John Wills: 22 books
The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home
Explorations in North American Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
This volume is the first to examine at length and in detail the impact of the missionary experience on American cultural, political, and religious history.
This collection of 15 essays provides a fully developed account of the domestic significance of foreign missions from the 19th century...
China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800
Trade, Settlement, Diplomacy, and Missions
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800 looks at early modern China in some of its most complicated and intriguing relations with a world of increasing global interconnection. New World silver, Chinese tea, Jesuit astronomers at the Chinese court, and merchants and marauders of all kinds play important...
CALL "M" FOR MURDER: Ultimate Collection - 885 Murder Mysteries, Thriller Novels & Detective Stories in One Edition
880+ True Crime Stories, Action Thrillers, Whodunit Mysteries & Supernatural Mysteries: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Thorndyke Cases, Bulldog Drummond, Detective Standish, Martin Hewitt, Max Carrados…
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2018
e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited thriller collection, formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Excerpt from Content: Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes Series True Crime Stories Edgar Wallace: Four Just Men P.-C. Lee The Angel of Terror…...
by Antoinette Wills, John D. Bolcer
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
The University of Washington was founded in 1861, when Seattle was a tiny village. It struggled to survive during its early years, but after Washington achieved statehood in 1889, the university grew along with the region it served. A world�s fair on its campus attracted international attention in...
by AJ Fyler, Rhiannon Rhys-Jones, Aila Alvina Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of using gold (and other precious metals) to repair broken pottery. The ritual is complex, intentional, and contemplative. Upon completion, the once-broken vessels are made whole. They are stronger and possess a different type of beauty than before.
Kintsugi is...
Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai
Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for millennia, but during the long seventeenth...
Pacific America
Histories of Transoceanic Crossings
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
In recent times, the Asia-Pacific region has far surpassed Europe in terms of reciprocal trade with the United States, and since the 1980s immigrants from Asia entering the United States have exceeded their counterparts from Europe, reversing a longstanding historical trend and making Asian Americans...
Managing soil health for sustainable agriculture Volume 2
Monitoring and management
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
There has been growing concern that both intensive agriculture in the developed world and rapid expansion of crop cultivation in developing countries is damaging the health of soils which are the foundation of farming. At the same time we are discovering much more about how complex soils are as living...
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