Paton: 70 books
No Bond but the Law
Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780–1870
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2004
Investigating the cultural, social, and political histories of punishment during ninety years surrounding the 1838 abolition of slavery in Jamaica, Diana Paton challenges standard historiographies of slavery and discipline. The abolition of slavery in Jamaica, as elsewhere, entailed the termination...
by William Paton Ker
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
3 works of William Paton Ker Scottish literary scholar and essayist (1855-1923) This ebook presents a collection of 3 works of William Paton Ker. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: Epic and Romance Medieval English Literature Sir Walter Scott
A Presumption of Death
A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Sixty years after Dorothy L. Sayers began her unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey novel, Thrones Dominations, Booker Prize finalist Jill Paton Walsh took on the challenge of completing the manuscript---with extraordinary success. "The transition is seamless," said the San Francisco Chronicle; "you...
The King's Ransom
More from the King of Algonquin Park
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
If you loved King of Algonquin Park by Paton Lodge Lindsay, get ready for more laughter and tears in The King’s Ransom: More from the King of Algonquin Park. The King’s Ransom is a companion book to King of Algonquin Park featuring more stories and adventures of the exceptional and well-known...
by Alan Paton
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2003
An Oprah Book Club selection, Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.
Cry, the...
The Attenbury Emeralds
The New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In 1936, Dorothy L. Sayers abandoned the last Lord Peter Wimsey detective story. Sixty years later, a brown paper parcel containing a copy of the manuscript was discovered in her agent's safe in London, and award-winning novelist Jill Paton Walsh was commissioned to complete it. The result of the...
by Timothée Paton
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
This little book you are now holding could spare you waking up one day saying to yourself, What on earth have I done with my life? The short stories you are about to read are among the ones the author has shared in different parts of the world. Short stories to inspire you to live a life you won t regret.
by Mr Rob Paton
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2003
`Its emphasis on performance measurement affords rare insights into some innovative techniques. Moreover, institutional and other theories are deployed to explore the reasons for innovation.... The book should be a prized resource for postgraduate students who seek a deeper understanding of social...
by Paton, Chris
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The internet is revolutionizing family history research. Every day new records and resources are placed online and new methods of sharing research and communicating across cyberspace become available. Never before has it been so easy to research family history and to gain a better understanding of...
Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Ireland has probably experienced more tragedy when it comes to the preservation of resources for family historians than any other region of the British Isles. Many of the nations primary records were lost during the civil war in 1922 and through other equally tragic means. But in this new book Chris...
The Late Scholar
Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Investigate
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
When a dispute among the Fellows of St. Severin's College, Oxford University, reaches a stalemate, Lord Peter Wimsey discovers that as the Duke of Denver he is "the Visitor"—charged with the task of resolving the issue. It is time for Lord Peter and his detective novelist wife, Harriet,...
by Maureen Paton
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
In this revised and updated biography, Maureen Paton encompasses the private, professional and political life of this most enigmatic, charismatic and intensely private of actors.
China Hand
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
At the height of the McCarthyite hysteria of the 1950s, John Paton Davies, Jr., was summoned to the State Department one morning and fired. His offense? The career diplomat had counseled the U.S. government during World War II that the Communist forces in China were poised to take over the country—which...
Seeking Sustainability
On the prospect of an ecological liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
The ideas of neoliberalism perpetuate a disembedded and dichotomised view of economy-ecology relations. The renewed interest in climate change and sustainability attests to the lack of progress achieved by the ‘sustainable development’ regime and to the need for more appropriate frameworks for...