J Ruth: 73 books
The Great War in the Heart of Dixie
Alabama During World War I
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
There has been much scholarship on how the U.S. as a nation reacted to World War I, but few have explored how Alabama responded. Did the state follow the federal government’s lead in organizing its resources or did Alabamians devise their own solutions to unique problems they faced? How did the...
Technology in America
A History of Individuals and Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
The new edition of a popular collection that traces the history of American invention from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley.
This volume traces the history of American technology—its inventions and inventors—from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley. The...
Shoreline of Infinity 12
Shoreline of Infinity science fiction magazine
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2018
Ada Palmer - Interview
Stories
Robert Gordon _ Aeaea
Helen Jackson _ Do Not Pass GO
Anton Rose _ Jammers
J S Richardson _ Paradise Bird
W G White _ Sand and Rust
Elva Hills _ Sleeping Fire
Duncan...
Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic
A Collaborative Model of Humans and Nature through Space and Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic: A Collaborative Model of Humans and Nature through Space and Time, edited by Ruth A. Maher and Ramona Harrison, provides a framework for studying interactions of various human and natural entities in the past. Contributors apply this knowledge to address global...
by Wye J. Allanbrook, Gregory Butler, Eric Chafe
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in some way such questions of meaning in J. S. Bach’s vocal compositions—including his Passions, Masses, Magnificat, and cantatas—with particular attention...
Philosophy of Language
The Central Topics
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2007
This collection of classic and contemporary essays in philosophy of language offers a concise introduction to the field for students in graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses. It contains some of the most important basic sources in philosophy of language, including a number of classic essays...
29 1/2 Years of Marriage
I Was Married to a Preacher Who Was a Pimp/Conartist/Player
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
Surviving the Unimaginable By Ruth Janie Webb He beat me with a hammer. He beat me with a bat. He strangled me until all of my breath had gone and I was left for dead. He shoved the barrel of a 22 riffle in my mouth and told me hed blow my brains out and kill the children too. So when he spit on me,...
Is the Good Book Good Enough?
Evangelical Perspectives on Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
The political emergence of evangelical Christians has been a signal development in America in the past quarter century. And while their voting tendencies have been closely scrutinized, their participation in the policy debates of the day has not. They continue to be caricatured as anti-intellectual...
The United States and the International Criminal Court
National Security and International Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2000
American reluctance to join the International Criminal Court illuminates important trends in international security and a central dilemma facing U.S. Foreign policy in the 21st century.
The ICC will prosecute individuals who commit egregious international human rights violations such as genocide....
by Patty Jo Watson, Janet Rafferty, Joseph M. Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States.
The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research...
by J. D. Robb, Mary Blayney, Elaine Fox
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Five twists on classic fairy tales from five mesmerizing authors—including "Taken in Death," a Lieutenant Eve Dallas story from #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb.
Once upon a time, in a world far removed from the days when fairy tales were new, five bestselling authors...
by J. D. Robb, Mary Blayney, Mary Kay McComas
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2006
Follow four of today’s most provocative authors to a place where love can transform reality—and anything can happen. Here they present four paranormal stories of ethereal circumstances, magical romance, and otherworldly suspense.
Beginning with "Haunted in Death," a tale from...
by J. D. Robb, Mary Blayney, Elaine Fox
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Some of your favorite romance authors present five stories told through the looking glass—including "Wonderment in Death," a Lieutenant Eve Dallas novella from #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb!
You’re late for a very important date...
Enter a wonderland...
Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
A Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005
As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...