Richard Davies: 15 books
Descartes
Belief, Scepticism and Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Descartes is often regarded as the founder of modern philosophy, and is credited with placing at centre stage the question of what we know and how we know it. Descartes: Belief, Scepticism and Virtue seeks to reinsert his work and thought in its contemporary ethical and theological context. Richard...
Economics
Making sense of the modern economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The world of economics is changing. Years of turmoil in the global economy mean that nothing will ever be quite the same again.
This is the starting point and theme of this radically revised Economist books classic, now available for the first time in America.
Richard Davies, economics...
by C. Richard Davies
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Towards the middle of the twenty-first century, human beings began to develop unusual, even paranormal talents. For many years they were kept secret from the general public. And then they weren't.This is one of the stories of what happened next.It's the story of Kent Masefield,...
Inventing Sam Slick
A Biography of Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865) was one of pre-confederation Canada's best-known authors. His popular 'Sam Slick the Clockmaker' character was a household name not only in his home country, but also in England and the United States.
Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Haliburton was not...
The Main Event
Boxing in Nevada from the Mining Camps to the Las Vegas Strip
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Richard O. Davies won Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Bronze Medal in Sports for The Main Event: Boxing in Nevada from the Mining Camps to the Las Vegas Strip. Davies' book was chosen as one of the best indie books of 2014.
As the twentieth century dawned, bare-knuckle prizefighting...
Sports in American Life
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
The third edition of author Richard O. Davies' highly praised narrative of American sports, Sports in American Life: A History, features extensive revisions and updates to its presentation of an interpretative history of the relationship of sports to the larger themes of U.S. history. Updated include...
Understanding Inequality
The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals...
The Professionals' Guide to Publishing
A Practical Introduction to Working in the Publishing Industry
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
The Professionals' Guide to Publishing is a practical introduction to working in the publishing industry. The authors provide a clear overview of its many functions, including editorial, production, sales and marketing; ensuring that the reader has a firm understanding of their responsibilities and...
Sustainability in Higher Education
Stories and Strategies for Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Campus leaders describe how community colleges, publicly funded universities, and private liberal arts colleges across America are integrating sustainability into curriculum, policies, and programs.
In colleges and universities across the United States, students, faculty, and staff are forging...
Flaws and Ceilings
Price Controls and the Damage They Cause
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Price controls across many sectors are currently being hotly debated. New controls in the housing market, more onerous minimum wages, minimum prices for alcohol, and freezes on energy prices are very high up the agenda of most politicians at the moment. Even without any further controls, wages, university...
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
Rise and Decline and Rise of China
Searching for an Organising Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Running like a red thread through this book are the manifestations of Sino-African relations dating back many centuries. In this way, The Rise and Decline and Rise of China: Searching for an Organising Philosophy takes forward the work MISTRA conducted on the Mapungubwe society, one of the advanced...
by Margery Collin, Jacki Thomas, Martin Hill
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Hospice chaplains have traditionally played a unique part in palliative care, providing human compassion and support to help ease life's final chapter. This book thoughtfully tackles the question at the heart of modern hospice chaplaincy: do chaplains have a distinctive role in an increasingly secular...
Re-Thinking Autism
Diagnosis, Identity and Equality
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Challenging existing approaches to autism that limit, and sometimes damage, the individuals who attract and receive the label, this book questions the lazy prejudices and assumptions that can surround autism as a diagnosis in the 21st Century.
Arguing that autism can only be understood through...
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