Robert L : 1109 books
The Good Caregiver
A One-of-a-Kind Compassionate Resource for Anyone Caring for an Aging Loved One
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
A survival guide with an insider's perspective, for the millions of unprepared caregivers of aging loved ones.
As Americans are living longer, an unprecedented number of people now require long-term care during their last years. More than 15 million adult children now care for their elderly...
Egypt
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
This is a sweeping, colorful, and concise narrative history of Egypt from the beginning of human settlement in the Nile River valley 5000 years ago to the present day. Accessible, authoritative, and richly illustrated, this is an ideal introduction and guide to Egypt's long, brilliant, and complex...
The Gospel According to Dogs
What Our Four-Legged Saints Can Teach Us
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Bestselling author of The Gospel According to Peanuts Robert Short reveals what man's best friend can teach us about life. Dogs do much more than just keep us company and give us love and attention—they are models for how we can live better lives as humans. From humility and obedience to singleness...
by Robert L. Kissell
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The Science of Algorithmic Trading and Portfolio Management, with its emphasis on algorithmic trading processes and current trading models, sits apart from others of its kind. Robert Kissell, the first author to discuss algorithmic trading across the various asset classes, provides key insights into...
by Robert L. Tsai
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Robert Tsai's history invites readers into the circle of defiant groups who refused to accept the Constitution's definition of who "We the People" are and how their authority should be exercised. It is the story of America as told by dissenters: squatters, Native Americans, abolitionists, socialists, internationalists, and racial nationalists.
by Robert L. Heilbroner
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1985
In The Worldly Philosophers, Robert Heilbroner set out to describe what the great economists thought would happen to the system of capitalism. In later books. Professor Heilbroner projected his own views about the future of the capitalist system. Now he asks a still more demanding question: What is...
by Robert L. Heilbroner
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 1989
"[These essays] are rich in argument, in clear and provocative presentation of complicated issues, and are often delightfully quotable. Behind the Veil of Economics makes instructive, disturbing, and lively reading." —Elizabeth Wolgast, New York Times Book Review
What lies behind...
by Robert L. Heilbroner
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1994
"It is my hope that some grasp of what the twenty-first century holds in store for capitalism may enable us to avoid at least some of the pain we might otherwise have to endure," writes the eminent economist Robert Heilbroner in this important book on the world's economic future.
Although...
The ROV Manual
A User Guide for Observation Class Remotely Operated Vehicles
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The ROV Manual: A User Guide for Observation-Class Remotely Operated Vehicles is the first manual to provide a basic ""How To"" for using small observation-class ROVs for surveying, inspection and research procedures. It serves as a user guide that offers complete training and...
European Aesthetics
A Critical Introduction from Kant to Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In this seminal study, Robert Wicks provides a sweeping survey of European Aesthetics over the last two hundred years. Presenting the theories of sixteen important continental thinkers including Kant, Nietzsche, Freud, and Derrida, this the only comprehensive study of the evolution of continental thought...
by Anna Mae Burke, Robert L. Burke
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
SMALL TOWN BOY is the story of growing up in the small towns of Bayfi eld, WI and Ovid, Michigan in the 1930s and 1940s, told through a series of stories about the towns and their people, as lived by Robert, and told to Anna Mae.
by Robert L. Peurifoy, Clifford J. Schexnayder, Robert Schmitt
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
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Fully updated coverage of construction planning techniques and equipment technology
Construction...
What Einstein Didn't Know
Scientific Answers to Everyday Questions
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Discover how cricket chirps can tell us the temperature, why you can't unburn a match, why ice floats, and a host of mysteries of modern living — including some riddles that maybe even Einstein couldn't solve. From the simple (How does soap know what's dirt? How do magnets work? Why do batteries...
Breathe Well, Be Well
A Program to Relieve Stress, Anxiety, Asthma, Hypertension, Migraine, and Other Disorders for Better Health
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
A Program to Relieve Stress, Anxiety, Asthma, Hypertension, Migraine, and Other Disorders for Better Health
Take a deep abdominal breath. That's the prescription from leading stress and anxiety treatment expert Robert Fried. This straightforward self-improvement guide shows you how to take...