Robert Michael: 494 books
Brushfyre
A Rebellious Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Dreaming of you, my secret beloved.
Its not your hearts affection but your mind that I covet.
Are you a blessing or a curse in disguise?
Are these feelings true, or am I living a lie?
In a diverse collection of poems fifteen years in the making, Robbie Pullman shares a...
Urban Ecosystems
Understanding the Human Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
With over half of the global human population living in urban regions, urban ecosystems may now represent the contemporary and future human environment. Consisting of green space and the built environment, they harbour a wide range of species, yet are not well understood.
This book aims...
Education Reform in the Obama Era
The Second Term and the 2016 Election
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book offers a sophisticated overview of President Obama’s education agenda, exploring how and why education policy became national and ultimately presidential over the past seven decades. The authors argue that the Obama education agenda, though more ambitious, is broadly in line with those...
by Michael P. Fogarty, Rhona Rapoport, Robert N. Rapoport
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
In this book, first published in 1971, the authors show from first-hand studies of family and working life (and with evidence from many countries, including the socialist societies of Eastern Europe) the nature of the discrimination facing women in the professions – and how various family and employment...
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...
Jul-Morde
Skandinavische Weihnachtskrimis
Language: German
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Wie feiert man im hohen Norden Weihnachten? Tanzt man um den Tannenbaum, fährt man Schlitten, genehmigt man sich ein Schlückchen Glögg? Nej, nej! In der norwegischen Einöde stapft ein alter Einsiedler wachsam durchs Gehölz. Nicht schon wieder soll ein Tannenbaum aus seinem Wald gestohlen werden,...
by Linda Barwick, Tim Dargaville, Stephen Emmerson
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
The increasing interest in artistic research, especially in music, is throwing open doors to exciting ideas about how we generate new musical knowledge and understanding. This book examines the wide array of factors at play in innovative practice and how by treating it as research we can make new...
Ottoman Explorations of the Nile
Evliya Çelebi’s Map of the Nile and The Nile Journeys in the Book of Travels (Seyahatname)
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Before the time of Napoleon, the most ambitious effort to explore and map the Nile was undertaken by the Ottomans, as attested by two monumental documents: an elaborate map, with 475 rubrics, and a lengthy travel account. Both were achieved at about the same time—c. 1685—and both by the same man.
Evliya...
Pro iOS Persistence
Using Core Data
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Pro iOS Persistence explains how to build apps in Objective-C and Swift that persist and use data most effectively including the popular Core Data framework. Covering common and advanced persistence patterns, this book prepares any iOS developer to store and retrieve data accurately and efficiently.
This...
Understanding OCD
A Guide for Parents and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Giving a full overview of childhood obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and discussing all major treatment options, including cognitive behavioural therapy and medication, this guide provides the essential information that families, teachers, caregivers, clinicians and mental health professionals...
Immigrant Children
Change, Adaptation, and Cultural Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Over the past several decades, the demographic populations of many countries such as Canada as well as the United States have greatly transformed. Most striking is the influx of recent immigrant families into North America. As children lead the way for a 'new' North America, this group of children...
Rommel's Desert Warriors
1941-1942
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
Visual history of Rommel and his Afrika Korps in the desert of North Africa.
First Winter on the Eastern Front
1941-1942
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Photo chronicle of the German-Soviet campaign on the Eastern Front during its first brutal winter after Operation Barbarossa ground to a halt outside Moscow.
Studies in Culture Contact
Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.
Studies in Culture Contact:...