and precise content of the legal norms...

Although only the federal government is empowered to set immigration policy, the consequences of immigration are felt in states where they settle. This book focuses on New Jersey, whose immigrant...

Ancient Greek music and music theory has fascinated scholars for centuries not only because of its intrinsic interest as a part of ancient Greek culture but also because the Greeks? grand concept of...

A study of American anti-imperialist sentiment, focusing on the opposition to Hawaiian annexation, a movement within the U.S. that preceded the anti-imperialism movement after the Spanish American...

Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes features the work of feminist scholars who are centrally engaged with Hobbes's ideas and texts and who view Hobbes as an important touchstone in modern...

mccormick shows how america economic and moral power helped rebuild europe and the far east as favorable markets for u. s. dollar.

Cicero was one of the most important political, intellectual, and literary figures of the late Roman Republic, rising to the consulship as a 'new man' and leading a complex and contradictory life...