Robert Marks: 16 books

Book cover of Famous Myths and Legends
by ROBERT MARKS
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2018

This publication discusses eight of the most famous myths and legends. Anaconda, Demonic Possession and Exorcisms, The Loch Ness Monster, Com-Rit, the serpent in Viet Nam, Yeti the Abominal Snowman, The Salie House, Sasquatch/Big Foot, and the Fountain of Youth.
Book cover of Non-Renewable Resources and Disequilibrium Macrodynamics
by Robert Marks
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017

This study, first published in 1979, continues by examining the question of whether a competitive economy can efficiently allocate a stock of non-renewable natural resources through time. Long-run analyses of competitive economies with such resources have concluded that, without perfect foresight...
Book cover of Fantastic Stories Presents the Imagination (Stories of Science and Fantasy) Super Pack
by Philip K. Dick, Milton Lesser, Edmond Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016

Imagination' was one of the most successful science fiction magazines of its time. While many of it contemporaries tried to push literary boundaries, 'Imagination' focused on adventure and space opera, assuring its financial success. Here are some of the finest stories ever to appear in its pages....
Book cover of The Origins of the Modern World

The Origins of the Modern World

A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century

by Robert B. Marks
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the “rise of the West” is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa,...
Book cover of Fantastic Stories Presents the Worlds of If Super Pack #2
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., R. A. Lafferty
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016

Worlds of If' was a three-time winner of the Hugo Award for best science fiction magazine. 'Worlds of If' discovered many talented writers who would go on to dominate genre fiction. This is the second in our 'Worlds of If' series, with even more memorable stories from its tremendous run. '2BR02B'...
Book cover of China

China

An Environmental History

by Robert B. Marks
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017

This deeply informed and clearly written text provides a comprehensive and comprehensible history of China from prehistory to the present. Now updated to include recent political events and scientific research, the book focuses on the interaction of humans and their environment. Tracing changes in...
Book cover of The Origins of the Modern World

The Origins of the Modern World

A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century

by Robert B. Marks
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2019

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the “rise of the West” is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa,...
Book cover of Worlds of If Super Pack #3
by James McKimmey, Jr., H. B. Fyfe
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017

Worlds of If was a three time winner of the Hugo Award for best science fiction magazine. Worlds of If discovered many talented writers who would go on to dominate genre fiction. This is the third in our Worlds of If series with even more memorable stories from its tremendous run. ‘The Yillian Way’...
Book cover of Garwulf's Corner: An Odyssey into Diablo and the World Beyond the Video Game
by Robert B. Marks
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015

At the dawn of the 21st Century, the video game industry experienced a period of wild creativity, fighting for recognition as an art form while making the transformation into a media juggernaut. And as it did, Garwulf’s Corner was there, watching and commentating.One of the earliest, if not...
Book cover of Funny Business

Funny Business

Management Unmasked

by Rodney Marks, Benjamin Marks, Robert Spillane
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018

Funny Business: management unmasked is an exposé of management as it is practiced in business, government and the non-profit sector. Keywords are explained through humour, making them better understood than a library of management textbooks. Management theories and applications are...
Book cover of Radicalism, Revolution, and Reform in Modern China

Radicalism, Revolution, and Reform in Modern China

Essays in Honor of Maurice Meisner

by Catherine Lynch, Robert B. Marks, Paul G. Pickowicz
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011

This volume illuminates the relationship of China's radical past to its reformist present as China makes a way forward through very differently conceived and contested visions of the future. In the context of early twenty-first century problems and the failures of global capitalism, is China's history...
Book cover of Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics
by Robert J Marks II, William A Dembski, Winston Ewert
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017

Science has made great strides in modeling space, time, mass and energy. Yet little attention has been paid to the precise representation of the information ubiquitous in nature. Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics fuses results from complexity modeling and information theory that allow...
Book cover of Middle Market M & A

Middle Market M & A

Handbook for Investment Banking and Business Consulting

by Kenneth H. Marks, Robert T. Slee, Christian W. Blees
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012

In-depth coverage in a single handbook of the middle market based on the body of knowledge of the Certified M&A Advisor credential program M&A advisors have an unprecedented opportunity in the middle market with the generational transfer of wealth and capital being deployed by private...
Book cover of Immigrant Children

Immigrant Children

Change, Adaptation, and Cultural Transformation

by Susan S. Chuang, Michele Adams, Lisa Baumwell
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011

Over the past several decades, the demographic populations of many countries such as Canada as well as the United States have greatly transformed. Most striking is the influx of recent immigrant families into North America. As children lead the way for a 'new' North America, this group of children...
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