Raymond: 2733 books

Raymond F. Mikesell deals with sources of conflict between private foreign investors and the governments of developing countries. He concludes that government ownership and control will expand and that foreign investors are most likely to become sellers of their special services rather than remain investors who act freely for the benefit of parent companies. Originally published in 1971.

Neuroscience has made astounding progress in the understanding of the brain. What should we make of its claims to go beyond the brain and explain consciousness, behaviour and culture? Where should we draw the line? In this brilliant critique Raymond Tallis dismantles "Neuromania", arising...

What are wills, and how can they be used for family and local history research? How can you interpret them and get as much insight from them as possible? They are key documents for exploring the lives of our ancestors, their circumstances, and the world they knew. This practical handbook is the essential...

A study of alcohol regulation commissioned by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and authoried by Raymond Fosdick and Albert Scott that was published shortly before the repeal of Prohibition. Provides guidance and understanding of various alcohol regulatory approaches and the limits of alcohol regulation. Note: this is a reproduction of an historical document, and best viewed in a two-page layout.

Jacana Media is proud to make this important book available again, now with a completely new introduction. First published by Oceanbooks, New York and Melbourne and University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg in 2001, the book was short-listed for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award in 2002.In the public...

Paraconsistent logic is a theory of reasoning in philosophy that studies inconsistent data. The discipline has several different schools of thought, including preservationism, which responds to the problems that arise when human beings continue to reason when faced with inconsistent data. On Preserving...

A woman's 5 year fight with a Terminal Cancer. Having been given 3 months to live ,she set upon a journey through 4 chemo regimes and 2 phase 1 trials. All without success .This after all this time resulted recently once more being told we have no more treatment to offer you. Just go home and...

American West Collection includes three classic primary texts from the Old West: My Life Among the Indians by George Catlin. Prolific artist-author-explorer-entrepreneur George Catlin’s incredible one-man tour across the Americas is a record of countless forgotten tribes. This remarkable...

Wings Over The Pacific is a World War II novel dealing with American and Japanese pilots and crews in the Pacific Theater of Operations. Dan Kelly, Navy fighter pilot, finds out that he craves the excitement of aerial combat, despite the dangers. Jim Slater, Marine Corps pilot, put on the ragged edge...

`This book provides refreshing and powerful insights on the challenges of conducting management research from a European perspective. Particulalrly for someone embarking on a managment research career this book will provide valuable guidelines.' -- Ian MacMillan, Wharton School of Business, University...

Spanish American novels of the Boom period (1962-1967) attracted a world readership to Latin American literature, but Latin American writers had already been engaging in the modernist experiments of their North American and European counterparts since the turn of the twentieth century. Indeed, the desire...

When you boil it down, one of the most important things we do each day is eat. The question of eating—what, and how—may seem simple at first, but it is dense with complex meanings, reflecting myriad roles that food plays and has played over the centuries. In fact, as Raymond D. Boisvert and Lisa...

In Cartographic Mexico, Raymond B. Craib analyzes the powerful role cartographic routines such as exploration, surveying, and mapmaking played in the creation of the modern Mexican state in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Such routines were part of a federal obsession—or “state fixation”—with...

Your loved one is not alone. As many as 11 million people in the United States have some form of age-related macular degeneration. Due to the aging baby boomer population, the National Eye Institute estimates that nearly another 3 million Americans will have a loved one with AMD by 2020. Globally,...