Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: robert johnston

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  • THE AMERICAN CENTURY
    ROBERT D. JOHNSTON / WALTER LAFEBER / RICHARD POLENBERG / NANCY WOLOCH
    The new edition of this classic text on modern U.S. history seamlessly blends political, social, cultural, intellectual, and economic themes into an authoritative and readable account of America’s national story since the 1890s. Written by four highly respected scholars, this book has been fully updated with new coverage of the Trump and Biden presidencies, the culture wars, de...

    $1,360.00

  • BRONZE AGE WORLDS
    ROBERT JOHNSTON
    Bronze Age Worlds brings a new way of thinking about kinship to the task of explaining the formation of social life in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. Britain and Ireland’s diverse landscapes and societies experienced varied and profound transformations during the twenty-fifth to eighth centuries BC. People’s lives were shaped by migrations, changing beliefs about death, making...

    $1,160.00

  • EXPLORING COGNITION: DAMAGED BRAINS AND NEURAL NETWORKS
    GILLIAN COHEN, ROBERT A. JOHNSTON AND KIM PLUNKETT
    Exploring Cognition: Damaged Brains and Neural Networks analyses the contribution made by cognitive neuropsychology and connectionist modelling to theoretical explanations of cognitive processes. Bringing together evidence from both damaged brains and neural networks, this exciting and innovative approach leads to re-evaluation of traditional theories: connectionist models lesi...

    $980.00

  • ECONOMIC ANALYSIS FOR ECOSYSTEM-BASED MANAGEMENT
    DANIEL HOLLAND / JAMES SANCHIRICO / ROBERT JOHNSTON / DEEPAK JOGLEKA
    Ocean and coastal management regimes are increasingly subject to competing demands from stakeholders. Regulations must not only address fishing, recreation, and shipping, but also sand and gravel mining, gas pipelines, harbor/port development, offshore wind and tidal energy facilities, liquefied natural gas terminals, offshore aquaculture, and desalinization plants. The growing...

    $1,380.00

  • ENGAGING CHINA
    JOHNSTON, ALASTAIR IAIN / ROSS, ROBERT S.
    Engaging China is one of the first books to look at the responses of major international powers to the recent economic growth of China. Anyone interested in the financial fortunes of the Asia-Pacific region cannot afford to ignore the rise of China as an economic power since the 1970s. Economic growth coupled with increased military capability and spreading nationalism have gra...

    $1,460.00

  • THE POLITICS OF HEALING
    ROBERT D. JOHNSTON
    From grocery store to doctor's office, alternative medicine is everywhere. A recent survey found that more than two in five Americans uses some form of alternative medicine. The Politics of Healing brings together top scholars in the fields of American history, history of medicine, anthropology, sociology, and politics to counter the view that alternative medical therapies fel...

    $1,160.00

  • EVANGELICALS AT AN IMPASSE
    ROBERT K. JOHNSTON
    Biblical inspiration and interpretation in conflict? Evangelicals assert that the Bible is the infallible source and sole authority for Christian beliefs and living. This premise is currently under fire from social and cultural mores AND, more importantly, from differences of biblical interpretation. Contradictory opinions have arisen on several issues. --What exactly does the ...

    $391.00

  • USELESS BEAUTY
    ROBERT K. JOHNSTON
    "A wise old adage of faith states, 'Read the newspaper in one hand and the Bible in the other.' The slogan is an invitation to notice the complex engagement of faith and culture. In Useless Beauty, Johnston takes up the interface of faith and culture with specificity and immediacy. His discussion permits an instructive dialogue, whereby we read Ecclesiastes differently, and we ...

    $444.00