Ward: 2405 books
Unmanageable Revolutionaries
Women and Irish Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1995
Unmanageable Revolutionaries describes how Irish women (despite their frequent omission from the history books) have always played a key role in the struggle for independence. The author depicts the role women have played in the 'Irish struggle' from 1881 to the present day, partiularly in the crucial...
Orderly Britain
How Britain has resolved everyday problems, from dog fouling to double parking
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2020
All societies, in their very different ways, are orderly. The very term 'society' implies the existence of a degree of organisation and predictability to human life. Orderliness, however, is a matter of degree. It is neither total, nor totally absent.
In recent times, however, such concerns...
by Leo R. Ward
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2012
Travel through Ireland with Father Leo R. Ward, philosopher and theologian, as he observes the Irish people, landscape, and religion.
Crossing the Line
Early Creole Novels and Anglophone Caribbean Culture in the Age of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Crossing the Line examines a group of early nineteenth-century novels by white creoles, writers whose identities and perspectives were shaped by their experiences in Britain’s Caribbean colonies. Colonial subjects residing in the West Indian colonies "beyond the line," these writers were perceived...
Rural Jail Reentry
Offender Needs and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Today’s high recidivism rates, combined with the rising costs of jails and prisons, are increasingly seen as problems that must be addressed on both moral and financial grounds. Research on prison and jail reentry typically focuses on barriers stemming from employment, housing, mental health, and...
Bringing the Word to Life
Engaging the New Testament through Performing It
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2013
The New Testament books were written to be read aloud. The original audiences of these texts would have been unfamiliar with our current practice of reading silently and processing with our eyes rather than our ears, so we can learn much about the New Testament through performing it ourselves.
Richard...
Theology and Religion
Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
Graham Ward argues that the study of theology and religion, as a single academic discipline, plays a vital role in helping us to understand politics, world affairs, and the nature of humanity itself. Religion can be used to justify inhumane actions, but it also feeds dreams, inspires hopes, and shapes...
by Graham Ward
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Cities of God traces urban culture of north America and Western Europe during the 1970s, to ask how theology can respond to the postmodern city. Since Harvey Cox published his famous theological response to urban living during the mid-1960s very little has been written to address this fundamental...
Love Is His Meaning
Understanding The Teaching Of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Jesus’ teaching has changed the world. Yet his sayings can often seem cryptic and hard to understand.
In Love Is His Meaning, Keith Ward explores the various figures of speech and images that Jesus used, and finds they are all ways of expressing and evoking the self-giving love of God, manifested...
by Harriet Ward
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Harriet Ward's classic tale of mystery, suspense, and romance.
Reconfiguring Truth
Postmodernism, Science Studies, and the Search for a New Model of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 1996
This refreshingly original book links the postmodern critique of notions such as 'reality' and 'truth' with approaches to knowledge found in science and technology studies (STS), a field also discontent with traditional epistemology. Exploring STS approaches to knowledge, such as actor-network theory,...
by Kenneth Ward
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
the biography of a 19th century new zealand pioneer farmer and his immigrant parents. featuring his doomed marriage to a swedish radical christian, and the diverse nature of their three sons. success in farming, and property development, lead to alexander’s second marriage in australia. The early...
by Chris Ward
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Meet me at the end of the world ...
As civilization comes to an end, Lewis and Karen take their last vacation to the only cold place left on Earth, the remote resort town of Cold Pools. There, they will say goodbye ...
The Cold Pools - a short story of 3,000 words, is taken from the...
by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
The Testing Of Diana Mallory by Mrs. Humphry Ward.