Derek: 1655 books
Living as Salt and Light
God's Call to Transform Your World
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Transform Lives and Change the Course of History
Many countries are facing possibly the greatest crises of their entire history. What a tragedy it would be if we Christians failed to make any positive effect on the needs of the nation in which we live! Yet victory is the destiny of God’s...
On What Matters
Volume One
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. In this first volume Parfit presents a powerful new treatment of reasons and rationality, and a critical examination...
The Commons in History
Culture, Conflict, and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
An argument that the commons is neither tragedy nor paradise but can be a way to understand environmental sustainability.
The history of the commons—jointly owned land or other resources such as fisheries or forests set aside for public use—provides a useful context for current debates...
by Amanda K. Thompson, Jamie Lackey, Sarina Dorie
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Since 2009, the Bards and Sages Quarterly has brought fans of speculative fiction an amazing variety of short stories from both new and established authors. Each issue sets out to introduce readers to the wealth of talent found in the horror, fantasy and science fiction genres. Our authors have included...
Bardic Tales and Sage Advice (Volume VIII)
Bardic Tales and Sage Advice, #8
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Though originally meant as a stand-alone anthology, the Bardic Tales and Sage Advice collection has evolved into an annual celebration of speculative fiction. Our Eighth installment of the series features the winners of our annual charity writing competition and our Reader's Choice Awards poll. This...
The Singing Bourgeois
Songs of the Victorian Drawing Room and Parlour
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
First published in 1989, The Singing Bourgeois challenges the myth that the 'Victorian parlour song' was a clear-cut genre. Derek Scott reveals the huge diversity of musical forms and styles that influenced the songs performed in middle class homes during the nineteenth century, from the assimilation...
Pride of the Lions
The untold story of the men and women who made the Lisbon Lions
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Derek Niven sets out to tell the history of the Lisbon Lions from a completely new slant. This book is not just about an immortalised game of football which took place on 25 May 1967 in the Estádio Nacionale in Lisbon. It seeks to tell the story of the unsung men and women who made the 16 players...
by Derek Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Mountain West Poetry Series
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
The poems in Derek Henderson’s Songs are “translations” of a film cycle of the same name, shot by American filmmaker Stan Brakhage (1933–2003) to document his and his family’s...
by Derek Tait
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
From the Barbican and the Hoe to the city centre and beyond, Derek Tait takes us on a tour of Plymouth, explaining the history behind the well-known landmarks of this fine city. Devastated by bombing, very few buildings that stood in the centre of Plymouth before the Second World War still remain....
by Derek Tait
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
The beauty of Dartmoor constantly changes throughout the year. Every season brings something new; new growth and colour in the spring, flourishing wildlife, plants and insects in the summer including magnificent butterflies, bees and other weird and wonderful insects. Autumn brings a rich glow to...
by Derek Tait
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Devonport was built up around the dockyard in the late 1600s. Much was destroyed in the Second World War but iconic buildings such as the Guildhall and the Oddfellows Hall still survive. Many streets have disappeared and many of the grand buildings that once stood in Fore Street were completely destroyed...
Sounds of Reform
Progressivism and Music in Chicago, 1873-1935
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Between 1873 and 1935, reformers in Chicago used the power of music to unify the diverse peoples of the metropolis. These musical progressives emphasized the capacity of music to transcend differences among various groups. Sounds of Reform looks at the history of efforts to propagate this vision and...
From the Erotic to the Demonic
On Critical Musicology
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2003
From the Erotic to the Demonic demonstrates how different musical styles construct ideas of class, sexuality, and ethnic identity. This book will serve as a model for musicologists who want to take a postmodern approach to their inquiries. The clear and lively arguments are supported by ninety musical...
Bastard Tongues
A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Why Do Isolated Creole Languages Tend to Have Similar Grammatical Structures?
Bastard Tongues is an exciting, firsthand story of scientific discovery in an area of research close to the heart of what it means to be human—what language is, how it works, and how it passes from generation to...