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Texans on the Brink
Threatened and Endangered Animals
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.
Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...
SPANISH INTELLECT
From the Fifth to the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
It is in the history of Spain and of Scotland that he [Buckle] now seeks illustrations of these cardinal propositions. Spain and Scotland exemplify more palpably than any other modern peoples the baleful action of the protective spirit of Church and State; and the use to which he turns the history...
The Search for Mabila
The Decisive Battle between Hernando de Soto and Chief Tascalusa
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
One of the most profound events in sixteenth-century North America was a ferocious battle between the Spanish army of Hernando de Soto and a larger force of Indian warriors under the leadership of a feared chieftain named Tascalusa. The site of this battle was a small fortified border town within...
by T. R. Ashworth And H. P. C. Ashworth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The History of the Waterloo Campaign
The Classic Account of the Last Battle of the Napoleonic Wars
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Captain William Siborne became an ensign in the 9th Foot in 1813 and was sent to France in 1815 as part of a battalion despatched to reinforce Wellington’s army. A notable topographer, after the events that year he was commissioned to create a scale model of the Battle of Waterloo, for which he...
Campaign of the Indus
In a Series of Letters from an Officer of the Bombay Dvision
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
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INTRODUCTION.
The circumstance of an English army penetrating into Central Asia, through countries which had not been traversed by European troops since Alexander the Great led his victorious army from the Hellespont to the Jaxartes and Indus, is so strong a feature in our military...
by Chih-Jou Jay Chen, Jianyu He, Shu Keng
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Since the Chinese economic reform was realized in the early 1990s, a significant revolution has been launched socially, economically, and politically in China. At present, China is an indispensable actor in the international arena, so that the transitionsdomestically bring about substantial influence...
Tradition v. Rationalism
Voegelin, Oakeshott, Hayek, and Others
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
In the first half of the twentieth century, the rationalist tide had reached its high mark in the arts, politics, and work. But the Holocaust, the Gulag, and other failures have dimmed the popularity of rationalism. However, the evidence of those practical failures would not have been as convincing...
The World's Beaches
A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Take this book to the beach; it will open up a whole new world. Illustrated throughout with color photographs, maps, and graphics, it explores one of the planet’s most dynamic environments—from tourist beaches to Arctic beaches strewn with ice chunks to steaming hot tropical shores. The World’s...
by H. Orton Wiley, Paul T. Culbertson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Christian doctrine for the laity of the church, as well as students in school. Presents the WesleyanArminian persuasion fairly with evidence from the Bible. Cloth.
by Edward Byles Cowell, H. T. Francis
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of more than 10.000 words about the history and basics of Buddhism, written by Thomas William Rhys Davids The Jatakas refer to a voluminous body of literature native to India concerning the previous births (jati) of the...
by H. T. Buckle
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
“Have you read Buckle's second volume? It has interested me greatly; I do not care whether his views are right or wrong, but I should think they contained much truth. There is a noble love of advancement and truth throughout, and to my taste he is the very best writer of the English language that...
by H.J.M. Bowen, T. Frevert, W.D. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science. Interest in this subject, however, is growing very rapidly and, although no agreement has been reached as yet about the exact content and limits of this interdisciplinary discipline, there appears to be increasing interest in seeing environmental...
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality
Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers...