Robert A Elias

Solitary Rugose Corals of the Selkirk Member, Red River Formation (Late Middle or Upper Ordovician), Southern Manitoba

Latest Ordovician to Earliest Silurian Colonial Corals of the East-Central United States

The Politics of Victimization: Victims, Victimology, and Human Rights

The Politics of Victimization: Victims, Victimology, and Human Rights

Trick Yourself into Losing Weight: A Psychiatrist's Guide to Dieting

Victims Still: The Political Manipulation of Crime Victims

Victims Still: The Political Manipulation of Crime Victims

Baseball and the American Dream: Race, Class, Gender, and the National Pastime

Robert Elias Fries

(Klas) Robert Elias Fries (1876 - 29 January 1966), the youngest son of Theodor Magnus Fries (18321913) and grandson of Elias Magnus Fries(17941878)...

Contemporary Parables: Understanding Life, Others and Ourselves through Models and Examples

Contemporary Parables” contains Ninety two parables, models and examples with ninety five illustrations that enable us to easily comprehend, enjoy and employ the deepest psychological, philosophical and spiritual truths in our daily lives. The book offers simple models and stories with images that e...

Living the Good Life Part I-My Stories: Reflections and Memories

Hi, Thanks for reading this description of my latest book. I am Robert E. Ballard from Zirconia, North Carolina and live with my wife,Jane and son Gary in the Green River community of Henderson County. Retiring in 2003 from General Electric Outdoor Lighting after almost 30 years of service I discove...

The Politics of Victimization: Victims, Victimology, and Human Rights

This useful text provides a comprehensive introductory overview of the study of victims and victimization. Victimization is here considered as a reflection of American society. Taking a broad perspective, Elias argues that the study of victimology requires more than merely analyzing criminal justice...

Victims Still: The Political Manipulation of Crime Victims

The 1980s saw official crime policy in the United States shifting its focus from crime and criminals to victimization and victims. In this thought-provoking book, Robert Elias evaluates the effectiveness of this shift in policy and argues that victims have been politically manipulated for official o...

University of San Francisco (Campus History)

The University of San Francisco began in 1855 as a one-room schoolhouse named St. Ignatius Academy. Its founding is interwoven with the establishment of the Jesuit Order in California, European immigration to the western United States, and the population growth of California and San Francisco as a r...

The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad

It's our game . . . America's game: it has the snap, go, fling of the American atmosphere--belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly as our Constitution's laws, [and] is just as important in the sum total of our historic life. --WALT WHITMAN SPEAKING ABOUT BASEBALL Is the ...

Rethinking Peace

With the development of the atomic bomb, Albert Einstein remarked that everything had changed except our thinking about the world. Einstein and Bertrand Russell warned us that "we have to learn to think in a new way ...shall we put an end to the human race; or shall we renounce war?" Unfortunately, ...

Art of Meditation: Eight Steps Towards Freedom

A step by step guide on how to meditate. Very clear and easily employable. Touches on all aspects of the philosophy and psychology of meditation. This book has helped thousands learn to meditate safely and successfully. This technique of contacting our inner source of energy, power, wisdom and guida...