John D: 1272 books
by John D. Seymour
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
St. John D Seymour was a minister and explorer, who spent his life documenting what he regarded as real-life examples of witches, banshees, poltergeists, ghosts and apparitions. Many of the earliest Irish ghost stories and tales of hauntings, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before,...
by Anderson D. Araujo, Hazel Atkins, William Blissett
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
T. S. Eliot was raised in the Unitarian faith of his family in St. Louis but drifted away from their beliefs while studying philosophy, mysticism, and anthropology at Harvard. During a year in Paris, he became involved with a group of Catholic writers and subsequently went through a gradual conversion...
The History of Gaylordsville
John D. Flynn and Gaylordsville Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
The Gaylordsville Historical Society is most appreciative to the Flynn family, especially Aline and Peter, for their generous gesture in allowing us to republish and distribute this book. Ironically, since the book went out-of-print a few years back, the Historical Society has received numerous requests...
by John D. Jump
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
First published in 1972. John D. Jump, a leading authority on Byron and the Romantic period, here gives an account of Byron’s literary achievement in relation to the age of revolutions in which he lived and in relation to his own character and personal circumstances. Professor Jump focuses upon...
by John D. Inazu
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
This original and provocative book looks at an important constitutional freedom that today is largely forgotten: the right of assembly. While this right lay at the heart of some of the most important social movements in American history—abolitionism, women's suffrage, the labor and civil rights movements—courts...
Hermeneutics
Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Is anything ever not an interpretation?
Does interpretation go all the way down?
Is there such a thing as a pure fact that is interpretation-free? If not, how are we supposed to know what to think and do?
These tantalizing questions are tackled by renowned American thinker John D Caputo in...
The Book of Nothing
Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
What conceptual blind spot kept the ancient Greeks (unlike the Indians and Maya) from developing a concept of zero? Why did St. Augustine equate nothingness with the Devil? What tortuous means did 17th-century scientists employ in their attempts to create a vacuum? And why do contemporary quantum...
A Conceptual History of Psychology
Exploring the Tangled Web
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
In the new edition of this original and penetrating book, John D. Greenwood provides an in-depth analysis of the subtle conceptual continuities and discontinuities that inform the history of psychology from the speculations of the Ancient Greeks to contemporary cognitive psychology. He also demonstrates...
Confident Pluralism
Surviving and Thriving through Deep Difference
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
In the three years since Donald Trump first announced his plans to run for president, the United States seems to become more dramatically polarized and divided with each passing month. There are seemingly irresolvable differences in the beliefs, values, and identities of citizens across the country...
Rewiring Education
How Technology Can Unlock Every Student’s Potential
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
What if we could unlock the potential in every child? As it turns out, we can.
Apple’s iconic cofounder Steve Jobs had a powerful vision for education: employing technology to make an enormous impact on the lives of millions of students. To realize this vision, Jobs tapped John D. Couch,...
Redeeming Economics
Rediscovering the Missing Element
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
“Groundbreaking.” —Washington Examiner
Economics is primed for—and in desperate need of—a revolution, respected economic forecaster John D. Mueller shows in this eye-opening book. To make the leap forward will require looking backward, for as Redeeming Economics reveals, the most...
by John D. Roche
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2006
"Claim denied!" All too often millions of veterans have received this response to their legitimate claims for federal benefits. In most cases, writes veterans' advocate John D. Roche, the claimant didn't understand the procedures needed to meet the myriad requirements of the Department of Veterans Affairs....
by John D. Roche
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2008
The VA is not your loving Uncle Sam who opens his wallet and says, Here you are, nephewa 1,000 check per month for the rest of your life. That should take the pain out of your service injuries, writes John D. Roche. Far from it, he reveals. Though the Veterans Claims Assistance Act of 2000 requires...
A Tan and Sandy Silence
A Travis McGee Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
From a beloved master of crime fiction, A Tan and Sandy Silence is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.
Travis McGee is unnerved when he receives an unexpected guest—real estate developer Harry Broll, who is convinced that McGee...