Robert M : 1083 books

Book cover of Beyond the Rainbow Promise

Beyond the Rainbow Promise

Shattered Dreams. Shifting Realities. Broken Hearts. an Inspiring Journey Through the Storms of Life.

by Robert M. Ottman
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

The storms of life, they are yours and they are mine. These storms can seemingly take on a life all of their own, controlling the minute to minute that then become our lives. They bring about outcomes we dont want, leaving chaos and pain in their wake. What happens to the human spirit when catastrophe...
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Simple Sabotage

A Modern Field Manual for Detecting and Rooting Out Everyday Behaviors That Undermine Your Workplace

by Cary Greene, Bob Frisch, Robert M. Galford
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015

Inspired by the Simple Sabotage Field Manual released by the Office of Strategic Services in 1944 to train European resistors, this is the essential handbook to help stamp out unintentional sabotage in any working group, from major corporations to volunteer PTA committees. In 1944, the Office...
Book cover of Die Gescannten
by Robert M. Sonntag
Language: German
Release Date: February 27, 2019

Ein hochbrisanter Near-Future-Thriller2048. Die Menschen leben in einer hochdigitalisierten und vernetzten Stadt. Als der 15-jährige Jaro dort ankommt, ist er völlig fasziniert. Doch das alles hat seinen Preis: Der Konzern Ultranetz kontrolliert jeden bis in seine geheimsten Gedanken hinein. Nur...
Book cover of Die Scanner
by Robert M. Sonntag
Language: German
Release Date: March 7, 2013

Google war gestern – und was wird morgen sein?Die Welt im Jahr 2035: Gedruckte Bücher, Zeitungen, Zeitschriften gibt es nicht mehr. Für Rob kein großes Problem. Er kennt es nicht anders. Er ist in einer vernetzten Welt aufgewachsen und arbeitet für einen Megakonzern, der jedes Druckerzeugnis,...
Book cover of Designing with Geosynthetics - 6Th Edition Vol. 1
by Robert M. Koerner
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012

Following the structure of previous editions, Volume 1 of this Sixth Edition proceeds through four individual chapters on geosynthetics, geotextiles, geogrids and geonets. Volume 2 continues with geomembranes, geosynthetic clay liners, geofoam and geocomposites. The two volumes must accompany one...
Book cover of Psychophysiological Recording
by Robert M. Stern;William J. Ray;Karen S. Quigley
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2000

This is a thorough revision of a successful introductory text on psychophysiological recording. The authors include information on the most up-to-date equipment used today to do brain scanning and discuss other equipment not available in 1980. A new chapter on signal processing and analysis has been added and discussions cover nonlinear systems as well as cognitive psychophysiology.
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Science Matters

Achieving Scientific Literacy

by Robert M. Hazen, James Trefil
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009

Knowledge of the basic ideas and principles of science is fundamental to cultural literacy. But most books on science are often too obscure or too specialized to do the general reader much good. Science Matters is a rare exception-a science book for the general reader that is informative enough...
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Reel Time

Movie Exhibitors and Movie Audiences in Prairie Canada, 1896 to 1986

by Robert M. Seiler, Tamara P. Seiler
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013

In this authoritative work, Seiler and Seiler argues that the establishment and development of moviegoing and movie exhibition in Prairie Canada is best understood in the context of changing late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century social, economic, and technological developments. From...
Book cover of A Life Wild and Perilous

A Life Wild and Perilous

Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific

by Robert M. Utley
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

Early in the nineteenth century, the mountain men emerged as a small but distinctive group whose knowledge and experience of the trans-Mississippi West extended the national consciousness to continental dimensions. Though Lewis and Clark blazed a narrow corridor of geographical reality, the West remained...
Book cover of The Last Days of the Sioux Nation
by Robert M. Utley
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2004

This fascinating account tells what the Sioux were like when they first came to their reservation and how their reaction to the new system eventually led to the last confrontation between the Army and the Sioux at the Battle of Wounded Knee Creek. A classic work, it is now available with a new preface...
Book cover of Black ButterFly
by Robert M. Drake
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015

The Black Butterfly is a symbol of transformation and rebirth after death. Drake wrote this book for those who have lost someone in death and in life. This book is a collection of memories and experiences Drake lived after the death of one of his brothers. He promised he would write him a few words after...
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The Guide to Walden Pond

An Exploration of the History, Nature, Landscape, and Literature of One of America's Most Iconic Places

by Robert M. Thorson
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018

An exploration of the history, nature, landscape, and literature of one of America’s most iconic places This is the first guidebook to Henry David Thoreau’s most defining place, visited by half a million people each year and widely known as the fountainhead of America's environmental consciousness. Using...
Book cover of 行為:暴力、競爭、利他,人類行為背後的生物學

行為:暴力、競爭、利他,人類行為背後的生物學

BEHAVE:THE BIOLOGY OF HUMANS AT OUR BEST AND WORST

by 羅伯.薩波斯基 ROBERT M. SAPOLSKY
Language: Chinese
Release Date: April 3, 2019

**  關於人類的行為,前所未有的完整分析**   「要說《行為》是我曾讀過最棒的非虛構作品,也一點都不誇張。」──大衛.巴瑞許(David P. Barash),《華爾街日報》   這本書只有研究人類行為的世界級科學家薩伯斯基寫得出來,《行為》一書回答了人類最根本的問題:我們的行為從何而來?      上冊中,薩波斯基──神經科學家與靈長類動物學家──穿梭在數種學科之間,揭露我們的一舉一動背後的故事。從不同角度剖析人類行為,沒有一塊石頭忘了翻面,涵蓋從基本生物學到內分泌,到神經科學、心理學、社會學、演化理論等等的每一件事。他說故事的功力有目共睹,且深具內在邏輯。透過追溯一個行為發生前的不同時間段與系統,對目標多次出擊。   他首先檢視在精準時刻之內,究竟是什麼造就了人類行為,然後再一個階段一個階段往前追溯,最終回溯到我們這個物種更深的文化、歷史和基因遺傳。   於是,他以一秒之內的神經科學解釋開始著手,探討在行為發生一秒前大腦發生了什麼事?接著往後退一步,看到再前一個時刻,也就是兩秒到一分鐘之前,究竟我們看到、聽到及聞到什麼,促發了神經的反應而產生了行為?接著,又進一步回溯幾小時到幾天前,探討那些促使神經系統做出反應的荷爾蒙如何運作?在此,他擴大了我們的視野,讓我們思考神經生物學、內分泌學,以及我們環境給予我們刺激的感官世界,嘗試解釋發生了什麼事情。   薩伯斯基繼續推進,嘗試找出哪些環境因素會影響一個人的大腦,因此追溯到我們的青少年與童年時期、胎內環境,甚至追溯到精卵結合的那刻。最終,他試著解釋比起個人更大的種種影響因素,即文化如何形塑群體意識,而哪些生態因素又形塑文化,以此類推,最終回溯到幾千年甚至幾百萬年前,造成我們這物種演化的種種因素。透過匯總所有因素,瞭解人類的行為如何被創造出來。   ✽✽✽   下冊中,薩伯斯基著手探討人類最棘手的問題──分我群和他群、階層制度、從眾與服從、合作與競爭、同理心與慈悲心、自由意志的行使、人們對於隱喻和真實的混淆、戰爭與和平等等,從我們靈長類動物的生物起源,到人類獨特的行為模式,做了深刻、揪心但又不失幽默的分析。   尤其,我們的大腦會快速把人分成我群和他群,而且這種分類往往基於微小的差異、隨機的標準,這種歷程會自動化發生在我們的潛意識中,之後再透過認知來合理化。而這會影響我們的行為。讓我們分為我群之人做出最好的行為,卻對被分為他群的人做出糟糕的行為。   人類歷史上的戰爭、大屠殺與迫害等等,幾乎都源自於此。然而,這種區分異己的心理要如何治癒呢?生物學可以給我們什麼解方呢?作者告訴我們,儘管人類彼此傷害的行為普世皆然,但也非無可避免,透過大腦科學提供的洞見,我們可以避免讓傷害再次發生。薩伯斯基獨特的幽默,將本書寫的充滿智慧與人情味。長達近千頁的書,從頭到尾都趣味盎然,且例證豐富,無論各個領域的讀者都能從中有所收穫。 **  重點節錄:   針對人類暴力、攻擊和競爭行為,分析得最好的一本書**   ・你不可能在尚未理解恐懼(杏仁核和恐懼及攻擊有關)時,就理解攻擊行為。     ・基因的重點不是無可避免的命運,而是潛力和易受影響的程度。基因無法單獨決定任何事情。基因與環境的交互作用無所不在。比起改變基因本身,改變環境對基因的調控作用,更能產生重大影響。   ・我們在潛意識中把世界分成我群和他群,並偏好我群。我們很容易被操弄,在幾秒之內,就能決定誰是我群、誰是他群。   ・說生物系統運作得「很好」是價值中立的評估;完成美好或惡劣的事情都需要紀律、努力與意志力。「做正確的事」永遠都視脈絡而定。   ・人類發明了社經地位,等於創造出其他具階層的靈長類動物前所未見的從屬形式。   ・若有人相信大家做出恐怖又傷害的事也沒關係,這不是好事。這世界的痛苦有更大一部分來自有些人雖然反對恐怖的行為,卻在一些特殊情況時,讓自己成為例外。通往地獄的道路由合理化鋪成。   ・不管是高深莫測的道德推理能力,或者能感受到強烈的同理心,都不代表能夠真正做出困難、勇敢又富有慈悲心的事情。   ・人類願意為了象徵性的神聖價值而殺戮或被殺。透過協商,可以維持與他群的和平;理解和尊重他們神聖價值的強度有助於維持長久的和平。   ・我們最糟的行為、我們譴責與懲罰的行為,是生物機制的產物。但別忘了,同樣的道理也適用於我們最好的行為。   ・有些人的作為提供了驚人的、展現最佳人性的例子,而那些人和我們其他人其實沒有多大的差異。 得獎紀錄   ★...
Book cover of Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis
by Robert M. Edsel
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013

**From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Monuments Men "An astonishing account of a little-known American effort to save Italy's…art during World War II."—Tom Brokaw** When Hitler’s armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind’s...
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