Oliver James: 203 books

The purpose of my qualitative research is to reveal how four African- American men overcame inferior education and Jim Crow laws. In the early twentieth century the social and economic conditions of African American men were appalling, yet they refused to accept the notion of inferior beings and second-class...

Global support for improving child welfare and upholding the rights of children is strong, but in practice often fails to recognise the emerging gap between traditional child welfare practices and the evolving nature of child vulnerability. This book takes an international perspective on child...

Les lecteurs retrouveront ici les personnages des Chasseurs de Loups. C'est pour découvrir une mine d'or, dont l'existence leur a été révélée dans des circonstances troublantes, que Roderick Drew, Wabi et leur fidèle guide Mukoki sont repartis affronter le froid, la traîtrise des Woongas et...

Dans les montagnes Rocheuses encore sauvages en ce début de XXe siècle, deux chasseurs - Jim et son ami Bruce - sont sur les traces de Tyr, le grizzly. Le gigantesque ours tient tête aux chiens les plus courageux pour protéger Muskwa, l'ourson orphelin. Pourtant, lorsqu'il fait face à Jim désarmé, Tyr l'épargne et lui tourne le dos.

* Book : Kazan, the Wolf Dog * Biography * Bibliography Kazan lay mute and motionless, his gray nose between his forepaws, his eyes half closed. A rock could have appeared scarcely less lifeless than he; not a muscle twitched; not a hair moved; not an eyelid quivered. Yet every drop of the...

* Book : The Grizzly King * Biography * Bibliography As in human life, there are tragedy, and humour, and pathos in the life of the wild; there are facts of tremendous interest, real happenings and real lives to be written about, and very small necessity for one to draw on imagination. (This book was the inspiration for French director Jean-Jacques Annaud's 1988 film The Bear.)

* Book : The Danger Trail * Biography * Bibliography A tale of love, Indian vengeance, and a mystery of the North. The danger trail is over the snow-smothered North. A young Chicago engineer, who is building a road through the Hudson Bay region, is involved in mystery, and is led into ambush by a young woman.

* Book : The Hunted Woman * Biography * Bibliography It was all new most of it singularly dramatic and even appalling to the woman who sat with the pearl-gray veil drawn closely about her face. For eighteen hours she had been a keenly attentive, wide-eyed, and partly frightened bit of humanity...

* Book : The Alaskan * Biography * Bibliography Captain Rifle, gray and old in the Alaskan Steamship service, had not lost the spirit of his youth along with his years. Romance was not dead in him, and the fire which is built up of clean adventure and the association of strong men and a mighty...

* Book : Back to God's Country and Other Stories * Biography * Bibliography BACK TO GOD'S COUNTRY: After her father is killed by an outlaw, Dolores marries Peter. While at sea in the Arctic, Dolores meets the ship's captain -- the man who killed her father! The captain causes an 'accident'...

An engrossing tale that brilliantly portrays life on the sea. Curwood has picturesquely depicted vessels and various nautical experiences. The work is unique as the portrayal of Inland Seas has rarely been done in literature. It offers the last connection to this fast-fading phenomenon. Its tantalizing blend of heart-pounding adventure and romance makes it a must-read!

This book examines the political and legal challenges of regional governance of the 28 countries of the European Union and the 48 in the Council of Europe. The contributions, dilemmas, and moral hazards from this record of nearly seven decades of regional inter-governmental institutions has kept the...

Exploring the fascinating world of dreams, this comprehensive reference examines more than 250 dream-related topics, from art to history to science, including how factors such as self-healing, ESP, literature, religion, sex, cognition and memory, and medical conditions can all have an effect on dreams....