Ronald: 2667 books
by Ronald Huebert
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
For at least a generation, scholars have asserted that privacy barely existed in the early modern era. The divide between the public and private was vague, they say, and the concept, if it was acknowledged, was rarely valued. In Privacy in the Age of Shakespeare, Ronald Huebert challenges these assumptions...
Fitzgerald-Wilson-Hemingway
Language and Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
In this study, Ronald Berman examines the work of the critic/novelist Edmund Wilson and the art of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway as they wrestled with the problems of language, experience, perception and reality in the "age of jazz." By focusing specifically on aesthetics—the...
Qualities That Count
Heber J. Grant: As Businessman, Missionary, and Apostle
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Called as an Apostle at age 25, Heber J. Grant was acutely aware of his inadequacies. Feeling unseasoned and unsure, he questioned whether he had the "qualities that count" for such a position. Yet he took solace in his faith: "There is one thing that sustains me and that is the fact that all powers,...
by Dennis, Ronald D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1988
Mormon missionaries began proselyting in Wales in 1840. From their pulpits Welsh religious leaders warned members of their congregation to be wary of this new faith. Their concern was reflected not only in sermons and conversations but also in the Welsh periodical and pamphlet as well.Although...
Opening NATO's Door
How the Alliance Remade Itself for a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2004
How and why did NATO, a Cold War military alliance created in 1949 to counter Stalin's USSR, become the cornerstone of new security order for post-Cold War Europe? Why, instead of retreating from Europe after communism's collapse, did the U.S. launch the greatest expansion of the American commitment...
by James Britten, Ronald Knox
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
James Britten gives an attractive picture of growing up in an Anglo-Catholic parish in the late nineteenth century; he is less eirenic describing the violent differences he found in other Anglican churches. For Britten, the sheer contradiction between Anglicanism’s professedly unsacramental evangelical...
Language as Discourse
Perspectives for Language Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
In this book Michael McCarthy and Ronald Carter describe the discoursal properties of language and demonstrate what insights this approach can offer to the student and teacher of language. The authors examine the relationship between complete texts, both spoken and written, and the social and cultural...
Vocabulary
Applied Linguistic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
How do we teach and learn vocabulary? How do words work in literary texts? In this book, Ronald Carter provides the necessary basis for the further study of modern English vocabulary with particular reference to linguistic descriptive frameworks and educational contexts. Vocabulary: Applied Linguistic...
by Ronald Pawly
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
A concise history of the hand-picked elite cavalry guard that served as Napoleon's close personal escort and were committed to the most dangerous areas of combat on the battlefield. Formed from his original escort of 'Guides' and the 'Consular Guard' in 1799, the Mounted Chasseurs were a personal...
by Ronald J. Pestritto
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2005
Woodrow Wilson is best known for his service as the twenty-eighth president of the United States and his influence on American foreign policy in the twentieth century and beyond. Yet Wilson is equally important for his influence on how Americans think about their Constitution and principles of government.
Woodrow...
Bloody Covenant
Crown and Kirk in Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
It was theology against politics. Ordinary men against changing systems of government and belief, fighting for what they believed was right. 'The Bloody Covenant' tells the story of a period in which two rival forms of the same belief jostled to become the dominant theology in Scotland, and of how...
Resilience, Reciprocity and Ecological Economics
Northwest Coast Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
How did one group of indigenous societies, on the Northwest Coast of North America, manage to live sustainably with their ecosystems for over two thousand years? Can the answer to this question inform the current debate about sustainability in today’s social ecological systems?
The answer...
The Struggle for the Soul of Journalism
The Pulpit versus the Press, 1833-1923
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In this study, Ronald R. Rodgers examines several narratives involving religion’s historical influence on the news ethic of journalism: its decades-long opposition to the Sunday newspaper as a vehicle of modernity that challenged the tradition of the Sabbath; the parallel attempt to create an advertising-driven...
Return to Armageddon
The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1981-1999
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2003
When the Cold War ended, the world let out a collective sigh of relief as the fear of nuclear confrontation between superpowers appeared to vanish overnight. As we approach the new millennium, however, the proliferation of nuclear weapons to ever more belligerent countries and factions raises alarming...