Robert M : 1083 books
by Robert M. Vogel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Elevator Systems Of The Eiffel Tower, 1889 by Robert M. Vogel.
Nature, Politics, and the Arts
Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in conversation with Woodring’s teachings on literature and visual art and his commentaries on American...
The Three-Minute Outdoorsman
Wild Science from Magnetic Deer to Mumbling Carp
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
There are days when, if we hunt or fish or watch birds, we just want to be alone with our thoughts. Other times, however, contemplating the great outdoors that contains so many unknowns, we may wish to learn about moaning moose . . . or mumbling carp . . . or magnetic deer. And this is where Robert M....
by Robert M. Pennoyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Robert M. Pennoyer was born into a storied family - his maternal grandfather was the legendary J. P. Morgan. His irresistible memoir traces his sheltered childhood on the Gold Coast of Long Island; an adolescence overshadowed by the gathering clouds of World War II; and a young adulthood that survived...
Kenya's Independence Constitution
Constitution-Making and End of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Kenya's Independence Constitution: Constitution-Making and End of Empire, by Robert M. Maxon, is a narrative of the evolution of the constitution that was put into effect as Kenya's history as a colonial possession came to an end. It details the attempts of the colony's political elite and the British...
Virtually Sacred
Myth and Meaning in World of Warcraft and Second Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Millions of users have taken up residence in virtual worlds, and in those worlds they find opportunities to revisit and rewrite their religious lives. Robert M. Geraci argues that virtual worlds and video games have become a locus for the satisfaction of religious needs, providing many users with...
by Robert M. Haralick
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1995
This book-length meditation on the Hebrew alphabet offers profound insights into many important ideas found in Jewish thought.
From time immemorial, the Hebrew alphabet has been considered to be more than a collection of individual letters. Indeed, the essence of each letter of the Hebrew alphabet...
by Robert M. Dunkerly
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
On October 7, 1780, American Patriot and Loyalist soldiers battled each other at Kings Mountain, near the border of North and South Carolina. With over one hundred eyewitness accounts, this collection of participant statements from men of both sides includes letters and statements in their original form--the...
The Forgotten Kin
Aunts and Uncles
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Although much is written about contemporary families, the focus is typically limited to marriage and parenting. In this path-breaking assessment of families sociologist Robert M. Milardo demonstrates how aunts and uncles contribute to the daily lives of parents and their children. Aunts and uncles...
The Wehrmacht's Last Stand
The German Campaigns of 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. Three quarters of a century later, the question persists: What kept the German army going in an increasingly hopeless situation? Where some historians have found explanations in the power of Hitler or the role of ideology, Robert M. Citino,...
The Beginnings of Mesoamerican Civilization
Inter-Regional Interaction and the Olmec
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009
Mesoamerica is one of several cradles of civilization in the world. In this book, Robert M. Rosenswig proposes that we understand Early Formative Mesoamerica as an archipelago of complex societies that interacted with one another over long distances and that were separated by less sedentary peoples....
Eutaw Springs
The Final Battle of the American Revolution's Southern Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The Battle of Eutaw Springs took place on September 8, 1781, and was among the last in the War of Independence. It was brutal in its combat and reprisals, with Continental and Whig militia fighting British regulars and Loyalist regiments. Although its outcome was seemingly inconclusive, the battle,...
by Robert M. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
**Intelligence Collection by Robert M. Clark—**one of the foremost authorities in the field—offers systematic and analytic coverage of the “how and why” of intelligence collection across its three major stages: the front end (planning), collection, and the back end (processing, exploitation,...
by Robert M. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Technical collection represents the largest asymmetric edge that technologically advanced countries such as the United States and its allies have in the intelligence business. Intelligence veteran Robert M. Clark’s new book offers a succinct, logically organized, and well written overview of technical...