Robbins: 623 books
The Making of Massive Resistance
Virginia's Politics of Public School Desegregation, 1954-1956
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
In this book, Gates brings before the reader persons and features unique to racial politics in the commonwealth of Virginia. He deals with the turbulent days that followed school desegregation decisions in 1954 and 1955 and with the emergence of the "massive resistance" movement in the region.
Originally...
The Jewish Lights Spirituality Handbook
A Guide to Understanding, Exploring & Living a Spiritual Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
What is “Jewish Spirituality”? How do I make it part of my life?
Today’s foremost spiritual leaders share their ideas and experience.
Whether you are just curious, intently searching for greater personal meaning, or actively seeking ideas, information, practices and inspiration to enrich...
Hard Times in Paradise
Coos Bay, Oregon
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Blessed with vast expanses of virgin timber, a good harbor, and a San Francisco market for its lumber, the Coos Bay area once dubbed itself "a poor man's paradise." A new Prologue and Epilogue by the author bring this story of gyppo loggers, longshoremen, millwrights, and whistle punks into...
Rethinking Risk Assessment
The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
The presumed link between mental disorder and violence has been the driving force behind mental health law and policy for centuries. Legislatures, courts, and the public have come to expect that mental health professionals will protect them from violent acts by persons with mental disorders. Yet for...
Middle Class Union
Organizing the ‘Consuming Public’ in Post-World War I America
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Middle Class Union argues that the period following World War I was a pivotal moment in the development of middle-class consumer politics in the 20th century. At this time, middle-class Americans politically mobilized to define for society what was fair in the growing consumer marketplace. They projected...
by Brian Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Could you do with a happier marriage? Would you like to remake your relationship and experience love, respect and joy in your marriage?
Here is a guide first designed to help to save marriages, now including marital happiness strategic coaching, to help you to reach your marital goals in spite...
by Gary Sullivan, Stephen Barthorpe, Stephen Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Every major industry except construction uses logistics to improve its bottom line…
Poor logistics is costing the construction industry at least £3 billion a year according to a report – ‘Improving Construction Logistics’ – published by the Strategic Forum for Construction. Additional...
Hope and Honor
A Memoir of a Soldier's Courage and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Major General Sid Shachnow was more than a highly decorated Vietnam War veteran--receiving two silver and three bronze stars with V for Valor. He survived a crucible far crueler than the jungles of Vietnam: Nazi occupied Eastern Europe. As a child, he spent three years in the notorious Kovno Concentration...
Alternative Approaches in Music Education
Case Studies from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Explore the creative ways music educators across the country are approaching emerging practices in music teaching and learning. Outlined in twenty-five unique case studies, each program offers a new perspective on music teaching and learning, often falling outside the standard music education curriculum....
Widows' Words
Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Becoming a widow is one of the most traumatic life events that a woman can experience. Yet, as this remarkable new collection reveals, each woman responds to that trauma differently. Here, forty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words.
Some were widowed young, while others were...
Arts of Perception
The Epistemological Mentality of the Spanish Baroque, 1580-1720
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Arts of Perception offers a new account of a key period in Spanish history and culture and a fundamental reassessment of its major writers and intellectuals, including Gracián, Quevedo, Calderón, Saavedra Fajardo, López de Vega, and Sor Juana.
Reading these figures in the context of European...
Applied Improvisation
Leading, Collaborating, and Creating Beyond the Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This collection of Applied Improvisation stories and strategies draws back the curtain on an exciting, innovative, growing field of practice and research that is changing the way people lead, create, and collaborate. Applied Improvisation is the umbrella term widely used to denote the application...
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook Chapter Singles
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2008
If you suffer from anxiety, or symptoms of anxiety, there are real steps you can take to change the way your body responds. For example, progressive relaxation of muscles can reduce your pulse rate, blood pressure, and can work in much the same way as anti-anxiety medication. In this New Harbinger...
Overtaken by the Night
One Russian's Journey through Peace, War, Revolution, and Terror
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Vladimir Fedorovich Dzhunkovsky was a witness to Russia’s unfolding tragedy—from Tsar Alexander II’s Great Reforms, through world war, revolution, the rise of a new regime, and finally, his country’s descent into terror under Stalin. But Dzhunkovsky was not just a passive observer—he was...