Roger: 3830 books

In the 1530s, five Bassano brothers, who were outstanding wind players and instrument makers, emigrated from Venice to England. Dr Lasocki�s authoritative new book, the first to be devoted to the family, is a minutely researched account of these brothers, their sons (and a daughter) and their grandsons....

This book by Roger W. Shuy, the senior figure in forensic linguistics, is the first to explain in an accessible way the vital role that linguistic evidence and its proper analysis play in criminal investigations. Shuy provides compelling case studies of how language functions in investigations involving,...

A common sense approach to understanding how music works. Designed for beginners and musicians alike, it contains a step by step process for learning about different aspects of reading and playing music. Topics include: rhythm, music notation, scales, chords, key signatures, intervals. Examples and exercises appear throughout to mark your progress.

Why do bad things happen to good people? How can God allow suffering in his creation? Roger Forster takes a fresh and radical look at the book of Job and shows it isn't just a tale of suffering but a powerful insight into the strength and endurance of God's love for us. This book unravels the...

Prostitution has become an extremely topical issue in recent years and attention has focused both on the situation of female prostitutes and the adequacy of existing forms of regulation. Prostitution, Politics & Policy brings together the main debates and issues associated with prostitution in...

Van de schrijver van de veelgeprezen romancyclus De Thibaults In Afrikaans geheim noteert Martin du Gard de ontboezeming die hij van een medepassagier hoorde op een boot van Noord-Afrika naar Marseille. Boekhandelaar Leandro biecht de auteur in een zoele nacht op zee een kwellend geheim op....

Evelyn Gilmore, a headstrong black anthropologist, is onto what she hopes is the discovery of a lifetime when she begins an excavation in the northern Brazilian town of Salvador. But what she anticipates as the uncovering of relics from a 19th-century slave revolt becomes the deconstruction of everything...

This book explores the responses of the Roman Catholic Church to the French Revolution beginning in 1789, to the liberal revolution in 1830, and particularly the democratic revolution of 1848 in France, and asks how these events were perceived and explained. Informed by the collective memory of the...

It is not lost on commercial organisations that where we live colours how we view ourselves and others.  That is why so many now place us into social groups on the basis of the type of postcode in which we live.  Social scientists call this practice “commercial sociology”. Richard Webber...

In a career that spans over seven decades, Roger Moore has been at the very heart of Hollywood. Of course, he’s an actor and has starred in films that have made him famous the world over; but he’s also a tremendous prankster, joker and raconteur. Despite the fact that he is well known as one of...

Roger S. Gottlieb is internationally known for his groundbreaking studies of religious environmentalism, passionate account of spirituality in an age of environmental crisis, and enlightening vision of the role of religion in a democratic society. Political and Spiritual brings together for the first...

Ever since the signing of the Armistice in 1918, theatre has played an important part in reflecting the experience of the ‘war to end all wars’. But on the Home Front, what role did those involved with British theatre play during those tumultuous four years and three months?Till the Boys Come...

as the baby boomers reach their seventh decade of life, more people are retiring in the developed countries than at any previous time in history. many of these people will have prepared well financially, and with recent increases in life expectancy can look forward to two or three decades of healthy...

Since 1976, the channeled writings of A Course in Miracles have touched millions of readers, seekers, and students of self-development. The widely regarded spiritual and psychological scholars Frances Vaughan, Ph.D., and Roger Walsh, M.D., Ph.D., distilled the most poignant passages from the Course...