Robert Bruce: 114 books
Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota
Volume 4, Ecosystem-Based Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The fourth volume in the Harte Research Institute’s landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides a comprehensive study of ecosystem-based management, analyzing key coastal ecosystems in eleven Gulf Coast states from Florida to Quintana Roo and presenting case studies in which this integrated...
by Roger Frie, Bruce Ries, M Guy Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
This volume is the first concentrated effort to offer a philosophical critique of relational and intersubjective perspectives in contemporary psychoanalytic thought. The distinguished group of scholars and clinicians assembled here are largely preoccupied with tracing the theoretical underpinnings...
by Carol S. Baugh, Melanie F. Myers, Michael S. Hendryx
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Appalachians have been characterized as a population with numerous disparities in health and limited access to medical services and infrastructures, leading to inaccurate generalizations that inhibit their healthcare progress. Appalachians face significant challenges in obtaining effective care, and...
Field-cycling NMR Relaxometry
Instrumentation, Model Theories and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
Field-cycling NMR relaxometry is evolving into a methodology of widespread interest with recent technological developments resulting in powerful and versatile commercial instruments. Polymers, liquid crystals, biomaterials, porous media, tissue, cement and many other materials of practical importance...
Radicalism, Revolution, and Reform in Modern China
Essays in Honor of Maurice Meisner
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
This volume illuminates the relationship of China's radical past to its reformist present as China makes a way forward through very differently conceived and contested visions of the future. In the context of early twenty-first century problems and the failures of global capitalism, is China's history...
by Robert B. Bruce
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Few figures in modern French history have aroused more controversy than Marshal Philippe PTtain, who rose from obscurity to great fame in the First World War only to fall into infamy during the dark days of Nazi occupation in World War II. PTtainÆs brilliant theories of firepower and flexible defense,...
Life, Death, and Meaning
Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
Life, Death, and Meaning
Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
Addiction Intervention
Strategies to Motivate Treatment-Seeking Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Addiction Intervention: Strategies to Motivate Treatment-Seeking Behavior shows you how to use the tools of intervention--the words, the steps, and the strategies--to be a change agent in the lives of individuals with alcohol and drug addictions. It is full of effective strategies and case studies...
The Kindness of Strangers
Philanthropy and Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
In The Kindness of Strangers, Deni Elliott examines ethically questionable situations that have arisen in response to institutional dependency on external benefactors. Major concerns analyzed include: The increased professionalism of fundraising and of donating, an increased willingness of institutions...
Dinosaurs in Australia
Mesozoic Life from the Southern Continent
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Over the last few decades our understanding of what Australia was like during the Mesozoic Era has changed radically. A rush of new fossil discoveries, together with cutting-edge analytical techniques, has created a much more detailed picture of ancient life and environments from the great southern continent....
Continuity and Discontinuity (Essays in Honor of S. Lewis Johnson, Jr.)
Perspectives on the Relationship Between the Old and New Testaments
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1988
Evangelicals agree that the Bible is God's inerrant word. But we sometimes differ on how to relate the messages of the Old and New Testaments. Without a basic understanding of this crucial matter, it is difficult to know how to use the Testaments to formulate either doctrine or practice.
For...
by William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Enola Gay Aird
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...
Among The Shadows
A Detective Byron Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Maine Sunday Telegram #1 Bestseller
"A first-rate novel. Suspenseful and highly entertaining." -- New York Times bestselling author Gayle Lynds
Fall in Portland, Maine usually arrives as a welcome respite from summer’s sweltering temperatures and, with the tourists gone,...