Richard Philip: 60 books
The Gospel as Center: Renewing Our Faith and Reforming Our Ministry Practices
Renewing Our Faith and Reforming Our Ministry Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The church is reeling because of the relativistic mindset of our world. Up until a generation ago, most adults had similar moral intuitions whether they were believers or not, and the core of protestant orthodoxy was still intact. Yet, in the wake of postmodernity and secularism, all that has changed.
Convinced...
The Time Cure
Overcoming PTSD with the New Psychology of Time Perspective Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
In his landmark book, The Time Paradox, internationally known psychologist Philip Zimbardo showed that we can transform the way we think about our past, present, and future to attain greater success in work and in life. Now, in The Time Cure, Zimbardo has teamed with clinicians Richard and Rosemary...
by Richard N. L. Andrews, Michael E. Kraft, Karin Bäckstrand
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Concepts and their role in the evolution of modern environmental policy, with case studies of eleven influential concepts ranging from “environment” to “sustainable consumption.”
Concepts are thought categories through which we apprehend the world; they enable, but also constrain, reasoning...
Apocalypse
The Plague Tales by Mary Shelley, Jack London, Richard Jefferies, Daniel Defoe
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2016
Apocalypse
The Plague Tales
By
Mary Shelley
Jack London
Richard Jefferies
Daniel Defoe
Back in 1826 a novel was written, The Last Man—that tells the story of humanity’s downfall in the 21st century.
Scenes of horror increase by the...
Captured by Pirates
22 Firsthand Accounts of Murder and Mayhem on the High Seas
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Pirates are primarily known for their swashbuckling attitudes, their freebooting lifestyle, their high-seas adventures and their stolen treasure, but their victims tend to be forgotten. These are the innocent and not-so-innocent voyagers who find themselves suddenly snatched up, brutalized, and franticly...
by Philip Carr-Gomm, Richard Heygate
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Through experiments to try and places to visit, as well as a historical exploration of magic and interviews with leading magicians, The Book of English Magic will introduce you to the extraordinary world that lies beneath the surface. Magic runs through the veins of English history, part of daily...
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction
A Century of Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!
by Ikuko Asaka, Caree Banton, Celso Thomas Castilho
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Over the long nineteenth century, African-descended peoples used the uncertainties and possibilities of emancipation to stake claims to freedom, equality, and citizenship. In the process, people of color transformed the contours of communities, nations, and the Atlantic World. Although emancipation...
Antidemocracy in America
Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences...
by Ms Tracy Soanes, Dr Mary Costelloe, Dr Edwin Aird
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Design and Shielding of Radiotherapy Treatment Facilities provides readers with a single point of reference for all aspects of shielding design and radiation protection advice to the construction and modification of radiotherapy facilities. The book assembles a faculty of national and international...
Let Nobody Turn Us Around
An African American Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the early years of slavery to the end of the 20th century. The essays, manifestos, interviews, and documents assembled here, contextualized with critical commentaries from Marable...
by Richard Silberglitt, Philip S. Anton, David R. Howell
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2002
In 2020, areas of particular importance for technology trends will include biotechnology, nanotechnology, materials technology, and information technology. This report, the companion document to The Global Technology Revolution 2020, Executive Summary (Silberglitt et al., MG-475-NIC, 2006), assesses...
Flaws and Ceilings
Price Controls and the Damage They Cause
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Price controls across many sectors are currently being hotly debated. New controls in the housing market, more onerous minimum wages, minimum prices for alcohol, and freezes on energy prices are very high up the agenda of most politicians at the moment. Even without any further controls, wages, university...
Testing Too Much?
A Principal's Guide to Cutting Back Testing and Reclaiming Instructional Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
There is too much testing in American Public Schools that is robbing teachers of valuable instructional time. Some of it is mandatory, but the vast majority is not, and under the control of districts, schools and even teachers to reduce. Testing Too Much? provides a rationale and set of three models...