Richard Lawrence: 54 books
Sun Rise
Suncor, the Oil Sands and the Future of Energy
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Over its twenty years with president and CEO Rick George at the helm, Suncor Energy went from being Canada’s “unluckiest oil company” to a stock market darling and the second-largest publicly traded corporation in the country. Both a contrarian and an optimist, George often made multibillion-dollar...
by Richard C. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This mini-encyclopedia covers key terms and topics about early peoples and their cultures, artifacts, locations, and practices. Timelines, maps, and photographs bring the subject to life, while a glossary, an index, and discussion questions aid in reading comprehension.
Grade: 6
Subject: World...
by Richard H. Penner, Lawrence Adams, Walter Rutes
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Hotel Design, Planning and Development presents the most significant hotels developed internationally in the last ten years so that you can be well-informed of recent trends. The book outlines essential planning and design considerations based on the latest data, supported by technical information...
Two Hearts Desire
Gay Couples on their Love
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
A declaration of love - gay couples talk about their significant other. Current and past liaisons, passion and daily routine, longtime relationships and the tingle of first dates - the day-to-day reality of love is manifold. This anthology also tells about a time of loss, when many men lost their...
Psychos
Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
This collection of thirty-eight terrifying tales of serial killers at large, written by the great masters of the genre, plumbs the horrifying depths of a deranged mind and the forces of evil that compel a human being to murder, gruesomely and methodically, over and over again.
From Hannibal...
A Nietzschean Bestiary
Becoming Animal Beyond Docile and Brutal
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003
Inspired by the ancient and medieval genre, A Nietzschean Bestiary gathers essays treating the most vivid and lively animal images in one of the philosophic tradition's greatest bodies of work. Leading scholars treat specific animals—such as the prowling beast of prey, Zarathustra's laughing lions,...
Understanding Inequality
The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals...
The United States and the International Criminal Court
National Security and International Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2000
American reluctance to join the International Criminal Court illuminates important trends in international security and a central dilemma facing U.S. Foreign policy in the 21st century.
The ICC will prosecute individuals who commit egregious international human rights violations such as genocide....
Advanced Circuit Training
A Complete Guide to Progressive Planning and Instructing
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
There are around 60,000 qualified gym instructors and personal trainers
in the UK alone, with several thousand more qualifying each year. The
Register of Exercise Professionals' (REPs) Level 3 qualification is
seen as the principal goal for all instructors, and a key part of this
is advanced circuit...
Comparing Democracies
Elections and Voting in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
This book provides you with a theoretical and comparative understanding of the major topics related to elections and voting behaviour. It explores important work taking place on new areas, whilst at the same time covering the key themes that you’ll encounter throughout your studies.
Edited...
In Search of Humanity
Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of “humanity” as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative of—and also a replacement for—formerly more...
by Richard Russell Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
In the words of those who trod the void and those at mission
control, here are over 50 of the greatest true stories of suborbital,
orbital and deep-space exploration. From Apollo 8's
first view of a fractured, tortured landscape of craters on the
'dark side' of the Moon...
by Richard Li, Mac Ruiz, Mario Ferrari
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
The Ultimate Tool for MINDSTORMS® Maniacs
The new MINDSTORMS kit has been updated to include a programming brick, USB cable, RJ11-like cables, motors, and sensors. This book updates the robotics information to be compatible with the new set and to show how sound, sight, touch, and distance issues...
The Baby Emergency Handbook
Lifesaving Information Every Parent Needs to Know
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2008
When your baby faces a medical emergency, what should you do? Sometimes your intuition is spot-on, but other times it's entirely wrong. With this life-saving guide close at hand, you'll be ready to handle over forty common infant and toddler emergencies, including falls, high fevers, bee stings, burns,...