Bruce R : 215 books
Fell Beasts and Fair
A Noblebright Fantasy Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
In this exciting collection of noblebright fantasy, fresh new fantasy voices and award-winning authors explore grief and hope, sacrifice and heroism. Rediscover the best aspect of classic fantasy - the noblebright ideals that made heroes heroic, even when the world grew dark around them.
Thieves,...
Image and Identity
Reflections on Canadian Film and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
What do images of the body, which recent poets and filmmakers have given us, tell us about ourselves, about the way we think and about the culture in which we live?
In his new book A Body of Vision, R. Bruce Elder situates contemporary poetic and cinematic body images in their cultural context.
Elder...
Every Root an Anchor
Wisconsin's Famous and Historic Trees
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
In Every Root an Anchor, writer and arborist R. Bruce Allison celebrates Wisconsin's most significant, unusual, and historic trees. More than one hundred tales introduce us to trees across the state, some remarkable for their size or age, others for their intriguing histories. From magnificent elms...
Blood in the Hills
A History of Violence in Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
To many antebellum Americans, Appalachia was a frightening wilderness of lawlessness, peril, robbers, and hidden dangers. The extensive media coverage of horse stealing and scalping raids profiled the region's residents as intrinsically violent. After the Civil War, this characterization continued...
Religious Foundations of Western Civilization
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
World Religions
Religious Foundations of Western Civilization introduces students to the major Western world religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—their beliefs, key concepts, history, as well as the fundamental role they have played, and continue to play, in Western culture.
Contributors...
by Bruce Barringer, Edward D. Hess, Charles F. Goetz
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
3 indispensable insider’s guides to entrepreneurship: powerful skills, insights, and confidence-builders you won’t find anywhere else!
Three books bring together today’s most indispensable lessons for entrepreneurs: specific guidance you can use right now to beat the odds and...
by R. Bruce Elder
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
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Dadism and the Disasters of War
R. Bruce Elder
Here I examine in some detail two artistic movements that extolled the value of escaping reason’s enfeebling effects. In the first of these chapters, I challenge the view of DADA as chiefly a negative or protest movement, and...
I AM ALIVE!
A United States Marine's Story of Survival in a World War II Japanese POW Camp
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
The postcard came with the words Imperial Japanese Army printed at the top. On it were written three simple words: I AM ALIVE! And with this, Charles R. Jacksons wife knew that her husband, a US Marine Sergeant Major, had survived the Japanese capture of Corregidor and could only hope he would continue...
The Possible South
Documentary Film and the Limitations of Biraciality
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Using cultural theory, author R. Bruce Brasell investigates issues surrounding the discursive presentation of the American South as biracial and explores its manifestation in documentary films, including such works as Tell about the South, bro•ken/ground, and Family Name. After considering the emergence...
by Richard T. Callaghan, Michael P. Pateman, Daniel Torres Etayo
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Heritage preservation is a broad term that can include the protection of a wide range of human-mediated material and cultural processes ranging from specific artifacts, ancient rock art, and features of the built environment and modified landscapes. As a region of multiple independent nations and...
Time's River
Archaeological Syntheses from the Lower Mississippi Valley
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
This volume stands as a key general resource for archaeologists working in the region extending from Louisiana through Mississippi north to Missouri and Kentucky, and it represents an opportunity to influence for decades a large part of the archaeological work to take place in the Southeast.
The...
Data Mining for Business Analytics
Concepts, Techniques, and Applications with XLMiner
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Data Mining for Business Analytics: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications in XLMiner®, Third Edition presents an applied approach to data mining and predictive analytics with clear exposition, hands-on exercises, and real-life case studies. Readers will work with all of the standard data mining...
by R. Bruce Hull
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
You would be hard-pressed to find someone who categorically opposes protecting the environment, yet most people would agree that the environmentalist movement has been ineffectual and even misguided. Some argue that its agenda is misplaced, oppressive, and misanthropic—a precursor to intrusive government,...
by Henry James, Bruce L. R. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
The Wings of the Dove, by Henry James, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics* *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable...