Barry: 2877 books
The Mark of Rebels
Indios Fronterizos and Mexican Independence
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In The Mark of Rebels Barry Robinson offers a new look at Mexican Independence from the perspective of an indigenous population caught in the heart of the struggle. During the conquest and settlement of Mexico’s Western Sierra Madre, Spain’s indigenous allies constructed an indio fronterizo identity...
Traumatic Politics
The Deputies and the King in the Early French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
The opening events of the French Revolution have stood as some of the most familiar in modern European history. Traumatic Politics emerges as a fresh voice from the existing historiography of this widely studied course of events. In applying a psychological lens to the classic problem of why the French...
Perspectives on the Security of Singapore
The First 50 Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Perspectives on the Security of Singapore: The First 50 Years explores the security of Singapore in the last 50 years and its possible trajectories into the future. This volume brings together the diverse perspectives of a team of academics with different expertise, ranging from history to political...
by Bernice Barry
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
This meticulously researched biography tells the extraordinary story of Georgiana Molloy, one of Australia's first internationally successful female botanists.
From the refined beauty of 19th century England and Scotland, to the dramatic landscape of the West Australian coast, Georgiana Molloy:...
Crazyball
Sports Scandals, Superstitions, and Sick Plays
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Crazyball is a look at the wild, unusual, unimaginable, funny, and downright strange occurrences in sports. Barry Wilner and Ken Rappoport take us from the worst teams in history to sports’ craziest superstitions, wackiest pranks, and ultimate blown calls. This book is filled with moments that will...
The War Against the Pirates
British and American Suppression of Caribbean Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Based on hitherto unused sources in English and Spanish in British and American archives, in this book naval historian Barry Gough and legal authority Charles Borras investigate a secret Anglo-American coercive war against Spain, 1815-1835. Described as a war against piracy at the time, the authors...
Violence and Nonviolence
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Violence and Nonviolence: an Introduction critiques five dominant societal views about violence and nonviolence. Using evidence from scientific studies as well as anecdotal evidence and news reports, esteemed scholar and editor Barry L. Gan shows readers that these widely adopted and violent views...
by Barry Cunliffe
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2018
Fierce warriors and skilled craftsmen, the Celts were famous throughout the Ancient Mediterranean World. They were the archetypal barbarians from the north and were feared by both Greeks and Romans. For two and a half thousand years they have continued to fascinate those who have come into contact...
by Barry Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
The Egyptians created a world of supernatural forces so vivid, powerful and inescapable that controlling one's destiny within it was a constant preoccupation. In life, supernatural forces manifested themselves through misfortune and illness,and after death were faced for eternity in the Otherworld,...
The Ideal of Public Service
Reflections on the Higher Civil Service in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
A close examination of the ethics of higher civil servants in Britain and how they have been undermined by recent developments in public administration.
Barry O'Toole tackles key questions such as:
how should public servants behave?
how should they be encouraged to think ethically?
how...
by Barry Stone
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Mutinies is an exhaustive investigation of twenty-three of the world's most infamous uprisings at sea, from the earliest days of ocean exploration to the present. Investigating the circumstances and motivations that drive seamen to overthrow authority and commit extreme and lethal crimes, Barry Stone...
by Barry Winbolt
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
This accessible guide to Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), an effective therapeutic approach which focuses on strengths and achievements, provides a practical introduction to what SFBT is and how to use it with clients.
Barry Winbolt leads the reader through the principles, techniques...
THE MICROBES OF MARS
A 2011 Addendum to Mars: The Living Planet
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Trying to understand why those in the NASA Mars Exploration program are intentionally side-stepping, ignoring and appear to have abandoned the most intriguing set of data about Mars ever obtained is a mystery in light of years of new evidence that seem to support its extraordinary findings – that there...
American Denominational History
Perspectives on the Past, Prospects for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
This work brings various important topics and groups in American religious history the rigor of scholarly assessment of the current literature. The fruitful questions that are posed by the positions and experiences of the various groups are carefully examined. American Denominational History points...