W Gordon: 94 books
Mass Communication and American Social Thought
Key Texts, 1919-1968
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2004
This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies...
Seelen mit Methode
Schauspieltheorien vom Barock bis zum postdramatischen Theater
Language: German
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Ist Schauspielen eigentlich eine Kunst? Schauspieler(innen) sind die Fixpunkte der Aufmerksamkeit im Theater. Seit dreihundert Jahren nehmen Theoretiker die Herausforderung an, schauspielerisches Handeln zu definieren. In Schauspieltheorien wird danach gefragt, ob der Schauspieler sich selbst oder...
by GORDON W BECKETT
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
The traditional recounting of early Australian Economic History is that Britain decided to settle the continent for strategic advantages and as a source of raw materials for its industry, and as an outlet for its trading and the transfer of resources (a takeover) by the new economic managers. The...
Through a Glass Darkly
Contested Notions of Baptist Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
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Through a Glass Darkly is a collection of essays by scholars who argue that Baptists are frequently misrepresented, by outsiders as well as insiders, as members of an unchanging monolithic sect.
In contemporary discussions of...
by Gordon John Wenham, David Allen Hubbard, Glenn W. Barker
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and...
by Gordon John Wenham, David Allen Hubbard, Glenn W. Barker
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and...
by Richard A. Boisvert, James W. Bradley, John G. Crock
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
The Far Northeast, a peninsula incorporating the six New England states, New York east of the Hudson, Quebec south of the St. Lawrence River and Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the Maritime Provinces, provided the setting for a distinct chapter in the peopling of North America. Late Pleistocene Archaeology...
by W. J. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Among the many books about the Polar regions there is none quite like this, dealing with the gradual progress of exploration towards the north along the different areas of advance within the Arctic Circle. The subject is always interesting, for few regions have been the scene of more persistent effort...
December 7, 1941
The Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
A minute-by-minute account of the morning that brought America into World War II, by the New York Times–bestselling authors of At Dawn We Slept.
When dawn broke over Hawaii on December 7, 1941, no one suspected that America was only minutes from war. By nightfall, the naval base at Pearl...
by Jules Verne,W. J. Gordon (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (French: La Jangada - Huit Cents lieues sur l'Amazone) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1881.Unlike many of his other novels, this story does not have any science fiction elements. It is an adventure novel.This novel involves how Joam Garral, a ranch owner...
Lincoln's Enduring Legacy
Perspective from Great Thinkers, Great Leaders, and the American Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Coming on the heels of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, Lincoln's Enduring Legacy offers highly readable and accessible perspectives on Lincoln at 200 in terms of his impact on great leaders and thinkers and his place in American history. The book explores how Lincoln's words and deeds...
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
Reading Texts, Reading Lives
Essays in the Tradition of Humanistic Cultural Criticism in Honor of Daniel R. Schwarz
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Our culture attempts to separate competing ideological factions by denying relationships between multiple perspectives and influences outside of one’s own narrow interpretive community. The distinguished essayists in this volume find Daniel R. Schwarz’s pluralistic, self-questioning approach to...
The Weimar Moment
Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
The Weimar Moment’s evocative assault on closure and political reaction, its offering of democracy against the politics of narrow self-interest cloaked in nationalist appeals to Volk and “community” – or, as would be the case in Nazi Germany, “race” – cannot but appeal to us today. This...