Richard J : 949 books
The Emotional Life of Your Brain
How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live--and How You Ca n Change Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
This longawaited book by a pioneer in brain research offers a new model of our emotions- their origins, their power, and their malleability.
For more than thirty years, Richard Davidson has been at the forefront of brain research. Now he gives us an entirely new model for understanding our...
A Guide to Six Sigma and Process Improvement for Practitioners and Students
Foundations, DMAIC, Tools, Cases, and Certification
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Master modern Six Sigma implementation with the most complete, up-to-date guide for Green Belts, Black Belts, Champions and students! Now fully updated with the latest lean and process control applications, A Guide to Lean Six Sigma and Process Improvement for Practitioners and Students, Second Edition...
Legacy
The Hidden Keys to Optimizing Your Family Wealth Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Your legacy is how you live … not just what you leave. Family wealth is often emotionally charged, whether you have a small nest egg or financial abundance. Wealth creates unique opportunities and challenges. The greatest challenge is the least discussed: the place where money, values, and family...
The I Ching
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
The I Ching originated in China as a divination manual more than three thousand years ago. In 136 BCE the emperor declared it a Confucian classic, and in the centuries that followed, this work had a profound influence on the philosophy, religion, art, literature, politics, science, technology, and...
Alice in Genderland
A Crossdresser Comes of AgeTm
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Alice in Genderland is the first ever memoir by a crossdresser who is not content to live behind closed doorsand who takes it much further than his straighter, more circumspect peers might ever care to go. Most of the time, Harvard-educated psychiatrist Richard Novic is Rick, a man at the office or...
Violence
Thinking without Banisters
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
We live in a time when we are overwhelmed with talk and images of violence. Whether on television, the internet, films or the video screen, we can’t escape representations of actual or fictional violence - another murder, another killing spree in a high school or movie theatre, another action movie...
by Richard J. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Designing Healthy Communities, the companion book to the acclaimed public television documentary, highlights how we design the built environment and its potential for addressing and preventing many of the nation's devastating childhood and adult health concerns. Dr. Richard Jackson looks at the root...
by Richard J. Reddick, Charles V. Willie
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Charles Willie and Richard Reddick's A New Look at Black Families has introduced thousands of students to the intricacies of the Black family in American society since its publication in 1976. Using a case study approach, Willie and Reddick show the varieties of the Black family experience and how...
Making the Most of College
Students Speak Their Minds
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2004
What choices can students in America make and what can teachers and university leaders do to improve more students' experiences and help them make the most of their time and monetary investment? Two Harvard University presidents invited Richard Light and his colleagues to explore these and other questions,...
Uncommon Decency
Christian Civility in an Uncivil World
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Can Christians act like Christians even when they disagree? In these wild and diverse times, right and left battle over the airwaves, prolifers square off against prochoicers, gay liberationists confront champions of the traditional family, artists and legislators tangle, even Christians fight other...
by Richard J. Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Hannah Arendt is increasingly recognised as one of the most original social and political thinkers of the twentieth century. In this important book, Richard Bernstein sets out to show that many of the most significant themes in Arendt's thinking have their origins in their confrontation with the Jewish...
Opium and Empire
The Lives and Careers of William Jardine and James Matheson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In 1832 William Jardine and James Matheson established what would become the greatest British trading company in East Asia in the nineteenth century. After the termination of the East India Company's monopoly in the tea trade, Jardine, Matheson & Company's aggressive marketing strategies concentrated...
Brazil
Modern Architectures in History
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
Set against a backdrop of breathtaking natural beauty, Brazil’s striking modernist architecture has long garnered international acclaim. But these well-known works are not fully reflective of the built environment of Brazil, and with this volume, Richard Williams unearths the rich architectural...
by Richard J. Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
"Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony" so wrote Kierkegaard. While we commonly think of irony as a figure of speech where someone says one thing and means the opposite, the concept of irony has long played a more fundamental role in the tradition...