Sydney: 457 books
by Robert Burns, James Barke, Sydney Goodsir Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The Merry Muses of Caledonia is among Burns' best known, but least read, work. This collection of bawdy poems, some written by and some collected by Burns, ranges from celebrations of spirited women in Ellibanks, to misogyny in There was twa wives and male fantasy in Nine Inch will please a lady....
British Columbia
A Natural History of Its Origins, Ecology, and Diversity with a New Look at Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
This revised and expanded edition of an award-winning book not only explores British Columbia’s stunning ecology but also features an increased focus on climate change. With expanded sections on the province’s geological history, updated information on the mountain pine beetle and the future of...
by Walter Sydney Sichel
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
The power of imagination is essential to supreme statesmanship. Indeed, no really originative genius in any domain of the mind can succeed without it. In literature it reigns paramount. Of art it is the soul. Without it the historian is a mere registrar of sequence, and no interpreter of characters....
Society, History, and the Global Human Condition
Essays in Honor of Irving M. Zeitlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
This Festschrift for Irving M. Zeitlin honors a scholar whose work has influenced and continues to influence sociology, particularly classical sociological theory, sociology of religion, and historical sociology. Irving M. Zeitlin's scholarship and mentoring has also influenced and inspired a new...
by Sydney Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
by Sydney Howard Gay
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
HIS LATEST YEARS IN CONGRESS Genet was at last got rid of, but the evil that he did lived after him. His presence had provoked an outbreak, to some degree, of the phenomena of the French Revolution, which, however significant they might be in the upheaval of an old monarchical despotism, were an unwholesome...
20 Years of South African Democracy
So Where to Now?
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This publication is the outcome of a conference marking the beginning of South Africa's third decade of democracy hosted in November 2014 by the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection and the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute at the University of South Africa.
Geology of British Columbia
A Journey through Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The bestselling exploration of British Columbia's geology, extensively updated in this 2011 edition.
This book tells the story of the province's geology and the history of its living creatures. The first edition of Geology of British Columbia, with its accessible but rigorous science, struck...
The Scalpel, the Sword
The Story of Doctor Norman Bethune
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2009
Originally published in the early 1950s, The Scalpel, the Sword celebrates the turbulent career of Dr. Norman Bethune (1890-1939), a brilliant surgeon, campaigner against private medicine, communist, and graphic artist. Bethune belonged to that international contingent of individuals who recognized...
The Russo-Japanese War (Illustrated Edition)
Complete History of the Conflict: Causes of the War, Korean Campaign, Naval Operations, Battle of the Yalu, Battle for Port Arthur, Battle of the Japan Sea, Peace Treaty
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
The Russo–Japanese War (1904–05) was an armed conflict between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria (China)and Korea. The major theatres of operations were the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden in Southern Manchuria and the seas around Korea, Japan...
by Sydney George Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
In 1661, the year after Charles II was restored to the throne of England, William Penn was a seventeen-year-old student at Christ Church, Oxford. His father, a distinguished admiral in high favor at Court, had abandoned his erstwhile friends and had aided in restoring King Charlie to his own again. Young...
Matter of Breeding, A
A mystery set in turn-of-the-century Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
October, 1901. Lawyer and private enquiries agent Karl Werthen accepts an assignment to protect the famous Irish writer Bram Stoker while on a speaking tour of Vienna. Meanwhile, his colleague, renowned criminologist Dr Hanns Gross has been called away to advise on a bizarre series of murders near...
Harvard Business Review Everyday Emotional Intelligence
Big Ideas and Practical Advice on How to Be Human at Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Fundamental frameworks for emotional intelligence and how to apply them every day.
According to research by Daniel Goleman, emotional intelligence has proved to be twice as important as other competencies in determining outstanding leadership. It is now one of the crucial criteria in hiring...
Strategic Leadership
Theory and Research on Executives, Top Management Teams, and Boards
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
This book integrates and assesses the vast and rapidly growing literature on strategic leadership, which is the study of top executives and their effects on organizations. The authors synthesize what is known about strategic leadership and indicate new research directions. The book is meant primarily...