Olson: 602 books
A Question of Honor
The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A Question of Honor is the gripping, little-known story of the refugee Polish pilots who joined the RAF and played an essential role in saving Britain from the Nazis, only to be betrayed by the Allies after the war.
After Poland fell to the Nazis, thousands of Polish pilots, soldiers, and sailors...
by Sheldon Ekland-Olson, Julie Beicken
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Mandatory sterilization laws enacted in dozens of states coast-to-coast and approved by the U.S. Supreme Court formed the initial pillar for what became the Final Solution. Following WWII, there was renewed interest in a more inclusive view of social worth and the autonomy of the individual. Social...
Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides?
Abortion, Assisted Dying, Capital Punishment, and Torture
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides? looks at several of the most contentious issues in many societies. The book asks, whose rights are protected? How do these rights and protections change over time, and who makes those decisions? This book explores the fundamentally sociological processes which underlie...
by Elmer Olson, Peter Trunce
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
This book was written basically to demonstrate the procedures that Sgt Peter Trunce used in trying to get refugees safely out of Burma and away from the Japanese during World War II. Some of these refugees were their own worst enemies. They died because of their own foolish mistakes, lack of reason...
The Great Explorers of North America: Complete Biographies, Historical Documents, Journals & Letters
The Great Explorers of North America: Complete Biographies, Historical Documents, Journals & Letters
Eric the Red, Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Amerigo Vespucci, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Jacques Cartier, Henry Hudson & Samuel de Champlain
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
European colonization of America occurred as a result of the bravery and discoveries of great navigators, visionaries and adventurers. This carefully edited collection presents the lives of the most influential explorers of North America: Eric the Red, Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Amerigo Vespucci,...
by Robert Olson
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
The last quarter of the nineteenth century was crucial for the development of Kurdish nationalism. It coincided with the reign of Abdulhamid II (1876-1909), who emphasized Pan-Islamic policies in order to strengthen the Ottoman Empire against European and Russian imperialism, The Pan-Islamic doctrines...
by Dr Tim Ball Dr Claes Johnson Dr Martin Hertzberg Joseph A. Olson Alan Siddons Dr Oliver K. Manuel Dr Charles Anderson Hans Schreuder John O'Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2010
Even before publication Slaying the Sky Dragon was destined to be the benchmark for future generations of climate researchers. This is the world's first and only full volume refutation of the greenhouse gas theory of man-made global warming. Nine leading international experts methodically expose...
by Ken Hada, Ryan Weldon, Daniel Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Director and producer Tim Burton impresses audiences with stunning visuals, sinister fantasy worlds, and characters whose personalities are strange and yet familiar. Drawing inspiration from sources as varied as Lewis Carroll, Salvador Dalí, Washington Irving, and Dr. Seuss, Burton's creations frequently...
by Debbie Olson
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Children and youth perform both innocence and knowingness within Hitchcock's complex cinematic texts. Though the child often plays a small part, their significance - symbolically, theoretically, and philosophically - offers a unique opportunity to illuminate and interrogate the child presence within the cinematic complexity of Hitchcock's films.
Czernowitz at 100
The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Czernowitz at 100 represents a collection based on the proceedings of a 2008 international conference convened at York University in Toronto. Each chapter looks back at a portion over a long century, one marked with the mass migration of Ashkenazi Jews across the globe, two world wars, the Holocaust,...
The Church Needs a New Model
The Present One Is Too Weak
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
While believers cry out for spiritual growth, Christianity is notably sliding in the direction of superficiality and confusion. Church leaders have a responsibility to meet that need. Jesus would call it making disciples. We need to have a plan that will work for the whole church. This book purposes to be such a plan.
by Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Georges Didi-Huberman
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
What Is a People? seeks to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and as a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu...
20th-Century Theology
God & the World in a Transitional Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Christianity Today
by Robert G. Olson
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
"The best book on this subject that I have so far read; it genuinely does what its title implies." — Philosophical Books
"Should be of great help in dispelling some of the mystery that surrounds the subject." — Review of Metaphysics
At one time or another almost everyone has...