John K : 448 books
The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912
New Scholarship on the Bread & Roses Strike
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
"In Lawrence, Massachusetts, fully one-half of the population 14 years of age or over is employed in the woolen and worsted mills and cotton mills". Thus begins the federal government's Report on Strike of Textile Workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 . This book follows up, one hundred...
by Solange Kelly, Mustafa Balat, Ayhan Demirbas
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Petroleum-based fuels are well-established products that have served industry and consumers for more than one hundred years. However petroleum, once considered inexhaustible, is now being depleted at a rapid rate. As the amount of available petroleum decreases, the need for alternative technologies...
Peace on Earth
The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Peace on Earth: The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies provides a critical analysis of faith and religious institutions in peacebuilding practice and pedagogy. The work captures the synergistic relationships among faith traditions and how multiple approaches to conflict transformation...
Pourquoi le Voile dans l'Islam?
Dialogue entre un orientaliste et un uléma Sur les raisons fondées du voile islamique
Language: French
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Chers philosophes et hommes de Sciences de l'orient et de l'occident, chers personnalités de bonne moralité et de droiture, chers chercheurs de la vérité et du bonheur, voyez-vous où est arrivé l'humanité en ces temps?! ne voyez-vous pas sa dégénérescence, sa tombé dans les malheurs et...
La Foi
Que gagnes tu en bonheur après la foi en Dieu
Language: French
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Beaucoup de gens pensent que la foi en Dieu exige la lecture de plusieurs livres religieux et également se pencher sur leurs études ou bien d'avoir la parfaite maitrise de la langue arabe et ses règles. Cela ne fait aucun doute que ces lectures ainsi que ces études aident celui qui cherche la...
by Mohammad Amin Sheikho, A. K. John Alias Al-Dayrani, Samir Ahmed Al-Hindy
Language: French
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Aboutissement de plusieurs années de recherche, cet ouvrage informe sur le sens des événements qui surviennent autour de nous et qui ont un lien direct avec le destin de l'humanité. Il aborde sans état d'âme des questions qui parfois suscitent et nourrissent la polémique chez les croyants....
by Mohammad Amin Sheikho, A. K. John Alias Al-Dayrani, Samir Ahmed al Hindy
Language: French
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: January 9, 2015
La visite du prophète Mohammad (Pbsl) et les faits mystiques que produit l'amour de celui-ci sur l'élévation spirituelle du croyant. Effet du modèle dans la conduite de l'homme. Chaque fois qu'une occasion se présente, qu'une opportunité m'est offerte, je la saisis pour parler du rapport qui...
La Sounnah Du Noble Prophete (Pbsl)
Les Miracles De La edecine Prophetique
Language: French
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Dieu l'exalté laisse-t-il son serviteur dans la maladie? Est –ce qu'il vous laisse sous l'emprise des micobes,des virus et des bactéries afin que votre quotidien soit à la solde des maux et des douleurs? Ou tout de même, va-t-il conforter l'exclusivité d' usage qui fait des chercheurs les seuls...
Orange Chinook
Politics in the New Alberta
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
In 2015, the New Democratic Party won an unprecedented victory in Alberta. Unseating the Progressive Conservatives-who had won every provincial election since 1971-they formed an NDP government for the first time in the history of the province. Orange Chinook is the first scholarly analysis of this...
by Rick L. Phillips, Christopher Brockow, Ron Athey
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
This book has a series of fictional short stories as it follows one particular issue of Amazing Fantasy #15, that has the very first story to star the Amazing Spider-Man, from the time it is purchased in 1962 to the present. It shows how the story influenced the people that come in contact with it...
Nature, Politics, and the Arts
Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in conversation with Woodring’s teachings on literature and visual art and his commentaries on American...
by Mohammad Amin Sheikho, A. K. John Alias Al-Dayrani
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Having noted the absence of happiness in human life, a group of scholars began to look for a way to attain this happiness. They could put their hands on the core of happiness by means of physical laws, so that they could reach it by following such a set of laws! However… Can worldly scientific laws,...
Teaching Peace
Nonviolence and the Liberal Arts
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2003
This book opens a new frontier in understanding nonviolence. Discussions of peace and nonviolence usually focus on either moral theory or practical dimensions of applying nonviolence in conflict situations. Teaching Peace carries the discussion of nonviolence beyond ethics and into the rest of the...
by Christopher Bell, F. William Brownell, David R. Case
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
The environmental field and its regulations have evolved significantly since Congress passed the first environmental law in 1970, and the Environmental Law Handbook, published just three years later, has been indispensable to students and professionals ever since. The authors provide clear and accessible...