Murray: 2512 books

On the tenth anniversary of Canada's involvement, a leading journalist offers a fascinating assessment of Canada's past and present role in the Afghan war Of the 33,000 troops under NATO command in Afghanistan in October 2006, 12,000 were Americans and 2,500 were Canadians. Deployed to southern...

The world’s “great” religions depend on traditions of serious scholarship, dedicated to preserving their key texts but also to understanding them and, therefore, to debating what understanding itself is and how best to do it. They also have important public missions of many kinds, and their...

Sick of dieting? You should be, because if you’re like most overweight people, dieting leads you down a mentally difficult path of deprivation and guilt and demands a physically challenging (at best) set of rules that often actually makes it harder to lose and keep off weight. Low-Willpower Eating...

The object of this little book is first of all to remind all Christian workers of the greatness and the glory of the work in which God gives a share. It is nothing less than that work of bringing men back to their God, at which God finds His highest glory and blessedness. As we see that it is God's...

The changes begun by the devolution referendum of 1997 have caused interest and concern throughout Britain. What seemed a remote and abstract question to many has, in the last few years, struck at the heart of the issue of what Britain is - and it is increasingly clear that things will never be the...

A dynasty of high ability and great charm, the Stuarts exerted a compelling fascination over their supporters and enemies alike. First published in 1991, this title assesses the influence of the Stuart mystique on the modern political and cultural identity of Scotland. Murray Pittock traces the Stuart...

Robert Murray M'Cheyne (pronounced "Mak-shayn") Was born on 21 May 1813. He was a minister in the Church of Scotland from 1835 to 1843. He died on 25 March 1843. He was two months from his 30th birthday.

JAMES M. MURRAY PhD. Professor Emeritus (Economics) University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Born on the Turtle Mountain Indian reservation in North Dakota (1932) Lived on Pine Ridge reservation in S.D. (1938-42); Crow Indian reservation (1945-49); Fort Totten reservation in N.D.(l949-50). Taught at five...

The second millennium saw the spread and consolidation of Christianity in Britain. One means by which the Normans tightened their grip on Britain after 1066 was by the construction of magnificent cathedrals, thereby demonstrating their intention to remain here. In his earlier book – England’s...

Margaret Alice Murray (Calcutta, 13 juli 1863 – Welwyn, 13 november 1963) was een vooraanstaand Brits egyptoloog en antropoloog. Zij is vooral bekend geworden door haar werk in egyptologie, "de kern van haar academische carrière".Haar naam is ook verbonden aan haar Heksencultus-hypothese,...

Throughout the world today there are obvious trouble spots that have the potential to explode into serious conflicts at any time in the immediate or distant future. This study examines what history suggests about the future possibilities and characteristics of war and the place that thinking about...

Are you a dog owner? Perhaps you would like to be a dog owner and don't now enough about understanding your dog. This book will provide you with many of the answers yuou have about your dog. Written in simple English by Murray Haven, this book will help you get on the right tract from the start.

Though originally geared toward the young adult market, Space Tug, the second novel in Murray Leinster's Joe Kenmore series, contains enough action and adventure to keep readers of any age engaged. The plot centers on the operation of a space station and is chock-full of the kind of technical details and suspenseful ordeals that fans of golden-era science fiction are sure to appreciate.

When we imagine establishing contact with an alien race, we usually assume that the interstellar interlopers would be light-years ahead of us in terms of technological sophistication. But what if our new alien acquaintances were astoundingly average in their appearance and intellect? That's the premise...