Robert S Chen: 6 books

Book cover of Preventive Measures

Preventive Measures

Building Risk Assessment and Crisis Early Warning Systems

by Adeel Ahmed, Günther Baechler, Doug Bond
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 1998

State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, and Afghanistan. The international consequences of such crises are profound, often threatening...
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Courting Justice

Ten New Jersey Cases That Shook the Nation

by John B. Wefing, Feinman M. Jay, Caitlin Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013

Since 1947 a modernized New Jersey Supreme Court has played an important and controversial role in the state, nation, and world.  Its decisions in cutting-edge cases have confronted society’s toughest issues, reflecting changing social attitudes, modern life’s complexities, and new technologies. Paul...
Book cover of Constructing Narratives in Response to Trump's Election

Constructing Narratives in Response to Trump's Election

How Various Populations Make Sense of an Unexpected Victory

by Nicole Allaire, Jose Francisco Ramírez Angeles, Robert L. Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018

This book analyzes narratives on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election victory by and for diverse populations. The narratives are designed to help students, women, young Christians, evangelicals, parents of internationally adopted children, white nationalists, etc. understand the meaning and...
Book cover of CAD and Robotics in Architecture and Construction

CAD and Robotics in Architecture and Construction

Proceedings of the Joint International Conference at Marseilles, 25–27 June 1986

by L. M. Swerdloff, C. F. Earl, O. Akin
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

After two decades, data processing has finally, and probably forever, found its niche among civil engineering and construction (CEC) professionnals, through word processors, digitizing tables, management software, and increasingly via drawing software and computer-aided design (CAD), recently, robots...
Book cover of Alternative Approaches in Music Education

Alternative Approaches in Music Education

Case Studies from the Field

by Frank Abrahams, Joseph Abramo, Carlos Abril
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010

Explore the creative ways music educators across the country are approaching emerging practices in music teaching and learning. Outlined in twenty-five unique case studies, each program offers a new perspective on music teaching and learning, often falling outside the standard music education curriculum....
Book cover of Immigrant Children

Immigrant Children

Change, Adaptation, and Cultural Transformation

by Susan S. Chuang, Michele Adams, Lisa Baumwell
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011

Over the past several decades, the demographic populations of many countries such as Canada as well as the United States have greatly transformed. Most striking is the influx of recent immigrant families into North America. As children lead the way for a 'new' North America, this group of children...
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