John K : 448 books
Curtin's Gift
Reinterpreting Australia's greatest prime minister
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
John Curtin, prime minister during the darkest days of the Second World War, is remembered as the reluctant hero of Australian politics. In the Australian story he is the recovering alcoholic and the accidental prime minister who saved Australia from invasion by Japan, overrode the opposition of Churchill...
Constructing Cultural Tourism
John Ruskin and the Tourist Gaze
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
This book is an interdisciplinary collaboration between a literary critic and cultural historian, which examines and recovers a radical and still urgent challenge to the industrialisation of cultural tourism from the work of John Ruskin. Ruskin exerted a formative influence on the definition and development...
Fasting Outside the Box
Fasting Guidelines for Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
If there is ever a chance to understand fasting once and for all and incorporated it into your spiritual life, Fasting Outside the Box will exceed your expectations and revolutionize your walk with God.
The differentiation of fasting inside or outside the box is very thought-provoking as it...
William T. Vollmann
A Critical Companion
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
"This fascinating, massive, wide-ranging collection that editors Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes have gathered together into William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion will soon be recognized as one of those rare critical books for which that egregiously overused term 'groundbreaking' is fully...
by John K. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
J.K. Evans’ pioneering work explores the profound changes in the social, economic and legal condition of Roman women, which, it is argued, were necessary consequences of two centuries of near-continuous warfare as Rome expanded from city-state to empire. Bridging the gap that has isolated the specialised...
Transforming Undergraduate Education
Theory that Compels and Practices that Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
For those ready to participate in making transformative changes, Transforming Undergraduate Education provides evidence and case studies that suggest how steps can be taken and progress made. For those who are currently leading their campuses through a change in culture, this book offers support and...
Turned on and Tuned Out
A Practical Guide to Understanding and Managing Tech Dependence
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
A West Coast college student withdraws from school at the end of his third year because his class schedule was interfering with his World of Warcraft gaming sessions. Relationships are deteriorating, and depression potentially increasing in those extensively involved in social networking. The accumulated...
by Dr. Ian G. Baird, Corey L. Bell, Dr. Stephen C. Berkwitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...
Post-Holocaust Jewish–Christian Dialogue
After the Flood, before the Rainbow
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
This volume sheds light on the transformed post-Holocaust relationship between Catholics and Jews. Once implacable theological foes, the two traditions have travelled a great distance in coming to view the other with respect and dignity. Responding to the horrors of Auschwitz, the Catholic Church...
From Kabul to Baghdad and Back
The U.S. at War in Afghanistan and Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
From Kabul to Baghdad and Back provides insight into the key strategic decisions of the Afghan and Iraq campaigns as the United States attempted to wage both simultaneously against al-Qaeda and its supporting affiliates. It also evaluates the strategic execution of those military campaigns to identify...
A Blessed Company
Parishes, Parsons, and Parishioners in Anglican Virginia, 1690-1776
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
In this book, John Nelson reconstructs everyday Anglican religious practice and experience in Virginia from the end of the seventeenth century to the start of the American Revolution. Challenging previous characterizations of the colonial Anglican establishment as weak, he reveals the fundamental...
Pan-African Education
A Must for the African Union
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
This book makes a critical contribution to the study of pan-Africanism and the education of African people for continental African citizenship. It is a unique endeavor in that it intersects the social history of pan-Africanism and the education of African people at a 'global' level and provides reflections...
Supporting Self-Directed Learning in Science and Technology Beyond the School Years
Beyond the School Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
While much has been written about science education from pre-K through to postgraduate study, interaction with science and technology does not stop when schooling ends. Moving beyond scholarship on conventional education, this book extends the research and provides an original in-depth look at adult...
Tips
The Amazing Tiny Inducers of Pain
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
For many years, doctors have been baffled about the reasons for pain and inflammation, but no one is really sure what causes it and why it continues to pester the human body. Many diseases and ailments have been blamed for such aches and pains including arthritis, rheumatism, bursitis, and fibromyalgia....