Daniel R: 403 books

Since the 1970s, the corrections system has experienced exponential growth. Over the past four decades, the number of inmates held in US prisons and jails has quadrupled. This massive growth is associated with a number of different issues and challenges within prisons and jails, including overcrowding;...

Angela was more than a friend. She was a go-to girl:  The only person her bff Callie could confide in. Or so she thought. "Heeeey, Angie-Angie-Angela-la. Come over Saturday night. Callie and I are together, again. And we want to celebrate the hap-hap-happy news." When...

Ten years after the world ended, mankind is poised to ascend once more from the rubble . . .   In the zombie riddled warzones that compose the devastated United States, the living dead are not the only threat against life and liberty. Madmen, slavers, raiders, and warlords struggle...

The Ice Bowl, an epic contest between the Green Bay Packers and the Dallas Cowboys, was the coldest pro football game ever played. It pitted Vince Lombardi and the Packers’ 1960s dynasty against Tom Landry and the up-and-coming Cowboys. The challenge of playing against a strong opponent was compounded...

The interactions between apex predators and their prey are some of the most awesome and meaningful in nature—displays of strength, endurance, and a deep coevolutionary history. And there is perhaps no apex predator more impressive and important in its hunting—or more infamous, more misjudged—than...

George Herbert Mead is widely recognized as one of the most brilliantly original American pragmatists. Although he had a profound influence on the development of social philosophy, he published no books in his lifetime. This makes the lectures collected in Mind, Self, and Society all the more remarkable,...

Fluvial-Tidal Sedimentology provides information on the ‘Tidal-Fluvial Transition', the transition zone between river and tidal environments, and includes contributions that address some of the most fundamental research questions, including how the morphology of the tidal-fluvial transition zone...

Young people desperately seek to develop an inner core that will not only rescue them in times of distress, but also help them to define and shape moral convictions, passions, and interests in building a better world. To find this inner coherence, they turn to their parents and teachers — the adults...

Over the last 30 years, advances in our technology and in our understanding of the scientific disciplines which those technologies enable have allowed humanity to glimpse the inner workings of some of our most astounding capacities, and have revealed, to even a casual glance, the staggering complexity...

Too often business owners experience much difficulty in transitioning from founding entrepreneurs to working business managers. They may possess extensive knowledge and skills in their industry and field, yet have little awareness of the business of the business. The everyday, mundane operational,...

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Chicago began as a frontier town on the edge of white settlement and as the product of removal of culturally rich and diverse indigenous populations. The town grew into a place of speculation with the planned building of the Illinois and Michigan canal, a boomtown, and finally a mature city of immigrants...

This important book simply but persuasively demonstrates why we should provide the opportunities for people with dementia to experience the great outdoors. It also gives a voice to people with dementia who have felt the benefit of getting closer to nature. The contributors explore many different ways...

The 1980s was the decade when the action film as it’s now known came into being. Nonstop, big-budget excitement became the standard as epic adventures like Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Road Warrior set the tone for the summer blockbusters of Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Chuck...