M Robert: 1083 books
Self Realization
The Est and Forum Phenomena in American Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2002
"Telling the truth is done in a way that is supportive, non-brutal, enlightening and comfortable. In general, people dont tell the truth because of many reasonsmostly because it is usually threatening to do so. But, if you dont get at the truthwhich means to see things the way that they really...
The Daily Show and Rhetoric
Arguments, Issues, and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
The Daily Show and Rhetoric: Arguments, Issues, and Strategies examines the popular Comedy Central program from a rhetorical perspective to uncover the ways in which Jon Stewart, the cast, and writers critique mainstream media and politicians. This volume analyzes the nature of The Daily Show, the...
by Stephen Addiss, Minh Nguyen, Yuriko Saito
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a comprehensive introduction that surveys the history of Japanese aesthetics and the ways in which it is...
by Paul Adams, Natasha Affolder, Andrea C. Akelaitis
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Canadian environmental law is a dynamic and exciting area that is playing an increasingly important role in furthering sustainable development policy. Environmental law has distinctive relevant principles, operating procedures, implications, and importance in comparison with other areas of law, and...
Cuba's Forgotten Decade
How the 1970s Shaped the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
The 1970s have largely been overlooked in scholarly studies of the Cuban Revolution, or, at the very least, dismissed simply as a period of “Sovietization” characterized by widespread bureaucratization, institutionalization, and adherence to Soviet orthodoxy. Consequently, scant research exists...
Dwelling on Delphi
Thinking Christianly About the Liberal Arts
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Why the liberal arts are in decline and why you should care.
What are the intellectual and spiritual roots of liberal arts learning in the West?
Why a liberal arts education rooted in the Great Books is the best education and where you can find it today.
Where despite the truth that we are on the edge of the abyss.
Crossing Borders
Essays on Literature, Culture, and Society in Honor of Amritjit Singh
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Crossing Borders is a gathering of twenty original, interdisciplinary essays on the paradigm of borders in African American literature, multi-ethnic U.S. studies, and South Asian studies. These essays by established and mid-career scholars from around the globe employ a variety of approaches to the...
True Green
Executive Effectiveness in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Drawing on the careers of senior executives of the US Environmental Protection Agency, True Green identifies the concrete actions that work in protecting our nation’s environment. By examining the exquisitely difficult tasks of executive leadership in environmental protection, one of the most conflicted...
by Philip Cox, Robert Miles, W M Verhoeven
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
A selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with annotations. The set includes works by male and female writers holding a range of political positions within the Anti-Jacobin camp, and represents the French Revolution, American Revolution, Irish Rebellion and political unrest in Scotland.
by Robert M. Pirsig
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Questo romanzo è una Grande Avventura, a cavallo di una motocicletta e della mente, è una visione variegata dell’America on the road, dal Minnesota al Pacifico, e un lucido, tortuoso viaggio iniziatico. Una mattina d’estate, il protagonista sale sulla sua vecchia, amata motocicletta, con il...
Death at the Ballpark
More Than 2,000 Game-Related Fatalities of Players, Other Personnel and Spectators in Amateur and Professional Baseball, 1862-2014, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
When we think of baseball, we think of sunny days and leisurely outings at the ballpark—rarely do thoughts of death come to mind. Yet during the game’s history, hundreds of players, coaches and spectators have died while playing or watching the National Pastime. In its second edition, this ground-breaking...
by Caroline Levander, Finnie Coleman, Hanna Wallinger
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872–1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his...
by Robert S. Turner M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Afterthoughts describes rural life and beekeeping in Iowa, before the author was a medical student at the State University of Iowa. Turner traveled as a Pfizer medical student representative in the 1952 summertime, before working on an acute poliomyelitis ward later that summer. A blind date with...
by Philip Cox, Robert Miles, W M Verhoeven
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
A selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with annotations. The set includes works by male and female writers holding a range of political positions within the Anti-Jacobin camp, and represents the French Revolution, American Revolution, Irish Rebellion and political unrest in Scotland.