David Robert: 477 books
by Justin Welby, Dana L. Robert, David Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Christianity has transformed many times in its 2,000-year history, from its roots in the Middle East to its presence around the world today. From the mid-twentieth century onward the presence of Christianity has increased dramatically in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and the majority of the world’s...
The 2012 Presidential Election
Forecasts, Outcomes, and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Though many analyses of the 2012 presidential election have emerged, none can match this collection's depth, diversity, or ability to critically and soundly argue where American politics will go from this point forward. This volume includes some of the most recognized scholars in the field and innovative...
Distributive Politics in Developing Countries
Almost Pork
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
This book explores the increasing use of Constituency Development Funds (CDFs) in emerging democratic governments in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Oceania. CDFs dedicate public money to benefit parliamentary constituencies through allocations and/or spending decisions influenced by Members of Parliament...
Improving What is Learned at University
An Exploration of the Social and Organisational Diversity of University Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Received the ‘highly commended’ award by the Society for Educational Studies for books published in 2010.
What is learned in universities today? Is it what students expect to learn? Is it what universities say they learn? How far do the answers to questions such as these differ according...
Psychotherapy in the Wake of War
Discovering Multiple Psychoanalytic Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Psychotherapy in the Wake of War presents the ways in which differing views of various psychoanalytic schools and traditions—spanning developments for more than one hundred years—may affect theoretical and technical issues in psychoanalytic treatments. Colleagues representing different traditions...
Normal Binocular Vision
Theory, Investigation and Practical Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Binocular vision, i.e. where both eyes are used together, is a fundamental component of human sight. It also aids hand-eye co-ordination, and the perception of the self within the environment. Clinical anomalies pose a wide range of problems to the sufferer, but normal binocular operation must first...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of coffee
Breeding and quality traits
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Covers recent research on coffee genetics, physiology and genetic diversity
Reviews the latest developments in breeding new varieties
Assesses advances in measuring and understanding the chemical composition, sensory and nutraceutical properties of coffee
Violence, Conflict, and World Order
Critical Conversations on State Sanctioned Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006
This is an ethnographic collection of 12 edited talks and conversations from a conference on violence, conflict, and the world order held at Eastern Kentucky University. The conference was organized by Carole Garrison, Chair of Criminal Justice and Police Studies at EKU, who arranged for video recording...
Reframing Rights
Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Investigations into the interplay of biological and legal conceptions of life, from government policies on cloning to DNA profiling by law enforcement.
Legal texts have been with us since the dawn of human history. Beginning in 1953, life too became textual. The discovery of the structure of...
Local Electrode Atom Probe Tomography
A User's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
This book is the first, single-source guide to successful experiments using the local electrode atom probe (LEAP®) microscope. Coverage is both comprehensive and user friendly, including the fundamentals of preparing specimens for the microscope from a variety of materials, the details of the instrumentation...
by Everett F. Harrison, Donald A. Hagner, Robert K. Rapa
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Continuing a Gold Medallion Award-winning legacy, this completely revised edition of The Expositor’s Bible Commentary series puts world-class biblical scholarship in your hands. Based on the original twelve-volume set that has become a staple in college and seminary libraries and pastors’ studies...
Operator's Guide to General Purpose Steam Turbines
An Overview of Operating Principles, Construction, Best Practices, and Troubleshooting
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
When installed and operated properly, general purpose steam turbines are reliable and tend to be forgotten, i.e., out of sound and out of mind. But, they can be sleeping giants that can result in major headaches if ignored. Three real steam turbine undesirable consequences that immediately come to...
by Robert W. Harvey, David G. Benner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
This practical book helps pastors and counselors present God's grace in healing and forgiveness issues, even when the one being counseled has built a wall around his or her heart out of bitterness or pain.
Young People's Transitions from Care to Adulthood
International Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
The transition from care into adulthood is a difficult step for any young person, but young people leaving care have a high risk of social exclusion, both in terms of material disadvantage and marginalisation.
In Young People's Transitions from Care to Adulthood leading academics gather together...