Ralph: 2093 books
by Ralph J. Bunche
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
A world-renowned scholar and statesman, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche (1903—1971) began his career as an educator and a political scientist, and later joined the United Nations, serving as Undersecretary General for seventeen of his twenty-five years with that body. This African American mediator was the...
Ramaphosa's Turn
Can Cyril save South Africa?
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Nearly two decades after he was anointed by Nelson Mandela as his successor, Cyril Ramaphosa has at last taken office as the president of South Africa. But the country Ramaphosa has inherited is very different from the rainbow nation that Mandela led in the 1990s. The South Africa of 2018 is divided...
by Ralph Mathekga
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
When Jacob Zuma retires to Nkandla, what will be left behind? South Africa has been in the grip of the ʻZunamiʼ since May 2009: Scandal, corruption and allegations of state capture have become synonymous with the Zuma era, leaving the country and its people disheartened. But Jacob Zuma’s time...
Communicate Navigate Aviate
Adventures for God in Canada's Bush Country
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
How would you respond:
- If a bear knocked on your dooror on your bedroom window in the middle of the night?
- If your airplane engine quit and you had to land in trees miles from civilization?
- If a fire burns a hole in an airplane wing out in the bush, a long way from repair...
Our Childhood in the Former Colonial Dutch East Indies
Recollections Before and During Our Wartime Internment by the Japanese
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
This memoir of colonial family life presents the childhood recollections of Ralph Ockerse and his sister Evelijn Blaney, raised in the 1930s in the former Dutch East Indies, while major events gradually led to the disintegration of its colonial establishment. In October 1942, their family life as...
Hip-Hop Redemption (Engaging Culture)
Finding God in the Rhythm and the Rhyme
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Hip-hop culture is experiencing a sea change today that has implications for evangelism, worship, and spiritual practices. Yet Christians have often failed to interpret this culture with sensitivity. Sociologist, preacher, pop-culture expert, and DJ Ralph Watkins understands that while there is room...
Will of Golf
Mastering the Mind-Body Connection
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
"To improve your golf game you must transform the way you think about your results. Our creativity is only limited by our thoughts. When you learn to play with purpose, and trust your swing, you will experience golf beyond belief. Complete participation in the Will of Golf process can take you...
Force and Contention in Contemporary China
Memory and Resistance in the Long Shadow of the Catastrophic Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Why is contemporary China such a politically contentious place? Relying on the memories of the survivors of the worst catastrophe of Maoist rule and documenting the rise of resistance and protest at the grassroots level, this book explains how the terror, hunger, and loss of the socialist past influences...
If Trouble Don't Kill Me
A Family's Story of Brotherhood, War, and Bluegrass
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Making moonshine, working blue-collar jobs, picking fights in bars, chasing women, and living hardscrabble lives . . .
Clayton and Saford Hall were born in the backwoods of Virginia in 1919, in a place known as The Hollow. Incredibly, they became legends in their day, rising from mountain-bred...
Return to Sender
Unanswered Letters to the President, 2001-2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
In letters addressed to Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama, Ralph Nader provides incisive critiques of more than a decade of American policy decision and indecision. Each letter offers frank advice and shines light on government mishaps and missed opportunities for progress. With his signature...
by Ralph Ramey
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
A veteran hiker revisits old favorite trails in the Buckeye State
In this revised and updated edition, Ralph Ramey visits old and new trails that reflect his love of hiking in Ohio. Walks through remnant prairies and an area of drifting sand dunes, a climb to a dolomite promontory, and a hike...
Home on the Double Bayou
Memories of an East Texas Ranch
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Once again, through a boy's eyes, Ralph Jackson sees a winter sky darkened with geese and ducks, a kitchen stove glowing with cheerful warmth, Aunt May strolling in her flower garden, moonlight filtering through treetops to cast patches of white light on a sandy woodland road. Again he catches odors...
Beyond Baghdad
Postmodern War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2015
In Beyond Baghdad, America's most provocative writer on strategy recounts the liberation of Iraq and analyzes its implications for the future of U.S. military strategy and foreign policy. Author Ralph Peters describes future threats at home and abroad, offers startling insights into today's most pressing...
Harbor Knight
From Harbor Hoodlum to Honored Cia Agent
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Growing up in Da Harbor, a rough steel town with more than its share of notorious criminals passing through, a young boy seemed destined to a life of crime or, at best, a hazardous life in the steel mill. In Harbor Knight: From Harbor Hoodlum to Honored CIA Agent, Ralph Garcia reflects on pivotal...