Robert Proctor: 18 books

Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, architectural historian Robert Proctor examines the transformations in British Roman Catholic church architecture that took place in the two decades surrounding this crucial event. Inspired by new thinking in theology and changing practices of worship,...

The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. In Golden Holocaust, Robert N. Proctor draws on reams of formerly-secret industry documents to...

From the candy bar to the cigarette, records to roller coasters, a technological revolution during the last quarter of the nineteenth century precipitated a colossal shift in human consumption and sensual experience.  Food, drink, and many other consumer goods came to be mass-produced, bottled, canned,...

The long-awaited return of TO DEMONS BOUND, the first of nine volumes in the SWORDS OF RAEMLLYN series by Robert E Vardeman and Geo W Proctor brings you Davin Anane and his giant other-worldly friend Goran One-Eye in their battle to hold back gathering dark powers. Davin's lover, Lijena, is possessed...

In this new volume in Springer-Verlag's series "Recent Research in Psychology", Drs. Proctor and Weeks examine what has long been a "self-asserted superiority" of behavior analysts and Skinnerian researchers. Most behavior-analytic views derive from the philosophy of radical behaviorism,...

A presidential transition has a major impact on the life of an institution. Hundreds of presidential transitions take place annually, and when they are not amicable and carefully orchestrated, they can scar both the institution and the president. Sanaghan, Goldstein, and Gaval estimate that more than...

Skill Acquisition and Training describes the building blocks of cognitive, motor, and teamwork skills, and the factors to take into account in training them. The basic processes of perception, cognition and action that provide the foundation for understanding skilled performance are discussed in the...

Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, economics, animal behavior, and evolution describe the latest research on the causes and consequences of overconsumption. Our drive to consume—our desire for food, clothing, smart phones, and megahomes—evolved from our ancestors' drive to survive....

Swirling through the realm are winds of rebellion fed by greed, lust for power and the need to possess the magical sword of Raemllyn's first king, Kwerin Bloodhawk. In the wrong hands magic will rule-and ruin.Freebooters Davin Anane and Goran One-Eye face demons unleashed as they struggle...

The magical Sword of Kwerin Bloodhawk has come into Lijena Farleigh's grasp-and so has a strange, alien lover. Chal is a pacifist in a world plunged into war and double-dealing. Pitted against the two lovers is Zarek Yannis, known as the Blackheart. Love must overcome evil if the kingdom of Raemllyn...

Even the demonic Faceless Ones quake at mention of master mage Lorennion's Blood Fountain, yet there lovely Lijena Farleigh is magic-bound to go. Davin Anane and his changeling companion Goran One-Eye are powerless to stop her and can only hold the demon hordes at bay as Lijena discovers the...

Sold into slavery! Davin and Goran rely on false friends and are forced to crew a merchant ship doomed to sail into the dark source of soul-devouring beasts lurking in the gray mists of Raemllyn's seas.BEASTS OF THE MIST chronicles a perilous journey through seas of magical beasts, enchanted lovers and all with a kingdom's fate in the balance.

Wars have been fought. Evil has been defeated and kingdoms won. But the real challenge lies ahead destined to strain the friendship of freebooters Davin Anane and his other-worldly companion Goran One-eye.For Goran, his home in an alternate plane of existence beckons. He has the key to unlock...

Even on a pleasure ship crowded with a cargo of gorgeous concubines, Lijena Farleigh stands out as the most beauteous. In her possession is the magical Sword of Kwerin Bloodhawk, a blade that can free or enslave an entire continent. Her goal is simple. Deliver the blade to Prince Felrad so he can...