Bøker av Robert Hauptman

Travel Ruminations is a personal account of the author's walking, hiking, and mountain climbing over a 75-year career in all 50 U.S. states and 38 countries, but it is more than a mere memoir. Interspersed are remarks on the ecological aspects of his environments and the devastation caused by human activity.

"This reference work will be the first English-language A-Z compendium on all topics related to deserts, including geography, geology, meteorology, climatology, hydrology, botany, zoology, anthropology, art, music, film, culture, sports, as well as the specific and diversely different deserts that one finds in all parts of the world"--

In A Popular Handbook of the Emotions, distinguished literary scholar Robert Hauptman summarizes various theoretical positions to analyze 18 emotions in terms of art and culture. Not merely a textbook and lavishly illustrated, A Popular Handbook offers a unique, interdisciplinary perspective on the human experience for students, specialists, and the interested public.

The field of information ethics (IE) was developed during the 1980s, originating and maturing in library science and slowly working its way into other disciplines and practical applications. This comprehensive overview of IE evaluates the production, dissemination, storage, accessing and retrieval of information in an ethical context.

Deadly Peaks is a collection of the most notable mountaineering disasters and near-disasters in history; from the Alps, to the Himalaya, to the Andes, and everywhere in-between. Exhaustively researched by two of the most respected authorities on mountaineering history, the book is structured in a unique way: Longer recitations in chronological order followed by a group of briefer narratives, which all offer an intimate glimpse into the worst case-scenarios high altitude mountaineering can offer.

A collection of essays that are divided into five subject areas: freedom of information and the pursuit of knowledge; information, technology and education; information, rights and social justice; ethics and the Internet; and professional ethics. It features writers who give a variety of views on the value of information and its ethical dimension.

Examines and critiques the history, use, and abuse of various literary documentation systems. This work studies various forms of documentation used in the Western world - from ancient Biblical commentaries, to the medieval gloss, to the systems used by researchers in the humanities and sciences.

Authorial Ethics is a normative study that deals with the many ways in which writers abuse their commitment to truth and integrity. It is divided by academic discipline and includes chapters on journalism, history, literature, art, psychology, and science, among others. Robert Hauptman offers generalizations and theoretical remarks exemplified by specific cases. Two major abrogations are inadvertent error and purposeful misconduct, which is subdivided into falsification, fabrication, and plagiarism. All of these problems appear in most disciplines, although their negative impact is felt most potently in biomedical research and publication. Professor Mary Lefkowitz, the classicist, provides an incisive foreword.