William Allen: 133 books

Book cover of The Corporation Of London: Its Rights And Privileges
by William Ferneley Allen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Book cover of Invitational Education and Practice in Higher Education
by Omar Garrett Wray, Jasmine Majkowski, Ken Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016

This edited collection examines the means to create, maintain, and enhance welcoming colleges and universities in the United States and abroad with personal accounts, case studies, models, programs, and other frameworks written by practitioners in higher education. The contributors explain how they...
Book cover of Tracking the Rise of the Radical Right Globally
by Megan Armstrong, Imran Iwan, Roland Clark
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2019

2018 was a tumultuous year in global politics. Starting with the rise of the Lega Nord in Italy and ending with the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, it has never been such a pertinent time to study the radical right. This yearbook pulls together the best commentary and analysis from an international...
Book cover of Across Asia on a Bicycle
by William Lewis Sachtleben, Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018

Beginning in June, 1890, two young American students made a bicycle journey around the world--so far as they could on land--and were back in New York, whence they had sailed for Liverpool to begin their wheeling in just under three years. They regard their journey through Western China and the Desert of Gobi as the most interesting and most dangerous parts of their travels.
Book cover of Designer Biology

Designer Biology

The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems

by Immaculada de Melo Martin, Valentina Urbanek, David Frank
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013

Advances in our scientific understanding and technological power in recent decades have dramatically amplified our capacity to intentionally manipulate complex ecological and biological systems. An implication of this is that biological and ecological problems are increasingly understood and approached...
Book cover of Slave Songs of the United States
by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012

Originally published in 1867, this book is a collection of songs of African-American slaves. A few of the songs were written after the emancipation, but all were inspired by slavery. The wild, sad songs capture the feelings of their creators perfectly; of crushed hopes, keen sorrow and a dull daily...
Book cover of Across Asia on a Bicycle
by THOMAS GASKELL ALLEN, JR. AND WILLIAM LEWIS SACHTLEBEN
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017

Beginning in June, 1890, two young American students made a bicycle journey around the world--so far as they could on land--and were back in New York, whence they had sailed for Liverpool to begin their wheeling in just under three years. They regard their journey through Western China and the Desert of Gobi as the most interesting and most dangerous parts of their travels.
Book cover of Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature

Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature

Perspectives on Business from Novels and Plays

by Andrew Bernstein, Walter Block, Susan Love Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016

Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature are committed to treating literary texts with integrity and believe that business should have a larger claim upon people’s literary consciousness. In addition, they all value the important role of literature in dealing with the complexities of a...
Book cover of International Liquidity and the Financial Crisis
by Dr William A. Allen
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013

In the ongoing financial crisis, policy makers have for the most part appeared to be reactive, formulating emergency solutions as events unfold. However, in contrast to their performance during the Great Depression, central banks around the world, led by the Federal Reserve, acted decisively following...
Book cover of Landscapes of Origin in the Americas

Landscapes of Origin in the Americas

Creation Narratives Linking Ancient Places and Present Communities

by Jessica Joyce Christie, Merideth Paxton, Polly Schaafsma
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009

Landscape is a powerful factor in the operation of memory because of the associations narrators make between the local landscape and the events of the stories they tell. Ancestors and mythological events often become fixed in a specific landscape and act as timeless reference points. In conventional...
Book cover of The Corporation of London
by William Ferneley Allen
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012

A fantastic resource for the history and structure of the main municipal body governing the City of London.
Book cover of Sacked At Saipan
by Major William Bland Allen IV
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

The relief of Major General Ralph Smith, U.S. Army, from the command of the 27th Infantry Division during the battle for Saipan on 24 June 1944 by Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith, U.S. Marine Corps, seemingly ignited a slow-burning fuse of service competition, jealousy, and animosity that some...
Book cover of Across Asia on a bicycle
by Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr., William Lewis Sachtleben
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018

Beginning in June, 1890, two young American students made a journey around the world on a then-new invention, the modern bicycle. They have covered over 15,000 miles in just under three years, so in 1893 they returned. They regard their journey through Western China and the Desert of Gobi as the most...
Book cover of Sanskrit Debate

Sanskrit Debate

Vasubandhus "Vīmśatik" versus Kumrilas "Nirlambanavda"

by William Cully Allen
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015

Sanskrit Debate: Vasubandhu’s ‘Vīmśatikā’ versus Kumārila’s ‘Nirālambanavāda’ illustrates the rules and regulations of classical Indian debate literature (pramānaśāstra) by introducing new translations of two Sanskrit texts composed in antithesis to each other’s tradition of...
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