Richard H : 403 books

Dewey, who lost his mother at the occasion of his own birth, can feel his father's sadness, but all he can offer is his love and a poorly made cup of coffee. His father, loving, appreciative, well-meaning but prone to bad decisions, bad habits and worse luck, will once again let his son down and fall...

Following the bestselling Hog comes Prime. This fantastic book is an ode to all things beef from the ultimate authority in meat cookery. Beef is the star of many people's all-time favourite meals - from steak or a cheeseburger to roast beef with all the trimmings. In Prime, beef expert Richard...

In this revised and updated second edition of The Dynamic Constitution, Richard H. Fallon, Jr provides an engaging, sophisticated introduction to American constitutional law. Suitable for lawyers and non-lawyers alike, this book discusses contemporary constitutional doctrine involving such issues...

In this revisionist study of texts from the mid-Heian period in Japan, H. Richard Okada offers new readings of three well-known tales: The Tale of the Bamboo-cutter, The Tale of Ise, and The Tale of Genji. Okada contends that the cultural and gendered significance of these works has been distorted...

Flexibility is usually seen as a virtue in today's world. Even the dictionary seems to dislike those who stick too hard to their own positions. The thesaurus links "intransigence" to a whole host of words signifying a distaste for loyalty to fixed positions: intractable, stubborn, Pharisaic, close-minded,...

Richard H. Harris Jr. spent 28 years making choices that harmed him emotionally, physically and spiritually. After spending six an half years in prison and allowing God to get him on the right path, Harris entered a new life--- healed mind, body and spirit. This memoir relates the journey of a man...

Between 1820 and 1910, nearly five and a half million German-speaking immigrants came to the United States in search of new homes, new opportunities, and freedom from European tyrannies. Most settled in the Midwest, and many came to Wisconsin, whose rich farmlands and rising cities attracted three...

At forty-three years old, during the height of the Cold War, author Richard H. Shriver was offered an appointment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense as director of telecommunications and command-and-control systems. He had a long-standing desire to see from the inside how the government functioned....

For the Glory of God addresses key questions regarding the connection between religion and science. Richard H. Jones investigates whether ideas from the Bible and Christian theology have played a significant role in the development of modern scientific theories. If so, has the role always been positive...

Why do self-proclaimed constitutional “originalists” so regularly reach decisions with a politically conservative valence? Do “living constitutionalists” claim a license to reach whatever results they prefer, without regard to the Constitution’s language and history? In confronting these...

Based on an actual incident - In the mid 1970s, a group of high schoolers cut school and take a day trip to a nearby mountain. Robert, the instigator and under-aged, unlicensed driver; Greg, an easy target for Robert's shenanigans; and the girls, Vicky and Brenda, up for anything... anything, paying...

Unrequited Love and Other Tales of Romance, by Richard H. Williams, sweeps across several literary genres. This anthology contains eleven stories. The first story, from which the book takes its name, Unrequited Love, reveals the relation between a professor and his favorite student. Although he has...

A small, friendly dog named Snowpatch is swept to the Land of Oz by a great deluge. He is taken in and cared for by Nick Chopper and lives a peaceful, happy life in his new home until a chance rain storm (or the mischievous machinations of a wicked witch) cause Nick, a man made of tin, to become frozen...

It would not be accurate to claim that Nature is unhappy, or even has that capacity. Maybe it does, maybe it does not. Like all living things, however, it does have the ability to defend itself. Donovan was an innocent. The opening salvo of an long, slow attack for which man would have no defense....