John Taylor: 200 books
The Second Wave (Routledge Revivals)
British Drama for the Seventies
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
In the 1970s the revolution that had swept the British theatre in the 1950s had already become accepted as the new establishment. Areas that had been previously regarded as remote ideals - including permanent repertory companies, a lively provincial theatre and an extensive spread of avant-garde and...
by John M. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Is the Union voluntary or an agreement with no escape route? Setting the tone, John M. Taylor leads off by noting the travails of a respected ancestor. Major questions in America are explored, including differing views of the meaning of union. Though numerous issues led to war, most modern establishment...
Think Biblically! (Trade Paper): Recovering a Christian Worldview
Recovering a Christian Worldview
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2003
Now in paperback, this helpful volume by pastor and best-selling author John MacArthur guides readers in cultivating a biblical worldview on a wide range of issues.
What we think shapes who we are. That's why the Bible tells us, "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the...
by John M. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
From Kirkus Reviews:A friendly yet not uncritical biography of the secretary of state in the Lincoln and Andrew Johnson Cabinets. Taylor--who chronicled his father's life in General Maxwell Taylor (1987)- -offers neither much original scholarship nor a fresh approach, but writes smoothly and with balance....
Harvard Classics Volume 41
English Poetry 2: Collins To Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2017
Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)
For the Fame of God's Name: Essays in Honor of John Piper
Essays in Honor of John Piper
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
John Piper has had a profound impact on countless men and women over his nearly thirty years of ministry. From his online ministry with Desiring God to his preaching ministry at Bethlehem Baptist to his writing ministry in over thirty books, his faithful service has encouraged and challenged many...
Hitch
The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
One of cinema's greatest directors, a virtuoso visual artist, and a genius of the suspense genre, Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) is universally known for such masterpieces as Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, and The Birds. John Russell Taylor, a distinguished...
by John Keats, George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Feelings come alive through the words of the Romantic poets.
Romanticism gained traction in the late 1700s as writers moved away from the intellectualism of the Enlightenment and toward more emotional and natural themes. The major works of the movement’s six most famous poets—William Wordsworth,...
by Sally Harrison-Pepper, Nyle Monday, Lewis Hershey
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2017
In contrast to the overabundance of writings about martial arts that are often promotional and misinformative, there are rare works by scholars that are praiseworthy for their sincere, unbiased approach to writing. This is the very definition of “scholarly.” This two-volume...
The Golden Age of Piracy
The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Popularity of Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head. Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how pirates operated their plundering...
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Contents
THE PROPHETIC PICTURES
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
By Washington Irving
THE GOLD-BUG
By Edgar Allan Poe
CORPORAL FLINT'S MURDER (From "The Oak Openings")
By J. Fenimore Cooper
UNCLE JIM...
by John M. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2003
One manùCapt. Raphael Semmesùdominates the history of Confederate naval operations in the American Civil War. Although the Confederates were hopelessly outnumbered at sea, Semmes roamed the oceans first in the CSS SUMTER and then the CSS ALABAMA, capturing nearly 100 Federal merchant ships and precipitating...
Intimate Warfare
The True Story of the Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward Boxing Trilogy
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Intimate Warfare: The True Story of the Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward Boxing Trilogy traces the lives and careers of two legendary fighters—Micky Ward, a humble, hardscrabble, blue-collar Irishman from Lowell, Massachusetts, and Arturo Gatti, a handsome, flashy, charismatic Italian-born star who was...
Getting Off Track
How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In this concise volume, leading economist John B. Taylor offers empirical research to explain what caused the current financial crisis, what prolonged it, and what dramatically worsened it more than a year after it began. The evidence he presents strongly suggests that specific government actions...