Robert D : 904 books
Cosmic Womb
The Seeding of Planet Earth
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Compelling evidence that life, intelligence, and evolution on Earth were seeded by comets and cosmic intelligence
• Explains how life first came from interstellar dust and comets and how later arrivals of cosmic dust and comets spurred evolution
• Explores the possibility that universal...
A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind
What Neuroscience Can and Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
What if our soundest, most reasonable judgments are beyond our control?
Despite 2500 years of contemplation by the world's greatest minds and the more recent phenomenal advances in basic neuroscience, neither neuroscientists nor philosophers have a decent understanding of what the mind is or...
Jammed Up
Bad Cops, Police Misconduct, and the New York City Police Department
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Drugs, bribes, falsifying evidence, unjustified force and kickbacks: there are many opportunities for cops to act like criminals. Jammed Up is the definitive study of the nature and causes of police misconduct. While police departments are notoriously protective of their own—especially personnel...
by Robert W. D. Ball
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
More Models - More Photos - More History
Robert Ball, the world's foremost authority on Mauser military rifles, continues to scour the continents in search of more details and models of this ubiquitous rifle. His years of research and expertise culminate in this definitive, full-color Mauser...
Calm Energy
How People Regulate Mood with Food and Exercise
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2001
Obesity is reaching alarming proportions. In this insightful new approach to understanding why this is happening, acclaimed mood scientist Robert Thayer offers a new appreciation of the real cause--emotional eating. But this is not just emotional eating as previously known; rather it is a new scientific...
Fields of Vision
Essays on the Travels of William Bartram
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2009
A classic work of history, ethnography, and botany, and an examination of the life and environs of the 18th-century south.
William Bartram was a naturalist, artist, and author of Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the ExtensiveTerritories...
Coping with Difficult People
The Proven-Effective Battle Plan That Has Helped Millions Deal with the Troublemakers in Their Lives at Home and at Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Bosses, friends, family members, they've made your life hell -- until now! Based on fourteen years of research and observation, Dr. Robert Bramson's proven-effective techniques are guaranteed to help you right the balance and take charge of your life. Learn how to:
Stand up to anyone -- without...
by Curtis L. Thompson, Matthew Drever, Erik Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
This volume is a continuation of our series exploring Saint Augustine’s influence on later thought, this time bringing the fifth century bishop into dialogue with 19th century philosopher, theologian, social critic, and originator of Existentialism, Soren Kierkegaard. The connections, contrasts,...
Nature, Politics, and the Arts
Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in conversation with Woodring’s teachings on literature and visual art and his commentaries on American...
Am I My Genes?
Confronting Fate and Family Secrets in the Age of Genetic Testing
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In the fifty years since DNA was discovered, we have seen extraordinary advances. For example, genetic testing has rapidly improved the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as Huntington's, cystic fibrosis, breast cancer, and Alzheimer's. But with this new knowledge comes difficult decisions for...
Black Nationalism in the New World
Reading the African-American and West Indian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2002
From nineteenth-century black nationalist writer Martin Delany through the rise of Jim Crow, the 1937 riots in Trinidad, and the achievement of Independence in the West Indies, up to the present era of globalization, Black Nationalism in the New World explores the paths taken by black nationalism...
Founding Fathers, Secret Societies
Freemasons, Illuminati, Rosicrucians, and the Decoding of the Great Seal
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2005
An exploration of the influence of secret societies on the formative documents and symbols of the United States
• Reveals the Founding Fathers’ spiritual vision for America as encoded in the Great Seal
• Traces the influence of the Iroquois League of Nations upon the Constitution
•...
Autism in the Family
Caring and Coping Together
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
How can parents provide the best support for their child with autism—and ensure that the whole family's needs are met? It's a question faced by every parent of a child on the autism spectrum, and this book answers it with keen insight, reassuring honesty, and practical guidance. A psychologist and...
The Goddess Sekhmet
Psycho-Spiritual Exercises of the Fifth Way
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Robert Masters presents the wisdom of ancient Egypt through the perspective of contemporary research in psychology and religious studies in his profound study of The Goddess Sekhmet: Psycho-Spiritual Exercises of the Fifth Way. The fifth way refers to the Egyptian theory that humans consist of five...