Ronald D : 168 books
Beyond Bibliometrics
Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing ways we measure scholarly performance and research impact.
Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available...
by Ronald J. Glasser, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2006
Glasser sheds light on the profound wounds, physical and emotional, that our troops face in Iraq.
In this gripping account of the human cost of the war in Iraq, Dr. Ronald Glasser offers an unparalleled description of the horror endured daily by the troops on the ground. Written by the author...
Charlotte, NC
The Global Evolution of a New South City
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from “regional backwater” to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now. Once a regional manufacturing and textile center, Charlotte stands today as one of the nation’s premier banking and financial cores with interests...
Living Like You Mean It
Use the Wisdom and Power of Your Emotions to Get the Life You Really Want
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2009
In LIVING LIKE YOU MEAN IT, author Ronald J. Frederick, does a brilliant job of describing why people are so afraid of their emotions and how this fear creates a variety of problems in their lives. While the problems are different, the underlying issue is often the same. At the core of their distress...
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods and Communities
Toward Civic Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts &...
by Peter M. Blau, Thomas J. Fararo, Jack A. Goldstone
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
Written by eminent sociologists, this book introduces and assesses some of the most influential, recent sociological theories. Each chapter explains the theory and describes a related program of empirical research. Chapters are authored by the actual founders (and/or leading exponents) of these theoretical...
The New Politics of the Old South
An Introduction to Southern Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
The New Politics of the Old South, Sixth Edition is available August 2017. Paperback ISBN 9781538100158
Now in its fifth edition, The New Politics of the Old South is the best and most comprehensive analysis and history of political behaviors and shifting demographics in America’s southern...
Beyond Exoticism
Western Music and the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2007
In Beyond Exoticism, Timothy D. Taylor considers how western cultures’ understandings of racial, ethnic, and cultural differences have been incorporated into music from early operas to contemporary television advertisements, arguing that the commonly used term “exoticism” glosses over such differences...
Political Communication
The Manship School Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
A new era of political power has arrived, one in which the social media forces of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter indisputably play a larger role in the political process. In this revised and expanded edition of Political Communication: The Manship School Guide, edited by Robert Mann and David D. Perlmutter,...
The Moral Brain
A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
An overview of the latest interdisciplinary research on human morality, capturing moral sensibility as a sophisticated integration of cognitive, emotional, and motivational mechanisms.
Over the past decade, an explosion of empirical research in a variety of fields has allowed us to understand...
The Anti-Aging Solution
5 Simple Steps to Looking and Feeling Young
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
A medically proven program to prevent and reverse the DNA damage that causes aging
You have it in your power to retain the health, beauty, and vitality of youth well past fifty or sixty and beyond. All of us grow older, but it's a medically proven fact that how we age is a choice. With a few...
Why, O God? (Foreword by Randy Alcorn)
Suffering and Disability in the Bible and the Church
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
With two in seven American families affected by disability, the body of Christ has a great opportunity for ministry. This new anthology uniquely points the way, training churches, caregivers, pastors, and counselors to compassionately respond.
The book’s contributors—ranging from Joni Eareckson...
by H. Ronald Hulnick, Ph.D., Mary Hulnick
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Loyalty to Your Soul establishes Spiritual Psychology as a paradigm-altering frontier. It initiates a radical shift at the core of contemporary psychological thought by unveiling a technology for using everyday life experiences as rungs on the ladder of spiritual evolution. This book is uniquely suited...
by Ronald A. Hites, Jonathan D. Raff
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
From Reviews of the First Edition:
"This splendid, at times humorous, and reasonably priced little book has much to commend it to undergraduate chemists and to other science students." —J. G. Farmer, University of Edinburgh
"Complex environmental issues are presented in simple terms...