Robert Thomas: 350 books

Book cover of The Contemporary Caribbean
by Robert B. Potter, David Barker, Thomas Klak
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015

This text focuses on the contemporary economic, social, geographical, environmental and political realities of the Caribbean region. Historical aspects of the Caribbean, such as slavery, the plantation system and plantocracy are explored in order to explain the contemporary nature of, and challenges...
Book cover of Perspectives on Artistic Research in Music
by Linda Barwick, Tim Dargaville, Stephen Emmerson
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017

The increasing interest in artistic research, especially in music, is throwing open doors to exciting ideas about how we generate new musical knowledge and understanding. This book examines the wide array of factors at play in innovative practice and how by treating it as research we can make new...
Book cover of Memoirs Of Marshal Bugeaud From His Private Correspondence And Original Documents, 1784-1849 Vol. II
by Maréchal Thomas Robert Bugeaud duc d’Isly
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

“Next after the greatest military personage of the century, Napoleon I., the most perfect is Marshal Bugeaud.” Originally published following the disastrous Franco-Prussian War of 1870, and soon after translated into English, these memoirs form a fascinating portrait of the famous “Père...
Book cover of Fire in the Forest
by Peter A. Thomas, Robert S. McAlpine, Kelvin Hirsch
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010

How destructive or beneficial are forest fires to wildlife? Should we be trying to reduce or increase the amount of fire in forests? How are forest fires controlled, and why does this sometimes fail? What effect will climate change have? These and many other questions are answered in this richly illustrated...
Book cover of Perspectives on Election
by Jack W. Cottrell, Clark H. Pinnock, Robert L. Reymond
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006

Perspectives on Election presents in counterpoint form five basic common beliefs on the doctrine of spiritual election (for example, predestination) that have developed over the course of church history with a view toward determining which is most faithful to Scripture. Each chapter is written by...
Book cover of The Unresolved National Question in South Africa

The Unresolved National Question in South Africa

Left thought under apartheid and beyond

by Edward Webster, John Mawbey, Jeremy Cronin
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017

The re-emergence of debates on the decolonisation of knowledge has revived interest in the National Question, which began over a century ago and remains unresolved. Tensions that were suppressed and hidden in the past are now being openly debated. Despite this, the goal of one united nation living...
Book cover of Historical Dictionary of Kenya
by Robert M. Maxon, Thomas P. Ofcansky
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014

Kenya has a long and complex history that began thousands of years ago. Indeed, some archaeologists contend that the country was the "cradle of mankind" or, at the very least, one of the places that was home to the earliest hominids. In later centuries, Kenya's strategic location astride...
Book cover of European Institutions, Democratization, and Human Rights Protection in the European Periphery
by Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat, Kathleen Barrett, Henry F. Carey
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014

The European Union (E.U.), along with the Council of Europe, NATO, and the Office of Security and Cooperation in Europe are regional organizations which, despite their different missions, all are designed to support democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. The E.U. has required that all of its...
Book cover of Historical Dictionary of Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations
by Thomas E. Doyle, Robert F. Gorman, Edward S. Mihalkanin
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016

The Historical Dictionary of Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations, Third Edition defines the core concepts of human rights and humanitarian law. It relates the major international legal agreements related to human rights and names the diverse intergovernmental organizations which are responsible...
Book cover of Alternative Capitalisms: Geographies of Emerging Regions
by Robert Gwynne, Denis Shaw, Thomas Klak
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014

This book aims to examine the effects of globalization and economic and political transformations in those parts of the world which are now regularly referred to as 'emerging regions'. These are Latin America and the Caribbean, East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union and East Asia. This book...
Book cover of Fracking
by Peter Hardy, Wallace Tyner, Iain Scotchman
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014

Fracking has the potential to extract hydrocarbons from previously inaccessible sources of gas and oil, but is regularly in the news because of environmental concerns surrounding the process. First used commercially in the mid-20th Century, only recently has fracking been deployed on a large scale,...
Book cover of Violence, Conflict, and World Order

Violence, Conflict, and World Order

Critical Conversations on State Sanctioned Justice

by Gregg Barak, Mahin Ashki, Gregg Barak
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006

This is an ethnographic collection of 12 edited talks and conversations from a conference on violence, conflict, and the world order held at Eastern Kentucky University. The conference was organized by Carole Garrison, Chair of Criminal Justice and Police Studies at EKU, who arranged for video recording...
Book cover of Local Electrode Atom Probe Tomography
by David J. Larson, Robert M. Ulfig, Brian P. Geiser
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013

This book is the first, single-source guide to successful experiments using the local electrode atom probe (LEAP®) microscope. Coverage is both comprehensive and user friendly, including the fundamentals of preparing specimens for the microscope from a variety of materials, the details of the instrumentation...
Book cover of Collaborative Parish Leadership

Collaborative Parish Leadership

Contexts, Models, Theology

by William A. Clark, Reinhard Feiter, Daniel Gast
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016

Collaborative Parish Leadership draws on the experience, strengths, challenges, and insights of the long-term pastoral-academic partnerships out of which it has grown. These include “Project INSPIRE,” a pastoral team-formation project sponsored by Loyola University and the Archdiocese of Chicago...
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