Crabtree: 71 books
Holy Nation
The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Early American Quakers have long been perceived as retiring separatists, but in Holy Nation Sarah Crabtree transforms our historical understanding of the sect by drawing on the sermons, diaries, and correspondence of Quakers themselves. Situating Quakerism within the larger intellectual and religious...
Peru
Elite Power and Political Capture
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
While leftist governments have been elected across Latin America, this ‘Pink Tide’ has so far failed to reach Peru. Instead, the corporate elite remains firmly entrenched, and the left continues to be marginalised. Peru therefore represents a particularly stark example of ‘state capture’,...
The Billionaire Raj
A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
A colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India’s new billionaire class in a radically unequal society
India is the world’s largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China’s. But the rewards of this growth have been far from evenly...
by Linda D. Crabtree
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
When Linda Crabtree was growing up in a small Canadian city in the early ‘40s, the future for a little kid with a disability didn’t look too promising. Seventy-five years later she writes about her forays into education, journalism, running a charity, publishing, art, antiques, designing a house...
by Sam Crabtree
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
It happens in marriages, parent-child relationships, friendships, workplaces, and churches: Communication falters, friendships wane, teenagers withdraw, marriages fail, and bitter rifts sever once-strong ties. Christian communities are no exception. Why do so many of our relationships suffer from...
The Elephant in the Boardroom
Speaking the Unspoken about Pastoral Transitions
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Carolyn Weese and J. Russell Crabtree—experts in the field of church leadership—have written a nuts-and-bolts guide to developing a succession plan for smoothing pastoral transitions. Filled with strategies and solid advice, this handy resource is based in solid research and the authors’ many...
Trance Zero
The Psychology of Maximum Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 1999
Psychotherapist Adam Crabtree shows how we live our lives caught up in a series of trances. For example, when we read we become less aware of the sounds around us, temporarily losing touch with our environment and sense of time. The same kind of effect occurs when we are deeply engaged in a conversation,...
Early Medieval Britain
The Rebirth of Towns in the Post-Roman West
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The growth and development of towns and urbanism in the pre-modern world has been of interest to archaeologists since the nineteenth century. Much of the early archaeological research on urban origins focused on regions such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Mesoamerica. Intensive archaeological research...
The St. Valentine's Cookie Massacre
Hatter's Cove Gazette Mystery, #1
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
It’s Valentine’s Day in quiet, cozy Hatter’s Cove, Florida and food columnist, Kat Archer, has been assigned the event of the year, the grand opening of Miss Dolly’s Cookie Jar and Sweets Emporium.
What begins as a run of the mill, albeit tasty, assignment turns into something much...
Deadly Magic
A Grace Holliday Cozy Mystery, #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
A night of magic turns into a night of murder.
It's Halloween night and the normally unhappy co-workers of the Straker Toy Company are eagerly looking forward to the celebration of their boss' fiftieth birthday. None more so than Grace Holliday. After all, it's not every day that she gets invited...
Bolivia
Processes of Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Since Evo Morales was elected president in 2006 as leader of the MAS, the first social movement to achieve political power in Latin America, Bolivia has seen radical changes and continues to generate huge interest worldwide. In this revealing new book, Crabtree and Chaplin show how ordinary people...
Death Takes a Holiday
A Grace Holliday Cozy Mystery, #3
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2014
Hoping to turn her friendship with Kyle into something more, Grace Holliday jumps at the chance to accompany him on a pre-New Year's Eve romantic train ride through the mountains. But a threatening message scrawled on the bathroom mirror turns their romantic getaway into a nightmare.
Soon,...
Deadly Reunion
A Grace Holliday Cozy Mystery, #2
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
When Grace Holliday received her high school reunion invitation promising a killer reunion, she didn't think they meant literally.
Grace Holliday has returned home. Regrettably, not as successful or as wealthy as she had intended when she left her small town ten years before. Fired from her...
Murder Games
A Grace Holliday Cozy Mystery, #4
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2014
It's all fun and games until someone dies.
It's the Crystal Palace Hotel's 5th annual murder mystery game extravaganza. A weeklong event of clues, costumes, red herrings, suspense, chills and murders spread across the hotel's expansive mountaintop acres.
Kyle and Grace have secured two...