Richard E : 523 books
Learning as a Generative Activity
Eight Learning Strategies that Promote Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
During the past twenty-five years, researchers have made impressive advances in pinpointing effective learning strategies (namely, activities the learner engages in during learning that are intended to improve learning). In Learning as a Generative Activity: Eight Learning Strategies that Promote...
by Dr. Richard E. Weathers
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
This book deals with the rites of passage into adult Christian living. To pass through these powers of anointing by the Holy Spirit, all of us must take a journey from babyhood (new birth in Christ) to growing in spiritual maturity into that perfect man or woman of God (Ephesians 4:1112). This will...
by Richard E. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
During construction of a villa on an idyllic Bali seashore, workers uncover long-buried skeletons, their shattered skulls evidence of brutal mass murder. The discovery sets the village of Batu Gede astir. The life of Made "Nol" Ziro, a stalwart member of the community with a little gambling...
by Richard E. Nisbett
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
“[Nisbett] weighs in forcefully and articulately . . . [using] a thoroughly appealing style to engage . . . throughout.”—Publishers Weekly
Who are smarter, Asians or Westerners? Are there genetic explanations for group differences in test scores? From the damning research of The Bell...
College for Sale
The Fall and Rise of a Closed College Campus
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Nasson College was a small, liberal arts college located in Springvale, Maine. Unfortunately, declining enrollment and questionable management decisions led to its bankruptcy and closing. But the path to closure had been set in motion many years before, long before the college filed for bankruptcy...
How Not to Be a Terrible School Board Member
Lessons for School Administrators and Board Members
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Build a successful board by knowing where the land mines are
Veteran school board member, Richard E. Mayer, takes a humorous approach to the serious relationship between school administrators and board members. While the overwhelming majority of school board members have good motives, even...
by James R. Griesemer, Joan Roughgarden, Ofer Feinerman
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Broad perspective on collectivity in the life sciences, from microorganisms to human consensus, and the theoretical and empirical opportunities and challenges.
Many researchers and scholars in the life sciences have become increasingly critical of the traditional methodological focus on the...
by Richard E. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Fluid dynamics, the behavior of liquids and gases, is a field of broad impact that encompasses aspects of physics, engineering, oceanography, and meteorology. Full understanding demands fluency in higher mathematics, the only language of fluid dynamics. This introductory text is geared toward advanced...
I Held Lincoln
A Union Sailor's Journey Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Lt. Benjamin Loring (1824–1902) lived the life of an everyman Civil War sailor. He commanded no armies and devised no grand strategies. Loring was a sailor who just wanted to return home, where the biggest story of his life awaited him.
Covering almost a year of Loring’s service, I Held...
by Richard E. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
One boat. One Balinese, one Bali expat, one Australian, one American. Three heavy smokers, one pious teetotaler. Two sacks of rice, three boxes of noodles, coffee and salt, cooking oil and sauces. Ten cartons of cigarettes. More than enough for a week sail to Bali...but what happens when they lose their smokes?
Aggressive Nationalism
McCulloch v. Maryland and the Foundation of Federal Authority in the Young Republic
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2007
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) has long been recognized to be one of the most significant decisions ever handed down by the United States Supreme Court. Indeed, many scholars have argued it is the greatest opinion handed down by the greatest Chief Justice, in which he declared the act creating the Second...
Domestic Intelligence
Monitoring Dissent in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The 1970s revealed a number of infamous and sometimes illegal practices used by federal law enforcement agencies to monitor political dissent in the United States. In the aftermath of Watergate the revelation of serious abuses created distrust of virtually all domestic intelligence operations and...
by Richard E. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Something's hinky on board the Orient Star, and Vannevar "Budiman" Wells can't quite figure out what.His friend and skipper Alexandra Cooper, a sea-salted Australian who charters the boat for Indian Ocean excursions, is uneasy about her guests. She's asked Budi to come along...
Marriage: It's A God Thing
A Practical Guide to an Intimate and Successful Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
This practical and easy to read guide is the product of many years of ministry and counseling experience. With humor and insight, Richard E. Nichols presents key principles for intimate & successful marriages. This guide book serves as the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE for couples. The WAY to guide those...