Richard Louis: 65 books
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
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...
Courting Justice
Ten New Jersey Cases That Shook the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Since 1947 a modernized New Jersey Supreme Court has played an important and controversial role in the state, nation, and world. Its decisions in cutting-edge cases have confronted society’s toughest issues, reflecting changing social attitudes, modern life’s complexities, and new technologies.
Paul...
The World's Great Sermons
Volume Ii—Hooker To South
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
The aim in preparing this work has been to bring together the best examples of the products of the pulpit through the Christian centuries, and to present these masterpieces in attractive and convenient form. It is believed that they will be found valuable as instruction to ministers of to-day. They...
Reasons for Faith (Foreword by Lee Strobel): Making a Case for the Christian Faith
Making a Case for the Christian Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2007
Many Christians want to witness for their faith, but they are afraid they will not be able to answer questions that others may ask of them. First Peter 3:15 reminds believers to always be prepared to "make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you." Norman Geisler and...
Designing and Conducting Survey Research
A Comprehensive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
The industry standard guide, updated with new ideas and SPSS analysis techniques
Designing and Conducting Survey Research: A Comprehensive Guide Fourth Edition is the industry standard resource that covers all major components of the survey process, updated to include new data analysis techniques...
Simulating Society
A Mathematica®Toolkit for Modeling Socioeconomic Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
An exploration of the basis for social and economic behaviour. Using cellular automata in particular, the authors model various factors that are involved in a system of individuals who interact socially and economically with one another. Computer simulations in the social sciences provide a laboratory...
Unified Field Mechanics
Natural Science Beyond the Veil of SpacetimeProceedings of the IX Symposium Honoring Noted French Mathematical Physicist Jean-Pierre Vigier
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Unified Field Mechanics, the topic of the 9th international symposium honoring noted French mathematical physicist Jean-Pierre Vigier cannot be considered highly speculative as a myopic critic might surmise. The 8th Vigier Symposium proceedings "The Physics of Reality" should in fact be...
Tales of a New York Yankee
Life in New York City and the Border States in the 20Th Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Lou Baumgaertner was born and bred in New York City, and although he also lived amongst the Border States, and even in the South, he was a New York Yankee to his dying day. Part of that, of course, could be attributed to his being a die-hard fan of the best baseball team in the world, the New York...
Congress and Harry S. Truma
A Conflicted Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This collection of essays examines President Truman’s somewhat contentious relationships with Congress. Authors evaluate Truman’s successes and defeats and measure him against later presidents of the United States. While the Truman era has been perceived as a stalemate between the executive and...
The Physics of Reality
Space, Time, Matter, Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
A truly Galilean-class volume, this book introduces a new method in theory formation, completing the tools of epistemology. It covers a broad spectrum of theoretical and mathematical physics by researchers from over 20 nations from four continents. Like Vigier himself, the Vigier symposia are noted...
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality
Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers...
by Louis G. Pol, Richard K. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
In this 3rd edition of the definitive work on health demography, Pol and Thomas offer an updated view of the field and a current perspective on the applications of health demography to contemporary issues. The significance of health demography within the field of population studies has continued...
by Richard K. Thomas, Louis G. Pol
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
This is a thoroughgoing revision of the first edition of this classic text and reference, published by Plenum in 1992. The authors convey the general principles that underlie this applied subdiscipline and demonstrate how the merging of demography and health care impacts on the planning processes of a range of health care organizations.