Richard Michael: 281 books
Welcome to the Universe
An Astrophysical Tour
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton,...
New Earth Politics
Essays from the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Prominent scholars and practitioners consider the role of global environmental politics in the face of increasing environmental stress.
Humanity's collective impact on the Earth is vast. The rate and scale of human-driven environmental destruction is quickly outstripping our political and social...
by Sarah Gleeson-White, Richard Godden, Robert Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
William Faulkner in the Media Ecology explores the Nobel Prize-winning author immersed in the new media of his time. Intersecting with twentieth-century technology such as photography, film, and sound recording, these twelve essays portray Faulkner as not only as a writer looking back on the history...
Environmental Governance Reconsidered
Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities
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,...
Beyond Bibliometrics
Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing ways we measure scholarly performance and research impact.
Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available...
Australia's Competitiveness
From Lucky Country to Competitive Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
In this in-depth overview of Australia's economy, Michael Enright and Richard Petty — leading scholars on international competition—look at the data behind the news reports to offer a complete view of Australia's stable and wealthy economy. The book compares Australia with other similarly sized...
Retaking Rationality
How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2008
That America's natural environment has been degraded and despoiled over the past 25 years is beyond dispute. Nor has there been any shortage of reasons why-short-sighted politicians, a society built on over-consumption, and the dramatic weakening of environmental regulations. In Retaking Rationality,...
by Richard T. Callaghan, Michael P. Pateman, Daniel Torres Etayo
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Heritage preservation is a broad term that can include the protection of a wide range of human-mediated material and cultural processes ranging from specific artifacts, ancient rock art, and features of the built environment and modified landscapes. As a region of multiple independent nations and...
Lay Ecclesial Ministry
Pathways Toward the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
The role of lay ecclesial ministers—professionally prepared laity who serve in leadership roles—is becoming critically more important in the life of the Catholic church. In Lay Ecclesial Ministry, theologians and pastoral leaders from diverse disciplines provide a deeper understanding, envision...
The Battle of Albuera 1811
Glorious Fields of Grief'
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
On 16 May 1811 a combined British, Portuguese and Spanish force commanded by the British general Beresford met the French army under Soult at Albuera in southern Spain. What followed was one of the bloodiest and most controversial battles of the Peninsular War. Yet despite the battle's significance...
Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry
Responses to the Crisis in Mental Health Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Leading scholars offer perspectives from the philosophy of science on the crisis in psychiatric research that exploded after the publication of DSM-5.
Psychiatry and mental health research is in crisis, with tensions between psychiatry's clinical and research aims and controversies over diagnosis,...
Blockheads!
Essays on Ned Block's Philosophy of Mind and Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
New essays on the philosophy of Ned Block, with substantive and wide-ranging responses by Block.
Perhaps more than any other philosopher of mind, Ned Block synthesizes philosophical and scientific approaches to the mind; he is unique in moving back and forth across this divide, doing so with...
Genetic Influences on Addiction
An Intermediate Phenotype Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
A comprehensive review of research examining intermediary mechanisms to understand the link between genetic variation and addiction liability.
Although there is scientific consensus that genetic factors play a substantial role in an individual's vulnerability to drug or alcohol addiction, specific...
A Biblical-Theological Introduction to the Old Testament
The Gospel Promised
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Read the Old Testament from a biblical-theological perspective.
Featuring contributions from thirteen respected evangelical scholars, this gospel-centered introduction to the Old Testament will help anyone who teaches or studies Scripture to better see the initial outworking of God’s plan to redeem the world through Jesus Christ.