M Robert: 1083 books
Paths of Fire
An Anthropologist's Inquiry into Western Technology
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Technology, perhaps the most salient feature of our time, affects everything from jobs to international law yet ranks among the most unpredictable facets of human life. Here Robert McC. Adams, renowned anthropologist and Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, builds a new approach to understanding...
This Colossal Project
Building the Welland Ship Canal, 1913-1932
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This Colossal Project presents an absorbing epic on the building of the fourth Welland Canal, which connects Lake Ontario and Lake Erie and allows ships to bypass Niagara Falls. An immense undertaking, the canal is a vital part of North America’s infrastructure and still functions as an essential part...
The Rock-Art of Eastern North America
Capturing Images and Insight
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Showcases the wealth of new research on sacred imagery found in 12 states and 4 Canadian provinces.
In archaeology, rock-art—any long-lasting marking made on a natural surface—is similar to material culture (pottery and tools) because it provides a record of human activity and ideology...
Shame
A Faith Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
In this new guidebook, designated as one of the Top Ten Books of the Year for 1996 by The Journal of the Academy of Parish Clergy, author Robert H. Albers provides both an analysis of and a Biblical and theological reflection upon the human experience of disgrace shame. Albers approaches the subject...
by Carol S. Baugh, Melanie F. Myers, Michael S. Hendryx
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Appalachians have been characterized as a population with numerous disparities in health and limited access to medical services and infrastructures, leading to inaccurate generalizations that inhibit their healthcare progress. Appalachians face significant challenges in obtaining effective care, and...
Democracy without Citizens
Media and the Decay of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 1990
"The free press cannot be free," Robert Entman asserts. "Inevitably, it is dependent." In this penetrating critique of American journalism and the political process, Entman identifies a "vicious circle of interdependence" as the key dilemma facing reporters and editors. To become sophisticated citizens,...
Maximum Healing
Optimize Your Natural Ability to Heal
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Based on his CAIM (Complementary-Alternative-Integrative-Medicine) approach, Dr. H. Robert Silverstein outlines a program that integrates modern medical practices with alternative and ancient forms of healing. Recalling the work of Andrew Weil and Larry Dossey, the book argues that our self-healing...
Understanding International Law through Moot Courts
Genocide, Torture, Habeas Corpus, Chemical Weapons, and the Responsibility to Protect
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Understanding International Law through Moot Courts: Genocide, Torture, Habeas Corpus, Chemical Weapons, and the Responsibility to Protect consists of five sets of opposing legal briefs and judge’s decisions for five moot court cases held before the International Court of Justice and the International...
by Murray F. Brennan, Cristina R. Antonescu, Kaled M. Alektiar
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Management of Soft Tissue Sarcoma, 2nd Edition provides the most comprehensive analysis of demographics and natural history currently available for these lesions, based on the authors’ experience with over 10,000 patients. Sections regarding radiation therapy not found in the previous text have...
Rebel Without A Cause
The Story of A Criminal Psychopath
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Robert Lindner's 1944 classic Rebel Without a Cause follows the successful analysis and hypnosis of a criminal psychopath, Harold. In full transcriptions of their forty-six sessions, Lindner takes his patient into the depths and recesses of his childhood memories. Plumbing the free-associative monologues...
by Adil E. Shamoo, William H. Baugher, Robert M. Germeroth
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book is a practical guide and concise sports medicine reference, written exclusively for the sport of soccer. Based on Adil Shamoo's notes from years of coaching, teaching, and lecturing on the subject, this succinct handbook approaches soccer from a unique scientific perspective. The experiences...
by Robert D. Zimmerman, MD, David M. Yousem
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Neuroradiology, the top-selling book in the Requisites in Radiology series by Dr. David Yousem et al., efficiently presents everything you need to know about diagnostic imaging of the most commonly encountered neurological conditions. The authors address the conceptual, technical, and interpretive...
The Indigenous Peoples of Mesoamerica and Central America
Their Societies, Cultures, and Histories
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
In The Indigenous Peoples of Mesoamerica and Central America, Robert Carmack focuses on K’iche’ natives of Guatemala, Masayan peoples of Nicaragua, and the native peoples of Buenos Aires and Costa Rica. Starting with Christopher Columbus’ proclaimed “discovery” of Central America, Carmack...
Can Allergies Really Be Eliminated
Can They Do That?
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
Psychiatry and Med-Surg Nursing are unusual backgrounds for investigating, learning and eventually teaching a new alternative technique for allergy elimination.The journey of Robert Prince MD and Iris Prince RN took them to Europe - in the year 2000 to Holland and later to France - where practitioners...