Robert E : 1478 books

Book cover of The Human Tradition in America from the Colonial Era through Reconstruction
by Neal Salisbury, Rosalind J. Beiler, Robert J. Allison
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002

The Human Tradition in America from the Colonial Era through Reconstruction is a collection of the best biographical sketches from several volumes in SR Books' popular Human Tradition in America Series. Compiled by Series Editor Charles W. Calhoun, this book brings American history to life by illuminating...
Book cover of Fair America

Fair America

World's Fairs in the United States

by Robert W. Rydell, John E. Findling, Kimberly Pelle
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013

Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping,...
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After Montaigne

Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays

by Chris Arthur, Barrie Jean Borich, Steven Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533–92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne—a collection of twenty-four new personal essays...
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Pillaging the Empire

Global Piracy on the High Seas, 1500-1750

by Kris Lane, Kris E Lane, Robert M. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015

Between 1500 and 1750, European expansion and global interaction produced vast wealth. As goods traveled by ship along new global trade routes, piracy also flourished on the world’s seas. Pillaging the Empire tells the fascinating story of maritime predation in this period, including the perspectives...
Book cover of Editing Lives

Editing Lives

Essays in Contemporary Textual and Biographical Studies in Honor of O M Brack, Jr.

by Matthew Brack, Leslie A. Chilton, Loren Rothschild
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013

Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. The life of our fellow human beings, and how we know and tell lives, is one such area of modern knowledge...
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Life, Death, and Meaning

Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions

by Margaret A. Boden, Fred Feldman, John Martin Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016

Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
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Life, Death, and Meaning

Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions

by David Benatar, Margaret A. Boden, Peter Caldwell
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010

Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
Book cover of A History of Psychology

A History of Psychology

Globalization, Ideas, and Applications

by Antonio Cepeda-Benito, E. Doris Anderson, Robert B. Lawson
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017

Global, interdisciplinary, and engaging, this textbook integrates materials from philosophical and biological origins to the historical development of psychology. Its extensive coverage of women, minorities, and psychologists around the world emphasizes psychology as a global phenomenon while looking...
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The Weimar Moment

Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law

by Peter C. Caldwell, Christophe Chalamet, Rodrigo Chacón
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012

The Weimar Moment’s evocative assault on closure and political reaction, its offering of democracy against the politics of narrow self-interest cloaked in nationalist appeals to Volk and “community” – or, as would be the case in Nazi Germany, “race” – cannot but appeal to us today. This...
Book cover of Pluralist Economics
by Peter Earl, Jeroen van Bouwel, Yanis Varoufakis
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013

This book is an authoritative and accessible guide to the pluralist movement threatening to revolutionise mainstream economics. Leading figures in the field explain why pluralism is a required virtue in economics, how it came to be blocked and what it means for the way we think about, research and...
Book cover of Conventional Wisdom, Parties, and Broken Barriers in the 2016 Election
by Mark D. Brewer, Richard Powell, Chad Kinsella
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017

The 2016 presidential election was unconventional in many ways. The election of President Donald Trump caught many by surprise, with a true outsider — a candidate with no previous governmental experience and mixed support from his own party — won the election by winning in traditionally Democratic...
Book cover of The Creativity Conundrum

The Creativity Conundrum

A Propulsion Model of Kinds of Creative Contributions

by Robert J. Sternberg, James C. Kaufman, Jean E. Pretz
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013

This book challenges traditional notions of creativity as a trait, and brings forward ideas of multiple types of creativity, along with the possibility of development of creativity.
Book cover of The Woodland Southeast
by Patty Jo Watson, Janet Rafferty, Joseph M. Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009

This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States. The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research...
Book cover of Perspectives on Church Government
by James Leo Garrett, Jr., Paul F.M. Zahl
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004

Perspectives on Church Government presents in counterpoint form the basic models of church government which have developed over the course of church history with a view toward determining which is most faithful to Scripture. Each chapter will be written by a prominent person from within each tradition—with...
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