Palmer: 1916 books

This deeply informed book considers the intertwined roles of faith, force, and finance in shaping the modern Middle East. Leading expert Monte Palmer argues that these factors will continue to have a major impact on the Middle East as the United States and other major powers increasingly find themselves...

New Hampshire is the subject of Palmer's book precisely because it serves as the first presidential primary every four years. Many critics of the New Hampshire primary fault it for being too arcane, too unrepresentative, and too quixotic to use as a gatekeeper of who becomes President. Palmer went...

CHEESE DELUXE: A MEMOIR, is a collection of mostly true tales of a group of baby boomers in a time of transition. They are high school seniors, full of their own good fortune, bright prospects and parents' money, unaware of a world waiting impatiently to gobble them up. But they are beginning to get...

In De grote vragen snijdt Donald Palmer de belangrijkste thema's aan die vanaf de Griekse oudheid centraal staan in de westerse filosofie zoals de reden van ons bestaan en de begrippen vrijheid, kunst, politiek en ethiek. Aan de hand van ca. 500 door hem zelf gemaakte illustraties bespreekt Palmer...

What does it feel like to be featured, quoted, or just named in a news story? A refugee family, the survivor of a shooting, a primary voter in Iowa—the views and experiences of ordinary people are an important component of journalism. While much has been written about how journalists work and gather...

Behaviors are changing.But why?Attention spans are decreasing at a frightening pace. Patience is down. Communication skills, written and interpersonal, are eroding. Manners are lost in self-absorption, tempers run short, rudeness runs high, and cell phone dependency approaches neurosis. Frustration...

Hope for American democracy in an era of deep divisions In Healing the Heart of Democracy, Parker J. Palmer quickens our instinct to seek the common good and gives us the tools to do it. This timely, courageous and practical work—intensely personal as well as political—is not about them,...

Arguing that a 'new atheism', driven largely by Darwinian objections to God's existence, has limited debate to a scientific framework, The Atheist's Primer reinstates the importance of philosophy in the debate about God's existence and in so doing recovers the distinguished philosophical tradition...

This publication is a collection of letters written by a soldier serving in Mesopotamia during the great war. The author writes to his mother , father, and friends, recounting his experiences of the war in the Middle-East. This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating...

No one knows how old the charming legends in this unusual book really are. By word of mouth they have been handed down from generation to generation among the Pahute Indians, one of the most ancient and primitive tribes on this continent, who settled centuries ago in what is now the state of Utah. In...

This unique new book, a collection of blog pieces, starts with a fast-moving romp through the World Cup in France sixteen years ago. In 1998, Myles Palmer was an English author and journalist who became a blogger as soon as he went online because his friend suggested that they covered the World Cup,...

Best-selling novelist Diana Palmer has well over a hundred books in print, translated and published around the world. She has written historical as well as science-fiction novels, but she is best known for her contemporary romance books. The Winter Man comprises two classic Diana Palmer romances. Silent...

The Active Life is Parker J. Palmer's deep and graceful exploration of a spirituality for the busy, sometimes frenetic lives many of us lead. Telling evocative stories from a variety of religious traditions, including Taoist, Jewish, and Christian, Palmer shows that the spiritual life does not mean...

Seven End-Times Messages From God contains seven distinct messages that were given to Rev. Edward G. Palmer. These messages were originally published in 2009 as a print book. This 2018 Edition has been specifically updated, edited and reformatted from the original print book text for distribution...