Gerard: 1631 books

In August 1898, Wilmington, North Carolina, was a Mecca for middle-class black citizens. Many of the city's lawyers, businessmen, and other professionals were black, as were all the tradesmen and stevedores. The black community outnumbered the white community by more than two to one. But the white...

What in the world is postmodernity? Is it the dominant reality today? If it is, what does it mean to be a church in a postmodern world? It seems that the church had a difficult time coming to terms with a modern world, an era ruled by the claims of scientific certainty. Having done so, more or less,...

This monograph is a follow-up material to the first FRRPP book by Gerard Caneba in 2009. It includes additional conceptual results, implementation of the FRRPP process in emulsion media to produce various block copolymers, and other FRRPP-related supplementary topics. Conceptual topics include the...

Set off the treacherous Outer Banks of North Carolina during the final days of the First World War, Hatteras Light is the compelling story of the dedicated keepers of the Hatteras lighthouse and their tightly knit community. For generations these men have drawn their livelihood from the sea, served...

To understand the long march of events in North Carolina from secession to surrender is to understand the entire Civil War--a personal war waged by Confederates and Unionists, free blacks and the enslaved, farm women and plantation belles, Cherokees and mountaineers, conscripts and volunteers, gentleman...

Gerard Beirne’s last collection of poems (which won second prize in the Patrick Kavanagh Award), Digging My Own Grave, rooted themselves in the landscape exploring the inherent tensions between spirituality and physicality. A Man in Diapers continues this vast exploration but roots itself this time...

Legends are immortal dreams made flesh… Kaya Abaniah believes he’s an ordinary fourteen-year-old college student. He lives with his mother on the Caribbean island of Trinidad; he’s passionate about wildlife conservation and has a crush on the prettiest girl in his class. However,...

This vintage book contains a collection of essays and articles on the subject of horse care and maintenance, written by Gerard Doan. Based on the author's forty years spent attending to horses, "The Horse's Rescue" contains a wealth of interesting information and handy tips pertaining to farriery,...

James W. Gerard, a former justice of the New York State Supreme Court, served as the U.S. ambassador to Imperial Germany from 1913-191, Gerard published his memoirs from Berlin in summer 1917 under the title, My Four Years in Germany.

Myopia, also known as nearsightedness is one of the most common refractive error o the eye.  A recent study by the National Eye Institute shows that the prevalence of myopia grew from 25% of the United States Nation population (ages 12 to 54) in 1971-1972 to almost 50% in 1999 to 2004. The...

The first of these two books covers J. J. Leahys generation. You need to read the story of the First Generation before you go no to read this book. It is the story of his youngest sons generation. Gerard is the only surviving member of J. J. Leahys nine children. His is a very different story as he...

This edition features illustrations. FOREWORD I am writing what should have been the last chapter of this book as a foreword because I want to bring home to our people the gravity of the situation; because I want to tell them that the military and naval power of the German Empire is unbroken;...

In ‘Geroepen tot hoop’ schrijft bisschop Gerard de Korte over de opdracht van de kerk om barmhartig te zijn. 2016 is uitgeroepen tot jubeljaar van de barmhartigheid. De Korte staat bekend om zijn open en pastorale opstelling. Het zoeken naar dialoog en het nastreven van oecumene draagt hij een...

Award-winning journalist Gerard Colby takes readers behind the scenes of one of America’s most powerful and enduring corporations; now with a new introduction by the author Their name is everywhere. America’s wealthiest industrial family by far and a vast financial power, the Du Ponts,...