Richard C : 460 books
by Emmanuel Germain, Marie-Anne Bertrand, Robert Farinotti
Language: French
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Language: French
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Le présent ouvrage constitue à la fois une référence et un outil de travail précieux. Il propose une approche par pathologies classées par systèmes, selon un plan précis : les généralités, les critères de choix et la stratégie thérapeutique, l'optimisation thérapeutique, « ce qu'il...
Sport and the Neoliberal University
Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
College students are now regarded as consumers, not students, and nowhere is the growth and exploitation of the university more obvious than in the realm of college sports, where the evidence is in the stadiums built with corporate money, and the crowded sporting events sponsored by large conglomerates.
The...
12 Common Core Essentials: Literature
Selections from New and Classic Books for the English Language Arts Standards for Middle and High School
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
As you reevaluate the books you use in your classroom to meet the Common Core Standards, this free collection—filled with selections from classics such as Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, contemporary novels like The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, and the AP English favorite How to...
The Newcomer
Twelve Sci-fi Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
From a young couple struggling to look after their baby to a new captain's reluctance to take command of her ship, and from a sun-addled stranger's appearance in town to the emergence of a sentient AI, the twelve tales presented here explore the central theme of an arrival by someone or something new.
There's even an alien puppy.
African American Identity
Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Jas M. Sullivan and Ashraf M. Esmail’s African American Identity: Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience is a collection which makes use of multiple perspectives across the social sciences to address complex issues of race and identity. The contributors tackle questions about what...
Blood in the Hills
A History of Violence in Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
To many antebellum Americans, Appalachia was a frightening wilderness of lawlessness, peril, robbers, and hidden dangers. The extensive media coverage of horse stealing and scalping raids profiled the region's residents as intrinsically violent. After the Civil War, this characterization continued...
by Madame La Comtesse De Cœur-Brûlant (pseudonym), Locus Elm Press (editor), Alfred Richard Allinson (translator)
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
If Florentine and Julia's aunt can recall with a shudder anything from her short-lived marriage, it was the ravishment she received from her military husband the night of their wedding; a carnal onslaught of a front and rear-guard action that left her doubting all that she had learned of love. Could...
Climate Change
What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
An updated and accessible account of what science knows about climate change, incorporating the latest scientific findings and policy initiatives.
Most of us are familiar with the term climate change but few of us understand the science behind it. We don't fully comprehend how climate change...
by Bruce Caldwell, Samuel Hollander, Alan Levine
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The recent economic crisis in the United States has highlighted a crisis of understanding. In this volume, Bradley C. S. Watson and Joseph Postell bring together some of America's most eminent thinkers on political economy—an increasingly overlooked field wherein political ideas and economic theories...
by Midwest Journal Press, Richard L. Allen, Dr. Robert C. Worstell
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
The object of the following work, on the History, Breeding, Management, Diseases, &c., of Domestic Animals, is to afford the Stock-breeder and Grazier a connected view of the entire subject in which he has so deep an interest.
Their history is essential, as it shows their introduction...
Boundary Objects and Beyond
Working with Leigh Star
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The multifaceted work of the late Susan Leigh Star is explored through a selection of her writings and essays by friends and colleagues.
Susan Leigh Star (1954–2010) was one of the most influential science studies scholars of the last several decades. In her work, Star highlighted the messy...
by George Amedee, David Anderson, Cal Clark
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Over the last four decades the public trust in government in the United States has fallen dramatically due to a 'perfect storm' of contributing factors, such as a seemingly never ending string of political scandals, partisan polarization and toxic attack politics, and miserable failures to respond...
Humor and the Civil War
Comedy from America's Darkest Hours
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
President Abraham Lincoln said he wouldn't have been able to survive the Civil War without his jokes and amusing stories. That war was by far the greatest struggle the United States has ever faced. More Americans died in the Civil War than in all of the other wars combined. Americans--both North and...
by Robert C. Knudsen; General Richard Myers,
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Walking through Arlington National Cemetery is an experience like no other. A quiet sense of respect persists, and the beauty is overwhelming. It is the final resting place of thousands of our nations war heroes, with more added every day in poignant and moving ceremonies.Robert C. Knudsen presents the...