Authors:Robert Giles, Robert Snyder, Lisa DeLisle,
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: courage, journalistic, profiles
Number of Pages: 191
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0765807963
ISBN-13: 9780765807960

Some of the bravest actions of journalists are unknown, obscured by the passage of time, hidden by veils of anonymity or buried by systematic repression. Profiles in Journalistic Courage corrects this imbalance. With few exceptions, the stories told in this collection are unfamiliar. In the words of Richard Whelan on Robert Capa’s vision of the Spanish Civil War, these tales are drawn from the edge of things. Most of the people highlighted here are journalists who worked on the margins of popularity. who blazed new and solitary paths, and who left fleeting legacies. Courageous journalist

Author: Robert W. Snyder
Publisher: Rutgers University Pre
Keywords: workers, stories, subway, bus, new, york, transit
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0813525772
ISBN-13: 9780813525778

This testimony to working life illuminates the stories, adventures, and wisdom of New York transit workers. More than 100 transit workers were interviewed to discover just what goes on behind the scenes of public transportation. The challenges are legion: the danger of working next to high-voltage power lines in a system that operates 24 hours a day for 7 days a week; workers risking their own lives to save others, an act that often leaves them as witnesses to pain and death. In their testimonies, workers express the importance of bonding with their colleagues for protection as well as compani

Author: Robert Snyder
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: beginner, intermediate, player, advanced, tactics, chess, traps, opening, winning
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 2007-06-19
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0595453457
ISBN-13: 9780595453450

In Winning Chess Traps nationally-renowned chess coach Robert M. Snyder takes his Chess for Everyone book a step further by covering sixty-four additional opening traps. Traps arranged by opening to help students improve knowledge of the most important openings. Traps contain important tactical themes designed to improve pattern recognition. Challengea at various points to find the best move. Written for the beginner to intermediate player.

Author: Robert Snyder
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: advanced, player, instruction, lessons, chess, unbeatable
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2007-06-19
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0595453465
ISBN-13: 9780595453467

In More Unbeatable Chess Lessons, chess coach Robert Snyder takes his Unbeatable Chess Lessons book a step further by covering twenty-four additional games with commentary on every move in each game. Games arranged by opening with original analysis. Detailed analysis of critical lines. Important tactical and positional themes allow players to improve pattern recognition and planning ability. Games played by the author as well as world famous players such as Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi and Tal. Challenges at various points to find the best move. Written for intermediate to advanced player

Authors:Ron Jenkins, Robert Snyder,
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: diffractometry, powder, ray, introduction
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1996-06-28
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 0471513393
ISBN-13: 9780471513391

When bombarded with X-rays, solid materials produce distinct scattering patterns similar to fingerprints. X-ray powder diffraction is a technique used to fingerprint solid samples, which are then identified and cataloged for future use-much the way the FBI keeps fingerprints on file. The current database of some 70,000 material prints has been put to a broad range of uses, from the analysis of moon rocks to testing drugs for purity. Introduction to X-ray Powder Diffractometry fully updates the achievements in the field over the past fifteen years and provides a much-needed explanation of the

Authors:Everette Dennis, Robert Snyder,
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: series, studies, media, congress, covering
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 1997-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1560009462
ISBN-13: 9781560009467

The relationship between the US Congress and the media has grown more complex in recent years. Covering Congress explores those aspects of the relationship that sha pe the news that reaches an information-hungry public. ’

Authors:Helmut Greim, Robert Snyder,
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: introduction, comprehensive, assessment, risk, toxicology
Number of Pages: 698
Published: 2008-04-04
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0470868937
ISBN-13: 9780470868935

This new book, written by two outstanding scientists in the field, describes the basic principles of toxic mechanisms and organ toxicity, providing detailed information on specific mechanisms or chemicals for exemplification. The goal is to provide sufficient information that the reader becomes familiar with the basic concepts in toxicology to enable him or her to understand the basic principles in toxicology and to evaluate the risks at given exposures. With this basic understanding the reader also will be able to critically evaluate the available information on a chemical and to identify dat