Sears: 215 books
by Charles Sears
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Searching for God is an essay sequel to The Search for God by the same author. Its a book of quotations about God, religion, and philosophy taken from several different points of viewbelievers, disbelievers, agnostics, and atheists. It is the authors opinion based on personal research. While the reader...
A Good Book, In Theory
Making Sense Through Inquiry, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
This highly original and compelling book offers an introduction to the art and science of social inquiry, including the theoretical and methodological frameworks that support that inquiry. The new edition offers coverage of post-modernism and Indigenous ways of knowing, as well as a discussion of...
The Democratic Imagination
Envisioning Popular Power in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Democracy is very much an open question in the early twenty-first century. While voter participation declines in many traditional democracies, new movements for democracy are emerging around the world. This book brings the question of democracy out of the halls of political power and home to our daily...
by Andrew Peterson, Ian Davies, Terrie Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
'Globalization' and 'the Nation' provide significant contexts for examining past educational thinking and practice and to identify how education has been influenced today. This book, written collaboratively, explores country case studies - Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the UK and USA as well as discussing the transnational European Union.
Education, Politics and Religion
Reconciling the Civil and the Sacred in Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
In recent years a number of popular books have savaged religion arguing it is a dangerous delusion that poisons human societies and relationships. This is but the most recent manifestation of a secularising agenda that has been sweeping contemporary democratic societies since the Enlightenment. This...
The Insider's Guide to Boat Cleaning and Detailing : Professional Secrets to Make Your Sail-or Powerboat Beautiful: Professional Secrets to Make Your Sail-or Powerboat Beautiful
Professional Secrets to Make Your Sail-or Powerboat Beautiful
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Restore that “showboat” look to tired gelcoat, canvas, brightwork, upholstery, metalwork, and more
Boat cleaning isn’t as simple as taking a can of kitchen cleanser and scrubbing away, and improper procedures can cause damage to the boat or the environment. This is the only stem-to-stern...
by Louis Sears
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Best book on Kimora Lee Simmons, Bar None. This book is your ultimate resource for Kimora Lee Simmons. Here you will find the most up-to-date 41 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about...
by Ann Sears, Nancy Kougeas, Falmouth Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2002
For hundreds of years, people have been drawn to Falmouth, the town of the "shining sea," immortalized by Falmouth native Katherine Lee Bates in her poem America, the Beautiful. Quakers, farmers, whaling captains, marine scientists, Coast Guardsmen, summer residents, Portuguese immigrants from the Azores...
by Jacqueline M. Sears
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Holyoke is home to some of the most amazing and courageous individuals. In 1658, European pioneer John Riley, along with other early planters, was instrumental in establishing a community in the West Springfield area called Ireland Parish, which eventually became known as Holyoke. This tenacious man...
Imperial Bandits
Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Black Flags raided their way from southern China into northern Vietnam, competing during the second half of the nineteenth century against other armed migrants and uplands communities for the control of commerce, specifically opium, and natural resources, such as copper. At the edges of three...
by Lorraine Sears
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2011
With her beloved husband, Mark, terminally ill and under the care of the hospice, Sally struggles to maintain a normal life for their three children. Her days are spent working long hours to keep the roof over their heads and protecting them from the awful truth of just how ill their father really is....
Living Sharia
Law and Practice in Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Drawing on ethnographic research, Living Sharia examines the role of sharia in the sociopolitical processes of contemporary Malaysia. The book traces the contested implementation of Islamic family and criminal laws and sharia economics to provide cultural frameworks for understanding sharia among...
Mapping Chinese Rangoon
Place and Nation among the Sino-Burmese
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Mapping Chinese Rangoon is both an intimate exploration of the Sino-Burmese, people of Chinese descent who identify with and choose to remain in Burma/Myanmar, and an illumination of twenty-first-century Burma during its emergence from decades of military-imposed isolation. This spatial ethnography...
Growing Up Gay in the South
Race, Gender, and Journeys of the Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
This groundbreaking new book weaves personal portraits of lesbian and gay Southerners with interdisciplinary commentary about the impact of culture, race, and gender on the development of sexual identity. Growing Up Gay in the South is an important book that focuses on the distinct features of Southern...