Kent: 1460 books
Doing Civility
Breaking the Cycle of Incivility on the Campus
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Doing Civility: Breaking the Cycle of Incivility on the Campus, explores ways in which members of the college community can take proactive steps to break the cycle of incivility. Civility requires extending mutual respect to others, especially people with different values, beliefs, and ideas. It also...
The Red Atlas
How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russia’s access to detailed information on the United States and its allies may not seem so shocking in this day of data clouds and leaks, but long before we had...
Tame Your Fears
And Transform Them into Faith, Confidence, and Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
This Bible study examines 10 fears common to most women and suggests ways to overcome such fears by using them as stepping stones to deeper faith, renewed confidence, and sincere reverence for a powerful and loving God.
by Alexander Kent
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
Spring 1802, and the Peace Treaty of Amiens, signed only a few weeks earlier, is already showing signs of collapse. Britain and France wrangle over the return of colonial possessions won and lost during their long, bloody war and in the little 64-gun Achates, Vice-Admiral Richard Bolitho sails for America and the Caribbean.
by Alexander Kent
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
February 1813: As American privateers pick off British and Canadian ships in the wake of the War of 1812, Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho returns to Halifax to defend Crown property. In the cold waters off Nova Scotia, he fights fruitless skirmishes with men of the frontier, all the while longing for peace.
by Alexander Kent
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
War with Britain's former colony looms on the horizon, and Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho must lead a squadron against the powerful new ships of the United States navy. Supported by his loyal crew, Bolitho must use all his ingenuity to defeat one of America's great naval commanders, Nathan Beer.
by Alexander Kent
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
Falmouth, September 1803: As Bolitho faces the grim reality of war at close quarters, he will be called upon to anticipate the strategies of the French fleet. But the conflict has also taken on a personal note, reviving his vendetta with the French Admiral, Jobert, who once commanded the Argonaute.
A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France
The Political Thought of Mably
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
This is an intellectual biography of Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709-85), who emerges as a central figure in the history of republican thought in the era of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.
This book has two related aims. The first is to fill an important gap in historical scholarship....
The Last Rite
(The Danilov Quintet 5)
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Russia – 1917. Zmyeevich, king of all vampires, is dead.
History records that the great voordalak – known across Europe as Dracula – perished in 1893 beneath the ramparts of his own castle, deep in the mountains of Wallachia. In Russia, the Romanov tsars are free of the curse that has plagued...
by Alexander Kent
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
In September 1804, as England stands alone against France and the fleets of Spain, Vice-Admiral Richard Bolitho hoists his flag above the veteran Hyperion and sets sail with a new squadron for the Caribbean. His orders are to plan and execute a daring dawn raid on the Spanish Main.
by Alexander Kent
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Sir Richard Bolitho returns from a wearing campaign in North American waters to take up a command in Malta. As England's long war with Napoleon reaches its end, will Richard Bolitho's longing for peace—both public and personal—be fulfilled?
Genes De Large
An Alaskan Diary and Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2005
This book was written in diary form to chronicle events during our annual stay at Chandalar Lake in the Brooks Range. Myself and two friends built a cabin on the lake shore in 1991. My wife and I spend one month there during the short arctic autumn each year. Its our piece of tranquility played out...
No State Shall Abridge
The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
“The book is carefully organized and well written, and it deals with a question that is still of great importance—what is the relationship of the Bill of Rights to the states.”—Journal of American History
“Curtis effectively settles a serious legal debate: whether the framers of the...
Somebody’S Daughter
A Mother’S Journey Through the Joys and Disappointments of Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Sue and Greg Hibbs were lucky to have been able to have a perfect little boy, but Sue desperately wanted to have a large family, since she had been an only and lonely child. After several years of running from doctor to doctor with no answers or solutions, they were advised to adopt from an unwed...