Robert M : 1083 books
The Dynamic Progress Method
Using Advanced Simulation to Improve Project Planning and Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Recent computer-based tools for project planning and management focus on user-friendliness and interconnectivity. However, these programs function on the Critical Path Method, or CPM, which was created in the 1950s. These programs, which involve simplistic models and methods, ignore the fact that...
Acoustic Wave Sensors
Theory, Design and Physico-Chemical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 1996
Written by an interdisciplinary group of experts from both industry and academia, Acoustic Wave Sensors provides an in-depth look at the current state of acoustic wave devices and the scope of their use in chemical, biochemical, and physical measurements, as well as in engineering applications. Because...
Clear blue water?
The Conservative Party and the welfare state since 1940
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Has the modern Conservative Party developed a distinctive approach to the post-war welfare state? In exploring this question, this accessible book takes an authoritative look at Conservative Party policy and practice in the modern era. The book takes as its main starting point the progressive One...
The Takeover:
A Gathering of Spirits
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
This story is about a normal American family intent on conducting their everyday lives as routinely as other families until univited visitors from the spirit world upset the tranquillity of their dream home. Reports that the eight year old son saw uniformed soldiers coming from his bedroom closet...
by Robert M. MacIntosh
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Almost half the population of Toronto-immigrants and newcomers from elsewhere in Canada-has no cultural memory of our city's beginnings. In a bid to fill this gap, Earliest Toronto tells the city's story up to the War of 1812 and its aftermath. Beginning with the dramatic conflicts in the aboriginal...
by Robert M. Metzger
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
The working tools of the physical sciences, expertly organized into one volume
Covering the basic concepts and working tools in the physical sciences, this reference is a unique, indispensable guide for students and researchers in chemistry, physics, and related disciplines. Everyone from novices...
by Robert M. Hackett
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
This book introduces the subject of hyperelasticity in a concise manner mainly directed to students of solid mechanics who have a familiarity with continuum mechanics. It focuses on important introductory topics in the field of nonlinear material behavior and presents a number of example problems...
by Robert M. Wald
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
"Wald's book is clearly the first textbook on general relativity with a totally modern point of view; and it succeeds very well where others are only partially successful. The book includes full discussions of many problems of current interest which are not treated in any extant book, and all...
Dwelling on Delphi
Thinking Christianly About the Liberal Arts
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Why the liberal arts are in decline and why you should care.
What are the intellectual and spiritual roots of liberal arts learning in the West?
Why a liberal arts education rooted in the Great Books is the best education and where you can find it today.
Where despite the truth that we are on the edge of the abyss.
by Robert M. Pirsig
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Questo romanzo è una Grande Avventura, a cavallo di una motocicletta e della mente, è una visione variegata dell’America on the road, dal Minnesota al Pacifico, e un lucido, tortuoso viaggio iniziatico. Una mattina d’estate, il protagonista sale sulla sua vecchia, amata motocicletta, con il...
Death at the Ballpark
More Than 2,000 Game-Related Fatalities of Players, Other Personnel and Spectators in Amateur and Professional Baseball, 1862-2014, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
When we think of baseball, we think of sunny days and leisurely outings at the ballpark—rarely do thoughts of death come to mind. Yet during the game’s history, hundreds of players, coaches and spectators have died while playing or watching the National Pastime. In its second edition, this ground-breaking...
Epistemology
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Epistemology is the philosophical study of knowledge. Without knowledge, scientific enquiry is meaningless and we can’t analyse the world around us. But what exactly is it and how do we obtain it? Presuming no prior experience of philosophy, this book covers everything in the topic from scepticism and induction to Kant’s transcendentalism.
Judging Law and Policy
Courts and Policymaking in the American Political System
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
To what extent do courts make social and public policy and influence policy change? This innovative text analyzes this question generally and in seven distinct policy areas that play out in both federal and state courts—tax policy, environmental policy, reproductive rights, sex equality, affirmative...
by Kenneth D. Boa, Robert M. Bowman Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
How many heavens are there—and how many hells?The original biblical languages use several words for heaven and hell that mean different things. And to make matters still more interesting, other religions and philosophies have contributed their own ideas to the mix until it’s hard to separate reality...