Richard E : 523 books

Book cover of Queer Media Images

Queer Media Images

LGBT Perspectives

by Kimiko Akita, Richard D. Besel, Kristin Comeforo
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013

Queer Media Images: LGBT Perspectives presents fifteen chapters that address how the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities are depicted in the media. This collection focuses on how the LGBT community has been silenced or given voice through the media. Through a study of queer media...
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Materializing Democracy

Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics

by Donald E. Pease, Joan Dayan, Richard R. Flores
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2002

For the most part, democracy is simply presumed to exist in the United States. It is viewed as a completed project rather than as a goal to be achieved. Fifteen leading scholars challenge that stasis in Materializing Democracy. They aim to reinvigorate the idea of democracy by placing it in the midst...
Book cover of Neuroscience of Creativity
by Margaret A. Boden, Liane Gabora, Apara Ranjan
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013

Experts describe current perspectives and experimental approaches to understanding the neural bases of creativity. This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the latest neuroscientific approaches to the scientific study of creativity. In chapters that progress logically from neurobiological...
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Environmental Governance Reconsidered

Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities

by Regina Axelrod, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Michael E. Kraft
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017

Key topics in the ongoing evolution of environmental governance, with new and updated material. This survey of current issues and controversies in environmental policy and management is unique in its thematic mix, broad coverage of key debates, and in-depth analysis. The contributing authors,...
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American Indian History on Trial

Historical Expertise in Tribal Litigation

by E. Richard Hart
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017

Drawing from forty-five years of experience, E. Richard Hart elucidates the use of history as expert testimony in American Indian tribal litigation. Such lawsuits deal with aboriginal territory; hunting, fishing, and plant gathering rights; reservation boundaries; water rights; federal recognition;...
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A Fistful of Dinosaurs

Epic Anthology

by Charles Eugene Anderson, James Patrick Kelly, Walter Jon Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018

From “Jurassic Park” to “Godzilla,” dinosaurs have a rich history of exploring the idea of the creatures of the past. We love dinosaurs because they are big, and we love them when they are terrifying, we love them because they are dangerous. Think Like A Dinosaur by James Patrick Kelly Dinosaurs...
Book cover of The Guardians & Perchance to Dream (2 Dystopian Tales in One Edition)
by Irving E. Cox, Richard Stockham
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017

The Guardians – All hell breaks loose when a young girl tries to fulfil her curiosity about the prohibited knowledge of her universe and defies the orders of her elders… Perchance to Dream – What do you do in a totalitarian society when even your dreams are under the control of state? Can you...
Book cover of Conceptual Innovation in Environmental Policy
by Richard N. L. Andrews, Michael E. Kraft, Karin Bäckstrand
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017

Concepts and their role in the evolution of modern environmental policy, with case studies of eleven influential concepts ranging from “environment” to “sustainable consumption.” Concepts are thought categories through which we apprehend the world; they enable, but also constrain, reasoning...
Book cover of From Neuron to Cognition via Computational Neuroscience
by Nicolas Brunel, John Rinzel, Jonathan Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016

A comprehensive, integrated, and accessible textbook presenting core neuroscientific topics from a computational perspective, tracing a path from cells and circuits to behavior and cognition. This textbook presents a wide range of subjects in neuroscience from a computational perspective. It...
Book cover of Ranger Winds: the New Breed
by E. Richard Womack
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013

In their early years, the Texas Rangers protected the settlers from Mexicans and Indians along the river. As time passed, the Rangers became lawmen, protecting Texas after the Civil War. Now, times are changing and the Rangers must change with them. These men are known as the new breed. In this fourth...
Book cover of Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)

Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)

The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…

by O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018

This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...
Book cover of The Grand Strategy that Won the Cold War
by Richard V. Allen, Norman A. Bailey, Ronald B. Frankum Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016

This book demonstrates that under the leadership of President Ronald Reagan and through the mechanism of his National Security Council staff, the United States developed and executed a comprehensive grand strategy, involving the coordinated use of the diplomatic, informational, military, and economic...
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Life, Death, and Meaning

Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions

by Margaret A. Boden, Fred Feldman, John Martin Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016

Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
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Life, Death, and Meaning

Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions

by David Benatar, Margaret A. Boden, Peter Caldwell
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010

Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
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