R Lucas: 40 books
Demystifying Anorexia Nervosa
An Optimistic Guide to Understanding and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2004
Emotionally and physically devastating, anorexia nervosa is the third most common chronic illness in teenage girls, striking one in every two hundred (boys only make up 10% of all cases). And while there are a plethora of books on the subject, most are either personal accounts of recovery or attempts...
Anthropologists in Arms
The Ethics of Military Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Anthropologists in Arms looks at the moral and ethical debates surrounding the recent development of 'military anthropology'—particularly the practice of embedding anthropologists with combat troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Lucas traces the troubled history of social scientists collaborating with...
Value Economics
The Ethical Implications of Value for New Economic Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The last financial crisis revealed a gap between business practice and ethics. In Value Economics, Griffiths and Lucas examine some of the reasons for this ethical gap and discuss the resulting loss of confidence in the financial system. One of the reasons has been hazy or inadequate thinking about...
by J.R. Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
The Conceptual Roots of Mathematics is a comprehensive study of the foundation of mathematics. J.R. Lucas, one of the most distinguished Oxford scholars, covers a vast amount of ground in the philosophy of mathematics, showing us that it is actually at the heart of the study of epistemology and metaphysics.
by R. Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2017
This book explains the enormous potential associated with doing business in Africa and why African-Americans should take a proactive role in Africa's development. Subsequently, African-Americans' economy will benefit as a result of their involvement.This book explains the enormous potential associated...
Knowing the Unknowable God
How Faith Thrives on Divine Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
Meet the God Who Is Greater Than Your Biggest Questions.
The Bible never shies away from seeming contradictions. We are told both to resist our enemies and to love them, and that our all-knowing God can sometimes forget. Unable to reconcile such biblical paradoxes, some people abandon Christianity,...
An Engagement with Plato's Republic
A Companion to the Republic
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Outrageous, unfashionable, politically incorrect though many of Plato's opinions undoubtedly are, we should not just dismiss them as thoughts now unthinkable, but think through them, recognising the force of the arguments that led Plato to enunciate them and consider the counter-arguments he might...
Geldanlagen für Mann und Frau
Investiere wie eine Frau
Language: German
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Das Thema Frauen und Geldanlage hat mich lange beschäftigt. Wie es einmal war und wie es heute ist. Sind Frauen wirklich die besseren Geldanleger? Nun eines gilt als sicher, Frau kann auch in Geldanlage. Frauen meiden das Risiko und handeln mit Bedacht. Frauen sind erfolgreicher als Männer bei der...
Zurück in mein Leben
Der letzte Versuch dich zu retten
Language: German
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Offensichtlich hatte die neue Psychologin die Wurzel des Übels erkannt. Meine Lebenspartnerin traute sich wieder unter Menschen. Obwohl es immer noch Situationen gab die einen Rückschlag sehr nahe kamen. Sie hielt sich ganz gut, aber irgendwann war auch bei ihr der Moment erreicht, wo sie wieder...
Mein Ratgeber Liebe
Wenn die Chemie stimmt
Language: German
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Was ist die Liebe? Nun einfach ist das nicht zu erklären, denn wie soll man etwas erklären, was quasi ein Phänomen darstellt? Ein einfaches Beispiel hierfür wäre: Du hast noch nie Honig genascht, also wie sollst du wissen wie Honig schmeckt? Dazu, wenn du es noch nie probiert hast? So verhält...
Autonation.de
Der Dieselskandal
Language: German
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Das Buch Autonation.de zeigt die historische Entwicklung Deutschlands zur Auto-Nation. Den Dieselskandal und seine Folgen. Schaut man aus dem Fenster oder sieht sich auf dem Parkplatz beim Einkaufen um, so sind wir von Autos deutscher Marken umgeben. Rund ein Drittel von ihnen sind Dieselfahrzeuge....
by J. R. Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Originally published in 1976. This comprehensive study discusses in detail the philosophical, mathematical, physical, logical and theological aspects of our understanding of time and space. The text examines first the many different definitions of time that have been offered, beginning with some...
Divine Mischief
Poetry & Short Stories by R.A.Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Divine Mischief is the first anthology collection of poetry and short stories by Montreal-born writer R.A.Lucas. Arranged in chronological order, it begins with a small selection of previously unpublished poems dating from the late 1960s and early 1970s. These are followed by a few poems from his first...
Box Set: Dark Stories
Contains: Hides the Dark Tower, In a Cat's Eye, and Dark Luminous Wings
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
This 3-book box set is a collection of three anthologies of Dark Stories:
Hides the Dark Tower
In a Cat's Eye
Dark Luminous Wings
Hides the Dark Tower
Mysterious and looming, towers and tower-like structures pierce the skies and shadow the lands. Hides the Dark Tower includes over...