Richard E : 523 books

Book cover of Indigenous Homelessness

Indigenous Homelessness

Perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

by Paul Andrew, Tim Aubry, Yale Belanger
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016

Being homeless in one’s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands. The legacy of that dispossession and related...
Book cover of Drawing a Line in the Sea

Drawing a Line in the Sea

The Gaza Flotilla Incident and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

by Deane-Peter Baker, Thomas E. Copeland, Jeanette Fregulia
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011

The deadly May 31, 2010 Gaza flotilla incident has been misunderstood. This book explores the incident in more detail than mainstream media coverage has allowed—explaining the background, key players, and the incident itself—enriched by the authors having had unique access to senior Israeli officials...
Book cover of Reeds Vol 4: Naval Architecture for Marine Engineers
by E A Stokoe, Dr Richard Pemberton
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018

This textbook covers the theoretical, fundamental aspects of naval architecture for students preparing for the Class 2 and Class 1 Marine Engineer Officerexams. It introduces the basic foundation themes within naval architecture, (hydrostatics, stability, resistance and powering), using worked examples...
Book cover of Foundations of Mathematical Analysis
by Richard Johnsonbaugh, W.E. Pfaffenberger
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012

This classroom-tested volume offers a definitive look at modern analysis, with views of applications to statistics, numerical analysis, Fourier series, differential equations, mathematical analysis, and functional analysis. Upper-level undergraduate students with a background in calculus will benefit...
Book cover of The Roads to Congress 2008
by Sunil Ahuja, Margaret E. Banyan, Peter Bergerson
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010

The Roads to Congress 2008 offers readers straightfoward and detailed case studies of the campaigns, candidates, key issues, and outcomes of over one dozen of the most important and interesting races of 2008. This includes both House and Senate campaigns, contests from all regions of the country,...
Book cover of Sport and the Social Significance of Pleasure
by Richard Pringle, Robert E. Rinehart, Jayne Caudwell
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015

This innovative text's critical examination foregrounds the prime reason why so many people participate in or watch sport – pleasure. Although there has been a "turn" to emotions and affect within academia over the last two decades, it has been somewhat remiss that pleasure, as an integral...
Book cover of Family Diversity and Family Policy: Strengthening Families for America’s Children
by Richard M. Lerner, Elizabeth E. Sparks, Laurie D. McCubbin
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013

Family Diversity and Family Policy describes the dimensions of diversity which characterize the contemporary American family and discusses the implications for public policy and associated intervention programs linked to this diversity. The authors contend that if the programs and policies available...
Book cover of The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China

The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China

The Flowering of Early Animal Life

by Hou Xian-Guang, David J. Siveter, Derek J. Siveter
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017

The celebrated lower Cambrian Chengjiang biota of Yunnan Province, China, represents one of the most significant ever paleontological discoveries. Deposits of ancient mudstone, about 520 million years old, have yielded a spectacular variety of exquisitely preserved fossils that record the early diversification...
Book cover of A War Like No Other

A War Like No Other

The Truth About China's Challenge to America

by Richard C. Bush, Michael E. O'Hanlon
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007

"Nobody approaches the objectivity and precision of Bush and O'Hanlon when it comes to analysis of the military and political dimensions of the Taiwan issue. This is one challenge that U.S. policymakers and military strategists cannot afford to get wrong, and scholars cannot afford to ignore." -...
Book cover of Managing Conflicts in Africa's Democratic Transitions
by Oluwakemi Abiodun Adesina, Mike Adeyeye, Joseph Kingsley Adjei
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012

The democratization process which bolstered a culture of periodic elections has also fostered election-related violent conflicts. As democratic transitions gained currency in the new millennium, orderly transitions through the ballot boxes began replacing military coups but deaths and destructions...
Book cover of Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism
by Logan Paul Gage, Bruce L. Gordon, Shawn E. Klein
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013

Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism canvasses an array of thinkers from the past to the present as it examines fundamental political, philosophical, ethical, economic, anthropological, and scientific aspects of the ferment between Darwinian biology and classical liberalism. Early chapters...
Book cover of Individual Preparedness and Response to Chemical, Radiological, Nuclear, and Biological Terrorist Attacks
by Lynn E. Davis, Arthur Melmed, Richard Krop
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2003

Individual preparedness is an important element of our nation's strategy for homeland security. This report adopts a scenario-driven approach that provides a rigorous way to identify actions-linked specifically to terrorist attacks-individuals can take to protect their health and safety. The result...
Book cover of Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito
by Rachana Kamtekar, Mark McPherran, P T. Geach
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2004

Plato's Euthyrphro, Apology, and Crito portray Socrates' words and deeds during his trial for disbelieving in the Gods of Athens and corrupting the Athenian youth, and constitute a defense of the man Socrates and of his way of life, the philosophic life. The twelve essays in the volume, written by...
Book cover of Autism Spectrum Disorders

Autism Spectrum Disorders

Interventions and Treatments for Children and Youth

by Sonja R. de Boer-Ott, Deborah Griswold, Brenda Smith Myles
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004

  How can you best help children with autism reach their full potential? Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) present a perplexing challenge for parents and school professionals. This essential resource was developed to respond directly to the difficulty school professionals and families...
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