Robert A Scott: 53 books

Book cover of The Gothic Enterprise

The Gothic Enterprise

A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral

by Robert A. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011

The great Gothic cathedrals of Europe are among the most astonishing achievements of Western culture. Evoking feelings of awe and humility, they make us want to understand what inspired the people who had the audacity to build them. This engrossing book surveys an era that has fired the historical...
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Miracle Cures

Saints, Pilgrimage, and the Healing Powers of Belief

by Robert A. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010

Iconic images of medieval pilgrims, such as Chaucer’s making their laborious way to Canterbury, conjure a distant time when faith was the only refuge of the ill and infirm, and thousands traveled great distances to pray for healing. Why, then, in an age of advanced biotechnology and medicine, do...
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How University Boards Work

A Guide for Trustees, Officers, and Leaders in Higher Education

by Robert A. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018

We expect college and university trustees to hire the president, advise senior staff, manage investments and financial decisions, and oversee major strategic initiatives. Unfortunately, they sometimes come into this powerful role with little or no understanding of what they are meant to do or how...
Book cover of The Making of Blind Men
by Robert A. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017

The disability of blindness is a learned social role. The various attitudes and patterns of behavior that characterize people who are blind are not inherent in their condition but, rather, are acquired through ordinary processes of social learning. The Making of Blind Men is intended as a systematic...
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Zones of Control

Perspectives on Wargaming

by Jon Peterson, John Curry, Tetsuya Nakamura
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...
Book cover of Architectural Variability in the Southeast
by Cameron H. Lacquement, Lynne P. Sullivan, Robert J. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015

Some of the most visible expressions of human culture are illustrated architecturally. Unfortunately for archaeologists, the architecture being studied is not always visible and must be inferred from soil inconsistencies or charred remains. This study deals with research into roughly a millennium...
Book cover of Old Law, New Tricks: Using the Clean Air Act to Curb Climate Change
by Scott Schang, Leila B. Azari, Nicholas Bianco
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013

Few if any people think the Clean Air Act is the optimal legislative solution to climate change; but it is a powerful tool that is being used sometimes despite the prevailing political will. To address this reality, this volume calls on the best writing from the most often-cited environmental law journal...
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Seize the Night

New Tales of Vampiric Terror

by Kelley Armstrong, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Laird Barron
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015

A blockbuster anthology of original, blood-curdling vampire fiction from New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors, including Charlaine Harris, whose novels were adapted into HBO’s hit show True Blood, and Scott Smith, publishing his first work since The Ruins. Before being transformed...
Book cover of US Presidential Elections and Foreign Policy

US Presidential Elections and Foreign Policy

Candidates, Campaigns, and Global Politics from FDR to Bill Clinton

by Andrew Johnstone, Andrew Priest, J. Simon Rofe
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017

While domestic issues loom large in voters' minds during American presidential elections, matters of foreign policy have consistently shaped candidates and their campaigns. From the start of World War II through the collapse of the Soviet Union, presidential hopefuls needed to be perceived as credible...
Book cover of Fiction River: Time Streams

Fiction River: Time Streams

An Original Anthology Magazine

by Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Fiction River
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013

Time-travel stories open the entire world and all of time to writers’ imaginations. The fifteen writers in this third original anthology in the Fiction River line explore everything from Chicago gangsters to Japanese tsunamis, and travel from 2013 to the nineteenth century to a vast future. Featuring...
Book cover of Resistance and Theological Ethics
by Frances S. Adeney, Brian K. Blount, F E. Bonkovsky
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2004

Protestantism, at its best, grounds both its religious and its social critique in the faith of the prophets and the life and teachings of Jesus Christ as understood and lived by the church. Its teachings and desired practice stand in start contrast to complacent religion that seems to be at ease with...
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Vocabulary Assessment to Support Instruction

Building Rich Word-Learning Experiences

by Margaret G. McKeown, PhD, Paul D. Deane
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017

Vocabulary development is essential for learning, but conventional vocabulary assessments lack the range and flexibility to support K–12 classroom teachers in making instructional decisions. Drawing on linguistics, educational psychology, and educational measurement, this book offers a fresh perspective...
Book cover of A Primer on School Budgeting
by Robert N. Kratz, Charles A. Scott, Harry T. Zechman
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 1998

Does the prospect of preparing your school district's budget seem daunting? Beginning school administrators, often having only one theoretical course on the subject under their belt, see the budget development process as a nightmare. New administrators, teachers, and board members who have little...
Book cover of Honor on the Line

Honor on the Line

The Fifth Down and the Spectacular 1940 College Football Season

by Robert J. Scott, Myles A. Pocta
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012

It was the fall of 1940, and Americans turned to college football for relief from the turbulent world around them. The Depression still had its grip on the nation and, across the Atlantic, the Battle of Britain raged. As war crept closer every day, the nations first peacetime draft called Americans...
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