Jack P: 64 books
by Jack P. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Acclaimed scholar and professor Jack Lewis narrates the lives and contributions of a number of nineteenth-century explorers of Bible lands whose work set the stage for modern biblical archaeology. Here are the stories of John Lewis Burckhardt, William Francis Lynch, James T. Barclay, Selah Merrill, and...
Highland Journal
1. The Making of a Hillwalker
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Jack’s love of hillwalking began with a trip to the North-West Highlands where he and his son, Tom, began to explore the extraordinary mountains of Coigach and Inverpolly. Now this experienced hillwalker and geographer writes Highland Journal, an illustrated memoir looking back on his adventures....
The Intellectual Construction of America
Exceptionalism and Identity From 1492 to 1800
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Jack Greene explores the changing definitions of America from the time of Europe's first contact with the New World through the establishment of the American republic. Challenging historians who have argued that colonial American societies differed little from those of early modern Europe, he shows...
by Jack P. Hailman, Elizabeth D. Hailman
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2003
Hiking Circuits in Rocky Mountain National Park is the first guide dedicated entirely to the loop trails of Rocky Mountain National Park, trails that return hikers to their starting point without the necessity of retracing steps or walking on roads. Having explored the park extensively for over 30...
World countries part I
flag and map
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Enjoy a range of free flag pictures and maps from different countries around the globe. I think you'll find the one you're looking for.
by Jack P. Friedman Ph.D., Jack C. Harris Ph.D., J. Bruce Lindeman Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Need to know real estate jargon? This quick-reference guide can help.
Home buyers and sellers, as well as real estate professionals, investors, and attorneys can rely on this quick-reference source. More than 3,000 terms and definitions cover topics that include appraisal, architectural styles,...
Creating the British Atlantic
Essays on Transplantation, Adaptation, and Continuity
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Set mostly within an expansive British imperial and transatlantic framework, this new selection of writings from the renowned historian Jack P. Greene draws on themes he has been developing throughout his distinguished career. In these essays Greene explores the efforts to impose Old World institutions,...
Pursuits of Happiness
The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
In this book, Jack Greene reinterprets the meaning of American social development. Synthesizing literature of the previous two decades on the process of social development and the formation of American culture, he challenges the central assumptions that have traditionally been used to analyze colonial...
by Jack P.C. Kleijnen
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This is a new edition of Kleijnen’s advanced expository book on statistical methods for the Design and Analysis of Simulation Experiments (DASE). Altogether, this new edition has approximately 50% new material not in the original book. More specifically, the author has made significant changes...
Dr. Sam Sheppard on Trial
The Prosecutors and the Marilyn Sheppard Murder
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Marilyn Sheppard, four months pregnant and mother of a toddler son, was bludgeoned to death in her Bay Village, Ohio, home in the early morning of July 4, 1954. The cause of death was twenty-seven blows to the head with a heavy instrument. Who took her life so brutally has been the subject of much...
by Jack P. Greene
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization. The failure to resolve the resulting tensions led to the thirteen continental colonies seceding from the empire in 1776....
by Jack P. Greene
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
This volume comprehensively examines how metropolitan Britons spoke and wrote about the British Empire during the short eighteenth century, from about 1730 to 1790. The work argues that following several decades of largely uncritical celebration of the empire as a vibrant commercial entity that had...
Science and Sociology
Predictive Power is the Name of the Game
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Science and Sociology is from beginning to end an exploration of what this implies for the social sciences, and sociology in particular. The authors argue that over the last several decades, sociology has become less a science and more a quest for isolated assessments of situations, whether they come...
Colossal Control Failures
From Julius Caesar to 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
This fascinating book analyzes 13 control failures in human history, from Robespierre's promotion of the French Revolution, to Hoover's efforts to stop the Great Depression, to the intelligence failures of 9/11. Assessing the causes of 10 additional historical cases, the author's comparative analysis...