Taylor Robert: 129 books
On the Shoulders of Medicine's Giants
What Today's Clinicians Can Learn from Yesterday's Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2014
Medical history offers us many wise thoughts, a few misguided notions, and a host of intriguing back-stories. *On the Shoulders of Medicine’s Giants *presents a selection of these, and tells how the words of medicine’s “giants”—such as Hippocrates, Sir William Osler, Francis Weld Peabody,...
Military Leadership
In Pursuit of Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The sixth edition of this classic text continues its popular interdisciplinary approach to the topic of leadership by examining fundamental elements of military leadership: the 'process' of leadership, the dynamic personal interactions between leader and followers, and the individual and organizational...
The Tree Of Knowledge
Book One of the Chelsea Perkins Trilogy
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
When your father shows up 12 years after abandoning you as a baby and tells you that he has something important for you to do, the last thing you expect to have to do is kill him. If you're Chelsea Perkins, your day is only going to get stranger from there...
From the novel
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Inside Out
The Social Meaning of Mental Retardation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
‘We have to assume that the mind is working no matter what it looks like on the outside. We can’t just judge by appearance…If you take away the label they are human beings.’ Ed Murphy
What does it mean to be ‘mentally retarded’? Professors Bogdan and Taylor have interviewed two...
The Castles of the Rhine
Recreating the Middle Ages in Modern Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Far from being mere antiquarian or sentimental curiosities, the rebuilt or reused fortresses of the Rhine reflect major changes in Germany and Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taylor begins The Castles of the Rhine with a synopsis of the major political, social and intellectual...
by Dick Leonard, Robert Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Written by experts, this long-established and definitive guide to the workings of the European Union provides comprehensive, straightforward and readable coverage of this sometimes misunderstood and complex institution. It explains not only what happens but also why, and analyses the EU's strengths...
What Every Medical Writer Needs to Know
Questions and Answers for the Serious Medical Author
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2015
This book presents must-know facts generally not covered in “How To” books about medical writing. Every medical writer, whether a beginner or veteran, needs answers to questions many might not even know to ask. How does your personality type influence your writing behavior, and what can you do...
by Robert Lewis Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
With more than one million copies in print since its first publication in 1959, this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic details the journey of 13-year-old Jaimie and his father from Kentucky to gold-rush California in 1849.
Medical Wisdom and Doctoring
The Art of 21st Century Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Medical Wisdom and Doctoring aims to fill a need in the current medical literature for a resource that presents some of the classic wisdom of medicine, presented in a manner that can help today's physicians achieve their full potential. This book details the lessons every physician should have learned...
Media Interview Techniques
A Complete Guide to Media Training
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Any individual preparing for an interview with the media, however practiced or well-rehearsed they are, worries about failing to convey the essential points, or encountering that awkward question in the glare of public scrutiny. As media channels multiply by the day, offering ever more opportunities...
Life, Death, and Meaning
Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
Life, Death, and Meaning
Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
Bertram ou Le Château de St-Aldobrand
Tragédie en cinq actes
Language: French
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Le théâtre représente une longue galerie du couvent de Saint-Anselme ; une haute fenêtre gothique au premier plan, au travers de laquelle on aperçoit les éclairs qui embrasent le Ciel.
DEUX RELIGIEUX entrent ; ils paraissent effrayés.
1er. RELIGIEUX.
MISÉRICORDE du Ciel...
The Amazing Language of Medicine
Understanding Medical Terms and Their Backstories
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This book tells the intriguing and often colorful stories of the medical words we use. The origins of clinical and scientific terms can be found in Greek and Latin myths, in places such as jungles of Uganda and the islands of the Aegean Sea, in the names of medicine’s giants such as Hippocrates...