Robert R : 637 books
by Dennis R. Shealy, Robert Louis Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
A retelling of the beloved classic for the youngest readers, in honor of the 75th anniversary of Little Golden Books!
Young Jim Hawkins was aboard a ship on a grand adventure—searching for pirate treasure!
So begins this simple but lively retelling of one of the greatest books in children’s...
Invitational Education and Practice in Higher Education
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This edited collection examines the means to create, maintain, and enhance welcoming colleges and universities in the United States and abroad with personal accounts, case studies, models, programs, and other frameworks written by practitioners in higher education. The contributors explain how they...
Ecotheology and Nonhuman Ethics in Society
A Community of Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This book promotes Christian ecology and animal ethics from the perspectives of the Bible, science, and the Judeo-Christian tradition. In an age of climate change, how do we protect species and individual animals? Does it matter how we treat bugs? How does understanding the Trinity and Christ's self-emptying...
Anatomy of a Lawsuit
What Every Education Leader Should Know About Legal Actions
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2005
This indispensable text provides educators with the information they need to understand, be prepared for, and respond to civil litigation.
The Religion and Science Debate
Why Does It Continue?
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Eighty-one years after America witnessed the Scopes trial over the teaching of evolution in public schools, the debate between science and religion continues. In this book scholars from a variety of disciplines—sociology, history, science, and theology—provide new insights into the contemporary...
Bird Conservation
Evidence for the effects of interventions
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book brings together scientific evidence and experience relevant to the practical conservation of wild birds. The authors worked with an international group of bird experts and conservationists to develop a global list of interventions that could benefit wild birds. For each intervention, the book...
by Pamela A. Smith, Amy Maida Wadsworth, William McMahon
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Bringing together international academics and professionals who are actively researching and working in the field, this pioneering scholarly volume covers the issues faced by individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD) in mid and later life.
Including a range of personal, academic and clinical...
Breakthrough!
100 Astronomical Images That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
This unique volume by two renowned astrophotographers unveils the science and history behind 100 of the most significant astronomical images of all time. The authors have carefully selected their list of images from across time and technology to bring to the reader the most relevant photographic images...
Construction Specifications Writing
Principles and Procedures
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Updated edition of the comprehensive rulebook to the specifier's craft
With this latest update, Construction Specifications Writing, Sixth Edition continues to claim distinction as the foremost text on construction specifications. This mainstay in the field offers comprehensive, practical,...
Postphenomenological Methodologies
New Ways in Mediating Techno-Human Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
This edited volume is the first publication to tackle the issue of researching human-technology relations from a methodological postphenomenological perspective. While the ‘traditional’ phenomenology of the 20th century, with figures like Husserl, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, provided valuable...
Rights, Risk and Restraint-Free Care of Older People
Person-Centred Approaches in Health and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The restraint of older people is a pressing issue for health and social care practice. This book provides health and social care professionals with an authoritative reading resource on the ethics and use of restraint.
The book provides an overview of the different forms of restraint, the conditions...
by Wanghua Wu, Robert Bogdan Staszewski, John R. Long
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
This book describes the digitally intensive time-domain architectures and techniques applied to millimeter-wave frequency synthesis, with the objective of improving performance and reducing the cost of implementation. Coverage includes system architecture, system level modeling, critical building...
From We to Me
Embracing Life Again After the Death or Divorce of a Spouse
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
While we don't like to think about it, marriages eventually do come to an end, either with the death of a spouse or tragically through divorce. This "end" of a relationship leaves the other partner alone and facing an uncertain future. Whether widowed or divorced, the feeling and experience...
Lima Barreto
New Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
This edited volume is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from various Brazilian literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists analyzing the work of 19th- and 20th-century Afro-Brazilian writer Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto. This is the first collection to present a cohesive analysis...