Paul Roberts: 53 books
by Paul Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2009
Paul Roberts, the best-selling author of The End of Oil, turns his attention to the modern food economy and finds that the system entrusted to meet our most basic need is failing.
In this carefully researched, vivid narrative, Roberts lays out the stark economic realities behind modern food...
The Impulse Society
America in the Age of Instant Gratification
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
It's something most of us have sensed for years-the rise of a world defined only by “mine” and “now.” A world where business shamelessly seeks the fastest reward, regardless of the long-term social consequences; where political leaders reflexively choose short-term fixes over broad, sustainable...
The End of Oil
On the Edge of a Perilous New World
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2005
Petroleum is now so deeply entrenched in our economy, our politics, and our personal expectations that even modest efforts to phase it out are fought tooth and nail by the most powerful forces in the world: companies and governments that depend on oil revenues; the developing nations that see oil...
Strategic Project Management
Creating the Conditions for Success
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Strategic Project Management uses real life case examples to characterize and describe the organizational factors and conditions necessary for projects to thrive and to deliver the organization's strategic objectives. This characterization is formed around ten imperatives which senior managers can...
University Planning and Architecture
The search for perfection
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
The environment of a university – what we term a campus – is a place with special resonance. They have long been the setting for some of history’s most exciting experiments in the design of the built environment. Christopher Wren at Cambridge, Le Corbusier at Harvard, and Norman Foster at the...
University Trends
Contemporary Campus Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
The campus has a deep-rooted prestige as a place of teaching, learning and nurturing. Conjuring images of cloistered quadrangles, of sunny lawns, of wood-panelled libraries, it is a word viscerally charged with centuries of scholarly tradition. And yet it is also a place of cutting-edge science, vibrancy...
by Paul Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Forensic science evidence and expert witness testimony play an increasingly prominent role in modern criminal proceedings. Science produces powerful evidence of criminal offending, but has also courted controversy and sometimes contributed towards miscarriages of justice. The twenty-six articles and...
Die Geschichte von Peter Rabbit
Illustrierte Ausgabe
Language: German
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Die Geschichte von Peter Hase (engl. Originaltitel: The Tale of Peter Rabbit), in jüngeren Übersetzungen auch Die Geschichte von Peter Rabbit genannt, ist ein 1902 publiziertes britisches Kinderbuch, das Beatrix Potter schrieb und illustrierte. Es war ihr erstes Kinderbuch, das von einem Verlag...
The Neoconserative Threat to World Order
America's Perilous War for Hegemony
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
This stellar collection of Paul Craig Roberts essays dating from February 2014 explores the extreme dangers in Washington's imposition of vassalage on other countries and Washington’s resurrection of distrust among nuclear powers, the very distrust that Reagan and Gorbachev worked to eliminate....
Alienation and the Soviet Economy
The Collapse of the Socialist Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
The first edition of this seminal book in 1971 pointed out the fatal defects of Marxist theory that would lead to the collapse of the Soviet economy. In this revised edition, Paul Craig Roberts examines how reality triumphed over Marxist theory and the implications for the future of Russia and eastern...
by Ian Whates, Adam Roberts, Hal Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
X Marks the Spot is a slender anthology produced to celebrate the first ten years of NewCon Press. It includes original fiction from Adam Roberts, Rozanne Rabinowitz, and Paul Melhuish, a poem by Donna Scott, aand a collaborative short story written by Ian Whates, Ian Watson, Hal Duncan, Chaz Brenchley,...
How America Was Lost
From 9/11 to the Police/Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Even as the view of America as a rogue state consolidates abroad, Americans appear largely bystanders at the spectacle of their government running amok. People forget the myriad instances of their government's flouting of the Constitution and international legal norms-- if ever they were aware of them...
The Tyranny of Good Intentions
How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
A thousand years of legal protections against tyranny are being stolen right before our eyes. Under the guise of good intentions, personal liberties as old as the Magna Carta have become casualties in the wars being waged on pollution, drugs, white-collar crime, and all of the other real and imagined...
Populism in Latin America
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
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This updated edition of Populism in Latin America discusses new developments in populism as a political phenomenon and the emergence of new populist political figures in Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela in particular.
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