Richard David: 397 books
by Richard P. McKeon, David B. Owen
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
Well before the current age of discourse, deconstruction, and multiculturalism, Richard McKeon propounded a philosophy of pluralism showing how "facts" and "values" are dependent on diverse ways of reading texts. This book is a transcription of an entire course, including both...
At the Edge
Sci-Fi and Fantasy from Australia and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Step up, as close as you dare…
…to a place at the edge of sanity, where cicadas scritch across balmy summer nights,
at the edge of town, where the cell phone coverage is decidedly dodgy,
at the edge of space, where a Mimbinus argut bounds among snowy rocks,
at the edge...
Mass Communication and American Social Thought
Key Texts, 1919-1968
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2004
This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies...
by David Cole (Introduction), Richard Kreitner (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
We’ve been living in 1984 since 1941. That was the year the Justice Department first authorized the wiretapping of Americans. “We shudder to think of what its agents will do with this new authorization,” The Nation warned in an editorial that year.
Ever since then, our writers have investigated,...
The Chief HR Officer
Defining the New Role of Human Resource Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Praise for the chief HR Officer
"The strategic portfolio of issues addressed and the sage wisdom and perspectives shared make this book a powerful transformation tool." —Jodee Kozlak, executive vice president, Human Resources, Target Corporation
"An up-to-the-minute...
Sustainability in Higher Education
Stories and Strategies for Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Campus leaders describe how community colleges, publicly funded universities, and private liberal arts colleges across America are integrating sustainability into curriculum, policies, and programs.
In colleges and universities across the United States, students, faculty, and staff are forging...
by Richard DeGeorge, Hubert Dreyfus, Stacey Edgar
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 1997
Technology and Values provides a highly useful collection of essays organized around issues related to science, technology, public health, economics, the environment, and ethical theory. The editors present effective introductions that provide background information as well as philosophical tools...
by Duncan Abel, Virginia Ballesty, Erik Bergstrom
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
From Trumpocalypse to Brexit Britain, brick by brick the walls are closing in. But don’t despair. Bulldoze the borders. Conquer freedom not fear. EXIT EARTH explores all life – past, present, or future – on, or off – this beautiful, yet fragile, world of ours. Final embraces beneath a sky...
by Richard Bean, David Mamet
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
In a new adaptation of David Mamet’s film, Harvard-educated psychoanalyst Margaret Ford is celebrated for her best selling book ‘Driven! Compulsion and Obsession in Every Day Life’. Stepping in to help one of her patients settle his gambling debts, she compromises her professional reputation...
Computer Animation Complete
All-in-One: Learn Motion Capture, Characteristic, Point-Based, and Maya Winning Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A compilation of key chapters from the top MK computer animation books available today - in the areas of motion capture, facial features, solid spaces, fluids, gases, biology, point-based graphics, and Maya. The chapters provide CG Animators with an excellent sampling of essential techniques that...
The World Turned Upside Down
Maintaining American Leadership in a Dangerous Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Aspen Policy Books is a series of annual publications on the United States’ most pressing foreign policy and national security issues. In 2017, the Aspen Strategy Group examined the future of the liberal world order. The papers in this volume outline the history and importance the system of institutions...
by Richard Bowen, David Finch, Geoffrey Wingard
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The late 19th century saw a dynamic growth of contacts between Western countries and the Far East. Along with the increase in travel came a wave of educational opportunities for Americans and Europeans to gain first-hand experience of living in countries such as China, India, and Japan. Likewise,...
Rethinking Social Movements
Structure, Meaning, and Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2003
This landmark volume brings together some of the titans of social movement theory in a grand reassessment of its status. For some time, the field has been divided between a dominant structural approach and a cultural or constructivist tradition. The gaps and misunderstandings between the two sides—as...
Spiritual Care in Practice
Case Studies in Healthcare Chaplaincy
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
These diverse case studies make a compelling case for the importance of effective spiritual care in healthcare and provide unprecedented insight into the essential role of the chaplain within the healthcare team. Presented alongside critical reflections and responses from professionals within chaplaincy,...