R Jones: 188 books
Innovations in Higher Education
Igniting the Spark for Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad...
America's Security Deficit
Addressing the Imbalance Between Strategy and Resources in a Turbulent World: Strategic Rethink
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
This report analyzes defense options available to the United States in responding to current and emerging threats to U.S. security and interests in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. It focuses on ways that the United States might adapt military instruments to meet these emerging challenges, assessing in broad terms the cost of defense investments commensurate with the interests at stake.
Real Sister
Stereotypes, Respectability, and Black Women in Reality TV
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
From The Real Housewives of Atlanta to Flavor of Love, reality shows with predominantly black casts have often been criticized for their negative representation of African American women as loud, angry, and violent. Yet even as these programs appear to be rehashing old stereotypes of black women,...
Sacred Violence
Political Religion in a Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Sacred Violence and Religious Violence examines the place that ideology or political religion plays in legitimizing violence to bring about a purer world. In particular, the book examines Islamism and the western secular, liberal democratic responses to it.
American Military Training Aircraft
Fixed and Rotary-Wing Trainers Since 1916
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
The U.S. did not become the world’s foremost military air power by accident. The learning curve—World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and more recently the war on terror—has been steep. While climbing this curve, the U.S. has not only produced superior military...
by Ghulam Haider Aasi, Asma Afsaruddin, Osman Bakar
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
This timely work addresses sensitive issues and relations between Muslims and Christians around the world. The book uniquely captures the opportunity for Christians and Muslims to come together and discuss pertinent issues such as pluralism, governance, preaching, Christian missionary efforts, and...
Hematología
Diagnóstico y tratamiento
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Hematología. Diagnóstico y tratamiento es un recurso de estudio excelente y de formato conciso, accesible y que delimita los fundamentos fisiopatológicos de las principales enfermedades de la sangre. Su contenido ha sido cuidado y actualizado para reflejar los avances contemporáneos en disciplinas...
The Terrorist Effect: Weapons of Mass Disruption
The Danger of Nuclear Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
This book provides a warning to the United States about the immanent dangers of a terrorist attack using radioactive materials. Such materials are ubiquitous in our society and can be obtained from over 25,000 sources in the USA. In this unsymmetrical war with terrorism, the beneficial and life-saving...
by R.L. Jones, D.H. Keen
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Recent developments in Pleistocene research have prompted the authors to produce this up-to-date, concise account of environmental changes during the past two million years. Well-illustrated and referenced, it possesses a unique position in the literature on Pleistocene events in the British Isles.
Hypodontia
A Team Approach to Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Hypodontia: A Team Approach to Management provides specialist clinicians with a practical reference to the multidisciplinary management of patients with this condition. The book synthesises current information and best practice from specialties involved in the treatment of hypodontia into one comprehensive...
by Hazel R. Scott, MD, FRCP
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
This book is designed as a companion to the initial years of hospital training for junior doctors in training, including, but not limited to, the core elements of the curriculum for Foundation Training in the UK. Patients have co-morbidity and mixed patterns of clinical presentation and thus the book...
Dino Safari
Fun Places for Adults and Children to Learn about Dinosaurs
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
This book can best be described as an illustrated Jurassic phone book. The author has cataloged more than 250 museums, libraries, parks, and quarries where modern-day dinosaur hunters can find the best dino attractions.
by R.D. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
This book is a book of writings that may or may not give one guidance or answers in their lives. It is either a book about something or a book about nothing. The decision is left up to the reader. This book may contain controversial topics and language that may not be for the innocent minds. Proceed with caution.
by P.J. Devine, N. Lee, R.M. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This updated and expanded 1985 edition of the classic 1974 work covers deindustrialisation, industrial and competition policy, the public enterprise sector, regional and urban policy, and privatisation, as well as focussing on the firm and the industrial sector in all its facets. It remains the key work on industrial economics.