Alan Gordon: 19 books
Time Travel
Tourism and the Rise of the Living History Museum in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
In the 1960s, Canadians could step through time to eighteenth-century trading posts or nineteenth-century pioneer towns. These living history museums promised authentic reconstructions of the past but, as Time Travel shows, they revealed more about mid-twentieth-century interests and perceptions of...
by Alan Gordon Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
The Wild Red Deer of Scotland. Notes from an Island Forest on Deer, Deer Stalking, and Deer Forests in the Scottish Highlands. By Allan Gordon Cameron. Originally published in the early 1920's this scarce deer stalking title is now very hard to locate in its first edition. READ COUNTRY BOOKS have...
Thirteenth Night
A Fool's Guild Medieval Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
Twelfth Night is for revelry, Thirteenth Night is for revelations...
"Orsino is dead." The message sends the jester Feste, disguised as a German merchant, back to the duchy where, years earlier, he had foiled the plans of Saladin's agent, Malvolio, and secured the duchy for Orsino...
Jester Leaps In
A Fool's Guild Medieval Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2000
In 13th century Europe, political turmoil is the order of the day and the Fool's Guild and its agents - jesters, jugglers, and knaves to a man - works behind the scenes to manipulate events, trying to maintain a balance of power.
Theophilos, a member of the Guild known by many names, is still...
by Naomi Westerman, Sumerah Srivastav, Himanshu Ojha
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Charles Dickens' London is reimagined for the 21st century.
Twenty-four hours in the life of a city that has 371 people in every square kilometer, where every street and square shelters heroes and villains, emotional turmoil, violent allegiances, adventures, the remarkable and the everyday.
Olivier...
The Lark's Lament
A Fools' Guild Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
In 1204 A.D., the Fools' Guild is in hiding, under attack from the forces of Pope Innocent III. Theophilos and Claudia, jesters with the Guild, are sent to enlist the help of a former guild member - the minstrel Folquet, now the abbot Folq at a Cistercian monastery - to intercede with the pope on...
The Moneylender of Toulouse
A Fools' Guild Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
In 1204 A.D., Theophilos, jester and agent for the Fools' Guild, is sent to Toulouse with his jester wife, infant daughter and young apprentice with one simple mission – get the current Bishop to quietly retire so that the position can be filled with one more sympathetic to the Guild's goals. Arriving...
A Death in the Venetian Quarter
A Medieval Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
In 1203, the relative peace of the Byzantine Empire is imperiled when the ships of the Fourth Crusade show up outside the walls of Constantinople. Instead of traveling to the Holy Land to battle the infidels, the Crusade, having sailed out of Venice, has been subverted and is now besieging the city....
by Alan Wakeman, Gordon Baskerville
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
This classic cookbook offers more than an authentic cuisine - it proffers a way of life based on compassion for all living things. For veganism is grounded in the simple truth that primary food - fresh fruit and vegetables, grains, seeds, nuts, pulses and so on - is not only healthier, but ecologically,...
Through a Glass Darkly
Contested Notions of Baptist Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
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Through a Glass Darkly is a collection of essays by scholars who argue that Baptists are frequently misrepresented, by outsiders as well as insiders, as members of an unchanging monolithic sect.
In contemporary discussions of...
Rural Change and Planning
England and Wales in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Originally published in 1996 Rural Change and Planning describes the turbulent changes that have occurred in rural England and Wales since the outbreak of the First World War. The book describes the changes from an agriculturally-dominated countryside to one which has had to increasingly adapt to...
Journey into Dandelion Wine Country
And Other Different Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2000
Journey Into Dandelion Wine Country And Other Different Stories is a short fiction collection consisting of the title fantasy novella and six science fiction or fantasy short stories. Included in this collection are:
Journey Into Dandelion Wine Country
An early 21st century homage to...
Quo Vadis, Evangelicalism?
Perspectives on the Past, Direction for the Future: Nine Presidential Addresses from the First Fifty Years of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2007
Quo vadis?-Where are you going?-is an appropriate question to ask of the current evangelical movement. To get a bearing on evangelical thought and assess future directions, the editor of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Andreas J. Köstenberger, has gathered selected addresses from...
‘Usa First’ Renaissance President
2020 Win for Trump and National Populists Party
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
This book discusses the possibility of events leading up to 2020 election. The tsunami wave that is likely to hit the monetary markets by 2019 will make the presidential election of 2020 the most dramatic election in modern US history. Trumps road ahead statements will rattle the political establishment...
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