Black: 2922 books

Is veganism the right path for you? This book will give you all the information you need to make that very personal decision for yourself. Doreen Virtue and Becky Black, M.F.T., R.D., show you that it isn’t just the fat or carbohydrate content that counts when making dietary choices—it’s the...

It is commonly argued that there is no point in divining the future as knowing whether good things will happen spoils their surprise and foreknowledge of bad events creates worry. However, many of us plan for the future and use the range of available resources to inform our decisions. Divination is...

Psychic Powers Year 2 - A Wiccan Themed Series Book 9 of 12 in the Wiccan Witchcraft Series A Witch aims to use all means at his or her disposal for religious or magical purposes. Before developing any of the higher psychic skills it is an excellent idea to work on developing things that can...

Exploring the Planes of Life Year 2 A Wiccan Themed Series In this lesson you will learn about techniques Witches use to explore the planes of life. I teach two basic methods of traveling in the higher planes. The first uses a simulacrum outside of the physical body to carry the consciousness...

Studying Further, The Art of MagicYear 2 in the craft of Wiccan WitchcraftA skilled Witch or Magician will often switch from one magical system to another in a bid to look at things in different ways and perceive different possibilities and methods of action. Some Witches are therefore adept...

From the Great Exhibition to the Credit Crunch - the transformation of Britain from the world's greatest nation to the present day In 1851 Queen Victoria opened the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, it was the high water mark of English achievement - the nation at the forefront of the Industrial...

  In A History of Diplomacy, historian Jeremy Black investigates how a form of courtly negotiation and information-gathering in the early modern period developed through increasing globalization into a world-shaping force in twenty-first-century politics. The monarchic systems of the sixteenth...

History is both the past and our accounts of the past. In Rethinking World War Two, Jeremy Black explores the contesting accounts and interpretations of the war, critically examining the leading controversies surrounding the conflict, its aftermath and its ongoing significance in the modern world. The...

Amid the ongoing Brexit crisis, both sides are appealing to Britain's past relationship with Europe to justify their positions. But much specious history is presented to argue for either the closeness or distance of our political, cultural and economic links with 'the Continent'. We urgently need...

Contesting History is an authoritative guide to the positive and negative applications of the past in the public arena and what this signifies for the meaning of history more widely. Using a global, non-Western model, Jeremy Black examines the employment of history by the state, the media, the national...

Britain yesterday; America today. The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commentator Jeremy Black shows how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the reality of American power today. He emphasizes...

Englishness is an idea, a consciousness and a proto-nationalism. There is no English state within the United Kingdom, no English passport, Parliament or currency, nor any immediate prospect of any. That does not mean that England lacks an identity, although English nationalism, or at least a distinctive...

The modern age of naval warfare began with the combination of steam power, iron warships, and modern artillery, which launched an intense period of international competition. Tracing naval warfare from the 1860s into the future, noted historian Jeremy Black provides a dynamic account of strategy and...

The seventeenth century has long been seen as a period of 'crisis' or transition from the pre-modern to the modern world. This book offers a chance to explore this crisis from the perspective of war and military institutions in a way that should appeal to those doing global history. By placing...