Robert L : 1109 books
by John Agresto, James W. Ceaser, Daniel E. Cullen
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
The essays in this book reflect on the paradoxical relationship of liberal education and liberal democracy. Liberal education emphasizes knowledge for its own sake, detached from all instrumental purposes. It also aims at liberation from the manifold sources of unfreedom, including political sources....
Handbook of Forensic Assessment
Psychological and Psychiatric Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
The first handbook to explore forensic assessment from psychiatric and psychological perspectives
"The editors have assembled a magnificent collaboration between psychiatrists and psychologists to bring forth critical knowledge and insight to the core competency of forensic assessment. This...
The Ethics of Sport
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
We encourage children to play sports from an early age in order to instill in them such virtues as teamwork, perseverance, respect, fairness, and discipline, but, as perennial scandals in the headlines show us, sports also give rise to thorny ethical problems. Can the ugly, corrupt side of sports...
The ROV Manual
A User Guide for Remotely Operated Vehicles
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Written by two well-known experts in the field with input from a broad network of industry specialists, The ROV Manual, Second Edition provides a complete training and reference guide to the use of observation class ROVs for surveying, inspection, and research purposes.
This new edition has...
by Robert L. Coffey
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
This book has been published in loving remembrance of Robert Lloyd Coffey, his life, his skill and his passion, for the written word. Ironically, at the time that he wrote it, he never would have suspected that the, cycle of water ideals presented in The Adventures of Danny Dewdrop would be diametrically...
A Word for Nature
Four Pioneering Environmental Advocates, 1845-1913
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The careers and ideas of four figures of monumental importance in the history of American conservation--George Perkins Marsh, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John Wesley Powell--are explored in A Word for Nature. Robert Dorman offers lively portraits of each of these early environmental advocates,...
The Spirituality of Age
A Seeker’s Guide to Growing Older
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
A compassionate guide for transforming aging into spiritual growth
• Engage with 25 key questions guiding you to mine previously untapped veins of inspiration and courage
• Find a constructive role for regret and fear and embrace the freedom to become more fully yourself
•...
Nature, Politics, and the Arts
Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in conversation with Woodring’s teachings on literature and visual art and his commentaries on American...
Anthropology and Religion
What We Know, Think, and Question
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Drawing from ethnographic examples found throughout the world, this revised and updated text offers an introduction to what anthropologists know or think about religion, how they have studied it, and how they have interpreted or explained it since the late nineteenth century. Robert Winzeler’s balanced...
Heads above Water
The Inside Story of the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Since the 1950s, competing interests for use of Edwards Aquifer resources—the primary source of water for more than two million people in south central Texas—were at war. They had tried many times to resolve their differences about how to conserve, allocate, and use the water, but had always failed.
Finally,...
Cognitive Therapy
Basic Principles and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1996
Today, under pressure from managed care companies as well as from patients who are demanding briefer and more focused treatments, therapists are creatively combining cognitive and psychodynamic approaches and obtaining unprecedented therapeutic results.
In this volume, Robert Leahy describes Aaron...
Revolt of the Provinces
The Regionalist Movement in America, 1920-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
A work of remarkable scope and depth of learning. [Dorman's] principal contribution is wise, imaginative, and often revelatory readings of published texts.--Journal of Southern History
"[Dorman] skillfully recreates--and acutely analyzes--the fascinating story of one of American political and...
88 Days to Kandahar
A CIA Diary
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
The “first” Afghan War, a CIA war in response to 9/11, was directed by the CIA Station Chief in Islamabad. It put Hamid Karzai in power in 88 days. “If you want an insider’s account of the first American-Afghan War, you can’t do better than this…Important reading to understand where we...
Life and Death Matters
Seeking the Truth About Capital Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Dr. Robert Baldwin would be the first to tell you that he used to be an average white Southern male; a family man with conservative ideals and a growing medical practice, he was living out his life without too much introspection. In 1997, however, Baldwin was diagnosed with the auto-immune disease,...