Robert Kaiser: 18 books
Qualitative Experteninterviews
Konzeptionelle Grundlagen und praktische Durchführung
Language: German
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Das Lehrbuch richtet sich primär an Studierende in Bachelor- und Masterstudiengängen und bietet in knapper aber systematischer Form eine fundierte Handreichung für die Planung und Durchführung qualitativer Experteninterviews in der Politikwissenschaft. Es vermittelt einen methodisch fundierten...
"R.F.K. Must Die!"
Chasing the Mystery of the Robert Kennedy Assassination
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
The definitive text on the mystery of R.F.K.’s assassination by a reporter who “got inside this story . . . with his impressive grasp of all the loose ends” (Kirkus Reviews).
On the night of June 4, 1968, Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in a steamy pantry of the Los...
Act of Congress
How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A Washington Post Notable Book
An eye-opening account of how Congress today really works—and how it doesn’t— Act of Congress focuses on two of the major players behind the sweeping financial reform bill enacted in response to the Great Crash of 2008: colorful, wisecracking congressman...
Inside the Jesuits
How Pope Francis Is Changing the Church and the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope, has captured our attention by stepping away from the papal throne, unafraid to give impromptu interviews, decentralize church governance, or explore new horizons for the greater good of the people of God. His actions and words suggest that he is here not to dominate...
A Church in Search of Itself
Benedict XVI and the Battle for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A deeply informed look at the intensifying struggle over the future of the Catholic Church.
Robert Blair Kaiser examines the most important and divisive issues confronting the Church: the sex abuse scandal, a shortage of priests due to the insistence upon celibacy, the ban on contraception,...
by Robert G. Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
With a New Foreword
In So Damn Much Money, veteran Washington Post editor and correspondent Robert Kaiser gives a detailed account of how the boom in political lobbying since the 1970s has shaped American politics by empowering special interests, undermining effective legislation, and discouraging...
by Robert Blair Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Reporter Don Bolles rode into town and took dead aim at the Mafia. But the Phoenix establishment, giddy in its new prosperity, didn't want to listen to him, and, in the end, applauded and rewarded the men who covered up for his killers. A dark tale out of sun-drenched Arizona.
The News About the News
American Journalism in Peril
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Freedom of the press is a primary American value. Good journalism builds communities, arms citizens with important information, and serves as a public watchdog for civic, national, and global issues. But what happens when the news turns its back on its public role?
Leonard Downie Jr., executive...
by Robert Blair Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
How the people of God, not the pope, changed the Catholic Church's teaching on birth control. A history of the papal birth control commission of the 1960s and its aftermath narrated by a man who was there, Time magazine's correspondent at Vatican II.
by Robert G. Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The digital revolution has forever changed American journalism, and not for the better. Robert Kaiser, former managing editor of The Washington Post, writes in his new Brookings Essay that the changing media landscape is not only a threat to traditional news, but to the future of democracy. A news...
Fear Your Strengths
What You Are Best at Could Be Your Biggest Problem
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Once you’ve discovered your strengths, you need to discover something else: your strengths can work against you. Many leaders know this on some intuitive level, and they see it in others. But they don’t see it as clearly in themselves. Mainly, they think of leadership development as working on...
Building on the Foundations of Evangelical Theology
Essays in Honor of John S. Feinberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
John Feinberg is one of the premier evangelical scholars of the last thirty years. His work has influenced countless pastors, scholars, ethicists, and theologians.
Featuring essays by a host of colleagues and former students, such as Graham A. Cole, Bruce A. Ware, Walter C. Kaiser Jr., Kevin...
by Robert Blair Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Headstrong Jessica Burns inherits the sorry, ever-losing New York Jets and vows (against the advice of her father, a winning high school coach in Colorado) to bring more fun and less violence to the NFL. She does this despite the opposition of the other owners, and the disbelief of most of the media,...
by Robert Blair Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
Three liberation theologians kidnap Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony, take him off in his own helicopter and put him on trial for his crimes before an international television audience. Convicted and sentenced to become a Christian, he undergoes a conversion and works to make a clerical Church into...
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