M Robert: 1083 books
Television Talk
A History of the TV Talk Show
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Flip through the channels at any hour of the day or night, and a television talk show is almost certainly on. Whether it offers late-night entertainment with David Letterman, share-your-pain empathy with Oprah Winfrey, trash talk with Jerry Springer, or intellectual give-and-take with Bill Moyers,...
Congress and Harry S. Truma
A Conflicted Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This collection of essays examines President Truman’s somewhat contentious relationships with Congress. Authors evaluate Truman’s successes and defeats and measure him against later presidents of the United States. While the Truman era has been perceived as a stalemate between the executive and...
Medical Murder
Disturbing cases of doctors who kill
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
In January 2000, world-wide headlines announced that Dr Harold Shipman, an English GP, had been found guilty of murdering fifteen of his patients. Before the trial, many assumed Shipman was an over-zealous doctor accused of going too far in providing comfort to dying elderly patients. This was not...
The Wehrmacht Retreats
Fighting a Lost War, 1943
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Arthur Goodzeit Award
Throughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and the demands of twentieth-century industrialized warfare. In his new study, prizewinning author...
Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm
The Evolution of Operational Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
**Paul Birdsall Prize
Society for Military History book Award**
When Germany launched its blitzkrieg invasion of France in 1940, it forever changed the way the world waged war. Although the Wehrmacht ultimately succumbed to superior Allied firepower in a two-front war, its stunning operational...
Hippocratic, Religious, and Secular Medical Ethics
The Points of Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Where should physicians get their ethics? Professional codes such as the Hippocratic Oath claim moral authority for those in a particular field, yet according to medical ethicist Robert Veatch, these codes have little or nothing to do with how members of a guild should understand morality or make ethical...
America's Disaster Culture
The Production of Natural Disasters in Literature and Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Are we inside the era of disasters or are we merely inundated by mediated accounts of events categorized as catastrophic? America's Disaster Culture offers answers to this question and a critical theory surrounding the culture of "natural†? disasters in American consumerism, literature, media,...
Cognition
From Memory to Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
From memory to creativity—a complete and current presentation of the field of cognition
The process of cognition allows us to function in life; it translates inputs from the world so we can recognize the sound of the alarm clock, remember the day of the week, and decide which clothes to wear.
Cognition:...
The Sexless Marriage Fix
Rescuing a Sexless Marriage and Making It All It Can Be Using This Empowering Integrative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
The Sexless Marriage Fix, by doctors Robert Fleisher and Roberta Foss-Morgan, is the book that gets everyone talking about a problem no one is talking about: sexless marriage. Unfortunately, it’s an intimate problem that is nearing epidemic proportions. But what many don’t realize is that there...
by Claudia Bernardi, Roberto Cuéllar, Rev. Carlos Sanchez
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Archbishop Romero and Spiritual Leadership in the Modern World presents a contemporary and integrated understanding of one of the most remarkable pastoral leaders of our time. This bishop, Oscar Romero of El Salvador, experienced deeply the overwhelming sufferings of the Salvadoran people, as well...
A Sentimental Education for the Working Man
The Mexico City Penny Press, 1900-1910
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
In A Sentimental Education for the Working Man Robert Buffington reconstructs the complex, shifting, and contradictory ideas about working-class masculinity in early twentieth-century Mexico City. He argues that from 1900 to 1910, the capital’s satirical penny press provided working-class readers...
by Roger Frie, Bruce Ries, M Guy Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
This volume is the first concentrated effort to offer a philosophical critique of relational and intersubjective perspectives in contemporary psychoanalytic thought. The distinguished group of scholars and clinicians assembled here are largely preoccupied with tracing the theoretical underpinnings...
The Origin of Heresy
A History of Discourse in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Heresy is a central concept in the formation of Orthodox Christianity. Where does this notion come from? This book traces the construction of the idea of ‘heresy’ in the rhetoric of ideological disagreements in Second Temple Jewish and early Christian texts and in the development of the polemical...
Expanding American Anthropology, 1945-1980
A Generation Reflects
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Expanding American Anthropology, 1945–1980: A Generation Reflects takes an inside look at American anthropology’s participation in the enormous expansion of the social sciences after World War II. During this time the discipline of anthropology itself came of age, expanding into diverse subfields,...