Robert C : 1013 books
The Economics of Collusion
Cartels and Bidding Rings
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
An examination of collusive behavior: what it is, why it is profitable, how it is implemented, and how it might be detected.
Explicit collusion is an agreement among competitors to suppress rivalry that relies on interfirm communication and/or transfers. Rivalry between competitors erodes profits;...
The Household
Informal Order around the Hearth
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Some people dwell alone, many in family-based households, and an adventuresome few in communes. The Household is the first book to systematically lay bare the internal dynamics of these and other home arrangements. Legal underpinnings, social considerations, and economic constraints all influence...
by Robert C. Allen
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2009
Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He...
by Midwest Journal Press, Robert H. Elliot, Dr. Robert C. Worstell
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
In our farm, we listened to the old farmers, who told of simple solutions. Instead of feeding the cattle over-winter in a lot and turning them out in the spring (and having to scrape and dispose of several months of piled-high manure) simply taking the bales out to the poorest sections of land and...
Why Only Us
Language and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire it.
**“A loosely connected collection of four essays that will fascinate anyone interested in the extraordinary phenomenon...
Dark Feelings, Grim Thoughts
Experience and Reflection in Camus and Sartre
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
In the same spirit as his most recent book, Living With Nietzsche, and his earlier study In the Spirit of Hegel, Robert Solomon turns to the existential thinkers Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, in an attempt to get past the academic and political debates and focus on what is truly interesting and...
Dr. Atkins' Vita-Nutrient Solution
Nature's Answer to Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
THE HEALING POWER OF NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS
Long a champion of complementary medicine and nutritional therapy, Dr. Robert Atkins, author of the #1 best-seller Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, presents the scientific basis for the use of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, herbs, and hormones in the...
Dr. Atkins' Age-Defying Diet Revolution
A Powerful New Dietary Defense Against Ageing
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2001
America's most trusted diet revolutionary, Dr. Robert Atkins, has found the Fountain of Youth! Building on his more than 40 years of medical and dietary experience, Dr. Atkins offers his know-how to readers wanting to learn how the Atkins program can help reverse the aging process. You'll discover...
Leadership for Rural Schools
Lessons for All Educators
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2002
More than 50% of America's schools today exist in rural settings. This book addresses the distinctiveness of rural school leaders, identifies issues encountered by administrators, faculty, and students, and concludes by proposing new standards for rural schools in general and their leaders. This book...
The Effective Pastor
A Practical Guide to the Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
What can I say to parents who have lost an infant? Where do I find the time to be a good pastor and a loving husband and father too? These are just some of the tough questions most pastors ask at one time or another. And the answers don't come easy. Robert Anderson's practical guide to the pastoral...
Technoscience and Postphenomenology
The Manhattan Papers
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Friis and Crease capture Postphenomenology, a new field that has attracted attention among scholars engaged in technology studies. Contributors to this edited collection seek to analyze, clarify, and develop postphenomenological language and concepts, expand the work of Don Ihde, the field's founder,...
Ghosts
True Tales of Eerie Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
The famous Victoria ghost who appeared to a tour group listening to her story, the little boy playing with a red ball in Nanaimo, the phantom “helper” in a restaurant kitchen – these are among the true stories in Robert Belyk’s new Ghosts. Encounters with entities from a different reality...
Introduction to International and European Sports Law
Capita Selecta
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
The book is an introduction to sports law, in particular International (worldwide) and European (EU) sports law. The chapters are all put in the perspective of the innovative sports law doctrine that is developed and presented in the opening chapter on what sports law is. After a general coverage...
The Way of the Stars
Journeys on the Camino de Santiago
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Since medieval times, pilgrimages have been a popular religious or spiritual undertaking. Even today, between seventy and one hundred million people a year make pilgrimages, if not for expressly religious reasons, then for an alternative to secular goals and the preoccupation with consumption and...