Gould: 657 books
Mehalah
A Story of the Salt Marshes
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Mehalah: a Story of the Salt Marshes was first published in 1880 when it created a sensation, being compared by Swinburne to Wuthering Heights. It is one of the best of Baring-Gould's novels. Mehalah remains an astonishing achievement: could this grim tale really have come from the pen of the man...
Creating the Academic Commons
Guidelines for Learning, Teaching, and Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Today's library is still at the heart of all university activities, helping students and faculty become better learners, teachers, and researchers. In recent years there has emerged the formalizing of one or more of these activities into an Academic Commons. These centers of information have been...
by Thomas H. P. Gould
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Globalization stems from many sources, but as Thomas Gould makes clear, advertising is a primary driver of trans-global cultural change. Gould argues that advertising often carries unfiltered and unblocked cultural messages in addition to commercial speech; as such, it not only builds consumer demand...
The Social Media Gospel
Sharing the Good News in New Ways
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
If you are responsible for managing digital communications in your parish, staying current with trends in the rapidly changing world of social media can seem like an overwhelming task. Which social medium platforms make sense for your church community? How can you make them an effective tool for ministry?
As...
The Catholic Home
Celebrations and Traditions for Holidays, Feast Days, and Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
A practical, inspiring guide to Catholic observances and celebrations for the home.
For centuries, the Catholic Church has offered an abundance of splendid traditions that extend religious and spiritual practice into daily life. Now, Meredith Gould reintroduces these customs and rituals to...
by Roberta Gould
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Roberta Gould lives near the Ashokan Reservoir, West Hurley, NY. Her poetry has been published in many literary magazines including the Green Mountain Review, Confrontation, Borderlands, Pacific Coast Journal, and in newspapers: The New York Times, Catholic Worker, Woodstock Times, and in several...
To Die in this Way
Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1998
Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century, To Die in This Way reveals the continued existence and importance of an officially “forgotten” indigenous culture. Jeffrey L. Gould argues that mestizaje—a cultural homogeneity that...
This Trifling Distinction
Reminiscences from Down East
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Unparalleled tall tales and heroes wander freely through this collection of John Gould's "reminiscences" of life in Maine. Here you'll find stories of unlicensed Maine guide Flint Johnson and his group of Yankees and Red Sox ball players, the time L.L. Bean invited the whole town of Freeport to help...
Nature's Compass
The Mystery of Animal Navigation
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2012
We know that animals cross miles of water, land, and sky with pinpoint precision on a daily basis. But it is only in recent years that scientists have learned how these astounding feats of navigation are actually accomplished. With colorful and thorough detail, Nature's Compass explores the remarkable...
by Philip Gould
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Philip Gould is an unfettered scholar of New York City. These essays comprise spontaneous details of Goulds encounters with his old friend and confident—the wise and talented city of New York. The city is also his birthplace as well as that of his parents and his children. When he travels outside New...
Desperately Seeking Spirituality
A Field Guide to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
In Desperately Seeking Spirituality, sacred spelunker and sociologist Meredith Gould, combines practical wisdom with lived experience to explain why and when traditional practices don’t work for today’s seeker and then how to choose ones that will. In short, easy-to-read chapters and with characteristic...
Empowering Communities through Archaeology and Heritage
The Role of Local Governance in Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Peter G. Gould seeks to identify the success factors associated with economic development projects within communities adjacent to archaeological or heritage sites, a growing interest among archaeologists and heritage managers. Typically, the success of site museums, tourism businesses, or crafts cooperatives...
by Charles Gould
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2016
This volume is lavishly illustrated with images of the mythological (and not so mytholgical) creatures described the book. Another classic work brought to new life by Absolutely Amazing Ebooks
Dragons, unicorns, centaurs -- mythological monsters all, the stuff of legends and fanciful storytelling....
Universe in Creation
A New Understanding of the Big Bang and the Emergence of Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
We know the universe has a history, but does it also have a story of self-creation to tell? Yes, in Roy R. Gould’s account. Heoffers a compelling narrative of how the universe—with no instruction other than its own laws—evolved into billions of galaxies and gave rise to life, including humans...