Richard M : 631 books
by Richard M. Dorson
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
All the selections in Richard M. Dorson's Folktales Told around the World were recorded by expert collectors, and the majority of them are published here for the first time. The tales presented are told in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, North and South America, and Oceania. Unlike other collections...
Victory at Yorktown
The Campaign That Won the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
From "the finest historian of the American Revolution" comes the definitive account of the battle and unlikely triumph that led to American independence (Douglas Brinkley)
In 1780, during the Revolutionary War, George Washington's army lay idle for want of supplies, food, and money....
Backwater Blues
The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The Mississippi River flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, reshaping the social and cultural landscape as well as the physical environment. Often remembered as an event that altered flood control policy and elevated the stature of powerful politicians, Richard M. Mizelle...
Theory of Action (Routledge Revivals)
Towards a New Synthesis Going Beyond Parsons
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Modern sociology owes its existence and the progress it has made to the integration of differing kinds of orientations. In this work, first published 1987, Professor Richard Münch sets out to reformulate the theory of action, a notion central to sociology and one to which all schools of thought within...
Staten Island
Conservative Bastion in a Liberal City
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Staten Island is New York City’s smallest yet fastest growing borough: a conservative, suburban community of nearly a half a million on the fringe of the nation’s most liberal, global city. Staten Island: Conservative Bastion in a Liberal City chronicles how this “forgotten borough” has grappled...
The Global Division of Labour
Development and Inequality in World Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Global free trade is one of the most controversial phenomena of our time. Richard Münch offers a new theory of global labour division to explain deeper transformations in the production and distribution of wealth brought about by global free trade. He then carries out and analyzes empirical investigations based on this theory.
The Burton Agnes Disaster
The forgotten wartime rail tragedy which killed twelve innocent men
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
In the early hours of an autumn day in 1947, a truck laden with German prisoners-of-war and their English guards approached a level crossing in a sleepy Yorkshire village. At the same moment, an express train was thundering towards the crossing. For some inexplicable reason, with the train just yards...
by Richard M Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
On 26th July 1986 a train derailed after striking a van at an open level crossing in a remote East Yorkshire village. The resulting carnage killed nine people, injured 42 and left dozens of survivors and families reeling from the shock for the rest of their lives. Now for the first time the full story...
Strong at the Broken Places
Voices of Illness, a Chorus of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
The bestselling author of Blindsided, Richard M. Cohen spent three years chronicling the lives of five diverse "citizens of sickness": Denise, who suffers from ALS; Buzz, whose Christian faith helps him deal with his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; Sarah, a determined young woman with Crohn's disease; Ben,...
by Richard M. Gale
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
First published in 1991, Richard M. Gale's classic book is a response to and critique of new, contemporary arguments for the existence of God from analytical philosophers. Considering concepts including time, free will, personhood, actuality and the objectivity of experience, Gale evaluates the new...
A Grammar of Old English, Volume 2
Morphology
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
A Grammar of Old English, Volume II: Morphology completes Richard M. Hogg's two-volume analysis of the sounds and grammatical forms of the Old English language.
Incorporates insights derived from the latest theoretical and technological advances, which post-date most Old English grammars
Utilizes...
by Richard M. Hough, Professor Kimberly D. McCorkle
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
American Homicide examines all types of homicide, and gives additional attention to the more prevalent types of murder and suspicious deaths in the United States. Authors Richard M. Hough and Kimberly D. McCorkle employ more than 30 years of academic and practitioner experience to help explain why...
Archetypal Explorations
Towards an Archetypal Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Archetypal Expressions is a fresh approach to one of Jung's best-know and most exciting concepts. Richard M. Gray uses archetypes as the basis for a new means of interpreting the world and lays the foundations of what he terms an "archetypal sociology". Jung's ideas are combined with elements...
A Fiery Gospel
The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the Road to Righteous War
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Since its composition in Washington's Willard Hotel in 1861, Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" has been used to make America and its wars sacred. Few Americans reflect on its violent and redemptive imagery, drawn freely from prophetic passages of the Old and New Testaments, and fewer...