Gordon Campbell: 14 books

Book cover of The Hermit in the Garden

The Hermit in the Garden

From Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome

by Gordon Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013

Tracing its distant origins to the villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the second century AD, the eccentric phenomenon of the ornamental hermit enjoyed its heyday in the England of the eighteenth century It was at this time that it became highly fashionable for owners of country estates to commission...
Book cover of A Short History of Gardens
by Gordon Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016

Gardens take many forms, and have a variety of functions. They can serve as spaces of peace and tranquilty, a way to cultivate wildlife, or as places to develop agricultural resources. Globally, gardens have inspired, comforted, and sustained people from all walks of life, and since the Garden of...
Book cover of Garden History: A Very Short Introduction
by Gordon Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019

Gardens take many forms, and have a variety of functions. They can serve as spaces of peace and tranquilty, a way to cultivate wildlife, or as places to develop agricultural resources. Globally, gardens have inspired, comforted, and sustained people from all walks of life, and since the Garden of...
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John Milton

Life, Work, and Thought

by Gordon Campbell, Thomas N. Corns
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008

This book re-examines scrupulously the writings and the life records of John Milton, in the context of a proper understanding of the recent developments in seventeenth-century historiography. Milton's thought has often been too simply described. The approach here is to interrogate more sceptically...
Book cover of Missing Witness
by Gordon Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

1973, Phoenix, Arizona. A beautiful woman with a gun enters a house with her twelve-year-old daughter. When they leave, the man inside is dead. Though the only witness to the fatal shooting is in a catatonic state and unable to testify, the police, the attorney general's office, and the media...
Book cover of Happy Homicides 3: Summertime Crime

Happy Homicides 3: Summertime Crime

Happy Homicides Mystery Anthologies, #3

by Joanna Campbell Slan, Linda Gordon Hengerer, Margaret Lucke
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017

Ten mystery authors and eleven great, clean stories! Find your new favorite author or enjoy spending time with an old faithful. Summertime is prime time for crime in this, the third book in our mystery series. As always, this book comes with a super-duper secret email address so you can send away for...
Book cover of Happy Homicides 4: Fall Into Crime

Happy Homicides 4: Fall Into Crime

Happy Homicides Mystery Anthologies, #4

by Joanna Campbell Slan, Linda Gordon Hengerer, Carole W. Price
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017

Find your new favorite author - or enjoy a new story by an old fave - with this collection of clean mysteries. Cuddle up with intrepid sleuths, stunning locations, and puzzling crimes.  Includes an email address for a free illustrated bonus file with recipes and craft ideas that go along with stories...
Book cover of Happy Homicides 1: Cozy Holiday Mysteries Vol 1

Happy Homicides 1: Cozy Holiday Mysteries Vol 1

Happy Homicides Mystery Anthologies, #1

by Joanna Campbell Slan, Neil Plakcy, Annie Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015

Meet your new favorite author! The Happy Homicides Cozy Mystery Series is our way of introducing you to new talent and reminding you of old favorites at a reasonable price. You’ll love this huge collection of heartwarming, brain-puzzling, and character-driven traditional mysteries that'll keep you...
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Corporate Cthulhu

Lovecraftian Tales of Bureaucratic Nightmare

by Edward Stasheff, Peter Rawlik, DJ Tyrer
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018

YOUR CALL TO CTHULHU IS IMPORTANT TO US. PLEASE HOLD. Red tape. Catch-22s. Circular chains of command. Whether you're a customer or co-worker, bureaucracies drive us all insane. Even management is just a cog in a vast machine. Information, items, and even people get lost in the system, never...
Book cover of Le retour du Dr Maguire - Un seul regard de lui
by Judy Campbell, Abigail Gordon
Language: French
Release Date: August 1, 2014

Le retour du Dr Maguire, Judy Campbell Mais pour qui se prend Lachlan Maguire ? Christa est ulcérée. Cela fait des années qu’elle travaille au cabinet médical Maguire et, sous prétexte que Lachlan vient d’en hériter après des années d’absence, elle devrait le laisser détruire...
Book cover of Harvard Classics Volume 41

Harvard Classics Volume 41

English Poetry 2: Collins To Fitzgerald

by William Collins, Golden Deer Classics, George Sewell
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2017

Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)
Book cover of Reading Revelation

Reading Revelation

A Literary-theological Approach

by Campbell, W. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012

In general, Revelation studies continue to favour going outside or behind the text (in search of its context of origin, via the historical-critical paradigm) or, more recently, in front of the text (to investigate the book's reception history, past and present). To date, relatively little synchronic...
Book cover of In/visible War

In/visible War

The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America

by Nina Berman, Nina Berman, David Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017

In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that “America” is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between...
Book cover of The Handbook of Medicinal Chemistry

The Handbook of Medicinal Chemistry

Principles and Practice

by Simon Campbell, Andrew Merritt, Darren Green
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015

Drug discovery is a constantly developing and expanding area of research. Developed to provide a comprehensive guide, the Handbook of Medicinal Chemistry covers the past, present and future of the entire drug development process. Highlighting the recent successes and failures in drug discovery, the book...
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