Russell: 3438 books
Morecock, Fartwell, & Hoare
A Collection of Unfortunate but True Names
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
There's a baby born every minute and each one has to be named. In this book, you'll find an insanity of nomenclature that beggars belief. Russell Ash has trawled birth, marriage, and death certificates, phone books, and censuses going back centuries to compile a compendium of breathtakingly unlikely-but-true...
by Russell Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Did you know—
—that a New Jerseyan was the first president of the United States?
—that New Jersey was the site of the first organized college football game?
—that New Jersey was the location of one of the most devastating espionage attacks of World War I?
—that...
by Webster Russell
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
This is a book about the power of love. It chronicles, via short stories, the joys, stress, and pain that make up a strong and successful relationship that has lasted over a half century.
Collectively these stories accentuate the obvious, that the us and we approach to marriage can be far more...
Among the Woo People
A Survival Guide for Living in a College Town
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
In the mid-nineties, Russell Frank left a peaceful life in rural California to raise three kids in a town saturated with fraternities, late-night undergrad fast food haunts, and rowdy football crowds. Among the Woo People recounts his two decades living—and surviving—in State College, Pennsylvania,...
Legislation at Westminster
Parliamentary Actors and Influence in the Making of British Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The Westminster parliament is a highly visible political institution, and one of its core functions is approving new laws. Yet Britain's legislative process is often seen as executive-dominated, and parliament as relatively weak. As this book shows, such impressions can be misleading. Drawing on the...
Quantum Shift
Theological and Pastoral Implications of Contemporary Developments in Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
While the field of science has made incredible advances in the past century, and more and more scientists have gone to great lengths to make these developments accessible to the public, we still rarely hear ministers and communities of faith discussing the implications of these developments for the...
by Regina Russell
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Free Form is a book that has it all: Short stories, poetry, fiction and non-fiction, a drama, a humorous article and a bit of prose with a surprise ending. Learn the truth Brad Somers is horrified to find out. Feel the heart of a mother whose son leaves...again. Discover what the "darling" code means...
The Discipline of Religion
Structure, Meaning, Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
The Discipline of Religion is a lively critical journey through religious studies today, looking at its recent growth as an academic discipline, and its contemporary political and social meanings. Focusing on the differences between religious belief and academic religious discourse, Russell T. McCutcheon...
Religious Experience
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Many regard religious experience as the essence of religion, arguing that narratives might be created and rituals invented but that these are always secondary to the original experience itself. However, the concept of "experience" has come under increasing fire from a range of critics and...
Behind the Lines
The Oral History of Special Operations in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This is the story of special operations in the second world war as it has never been told before--directly by those who took part.
Compiled by Russell Miller from interviews, diaries, letters and contemporaneous first-person accounts--many unpublished until now--the oral history in Behind the...
Social Amnesia
A Critique of Contemporary Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Russell Jacoby defines social amnesia as society's repression of remembrance - society's own past. In this book, Jacoby excavates the critical and historical concepts that have fallen prey to the dynamic of a society that strips them both of their historical and critical content. Social Amnesia is...
by Christine Russell, Christopher Russell
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
ness in the shape of Lambad the Bad. Thus the Eppingham Posse of Rare Breed Warriors is born. In fact, the silver object is a mobile phone, dropped from a hot air balloon by Luke and Neil, who have been stealing bank money over the internet. They need that phone back to hide the evidence. And a couple...
by Russell Edson
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2009
“An artist who moonlights as a dentist. A worm who's eternal. A farmer who milks his cow to death. Not to mention the guy with a belly button for an eye. Russell Edson, self-named Little Mr. Prose Poem, returns with See Jack, a book of fractured fairy tales, whose impeccable logic undermines logic...
Never Let You Go
Sweethearts of Sumner County, #1
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Elle and Danny were childhood sweethearts who married right out of college and then divorced. Six months later, they run into each other at his sister's wedding reception. Will sparks fly a second time? Or will they get burned? Never Let You Go is a sweet romance short story about regret and second...