Peers: 40 books
Playing Second Fiddle
God's Heart for Harmony Regarding Women and the Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
"But what do You hope to accomplish with this book?" I asked in the hush of early morning, nothing disturbing communion with my Creator but the melodious refrain of birdsong.
"Harmony," He said.
Judi Peers takes on the issue of women and the church as God reveals...
by Bobbie Peers
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 23, 2016
'William Wenton en de luridiumdief' is een waanzinnig spannend kinderboek over een geniale codekraker. Het werd uitgeroepen tot het beste Noorse kinderboek van het jaar 2015. De moeilijkste code ter wereld William woont met zijn ouders in een slaperig dorpje in Noorwegen. Acht jaar geleden moest zijn...
Offa and the Mercian Wars
The Rise and Fall of the First Great English Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
In England in the eighth century, in the midst of the so-called Dark Ages, Offa ruled Mercia, one of the strongest Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. For over 30 years he was the dominant warlord in the territory south of the Humber and the driving force behind the expansion of Mercias power. During that turbulent...
by Chris Peers
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
The military might, tactics, and philosophy of Khan is explored in this “fine read” and “useful source for Mongolian . . . and medieval studies in general” (De Re Militari).
As a soldier, general, statesman, and empire-builder, Genghis Khan is a near-mythical figure. His remarkable achievements...
All in the Mix
Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Featuring the work of Gail Tucker, Agnes Hall, Sheila Skinner, Avner Kornblum, Vivien Johnson, Paul Shearer Walmsley, Jean M. Watson, Colin Hall and Deborah Grant.
All in the Mix
An eclectic mix of short stories by 9 members of The Jalon Valley Writing Group with a shared passion...
Marine Pharmacy Guide
Handbook for medicines carried on international and local ships, yachts and commercial vessels
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
For almost 30 years the Marine Pharmacy Guide has been the most popular and trusted resource for people in the maritime industry seeking up-to-date information on medicines and pharmaceutical equipment that are typically carried on-board seafaring vessels. The all new Marine Pharmacy Guide (Fifth Edition)...
Playing Ourselves
Interpreting Native Histories at Historic Reconstructions
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Across North America, hundreds of reconstructed Oliving historyO sites, which traditionally presented history from a primarily European perspective, have hired Native staff in an attempt to communicate a broader view of the past. Playing Ourselves explores this major shift in representation, using...
The African Wars
Warriors and Soldiers of the Colonial Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
In The African Wars, Chris Peers provides a graphic account of several of the key campaigns fought between European powers and the native peoples of tropical and subtropical Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His pioneering and authoritative study describes in vivid detail...
by Chris Peers
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
In the field of military history as in so many others, the Chinese have often been both admired and seen as something utterly mysterious and inscrutable. Chris Peers illuminates the evolution of the military art in China with reference to ten battles, spanning more than 2,000 years, from the Battle...
Pictures Bring Us Messages / Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa
Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
In 1925, Beatrice Blackwood of the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum took thirty-three photographs of Kainai people on the Blood Indian Reserve in Alberta as part of an anthropological project. In 2001, staff from the museum took copies of these photographs back to the Kainai and worked with...
Visiting With the Ancestors
Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
In 2010, five magnificent Blackfoot shirts, now owned by the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, were brought to Alberta to be exhibited at the Glenbow Museum, in Calgary, and the Galt Museum, in Lethbridge. The shirts had not returned to Blackfoot territory since 1841, when officers of the...
by Douglas M. Peers
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Between 1700 and 1885 the British became the paramount power on the Indian subcontinent, their authority extending from Sri Lankain the south to the Himalayasin the north. It was a massive empire, inspiring both pride and anxiety amongst the British, and forcing change upon and disrupting the lives...
by E. Allison Peers
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Groundbreaking study of 16th-century Spain's golden age of mysticism briefly explores the period as background to the works and personalities of 15 mystical authors, with extracts from the writings of Juan of Ávila, St. John of the Cross, St. Ignatius of Loyola, Alonso de Orozco, Luis de Granada, Diego de Estella, and 9 others.
Adult Education
A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.