Robert Thompson: 72 books

“Bob Thompson’s gripping personal stories reveal his pastoral sensitivity, the development of his own pastoral identity through lived experience, his deep commitment to social justice, and his deep love and respect for his muse, his life-partner Bev and their children. He has supervised a number...

Bob Johnson had lost everything, and with the movement of his family back to the Ozarks he was in culture shock and needed a change. The Navy seemed to be the answer he was looking for. At his Officer Candidate Training graduation, a long time family friend showed up to take him for a long weekend...

When Robert Thompson left Cambridge to join the Malayan Civil Service in 1938 the sun still shone on the British Empire for 24 hours a day. The outbreak of war in the Pacific found him in Hong Kong from which he was obliged to make a hurried and dramatic exit. From that point most of his working life...

Jack is a senior who loses his wife suddenly. He's elegant, a professional engineer, who now wonders what the rest of his life is going to be, alone, or in community with others.

Focusing on fieldcraft techniques for macro and close-up photography, Thompson covers the vital but often overlooked skills necessary to achieve consistent professional results in the field. Case studies covering a broad and often challenging group of subjects from the seashore to your back garden...

In this second edition, Robert T. Robinson Jr. describes not only his childhood in Lafayette Colorado during the days of the miners' strikes, but also his experience in World War II in England as a member of the 127th Air Transport Squadron.

The Broadcast Journalism Handbook has everything you ever wanted to know about working in the television news business but were afraid to ask! College courses teach the theory of how a television newsroom works; here, working journalists show the reality of the business. Learn the ropes—and how...

Thomas Bond graduates from college knowing exactly what he wants to do: He wants to follow his life long dream , to be a pilot . He enters US Air Force Pilot training and flies four years before leaving active duty and joining the N.J. Air National Guard as a single-seat, single-engine fighter...

This book is the outcome of a decade of research on the neu­ roanatomical mechanisms of learning in the young laboratory rat. It is essentially a discourse on the functional organization of the brain in relation to problem-solving ability and intelli­ gence. During the period between 1980 and 1989,...

This book hopes to change the nature of the conversation about higher education from critiques to focusing on efforts of systematic improvement in undergraduate education. Changing the Conversation about Higher Education establishes a culture of experimentation and evidence for undergraduate education...

Authorized book tie-in to 100th anniversary of this beloved song. With the release of this special-edition book/CD, authored by three baseball insiders and history experts, the book recounts how “Ball Game” has won a unique and permanent place in our hearts and our cultural landscape. The CD includes many rare, classic, fun, and innovative renditions of the song.

Volume II of The Viola da Gamba Society Index of Manuscripts Containing Consort Music includes manuscripts associated with John Browne (Clerk of the Parliaments), Philip Falle (prebendary at Durham), Sir Gabriel Roberts, John St Barbe of Broadlands, the Withy family of Worcester and Oxford and an...

Stan, handsome, six feet two inches tall, with dark-brown hair and piercing blue eyes, and neighbor Pete, six feet, 180 pounds, met in scouting at twelve and became brothers in spirit. Their intertwined lives and adventures carry them through college and beyond. Their high school friend Butch leads...

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