Robert Barry: 39 books
by Barry D. Keim, Robert A. Muller
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
"The storm has entered the Gulf." For those who live or travel near the Gulf of Mexico, this ominous announcement commands attention, especially given the frequency and force of hurricane strikes in recent years. Since 2004, the shores around the Gulf of Mexico have been in the crosshairs for an increasing...
Crossroads
Environmental Priorities For The Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
The environmental movemtoday is at a critical crossroads. Crossroads: Environmental Priorities for the Future is an in-depth assessmof the movement's successes and failures, and also offers prescriptions for the future. It includes contributions from some of the country's top environmental leaders...
Entertainment Theology (Cultural Exegesis)
New-Edge Spirituality in a Digital Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
It's the end of the church as we know it. In a digitally connected world, people are seeking spiritual answers through pop culture. Instead of retreating, Christians must "rethink the sacred" and enter global conversations about God--in film, literature, TV, and music--or face extinction,...
Ethics of Spying
A Reader for the Intelligence Professional
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2005
Intelligence professionals are employees of the government working in a business that some would consider unethical_the business of spying. This book looks at the dilemmas that exist when one is asked to perform a civil service that is in conflict with what that individual believes to be 'ethical.'...
Seize the Night
New Tales of Vampiric Terror
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
A blockbuster anthology of original, blood-curdling vampire fiction from New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors, including Charlaine Harris, whose novels were adapted into HBO’s hit show True Blood, and Scott Smith, publishing his first work since The Ruins.
Before being transformed...
by Johnny Mercer, Robert Kimball, Barry Day
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
The seventh volume in Knopf’s critically acclaimed Complete Lyrics series, published in Johnny Mercer’s centennial year, contains the texts to more than 1,200 of his lyrics, several hundred of them published here for the first time.
Johnny Mercer’s early songs became staples of the big...
Albert Schweitzer in Thought and Action
A Life in Parts
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
In the 1940s and 1950s, Albert Schweitzer was one of the best-known figures on the world stage. Courted by monarchs, world statesmen, and distinguished figures from the literary, musical, and scientific fields, Schweitzer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952, cementing his place as one of the...
by William A. Barry, SJ, and Robert G. Doherty
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Examines the nature of Jesuit spirituality, which is a spirituality of lifegiving and creative tensions.
Strategies for National Sustainable Development
A handbook for their planning and implementation
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The IUCN Strategies for Sustainable Development Handbook Series
This handbook is one in a series being produced by IUCN and its partners to assist countries and communities implement Agenda 21, the action programme of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. The series...
Corruption in the Contemporary World
Theory, Practice, and Hotspots
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
This book deals with large-scale, systemic corruption, a phenomenon that it identifies as part of the political landscape in most, if not all, societies of the contemporary world. While the analysis is grounded in the political thought of earlier thinkers, especially Edmund Burke, and integrates the...
Marketing and Logistics Led Organizations
Creating and Operating Customer Focused Supply Networks
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Logistics and marketing stand out as two disciplines which are connected, and both are critical to the provision of customer value. Marketing and Logistics Led Organizations looks at marketing-led logistics and logistics-led marketing. In the current business world, the idea of a single supply chain...
Undergraduate Curricular Peer Mentoring Programs
Perspectives on Innovation by Faculty, Staff, and Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Curricular peer mentoring is a programmatic approach to enrich student learning and engagement in postsecondary courses in which instructors welcome a more experienced undergraduate student into a credit course they are teaching. The student then serves as peer mentor to the students enrolled. Peer...
Understanding Human Ecology
A systems approach to sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
We are facing hugely complex challenges – from climate change to world poverty, our problems are part of an inter-related web of social and natural systems. Human ecology promises an approach to these complex challenges, a way to understand these problems holistically and to start to manage them...
by Amal El-Mohtar, Susie Moloney, Claire Humphrey
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing is a reprint anthology to be published annually by ChiZine Publications, collecting speculative short fiction and poetry (science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism, etc.) that represents the best work produced by Canadian writers. Canadian...