Robert Gordon: 71 books

Ampleforth College; A Sketch-Book by Joseph Pike Bath and Wells; A Sketch-Book by D. S. Andrews Bristol; A Sketch-Book by Dorothy E.G. Woollard Bruges; A Sketch-Book by Joseph Pike Cambridge; A Sketch Book by Walter M. Keesey Canterbury; A Sketch Book by Walter M. Keesey Cardiff; A Sketch-Book by Douglas...

Robert Gordon gathers together his most important essays on the Old Testament and on the ancient versions, adding an introduction which gives background comment and reflections on each essay. The Old Testament essays are divided into three groups: The Narrative Tradition', 'Prophecy from East to West',...

The Place (by Robert J. Gordon) is a mystery/romance novel set in  communities from the Arctic Circle  to Northeastern Ontario North Shore of Lake Huron First Nation Reserves and some neighbouring communities. When a First Nation woman is murdered youth crisis worker April Kenewabi and...

This collection of previously unpublished expository writings by Gordon Tullock on themes ranging from game theory, externalities, public choice, rent-seeking, law and economics, and economic progress is representative of the breadth of Tullock's career. As co-founder of Public Choice, Tullock has...

In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to...

The incredibly amazing 9th volume of Golden Age Science Fiction! Featuring: The Protector, by Betsy Curtis Jaywalker, by Ross Rocklynne Picture Bride, by William Morrison Two Weeks in August, by Frank Robinson Queen of the Flaming Diamond, by Leroy Yerxa< No Shield from the Dead, by Gordon Dickson...

Lawyers and judges often make arguments based on history - on the authority of precedent and original constitutional understandings. They argue both to preserve the inspirational, heroic past and to discard its darker pieces - such as feudalism and slavery, the tyranny of princes and priests, and...

Ethnography in Unstable Places is a collection of ethnographic accounts of everyday situations in places undergoing dramatic political transformation. Offering vivid case studies that range from the Middle East and Africa to Europe, Russia, and Southeast Asia, the contributing anthropologists narrate...

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This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies...

This second edition of Ian Gordon's A Preface to Pope places the poet within the social, cultural and intellectual context of his time. It throws new light on the theoretical and imaginative structures of Pope's poetry focusing on the linguistic complexity at its centre. It offers a critical survey...

From the time of John Milton to that of William Blake, the literature of Britain absorbed the impact of two major military developments. In the early modern era, the military revolution strove to establish permanent armies under state discipline and, in England, the resistance to this development...

The discovery of a planned  international terrorist attack from within Canada’s sparsely populated Northern Ontario region sends shockwaves through Canada’s Security Intelligence agency CSIS. Research by an investigative reporter of another reporter friend's killing supposedly by the underworld...

Disaster Legacy follows the struggles and challenges of the journey leading Sean McChesney-Dalton from Ireland to North American the 19th century. The adventurer survives seafaring pirate attacks, the murder of his father and attempted killing of his /mother together with dysfunctional family turmoil...