Robert D : 904 books
by Robert D. San Souci
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Scare-master Robert San Souci serves up ten chilling tales about untraditional haunted houses: a mansion full of pirate treasure, a ghost trapped in a mysterious dollhouse, a boy whose vacation house comes complete with people-eating spiders, and many more. But beware because not all of the protagonists in these stories get out alive.
Get a Job
Labor Markets, Economic Opportunity, and Crime
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Are the unemployed more likely to commit crimes? Does having a job make one less likely to commit a crime? Criminologists have found that individuals who are marginalized from the labor market are more likely to commit crimes, and communities with more members who are marginal to the labor market...
The Coming Anarchy
Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002
Robert Kaplan, bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts, offers up scrupulous, far-ranging insights on the world to come in a spirited, rousing, and provocative book that has earned a place at the top of the reading lists of the world's policy makers.
The end of the Cold War has not ushered in the...
An Empire Wilderness
Traveling Into America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Having reported on some of the world's most violent, least understood regions in his bestsellers Balkan Ghosts and The Ends of the Earth, Robert Kaplan now returns to his native land, the United States of America. Traveling, like Tocqueville and John Gunther before him, through a political and cultural...
by Robert D Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2005
The authoritative, hands-on guide to advanced MySQL programming and administration techniques for high performance is here. MySQL Database Design and Tuning is the only guide with coverage of both the basics and advanced topics, including reliability, performance, optimization and tuning for MySQL....
Economic Evaluation in Education
Cost-Effectiveness and Benefit-Cost Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
The past decade has seen increased attention to cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost analysis in education as administrators are being asked to accomplish more with the same or even fewer resources, philanthropists are keen to calculate their “return on investment” in social programs, and the general...
The ROV Manual
A User Guide for Remotely Operated Vehicles
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Written by two well-known experts in the field with input from a broad network of industry specialists, The ROV Manual, Second Edition provides a complete training and reference guide to the use of observation class ROVs for surveying, inspection, and research purposes.
This new edition has...
Afghan Modern
The History of a Global Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Rugged, remote, riven by tribal rivalries and religious violence, Afghanistan seems to many a forsaken country frozen in time. Robert Crews presents a bold challenge to this misperception. During their long history, Afghans have engaged and connected with a wider world, occupying a pivotal position in the Cold War and the decades that followed.
Representation, Heterodoxy, and Aesthetics
Essays in Honor of Ronald Paulson
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
This book is a wide-ranging study of British literature and art from the late seventeenth through the early nineteenth centuries, one that stresses the connections between visual and verbal representation. Key emphases of the book include aesthetics, the aims and motives of individual producers of...
Living Positive with Imperfection
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Robert Bob Pattons book A Memoir, the personal story of his fifty-nine-year career as an educator, a state representative, and a public servant, contains details of three generations of a family that worked the soil, built community, and took responsibility for their own welfare like many similar...
Structures of Subjectivity
Explorations in Psychoanalytic Phenomenology and Contextualism
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Structures of Subjectivity: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Phenomenology and Contextualism, is a revised and expanded second edition of a work first published in 1984, which was the first systematic presentation of the intersubjective viewpoint – what George Atwood and Robert Stolorow called psychoanalytic...
by Robert D. Rodman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Brutally raped and left pregnant and half dead, Ashley Bloodworth wants to find the three men who tortured her. She persuades P. I. Dagny Taggart Jamison to take the case after promising that she merely wants to know who fathered her twins. Dagny must find each man and get a DNA sample. But there is...
Design With Microclimate
The Secret to Comfortable Outdoor Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Robert Brown helps us see that a "thermally comfortable microclimate" is the very foundation of well-designed and well-used outdoor places. Brown argues that as we try to minimize human-induced changes to the climate and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels-as some areas become warmer, some cooler,...
Working Intersubjectively
Contextualism in Psychoanalytic Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
From an overview of the basic principles of intersubjectivity theory, Orange, Atwood, and Stolorow proceed to contextualist critiques of the concept of psychoanalytic technique and of the myth of analytic neutrality. They then examine the intersubjective contexts of extreme states of psychological...