Wilson James: 105 books
by James Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
In March 1961, when I was living in Northumberland, a short newspaper article on the 200th anniversary of the Hexham Riot aroused my interest. During the next five years I spent much of my spare time researching the operation of the Militia Acts in Northumberland and Durham during the Seven Years...
Fantastic Stories Presents: Fantasy Super Pack #1
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com present thirty-two wonderful tales of fantasy in this completely revised second edition text. More than seven hundred and fifty pages for your reading pleasure. Escape today! 'Immortal' by Shariann Lewitt; 'The Thing in the Attic' by James Blish;...
The Earth Shall Weep
A History of Native America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“A sweeping, well-written, long-view history” of Native American societies and “a sad epic of misunderstanding, mayhem, and massacre” (Kirkus Reviews).
In this groundbreaking, critically acclaimed historical account of the Native American peoples, James Wilson weaves a historical narrative...
by Arnie Wilson, Peter James
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Thanks to the late Peter Tory’s encouragement, who used almost 100 of my limericks in his Diary columns in the Star and The Sunday Express in the ’80s and early ’90s, I seem to be addicted to writing limericks. Or trying to. As often as not for friends. I do think a book of them might make good...
Connections 500
Blackout; Eclipse; What Are They Like?; Bassett; I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here; Gargantua; Children of Killers; Take Away; It Snows; The Musicians; Citizenship; Bedbug
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of plays.
Featuring work by some of the most prolific playwrights of the 20th and 21st centuries, and...
The Dark Clue
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“A luscious Victorian thriller” that takes its cue from Wilkie Collins’s gothic masterpiece, The Woman in White (The New York Times Book Review).
Walter Hartright and his sister-in-law Marian have been commissioned to write the definitive biography of the great Romantic landscape artist J....
by James Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
As crime rates inexorably rose during the tumultuous years of the 1970s, disputes over how to handle the violence sweeping the nation quickly escalated. James Q. Wilson redefined the public debate by offering a brilliant and provocative new argument-that criminal activity is largely rational and shaped...
Recovering the Margins of American Religious History
The Legacy of David Edwin Harrell Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
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Recovering the Margins of American Religious History, a celebration of the life and work of David Edwin Harrell Jr., brings together essays from Harrell’s colleagues, peers, and students that explore his impact and legacy in the field of American...
Now You Hear My Horn
The Journal of James Wilson Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Jim Nichols was a lively, vigorous frontiersman who came to Texas about the time of its Revolution. As with many men of that day, Nichols' formal education was lacking, but he was a born writer with a vivid way of saying things. He had an abundance of exciting events to write about: fighting against...
by Constantine Santas, James M. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Ingrid Bergman was not only an incomparable beauty but one of the finest actresses of cinema’s Golden Age. She made her start in modest productions in Sweden before Hollywood beckoned and soon became one of filmdom’s brightest stars. She appeared in many acclaimed films including Casablanca, For...
Subversion, Conversion, Development
Cross-Cultural Knowledge Exchange and the Politics of Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Explorations of design, use, and reuse of information technology in diverse historical and cultural contexts.
This book explores alternative cultural encounters with and around information technologies. These encounters are alternative because they counter dominant, Western-oriented notions...
Landing Zones
Southern Veterans Remember Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Landing Zones brings to life the dramatic, gripping, and often painful stories of twenty-four Vietnam Veterans from the American South. The men and women interviewed here represent a remarkable range of experience, including a marine rifleman, a helicopter pilot, an army nurse, a prisoner of war,...
Reagan and the World
Leadership and National Security, 1981--1989
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Throughout his presidency, Ronald Reagan sought "peace through strength" during an era of historic change. In the decades since, pundits and scholars have argued over the president's legacy: some consider Reagan a charismatic and consummate leader who renewed American strength and defeated communism....
Why, O God? (Foreword by Randy Alcorn)
Suffering and Disability in the Bible and the Church
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
With two in seven American families affected by disability, the body of Christ has a great opportunity for ministry. This new anthology uniquely points the way, training churches, caregivers, pastors, and counselors to compassionately respond.
The book’s contributors—ranging from Joni Eareckson...