Raymond: 2733 books
Social Change in Tikopia
Re-study of a Polynesian community after a generation
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Re-visiting Tikopia a decade after his first visit, Raymond Firth here examines what impact the forces of modernization had on Tikopia society with regard to economics, law, politics and social affairs. Suffering a famine whilst there, the author also examined the issues of responsibility for the...
The Civil Rights Act and the Battle to End Workplace Discrimination
A 50 Year History
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
On the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, Raymond F. Gregory evaluates our progress towards the full implementation of one of the law’s key provisions: Title VII, which prohibits discrimination in the workplace. Gregory looks at key litigation as the law has come to include...
Reservation Politics
Historical Trauma, Economic Development, and Intratribal Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
For American Indians, tribal politics are paramount. They determine the standards for tribal enrollment, guide negotiations with outside governments, and help set collective economic and cultural goals. But how, asks Raymond I. Orr, has history shaped the American Indian political experience? By exploring...
Nongovernmental Organizations in Environmental Struggles
Politics and the Making of Moral Capital in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Why are nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) so successful in today’s world? How do they empower themselves? This insightful book provides important new perspectives on the strategic thinking of NGOs, the way they identify themselves, and how they behave. Raymond L. Bryant develops a novel theoretical...
Where Once They Stood
Newfoundland's Rocky Road towards Confederation
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2019
Coming on the 70th anniversary of Newfoundland joining Confederation, as well as the 150th anniversary of its first rejection of Canada, Where Once They Stood challenges popular notions that those who voted against Confederation in 1869 and for union with Canada in 1948 were uninformed, incompetent,...
by Raymond McAlister
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
This book is a compilation of thirty short articles, religious in nature, on a wide variety of subjects. The articles include such subjects as Atheists, Baptist Heritage, The Call to Preach, Church Music, Closed Communion, Cremation, Grieving, Heaven, Sabbath Day, Salvation, Scientology, Suicide,...
by Patricia Barker Lerch, Lisa J. Lefler, Raymond D. Fogelson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2002
An important collection of essays that looks at the changing relationships between anthropologists and Indians at the turn of the millennium.
Southern Indians have experienced much change in the last half of the 20th century. In rapid succession...
The Gödelian Puzzle Book
Puzzles, Paradoxes and Proofs
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
These brand-new recreational logic puzzles provide entertaining variations on Gödel's incompleteness theorems, offering ingenious challenges related to infinity, truth and provability, undecidability, and other concepts. Created by the celebrated logician Raymond Smullyan, the puzzles require no...
by Raymond Smullyan
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Raymond Smullyan presents a bombshell puzzle so startling that it seems incredible that there could be any solution at all! But there is indeed a solution — moreover, one that requires a chain of lesser puzzles to be solved first. The reader is thus taken on a journey through a maze of subsidiary...
by Francine Raymond
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in You Magazine
'A lavish monthly guide to getting the most from your garden' Daily Mail
A punnet of plums from your tree, a handful of gooseberries; home-grown nuts and herbs, and a few freshly laid eggs from your hens – all enjoyed in your own...
by Raymond J. Konior, MD, Steven P Gabel
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
While every facial plastic surgeon is trained in hair restoration, unless one does it frequently in practice, there are techniques, tips, and approaches to be learned from experts in this field who focus solely on hair transplantation and restoration. Techniques, Complications, Medical Treatment,...
Trout Quintet
Five Stories of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Fly Fishing
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This is a new book from the Pacific Northwest’s finest angling writer.
There is an abundance of literature on the pleasure and wonder of fly fishing. The themes are familiar and well traveled: ruminations on aging and the passage of time; musings on marriage and balancing the love of friends...
by Robert S Dieter, Raymond A. Dieter Jr., Raymond A. Dieter III
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008
Market: Cardiologists, Vascular Specialists, Vascular Surgeons, Hematologists, Internists, Family Physicians, Rheumatologists
More than 500 color charts and tables
Includesw an entire section on diagnostic imaging modalities
by Chris Morningforest, Rebecca Raymond
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Once again, author, Rebecca Raymond, journeys back in time to revisit some childhood adventures as she was growing up in upstate New York. In this book, she remembers family times as well as times with friends. Join her as she swims in Lake Ontario, ice skates on the frozen creek, helps collect sap...