Books by Jr.

In this wry and insightful memoir, distinguished American diplomat John Paton Davies, Jr. describes his upbringing and wartime adventures in Asia, encounters with key twentieth-century figures from Mahatma Gandhi to Joseph Stalin, and how he carried on after his Foreign Service career was cut short by McCarthyism.

Boost student success by reversing your perspective on college readiness The national conversation asking "Are students college-ready?" concentrates on numerous factors that are beyond higher education's control.

This text offers a broad range of topics relating to the philosophy of sexuality. These include: morality; adultery; sex and gender differences; romantic love; gender-based speech; marriage; family and parenthood; feminism; and others.

"In addition to his accomplishments as a talented novelist, a thorough historian, and an excellent essayist, Frank Waters is that rare breed of man who has merged heart and mind early in his life and moved forward to confront ultimate questions.

Full of practical tools and tricks, this color book helps new programmers learn the concepts and techniques used to produce appealing 2D graphics. It starts with the basics, moves on to topics pertaining to motion and depth, and then describes advanced graphics. Code samples in the text and online allow readers to see a particular line of code in action or as it relates to the code around it. In addition, challenges and suggested projects encourage readers to work through problems, experiment with solutions, and tinker with code.

Focuses on relationship between law and communities. This volume examines the ways that the incarceration explosion, the disproportionate number of African-Americans in prisons and racial profiling concentrate disadvantage and make salient political challenges to prevailing understandings of relationship between crime, punishment, and governance.

For students contemplating a broad range of business, social science, journalist or military science curricula, it is critical to possess a basic understanding of the military-strategic basis and trajectory of a rising China. This work provides a background and outlines issues relative to China's rise in strategic-military influence.

Since its founding in 1952, the International Commission of Jurists has inspired the international human rights movement with persistent demands that governments obey the rule of law.

Charles E. Orser, Jr. argues that since race has been used implicitly in archaeology for more than 100 years, the issue must be addressed directly despite the long history of debate, denial, and ignorance.

The first major comparative study of the way human rights south of the Sahara have been revolutionized by NGOs, which have become the most effective detectives in discovering abuses and the most active advocates in seeking solutions.

Surveys the emergence of the Nazi SS and its Death's Head Division, noting the impact of this elite and powerful army upon military history.