Paul W Richard: 28 books
by Paul W. Richard
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Fernando, a young South American finch, becomes cast out to sea and is all alone on floating debris. After a horrid storm-tossed six-hundred-mile trip, he is eventually stranded on a Galapagos island and ends up adventuring, learning, and exploring other islands and new ideas with a sidekick finch,...
by Paul W. Richard
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
This is a forested green mesa in southwest Colorado, and the year 1298, a time of great stress for these Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi). In this beautiful setting, young kids, Uco and Ela, are involved in the struggle of staying or leaving their ancestral home. By accident they obtain amulets of mystery...
by Francis W. Hilton, Harold Channing Wire, Paul Durst
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
The Seventh Western Novel MEGAPACK® presents four more great westerns: BLAZING TRAILS, by Francis W. Hilton. What happens when a cow-puncher with a lightning fast draw carries out his dying uncle's last wish? INDIAN BEEF, by Harold Channing Wire. When young Barnet trail-bosses cattle north to an Indian...
Courting Justice
Ten New Jersey Cases That Shook the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Since 1947 a modernized New Jersey Supreme Court has played an important and controversial role in the state, nation, and world. Its decisions in cutting-edge cases have confronted society’s toughest issues, reflecting changing social attitudes, modern life’s complexities, and new technologies.
Paul...
The Chief HR Officer
Defining the New Role of Human Resource Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Praise for the chief HR Officer
"The strategic portfolio of issues addressed and the sage wisdom and perspectives shared make this book a powerful transformation tool." —Jodee Kozlak, executive vice president, Human Resources, Target Corporation
"An up-to-the-minute...
Legislated Rights
Securing Human Rights through Legislation
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The important aspects of human wellbeing outlined in human rights instruments and constitutional bills of rights can only be adequately secured as and when they are rendered the object of specific rights and corresponding duties. It is often assumed that the main responsibility for specifying the...
Deductive Irrationality
A Commonsense Critique of Economic Rationalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Deductive Irrationality examines and critiques economic rationalism from the perspective of political philosophy. The essays in this collection analyze not only the work of founders of the discipline of economics, but also political philosophers influential in this founding and select contributors...
by Michael Watts, Zvi Eckstein, Esther Gal-Or
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Experienced economics editors discuss navigating the world of scholarly journals, with details on submission, reviews, acceptance, rejection, and editorial policy.
Editors of academic journals are often the top scholars in their fields. They are charged with managing the flow of hundreds of...
Is the Universe a Hologram?
Scientists Answer the Most Provocative Questions
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Questions about the physical world, the mind, and technology in conversations that reveal a rich seam of interacting ideas.
Science today is more a process of collaboration than moments of individual “eurekas.” This book recreates that kind of synergy by offering a series of interconnected...
Beyond Bibliometrics
Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing ways we measure scholarly performance and research impact.
Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available...
by Gary Victor, Alfonce Marc Edwidge, Rose Taina Gachette
Language: French
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Le romancier Gary Victor accompagne dans cette aventure fantastique neuf jeunes auteurs: Alfonce Marc Edwidge, Rose Taina Gachette, Jean Délino Gaspard, Glaude Japhet, Larissa Saskya Leroy, Djenika Mars, Paola Medjine Paul, Monestime Pierre Richard, Évains Wêche.
The Politics of Richard Wright
Perspectives on Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. His work championed intellectual freedom amid social and political chaos. Despite the popular and critical success of books such as Uncle Tom's Children (1938), Black...
by John R. Fultz, Jeffrey Ford, Karin Tidbeck
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Welcome to the weird! Acclaimed author and editor Laird Barron, one of weird fiction's brightest exponents, brings his expert eye and editorial sense to the inaugural volume of the Year's Best Weird Fiction. No longer the purview of esoteric readers, weird fiction is enjoying wide popularity. Chiefly...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of sugarcane Volume 1
Cultivation techniques, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Sugarcane is the source of over three quarters of the world’s sugar, and is grown widely in the tropics and sub-tropics. Despite rising demand, average yields have not increased significantly, partly because of continued vulnerability to pests and diseases. In addition, cultivation has been seen...
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