Robert W : 999 books
by Robert W. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
The period between 1775 and 1815 could be called the “critical period” of American foreign relations. At no time in American history was the existence of the republic in greater physical peril. Questions of foreign policy dominated American public life in a way unequalled until World War II. From...
Government by Dissent
Protest, Resistance, and Radical Democratic Thought in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
"The most thorough examination we have of how early Americans wrestled with what types of political dissent should be permitted, even promoted, in the new republic they were forming. Martin shows the modern relevance of their debates in ways that all will find valuable—even those who dissent...
by Robert W. Fieseler
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
An essential work of American civil rights history, Tinderbox mesmerizingly reconstructs the 1973 fire that devastated New Orleans’ subterranean gay community.
Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement....
by Robert W. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Love was a central theme of Ernest Hemingway’s major works. And although his passages on sexual love and on romantic love may be widely remembered and frequently quoted, says Robert W. Lewis in this scholarly and detailed consideration, Hemingway’s later work revealed his ultimate belief that brotherly...
Dollarocracy
How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Fresh from the first 10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy.
Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspective from decades...
Living in Mississippi
The Life and Times of Evans Harrington
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Robert W. Hamblin elevates Evans Harrington (1925-1997), as well as his remarkable achievements and writings, introducing his legacy to a new generation. Harrington continually found himself in conflict with the conservative, and often reactionary, institutions of his society--be they educational,...
The Natural Gas Revolution
At the Pivot of the World's Energy Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Robert W. Kolb reveals how new gas resources are transforming the global energy industry, redistributing economic and geopolitical power in stunning ways. Kolb’s The Natural Gas Revolution explains the new promise of natural gas to stimulate economies and enrich human life — and objectively assesses...
The Death and Life of American Journalism
The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
American journalism is collapsing as newspapers and magazines fail and scores of reporters are laid off across the country. Conventional wisdom says the Internet is to blame, but veteran journalists and media critics Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols disagree. The crisis of American journalism...
The Lakes of Pontchartrain
Their History and Environments
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
A vital and volatile part of the New Orleans landscape and lifestyle, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin actually contains three major bodies of water--Lakes Borgne, Pontchartrain, and Maurepas. These make up the Pontchartrain estuary. Robert W. Hastings provides a thorough examination of the historical...
Dizziness
Why You Feel Dizzy and What Will Help You Feel Better
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Anyone who has experienced the sensation of the room spinning around or the lightheadedness that signals an impending faint knows how bad it feels to be dizzy. Almost any medical condition can cause dizziness, but the most common include benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, transient drops in blood...
The Boys of the Dark
A Story of Betrayal and Redemption in the Deep South
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
A story that garnered national attention, this is the harrowing tale of two men who suffered abuses at a reform school in Florida in the 1950s and 60s, and who banded together fifty years later to confront their attackers.
Michael O'McCarthy and Robert W. Straley were teens when they were termed...
by Robert W. Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
What is science?
What is it not?
Why does it work?
How does science relate to morality and religion?
The Wisdom of Science is a collection of aphorisms and quotations that conveys the beauty and mystery of science as experienced by some of its most successful practitioners.
Lost & Found
Widower's Survival Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Each year 250,000 American males involuntarily join the ranks of widowers. Unfortunately, I lost my beloved wife after 41 years of marriage. Because of this personal tragedy I wrote Lost & Found, a Widowers Survival Guide! LOST pertaining to vanishing. Love/companionship/and special order. And...
A Theology in Outline
Can These Bones Live?
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
A Theology in Outline: Can These Bones Live? began with an undergraduate course taught by Robert W. Jenson at Princeton University in the spring of 2008. Based on a series of twenty-three course lectures, it offers a concise and accessible overview of Christian theology while retaining the atmosphere...