Paul Christopher: 148 books
Notes from the Ameripocalypse
The Best of Essay Club 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Publishing essays in the age of the tweet is a bit like selling buggywhips next to the car dealership. One would only expect such an activity to be pursued by old fuddy-duddies waving their canes at the kids on their lawns. We are actually huge proponents of social media. The restrictions of 140 characters...
Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction
Intellectuals, World Disorder, and the Politics of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
This book is about the ways in which modern enlightenment, rather than liberating humanity from tyranny, has subjected us to new servitude imposed by systems of mass manipulation, electronic vigilance, compulsive consumerism, and the horrors of a seemingly unending global war on terror. The main intellectual...
Morality and Justice
Reading Boylan's 'A Just Society'
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
This book is a collection of twelve essays devoted to Michael Boylan's important work in moral philosophy,A Just Society. The collection is thematically organized to mirror Boylan's own volume, so the first half explores fundamental issues of justification in ethics while the second half focuses on...
Planning for Rural Resilience
Coping with Climate Change and Energy Futures
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Climate change and an evolving non-renewable energy sector threaten the future viability and sustainability of communities across the country. While rural communities have a special place in the national fabric, they often lack the resources to tackle these important and evolving threats. Planning...
by Stjepan Bogdan, Paul Oh, Christopher Korpela
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This text is a thorough treatment of the rapidly growing area of aerial manipulation. It details all the design steps required for the modeling and control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) equipped with robotic manipulators. Starting with the physical basics of rigid-body kinematics, the book gives...
Peace on Earth
The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Peace on Earth: The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies provides a critical analysis of faith and religious institutions in peacebuilding practice and pedagogy. The work captures the synergistic relationships among faith traditions and how multiple approaches to conflict transformation...
Counterinsurgency Scorecard
Afghanistan in Early 2011 Relative to the Insurgencies of the Past 30 Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
A core finding of previous RAND research on 30 years of insurgencies worldwide was that a conflict's overall score on a scorecard of 15 equally weighted good and 12 equally weighted bad counterinsurgency factors and practices perfectly predicted the ultimate outcome. Using the scorecard approach and...
by David I. Backer, Chris Balaschak, Makeda Best
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Truth in the Public Sphere seeks to understand the significance of truth for the everyday world of human communication. To this end, this book explores the place of truth in several facets of the public sphere: language, ethics, journalism, politics, media, and art. Featuring an international group...
by Rick L. Phillips, Christopher Brockow, Ron Athey
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
This book has a series of fictional short stories as it follows one particular issue of Amazing Fantasy #15, that has the very first story to star the Amazing Spider-Man, from the time it is purchased in 1962 to the present. It shows how the story influenced the people that come in contact with it...
The Challenge of Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations
An Assessment of Mexican Security Based on Existing RAND Research on Urban Unrest, Insurgency, and Defense-Sector Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
A RAND team conducted a Delphi expert elicitation exercise, the results of which offer an assessment of the contemporary security situation in Mexico through the lens of existing RAND research on urban instability and unrest, historical insurgencies, and defense-sector reform. Assessment scorecards from...
Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota
Volume 4, Ecosystem-Based Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The fourth volume in the Harte Research Institute’s landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides a comprehensive study of ecosystem-based management, analyzing key coastal ecosystems in eleven Gulf Coast states from Florida to Quintana Roo and presenting case studies in which this integrated...
by Christopher Brewster, Dr Elizabeth Houldsworth, Paul Sparrow
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
International Human Resource Management is a critically engaging and student friendly textbook for International HRM modules at all levels, including the CIPD Level 7 Advanced International HRM module. Providing wide international coverage and incorporating a global strategy perspective, it offers...
by Yvonne Yi-Wood Mak, Haifa Al Sanousi, Ashley Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Dying, Bereavement and the Healing Arts describes a range of successful programmes pioneered by artists, writers, nurses, musicians, therapists, social workers, and chaplains in palliative care settings. These range from simple painting and writing activities to organized communal activities like...
by Paul Georgiou, Christopher Prendergast
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Adventures in Grammarland is set in a fantasy world, where words are people and where, because of bitter conflict and disunity in the past, the land is now oppressed by the tyrant Ignorance. A young lad, Josh, embarks on a quest in Grammarland that requires him to grasp the rules of grammar, to understand...