John C Watson: 10 books

Book cover of Ghost Stories and Legends of Prince Edward Island
by Julie V. Watson, John C. Watson
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2018

A collection of haunting legends, delightful yarns, and spine-tingling ghost stories. Swathed in mist, surrounded by the secretive sea, wind wailing like the lost souls of sailors around its shores, Prince Edward Island is the ideal setting for the strange and incredible, even the supernatural....
Book cover of The Idea of the American University
by John Agresto, William B. Allen, Michael P. Foley
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010

As John Henry Newman reflected on 'The Idea of a University' more than a century and a half ago, Bradley C. S. Watson brings together some of the nation's most eminent thinkers on higher education to reflect on the nature and purposes of the American university today. They detail the life and rather...
Book cover of Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)

Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)

The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…

by O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018

This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...
Book cover of Rediscovering Political Economy
by Bruce Caldwell, Samuel Hollander, Alan Levine
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011

The recent economic crisis in the United States has highlighted a crisis of understanding. In this volume, Bradley C. S. Watson and Joseph Postell bring together some of America's most eminent thinkers on political economy—an increasingly overlooked field wherein political ideas and economic theories...
Book cover of History of American Political Thought
by George Alecusan, John E. Alvis, Donald R. Brand
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019

Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists,...
Book cover of John Rawls and Christian Social Engagement
by Matthew Arbo, Hunter Baker, Jerome C. Foss
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014

In this book, leading Christian political thinkers and practitioners critique the Rawlsian concepts of “justice as fairness” and “public reason” from the perspective of Christian political theory and practice. It provides a new level of analysis from Christian perspectives, including implications for such hot topics as social and economic issues and the culture war.
Book cover of Invitational Education and Practice in Higher Education
by Omar Garrett Wray, Jasmine Majkowski, Ken Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016

This edited collection examines the means to create, maintain, and enhance welcoming colleges and universities in the United States and abroad with personal accounts, case studies, models, programs, and other frameworks written by practitioners in higher education. The contributors explain how they...
Book cover of Christian Higher Education

Christian Higher Education

Faith, Teaching, and Learning in the Evangelical Tradition

by Bruce Ashford, Paul Bialek, Peter Cha
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018

Our world is growing increasingly complex and confused—a unique and urgent context that calls for a grounded and fresh approach to Christian higher education. Christian higher education involves a distinctive way of thinking about teaching, learning, scholarship, curriculum, student life,...
Book cover of Achieving sustainable cultivation of sorghum Volume 2

Achieving sustainable cultivation of sorghum Volume 2

Sorghum utilization around the world

by Dr S. R. Bean, B. P. Ioerger, J. D. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018

Sorghum is one of the world’s major cereals, cultivated in the semi-arid tropics for a growing range of uses. Like other crops it faces the need to meet rising demand whilst reducing its environmental impact and adapting to the challenges of climate change. This volume summarises the wealth of research...
Book cover of Philosophical Dialogues

Philosophical Dialogues

Arne Naess and the Progress of Philosophy

by Peder Anker, Per Ariansen, Alfred J. Ayer
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1999

The volume documents, and makes an original contribution to, an astonishing period in twentieth-century philosophy_the progress of Arne Naess's ecophilosophy from its inception to the present. It includes Naess's most crucial polemics with leading thinkers, drawn from sources as diverse as scholarly...
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