Sheldon: 545 books
The Search for Mabila
The Decisive Battle between Hernando de Soto and Chief Tascalusa
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
One of the most profound events in sixteenth-century North America was a ferocious battle between the Spanish army of Hernando de Soto and a larger force of Indian warriors under the leadership of a feared chieftain named Tascalusa. The site of this battle was a small fortified border town within...
by Kathleen Sheldon
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
African women’s history is a vast topic that embraces a wide variety of societies in over 50 countries with different geographies, social customs, religions, and historical situations. Africa is a predominantly agricultural continent, and a major factor in African agriculture is the central role...
by Sheldon McCormick
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Abuser and loser Eugene Downlow Colston is left with tormenting, bitter defeatism and relentless despair as a total failure, brokenhearted and frustrated by his fed-up former fiance. She beat him badly during a spat and, later, legally, in a court case against her. She broke their engagement and his...
Life and Death Decisions
The Quest for Morality and Justice in Human Societies
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Issues of Life and Death such as abortion, assisted suicide, capital punishment and others are among the most contentious in many societies. Whose rights are protected? How do these rights and protections change over time and who makes those decisions? Based on the author’s award-winning and hugely...
Justice Under Pressure
A Comparison of Recidivism Patterns Among Four Successive Parolee Cohorts
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Justice Under Pressure analyzes the effects of prison crowding on the justice system. The authors focus on dramatic changes in the administration of criminal justice in Texas during the 1980s and the influence of those changes on the three-year survival rates among parolees released between 1984 and...
Science and Sociology
Predictive Power is the Name of the Game
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Science and Sociology is from beginning to end an exploration of what this implies for the social sciences, and sociology in particular. The authors argue that over the last several decades, sociology has become less a science and more a quest for isolated assessments of situations, whether they come...
Magnolias without Moonlight
The American South from Regional Confederacy to National Integration
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The eleven ex-Confederate states continue to be thoroughly American and at the same time an exception to the national mainstream. The region's dual personality, how it came into being, and the purposes and interests it served is examined here, as well as its central role in the politics and culture...
by Sheldon Gen, Qian Guo, Shiyuan Hao
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
China is a multiethnic country with vast territory, a land of diverse ecosystems. With the drive for industrialization in China and the implementation of 'western grand development' strategy in western regions, both governments and people face great challenges in environmental protection and sustainable...
by Charles Monroe Sheldon
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
by Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
MOLLIE FINDS A FRIEND. Mollie Heatherford had thought no more of her brave act, by which, at the risk of her life, she had saved the child Lucille from being trampled to death under the hoofs of the pawing horses. The next morning she was greatly surprised to receive a letter from a gentleman--Monsieur...
Awake
Discover the Power of Your Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Joel Clark’s heart-pounding, tear-jerking, laugh-out-loud stories didn’t happen by accident. His life of adventure ignited when he embraced the journey God had planned for him—the story God wants to tell through each one of us. With interactive film clips and personal interviews embedded in...
by Sheldon Jeral
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
On July 21, 1941, Tikva Cholomovitch was born in Kovno, Lithuania, to Yosef and Asya Cholomovitch, her birth against the direct orders of the Nazis, who had occupied Kovno just one month prior, forbidding the birth of Jewish children. Rescued by her parents and relatives from Hitlers action against...
Language and Communication in Mental Retardation
Development, Processes, and intervention
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Research on language and communication development and intervention in persons with mental retardation has been conducted at a fast and furious pace during the last two decades. Past attempts to summarize this research have been rather restricted, focusing on a single, narrowly defined substantive...