Ryan Robert: 91 books
The Frontier of Patriotism
Alberta and the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
With the centenary of the First World War, communities across Canada arranged commemorations of the war experience to honour local servicemen who, through their triumphs and sacrifices, were presented as laying the foundation for a free and independent country. Often overlooked are the triumphs and...
Nature, Politics, and the Arts
Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in conversation with Woodring’s teachings on literature and visual art and his commentaries on American...
Defense Resource Planning Under Uncertainty
An Application of Robust Decision Making to Munitions Mix Planning
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Defense planning faces significant uncertainties. This report applies robust decision making (RDM) to the air-delivered munitions mix challenge. RDM is quantitative, decision support methodology designed to inform decisions under conditions of deep uncertainty and complexity. This proof-of-concept...
Invincible T19
État de siège
Language: French
Release Date: September 14, 2016
La vie de Mark Grayson, alias Invincible, semble reprendre un cours plus apaisé. Ses pouvoirs sont revenus, ses parents sont à nouveau ensemble et il a retrouvé Eve. Mais est-ce que tout ne semble pas aller justement un peu trop bien ?
La menace des Viltrumites semble écartée, au moins momentanément,...
One Horn to Rule Them All
A Purple Unicorn Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Unicorns, with their single ivory horn, are elusive and magical creatures of myth. Yet even more elusive are the purple unicorns.
First sighted at the Superstars Writing Seminar, their legend has grown year after year until it could only be contained in this anthology. Nineteen storytellers,...
by Daniel T. Davis, Stephen Davis, Ryan Longfellow
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Contributors to this collection, public historians with experience at Civil War battle sites, examine key shifts in the Civil War and the context surrounding them to show that many chains of events caused the course of the war to change: the Federal defeats at First Bull Run and Ball’s Bluff, the...
Northern Kentucky University
A Panoramic History
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Northern Kentucky University's evolution from an educational branch of the University of Kentucky into a major university in its own right is a tale of promise and humble beginnings. Could the handful of students and instructors attending classes in a Covington bus station in 1946 have ever imagined...
by Robert Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
A collection of six stories, inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's originals and adapted to feature much-loved Dr John Watson, Sherlock Holmes's long-suffering sidekick.
by Sandra A. Zagarell, Margaret A. Amstutz, Paul Crumbley
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Elizabeth Stoddard was a gifted writer of fiction, poetry, and journalism; successfully published within her own lifetime; esteemed by such writers as William Dean Howells and Nathaniel Hawthorne; and situated at the epicenter of New York's literary world. Nonetheless, she has been almost excluded...
by Robert Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
A hard-boiled tale of guns and revenge under the neon lights of Atlantic City
On a floating casino just off the New Jersey coast, two masked gunmen open fire. Their powerful Austrian machine guns shatter mirrors, crack fish tanks, and knock the grand chandelier from the ceiling. By the time...
Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era
Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895--1943
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
In the Civil War era, Americans nearly unanimously accepted that humans battled in a cosmic contest between good and evil and that God was directing history toward its end. The concept of God's Providence and of millennialism -- Christian anticipations of the end of the world -- dominated religious...
Collaborative Resilience
Moving Through Crisis to Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Case studies and analyses investigate how collaborative response to crisis can enhance social-ecological resilience and promote community reinvention.
Crisis—whether natural disaster, technological failure, economic collapse, or shocking acts of violence—can offer opportunities for collaboration,...
Flaws and Ceilings
Price Controls and the Damage They Cause
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Price controls across many sectors are currently being hotly debated. New controls in the housing market, more onerous minimum wages, minimum prices for alcohol, and freezes on energy prices are very high up the agenda of most politicians at the moment. Even without any further controls, wages, university...
by Robert Postman, Ryan Postman
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
Triumph over tough equations and get top scores on the SAT Math section!
If you're struggling with SAT math, you can rest easy--the revised and updated edition of McGraw-Hill's Conquering SAT Math is here. Written by expert math instructors, this updated guide is packed with drills, exercises,...