Jeffrey: 3395 books
Under the Wild Ginger
A Simple Guide to the Wisdom of Wonder
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Do you remember how it felt when, as a child, you first discovered some little creature or flower you'd never seen before and when, moved beyond speech, all you could manage was a breathless wow? That little whisper, that crystalline moment of pure wonder, is what Under the Wild Ginger is about.You...
by Jeffrey Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In this major work, Jeffrey Hopkins, on e of the world's foremost scholar-practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism, offers a clear exposition of the Prasangika-Madhyamaka view of emptiness as presented in the Ge-luk-ba tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. In bringing this remarkable and complex philosophy to life,...
by Jeffrey V. Perry
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Let Thy Will Be Done. The Everlasting Poet is the final word through this humbled servant of God. Although, I am not worthy of any grace given me in this guise of poetry, which I represent and have represented in my writings, it has been my constant understanding that the poetry that I write is not...
by Jeffrey V. Perry
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2009
It is extremely difficult to open a discussion on race, even today in America, with the election of an Afro-American President. I cannot and thus, will not try. However, through my poetry here in Legacy of an Ex-slave, I will express my views on matters of race.
Slavery is a topic that is difficult to talk about, but out of the due respect for those for who were enslaved, we must!
An Awakening Within
Stories and Reflections to Rekindle Your Spirit and Awaken Your Soul!
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2002
If there is to be an awakening, it must be with in uswithin each of our soulsfor that is the only place that true and lasting change can occur. We must awaken to the wonderful possibilities of what we can become as one world, and not focus on what we have been as separate nations. We must awaken to...
The Kaiser's Chemists
Science and Modernization in Imperial Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In the early twentieth century, an elite group of modern-minded scientists in Germany, led by the eminent organic chemist Emil Fischer, set out to create new centers and open new sources of funding for chemical research. Their efforts led to the establishment in 1911 of the chemical institues of the...
Unjust Deeds
The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
In 1945, six African American families from St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., began a desperate fight to keep their homes. Each of them had purchased a property that prohibited the occupancy of African Americans and other minority groups through the use of legal instruments called racial restrictive...
Counter Realignment
Political Change in the Northeastern United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
In Counter Realignment, Howard L. Reiter and Jeffrey M. Stonecash analyze data from the early 1900s to the early 2000s to explain how the Republican Party lost the northeastern United States as a region of electoral support. Although the story of how the 'Solid South' shifted from the Democratic to...
Understanding American Political Parties
Democratic Ideals, Political Uncertainty, and Strategic Positioning
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
How do parties respond to the electorate and craft winning strategies? In the abstract parties are the vehicles to make democracy work, but it is often difficult to see the process working as well as we think it might. Indeed, voters often struggle to see parties as the valuable vehicles of representation...
by Jeffrey Lesser
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present examines the immigration to Brazil of millions of Europeans, Asians and Middle Easterners beginning in the nineteenth century. Jeffrey Lesser analyzes how these newcomers and their descendants adapted to their new country...
by Jeffrey V. Perry
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
We are often self-defined by our roles, titles, or even by the labels we are given and even the ones that we assume. It is when we can redefine ourselves through our actions to determine more of what we are really about. It is without clothes or cover, like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, after...
by Sunil Ahuja, Margaret E. Banyan, Peter Bergerson
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
The Roads to Congress 2008 offers readers straightfoward and detailed case studies of the campaigns, candidates, key issues, and outcomes of over one dozen of the most important and interesting races of 2008. This includes both House and Senate campaigns, contests from all regions of the country,...
Presidential Leadership in Public Opinion
Causes and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Although presidents may have a difficult time actually leading the public and Congress, voters still desire strong leadership from their commander in chief. In Presidential Leadership in Public Opinion, Jeffrey E. Cohen argues that the perception of presidential leadership in American politics is...
The Capacity To Judge
Public Opinion and Deliberative Democracy in Upper Canada,1791-1854
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
By the mid-nineteenth-century, 'public opinion' emerged as a new form of authority in Upper Canada. Contemporaries came to believe that the best answer to common questions arose from deliberation among private individuals. Older conceptions of government, sociability and the relationship between knowledge...