Robert C : 1013 books
Lives and Times
Individuals and Issues in American History: To 1877
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed to acquaint students with major issues in American history through the lives of individuals, prominent and otherwise, whose ideas and activities were crucial in shaping the course of the nation's history. Employing a narrative style, each volume consists...
by Robert C. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Before the start of the Civil War, Georgia had ten railroads, five of which figured significantly in General William T. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign and March to the Sea. The number of rail lines in the state ballooned after the war. Many were founded by individual entrepreneurs like Henry Plant and Thomas...
Insider Histories of Cartooning
Rediscovering Forgotten Famous Comics and Their Creators
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Many fans and insiders alike have never heard of Bill Hume, Bailin' Wire Bill, Abe Martin, AWOL Wally, the Texas History Movies, or the Weatherbird at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. And many insiders do not know why we call comic books “comics” even though lots of them are not at all funny.
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by Robert C. Miner
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2002
In this lucid and probing study, Robert C. Miner argues that Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) was the architect of a subversive, genealogical approach to modernity. Miner documents the genesis of Vico's stance toward modernity in the first phase of his thought. Through close examination of his early...
by Robert C. Waggoner
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2017
Parents, be careful if you read this story to your young children. This nightmare is not wished on anyone having fun trick or treating. But, nobody can predict the weather or decide what an animal might do when the weather turns really nasty. Never take anything for granted, but expect the worse and hope for the best.
by Robert C. Post
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
A leading American legal scholar offers a surprising account of the incompleteness of prevailing theories of freedom of speech. Robert C. Post shows that the familiar understanding of the First Amendment, which stresses the “marketplace of ideas” and which holds that "everyone is entitled to an...
by Robert C. Waggoner
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
A short story of fiction based upon fact. History has created some unique people, but these three brothers will amaze you for what they did to help save some lives.
In the year 1864 the worst blizzard on record hit Iowa. At an army fort in Esterville, the troops had run out of food. They were slowly...
The Enemy in Our Hands
America's Treatment of Prisoners of War from the Revolution to the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Revelations of abuse at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison and the U.S. detention camp at Guantánamo Bay had repercussions extending beyond the worldwide media scandal that ensued. The controversy surrounding photos and descriptions of inhumane treatment of enemy prisoners of war, or EPWs, from the war...
While America Slept
Restoring American Leadership to a World in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Robert C. O'Brien's collection of essays on U.S. national security and foreign policy, with a forward by Hugh Hewitt, is a wake up call to the American people. The world has become steadily more dangerous under President Obama's "lead from behind" foreign policy. The Obama Administration's...
The Joy of Philosophy
Thinking Thin versus the Passionate Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1999
The Joy of Philosophy is a return to some of the perennial questions of philosophy--questions about the meaning of life; about death and tragedy; about the respective roles of rationality and passion in the good life; about love, compassion, and revenge; about honesty, deception, and betrayal; and...
Nietzsche in the Nineteenth Century
Social Questions and Philosophical Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Friedrich Nietzsche is often depicted in popular and scholarly discourse as a lonely philosopher dealing with abstract concerns unconnected to the intellectual debates of his time and place. Robert C. Holub counters this narrative, arguing that Nietzsche was very well attuned to the events and issues...
Politics as Leadership
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1995
Robert C. Tucker begins this invaluable book with an analytical look at politics, leadership, and the effect each has on the other. Aligning himself with Plato's view of politics as leadership, Tucker argues that politics is more usefully defined from this perspective than from the more familiar stance...
Sophistry and Political Philosophy
Protagoras' Challenge to Socrates
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
One of the central challenges to contemporary political philosophy is the apparent impossibility of arriving at any commonly agreed upon “truths.” As Nietzsche observed in his Will to Power, the currents of relativism that have come to characterize modern thought can be said to have been born...
Wonder
From Emotion to Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
The attempt to identify the emotional sources of religion goes back to antiquity. In an exploration that bridges science and spirituality, Robert C. Fuller makes the convincing case that a sense of wonder is a principal source of humanity's belief in the existence of an unseen order of life. Like...