L Richard: 579 books
Know Your Story and Lead with It
The Power of Narrative in Clergy Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Knowing your story is an essential component of effective leadership, but finding your story among the myriad narratives that fill your life isn't a simple task. Richard L. Hester and Kelli Walker-Jones have offered a path to finding your own story amid the powerful family and cultural narratives...
Retaking Rationality
How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2008
That America's natural environment has been degraded and despoiled over the past 25 years is beyond dispute. Nor has there been any shortage of reasons why-short-sighted politicians, a society built on over-consumption, and the dramatic weakening of environmental regulations. In Retaking Rationality,...
by Sidonie Smith, David Palumbo-Liu, Françoise Lionnet
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
This issue of Profession contains Sidonie Smith's introduction to her Presidential Forum (held at the 2011 MLA convention) and the essays of forum participants Hillary Chute, Marianne Hirsch, Leigh Gilmore, Craig Howes, Françoise Lionnet, Nancy K. Miller, David Palumbo-Liu, Brian Rotman, Leo Spitzer,...
by Richard L. Bushman
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The American revolutionaries themselves believed the change from monarchy to republic was the essence of the Revolution. King and People in Provincial Massachusetts explores what monarchy meant to Massachusetts under its second charter and why the momentous change to republican government came about.
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by Richard W. (Wallace) Mansbach, Kirsten L. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Challenges for America in the Middle East offers a comprehensive and contemporary analysis of the foreign policy challenges the United States faces in the Middle East. It takes a close look at the critical policy dilemmas posed by radical Islam, the Arab Spring, the Shia Crescent, and Israel–Palestine...
Spare Not the Brave
The Special Activities Group in Korea
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
The Special Activities Group (SAG) and its subordinate companies have received little attention from historians, despite being an elite combat unit and participating in highly classified and dangerous missions in Korea. Rarely receiving more attention than a footnote, their story usually begins and...
by Richard L. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Trade and commerce are among the oldest, most pervasive, and most important of human activities, serving as engines for change in many other human endeavors.
This far-reaching study examines the key theme of trading in world history, from the earliest signs of trade until the long-distance...
Classical Mathematical Logic
The Semantic Foundations of Logic
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2011
In Classical Mathematical Logic, Richard L. Epstein relates the systems of mathematical logic to their original motivations to formalize reasoning in mathematics. The book also shows how mathematical logic can be used to formalize particular systems of mathematics. It sets out the formalization not...
Freedom and the End of Reason
On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
In Freedom and the End of Reason, Richard L. Velkley offers an influential interpretation of the central issue of Kant’s philosophy and an evaluation of its position within modern philosophy’s larger history. He persuasively argues that the whole of Kantianism—not merely the Second Critique—focuses...
Cracked Coverage
Television News, The Anti-Cocaine Crusade, and the Reagan Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1994
Carefully documenting the deceptions and excesses of television news coverage of the so-called cocaine epidemic, Cracked Coverage stands as a bold indictment of the backlash politics of the Reagan coalition and its implicit racism, the mercenary outlook of the drug control establishment, and the enterprising...
by Richard L. Guerrant, MD, David H. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Tropical Infectious Diseases: Principles, Pathogens and Practice, by Drs. Richard L. Guerrant, David H. Walker, and Peter F. Weller, delivers the expert, encyclopedic guidance you need to overcome the toughest clinical challenges in diagnosing and treating diseases caused by infectious agents from...
Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags
The Constitutional Conventions of Radical Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
After the Civil War, Congress required ten former Confederate states to rewrite their constitutions before they could be readmitted to the Union. An electorate composed of newly enfranchised former slaves, native southern whites (minus significant numbers of disenfranchised former Confederate officials),...
by Daniel L. Stulberg, MD, Richard P. Usatine
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Dermatologic and Cosmetic Procedures in Office Practice, by Drs. Richard Usatine, John Pfenninger, Daniel Stulberg, and Rebecca Small, provides you with the clear, step-by-step guidance you need to provide these options to your patients. Full-color photographs and drawings in combination with high-definition...
by M. A. Taylor, R. L. Coop, Richard L. Wall
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Long established as a bestselling parasitology book for veterinary practitioners and veterinary students, the previous edition lead by Urquhart was praised as '...probably the best available veterinary parasitology text for the practitioner' (Clinical Insight).
This third edition of Veterinary...