Russell: 3438 books

Set in the late Victorian era, An Oxford Scandal is the third book in Norman Russell’s ‘Oxford’ series of detective novels. The book follows Anthony Jardine, a successful and popular tutor at St. Gabriel’s College, as he finds his loyalties divided between his work, his wife Dora and his mistress...

Raiding Cúailnge.Macha, one of the Keltoi triple goddesses of war during the Iron Age, circa 463 BCE, lays a curse on the kingdom of the Ulaidh in revenge for her humiliation, at their hands, during her birth pangs. Breoga, a wine trader, tells Titus Publius, a junior tribune in Gaul, of the...

Bertrand Russell’s Our Knowledge of the External World investigates the problem of perception from an analytic-philosophical perspective. Here the great British mathematician and philosopher gives a thoughtful exposition of his logically motivated epistemology and argues for a controversial solution...

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...

Book One of the Linderton Series sets the background for the subsequent adventures of Kenny and his family, along with Sir John and the rest of the characters that live on and around the fine Irish estate. The focus of this first story is on fishing. The river that runs through the Linderton Estate...

Looking for a new lease on life? Steer clear of the lukewarm pablum you'll find in most modern self-help books and stick to the classics. Russell Conwell's Every Man His Own University is an amazingly comprehensive guide for any man (or woman!) who needs to make a change -- and is willing to put in the work that that entails. Fans of Napoleon Hill's oeuvre will love this book.

Tayler Kent flees London in a blinding snowstorm, hoping to escape the ghosts that haunt his home. Instead, he finds things may have gone from bad to worse when he crashes his car, breaks his ankle, and is forced to take refuge at a medieval monastery now inhabited by the eccentric Charles Hogarth,...

Cindy Matherson thought she had the perfect man and the perfect marriage, until a woman from her husband’s past, resurfaces. They are plagued by incessant calls in the night. Worse yet, Erica has carnal knowledge of Kevin and their marriage, leaving Cindy doubting her husband’s fidelity.

Archaeology has been complicit in the appropriation of indigenous peoples' pasts worldwide. While tales of blatant archaeological colonialism abound from the era of empire, the process also took more subtle and insidious forms. Ian McNiven and Lynette Russell outline archaeology's "colonial culture"...

Addison Peale Russell was an American author of the later nineteenth century. He is remembered mainly for his Sub-Coelum — "his best book...a Utopian protest against materialistic socialism."

The national bestseller that put "work/family balance" in the headlines and on the White House agenda, with a new introduction by the author. When The Time Bind was first published in 1997, it was hailed as the decade's most influential study of our work/family crisis. In the short...

Flash O'Lantern contains 13 original award-winning Halloween flash fiction short stories of 1,000 words or less and 13 noteworthy events that happened in October including: Famous People in October: Edgar Allan Poe (died), Bela Lugosi (born), Vincent Price (died) and two others! Movies/TV...

"Mothering" contains three heart-warming, true stories that will appeal to women of all ages whether they are mothers or only thinking about becoming a mother. The first story is told from the perspective of a mother who is accompanying her daughter in the labor room as her grandchild is...

Like the Puritan-era narratives she studies, Hannah Guttentag’s early-1990s narrative is a chronicle of the strange places she travels-Nashville, Ithaca, New Orleans, Cleveland, Nebraska-the savages who captivate her-librarians, grad students, professors, her baby-and the redemption she earns.Josh...