Robert Adams

DISCover the Power of You is for individuals who have a desire to better understand their own personality. People who may aspire to become great leaders in their field, regardless of their current business level. And more specifically, for anyone looking to raise their own self-awareness, confidence and understanding, in order to cultivate positive changes in their culture.

A masterful blending of the discipline of psychology, the science of the brain, and the realm of the spiritual as they relate to depression, postconcussion syndrome, PTSD, and many other disorders. Within these pages, the reader will be taken into the world of the fallen and given a glimpse of the pain, heartache, and despair they suffer. Evident will be the shame, condemnation and guilt heaped upon them by those who do not understand the fallen or...

Stevie Monroe and John Beverage have been friends since childhood. They are now settled in the Gorbals, a Glasgow slum. Stevie is elated when his French wife, Camile, becomes pregnant with their one and only son. John Beverage and his wife, Caroline, already have two sons. The last thing they need is yet another mouth to feed. It's 1902, the working classes are suffering from extreme poverty and exploitation. Men line the docks in droves on a daily...

Based on the authors' twenty-five year experience of consultancy in the public services, this book develops an empowering approach to thinking about and doing consultancy with public services. It challenges the traditional view that the consultants are brought in as experts and instead examines ways of using consultancy to empower staff, patients, service users and members of the public, so that they can take part in developing, changing, innovating...

"First published in 1974, when it was awarded the Western Heritage Wrangler Award from the Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center, this remains the only extensive survey of Hispanic building and art on the late Colorado frontier. Because most of the villages where the author found his subjects are now either abandoned or transformed by developers, the book is likely to stand as the only full visual record of what Spanish Americans along the...

"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997" Robert McC. Adams is a former Provost of the University of Chicago and Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution. Currently an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, he is also a Fellow (1995-96) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. His many books and articles have focused on urban and agricultural development over the past six millennia...

"In a world where we have been genetically engineered so that we can photosynthesise sunlight with our hair, hunger is a thing of the past, food an indulgence. The poor grow their hair, the rich affect baldness and flaunt their wealth by still eating. But other hungers remain ...The young daughter of an affluent New York family is kidnapped. No ransom demands are made. A year later a girl arrives at the family home claiming to be their long lost daughter....