Robert B : 641 books
Cries of Crisis
Rethinking the Health Care Debate
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Since the late 1960s, health care in the United States has been described as a system in crisis. No matter their position, those seeking to improve the system have relied on the rhetoric of crisis to build support for their preferred remedies, to the point where the language and imagery of a health...
Scuttlebutt
Tales and Experiences of a Life at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
For years, Robert B. Kieding has shared his nautical knowledge with the residents of Santa Barbara, California, in his weekly column in the Santa Barbara News-Press. Now, with Scuttlebutt: Tales and Experiences of a Life at Sea, he brings his wit and wisdom to people across the country and around...
History's Babel
Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880 - 1940
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
From the late nineteenth century until World War II, competing spheres of professional identity and practice redrew the field of history, establishing fundamental differences between the roles of university historians, archivists, staff at historical societies, history teachers, and others.
In...
China
An Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
This deeply informed and clearly written text provides a comprehensive and comprehensible history of China from prehistory to the present. Now updated to include recent political events and scientific research, the book focuses on the interaction of humans and their environment. Tracing changes in...
Solving for X
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
In Solving for X, his award-winning collection of new poems, Robert B. Shaw probes the familiar and encounters the unexpected; in the apparently random he discerns a hidden order. Throughout, Shaw ponders the human frailties and strengths that continue to characterize us, with glances at the stresses...
With Gratitude
Barker Steel and the People Who Made It Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Robert B. Brack knew from an early age that his grandfather and father hoped he would join Barker Steel Co., the business started by his grandfather in 1920.
After graduating from college in 1960 with a degree in civil engineering, he went to work at the family business. But after a few years,...
An Introduction to Writing for Electronic Media
Scriptwriting Essentials Across the Genres
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
"Wonderfully practical....just what every media writer needs."
Christopher H. Sterling
George Washington University
* Learn what it takes to write for commercials, news, documentaries, corporate, educational, animation, games, the internet, and dramatic film & video productions
*...
A Decisive Decade
An Insider's View of the Chicago Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
The deeply personal story of a historic time in Chicago, Robert B. McKersie’s A Decisive Decade follows the unfolding action of the Civil Rights Movement as it played out in the Windy City. McKersie’s participation as a white activist for black rights offers a unique, firsthand viewpoint on the...
by Robert B. Marks
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
At the dawn of the 21st Century, the video game industry experienced a period of wild creativity, fighting for recognition as an art form while making the transformation into a media juggernaut. And as it did, Garwulf’s Corner was there, watching and commentating.One of the earliest, if not...
Clear as Mud
Planning for the Rebuilding of New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Planning the rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita has been among the greatest urban planning challenges of our time. Since 2005, Robert B. Olshansky and Laurie A. Johnson, urban planners who specialize in disaster planning and recovery, have been working to understand, in real...
Interanimations
Receiving Modern German Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
In this latest book, renowned philosopher and scholar Robert B. Pippin offers the thought-provoking argument that the study of historical figures is not only an interpretation and explication of their views, but can be understood as a form of philosophy itself. In doing so, he reconceives philosophical...
by Robert B. Keiter
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
In The Wyoming State Constitution, Robert B. Keiter provides a comprehensive guide to Wyoming's colorful constitutional history. Featuring an outstanding analysis of the state's governing charter,the book includes an in-depth, section-by-section analysis of the entire constitution, detailing important...
by Robert B. Banks
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Have you ever daydreamed about digging a hole to the other side of the world? Robert Banks not only entertains such ideas but, better yet, he supplies the mathematical know-how to turn fantasies into problem-solving adventures. In this sequel to the popular Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes (Princeton,...
Expanding American Anthropology, 1945-1980
A Generation Reflects
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Expanding American Anthropology, 1945–1980: A Generation Reflects takes an inside look at American anthropology’s participation in the enormous expansion of the social sciences after World War II. During this time the discipline of anthropology itself came of age, expanding into diverse subfields,...