Robert L : 1109 books
We'll Always Have the Movies
American Cinema during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2006
We'll Always Have the Movies explores how movies made in Hollywood during World War II were vehicles for helping Americans understand the war. Far from being simplistic, flag-waving propaganda designed to evoke emotional reactions, these films offered audiences narrative structures that formed a foundation...
Speaking Freely
My Life in Publishing and Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
What do Dr. Seuss, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Andrei Sakharov, and James Michener have in common? They were all published by Bob Bernstein during his twenty-five-year run as president of Random House, before he brought the dissidents Liu Binyan, Jacobo Timerman, Natan Sharansky, and Václav...
Singing Jeremiah
Music and Meaning in Holy Week
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
A defining moment in Catholic life in early modern Europe, Holy Week brought together the faithful to commemorate the passion, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. In this study of ritual and music, Robert L. Kendrick investigates the impact of the music used during the Paschal Triduum on...
by Robert L. Willett
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2003
In July 1918, as the carnage of World War I continued, President Woodrow Wilson deployed U.S. troops to join other Allied forces in civil war-ravaged Russia. Ostensibly a mission to guard czarist military supplies and the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the true purpose of the Allied intervention was to help...
The Ghosts of Cannae
Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
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For millennia, Carthage’s triumph over Rome at Cannae in 216 B.C. has inspired reverence and awe. No general since has matched Hannibal’s most unexpected, innovative, and brutal military victory. Now Robert L. O’Connell, one of the most admired names in military history,...
Charles Dickens and 'Boz'
The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Dickens' rise to fame and his world-wide popularity were by no means inevitable. He started out with no clear career in mind, drifting in and out of the theatre, journalism and editing before finding unexpected success as a creative writer. Taking account of everything known about Dickens' apprentice...
Ellis Island Nation
Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Though debates over immigration have waxed and waned in the course of American history, the importance of immigrants to the nation's identity is imparted in civics classes, political discourse, and television and film. We are told that the United States is a "nation of immigrants," built...
by Robert L. Arend
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Mother paused, drew the butterfly to her lips and whispered some secret before continuing her story.“It was but a month ago,” she recollected. “I wakened to discover your father resting on the side of our bed reserved to him throughout our marriage. To be sure, I was uncertain of his identity...
by Robert L. Snow
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
On December 1, 1971, the bodies of Robert Gierse, James Barker, and Robert Hinson were found in their blood-spattered Indianapolis home. All three had reputations as prodigious womanizers, hard-drinking bar fighters, and unscrupulous businessmen--the kind of men with more enemies than friends.
When...
Voodoo Science:The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2000
In a time of dazzling scientific progress, how are we to separate genuine breakthroughs from the noisy gaggle of false claims? Touching on everything from Deepak Chopra's "quantum alternative to growing old," and "free energy" machines, to unwarranted hype surrounding the International...
by Robert L. Millet,
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
What answer may a Latter-day Saint make to accusations from those of other faiths that “Mormons aren’t Christians,” or “You think God is a man,” and “You worship a different Jesus”? Not only are these charges disconcerting, but the hostility with which they are frequently hurled is equally...
by Millet, Robert L.
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
Millions have heard about such current and former LDS practices as the Word of Wisdom and plural marriage, and many people know about the Mormon pioneers and even LDS athletes and entertainers. But what do they know about our doctrines? What does your neighbor or relative know about the LDS concept...
by Millet, Robert L.
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
The Atonement of Jesus Christ is and should be at the very center of all we teach. Everything else is peripheral. Everything else is either connected to this central, saving truth or it has no power to bless or change us. It is vital that we understand that through this singular act by our loving...
Steadfast and Immovable
Striving for Spiritual Maturity
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Robert L. Millet outlines those things that can contribute to or detract from our efforts to develop spiritual maturity. He examines the human condition and concedes that none of us can do it all. The book emphasizes that hope is found in Jesus Christ, whose atonement remedies all of our deficiencies-...