L Richard: 579 books
Plutocrats United
Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Campaign financing is one of today’s most divisive political issues. The left asserts that the electoral process is rife with corruption. The right protests that the real aim of campaign limits is to suppress political activity and protect incumbents. Meanwhile, money flows freely on both sides. In...
The Doctoral StudentOs Advisor and Mentor
Sage Advice from the Experts
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
This book focuses on using faculty mentoring to empower doctoral students to successfully complete their doctoral studies. The book is a collection of mentoring chapters showcasing professors and dissertation advisors from the most prestigious universities in the United States. They provide an extraordinary...
God Bless America
A Captivating Account of the Role of Religion in Founding the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
"Carefully reviewing events from 1500 AD to 1830 AD, Coddington and Chapman provide a persuasive list of examples of how they believe God favorably intervened in the establishment of the United States. Regardless of whether you agree or disagree with their arguments, you will be amazed at the...
by Mercedes Aguirre, Richard Buxton, Soteroula Constantinidou
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
Light and darkness played an important role beyond the division of time in ancient Greek myth and religion; the contributors to Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion consider its function on both the individual and social level as manifested in modes of thought and behavior and expressed...
Growing up on the Farm
A Sharon Mountain Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Richard Carleys earliest memories of Sharon Mountain were of Albert Metz, whose philanthropic ideas gave many young people from all over the world, their musical start. The book describes the building of Fiddlestyx, Mr. Metzs summer music school complete with stage, practice cabins, and farm to provide...
North America
The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North...
Germany and the Axis Powers
From Coalition to Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
It seemed that whenever Mussolini acted on his own, it was bad news for Hitler. Indeed, the Fuhrer's relations with his Axis partners were fraught with an almost total lack of coordination. Compared to the Allies, the coalition was hardly an alliance at all. Focusing on Germany's military relations...
Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry
Responses to the Crisis in Mental Health Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Leading scholars offer perspectives from the philosophy of science on the crisis in psychiatric research that exploded after the publication of DSM-5.
Psychiatry and mental health research is in crisis, with tensions between psychiatry's clinical and research aims and controversies over diagnosis,...
Resurrection: Faith or Fact?
A Scholars' Debate Between a Skeptic and a Christian
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Is there enough evidence to believe Jesus rose from the dead, or must such a judgment be based only on faith? Can the resurrection story be considered a fact of history, or should it be viewed as an ahistorical account? Two renowned professors, atheist Carl Stecher and Christian Craig Blomberg, engage...
by Richard Haberman, Stephen L. Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Many textbooks on differential equations are written to be interesting to the teacher rather than the student. Introduction to Differential Equations with Dynamical Systems is directed toward students. This concise and up-to-date textbook addresses the challenges that undergraduate mathematics, engineering,...
Eye and Brain
The Psychology of Seeing - Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Since the publication of the first edition in 1966, Eye and Brain has established itself worldwide as an essential introduction to the basic phenomena of visual perception. Richard Gregory offers clear explanations of how we see brightness, movement, color, and objects, and he explores the phenomena...
No Act of Love Is Ever Wasted
The Spirituality of Caring for Persons with Dementia
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
With more than 5 million people in the United States living with Alzheimer's disease and nearly 10 million loved ones caring for them, addressing the concerns of these elders and their caregivers is a matter of increasing importance. Relying on their many years of experience in this area, Jane Thibault...
by A. Scott Howe, Richard L. Bushman,
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
The earth will eventually be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory. But how will our current world ever become the heaven of our dreams? The Lord is already on it; and, as the essays in this book provocatively propose, He’s following good engineering principles.
Joseph Fielding Smith said,...
Ask Anything
A Pastoral Theology of Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Know how to answer those most-asked questions-by using a scriptural perspective
The search for answers remains a valuable catalyst for the growth of personal faith. Ask Anything: A Pastoral Theology of Inquiry provides a fresh approach to answering questions of personal growth, facing problems,...