Meredith: 1224 books
The Richmond Theater Fire
Early America's First Great Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
On the day after Christmas in 1811, the state of Virginia lost its governor and almost one hundred citizens in a devastating nighttime fire that consumed a Richmond playhouse. During the second act of a melodramatic tale of bandits, ghosts, and murder, a small fire kindled behind the backdrop. Within...
by Meredith Kendall
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
New book from Maine author Meredith Kendall lucubrates the secrets of Reiki and nursing. Kendall's conversational style is conducive to hip-hopping around the text. Start at any page and get ready to be enthralled.
Author and columnist Mark LaFlamme said this about Reiki Stories: My...
Frontiersman
Daniel Boone and the Making of America
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
The name Daniel Boone conjures up the image of an illiterate, coonskin cap-wearing patriot who settled Kentucky and killed countless Indians. The scarcity of surviving autobiographical material has allowed tellers of his story to fashion a Boone of their own liking, and his myth has evolved in countless...
by Michael Meredith
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
The House of Truth is the personal insight of an engineering scientist who has experienced the presence of God and spent over two decades meeting people of many faiths, listening to their insights, empathising with their beliefs and sincerely worshiping alongside them. It is a story layered with scientific...
The Rise and Fall of Meter
Poetry and English National Culture, 1860--1930
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
Why do we often teach English poetic meter by the Greek terms iamb and trochee? How is our understanding of English meter influenced by the history of England's sense of itself in the nineteenth century? Not an old-fashioned approach to poetry, but a dynamic, contested, and inherently nontraditional...
by Tracey Meredith
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
An anthology of daft rhymes for children of all ages (8 years upward will appreciate most of them). Meet the Budgie with no beak, a vegetarian dragon, and a philosophical koala bear. Learn from the fates of the Avaricious Aardvark and the Belligerent Baboon. Join Rosemary in her search for the Querulous...
Transitions
Legal Change, Legal Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Transitions: Legal Change, Legal Meanings illustrates the various intersections, crises, and shifts that continually occur within the law, and how these moments of change interact with and comment on contemporary society.
Together the essays in this volume investigate the transformation of...
Armed with Abundance
Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Popular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasize violence, deprivation, and trauma. By contrast, in Armed with Abundance, Meredith Lair focuses on the noncombat experiences of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, redrawing the landscape of the war so that swimming pools, ice cream, visits from celebrities,...
Jeremiah's Scribes
Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
New England Puritan sermon culture was primarily an oral phenomenon, and yet its literary production has been understood mainly through a print legacy. In Jeremiah's Scribes, Meredith Marie Neuman turns to the notes taken by Puritan auditors in the meetinghouse in order to fill out our sense of the...
Rituals of Celebration
Honoring the Seasons of Life through the Wheel of the Year
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
**Sacred **Celebrations
Create a deeper experience of the Wheel of the Year for yourself and your community. In Rituals of Celebration, author Jane Meredith provides lyrical accounts of the most memorable rituals she’s organized, as well as how-to instructions for creating them. Inspired...
Blind Obedience
The Structure and Content of Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
There is considerable debate amongst philosophers as to the basic philosophical problem Wittgenstein is attempting to solve in Philosophical Investigations. In this bold and original work, Meredith Williams argues that it is the problem of "normative similarity".
In Blind Obedience Williams...
A-Z of Northampton
Places-People-History
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Northampton has rather more going for it than is often realised. Its industrial exploits have left it with a unique townscape, at last being properly appreciated. It has medieval roots, some remarkable buildings and an important place in the pageant of English history. It also has star performers...
by Meredith Oakes
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 1996
Set in the offices of a magazine publishers, Meredith Oakes’ comedy of fragile values in the media will not restore your faith in human nature, but it is guaranteed to help you get on in publishing without really succeeding. First performed at the Royal Court Theatre, directed by Stephen Daldry.
by Anthony Meredith
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
This exploration of Stowe through time offers something very different in its pictorial approach. The centuries flash by, yet nothing important is excluded: the medieval beginnings; the house and gardens over 300 years of ownership by one family; the founding of the school; and its ongoing partnership...