Bøger af David Barton

This introduction to the expanding field of literacy studies has been fully revised for the second edition. It explores recent developments and new research that has contributed to our understanding of literacy practices, reflecting on the interdisciplinary growth of the study of reading and writing over the past decade.

David Barton of Missouri delivers a speech on the power of the president to remove federal officers and the restraining power and duty of the Senate over an abusive exercise of that power. In his speech, he replies to the arguments of several members of the majority. This book is a great read for anyone interested in American politics and government power.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Bringing Jane Home is an action-adventure novel of a father who goes through hell to be reunited with his estranged daughter and his efforts to bring her home from the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil. Josh Freeman, ex-Navy Swift Boat machine-gunner and Montauk, NY, charter boat captain loses his wife, Mary, during a storm on a fishing trip with his daughter Jane aboard. Jane blames her father and leaves home while Josh falls off the wagon. His neighbor, Willie Miles, is worried that his daughter Sara, Jane's best friend, is hanging out with the wrong crowd. Sara and Jane are keeping company with a Russian mobster named Dimitri "Spider" Solomon who lives in the Little Odessa neighborhood of New York City. Things heat up for Spider when Federal ATF agents come after him for illegal cigarette trafficking. Spider and his gang head to South America, with Sara and Jane in tow, renting a luxury yacht in Belém, Brazil, at the mouth of the Amazon River. Willie begs Josh to find the girls and bring them home. Josh follows a lead he picks up in Little Odessa and travels to Belém . The action is fast and furious. Josh tangles with both the mobster leader, Spider, and modern-day Braziian river pirates. He will go to any lengths to free his daughter and her friend, and eventually bring them home.

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School Libraryocm20709630Cover title. "In the Senate of the United States, March 17, 1830. Executive session.Washington: National Journal, 1830. 28 p.; 22 cm.

Title: Speech of Mr. Barton, of Missouri: in Senate United States -- Feb. 9, 1830.Author: David BartonPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP00850800CollectionID: CTRG10256876-BPublicationDate: 18300101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Caption title. The speech, on "Mr. Foot's resolution," was continued on Feb. 11 (p. 26-42)Collation: 42 p.; 22 cm

The idea behind this book is that in complex societies like our own there are different worlds of literacy that exist side by side. This book presents a range of case studies describing some of these worlds of literacy and is carefully organised by theme, so as to bring out both the differences and connections between them.

Originally published: London: Routledge, 1998.

Explores the reading and writing associated with learning subjects across the college curriculum and considers ways of changing teaching practices that enable students to reach their full potential.

Demonstrates what it is like to be an adult learner. This book focuses on language, literacy and numeracy learning, and explores the relationship between learning and adults' lives, following individual students in various formal learning situations, from college environments to a young homeless project, and a drug support and aftercare centre.

Liverpool, 1950's....recollections of a young bobby's day to day adventures....

Based on the classic "Radar Range-Performance Analysis" from 1980, this volume extends that work to ensure applicability of radar equations to the design and analysis of modern radars. It helps engineers to identify what information on the radar and its environment is needed to predict detection range.

Monopulse is a type of radar that sends additional information in the signal in order to avoid problems caused by rapid changes in signal strength. This book offers a treatment of monopulse radar principles, techniques, and applications. It categorizes and describes various forms of monopulse radar, and analyzes their capabilities and limitations.