David Saunders: 22 books
by David Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
Dave Saunders’ spirited introduction to documentary covers its history, cultural context and development, and the approaches, controversies and functions pertaining to non-fiction filmmaking. Saunders examines the many methods by which documentary conveys meaning, whilst exploring its differing...
Anti-Lawyers
Religion and the Critics of Law and State
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
In early modern Europe the law developed as one of the few non-religious orderings of civil life. Its separation from religion was, however, never complete and we see the contest continued today not only in the campaigns of religious fundamentalists of the right, but also in the clains of critical...
by David Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
This eagerly awaited study of Russia under Alexander I, Nicholas I and Alexander II -- the Russia of War and Peace and Anna Karenina -- brings the series near to completion. David Saunders examines Russia's failure to adapt to the era of reform and democracy ushered into the rest of Europe by the...
by David Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
When Charles Dickens died in 1870, he left behind him the greatest unsolved mystery in the history of literature. So parsimonious was Dickens with his clues that the most widely accepted “solution” among cognoscenti to this day is that Edwin Drood was killed by his drug-addled uncle, John Jasper....
Science and Art
The Painted Surface
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Science and art are increasingly interconnected in the activities of the study and conservation of works of art. Science plays a key role in cultural heritage, from developing new analytical techniques for studying the art, to investigating new ways of preserving the materials for the future. For...
Cartan Geometries and their Symmetries
A Lie Algebroid Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
In this book we first review the ideas of Lie groupoid and Lie algebroid, and the associated concepts of connection. We next consider Lie groupoids of fibre morphisms of a fibre bundle, and the connections on such groupoids together with their symmetries. We also see how the infinitesimal approach,...
by John Helfers, Eric Kent Edstrom, J. Daniel Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
The end of the world might come in many forms: ecological disaster, alien invasion, cosmic chaos…the possibilities for destruction seem endless. So, how will those facing the end of the world deal with impending doom? The fourteen talented authors of Fiction River’s latest volume explore just...
Digital Horror Fiction Anthology
25 Horror Fiction Short Stories, #1
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
DIGITAL HORROR FICTION ANTHOLOGY
25 Horror Fiction Short Stories
2:51, Behind the Caterpillar — Gregory L. Norris
A Dream for Sugar — Bruce Memblatt
A Pocket of Madness — Samuel Marzioli
Aces and Kings — David M. Hoenig
The Animals — Aaron Gudmunson
The Borrowed Man — James Dorr
His...
by Fiction River, Dean Wesley Smith, Annie Reed
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
In this latest volume of Fiction River, editor Dean Wesley Smith pulls together an eclectic but cohesive group of stories filled with difficult decisions. From a man who must question the line between justice and vengeance to a teenage fixer fighting hypocrisy to a post-apocalyptic survivor’s mission...
The Great War in the Heart of Dixie
Alabama During World War I
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
There has been much scholarship on how the U.S. as a nation reacted to World War I, but few have explored how Alabama responded. Did the state follow the federal government’s lead in organizing its resources or did Alabamians devise their own solutions to unique problems they faced? How did the...
A World Engraved
Archaeology of the Swift Creek Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
This major summary of the current state of archaeological research on the Swift Creek culture is the first comprehensive collection ever published concerning the Swift Creek people.
The Swift Creek people, centered in Georgia and surrounding states from A.D. 100 to 700, are best known from...
Kiribati Island Travel and Tourism
People, Culture and Tradition, Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Kiribati Island Travel and Tourism. People, Culture and Tradition, Environment. Kiribati is for travellers those who have a passion for exploring and discovering, people who like an adventure off the tourist trail to places where few have been before, and people who want to understand a country not...
Mirages and Speculations
Science Fiction and Fantasy from the Desert
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
Is the glimmer on the horizon a lake, shimmering under the hot desert sun – or a flying saucer visiting from a distant planet? Are those swirling clouds dust devils or djinn? In Mirages and Speculations seventeen authors of science fiction and fantasy take you on journeys to high mountain deserts,...
Signs of Power
The Rise of Cultural Complexity in the Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Traces the sources of power and large-scale organization of prehistoric peoples among Archaic societies.
By focusing on the first instances of mound building, pottery making, fancy polished stone and bone, as well as specialized chipped stone, artifacts, and their widespread exchange, this...
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