Donald : 3901 books
Reading Sexualities
Hermeneutic Theory and the Future of Queer Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Reading Sexualities confronts the reigning practices, priorities, and preoccupations of queer theory and sexuality studies. Looking at a range of texts, from novels to travel narratives to internet porn, Donald E. Hall deftly weaves the theoretical with the literary in order to:
examine the...
Magistrates, Police, and People
Everyday Criminal Justice in Quebec and Lower Canada, 1764-1837
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
The role and function of criminal justice in a conquered colony is always problematic, and the case of Quebec is no exception. Many historians have suggested that, between the Conquest and the Rebellions (1760s-1830s), Quebec's 'Canadien' inhabitants both boycotted and were excluded from the British...
COPD
Answers to Your Questions
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
"...invaluable for families and patients living with COPD." (from the back cover) This book provides answers to questions that are frequently asked by those who have COPD and their family. Each of the nine chapters starts with a brief vignette describing someone with COPD in author Donald A. Mahler's...
Animal Minds
Beyond Cognition to Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
In Animal Minds, Donald R. Griffin takes us on a guided tour of the recent explosion of scientific research on animal mentality. Are animals consciously aware of anything, or are they merely living machines, incapable of conscious thoughts or emotional feelings? How can we tell? Such questions have...
by Donald O'Donovan
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Highway is author Donald O’Donovan’s third novel in which we find his quintessential hero, Jerzy Mulvaney, portrayed in early life as an over-the-road truck driver—a bedbug hauler, as the industry labels those who move furniture rather than commercial goods. But Mulvaney is anything but a typical...
How Peary Reached the Pole
The Personal Story of His Assistant
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
In 1934 Donald B. MacMillan, an accomplished explorer, wrote about his early career as a member of Robert E. Peary's 1908-09 North Pole Expedition. Now available for the first time since its original publication, this expanded edition of How Peary Reached the Pole features a biography of MacMillan...
American Sailors and United States Marines at War and Peace
Navy Sea Stories and Marine Corps Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
From World War II through Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, American Sailors and United States Marines at War and Peace: Navy Sea Stories and Marine Corps Legends tells exciting stories of a sailor's and a Marine's life at sea during war and peace. Compiled from the experiences of author...
by Donald L. Anderson, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 1996
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Donald Anderson highlights the necessity in the fight against poverty to first and foremost organize communities and let them decide their courses...
by Donald S. Lopez Jr., Peggy McCracken
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
The fascinating account of how the story of the Buddha was transformed into the legend of a Christian saint.
The story of Saint Josaphat, a prince who gave up his wealth and kingdom to follow Jesus, was one of the most popular Christian tales of the Middle Ages, translated into a dozen languages,...
Elaborations on Emptiness
Uses of the Heart Sūtra
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
The Heart Sutra is perhaps the most famous Buddhist text, traditionally regarded as a potent expression of emptiness and of the Buddha's perfect wisdom. This brief, seemingly simple work was the subject of more commentaries in Asia than any other sutra. In Elaborations on Emptiness, Donald Lopez explores...
by F. Donald Logan
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Completely updated to include important primary research, archaeological findings and debates from the last decade, this third edition of F. Donald Logan's successful book examines the Vikings and their critical role in history.
The author uses archaeological, literary and historical evidence...
by Donald Rump
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
THE F**KING IDIOT . . .
Vlad Wieckowski has seen better days. With only the clothes on his back, he's out of money, out of luck, and out of gas.
CONFRONTS THE EVIL PINT-SIZED BASTARD . . .
That little sh*t Henry Winkle is at it again, and this time he's got warehouses full of...
by Donald Rump
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
When Brad Blemmings meets his blind date at Fifty Something, a retro shake and burger joint, he's not sure what to expect. But the goth beauty Maimah is quite a handful, and then there's the matter of the farting jukebox in the corner...
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Texas Terror
The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
On July 8, 1860, fire destroyed the entire business section of Dallas, Texas. At about the same time, two other fires damaged towns near Dallas. Early reports indicated that spontaneous combustion was the cause of the blazes, but four days later, Charles Pryor, editor of the Dallas Herald, wrote letters...