John A Kirk: 8 books

Martin Luther King, Jr is one of the iconic figures of 20th century history, and one of the most influential and important in the American Civil Rights Movement; John Kirk here presents the life of Martin Luther King in the context of that movement, placing him at the center of the Afro-American fight...

Combining the latest insights from KIng biographies and movement histories, this book provides an up-to-date critical analysis of the relationship between King and the wider civil rights movement. Delivering a fresh perspective on the relationship between 'the man and the movement', Kirk argues that...

The "trilogy version" of the three previously-released Khellen novels.In this version, each of the original stories is incorporated as part of the "trilogy version"; Part 1 is The Khellen Gift, Part 2 The Zhin Mutations and Part 3 The Salacian Legacy. Each part contains some text modifications to better synchronise with the other parts and there are some updates to the illustrations.

At the heart of the story is the romance between Brogan, a Terran male pilot and Zalina, a female shape-shifter and the Xuhlan ambassador to Merkal.Brogan is a pilot employed by Inter-Galactic Mining to ferry cargoes of ore back to Merkal from the outer perimeter of the Realm of the Five Planets...

Sheed & Ward, in partnership with the Commonweal Foundation and with funding from the Pew Charitable Trust, proudly presents the first of two volumes in a groundbreaking series called American Catholics in the Public Square. The result of a three-year study sponsored by Pew aimed at understanding...

Discusses ways of ensuring genetic diversity, advances in wheat breeding and their use to improve properties such as drought resistance and cold tolerance; Summarises research on factors affecting nutritional and other aspects of wheat quality; Reviews advances in understanding wheat pests and diseases...

Ours is an anti-polity age, perhaps more than any other time in the history of the church. Yet polity remains as important now as it was in the New Testament.   What then is a right or biblical polity? The contributors to this volume make an exegetical and theological case for a Baptist polity. Right...

Next Generation HALT and HASS presents a major paradigm shift from reliability prediction-based methods to discovery of electronic systems reliability risks. This is achieved by integrating highly accelerated life test (HALT) and highly accelerated stress screen (HASS) into a physics-of-failure-based...