Robert Walter: 92 books
by Robert Cantwell, Jess Walter
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
A labor strike at a lumber mill divides a town based on the author's hometown of Aberdeen, Washington. "The Land of Plenty" portrays the blue-collar workers' struggle for existence and depicts, with sensitivity and compassion, workers and owners alike in their poverty, depravity, and their...
by Kenneth L. Deutsch, John A. Murley, George Anastaplo
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1999
Responding to volatile criticisms frequently leveled at Leo Strauss and those he influenced, the prominent contributors to this volume demonstrate the profound influence that Strauss and his students have exerted on American liberal democracy and contemporary political thought. By stressing the enduring...
by Virginia H. Dale, Catherine L. Kling, Judith L. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Since 1985, scientists have been documenting a hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico each year. The hypoxic zone, an area of low dissolved oxygen that cannot s- port marine life, generally manifests itself in the spring. Since marine species either die or ee the hypoxic zone, the spread of hypoxia reduces...
Challenges to Democratic Participation
Antipolitics, Deliberative Democracy, and Pluralism
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Finally, Part III approaches pluralism and cultural diversity in a shared public space. Its main challenge consists in promoting an idea of active citizenship that can meet the demands of a world increasingly defined by the processes of globalization. Ultimately, that is what will end up combining...
Alpha Phi Alpha
A Legacy of Greatness, the Demands of Transcendence
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
On December 4, 1906, on Cornell University's campus, seven black men founded one of the greatest and most enduring organizations in American history. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. has brought together and shaped such esteemed men as Martin Luther King Jr., Cornel West, Thurgood Marshall, Wes Moore,...
by Robert S. Youngquist, DVM, Walter R. Threlfall
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2006
An essential resource for both students and practitioners, this comprehensive text provides practical, up-to-date information about normal reproduction and reproductive disorders in horses, cattle, small ruminants, swine, llamas, and other livestock. Featuring contributions from experts in the field,...
by Robert W. Yarbrough, Walter C. Kaiser Jr., Daniel G. McCartney
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Suffering and the Goodness of God presents biblical truths concerning suffering and challenges believers to promote justice and to emulate God's grace as they minister to others.
Famine. Sickness. Terrorist Attacks. Natural disasters.
Each day horrific scenes of suffering are streamed...
Mitigating Inequality
Higher Education Research, Policy, and Practice in an Era of Massification and Stratification
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Now more than ever, the issue of access to higher education for all is a matter of global importance. As colleges and universities worldwide increasingly extend their academic programs abroad, develop internationally mixed research teams and create international curricular initiatives, it is essential...
Violence, Conflict, and World Order
Critical Conversations on State Sanctioned Justice
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...
Achieving sustainable production of poultry meat Volume 2
Breeding and nutrition
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
To meet growing demand, the FAO has estimated that world poultry production needs to grow by 2-3% per year to 2030. Much of the increase in output already achieved has been as a result of improvements in commercial breeds combined with rearing in more intensive production systems. However, more intensive...
by Walter M. Haney, George F. Madaus, Robert Lyons
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Standardized testing in the United States has been increasing at a rapid pace in the last twenty-five years. The market for tests has not only been expanding rapidly, but has also been changing sharply in structure into a fractured marketplace. Indeed, one of the main features of this book is that...
by Robert Kozma, Walter J. Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
This intriguing book was born out of the many discussions the authors had in the past 10 years about the role of scale-free structure and dynamics in producing intelligent behavior in brains.
The microscopic dynamics of neural networks is well described by the prevailing paradigm based in a narrow...
Thermo-Hydrodynamic Design of Fluidized Bed Combustors
Estimating Metal Wastage
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Thermo-Hydrodynamic Design of Fluidized Bed Combustors: Estimating Metal Wastage is a unique volume that finds that the most sensitive parameters affecting metal wastage are superficial fluidizing velocity, particle diameter, and particle sphericity. Gross consistencies between disparate data sources...
KARTANGA – ein unzertrennliches Team
1. Der erste Kontakt – TEXTOR die Übergangswelt
Language: German
Release Date: February 10, 2017
KARTANGA - ein unzertrennliches Team Ein Titel der vieles verspricht und vieles bietet. Fantasie, Spass, Freundschaft usw. Das Buch macht Laune in seine eigene Fantasie wieder zu schwelgen. Man fühlt mit den beiden Hauptdarstellern. Insgeheim wünscht man sich solch eine Situation herbei. Zwei Jungen...