Richard Ronald: 41 books
Demographic Change and Housing Wealth:
Home-owners, Pensions and Asset-based Welfare in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
Across the EU, populations are shrinking and ageing. An increasing burden is being placed on a smaller working population to generate the taxes required for pensions and care costs. Welfare states are weakening in many countries and across Europe, households are being increasingly expected to plan...
1865
America Makes War and Peace in Lincoln’s Final Year
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
In 1865 Americans faced some of the most important issues in the nation’s history: the final battles of the Civil War, the struggle to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, the peace process, reconstruction, the role of freed slaves, the tragedy of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, and the trials of the...
by George Alecusan, John E. Alvis, Donald R. Brand
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists,...
The Grand Strategy that Won the Cold War
Architecture of Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
This book demonstrates that under the leadership of President Ronald Reagan and through the mechanism of his National Security Council staff, the United States developed and executed a comprehensive grand strategy, involving the coordinated use of the diplomatic, informational, military, and economic...
Ending Poverty in America
How to Restore the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
**An “**engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles” from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more (Publishers Weekly).
Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the...
Freud and Monotheism
Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Over the last few decades, vibrant debates regarding post-secularism have found inspiration and provocation in the works of Sigmund Freud. A new interest in the interconnection of psychoanalysis, religion and political theory has emerged, allowing Freud’s illuminating examination of the religious...
Beyond Bibliometrics
Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing ways we measure scholarly performance and research impact.
Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available...
Genetic Influences on Addiction
An Intermediate Phenotype Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
A comprehensive review of research examining intermediary mechanisms to understand the link between genetic variation and addiction liability.
Although there is scientific consensus that genetic factors play a substantial role in an individual's vulnerability to drug or alcohol addiction, specific...
Judaism and Health
A Handbook of Practical, Professional and Scholarly Resources
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The first state-of-the-art, comprehensive resource to encompass the wide breadth of the rapidly growing field of Judaism and health.
"For Jews, religion and medicine (and science) are not inherently in conflict, even within the Torah-observant community, but rather can be friendly partners...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of sugarcane Volume 1
Cultivation techniques, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Sugarcane is the source of over three quarters of the world’s sugar, and is grown widely in the tropics and sub-tropics. Despite rising demand, average yields have not increased significantly, partly because of continued vulnerability to pests and diseases. In addition, cultivation has been seen...
Diplomacy in Black and White
John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
From 1798 to 1801, during the Haitian Revolution, President John Adams and Toussaint Louverture forged diplomatic relations that empowered white Americans to embrace freedom and independence for people of color in Saint-Domingue. The United States supported the Dominguan revolutionaries with economic...
The Great Prostate Hoax
How Big Medicine Hijacked the PSA Test and Caused a Public Health Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Every year, more than a million men undergo painful needle biopsies for prostate cancer, and upward of 100,000 have radical prostatectomies, resulting in incontinence and impotence. But the shocking fact is that most of these men would never have died from this common form of cancer, which frequently...
Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth
Developing Evidence-Based International Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
Therapeutic Residential Care For Children and Youth takes a fresh look at therapeutic residential care as a powerful intervention in working with the most troubled children who need intensive support.
Featuring contributions from distinguished international contributors, it critically examines...
Culture Matters in Russia—and Everywhere
Backdrop for the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
This collection of essays discusses modernization, democratization, and economic and political reforms in Russia and asserts that these reforms can be accomplished through the reframing of cultural values, attitudes, and institutions. The contributors—which include three Nobel Laureates—strive...