D Richard: 600 books
Life, Death, and Meaning
Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
Code Blue
A Katrina Physician's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
The book that finally gives a physicians inside story of the evacuation of Memorial Medical Center following Katrina a gripping tale of abandonment and survival.
A toxic stew of floodwaters surrounded Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans after Katrina when the levees broke. Over two thousand...
Jesus Christ and the World of the New Testament
An LDS Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"This feast of a reference book chronicles the life and ministry of the Lord and is the most informative and readable guide on the New Testament that I've ever read." — Richard H. Cracroft, BYU Magazine, Winter 2007. This important reference for any home library is the perfect guide to...
Collaborative Governance
Private Roles for Public Goals in Turbulent Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
All too often government lacks the skill, the will, and the wallet to meet its missions. Schools fall short of the mark while roads and bridges fall into disrepair. Health care costs too much and delivers too little. Budgets bleed red ink as the cost of services citizens want outstrips the taxes they...
Global Carbon Pricing
The Path to Climate Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Why the traditional “pledge and review” climate agreements have failed, and how carbon pricing, based on trust and reciprocity, could succeed.
After twenty-five years of failure, climate negotiations continue to use a “pledge and review” approach: countries pledge (almost anything),...
by Richard D. Wolff
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
A breathtakingly clear analysis that breaks down the root causes of today’s economic crisisWith unerring coherence and unequaled breadth of knowledge, Rick Wolff offers a rich and much needed corrective to the views of mainstream economists and pundits. It would be difficult to come away from this
...
Capitalism's Crisis Deepens
Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
"[P]robably America's most prominent Marxist economist"
—New York Times Magazine
Aimed at the increasing numbers of people negatively impacted by the austerity triggered by the financial crisis of 2008, who are looking for solutions to the political and economic dysfunctions of...
Underwater & Underground Bases
Surprising Facts the Government Does Not Want You to Know
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Dr. Richard Sauder’s second book Underwater and Underground Bases is an explosive, eye-opening sequel to his best-selling, Underground Bases and Tunnels: What is the Government Trying to Hide? Dr. Sauder lays out the amazing evidence and government paper trail for the construction of huge, manned...
Transforming Undergraduate Education
Theory that Compels and Practices that Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
For those ready to participate in making transformative changes, Transforming Undergraduate Education provides evidence and case studies that suggest how steps can be taken and progress made. For those who are currently leading their campuses through a change in culture, this book offers support and...
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
How Human Values Evolve
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris...
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist
Enduring Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare,...
Economic Analyses at EPA
Assessing Regulatory Impact
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
For years, the Environmental Protection Agency has been conducting programmatic 'economic analyses,' also known as Regulatory Impact Analyses (RIAs), to assess the economic effects of its regulatory efforts. This important volume explains the purpose of these analyses, along with their design, execution,...
by Samuel Williston, Richard D. Currier, Richard W. Hill
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Whether used as a research tool or as an artifact of a past era of financial governance, Samuel Williston's Commercial Law is an indispensable reference on the subject. Prepared under the auspices of the American Institute of Banking by an esteemed Harvard Law School professor, this volume is the authoritative guide to commercial law up to and including the early twentieth century.
by Richard D. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Finland: the world's best-kept secret
Finland, Cultural Lone Wolf is the story of an accomplished nation and her extraordinary people. Pursuing a "Lone Wolf" policy, Finland raised itself from a struggling, war-battered state in 1945 to one of the most developed countries in the world.
The...