Geoffrey: 1373 books
by Geoffrey T Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The faster-than-light sequel to the best-selling Adventures in the Solar System. This time, Planetron, the remarkable transformer robot, and young Will, travel thousands of light years through the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. Exploding stars, black holes, neutron stars, even a planet that might...
by Geoffrey Rose, Kay-Tee Khaw, Michael Marmot
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
The Strategy of Preventive Medicine, by Geoffrey Rose, first published in 1993 remains a key text for anyone involved in preventive medicine. Rose's insights into the inextricable relationship between ill health, or deviance, in individuals and populations they come from, have transformed our whole...
Cultural Development of Mathematical Ideas
Papua New Guinea Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Drawing upon field studies conducted in 1978, 1980 and 2001 with the Oksapmin, a remote Papua New Guinea group, Geoffrey B. Saxe traces the emergence of new forms of numerical representations and ideas in the social history of the community. In traditional life, the Oksapmin used a counting system...
Wrong Turnings
How the Left Got Lost
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
The Left is in crisis. Despite global economic turbulence, left-wing political parties in many countries have failed to make progress in part because they have grown too ideologically fragmented. Today, the term Left is associated with state intervention and public ownership, but this has little in...
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387–1400. In 1386, Chaucer became Controller of Customs and Justice of Peace and, three years later, Clerk of the King's work...
Maggie's Hammer
How Investigating the Mysterious Death of My Friend Uncovered a Netherworld of Illegal Arms Deals, Political Slush Funds, High-Level Corruption and Britain's Thirty-Year Secret Role as America's Hired Gun
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
In November 1988, Hugh John Simmonds CBE, Margaret Thatcher’s favorite speechwriter and the author’s best friend, boss, and political mentor, turned up dead in a woodland glade, a few miles from their sleepy, suburban hometown 20 miles west of London. To learn why his best friend was murdered,...
by Geoffrey W. Grogan
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Geoffrey Grogan here tackles the growing field of Psalms research and presents an accessible theological treatment of the Psalter. He begins by surveying and evaluating the main scholarly approaches to Psalms and then provides exegesis of all the psalms, emphasizing their distinctive messages.
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by Geoffrey Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
This book considers the two most raked over trials in history. It looks at them in tandem under the following headings: Sources; Powers; Laws; Accused; Teachings; Accusers; Courts; Charges; Prosecutions; Defences; Verdicts; Reactions; Conclusions; History; Responsibility.No book has analysed either...
by Geoffrey Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Why are the English so different to and difficult for Europe? A history of the English constitutional story from Anglo-Saxon times to now for the general public or for lawyers. Germans (410-1066) deals with Anglo-Saxon kings and dooms up to the Conquest. The English did not, like the rest of Europe,...
by Geoffrey Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
This book consists of three essays on the effect of the German people on England. The titles and subtitles are as follows: Migrants (How the Germans finished off the Roman Empire and created England so that Germany and England could stand up against Rome); Unbelievers (How two Germans - Luther and...
Lesslie Newbigin
A Theological Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2000
This book offers an intellectual and spiritual biography of Lesslie Newbigin, a figure of patristic proportions in the twentieth-century history of the Church. Drawing on thirty-five years of personal and literary acquaintance with his subject and on a thorough examination of the Newbigin archives,...
by Geoffrey Ivar
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
A collection of rare, classic, supernatural Japanese short stories by Kotarou Tanaka: "Moths," "The Soldier Who Vanished Into Thin Air," and "The Secret of the Fish." A creepy pseudo-romance, ghosts, poison, and shapeshifting!
by Geoffrey Ivar
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
This is a collection of three short supernatural stories by the classic Japanese writer Ikujirou Ran. The included stories are: The Hole, The Man Who Held His Breath and Solitude. Please note that this collection totals about 5000 words.Brief SynopsisThe Hole: Rail-road workers are called...
Resilience in the post-welfare inner city
Voluntary sector geographies in London, Los Angeles and Sydney
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
'Resilience' has become one of the first fully fledged academic and political buzzwords of the 21st century. Within this context, Geoffrey DeVerteuil proposes a more critically engaged and conceptually robust version, applying it to the conspicuous but now residual clusters of inner-city voluntary...