Sean: 2678 books
Crisis and Class War in Egypt
Social Reproduction, Factional Realignments and the Global Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
In 2011, capital’s crisis erupted in Egyptian society. This eruption, and subsequent politics, have been misrepresented as revolutionary, as the working class was – and is increasingly so – devalued and disempowered.
In Crisis and Class War in Egypt, Sean F. McMahon critically analyses...
On with the Reformation
Facing up to the church's misuse of power
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
The church in the Western world is in decline. Sean Devine reflects on the church's 2000-year history to understand what it has become and what it should be. It is not the church's structures, programmes or core theology that needs to change - it just needs to be more like Jesus. The church must be...
by Sean MacBlain
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Understanding How Children Learn is a vital part of working with children. Every child is unique and understanding differences in learning helps all to benefit.
This book goes beyond simply understanding the work of key theorists and the various theories of learning to recognise what learning...
Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia
Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
This collection expands the history of colonial medicine and public health by exploring efforts to overcome disease and improve human health in Chinese regions of East Asia from the late nineteenth century to the present. The contributors consider the science and politics of public health policymaking...
by C. Sean McGee
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013
Through the charred wreckage of one man’s philosophy, an adventure into conscious delusion and dark dystopian fantasy begins as the survivors of The Nest find themselves on three paths where each will endeavor to rein their conscious minds to grasp the philosophy of existence and abate the shackles...
by Sean C. Westbrock
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
“Hi, welcome to Fry’s! My name is Dan, how may I help you?” These were the two phrases I used almost every day when I worked in a Las Vegas Fry's Electronics as a computer tech before the collapse. It wasn’t a very exciting job but at least it paid the bills using skills I possessed. I don’t...
Watching Vesuvius
A History of Science and Culture in Early Modern Italy
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Mount Vesuvius has been famous ever since its eruption in 79 CE, when it destroyed and buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. But less well-known is the role it played in the science and culture of early modern Italy, as Sean Cocco reveals in this ambitious and wide-ranging study. Humanists...
by Sean Ramey
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Sean Ramey's "Defend Yourself (In A Zombie Apocalypse)" is a follow-up to his much-lauded "Defend Yourself (No Experience Necessary)." Ramey's intention for his newest book is to equip the living with the necessary unarmed combat skills to fight the dead. A U.S.A. Martial Arts Hall of Famer, Ramey's...
by Sean Patrick O'Mordha
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
David Dolephene discovers he is the last direct, male descendant of Francois Evreux, one-time governor of El Hierro in the Canary Islands, an the infamous pirate, Dolphin. Traveling to El Hierro he meets twins, Alejandro and Concepcion, to embark on an attempt to recover hidden pirate treasure to...
by Sean Patrick O'Mordha
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
David's pirate ancestor, the Dolphin, caused the sinking of a Spanish treasure ship off the coast of southern Cuba. Now a Ph.D. Archaeologist, David is ready to recover the treasure which he believes is significantly more valuable than the gold, silver, and jewels undoubtedly aboard. Now married to...
A Thunder Bird in Bomber Command
The Wartime Letters and Story of Lionel Anderson, the Man Who Inspired a Legend
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Shot down and killed in April 1944, Lionel Anderson, a low flying Mosquito intruder pilot, was part way through his second tour of operations. He had survived his first tour stooging up and down the French coast in an outdated Boulton Paul Defiant to confound the German night fighter defenses and...
Work in Progress
Literary Revision as Social Performance in Ancient Rome
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Work in Progress offers an in-depth study of the role of literary revision in the compositional practices and representational strategies of Roman authors at the end of the republic and the beginning of the principate. It focuses on Cicero, Horace, Quintilian, Martial, and Pliny the Younger, but also...
Hitler's British Slaves
Allied POWs in Germany 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Sean Londgen has conducted numerous interviews and reveals a new perspective on life under the Nazis that has long been forgotten and replaced by the myth of Colditz and The Great Escape.
Between 1939 and 1945 almost 200,000 British and Commonwealth Servicemen were held as Prisoners of War...
American Denominational History
Perspectives on the Past, Prospects for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
This work brings various important topics and groups in American religious history the rigor of scholarly assessment of the current literature. The fruitful questions that are posed by the positions and experiences of the various groups are carefully examined. American Denominational History points...