Herbert: 2062 books
Recovering the Commons
Democracy, Place, and Global Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
This penetrating work culls key concepts from grassroots activism to hold critical social theory accountable to the needs, ideas, and organizational practices of the global justice movement. The resulting critique of neoliberalism hinges on place-based struggles of groups marginalized by globalization...
Female Alliances
Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, cultural, economic, and political changes, as well as increased geographic mobility, placed strains upon British society. But by cultivating friendships and alliances, women worked to socially cohere Britain and its colonies. In the first book-length...
American Courage
Remarkable True Stories Exhibiting the Bravery That Has Made Our Country Great
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Here is the American adventure. This extraordinary book reveals the intrepid spirit of Americans through-out their history -- from William Bradford's account of the Mayflower landing to the hardship of a pioneer settler, from little-known stories of great figures to harrowing tales from the Wild West,...
by Charles River Editors, William Herbert , Jordanes
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Includes:•Charles River Editors original biography of Attila the Hun•Attila, King of the Huns, and His Predecessors by William Herbert•Passages on Attila by Jordanes, from The Origin and Deeds of the GothsA luxurious meal, served on silver plate, had been made ready for us and the barbarian guests,...
by John Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
John falls in love with Peggy the moment he meets her on New Year's Eve. Nine years of marriage and two children later, nothing has changed. The beautiful Irish girl with the thick, black shining hair and sparkling, brilliant blue eyes is still the center of his world. But when Peggy tells him one Saturday...
by Herbert Gold
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Tracker of lost memories and lost souls, the veteran San Francisco private eye Dan Kasdan manages, along his way from the 1960s to the 1990s, to find Priscilla, the love of his life, only to lose her. Kasdan, urged on by Priscilla, also finds himself entangled with Karim, the sleek pornographer and...
by Herbert Lockyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Promises You Can Stand On Through Thick and Thin The Bible is filled with hundreds of what the apostle Peter called "exceeding great and precious promises": definite, explicit declarations God has made that you can count on. In All the Promises of the Bible, Dr. Herbert Lockyer discusses...
by Herbert Darling Foster, Nathaniel W. Stephenson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Webster's Seventh of March Speech and the Secession Movement, 1850 by Herbert Darling Foster. Commentaries by Nathaniel W. Stephenson libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!
by Herbert S. Klein
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
In its first Spanish edition, Herbert Klein's A Concise History of Bolivia won immediate acceptance within Bolivia as the new standard history of this important nation. Surveying Bolivia's economic, social, cultural and political evolution from the arrival of early man in the Andes to the present,...
Brazil, 1964-1985
The Military Regimes of Latin America in the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
An insightful study of the political, economic, and social changes Brazil experienced during the twenty-year rule of its Cold War military regime. Cuba’s revolution in 1959 fueled powerful anti-Communist fears in the United States. As a result, in the years that followed, governments throughout Central...
God with Us
The Companionship of Jesus in the Challenges of Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2002
Few Anglican theologians today are as conversant about the reality and meaning of the Incarnation in the lives of ordinary women and men as Herbert O’Driscoll. In his newest book, O’Driscoll helps us find the presence of Christ in those places we would rather avoid: the sorrows, the heartbreaks,...
Policing Space
Territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1996
Policing Space is a fascinating firsthand account of how the Los Angeles Police Department attempts to control its vast, heterogeneous territory. As such, the book offers a rare, ground-level look at the relationship between the control of space and the exercise of power. Author Steve Herbert spent eight...
Camouflage Isn't Only for Combat
Gender, Sexuality, and Women in the Military
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
Drawing on surveys and interviews with almost 300 female military personnel, Melissa Herbert explores how women's everyday actions, such as choice of uniform, hobby, or social activity, involve the creation and re-creation of what it means to be a woman, and particularly a woman soldier. Do women...
by Herbert A. Giles
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Herbert Allen Giles (8 December 1845 – 13 February 1935) was a British diplomat and sinologist, educated at Charterhouse. He modified a Mandarin Chinese Romanization system earlier established by Thomas Wade, resulting in the widely known Wade-Giles Chinese transliteration system. Among his prolific...