Randall: 1157 books
by Randall R Bresee
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
A personal account of growing up during the idealistic 1950's and entering adulthood during the 1960's is provided through true stories about people who use wit, half-wit and a sense of adventure to tackle life's challenges. Hilarious failures and uplifting successes show that everyday...
Violence
A Micro-sociological Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
In the popular misconception fostered by blockbuster action movies and best-selling thrillers--not to mention conventional explanations by social scientists--violence is easy under certain conditions, like poverty, racial or ideological hatreds, or family pathologies. Randall Collins challenges this...
Rhythms of Revival
The Spiritual Awakening of 1857-1863
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Rhythms of Revival emphasises that 'there are times in the story of the church that are notable' and invites us to consider the abiding lessons of one significant period of revival, in the mid-nineteenth century.
This book does not offer a formula for revival, and there is a critique of undue...
American Denominational History
Perspectives on the Past, Prospects for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
This work brings various important topics and groups in American religious history the rigor of scholarly assessment of the current literature. The fruitful questions that are posed by the positions and experiences of the various groups are carefully examined. American Denominational History points...
by David Randall-MacIver
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
In 1921, author David Randall-MacIver moved to Rome in order to focus on Italian archaeology, the result of which is this is this fascinating and detailed study of the history of the Etruscans, first published in 1927.
The Etruscan civilization is the modern name given to a powerful, wealthy...
by David Randall
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
This is a graduate-level textbook on the global circulation of the Earth's atmosphere—the large-scale system of winds by which energy is transported around the planet, from the tropical latitudes to the poles. Written by David Randall, one of the world’s foremost experts on the subject, it is...
by Randall COLLINS
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Randall Collins traces the movement of philosophical thought in ancient Greece, China, Japan, India, the medieval Islamic and Jewish world, medieval Christendom, and modern Europe. What emerges from this history is a social theory of intellectual change, one that avoids both the reduction of ideas...
Emerson's Ghosts
Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2007
It is increasingly commonplace to find scholars who circle back to Ralph Waldo Emerson and his intellectual heirs as a way of better understanding contemporary social and aesthetic contexts. Why does Emerson's cultural legacy continue to influence writers so forcefully? In this innovative study, Randall...
by Randall Parrish
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Keith Of The Border by Randall Parrish.
by Randall Parrish
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Randall Parrish (1858-1923) was an American author of dime novels, including Wolves of the Sea (Being a Tale of the Colonies from the Manuscript of One Geoffry Carlyle, Seaman, Narrating Certain Strange Adventures Which Befell Him Aboard the Pirate Craft "Namur")."
by Edward C. Randall
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
I have submitted this manuscript to a large number of advanced thinkers both in America and in Europe, and the general criticism has been that it is so in advance of experience, so different from the old teachings and beliefs, that few will grasp or understand the new propositions presented. This...
The Cultural Proficiency Manifesto
Finding Clarity Amidst the Noise
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
A call-to-arms for educators in tumultuous times
In times of social disruption and uncertainty, Cultural Proficiency can provide educators with essential tools for promoting greater equity and inclusion. This book places today’s political rancor and divisiveness in the context of greater...
Women and Murder in Early Modern News Pamphlets and Broadside Ballads, 1573-1697
Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women, Series III, Part One, Volume 7
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
As voyeuristic and prurient as today's tabloid newspapers, early modern crime pamphlets and broadside ballads about women murderers tell of furtive love affairs and domestic poisonings, of battered wives who kill their abusive husbands, and of troubled mothers who murder their children. On first acquaintance,...
The Credential Society
An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
The Credential Society is a classic on the role of higher education in American society and an essential text for understanding the reproduction of inequality. Controversial at the time, Randall Collins’s claim that the expansion of American education has not increased social mobility, but rather...