Robert W : 999 books
Rethinking America's Highways
A 21st-Century Vision for Better Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, their exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and deterioration are outcomes of the way America provides...
by Robert W. Rieber, Robert J. Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
This book demonstrates how social distress or anxiety is reflected, modified, and evolves through the medium of the motion picture. Tracing cinema from its earliest forms, the authors show how film is a perfect medium for generating and projecting dreams, fantasies, and nightmares, on the individual...
Urban Spaces
Planning and Struggles for Land and Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
The control and utilization of urban spaces remains a highly contested issue. Much of the debate centers on issues of economic development versus the maintenance and support of already existing communities. As a number of urban areas are in the throes of gentrification and economic development projects,...
The Self Under Siege
A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
How much of our identity or 'self' is truly representative of our own wants, needs, and goals in life and how much does it reflect the desires and priorities of someone else? Are we following our own destiny or are we unconsciously repeating the lives of our parents, living according to their values,...
by Robert W. Widell, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Birmingham, Alabama looms large in the history of the twentieth-century black freedom struggle, but to date historians have mostly neglected the years after 1963. Here, author Robert Widell explores the evolution of Birmingham black activism into the 1970s, providing a valuable local perspective on the "long" black freedom struggle.
Pro Basketball's All-Time All-Stars
Across the Eras
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The history of the NBA has been filled with superstars, names known to fans and non-fans alike. But while comparisons between athletes who competed against each other face-to-face is a common occurrence in the sports world, it is not quite as easy to compare players from different eras. How would...
Civil Islam
Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2011
Civil Islam tells the story of Islam and democratization in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation. Challenging stereotypes of Islam as antagonistic to democracy, this study of courage and reformation in the face of state terror suggests possibilities for democracy in the Muslim world and beyond.
Democratic...
by Ira C. Lupu, Robert W. Tuttle
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
In this book Ira Lupu and Robert Tuttle break through the unproductive American debate over competing religious rights. They present an original theory that makes the secular character of the American government, rather than a set of individual rights, the centerpiece of religious liberty in the United...
Foundational Issues in Christian Education
An Introduction in Evangelical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
For almost twenty years, Foundational Issues in Christian Education has been a key text for many Christian education courses. Its perceptive analysis coupled with clear writing make it a resource without peer.
In the book, Christian education expert Robert Pazmiño guides readers through a...
The Free and Open Press
The Founding of American Democratic Press Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
The current, heated debates over hate speech and pornography were preceded by the equally contentious debates over the "free and open press" in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Thus far little scholarly attention has been focused on the development of the concept of political press...
Cognition
From Memory to Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
From memory to creativity—a complete and current presentation of the field of cognition
The process of cognition allows us to function in life; it translates inputs from the world so we can recognize the sound of the alarm clock, remember the day of the week, and decide which clothes to wear.
Cognition:...
Systematic Theology
Volume 2: The Works of God
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 1999
Systematic Theology is the capstone of Robert Jenson's long and distinguished career as a theologian, being a full-scale systematic/dogmatic theology in the classic format. This is the second and concluding volume of the work. Here, Jenson considers the works of God, examining such topics as the nature and role of the Church, and God's works of creation.
Power without Force
The Political Capacity of Nation-States
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Decolonization after World War II led to a significant global increase in the number of states. Each new nation was born with high expectations. But these hopes were soon eroded by the ineffectiveness and capriciousness of many of the new regimes. In many states military juntas have become the order...
Lady Grayl
Owl With a Mission
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1994
"This is the story of a man and his owl. But what a man and what an owl! The owl is one of our planet's most beautiful and elusive beings, an enchanting spook, a feathered spirit from some ancient world.
"The man is Robert Nero, his name synonymous with that of the Great Gray Owl,...