William Robert: 462 books
Soil Fertility, Animal Health
With "The Loss of Soil Organic Matter and Its Restoration
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Nature works and has been working for a billion and a half years—ever since there were living things on earth. This is important. We talk of controlling nature, but any wise farmer or stockman knows that nature makes the rules for us to learn and follow, if we can. In short, the ecologist is in...
by Judith Blau, Michael Burawoy, Gerard Delanty
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
At an earlier time, sociologists C. Wright Mills, W. E. Du Bois, and Jane Addams loudly protested injustices and inequities in American society, provided critiques and analyses of systems of oppression, and challenged sociologists to be responsible critics and constructive commentators. These giants...
The Hard Work of Hope
Climate Change in the Age of Trump
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The Climate Nexus (RMB, 2015) analyzed and explored the economic and social realities facing water, food, energy and biodiversity. The Hard Work of Hope continues this narrative and seeks to develop effective solutions to the growing urgency for global action on climate change.
The Hard Work...
The Columbia River Treaty
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies.
The Columbia River Treaty ratification in 1964 created the largest hydropower project in North America, with additional emphasis on flood protection for...
Storm Warning
Water and Climate Security in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
Human beings and industrial-based society are changing the composition of our planet’s atmosphere and causing it to warm at an unnatural and oftentimes astonishingly rapid rate. Much of that warmth is being absorbed by water, which as a result is moving through the global hydrological cycle faster...
Restoring the Flow
Confronting the World's Water Woes
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Try as we might, parts of North America may not escape the impacts of the global water crisis. The same kinds of water supply and quality issues that have appeared around our crowded planet are already beginning to present themselves here. Unfortunately, this is occurring at a time when, as a direct...
Kids Left Behind, The
Catching Up the Underachieving Children of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Examine critical studies on high-performing, high-poverty schools to identify how schools can fulfill the mission of educating all students to proficiency, especially students at risk. The authors compiled the most important research on how low-performing, high-poverty schools achieved radical improvements...
Scaling Leadership
Building Organizational Capability and Capacity to Create Outcomes that Matter Most
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
Transform Your Organization by Scaling Leadership
How do senior leaders, in their own words, describe the most effective leaders—the ones that get results, grow the business, enhance the culture and leave in their wake a trail of other really effective leaders? Conversely, how do senior leaders...
The Baby Book, Revised Edition
Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
America's bestselling "baby bible" -- an encyclopedic guide to the first two years of your baby's life.
The million-copy bestseller by "the man who remade motherhood" (TIME) has now been revised, expanded, and bought thoroughly up-to-date -- with the latest information on...
The Premature Baby Book
Everything You Need to Know About Your Premature Baby from Birth to Age One
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
This major new addition to the Sears Parenting Library is a comprehensive, authoritative, and reassuring guide for parents of premature babies. 20 line drawings & photos.
MANUFACTURING PLANNING AND CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
The Definitive Guide for Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2004
Manufacturing Planning and Control Systems for Supply Chain Management is both the classic field handbook for manufacturing professionals in virtually any industry and the standard preparatory text for APICS certification courses. This essential reference has been totally revised and updated to give professionals the knowledge they need.
by William G. Stripp, J.D., Philip R. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
With expanding world markets and increased international business competition comes a corresponding demand for organizations and individuals who are prepared to operate in these new arenas of global commerce. As a human resource professional, it is your job to ensure your team keeps pace with the...
Linking Conservation and Poverty Reduction
Landscapes, People and Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
'This book aims to inspire the conservation community not to regard poverty reduction as someone else's job but to take responsibility for it as part of ecosystem restoration. Though no solutions are perfect,the text and examples given offer encouraging and useful guidance.' Gill Shepherd, poverty...
Networked Theology (Engaging Culture)
Negotiating Faith in Digital Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
The Theological Implications of Digital Culture
This informed theology of communication and media analyzes how we consume new media and technologies and discusses the impact on our social and religious lives. Combining expertise in religion online, theology, and technology, the authors synthesize...