Richard: 17762 books
Philosophical Profiles
Essays in a Pragmatic Mode
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Philosophical Profiles brings together ten important essays by Richard Berstein. Each focuses on the work of a thinker or group of thinkers at the center of contemporary developments in philosophy, including Hannah Arendt, John Dewey, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jurgen Habermas, G.W.F. Hegel, Alasdair MacIntyre, Herbert Marcuse, and Richard Rorty.
by Richard Baris
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Conservative academics and politicians have failed to make a decisive argument for our founding principles, which were born out of the blended wisdom of English common law, Natural Law and the Protestant ethic. Richard D. Baris, Creator and Editor of People’s Pundit Daily, identifies the unique...
Routine Activity and Rational Choice
Volume 5
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Two new criminological approaches are defined and applied to categories of crime in Routine Activity and Rational Choice, now available in paperback. Routine activity analyzes the criminal event, and avoids motivations and psychology as topics for discussion, whereas rational choice approaches crime...
The making of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells
The true story of making the classic 1973 album, as told on the 20th anniversary of its original release
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Richard Newman first made a name for himself in the mid-70s, as an interviewer on an all-night programme called Night Flight, in the early days of Capital Radio.
Since then he has been one of the great animators of English acoustic and electric music, tireless in his work as a film maker,...
by Richard Doust
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Join the adventures of an Aussie couple, as they plunge into a discovery escape, searching for the perfect dream home in the land of Liberte, Egalite et Fraternite.
Explore country France and meet the characters who coloured their lives and offered them friendship, hospitality, information, and fun...
In Search of the Black Fantastic
Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2008
Prior to the 1960s, when African Americans had little access to formal political power, black popular culture was commonly seen as a means of forging community and effecting political change. But as Richard Iton shows in this provocative and insightful volume, despite the changes brought about by...
A Record of the Assembled Immortals and Gathered Perfected of the Western Hills
Shi Jianwu's Daoist Classic on Internal Alchemy and the Cultivation of the Breath
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
In this Tang Classic text from the 9th Century, Daoist practitioner Shi Jianwu describes how through adapting our own breathing to the breath of the universe and daily meditation, one can develop an astral body and 'transcend earthly matters to walk in the divine'. Richard Bertschinger offers the...
The World's Most Haunted Hospitals
True-Life Paranormal Encounters in Asylums, Hospitals, and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
If hospital walls could talk, what tales would they tell?
Hospitals are the nexus point between life and death, the place into which people enter this world, but also exit it. In The World’s Most Haunted Hospitals, paramedic and paranormal investigator Richard Estep recounts some of the most...
A Scent of Champagne
8,000 Champagnes Tested and Rated
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
A luxury volume on the world's most elegant beverage--by world renowned champagne expert Richard Juhlin, with an introduction by Édouard Cointreau
In this beautiful and heavily illustrated volume the world's foremost champagne expert, Richard Juhlin takes the reader on a journey to the geographical...
A Wiggly Way Through England
Wandering the watershed in search of history, characters and cakes
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Richard Guise follows a unique 450-mile route across England on foot and on his trusty bike Tetley. His guide is the wiggly line that divides rivers flowing west from those flowing east, a choice that takes him over rolling downlands, along windy ridges, through remote villages, across ancient battlefields,...
by Richard E. Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Richard E Byrd (1888-1957), was an American naval officer and explorer. Originally published in 1938, ‘Alone’ provides a gripping account of his second expedition to Antarctica in 1934. Contents: Richard E. Byrd; Preface; 1933: The Idea; March: The Decision; April i: God of 2.5; April ii: The...
by J. Richard Huff
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
The Sacred Fire thrusts the reader into a spiritual showdown that pits Christian Chris Belanger against a mysterious man simply calling himself Richard. But Richard is not as benign as he appears, as he begins to spin tales from the Holy Bible from a firsthand account, claiming to have witnessed them...
by Richard L. King
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2014
Crimes of Magic: The Wizard’s Sphere by Richard L. KingPrivate investigator Rachel Chase and her associate, Professor Robert Walker, decide to help Portland Police Detective Jack Avery find a magician named Harry Blackstone who mysteriously escaped from jail after being arrested for stealing...
by Richard Parks
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
A World Fantasy Award finalist in its print edition, THE OGRE'S WIFE is the first story collection by Richard Parks. The introduction was written by award-winning master fantasist Parke Godwin, who has followed the author's career from first bloom until today. All but one of the stories have been...