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The George W. Bush Presidency
A Rhetorical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
To date, there are only a couple dozen or so books specifically about the Presidency of George W. Bush. Political operatives, members of the media, and former administration officials have written most of the volumes. Additionally, the early books on the Bush presidency focus on the various aspects...
Beyond Collapse
Archaeological Perspectives on Resilience, Revitalization, and Transformation in Complex Societies
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
The Maya. The Romans. The great dynasties of ancient China. It is generally believed that these once mighty empires eventually crumbled and disappeared. A recent trend in archaeology, however, focusing on what happened during and after the decline of once powerful societies has found social resilience...
by J.P.T. Bury
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This celebrated classic now includes a new introduction by Robert Tombs.
The history of nineteenth and early twentieth-century France has often seemed complex and confusing. France, 1814-1940 has a long-established reputation as a clear, accessible and authoritative account of this fascinating...
by T. J. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"The 1997 London Heine Conference brought together leading scholars and critics from Austria, Britain and Germany. The essays collected in this volume offer a broad canvas of Heine's themes and techniques, his debts and his influence, the ancient and modern connections of his work, its epic and...
Evidences for God and His Creations: Nature, the Flood, and the Bible
A Summary Apologetics Book Assembling a Puzzle
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
This book provides summary apologetics from about 200 references. It is unique in that many authors with differing viewpoints are put together in brief key point summaries. Some of the books covered are 1100 pages long. The original authors views are briefly integrated and compared. The different...
by T. J. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
During the many incidents experienced while working as a staff nurse in A & E, patients, visitors and colleagues would say; "Someone ought to put that in a book". She did and this is the hilarious result.
Kirsty and Simon attended the Accident and Emergency department...
The Capture of Attu
A World War II Battle as Told by the Men Who Fought There
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2018
In May 1943 US forces clashed with Japanese invaders in an epic battle on the Alaskan island of Attu. Fighting through the fog and icy rain, avoiding pot-shots from snipers in mountain crevices, lugging heavy machine guns up slippery inclines, and ultimately scaling a 250-foot cliff, the 17th Infantry...
Romero's Legacy
The Call to Peace and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2007
Pilar Hogan Closkey and John Hogan have brought together the annual Archbishop Oscar Romero Lectures (2001-2007) to consider the life and death of Archbishop Romero and the daily struggles of the poor in our world, especially in the city of Camden, New Jersey-one of America's poorest cities. Romero's...
Seeing Judaism Anew
Christianity's Sacred Obligation
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005
In September 2002, twenty-one prominent Catholic and Protestant scholars released the groundbreaking document "A Sacred Obligation," which includes ten statements about Jewish-Christian dialogue focused around a guiding claim: "Revising Christian teaching about Judaism and the Jewish...
by T. J. De Boer
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
The following is the first attempt which has been made, since the appearance of Munk's excellent sketch [1], to present in connected form a History of Philosophy in Islam. This work of mine may therefore be regarded as a fresh initiation,--not a completion of such a task. I could not know of all that...
A Matter of Weeks Rather Than Months
The Impasse Between Harold Wilson and Ian Smith Sanctions, Aborted Settlements and War 1965-1969
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Founded on 35 years of research into o the post-1945 Anglo-Rhodesian history, this book complements Richard Wood's The Welensky Papers: A History of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland: 1953-1963 (1983) and So Far and No Further! Rhodesia's bid for independence during the retreat from empire:...
Around The World
Stories from a far, but close to a bar!
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The book is for light-hearted travellers in pursuit of the funny side of life, but whom are equally intrigued with the world around them, and with reflections over time. Such travellers are perhaps trying to comprehend the "meaning-of-life," the Monty Python way; whom enjoy a sprinkle of...
Estrategia Lean
Utilizar Lean para crear ventaja competitiva, generar innovación y facilitar el crecimiento sostenible
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 29, 2018
Desde que Toyota introdujo el modelo de gestión lean, compañíasde todo el mundo han evitado el despilfarro de recursos, mejorado procesos y ahorrado costes. Esta guía ofrece un enfoque innovador de este modelo para hacer más sostenibles las organizaciones, mejorar las condiciones de los equipos...
Governing through Goals
Sustainable Development Goals as Governance Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
A detailed examination of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the shift in governance strategy they represent.
In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Sustainable Development...