Robert M : 1083 books
Medical Murder
Disturbing cases of doctors who kill
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
In January 2000, world-wide headlines announced that Dr Harold Shipman, an English GP, had been found guilty of murdering fifteen of his patients. Before the trial, many assumed Shipman was an over-zealous doctor accused of going too far in providing comfort to dying elderly patients. This was not...
The Wehrmacht Retreats
Fighting a Lost War, 1943
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Arthur Goodzeit Award
Throughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and the demands of twentieth-century industrialized warfare. In his new study, prizewinning author...
Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm
The Evolution of Operational Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
**Paul Birdsall Prize
Society for Military History book Award**
When Germany launched its blitzkrieg invasion of France in 1940, it forever changed the way the world waged war. Although the Wehrmacht ultimately succumbed to superior Allied firepower in a two-front war, its stunning operational...
Hippocratic, Religious, and Secular Medical Ethics
The Points of Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Where should physicians get their ethics? Professional codes such as the Hippocratic Oath claim moral authority for those in a particular field, yet according to medical ethicist Robert Veatch, these codes have little or nothing to do with how members of a guild should understand morality or make ethical...
America's Disaster Culture
The Production of Natural Disasters in Literature and Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Are we inside the era of disasters or are we merely inundated by mediated accounts of events categorized as catastrophic? America's Disaster Culture offers answers to this question and a critical theory surrounding the culture of "natural†? disasters in American consumerism, literature, media,...
The Sexless Marriage Fix
Rescuing a Sexless Marriage and Making It All It Can Be Using This Empowering Integrative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
The Sexless Marriage Fix, by doctors Robert Fleisher and Roberta Foss-Morgan, is the book that gets everyone talking about a problem no one is talking about: sexless marriage. Unfortunately, it’s an intimate problem that is nearing epidemic proportions. But what many don’t realize is that there...
A Sentimental Education for the Working Man
The Mexico City Penny Press, 1900-1910
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
In A Sentimental Education for the Working Man Robert Buffington reconstructs the complex, shifting, and contradictory ideas about working-class masculinity in early twentieth-century Mexico City. He argues that from 1900 to 1910, the capital’s satirical penny press provided working-class readers...
The Origin of Heresy
A History of Discourse in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Heresy is a central concept in the formation of Orthodox Christianity. Where does this notion come from? This book traces the construction of the idea of ‘heresy’ in the rhetoric of ideological disagreements in Second Temple Jewish and early Christian texts and in the development of the polemical...
From Victim to Victor
A Story of Failures and Triumphs of a God-Mixed Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
This is a true story of how God can bring different lives together to extend His Kingdom. It also depicts how the negative and tragic events of our lives can actually become points of victory and work out for the good for those who love Jesus and try to follow His guidelines. Hopefully, those reading...
Peaceful Resistance
Advancing Human Rights and Democratic Freedoms
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
An innovative study that examines how peaceful, domestic tactics by individual human rights activists and organizational activists, with public support, can force an authoritarian regime to make key concessions. Robert Press explores the creation and impact of a culture of resistance. He examines...
by Robert M. Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Robert Schwartz examines the French government's attempts to suppress mendicity from the reign of Louis XIV to the Revolution. His study provides a rich account of the evolution of poverty, the varied and shifting attitudes toward the delinquent poor, and the government's efforts to control mendicity...
by Michael A. Grippi, Jack A. Elias, Jay A. Fishman
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Turn to the field's definitive text for a thorough understanding of the clinical and scientific aspects of pulmonary medicine
Since 1980, Fishman's Pulmonary Diseases and Disorders has delivered unparalleled coverage of pulmonary medicine and the underlying basic and applied science upon which clinical...
Transplantation Ethics
, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Although the history of organ transplant has its roots in ancient Christian mythology, it is only in the past fifty years that body parts from a dead person have successfully been procured and transplanted into a living person. After fourteen years, the three main issues that Robert Veatch first outlined...
Disease, Diagnoses, and Dollars
Facing the Ever-Expanding Market for Medical Care
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Here’s a conundrum: the U.S. health care system is the largest sector in the biggest economy in the world, and the US spends significantly more per capita on health care than any other country. Yet it ranks last among comparison nations on the major health indicators. Robert Kaplan attempts to tackle...