R Michael: 954 books
Union Heartland
The Midwestern Home Front during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
The Civil War has historically been viewed somewhat simplistically as a battle between the North and the South. Southern historians have broadened this viewpoint by revealing the “many Souths” that made up the Confederacy, but the “North” has remained largely undifferentiated as a geopolitical...
by Michael R. Ransom
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
This book is an analogy about what is wrong with this planet we live in, and by identifying the problems, what we can do to solve them? Or are we too stupid or just too apathetic, or do we dont care? This book may offend some readers and may be deemed by some readers to be politically incorrect, but hopefully, I have caught your attention long enough for you to read it and learn something.
Reformed Catholicity
The Promise of Retrieval for Theology and Biblical Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Can Christians and churches be both catholic and Reformed? In this volume, two accomplished young theologians argue that to be Reformed means to go deeper into true catholicity rather than away from it. Their manifesto for a catholic and Reformed approach to dogmatics seeks theological renewal through...
The Dundurn Arctic Culture and Sovereignty Library
Pike's Portage/Death Wins in the Arctic/Arctic Naturalist/Arctic Obsession/Arctic Twilight/Arctic Front/Canoeing North Into the Unknown/Arctic Revolution/In the Shadow of the Pole/Voices From the Odeyak
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
This special bundle is your essential guide to all things concerning Canada’s polar regions, which make up the majority of Canada’s territory but are places most of us will never visit. The Arctic has played a key role in Canada’s history and in the history of the indigenous peoples of this...
Advancing Variable Star Astronomy
The Centennial History of the American Association of Variable Star Observers
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Founded in 1911, the AAVSO boasts over 1200 members and observers and is the world's largest non-profit organization dedicated to variable star observation. This timely book marks the AAVSO's centennial year, presenting an authoritative and accurate history of this important association. Writing in...
Transparency in Global Environmental Governance
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
A critical assessment of whether transparency is a broadly transformative force in global environmental governance or plays a more limited role.
Transparency—openness, secured through greater availability of information—is increasingly seen as part of the solution to a complex array of...
by Stephen Salkever, Cary Nederman, Jeff Macy
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2000
Instilling Ethics casts a fresh light on both the historical sources and the contemporary issues of a major preoccupation of our time: ethics. Norma Thompson has compiled essays from prominent scholars in a wide-range of disciplines to address the problems, pretensions, and positive potentialities...
Car Safety Wars
One Hundred Years of Technology, Politics, and Death
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Car Safety Wars is a gripping history of the hundred-year struggle to improve the safety of American automobiles and save lives on the highways. Described as the “equivalent of war” by the Supreme Court, the battle involved the automobile industry, unsung and long-forgotten safety heroes, at least...
Bio-Nanomaterials
Designing Materials Inspired by Nature
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Written by authors from different fields to reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the topic, this book guides the reader through new nano-materials processing inspired by nature.
Structured around general principles, each selection and explanation is motivated by particular biological case studies....
Individual Positive Behavior Supports
A Standards-Based Guide to Practices in School and Community Settings
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Aligned with the Association for Positive Behavior Support’s Standards of Practice, this graduate-level text is an authoritative PBS primer for professionals preparing for work in educational and community-based settings. More than 60 leading scholars present the critical skills and knowledge...
The Future 500
Creating Tomorrow's Organisations Today
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The Future 500, first published in 1987, shows how business leaders can immediately begin to apply the lessons for aspiring enterprises in eight crucial spheres: the global marketplace, private-public sector relationships, collaboration v. competition, creative capital investment strategies, ethics...
Touching People's Lives
Leaders' Sorrow or Joy
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
In Touching People's Lives, former SHRM CEO and master storyteller, offers a wellspring of experience and inspiration on the challenge for all leaders charged with the development of people to responsibly cultivate compassion, integrity, courage, and accountability in all they do, regardless of how...
Engineering Materials 2
An Introduction to Microstructures, Processing and Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2005
Engineering Materials 2 is a best-selling stand-alone text in its own right for more advanced students of materials science and mechanical engineering, and is the follow-up to its renowned companion text, Engineering Materials 1: An Introduction to Properties, Applications & Design . This book develops...
Orogenesis
The Making of Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Orogenesis, the process of mountain building, occurs when two tectonic plates collide – either forcing material upwards to form mountain belts such as the Alps or Himalayas or causing one plate to be subducted below the other, resulting in volcanic mountain chains such as the Andes. Integrating...