J Evans: 165 books
British History: England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales
England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
From Boudicca to Henry VIII, from the Battle of Hastings in 1066 to the Gulf war, this comprehensive guide outlines Britain's chronological past through its wars, changes in society and religion, its literature and culture and its royalty. Britain's powerful influence is revealed in an easily accessible format and is perfect for a wide range of readers.
Captured by Pirates
22 Firsthand Accounts of Murder and Mayhem on the High Seas
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Pirates are primarily known for their swashbuckling attitudes, their freebooting lifestyle, their high-seas adventures and their stolen treasure, but their victims tend to be forgotten. These are the innocent and not-so-innocent voyagers who find themselves suddenly snatched up, brutalized, and franticly...
The Feminists
Women's Emancipation Movements in Europe, America and Australasia 1840-1920
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Originally published in 1977, this book brings together what is known about liberal feminist and socialist movements for the emancipation of women all over the world in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It deals not only with Britain and the United States but also with Australia, New Zealand,...
How the Algarve Has Changed
A Reflective Look at This Part of Portugal over the Past Twenty Seven Years.
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
If you are interested in love affairs, then this love affair with the Algarve started in 1984, and lasted for twenty seven years. You don't get that length of time in jail for murder! Not always a complete love affair, as some of the frustrations, stupidities and nonsenses which occur in Portugal,...
Optimizing Java
Practical Techniques for Improving JVM Application Performance
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Performance tuning is an experimental science, but that doesn’t mean engineers should resort to guesswork and folklore to get the job done. Yet that’s often the case. With this practical book, intermediate to advanced Java technologists working with complex technology stacks will learn how to...
by Simon Jowett, Peter J. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2004
PREPARE FOR JUDGEMENT!
Hot on the trail of a cargo of illegal bio-weapons, Judge Dredd boards the Cityship Sargasso, a vast agglomeration of ancient toxic waste tankers loaded with refugees from warzones around the world. It is also home to large populations of mutants and scavengers, so when...
by Michael J. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
SHORT STORY: When years of Catholic upbringing conflict with a freshly turned zombie's new-found instincts, he is left with only one recourse.
O Little Town of Deathlehem
An Anthology of Holiday Horrors for Charity
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Twas the fright before Christmas And all through the town Not a soul stirred No one dared make a sound...
Welcome to Deathlehem, where... ...Krampus, not Santa, brings the holiday cheer... ...the lights on the tree, so festive and bright, skitter and crawl and possess a lethal bite... ...malicious...
Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
Theory, Models, Therapy and Outcome
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
The aim of neuropsychological rehabilitation is to enable people with cognitive, emotional, or behavioural deficits to achieve their maximum potential in the domains of psychological, social, leisure, vocational or everyday functioning. Describing the holistic programme devised and adopted at the...
The German Underworld (Routledge Revivals)
Deviants and Outcasts in German History
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
This book, which was first published in 1988, deals with the neglected history of the lowest layers of German society, of marginal, outcast and deviant groups such as arsonists, witches, bandits, infanticides, poachers, murderers, prostitutes, vagrants and thieves, from the end of the thirteenth century...
by Richard J. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
In the search for the causes of the First World War and the origins of Hitler’s ‘Third Reich’, the attention of historians has turned increasingly towards the development of German society under Kaiser Wilhelm II.
These ten essays, first published in 1978, introduced interpretations of...
The German Family (Routledge Revivals)
Essays on the Social History of the Family in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
This book surveys the history of the German family in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributions deal with the influence of industrialisation on family life in town and country, with rural families and communities under the impact of social and economic change, and with the role and...
The German Peasantry (Routledge Revivals)
Conflict and Community in Rural Society from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
This book, first published in 1986, surveys the history of rural society in Germany from the eighteenth century to the present day. The contributions include studies of Junker estates and small farming communities, serfs and landless labourers, maidservants and worker-peasants. They demonstrate the...
Light on Life
The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
B.K.S. Iyengar--hailed as "the Michelangelo of yoga" (BBC) and considered by many to be one of the most important yoga masters--has spent much of his life introducing the modern world to the ancient practice of yoga. Yoga's popularity is soaring, but its widespread acceptance as an exercise for physical...