Simpson: 1103 books

Offering the first comprehensive history of U.S relations with Indonesia during the 1960s, Economists with Guns explores one of the central dynamics of international politics during the Cold War: the emergence and U.S. embrace of authoritarian regimes pledged to programs of military-led development....

Pronunciation is the super-power of ELT! So say Laura Patsko and Katy Simpson, co-authors of this eBook which sets out to give teachers and materials writers the tools for writing pronunciation activities, both receptive and productive. Laura and Katy remind us of the importance of integrating pronunciation...

Is your house as safe as you think? Natalie spent most of her childhood feeling afraid. So when she moved into her cosy little flat in St Ives and met her three friendly neighbours, she knew at once it was somewhere she'd feel safe. Before long, Natalie's neighbours have become the family she...

2014 marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Stephen King?s first novel Carrie in April 1974. Rescued from the rubbish by his wife Tabitha, the novel launched the Maine schoolteacher on a prolific and extraordinarily successful career. His name has become synonymous with horror and suspense...

Updated Edition of a Bestselling Study of Jesus and the Gospels In this work Darrell Bock, a leading evangelical New Testament scholar who speaks and teaches around the world, and Benjamin Simpson show that a coherent portrait of Jesus emerges from the four Gospels when they are taken seriously...

This important collection makes a compelling argument for the importance of theory in Native studies. Within the field, there has been understandable suspicion of theory stemming both from concerns about urgent political issues needing to take precedence over theoretical speculations and from hostility...

In 1945 it was announced that Allied airmen who had taken part in the Battle of Britain in 1940 would be entitled to the “immediate” award of the 1939-1945 Star, with Battle of Britain Clasp. This was the only Clasp awarded with the 1939-1945 Star.

In the following years holders of the Clasp...

St. Edmund Campion, born in London in 1540, was an outstanding student and orator from his early years. After schooling at St Paul's, and Christ Church, he entered St John's College, Oxford, where he studied philosophy, theology and the classics. Caught in the middle of the Elizabethan Reformation,...

How much quantifies too much? How much of a small amount is not enough? When are we truly satisfied? How about the complexity of holding onto the fabric of intangibility? What is perception? Hexing free-verse explores the complexities that foster such extreme emotions as depression, angst, internal numbness and defiance. Inspirational passages offer profound insight for introspection.

The United States of America is similar to a computer: At one time, its hardware was new, its software worked well, and users respected the system. But the hardware has aged, malware has infected its circuits, and users have run amok. The entire country is locking up and crashing. Theres only one...

It started like any other Monday morning. But this was not just any weekday. Soon College Students Carl and Betty, Pastor Jeremiah, and Computer Programmer Mary would find out how different this day was as the long anticipated Zombie Apocalypse began. One minute Carl and Betty are studying...

Northern Ireland has entered what is arguably the key phase in its troubled political history – truth recovery and dealing with the legacy of the past – yet the void in knowledge and the lack of academic literature with regard to victims’ rights is particularly striking. This book, newly available...

How did the English Reformation, with its illiberal, intolerant beginnings, lay the groundwork for the Enlightenment—free will, liberty of conscience, religious toleration, constitutionalism, and all the rest? In his provocative rewriting of the history of liberalism, James Simpson uncovers its unexpected debt to Protestant evangelicalism.

Genesis 1 says "the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters". That seems like a strange thing to say on the surface. Just how did He move and why? What is the significance of it?In English this subtlety evades us. But when we see the Hebrew, the answer is clear. In the Hebrew text a most remarkable answer is revealed.