Wise Robert: 26 books
Assessing Model-Based Reasoning using Evidence- Centered Design
A Suite of Research-Based Design Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
This Springer Brief provides theory, practical guidance, and support tools to help designers create complex, valid assessment tasks for hard-to-measure, yet crucial, science education standards. Understanding, exploring, and interacting with the world through models characterizes science in all its...
Imaginarium 2012
The Best Canadian Speculative Writing
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Orphan children destroy their nasty superintendent and create a clockwork replacement; a professor publishes a list of known vampires, but doesn’t get it quite right; a military drone achieves sentience—and an unfortunate conscience; self-replicating humanoid robots fall in love with humans; an...
by Robert Wise
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2004
In the brooding medieval castle of Colditz located near the German border with Czechoslovakia, Allied prisoners of the Second World War devised every method of escape from twisting tunnels to an improvised glider flight from the dreaded Nazi-held castle. In 1942, only Sergeant Tony Irving and five...
The Dead Detective
A Sam and Vera Sloan Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2002
Sam Sloan is dead. But when his wife, Vera, receives the report of his plane going down, she flies to the site and finds no evidence of a crash. Unable to put the puzzle together, Vera and her daughter, Cara, struggle to accept the reality of Sam's death. But when mother and daughter find a computer...
The Empty Coffin
A Sam and Vera Sloan Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2001
The daily work of a policeman can push an officer into the most debased side of life. Sam Sloan struggles to stay faithful to his Christian ideals while solving brutal murders and heinous crimes. The Empty Coffin finds detective Sloan and his wife, Vera, faced with the greatest challenge of their...
Be Not Afraid
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2001
Seventy-eight-year-old Mary Oliver begins to clean out the garage after her husband's death. As she sorts through piles of junk with her daughter, she discovers a stack of old letters, neatly tied with a ribbon. The letters rekindle memories of her first love, the man she always presumed had died...
by Paul Meier, Robert Wise
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 1999
The bestselling authors of "Beyond the Millennium" and "The Fourth Millennium" bring readers this prophetic thriller based on the idea that there is a secret code in the Bible that pinpoints crucial dates and events.
Exploring Engineering
An Introduction to Engineering and Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Engineers solve problems, and work on emerging challenges in a wide range of areas important to improving quality of life; areas like sustainable energy, access to clean water, and improved communications and health care technologies. Kosky et. al. explore the world of engineering by introducing...
Living Traditions and Universal Conviviality
Prospects and Challenges for Peace in Multireligious Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The World Parliament of Religions adopted the view that there will not be peace in this world without including peace among religions. Yet, even with the unified force of the world’s religions and wisdom traditions, this cannot be accomplished without justice among people. In one way or another,...
Joshua's Way
Spiritual Warfare Lessons for Today's Battles
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Joshua's Way offers ten principles that allowed a small, insignificant Israeli army to become the major force in their time. Each principle is vital for success in living the Christian life. Contemporary Christians are living in a time when the church often forgets the importance of divine directives...
Exploring Engineering
An Introduction to Engineering and Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Exploring Engineering, Fourth Edition: An Introduction to Engineering and Design, winner of a 2017 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty),presents the emerging challenges engineers face in a wide range of areas as they work to help improve our quality of life. In this classic textbook, the authors explain...
by Robert L. Wise
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2009
The story of one family's struggle for survival in an apocalyptic world--where one choice will determine their future.
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