Keating: 302 books
by Susan Keating
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Saudi Arabia is a young kingdom with an ancient legacy. King Abd al-Aziz brought the divided land into one entity in 1932. His family, the Al-Saud, named the country and still rules it today. Every year millions of Muslims travel across the Saudi Arabian border to Mecca, the sacred city of Islam and...
Institutions on the edge?
Capacity for governance
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001
Australia faces major challenges to its forms of governance. Changing expectations from its citizens, global pressures on the economy and technological innovation are impacting on government operations. Yet most of its institutions were designed a hundred years ago. Cabinet government was inherited....
The Light: A Book of Wisdom
How to Lead an Enlightened Life Filled with Love, Joy, Truth, and Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
This powerful book contains chapters by 22 of the world’s leading luminaries in the field of personal development and spiritual transformation, including bestselling authors Neale Donald Walsch (Conversations With God) and Don Miguel Ruiz (The Four Agreements).
Covering topics from co-creating...
by Helen Keating
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
A woman from St. Louis, jilted and made pregnant by her fiancé, heads out to Montana and a husband to be in a rancher with a kind heart. The latter is very surprised when she arrives on the stagecoach, hurting, and about to have her baby.
Blue Roses
Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
For eons of time, blue roses have conjured up the quest for mysterythe hope for a miraclethe cherishing of new possibilities. In 1995 I bought a bouquet of blue roses, not figuring how difficult it was to produce them; thus, azure blue roses had been made by placing a blue dye into the bark of the...
Safeguarding Black Children
Good Practice in Child Protection
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Providing an exploration of the key issues, this book offers practical advice on how to improve the safeguarding and welfare of black children and young people in need.
With contributions from academics, researchers and practitioners, it promotes an understanding of the particular cultural...
Ebenezer Sackett’S Christmas Carol
A Novella About Christmas
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
My story is similar to Charles Dickenss, A Christmas Story, and profiles a Scrooge I knew in the Cheyenne River country east of Buffalo Gap. He was a cantankerous old cowboy who spent seven days a week in the saddle, and took a day off only on rare occasions and come to town to do business with my dad at the bank and throw down a couple beers at Frenchies saloon.
Regional and National Elections in Eastern Europe
Territoriality of the Vote in Ten Countries
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2017
This book is the second of two studies which systematically explore territoriality of the vote in Europe. They investigate when and where voters treat regional elections differently from national contests and aim to increase our understanding of the dynamics of electoral competition, which have become...
The Politics of Dubbing
Film Censorship and State Intervention in the Translation of Foreign Cinema in Fascist Italy
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
During the late 1920s and the 1930s, the Italian government sought various commercial and politically oriented solutions to cope with the advent of new sound technologies in cinema. The translation of foreign-language films became a recurrent topic of ongoing debates surrounding the use of the Italian...
by Heather Keating
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This volume considers the impact that changing family norms have had on the responsibilities that the law allocates to people in family relationships. Contributions are drawn from a wide variety of jurisdictions in which scholars, lawyers, judges and policy-makers have been trying to discern what...
US Human Rights Conduct and International Legitimacy
The Constrained Hegemony of George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Was the Bush administration was successful in legitimating its preferences with habeas corpus, torture, and extraordinary rendition? As American transforms in the post-Bush era, scholars have begun to assess the post-9/11 period in American foreign and domestic policy, asking difficult questions regarding torture and human rights.
Jesus Christ
Influential Religious Leader
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Jesus Christ: Influential Spiritual Leader During his lifetime, Jesus Christ worked hard to teach the world about love and the meaning of life. More than 2,000 years later, his teachings and ideas still form the foundation of one of the world's largest religions, helping and guiding hundreds of millions...
by Vanessa Carvo, Helen Keating
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Widowed, Jilted & Pregnant On The Wagon Train West, is a truly emotional and spellbinding story of a fiercely independent Frenchwoman who is first widowed, and then pregnant, then jilted by the man she corresponded with to become his mail order bride. After the long journey from Europe to the...
A Protestant Church in Communist China
Moore Memorial Church Shanghai 1949–1989
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Freedom of religious belief is guaranteed under the constitution of the People’s Republic of China, but the degree to which this freedom is able to be exercised remains a highly controversial issue. Much scholarly attention has been given to persecuted underground groups such as Falungong, but one...