John Edward: 246 books
The Cockatoos
A Complete Guide to the 21 Species
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
This reference book on the cockatoo family provides a comprehensive physical description of the various species of this exotic parrot, the habitat they favor, and their distribution and behaviors both in the wild and in captivity. Their reproductive history is examined, as is the possibility of breeding...
Second Track Citizens' Diplomacy
Concepts and Techniques for Conflict Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
Almost all current wars are primarily intra-state, involving complex societal conflicts with at least one party a non-state community. Second Track/ Citizens' Diplomacy is broadly defined as facilitated dialogue to address conflict issues between unofficial representatives or equivalent opinion leaders...
Medieval England
Towns, Commerce and Crafts, 1086-1348
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The only survey of the urban, commercial and industrial history of the period between the Norman conquest and the Black Death.
Medieval England
Rural Society and Economic Change 1086-1348
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
This is the first volume of a two-volume study of medieval England covering the period between the Norman Conquest and the Black Death. The book opens with a summary portrait of the English economy and society in the reign of William I. It goes on to examine in detail the population increase from...
by Celeste Ray, Margaret Bennett, Edward J. Cowan
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Examines the impact of the Scottish legacy on North American cultures and heritage.
During the past four decades, growing interest in North Americans' cultural and ancestral ties to Scotland has produced hundreds of new Scottish clan and heritage societies. Well over 300 Scottish Highland...
by Edward John Eyre
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
In offering to the public an account of Expeditions of Discovery in Australia, undertaken in the years 1840-1, and completed in July of the latter year, some apology may be deemed necessary for this narrative not having sooner appeared, or perhaps even for its being now published at all. With respect...
Revival: Suttee (1928)
A Historical and Philosophical Enquiry Into the Hindu Rite of Widow-Burning
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
I suppose the impulse to write this book dates back to my shame and anger in India when men and women of my own race extolled suttee, and the amazement with which I first saw the memorials of Hindu kings, with the sati’s couching forms.
But the impulse was slight, and would have slept but...
Tajikistan on the Move
Statebuilding and Societal Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
The southernmost and poorest state of the Eurasian space, Tajikistan collapsed immediately upon the fall of the Soviet Union and plunged into a bloody five-year civil war (1992–1997) that left more than 50,000 people dead and more than half a million displaced. After the 1997 Peace Agreements, Tajikistan...
by Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS***
Synopsis:
Excerpt from Letters of Lord Acton: To Mary Gladstone
It does not seem likely that any one, after reading these letters, will question the desirability of their publication. In general they speak for themselves;...
by Edward John Hardy
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
An amazing book, written by the Reverend E.J. Hardy. Oscar Wilde praised it extravagantly: "It is a complete handbook to an earthly Paradise, and its author may be regarded as the Murray of matrimony and the Baedeker of bliss." This book provides something really useful and thought-provoking, as...
Eigensinn und Bindung
Katholische Intellektuelle im 20. Jahrhundert
Language: German
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Ob in Philosophie, Literatur, Bildenden Künsten, Publizistik oder Politik - katholische deutsche Intellektuelle haben die geistige Landschaft des 20. Jahrhunderts wesentlich mitgeprägt. Sie stellten Fragen an die Zeit und ihre Mitmenschen, die anderen nicht einfielen oder die sie nicht zu stellen...
The Unresolved National Question in South Africa
Left thought under apartheid and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The re-emergence of debates on the decolonisation of knowledge has revived interest in the National Question, which began over a century ago and remains unresolved. Tensions that were suppressed and hidden in the past are now being openly debated. Despite this, the goal of one united nation living...
by Frances S. Adeney, Brian K. Blount, F E. Bonkovsky
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2004
Protestantism, at its best, grounds both its religious and its social critique in the faith of the prophets and the life and teachings of Jesus Christ as understood and lived by the church. Its teachings and desired practice stand in start contrast to complacent religion that seems to be at ease with...
by John C. Graser, Daniel Blum, Kevin Brancato
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
The Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) currently runs three in-theater hospitals for severely injured or wounded personnel. Part of the practioners' preparation was treating DoD beneficiaries for a broad range of injuries and illnesses. Opportunities for this preparation are not as numerous "in house"...