James Boyce: 11 books
1835
The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Winner of the 2012 Age Book of the Year Award and the 2013 Tasmania Book Prize
With the founding of Melbourne in 1835, a flood of settlers began spreading out across the Australian continent. In three years more land – and more people – was conquered than in the preceding fifty.
In...
Born Bad
Original Sin and the Making of the Western World
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The sweeping, 2,000-year history of a controversial idea and the remarkable influence it still wields: “Exceptional, highly recommended” (Publisher’s Weekly, starred review).
According to the Christian doctrine of original sin, humans are born inherently bad, and only through God’s...
by James Boyce
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Winner of the 2009 Tasmania Book Prize
Winner of the 2008 Colin Roderick Award
Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen’s Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a new way of life.
In this book, James Boyce shows...
Losing Streak
How Tasmania was Gamed by the Gambling Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
A jaw-dropping account of how one company came to own every poker machine in the state of Tasmania – and the cost to democracy, the public purse and problem gamblers and their families.
The story begins with the toppling of a premier, and ends with David Walsh, the man behind MONA, taking...
Clergy in a Complex Age
Responses to the Guidelines for the professional conduct of the clergy
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
This highly readable book explains the scope and detail of the newly revised Guidelines for the professional conduct of the clergy, which shape and define how clergy should act and behave. The book brings together a number of experts in the field, who draw on the Ordinal (as the basis of the Guidelines),...
Natural Assets
Democratizing Ownership Of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2003
Low-income communities frequently suffer from a lack of access to, or lack of control over, the natural resources that surround them. In many cases, their local environmhas been degraded by years of resource extraction and pollution by distant corporations or governmagencies. In such settings, initiatives...
Africa's Odious Debts
How Foreign Loans and Capital Flight Bled a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
In Africa's Odious Debts, Boyce and Ndikumana reveal the shocking fact that, contrary to the popular perception of Africa being a drain on the financial resources of the West, the continent is actually a net creditor to the rest of the world. The extent of capital flight from sub-Saharan Africa is...
by Michael F. Johnson, Lisa D. O'Steen, Dena F. Dincauze
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The southeastern United States has one of the richest records of early human settlement of any area of North America. This book provides the first state-by-state summary of Paleoindian and Early Archaic research from the region, together with an appraisal of models developed to interpret the data....
From the Pleistocene to the Holocene
Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies...
Investing in Peace
Aid and Conditionality after Civil Wars
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This book analyzes the provision of aid to countries that have undergone negotiated settlements to civil wars, drawing on recent experiences in Bosnia, Cambodia, El Salvador, and Guatemala. It focuses on the potential for peace conditionality, linking aid to steps to implement accords and consolidate...
by Rev. James Petigru Boyce
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Abstract of Systematic Theology is a tool for the study of the Word of God.