In Distant Readings of Disciplinarity, Benjamin Miller brings a big data approach to the study of disciplinarity in rhetoric, composition, and writing studies (RCWS) by developing scalable maps of the methods and topics of several thousand RCWS dissertations from 2001 to 2015. Combining charts and figures with engaging and even playful prose, Miller offers an accessible model of how large-scale data-driven research can advance disciplinary understanding—both answering and amplifyi...

American foreign policy is the subject of extensive debate. Many look to domestic factors as the driving forces of bad policies. Benjamin Miller instead seeks to account for changes in US international strategy by developing a theory of grand strategy that captures the key security approaches available to US decision-makers in times of war and peace.Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of competing grand strategies that acco...

This book argues that Aristotelian character education cannot work in liberal democracies today. It shows that when we clearly understand the basic structure of Aristotle’s value theory and correctly grasp the core requirements of liberalism, we will see that they are incompatible with one another through and through.Neo-Aristotelian theories of character have been immensely influential, receiving endorsements from academics, educators, and elected representatives while establishin...

You may have opened this book after a day that drained you in ways you could not explain, in a home that seems to drain you too. The living room hums, the counter gathers, and every object makes a quiet claim on your attention. You have tried the joy test, the minimalist counts, and the weekend purge, and the relief never survived the first busy week. The pattern is not a failure of discipline, and it is not a sign that you are lazy or broken. It is a mismatch between the advice and the ne...

This book charts the evolution of Islamic dialectical theory (jadal) over a four-hundred year period. It includes an extensive study of the development of methods of disputation in Islamic theology (kalām) and jurisprudence (uṣūl al-fiqh) from the tenth through the fourteenth centuries. The author uses the theoretical writings of Islamic theologians, jurists, and philosophers to describe the conceptOverall, this investigation looks at the extent to which the development of Islamic ...

BuckBy: Benjamin H. MillerThere are few challenges more painful than coping with the unexpected death of a loved one. And for Buckley Acorns, he is no stranger to blocking out pain. From broken bones to third degree burns, Buckley eats pain for breakfast, and dishes out more than your average rookie detective.Set in modern day rural Nevada, the story of Detective Buck is one of humanism shared between him, and the friends he needs to protect, of mystery shrouding a ...

The Size of DaveyBy: Benjamin H. MillerAlways be true to how you appear,Many around DO think of you dear,Of rabbits and birds,Or accepting kind words,Read along with your teacher or friend,And follow the story ‘till the very end!About the AuthorBenjamin H. Miller originally wrote and illustrated The Size of Davey story for a high school Graphic Design class, hand drawn and all in just a few weeks. In a setting where th...

When thousands of young men in the North and South marched off to fight in the Civil War, another army of men accompanied them to care for these soldiers’ spiritual needs. In God’s Presence explores how these two cohorts of men, Northern and Southern and mostly Christian, navigated the challenges of the Civil War on battlefields and in military camps, hospitals, and prisons.In wartime, military clergy—chaplains and missionaries—initially attempted to replicate the idyllic ...

This volume examines mechanisms for regional peacemaking and conflict management in Europe and the Middle East.To date little research has been devoted to uncovering the conditions for peace, and the factors that contribute to stabilizing the state of peace. This volume assesses the factors that contribute to regional pacification, the incentives that motivate states in establishing peaceful relations, and most importantly, how regions become peaceful. It discusses the conditions u...

Integrated Photonics for Sensing Applications introduces sensors as an important application area for integrated photonics. It provides a brief historical perspective and highlights key free-space spectroscopic sensing techniques such as FTIR, Raman, SPR, and reflectometry, and it thoroughly explores the advantages of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) sensor systems, which have the potential for low SWAP-C and high performance.The topics covered include sensor system components such as wav...

In a data-driven world, anything can be data. As the techniques and scale of data analysis advance, the need for a response from rhetoric and composition grows ever more pronounced. It is increasingly possible to examine thousands of documents and peer-review comments, labor-hours, and citation networks in composition courses and beyond. Composition and Big Data brings together a range of scholars, teachers, and administrators already working with big-data methods and datasets to ...

The System is here! Most of the population of the planet were suddenly turned into zombies, while the rest acquired new abilities. Abilities that let them run from the zombies, save themselves, hide, and try to survive. But it only takes one bite that almost always means death.Our hero was standing in line when the apocalypse came. He was lucky at first to be caught in a crowd when the zombies tried to bite him on the leg. Really lucky, because those trials unlocked new abilities f...