Richard Norman: 40 books
by Richard Norman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
What is humanism and why does it matter? Is there any doctrine every humanist must hold? If it rejects religion, what does it offer in its place? Have the twentieth century’s crimes against humanity spelled the end for humanism?
On Humanism is a timely and powerfully argued philosophical...
by Richard Norman
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Present-day astronomy, vast, complex, is looking through darkness to distant objects and times. Yet its discoveries aren’t exclusively scientific: from the moons of Pluto to the Doppler effect, the night sky screens a place where math meets myth. Now, in Zero Kelvin, in scenes that shift from the mountains...
by Richard Norman
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
humanism /'hju:meniz(e)m/ n. an outlook or system of thought concerned with human rather than divine or supernatural matters.
Albert Einstein, Isaac Asimov, E.M. Forster, Bertrand Russell, and Gloria Steinem all declared themselves humanists. What is humanism and why does it matter? Is there...
Focus on Reason
A Deist Speaks His Mind
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
LET US BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWAL OF OUR MINDS.
by Alexander Moseley, Richard Norman
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This title was first published in 2002. Was the bombing of Belgrade morally justified as an attempt to halt 'ethnic cleansing' in Kosovo'? Should Western states have tried to prevent the slaughter in Rwanda? Are there, indeed, genuinely universal 'human rights' which could justify such interventions,...
by Richard Chizmar, Lisa Tuttle, Norman Prentiss
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Richard Chizmar, Lisa Tuttle, Norman Prentiss, Kevin Quigley, and Peter Straub unmask monsters hiding in plain sight in an anthology of heart-pounding short fiction assembled by horror author and editor Brian James Freeman.
DEVIL’S NIGHT by Richard Chizmar
You’ve read about what happened that...
by A.M. Dellamonica, Caroline M. Yoachim, Gregory Norman Bossert
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Sixteen more short stories of literary adventure fantasy from Beneath Ceaseless Skies, the six-time Hugo Award and nine-time World Fantasy Award finalist online magazine that Locus online calls "a premiere venue for fantastic fiction, not just online but for all media."
Authors include...
From Guam and Beyond
Stories of the Men of VW-1
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
The stories in this book were supplied by squadron mates who served with the U.S. Navy's Airborne Early Warning Squadron One or VW-1, a squadron that supported the Seventh Fleet and also engaged in typhoon tracking. The squadron's existence spanned a nearly 20 year period that began with the Korean...
Transforming Health Care Leadership
A Systems Guide to Improve Patient Care, Decrease Costs, and Improve Population Health
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Health care organizations are challenged to improve care at the bedside for patients, learn from individual patients to improve population health, and reduce per capita costs. To achieve these aims, leaders are needed in all parts of the organization need positive solutions. Transforming Health Care...
Reasons for Faith (Foreword by Lee Strobel): Making a Case for the Christian Faith
Making a Case for the Christian Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2007
Many Christians want to witness for their faith, but they are afraid they will not be able to answer questions that others may ask of them. First Peter 3:15 reminds believers to always be prepared to "make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you." Norman Geisler and...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of sugarcane Volume 1
Cultivation techniques, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Sugarcane is the source of over three quarters of the world’s sugar, and is grown widely in the tropics and sub-tropics. Despite rising demand, average yields have not increased significantly, partly because of continued vulnerability to pests and diseases. In addition, cultivation has been seen...
Lincoln's Enduring Legacy
Perspective from Great Thinkers, Great Leaders, and the American Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Coming on the heels of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, Lincoln's Enduring Legacy offers highly readable and accessible perspectives on Lincoln at 200 in terms of his impact on great leaders and thinkers and his place in American history. The book explores how Lincoln's words and deeds...
The Grand Strategy that Won the Cold War
Architecture of Triumph
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...
Learning Culture through Sports
Perspectives on Society and Organized Sports
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
In today's culture, sports wield a weight influence; this influence, however, is rarely examined. Similar to the first edition, this second edition of Learning Culture Through Sports provides coaches, educators, parents, and others dealing with students and athletes with an engaging and critical context...