Robert B : 641 books
by Robert B. CIALDINI
Language: French
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Le document de référence dans le domaine de l'influence et de la manipulation.
Pourquoi et comment sommes-nous amenés à faire des choses contre notre gré?
Robert Cialdini, docteur en psychologie sociale, livre le résultat de plus de quinze ans de recherches sur les mécanismes...
by Robert B. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Spenser is a wisecracking former boxer turned private investigator and he is just settling into his new office when enters Harv Shepard, a beleaguered businessman who is looking for someone to help locate his runaway wife. So begins Promised Land, the fourth novel by Robert Parker, that follows the...
by Robert B. Banks
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Although we seldom think of it, our lives are played out in a world of numbers. Such common activities as throwing baseballs, skipping rope, growing flowers, playing football, measuring savings accounts, and many others are inherently mathematical. So are more speculative problems that are simply...
Keeping Faith with Nature
Ecosystems, Democracy, and America?s Public Lands
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
As the twenty-first century dawns, public land policy is entering a new era. This timely book examines the historical, scientific, political, legal, and institutional developments that are changing management priorities and policies—developments that compel us to view the public lands as an integrated...
The Crime of Reason
And the Closing of the Scientific Mind
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
We all agree that the free flow of ideas is essential to creativity. And we like to believe that in our modern, technological world, information is more freely available and flows faster than ever before. But according to Nobel Laureate Robert Laughlin, acquiring information is becoming a danger or...
An Order Outside Time: A Jungian View of the Higher Self from Egypt to Christ
A Jungian View of the Higher Self from Egypt to Christ
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2005
The line of Western Spirituality began in Egypt and continued through the time of Christ. Has it become stalled in the years since?
Robert Clarke says yes, it has. In The Four Gold Keys, Clarke, going by his own spiritualization in the psychic depths, argued that the way out of Western civilization's...
100 Miles to Freedom
The Epic Story of the Rescue of Santo Tomas and the Liberation of Manila: 1943-1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
In 100 Miles to Freedom, U.S. Marine Bob Holland tells the story of the release of 3,700 American civilian prisoners of the Japanese at Santo Tomas University Internment Camp in Manila, the Philippines. Until their miraculous rescue on February 3, 1945, these civilians had been interned for more than...
To Conserve Unimpaired
The Evolution of the National Park Idea
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
When the national park system was first established in 1916, the goal "to conserve unimpaired" seemed straightforward. But Robert Keiter argues that parks have always served a variety of competing purposes, from wildlife protection and scientific discovery to tourism and commercial development. In this...
Speaking for Our Lives
Historic Speeches and Rhetoric for Gay and Lesbian Rights (1892-2000)
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Read the words they risked everything for!
This landmark volume collects more than a hundred years of the most important public rhetoric on gay and lesbian subjects. In the days when homosexuality was mentioned only in whispers, a few brave souls stood up to speak for the rights of sexual minorities....
The Fall of the Asante Empire
The Hundred-Year War For Africa'S Gold Coast
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
For the first time, anthropologist Robert Edgerton tells the story of the Hundred-Year War—from 1807 to 1900, between the British Empire and the Asante Kingdom—from the Asante point of view.
In 1817, the first British envoy to meet the king of the Asante of West Africa was dazzled by his...
Gender in English Society 1650-1850
The Emergence of Separate Spheres?
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
A lively social history of the roles of men and women - from workplace to household, from parish church to alehouse, from market square to marriage bed. Robert Shoemaker investigates such varied topics as crime, leisure, the theatre, religious observance, notions of morality and even changing patterns of sexual activity itself.
by Robert B. Mann
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
This book reflects the resurgence of interest in the quantum properties of black holes, culminating most recently in controversial discussions about firewalls. On the thermodynamic side, it describes how new developments allowed the inclusion of pressure/volume terms in the first law, leading...
by Robert B. Brandom
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Wilfrid Sellars ranks as one of the leading critics of empiricism—a philosophical approach to knowledge that seeks to ground it in human sense experience. Robert Brandom clarifies what Sellars had in mind when he talked about moving analytic philosophy from its Humean to its Kantian phase and why such a move might be of crucial importance today.
A Spirit of Trust
A Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
In a new retelling of the romantic rationalist adventure of ideas that is Hegel’s classic The Phenomenology of Spirit, Robert Brandom argues that when our self-conscious recognitive attitudes take Hegel’s radical form of magnanimity and trust, we can overcome a troubled modernity and enter a new age of spirit.