A Richard: 899 books
by Richard A. Sauers
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2003
On July 2, 1863, the second day of fighting at Gettysburg, Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, in a controversial interpretation of his orders, advanced his men beyond the established Union line, exposing his flanks to a potentially devastating Confederate attack. Shortly after being reprimanded by his commander,...
by Richard A Meganck, Richard E Saunier
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
This unique dictionary and introduction to Global Environmental Governance (GEG), written and compiled by two veterans of the international stage, provides a compilation of over 5500 terms, organizations and acronyms, drawn from hundreds of official sources. An introductory essay frames the major...
Transcendentalist Hermeneutics
Institutional Authority and the Higher Criticism of the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1990
American literary historians have viewed Ralph Waldo Emerson’s resignation from the Unitarian ministry in 1832 in favor of a literary career as emblematic of a main current in American literature. That current is directed toward the possession of a self that is independent and fundamentally opposed...
by Richard A. Mann
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Welcome to the world of the AR-15!
Without a doubt, the AR-15 and AR-10 rifles are two of America's most popular semi-auto long guns. Every day, new shooters are exploring these durable, reliable, and accurate rifles and finding new and fun ways to use them. Now, in the Gun Digest Shooter's...
The Pats
An Illustrated History of the New England Patriots
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
**A New York Times Bestseller
The first book to tell the complete story of the Patriots, featuring thorough research, archival photos, and essays from notable authors, journalists, and local celebrities**
The New England Patriots have become a dynasty, though it didn’t begin that way....
by Richard A. Gabriel
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
In the course of his thirty-two-year reign over ancient Egypt, Thutmose III fought an impressive seventeen campaigns. He fought more battles over a longer period of time and experienced more victories than Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar did. Despite Thutmose III's surprisingly illustrious record,...
Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle
The Little Big Horn Reexamined
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
On the afternoon of June 25, 1867, an overwhelming force of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians quickly mounted a savage onslaught against General George Armstrong Custer’s battalion, driving the doomed troopers of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry to a small hill overlooking the Little Bighorn River, where Custer...
The Thing About Work
Showing Up and Other Important Matters [A Worker's Manual]
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Why does a CEO who has already made hundreds of millions of dollars continue to work?
Why does a rock star who has made a bundle continue to tour?
Why do retirees’ miss work as soon as they stop doing it?
Why do we all wrestle with our life’s work and talk about it incessantly?
The thing about...
Beyond Bibliometrics
Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing ways we measure scholarly performance and research impact.
Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available...
Cape Verde
Crioulo Colony To Independent Nation
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
The Cape Verde Islands, an Atlantic archipelago off the coast of Senegal, were first settled during the Portuguese Age of Discovery in the fifteenth century. A "Crioula" population quickly evolved from a small group of Portuguese settlers and large numbers of slaves from the West African...
Abelard to Apple
The Fate of American Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
How institutions of higher learning can rescue themselves from irrelevance and marginalization in the age of iTunes U and YouTube EDU.
The vast majority of American college students attend two thousand or so private and public institutions that might be described as the Middle—reputable educational...
Classrooms and Clinics
Urban Schools and the Protection and Promotion of Child Health, 1870-1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Classrooms and Clinics is the first book-length assessment of the development of public school health policies from the late nineteenth century through the early years of the Great Depression. Richard A. Meckel examines the efforts of early twentieth-century child health care advocates and reformers...
Retaking Rationality
How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2008
That America's natural environment has been degraded and despoiled over the past 25 years is beyond dispute. Nor has there been any shortage of reasons why-short-sighted politicians, a society built on over-consumption, and the dramatic weakening of environmental regulations. In Retaking Rationality,...
North America
The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North...