Ronald: 2667 books
Dateline—Liberated Paris
The Hotel Scribe and the Invasion of the Press
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Vividly capturing the heady times in the waning months of World War II, Ronald Weber follows the exploits of Allied reporters as they flooded into liberated Paris after four dark years of Nazi occupation. He traces the remarkable adventures of the men and women who lived, worked, and played in the...
Introduction to Video Production
Studio, Field, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Written in a clear, non-technical manner, Introduction to Video Production focuses on the fundamental principles and aesthetics of video production and the technologies used in both studio and field environments. Ronald J. Compesi and Jaime S. Gomez cover each aspect of the process step by step, from...
Charlotte, NC
The Global Evolution of a New South City
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from “regional backwater” to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now. Once a regional manufacturing and textile center, Charlotte stands today as one of the nation’s premier banking and financial cores with interests...
Troutmouth
The Two Careers of Hugh Clegg
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Hugh Clegg (1898-1979) was among the most notable Mississippi historical figures during the 1920s through the 1960s. Born in Mathiston, Mississippi, he was a member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1926 to 1954, during which time he rose to the top leadership and worked directly under Director...
Sitting Together
Essential Skills for Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
This practical guide helps therapists from virtually any specialty or theoretical orientation choose and adapt mindfulness practices most likely to be effective with particular patients, while avoiding those that are contraindicated. The authors provide a wide range of meditations that build the core...
Henderson's Spear
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
A masterly epic that weaves a contemporary search for a missing father with a vivid story from the heyday of the British Empire.
Liv, a Canadian filmmaker, is writing from a Tahitian jail, piecing together her troubled past and her family's buried history for the unknown daughter she gave up...
Thomas Ewing Jr.
Frontier Lawyer and Civil War General
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
An Ohio family with roots in the South, the Ewings influenced the course of the Midwest for more than fifty years. Patriarch Thomas Ewing, a former Whig senator and cabinet member who made his fortune as a real estate lawyer, raised four major players in the nation’s history—including William...
The Moral Electricity of Print
Transatlantic Education and the Lima Women's Circuit, 1876-1910
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Best Nineteenth-Century Book Award Winner, 2018, Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth-Century Section
Moral electricity—a term coined by American transcendentalists in the 1850s to describe the force of nature that was literacy and education in shaping a greater society. This concept...
The Fall of Lucifer (In More Ways Than One)
A Zondervan Digital Short
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
“Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding” (Proverbs 4:7). When a person’s life embodies the pursuit of wisdom, it bears among its fruits the deep love and respect of family, friends, and colleagues. Derived from The Way of Wisdom, a book honoring...
Tibetan Renaissance
Tantric Buddhism in the Rebirth of Tibetan Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005
How did a society on the edge of collapse and dominated by wandering bands of armed men give way to a vibrant Buddhist culture, led by yogins and scholars? Ronald M. Davidson explores how the translation and spread of esoteric Buddhist texts dramatically shaped Tibetan society and led to its rise...
The End of Doom
Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
In the past five decades there have been many, many forecasts of impending environmental doom. They have universally been proven wrong. Meanwhile, those who have bet on human resourcefulness have almost always been correct.
In his widely praised book Ecoscam, Ronald Bailey strongly countered...
by Ronald Mah
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
"Mine, Yours, and Ours, Addiction and Compulsivity in Couples and Couple Therapy" demonstrates how the therapist who tries to choose to not work with clients or couples with addiction and compulsivity issues cannot conduct therapy with integrity. As individuals, couples, and family enter...
by Ronald Ledwell Sr
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
In the first weeks of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the Russian Air Force was nearly wiped out on the ground by the Luftwaffe, leaving Stalin with very few aircraft to fend off the German onslaught. The American and British allies rapidly sent fighters to help the Russians. British Hurricanes...
by Ronald Mellor
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
The Romans' devotion to their past pervades almost every aspect of their culture. But the clearest image of how the Romans wished to interpret their past is found in their historical writings. This book examines in detail the major Roman historians:
* Sallust
* Livy
* Tacitus
* Ammianus
as well as...