John Wilson: 188 books
The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man
An Essay of Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
The people in ancient times the phenomenal world was teeming with life; the thunderclap, the sudden shadow, the unknown and eerie clearing in the wood, all were living things. This unabridged edition traces the fascinating history of thought from the pre-scientific, personal concept of a "humanized"...
An Introduction to IMS
Your Complete Guide to IBM Information Management System
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
IBM’s Definitive One-Stop Guide to IMS Versions 12, 11, and 10: for Every IMS DBA, Developer, and System Programmer Over 90% of the top Fortune® 1000 companies rely on IBM’s Information Management System (IMS) for their most critical IBM System z® data management needs: 50,000,000,000+...
by James C. Howell, Mark W. Lipsey, John J. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
This handbook promotes a comprehensive strategy founded on evidence-based programming for juvenile justice systems to adopt or enhance their current system. The comprehensive strategy is supported strongly by the broad research base that is now available. This strategy recognizes, first, that a relatively...
Confronting Kingdom Challenges
A Call to Global Christians to Carry the Burden Together
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2007
It takes only one look at today's news page or one listen to the news shows to understand that, clearly, there is no shortage of kingdom challenges for the twenty-first-century church at large, for Christian organizations and agencies, or for us as individuals. In the face of such enormous problems...
Ways To Be Smoke Free
A Handbook for Teenagers, Kids Parents and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Ways to Be is a rather passionate appeal from an experienced old timer to young people and their parents to be or become smoke free. The author uses plain talk and lots of logic in effort to convince the reader that the only reasonable way to is smoke free. Many arguments are brought up, including the...
Portable Prose
The Novel and the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Portable Prose: The Novel and the Everyday examines the novel as a privileged site for representing the everyday, as well as a physical object that occupies public and private space. This collection interrogates the relationships between these differing aspects of the novel’s existence, negotiating...
Trump Unveiled
Exposing the Bigoted Billionaire
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
As the man himself might say, there’s so much to write about! There’s racist Trump, sexist Trump, bankrupt Trump, lying Trump, paranoid Trump, clueless Trump, conman Trump, bullying Trump, and more. Here, in one lovingly researched and slim volume, is Trump stripped bare: the truth behind the...
The Routledge Encyclopaedia of UK Education, Training and Employment
From the earliest statutes to the present day
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
A comprehensive guide to all the main labour market initiatives and agencies combining education and employment in the UK, this encyclopaedia presents an historical progression from the Guilds and Statute of Artifices in 1563 through to present day initiatives and changes. Fully cross-referenced throughout,...
by John Hughes-Wilson, Cathryn M Corns
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Three hundred and fifty-one men were executed by British Army firing squads between September 1914 and November 1920. By far the greatest number, 266 were shot for desertion in the face of the enemy. The executions continue to haunt the history of the war, with talk today of shell shock and posthumous...
The Search for Mabila
The Decisive Battle between Hernando de Soto and Chief Tascalusa
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
One of the most profound events in sixteenth-century North America was a ferocious battle between the Spanish army of Hernando de Soto and a larger force of Indian warriors under the leadership of a feared chieftain named Tascalusa. The site of this battle was a small fortified border town within...
by John Muncie, David Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Written by some of the leading criminologists in the country, this new title is a 'one-stop shop' for those who teach, study or are interested in criminology and the criminal justice systems of the UK.
Pain, Pleasure and Perversity
Discourses of Suffering in Seventeenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Luther’s 95 Theses begin and end with the concept of suffering, and the question of why a benevolent God allows his creations to suffer remains one of the central issues of religious thought. In order to chart the processes by which religious discourse relating to pain and suffering became marginalized...
Colonel Jonathan
An American Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Colonel Jonathan: An American Story is an unusual work of historical fiction—more history than fiction. A deeply-researched story of a remarkable man and his remarkable family, who lived in remarkable times, and who left an impact that intertwines with the history of America and extends from the...
Improving Teacher Quality
Using the Teacher Work Sample to Make Evidence-Based Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
The teacher work sample (TWS) has become increasingly widely adopted as an end-of-program, performance-based assessment for student teachers. Improving Teacher Quality offers a comprehensive introduction to teacher work sample methodology for teacher educators, student teachers, student teacher supervisors,...