Robert D : 904 books
The Blind Seer
Isolde Saga, #3
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
The Dead Walk. Magic Is Alive. The Netherworld Awaits.
When Isolde escaped from Ravenscar, she thought the worst was behind her. Orlog was silenced and the High-King had been put down. But old enemies don't die easy and this may be the calm before the storm.
Isolde's path now leads her...
Land of the Gods
Isolde Saga, #4
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Do not trust the promises of Gods and Devils…
The isle of Heroth Nuir rises from the sea like the last jagged tooth in an ancient skull. It is the land of the gods. It is Isolde's destiny.
With the scars of her past behind her, Isolde is forced to come to terms with her curse. She...
Fall of the High-King
Isolde Saga, #5
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Thousands of campfires twinkle in the night like so many fireflies waiting to swarm.
The city of Harkham is less than a day's march away and already the countryside is in flames and chains. Isolde and Harald have seen the bloodlust and utter chaos brought on by Hrothgar and it must end now.
But...
Earning the Rockies
How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
An incisive portrait of the American landscape that shows how geography continues to determine America’s role in the world
Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times • “There is more insight here into the Age of Trump than in bushels of political-horse-race...
Jack of All Trades and Master of None
An Inventory of My Life and Times
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
ROBERT D. McCLINCHEY looks back at a long and fruitful life in this memoir, beginning with his birth on the family farm in 1926.
Growing up in East Wawanosh Township in Ontario, he found plenty of adventureoften getting into mischief with his six siblings. The family worked together, struggled...
In Europe's Shadow
Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe’s frontier countries—and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe’s fate in the postmodern...
by Scott Schang, Leila B. Azari, Nicholas Bianco
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Few if any people think the Clean Air Act is the optimal legislative solution to climate change; but it is a powerful tool that is being used sometimes despite the prevailing political will. To address this reality, this volume calls on the best writing from the most often-cited environmental law journal...
A Time for War
The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1997
Even after two decades, the memory of the Vietnam War seems to haunt our culture. From Forrest Gump to Miss Saigon, from Tim O'Brien's Pulitzer Prize-winning Going After Cacciato to Robert McNamara's controversial memoir In Retrospect, Americans are drawn again and again to ponder our long, tragic...
Juvenile Justice
A Guide to Theory, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
“The text is written from a practical standpoint, which students are likely to understand and appreciate.”
—Lindsey Livingston Runell, J.D., Ph.D., Kutztown University
Brief, focused, and up-to-date, Juvenile Justice: A Guide to Theory, Policy, and Practice, Ninth Edition,...
Assessing the Youthful Offender
Issues and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Our society's preoccupation with crime and fear of crime appears to have shifted its focus to the juvenile offender. Both electronic and print media continuously warn us that juvenile offenders are increasingly younger and more virulent. The demographics of our population suggest that there will only...
Albert Camus
Elements of a Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"Like many others of my generation, I first read Camus in high school. I carried him in my backpack while traveling across Europe, I carried him into (and out of) relationships, and I carried him into (and out of) difficult periods of my life. More recently, I have carried him into university classes...
Transgressions of Reading
Narrative Engagement as Exile and Return
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
It is often claimed that we know ourselves and the world through narratives. In this book, Robert D. Newman portrays narrative engagement as a process grounded in psychoanalytic theory to explain how readers (or listeners or viewers) manage to engage with specific narratives and derive from them a...
The Prince of Darkness
50 Years Reporting in Washington
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Long before Robert Novak became the center of a political firestorm in the Valerie Plame CIA leak scandal, he had established himself as one of the finest—and most controversial—political reporters in America. Now, in this sweeping, monumental memoir, Novak offers the first full account of his...
William James
In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2007
The definitive biography of the fascinating William James, whose life and writing put an indelible stamp on psychology, philosophy, teaching, and religion—on modernism itself.
Often cited as the “father of American psychology,” William James was an intellectual luminary who made significant...