Robert Warren: 49 books

Book cover of Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
by Peter G. Beidler, Bethany Blankenship, Michael Calabrese
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was the subject of the first volume in the Approaches to Teaching series, published in 1980. But in the past thirty years, Chaucer scholarship has evolved dramatically, teaching styles have changed, and new technologies have created extraordinary opportunities for studying...
Book cover of Indigenous Men and Masculinities

Indigenous Men and Masculinities

Legacies, Identities, Regeneration

by Warren Cariou, Ty P. Kāwika Tengan, Brendan Hokowhitu
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

What do we know of masculinities in non-patriarchal societies? Indigenous peoples of the Americas and beyond come from traditions of gender equity, complementarity, and the sacred feminine, concepts that were unimaginable and shocking to Euro-western peoples at contact. "Indigenous Men and Masculinities",...
Book cover of Defense Resource Planning Under Uncertainty

Defense Resource Planning Under Uncertainty

An Application of Robust Decision Making to Munitions Mix Planning

by Robert J. Lempert, Drake Warren, Ryan Henry
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016

Defense planning faces significant uncertainties. This report applies robust decision making (RDM) to the air-delivered munitions mix challenge. RDM is quantitative, decision support methodology designed to inform decisions under conditions of deep uncertainty and complexity. This proof-of-concept...
Book cover of All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this classic book is generally regarded as the finest novel ever written on American politics. It describes the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power.
Book cover of HBR's 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness (with bonus interview "Post-Traumatic Growth and Building Resilience" with Martin Seligman) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)
by Harvard Business Review, Martin E.P. Seligman, Tony Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017

If you read nothing else on mental toughness, read these definitive articles from Harvard Business Review. Confront and use stress Plan short-term goals to achieve long-term aspirations Learn from survivors of PTSD Use challenges to become a better leader Recover from setbacks Audience: Leaders...
Book cover of The Legacy of the Civil War
by Robert Penn Warren
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015

In this elegant book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He confronts its costs, not only human (six hundred thousand men killed) and economic (beyond reckoning) but social and psychological. He touches on popular...
Book cover of The Psychic Hold of Slavery

The Psychic Hold of Slavery

Legacies in American Expressive Culture

by Soyica Diggs Colbert, Robert J. Patterson, Calvin Warren
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016

What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get...
Book cover of Labor Revolt In Alabama

Labor Revolt In Alabama

The Great Strike of 1894

by William Warren Rogers, Robert David Ward
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015

The Alabama coal miners’ strike of 1894 to gain improved working conditions and to protect themselves from wage reductions. The authors recount the depression of the early 1890s, which set the stage for the strike, and the subsequent use of convict labor, which became a catalyst. The gripping...
Book cover of How to Choose a Leadership Pattern
by Robert Tannenbaum, Warren H. Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009

You're the boss: Should you call all the shots? Pick a course of action, then "sell" your idea to employees? Gather input from subordinates but make final decisions yourself? Let your group solve problems? Each approach has its advantages and disadvantages. How to Choose a Leadership Pattern...
Book cover of Fearful Symmetries
by Kaaron Warren, Jeffrey Ford, Catherine MacLeod
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014

From Ellen Datlow, award-winning and genre-shaping editor of more than fifty anthologies, and twenty of horror’s established masters and rising stars, comes an all-original look into the beautiful, terrible, tragic, and terrifying. Wander through visions of the most terrible of angels, the...
Book cover of Tuesday After Next

Tuesday After Next

Boundary Shock Quarterly #2

by Blaze Ward, Leah Cutter, M. L. Buchman
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018

Science fiction does not have to be about alien planets, galactic exploration, and huge space battles. Instead, science fiction can cover the future that lurks just around the corner. Science fiction that exists after Dieselpunk and before Cyberpunk, where the Makers and the Hackers dwell,...
Book cover of Robots, Androids, Cyborgs, Oh My!

Robots, Androids, Cyborgs, Oh My!

Boundary Shock Quarterly #4

by Blaze Ward, Michael Warren Lucas, Robert Jeschonek
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018

Join us for the next exciting issue of Boundary Shock Quarterly! We can make her better than she was. Or build a better one to replace him. What does it mean to be Sentient? Human? Or even alive? Fifteen stories and essays explore what it means to be sentient in the present and future...
Book cover of Beyond Boundaries

Beyond Boundaries

Rereading John Steinbeck

by Lorelei Cederstrom, Gavin Cologne-Brookes, James C. Kelley
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015

As a writer who, beginning in the 1930s, gave voice to the ordinary man and woman, Steinbeck came to be the conscience of America. He witnessed and recorded with clarity much of the political and social upheaval of the 20th century: the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam. Yet his...
Book cover of Presidential Swing States

Presidential Swing States

Why Only Ten Matter

by Gibbs Knotts, Rafael Jacob, Christopher Larimer
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015

The 2016 presidential race is arguably already over in 40 states and the District of Columbia. If recent presidential election trends are any indication of what will happen in 2016, Democrats in Texas and Republicans in New York might as well stay home on election day because their votes will matter...
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