Raymond: 2733 books

Anthropologists need history to understand how the past has shaped the present. Historians need anthropology to help them interpret the past. Where anthropologists’ and historians’ needs intersect is ethnohistory. The contributors to this volume have been inspired in large part by the teaching...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARTIN EDWARDS 'The death was an odd one, it was true; but there was after all no very clear reason to assume it was anything but natural.' In the winter of 1942, England lies cold and dark in the wartime blackout. One bleak evening, Councillor Grayling steps...

This proud and haunting novel is the last great work of Raymond Harris, his final testament. Here, in one vast, breathtaking sweep is his story of the land where he was born, the land he loved and left, but could never forget - the story of the people of Wales and the borders, not over one...

Raymond Williams' last novel is an imaginary history of Wales from Roman times to the Middle Ages. It is an expansive, profound and insightful panorama of ordinary human life, played out in the foothills of the Black Mountains.

Raymond Williams made a central contribution to the intellectual culture of the Left in the English-speaking world. He was also one of the key figures in the foundation of cultural studies in Britain, which turned critical skills honed on textual analysis to the examination of structures and forms...

'Wonder Stories' was founded by legendary publisher Hugo Gernsback after he left 'Amazing Stories.' 'Wonder Stories' thrived in one form or another for more than thirty years, briefly rivaling even 'Astounding.' This four-hundred-plus page anthology collects ten important stories from the magazine's...

Another one. It's a new year, but the same savage writer is back. He has some new tactics up his sleeve. In The Uncontrolled Thoughts, Khali is at his wisest and his funniest. He is destined to take you on a ride as he reflects back on his adolescence. Plus, he also gives you some insight toward what...

A big comfortable chair, a warm fire, and a good book. Daddy sits between Troy and Eve finishing their night night story and then takes them on a thrilling, funny and educational expedition through their home. They learn many interesting and necessary facts that are needed for growing up healthy and smart. But most important, they learn the truth about monsters.

It was a cold frosty Boxing day. The phone rang. Secret conversations were taking place between my wife and someone on the end of the phone that I did not know. Follow my instructions and dont ask questions she said. Trust me. We set off on a local journey to begin the next hour of fear excitement and relief. A Boxing day I will never forget.

Wishful thinking is a deeply ingrained human trait that has had a long-term distorting effect on ethical thinking. Many influential ethical views depend on the optimistic assumption that, despite appearances to the contrary, the human and natural world in which we live could, eventually, be made to...

Novels such as One Hundred Years of Solitude have awakened English-language readers to the existence of Colombian literature in recent years, but Colombia has a well-established literary tradition that far predates the Latin American "boom." In this pathfinding study, Raymond Leslie Williams provides...

The Shaker faith is estimated to have had a total of fewer than 20,000 members across its 250-year history, yet more than 100,000 people visit the various Shaker villages and museums scattered across the eastern United States every year. We are still fascinated with the world of the Shakers, and authentic...

Tom has been a very good student in high school hoping to win a college scholarship for football, when he finds out he has a heart problem that will stop him from playing it again. He graduates from school and goes right into the family farm, this is his destiny. He marries the girl he has been having...

Abby Prescott is a proper young lady who has never ventured far from home.  She travels West to attend her aunt's wedding and suddenly finds herself captivated by the beautiful, rugged landscape as well as the attention from not one, but two men. Malcolm 'Boots' Dunn is a young man who is...