Hayden: 499 books

Contained within this antiquarian book is a detailed and concise look at the furniture of the illustrious cabinet-maker, Thomas Chippendale. Chippendale furniture is some of the most famous and sought after ever produced, and this text takes a look at a number of its most exquisite pieces and the...

The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural...

There is beauty and signifi cance in even the smallest and simplest of things. Every thought we have, every action we take affects someone or something else and so on. To infi nity. The struggles and splendor, the diffi cult and the Divine, the dark and the light are inextricably intertwined. They...

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The Debut Flute Teacher is a practical guide to the novice flute teacher and non-flute playing multi-instrument music teacher. The book covers in concise detail flute technique and business operation practises. Topics covered include flute sound production, posture, first notes and method books, articulation,...

Elephants, terrorists, head-hunters, fireworks, food and liquor … you’ll find them all within these pages. This book consists of the collected memories and ramblings of a group of people who, as young men, left their homeland and ventured off to the exotic East. They may have been underpaid; they...

This volume provides an essential update on current thinking, practice and research into the use of restorative justice in the area of family violence. It contains contemporary empirical, theoretical and practical perspectives on the use of restorative justice for intimate partner and family violence,...

This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...

The unvarnished behind-the-scenes tale of the OSS—and the incredibly daring men and women who put their lives at stake in the most dangerous game of all. “By mid-1942, after a Washington shuffle, the Office of Coordinator of information had become the Office of Strategic Services. By then,...

Known most prominently as a daring anti-lynching crusader, Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) worked tirelessly throughout her life as a political advocate for the rights of women, minorities, and members of the working class. Despite her significance, until the 1970s Wells-Barnett’s life, career,...

Four dead Borg and counting. Serial killer, gang violence or civil war? While the Special Detection Unit hunts for answers, a terrified family searchs for their Disappeared daughter, and war between society's elites takes an even nastier turn. Borg and genetic technology is evolving exponentially...

This first-ever interdisciplinary study of woman as prophet shows that, in these troubling times, ordinary women—especially Christian women—need to function as prophets by proclaiming, in word and deed, the indispensability of lovingly seeking the welfare of others. More specifically, social science...

This addition to the St Andrews Studies series contains a wide-ranging collection of essays on all aspects of moral philosophy and its impact upon public life in the twent-first century. The book brings together ethicists from a variety of traditions interested in moral truth and its relation to religious...

Contributes simultaneously to both British imperial and Indian history. This work demonstrates that missionary understandings and interactions with India, rather than being party to imperial ideologies, often diverged from metropolitan and imperial norms.