Ronald: 2667 books
Remembering and Forgetting in Acadie
A Historian's Journey through Public Memory
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Between 2004 and 2005, Acadians observed two major anniversaries in their history: the 400th anniversary of the birth of Acadie and the 250th anniversary of their deportation at the hands of the British. Attending many of the commemorative activities that marked the anniversaries, Ronald Rudin has...
The Ballads of Barnabas Collins
Reflections of the Shadow in the Continuum
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
A collection of poems created by Ronald Hoffman, covering the emotional reaction to birth, life, and death, and facing the horror of awareness we as humans all must face. From the elementary school child, to the reactionary ideologue that a person seemingly becomes, along with old age that follows, Hoffman...
Don’T Tell Me Your Wife Likes It
Writing and Publishing a First Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
In 2009, Ronald C. Gordon published Not Fade Away, a coming-of-age story set in Texas in 1959. A first novel, it was the product of many drafts, considerable professional editing, and a long, arduous attempt to find an agent and publisher. Now, in Dont Tell Me Your Wife Likes It (one particular literary...
Translating Modernism
Fitzgerald and Hemingway
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
In Translating Modernism Ronald Berman continues his career-long study of the ways that intellectual and philosophical ideas informed and transformed the work of America’s major modernist writers.
Here Berman shows how Fitzgerald and Hemingway wrestled with very specific intellectual, artistic,...
by Ronald Steriti
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2016
Ballroom Rhythms for Musicians and Dancers shows the dance patterns or steps for different styles of dancing with their basic musical rhythm.Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Finding the Beat3. Jitterbug4. East Coast Swing5. West Coast Swing6. Lindy Hop7. Jive8. Country Two-Step9. Fox...
by Ronald I. Marvin Jr., Wyandot County Archaeological and Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Once home to the powerful Wyandotte Nation, Wyandot County emerged from lands surrounding the Grand Reserve. The landscape has evolved dramatically, from the backbreaking work of draining marshland to the creation of solar farms centuries later. The Mission Church, Indian Mill and Colonel Crawford...
Erie Water West
A History of the Erie Canal, 1792-1854
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The construction of the Erie Canal may truly be described as a major event in the growth of the young United States. At a time when the internal links among the states were scanty, the canal's planners boldly projected a system of transportation that would strike from the eastern seaboard, penetrate...
Criminological Theories
Introduction and Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
In Criminological Theories, the noted criminologist Ronald Akers provides thorough description, discussion, and appraisal of the leading theories of crime/delinquent behavior and law/criminal justice - the origin and history of each theory and its contemporary developments and adherents.
Akers...
Saving Souls, Serving Society
Understanding the Faith Factor in Church-Based Social Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2005
Recent years have seen unprecedented attention to faith-based institutions as agents of social change, spurred in part by cuts in public funding for social services and accompanied by controversy about the separation of church and state. The debate over faith-based initiatives has highlighted a small...
A Brief History of Britain 1485-1660
The Tudor and Stuart Dynasties
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
From the death of Richard III on Bosworth Field in 1485 to the execution of Charles I, after the Civil Wars of 1642-48, England was transformed by two Dynasties.
Firstly the Tudors, who won the crown on the battlefield and changed both the nature of kingship but also the nation itself. England...
by Ronald Polito
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Neste livro em prosa, o poeta Ronald Polito insere com sofisticação reflexões filosóficas na trama delicada da ficção. Dividido em quatro partes distintas entre si na temática, Polito em todas elas desafia os limites da linguagem e da verossimilhança. Viagens espaciais com referências borgianas;...
Moordenaars van Jan de Witt
de zwartste bladzijde van de Gouden eeuw
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Wie vermoordde de gebroeders De Witt?
De moord op Johan en Cornelis de Witt is ongetwijfeld een van de zwartste bladzijden uit de Nederlandse geschiedenis. Er zijn meer politieke moorden geweest in de loop der eeuwen, maar geen enkele is op zoâ n brute, on-Nederlandse wijze uitgevoerd. Nota...
by Ronald Dockery, David Dockery
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
ENJOY A LOOK BACK INTO THE 20TH CENTURY IN THE MIDWEST OF AMERICA TODAY!Are you looking for a memoir that is both touching and funny? This book tells the story of 2 generations of men who grew up in the same town just outside of Chicago. One grew up in the 40's and 50's during WWII and Elvis...
Faces of the Civil War Navies
An Album of Union and Confederate Sailors
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
During the American Civil War, more than one hundred thousand men fought on ships at sea or on one of America’s great inland rivers. There were no large-scale fleet engagements, yet the navies, particularly the Union Navy, did much to define the character of the war and affect its length. The first...