Barnett: 540 books
Eyewitness to a Genocide
The United Nations and Rwanda
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Why was the UN a bystander during the Rwandan genocide? Do its sins of omission leave it morally responsible for the hundreds of thousands of dead? Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda for much of the genocide. Based on his first-hand...
Getting it Wrong
How Faulty Monetary Statistics Undermine the Fed, the Financial System, and the Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
A leading economist contends that the recent financial crisis was caused not by the failure of mainstream economics but by corrupted monetary data constructed without reference to economics.
Blame for the recent financial crisis and subsequent recession has commonly been assigned to everyone...
by Paul Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
What motivated the apostle Paul from his Damascus road experience through to the end of his life? That is the question driving this powerfully argued work by leading New Testament scholar Paul Barnett. Dr Barnett proposes that an understanding of Paul's years in Syria-Cilicia is critical for understanding...
Thinking and Rethinking the University
The selected works of Ronald Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
In the World Library of Educationalists series, international scholars compile career-long selections of what they judge to be among their finest pieces so the world has access to them in a single manageable volume. Readers are able to follow the themes and strands and see how their work contributes...
Graham Barnett
A Dangerous Man
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Graham Barnett was killed in Rankin, Texas, on December 6, 1931. His death brought an end to a storied career, but not an end to the legends that claimed he was a gunman, a hired pistolero on both sides of the border, a Texas Ranger known for questionable shootings in Company B under Captain Fox, a deputy...
Lhasa
Streets with Memories
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2006
There are many Lhasas. One is a grid of uniform boulevards lined with plush hotels, all-night bars, and blue-glass-fronted offices. Another is a warren of alleyways that surround a seventh-century temple built to pin down a supine demoness. A web of Stalinist, rectangular blocks houses the new nomenklatura....
Bethlehem to Patmos: The New Testament Story (Revised 2013)
The New Testament Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
The historian, Paul Barnett, examines the New Testament story and beyond in this revision of his bestselling work, Bethlehem to Patmos.
Through this fascinating journey he shows that the New Testament is historically reliable on the life of Jesus and the early experiences of the nascent first-century...
Mirage
Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2009
"In the days before the Internet, books like Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and Marjorie Stoneman Douglas' River of Grass were groundbreaking calls to action that made citizens and politicians take notice. Mirage is such a book."
—St. Petersburg Times
“Never before has the...
Empire of Humanity
A History of Humanitarianism
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Empire of Humanity explores humanitarianism’s remarkable growth from its humble origins in the early nineteenth century to its current prominence in global life. In contrast to most contemporary accounts of humanitarianism that concentrate on the last two decades, Michael Barnett ties the past to...
Tame Me? I Don't Think So....
Boxed set--Wicked, Bewitching, & Saving Grace
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
TAME ME? I DON’T THINK SO!
Three book collection of New York Times Bestselling Author Jill Barnett's rollicking fun, yet at times remarkably tender, battle of the sexes love stories, Wicked, Bewitching, and Saving Grace, all in one money saving volume guaranteed to make you laugh, cry, and...
Iron Britannia
Time to Take the Great out of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
On April 2 1982 Argentine forces seized the British-dependent Falkland Islands. Within 48 hours a British task force was sailing for the South Atlantic. One in five Britons opposed this war; but Argentina's surrender 74 days later set Margaret Thatcher on course for her second election victory. Anthony...
The Place of Law
The Role and Limits of Law in Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
In this stimulating volume, Larry D. Barnett locates a fundamental defect in widespread assumptions regarding the institution of law. He asserts that scholarship on law is being led astray by currently accepted beliefs about the institution, and as a result progress in understanding law as a societal...
The Priority of Injustice
Locating Democracy in Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This original and ambitious work looks anew at a series of intellectual debates about the meaning of democracy. Clive Barnett engages with key thinkers in various traditions of democratic theory and demonstrates the importance of a geographical imagination in interpreting contemporary political change.
Debates...
by Jill Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
A classic Jill Barnett novel called "a delight to read" by Romantic Times Magazine, Imagine was also awarded the Waldenbooks Award.
After years imprisoned on Devil's Island for a murder he never committed, escaped convict Hank Wyatt knows how to survive and believes his luck has finally...