Craig: 3265 books
Rockets, Bombs and Bayonets
A Concise History of the Royal Marines and other British and Canadian Forces in Defence of Canada 1812-1815
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
In December of 1812, after having their peace offer rebuffed, the British cabinet decided to take aggressive measures against the United States. The Admiralty sent Rear Admiral George Cockburn RN with a squadron of ships of the line and frigates to shut down the American privateers, protect...
Cross-Cultural Dialogues
74 Brief Encounters with Cultural Difference
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Through a series of 74 "dialogues" and one-page analyses, this practical guide comes as close as you can get on the printed page to actually experiencing cultural difference.
Updated with a new introduction and chapter
How much culture lurks in common conversation? According...
Paul, Women, and Wives
Marriage and Women's Ministry in the Letters of Paul
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1992
Paul's letters stand at the center of the dispute over women, the church, and the home, with each side championing passages from the Apostle. Now, in a challenging new attempt to wrestle with these thorny texts, Craig Keener delves as deeply into the world of Paul and the apostles as anyone thus far....
by Craig Johnson
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Craig Johnson logra en esta quinta entrega de la serie del sheriff Longmire una magnífica combinación de policiaco clásico y temas de actualidad, siempre con el inhóspito paisaje de Wyoming como telón de fondo. Wade Barsad, un hombre de pasado oscuro y una pasmosa facilidad para crearse enemigos,...
A Bishop's Tale
Mathias Hovius Among His Flock in Seventeenth-Century Flanders
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This absorbing book takes us back to the busy, colorful world of a Netherlandish Catholic bishop and his flock during the age of Reformation. It is drawn from a rare journal, one of many kept by Mathias Hovius from 1596 to 1620 while he was Archbishop of Mechelen (part of modern Belgium). Elegantly written,...
by W. Craig Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
On the evening of February 2, 1864, Confederate Commander John Taylor Wood led 250 sailors in two launches and twelve boats to capture the USS Underwriter, a side-wheel steam gunboat anchored on the Neuse River near New Bern, North Carolina. During the ensuing fifteen-minute battle, nine Union crewmen...
Hard Rivers
The Untold Saga of La Salle: Expedition II
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
In Hard Rivers, author Craig P. Howard recounts the harrowing journey of La Salle: Expedition II, a reenactment of the 1681–82 voyage of La Salle from Montreal to the Gulf of Mexico. The crew, made up of sixteen teenage boys and seven adults led by one charismatic teacher, launched their canoes on...
by Daniel Edward Craig
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Hotelier Trevor Lambert is about to fulfill his ultimate fantasy—managing his own bed and breakfast, a Victorian mansion in Vancouver called Graverly Manor. But there's one caveat: the elderly owner, Lady Graverly, won't sell until Trevor lives and works there for one month.
Screams...
Country Miles Are Longer Than City Miles
An Important Document in the Art and Social History of Americana
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
Unplug the clock.Turn off the television.Put a stack of John Hartford albums on the stereo.Sit back and take a trip to the hills of eastern Kentucky.
Come meet other real people among the hills, but dont expect to see any stereotypes of hillbillies or moonshine stills.
His tribute to...
The Devouring Dragon
How China's Rise Threatens Our Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
China's rise is assaulting the natural world at an alarming rate. In a few short years, China has become the planet's largest market for endangered wildlife, its top importer of tropical trees, and its biggest emitter of greenhouse gases. Its rapid economic growth has driven up the world's very metabolism:...
by Craig Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Get The Definitive Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Ownership Guide.Whether you own a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, or are considering it, existing owners agree that this is the "must have" owner's manual. Cavalier King Charles Spaniels’ are extremely rewarding companions that develop loyal bonds...
Radical Theatrics
Put-Ons, Politics, and the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
From burning draft cards to staging nude protests, much left-wing political activism in 1960s America was distinguished by deliberate outrageousness. This theatrical activism, aimed at the mass media and practiced by Abbie Hoffman and the Yippies, the Black Panthers, and the Gay Activists Alliance,...
Capitalizing Religion
Ideology and the Opiate of the Bourgeoisie
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Talk of 'spirituality' and 'individual religion' is proliferating both in popular discourse and scholarly works. Increasingly people claim to be 'spiritual but not religious,' or to prefer 'individual religion' to 'organized religion.' Scholars have for decades noted the phenomenon - primarily within...
Religious Experience
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Many regard religious experience as the essence of religion, arguing that narratives might be created and rituals invented but that these are always secondary to the original experience itself. However, the concept of "experience" has come under increasing fire from a range of critics and...