D Richard: 600 books
Roosevelt the Reformer
Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner, 1889-1895
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Covers a fascinating period of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, his first six years in Washington.
Roosevelt the Reformer sheds light on an important chapter in the biography of the flamboyant 26th president of the United States. From 1889 to 1895—before he was a Rough Rider in the Spanish–American...
Twelve Days of Terror
Inside the Shocking 1916 New Jersey Shark Attacks
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Upon the 100th anniversary of the most terrifying stretch of shark attacks in American history--a wave said to have been the inspiration for *Jaws--*comes a reissue of the classic Lyons Press account and investigation. In July 1916, a time when World War I loomed over America and New York City was...
Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle
The Little Big Horn Reexamined
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
On the afternoon of June 25, 1867, an overwhelming force of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians quickly mounted a savage onslaught against General George Armstrong Custer’s battalion, driving the doomed troopers of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry to a small hill overlooking the Little Bighorn River, where Custer...
The Geography of Thought
How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
A “landmark book” (Robert J. Sternberg, president of the American Psychological Association) by one of the world's preeminent psychologists that proves human behavior is not “hard-wired” but a function of culture.
Everyone knows that while different cultures think about the world differently,...
Beyond Bibliometrics
Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing ways we measure scholarly performance and research impact.
Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available...
Self-Evident Truths
Contesting Equal Rights from the Revolution to the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
From a distinguished historian, a detailed and compelling examination of how the early Republic struggled with the idea that “all men are created equal” How did Americans in the generations following the Declaration of Independence translate its lofty ideals into practice? In this broadly synthetic...
The New Geopolitics of the South Caucasus
Prospects for Regional Cooperation and Conflict Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This collection surveys the three South Caucasian states’ economic, social and political evolution since their independence in 1991. It assesses their successes and failures in these areas, including their attempts to build new national identities and value systems to replace Soviet-era structures....
Perception and Imaging
Photography as a Way of Seeing
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
When you look at an image, what do you see and feel? What do you want your audience to see and feel when they view your work? For over thirty years, Dr. Richard Zakia helped thousands of photographers hone in on their creative vision through the inspirational, informative text and images included...
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...
Blind Faith
The Unholy Alliance of Religion and Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions for contraceptives. Surgeons who pray in the OR. Pro-life clinics and end-of-life interventions, intelligent-design activists and stem-cell-research opponents. Is this the state of modern medicine in America**?**
In Blind Faith, Dr. Richard P. Sloan...
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...
Creating the Land of the Sky
Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
A sophisticated inquiry into tourism's social and economic power across the South.
In the early 19th century, planter families from South Carolina, Georgia, and eastern North Carolina left their low-country estates during the summer to relocate their households to vacation homes in the mountains...
Science of Prayer
Your Prayers Are Answered
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Your true essence survives the physical death of your body
Your soul is the true essence of who you are; not your body
In all likelihood, you have lived before in a much different body
All souls originated from the same God-sourced energy
As humans living on Earth, we are ONE big, soul family
This...
A Grammar of Old English, Volume 2
Morphology
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
A Grammar of Old English, Volume II: Morphology completes Richard M. Hogg's two-volume analysis of the sounds and grammatical forms of the Old English language.
Incorporates insights derived from the latest theoretical and technological advances, which post-date most Old English grammars
Utilizes...