Gerald: 1985 books
The Death Lottery
Residue Class Mysteries, #3
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Libby Myers and the Residue Class are an international bunch of mathematicians famous for their crime-solving prowess. They work by analyzing the patterns underlying a crime, but now they are faced with a killer who brags that there is no pattern to his/her murders.
The brazen murder of the...
From the Barrel of a Gun
The United States and the War against Zimbabwe, 1965-1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
In November 1965, Ian Smith's white minority government in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) made a unilateral declaration of independence, breaking with Great Britain. With a European population of a few hundred thousand dominating an African majority of several million, Rhodesia's racial structure...
War along the Border
The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
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Children, Race, and Power
Kenneth and Mamie Clark's Northside Center
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
A portrait of two important black social scientists and a broader history of race relations, this important work captures the vitality and chaos of post-war politics in New York, recasting the story of the civil rights movement.
by Gerald Matthews, Ian J. Deary, Martha C. Whiteman
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Now in its third edition, this dynamic textbook analyses the traits fundamental to human personality: what they are, why they matter, their biological and social foundations, how they play out in human life and their consequences for cognition, stress and physical and mental health. The text also...
The Great Disorder
Politics, Economics, and Society in the German Inflation, 1914-1924
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 1997
This book presents a comprehensive study of the most famous and spectacular instance of inflation in modern industrial society--that in Germany during and following World War I. A broad, probing narrative, this book studies inflation as a strategy of social pacification and economic reconstruction...
It's All About Me
An Interactive Guide to a Happier, More Fulfilling and Successful Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
A must have! An easy-to-follow guide that helps you realize your path to purpose and fulfillment!
An insightful journey in overcoming obstacles that keep you from a life of happiness.
Finally, a book that showed ME how to attract the life I really wanted.
by Gerald Alva Miller Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Through its engagement with different kinds of texts, Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction represents a new way of approaching both science fiction and critical theory, and its uses both to question what it means to be human in digital era.
China Joins Global Governance
Cooperation and Contentions
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
For many years, political leaders and analysts have debated the impacts of China’s rise on the stability of the existing international system. International observers have also debated whether China would be a status quo power or a revisionist power, and whether China would observe the rules and...
by Sean Joiner, Gerald Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Filled with remarkable vintage photographs, Black America: Augusta, Georgia captures the essence of the African-American heritage in this historic Southern community. The Garden City has produced a wide variety of intellectual and political pioneers, including a handful of educators who were instrumental...
Landscapes at Risk?
The Future for Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty in England and Wales
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) together with National Parks are the highest quality landscapes in England and Wales, and have been designated to conserve that quality. AONBs have always been regarded as 'second' to national parks in terms of the legislation and resources provided by the...
One and Only
The Untold Story of On the Road
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Beloved by both Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, Lu Anne Henderson’s story has never been told. Lu Anne was a beautiful 15-year-old girl in Denver in 1945 when she met Neal, a fast-talking hurricane of male sexuality and vast promises. The two married, and soon they were hanging out with a group of...
by Gerald Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
A knife-wielding criminal threatens a rural Scottish idyll in the latest mystery from a well-loved author . . .
Life is good for Jane Highsmith and Roland Fox – Jane is planning on taking over the local veterinary practice, Roland's second novel has been accepted for publication, and they are soon...
by Gerald Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
**From the author of A Dog’s Life, a “**delightful cozy . . . full of good humor and a touch of romance” (Booklist).
Surveyor Douglas Young stumbles across rambling Underwood House, near Edinburgh, one day whilst walking his dog. He realizes its potential immediately, and after it is developed...