R Larry: 77 books
Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers
Essays on Wittgenstein, Medicine, and Bioethics
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2001
Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers uses insights from the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to rethink bioethics. Although Wittgenstein produced little formal writing on ethics, this volume shows that, in fact, ethical issues permeate the entirety of his work. The scholars whom Carl Elliott has assembled...
Professional Ethics and Primary Care Medicine
Beyond Dilemmas and Decorum
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This volume moves beyond ethics as problem-solving or ethics as etiquette to offer a look at ethics in primary care—as opposed to life-or-death—medical care. Professional Ethics and Primary Care Medicine deals with the ethics of routine, day-to-day encounters between doctors and patients. It probes...
The Witness of Jesus, Paul and John
An Exploration in Biblical Theology
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2010
In this practical textbook Larry Helyer introduces you to the goals and practice of biblical theology and the problem of the unity of the Bible. He then explains two evangelical approaches to biblical theology--dispensational and covenant theology. In the heart of the book Helyer turns to three major...
Breaking Boundaries
In Political Entertainment Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
This book brings together a collection of scholars whose work is leading the field of political entertainment studies, and yet it crosses methodological divides to do so, with quantitative and critical/cultural perspectives both represented. Indeed, each author worked as a part of a pair, addressing...
Taking Measure of Charter Schools
Better Assessments, Better Policymaking, Better Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Charter schools offer something that public school systems, parents, and teachers need: a way to experiment with alternative ways of teaching, motivating students, organizing schools, using technology, and employing teachers. While people came down on both sides of support for or against charter schools,...
Presidential Transitions
It's Not Just the Position, It's the Transition
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
A presidential transition has a major impact on the life of an institution. Hundreds of presidential transitions take place annually, and when they are not amicable and carefully orchestrated, they can scar both the institution and the president. Sanaghan, Goldstein, and Gaval estimate that more than...
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,...
26 lettres
Abécédaire des mots en perte de sens
Language: French
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Vingt-six auteurs. Vingt-six lettres. Vingt-six adresses publiques. Un abécédaire. Une refondation de la parole et du sens des mots. La langue, les mots, leurs sens ont le pouvoir de lier une communauté autour d’images, de référents, de débats. Ils ont aussi le dos large. Souvent—particulièrement...
Achieving sustainable production of poultry meat Volume 3
Health and welfare
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
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Vampires, Zombies and Ghosts, Volume 1
Read on the Run
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2019
This charming collection of short stories about vampires, zombies, ghosts, a muse, and a witch, is the first volume in this two-volume anthology in the Read on the Run series. There are some stories that will scare you, some that will make you a laugh, and some that might make you shed a tear or two.
The Progressive Revolution in Politics and Political Science
Transforming the American Regime
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2005
We cannot understand our current political situation and the scholarship used to comprehend our politics without taking full account of the Progressive revolution of a century ago. This fundamental shift in studying the political world relegated the theory and practice of the Founders to an antiquated...
Thinking Together
An E-Mail Exchange and All That Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Faulkner and Becker, sociologists and experienced musicians, wrote a book about their musical experiences—Do You Know? The Jazz Repertoire in Action—describing how musicians who didn’t know each other could perform competently and interestingly without rehearsing, or playing from written music....
by Larry R. Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
I can honestly say that Mr. Gibsons stories have held my interest and broadened my perspectives more than any novel I have ever read. And I am a serious reader. Marie Gordon, Instructor of Drama and Speech, East Mississippi Community College These narratives present in vivid and lively detail many...
by Larry R. Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
To Walk Away is a sequel to the romantic novel, To Hide Behind a Wall. It opens in 1947 when Edward Koontz decided that he and Janice Bell should not get married but that Ed should return to St. Boniface, a Benedictine monastery in Belgium to resolve the War trauma that he suffered for killing citizens...