Richard C : 460 books
A Scottsboro Case in Mississippi
The Supreme Court and Brown v. Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2005
This absorbing book is a systematic analysis of the litigation in Brown v. Mississippi, in which the Supreme Court made a pathbreaking decision in 1936 showing the unconstitutionality of coerced confessions. The case exonerated Ed Brown, Henry Shields, and Arthur (Yank) Ellington, three black sharecroppers...
by Richard C. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
From Scribbles to Poetry, is all about descriptive poetry. The Author likes to write pictures as this is what this type of writing is called. At open mic readings people come to him and tell him that while he was reading they were seeing pictures of the poem in their minds. This is what he really...
by Richard C. Jebb
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book treats of the Influence of the Greek Mind on Modern Life.
“The vital power of the Greek spirit was indeed not fully disclosed until, after suffering a partial eclipse in the Macedonian age, it emerged in a new quality, as a source of illumination to the Italian masters of the world. Under...
Erasmus
Life of a humanist
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This book presents the history of Erasmus, an European humanist; and his essay against war.
"With Erasmus a new period opens. Two things broadly distinguish him, as a scholar, from the men before and after him. First, he was not only a refined humanist, writing for the fastidious few, and prizing...
Stories
The Hand of God in My Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
I call this book for want of a better phrase, a memoir. I say this because it is not just the story of my life but it consist of events that I call stories. Each story is true and reflects the good hand of God leading and protecting me in my life. I use a motif quote from The Present Crisis by James...
by Richard C. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
What causes conflicts and stresses that we experience in our daily lives? Work? Too many commitments? Just the stress of managing your every day life?
The Hedge Fund Book
A Training Manual for Professionals and Capital-Raising Executives
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
An accessible guide to effectively operating in the hedge fund arena
Hedge funds are now in the news more than a thousand times a day and yet it is hard to find clear, factual information about how they operate, raise capital, and invest. The Hedge Fund Book provides real-world case studies...
Reclaiming Brownfields
A Comparative Analysis of Adaptive Reuse of Contaminated Properties
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
The environmental legacy of past industrial and agricultural development can simultaneously pose serious threats to human health and impede reuse of contaminated land. The urban landscape around the world is littered with sites contaminated with a variety of toxins produced by past use. Both public...
Disciplining the Poor
Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Disciplining the Poor explains the transformation of poverty governance over the past forty years—why it happened, how it works today, and how it affects people. In the process, it clarifies the central role of race in this transformation and develops a more precise account of how race shapes poverty...
Artificial Vision
Image Description, Recognition, and Communication
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 1996
Artificial Vision is a rapidly growing discipline, aiming to build computational models of the visual functionalities in humans, as well as machines that emulate them. Visual communication in itself involves a numberof challenging topics with a dramatic impact on contemporary culture where human-computer...
Freedom's Vector
The Path to Prosperity, Opportunity and Dignity
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
Freedoms Vector: The Path to Prosperity, Opportunity and Dignity, is a book about Americaits government, its institutions, and its people. It is about a nation blessed with the finest system of governance ever devised. It is about a country that has outgrown its institutions and is in need of reconditioning....
The Family Office Book
Investing Capital for the Ultra-Affluent
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Key strategies for running a family office for fund managers
Understanding the basics of the family office industry is essential if you want to succeed in establishing a successful fund for a wealthy family. That's where The Family Office Book comes in. Outlining key strategies for family offices,...
Quantitative Zoology
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
This classic focuses on the gathering, handling, and interpretation of numerical data from zoological investigations. Contents include types and properties of numerical data, mensuration, frequency distributions and grouping, patterns of frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, measures...
All News Is Local
The Failure of the Media to Reflect World Events in a Globalized Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
This book is an investigation of the 300 year old model of global journalism used by the Western news media. It argues that the framework of localization is fragile and unable to cope with the issues, events, agents and institutions of globalization that exist, and that the current model of news gathering and reporting requires rethinking.