Richard B : 338 books

Book cover of Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice

Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice

Crimes, Courts, Commissions, and Chronicling

by Nanci Adler, Vladimir Petrovic, William A. Schabas
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018

Since the 1980s, an array of legal and non-legal practices—labeled Transitional Justice—has been developed to support post-repressive, post-authoritarian, and post-conflict societies in dealing with their traumatic past. In Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice, the contributors analyze...
Book cover of Application of Big Data for National Security

Application of Big Data for National Security

A Practitioner’s Guide to Emerging Technologies

by Babak Akhgar, Gregory B. Saathoff, Richard Hill
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015

Application of Big Data for National Security provides users with state-of-the-art concepts, methods, and technologies for Big Data analytics in the fight against terrorism and crime, including a wide range of case studies and application scenarios. This book combines expertise from an international...
Book cover of Latin American and Caribbean Foreign Policy
by JoAnn Fagot Aviel, Lincoln Bizzozero, Elsa Cardozo da Silva
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2003

This comprehensive text analyzes the foreign policies of eighteen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. First assessing the state of the discipline, the introduction develops a common framework that compares the relevant explanatory weight of foreign policy determinants at the individual,...
Book cover of Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings

Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings

How the Universe Makes Life

by Richard Grossinger, Harold B. Dowse
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012

Why is the universe conscious? What kindles mind inside matter? Why do fundamentalist sciences and religions never ask these questions? This sequel to Embryogenesis deals with the theoretical issues brought up by Embryogenesis, including: the relationship between thermodynamics/entropy and the emergence...
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Latin American Elections

Choice and Change

by Richard Nadeau, Michael S. Lewis-Beck, Mathieu Turgeon
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017

The Michigan model, named after the institution where it was first articulated, has been used to explain voting behavior in North American and Western European democracies. In Latin American Elections, experts on Latin America join with experts on electoral studies to evaluate the model’s applicability...
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Infantile Autism

The Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior by Bernard Rimland, Ph.D.

by Robert K. Naviaux, Paul Millard Hardy, Lucy Jane Miller
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014

In 1964, the release of Dr. Bernard Rimland's book, Infantile Autism, revolutionized the autism field by providing the autism community with much-needed guidance on how to understand and treat individuals on the spectrum. He single-handedly realigned the field from a psychodynamic, parent-blaming...
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Migration and Development in Africa

Trends, Challenges, and Policy Implications

by Sylvia Esther Gyan, Theophilus Kwabena Abutima, Kwadwo Owusu
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017

There are only a few studies that analyze the complex relationship between Migration and development in Africa. The book presents the main trends in African migration since the last two decades. It analyzes the major migration trends, the various migration hubs across the continent and the underlying...
Book cover of Principles of Gene Manipulation and Genomics
by Sandy B. Primrose, Richard Twyman
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013

The increasing integration between gene manipulation and genomics is embraced in this new book, Principles of Gene Manipulation and Genomics, which brings together for the first time the subjects covered by the best-selling books Principles of Gene Manipulation and Principles of Genome Analysis &...
Book cover of Mussolini
by Dr Richard J. B. Bosworth
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014

In 1945, disguised in German greatcoat and helmet, Mussolini attempted to escape from the advancing Allied armies. Unfortunately for him, the convoy of which he was part was stopped by partisans and his features, made so familiar by Fascist propaganda, gave him away. Within 24 hours he was executed...
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Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality

Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions

by Vishal Agarwal, Arik Ascherman, Sherry H. Blumberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005

Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers...
Book cover of Presumptions and Burdens of Proof

Presumptions and Burdens of Proof

An Anthology of Argumentation and the Law

by James Crosswhite, Frans H. van Eemeren, Richard Gaskins
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019

An anthology of the most important historical sources, classical and modern, on the subjects of presumptions and burdens of proof In the last fifty years, the study of argumentation has become one of the most exciting intellectual crossroads in the modern academy. Two of the most central concepts...
Book cover of Nanodiamond
by Amanda Barnard, Alexander Ya. Vul, Anke Krueger
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014

The exceptional mechanical, optical, surface and biocompatibility properties of nanodiamond have gained it much interest. Exhibiting the outstanding bulk properties of diamond at the nanoscale in the form of a film or small particle makes it an inexpensive alternative for many applications. Nanodiamond...
Book cover of The Political Mel Brooks
by Melissa Boehm, Samuel Boerboom, Beth E. Bonnstetter
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2019

The Political Mel Brooks analyzes both Mel Brooks’s more popular films and his lesser known work to explore how his use of parody and satire, his keen sense of the history of Jewish comedic conventions, and his deep awareness of social issues encompasses a political project that, while often implicit,...
Book cover of Rock Art of the Caribbean
by Divaldo Antonio Gutierrez Calvache, Racso Fernandez Ortega, Pedro A. Alvarado Layos
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011

This compilation, by an international grouping of scholars, focuses on the nature of Caribbean rock art or rock graphics and makes clear the region's substantial and distinctive rock art tradition. Thorough and comparative, it includes data on the history of rock graphic research, the nature of the...
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