John Ruth: 39 books
Quiet and Peaceable Life
People's Place Book No.2
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1997
John L. Ruth, a Mennonite storyteller/historian, captures the spirit of Old Order Mennonite and Amish groups in his essays, along with photographs, poetry, and quotations. If the "plain people" of North America are to be understood in terms of their own concerns, we must consider sympathetically their...
Thirty years of spirit rescues
Psychic guidance points the way to the light
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
When Ruth Legg, the wife of a former Methodist minister, discovered that she had an unusual psychic talent, she found that few people in the church could accept her inspirational writing as a gift of God. Her husband John, however, with a long-term interest in psychic studies, encouraged her to continue...
Technology in America
A History of Individuals and Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
The new edition of a popular collection that traces the history of American invention from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley.
This volume traces the history of American technology—its inventions and inventors—from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley. The...
Philosophy of Language
The Central Topics
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2007
This collection of classic and contemporary essays in philosophy of language offers a concise introduction to the field for students in graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses. It contains some of the most important basic sources in philosophy of language, including a number of classic essays...
by John Joseph Adams, Will McIntosh, Steven Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy,...
Modern German Grammar
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Modern German Grammar: A Practical Guide, Third Edition is an innovative reference guide to German, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume. The Grammar is divided into two parts. Part A covers grammatical categories such as word order, nouns, verbs and adjectives. Part B...
by Ruth Ann Montgomery, John Ehle
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Evansville, settled in 1839, developed as an important agricultural trade center. Log cabins, farms, and small industries were built, and the population grew from less than 10 families in the beginning to nearly 5,000 people in 2009. Then and Now: Evansville is a unique look at how the community has...
The Children's Table
Childhood Studies and the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Like the occupants of the children's table at a family dinner, scholars working in childhood studies can seem sidelined from the "adult" labor of humanities scholarship. The Children's Table brings together scholars from architecture, philosophy, law, and literary and cultural criticism to provide...
Secondary Science 11 to 16
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Are you looking for teaching ideas to make your science lessons come alive?
Full of suggestions for exciting practical work to engage children, this book addresses and explains the science behind the experiments, and emphasises the need to engage the learner through minds-on activities. It...
Introduction to Rock and Mountain Climbing
To the Top and Down… the Step-by-Step Fundamentals in Learning How
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
For those who would like to climb mountains, and for those who merely like to contemplate the possibility, Ruth and John Mendenhall have written as entertaining and completely instructive a book as have ever been tucked into a rucksack.
Since ascending a peak inevitably beings at the bottom, the Mendenhalls...
Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
A Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005
As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...
Seeing Judaism Anew
Christianity's Sacred Obligation
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005
In September 2002, twenty-one prominent Catholic and Protestant scholars released the groundbreaking document "A Sacred Obligation," which includes ten statements about Jewish-Christian dialogue focused around a guiding claim: "Revising Christian teaching about Judaism and the Jewish...
by Dov M. Gabbay, Paul Thagard, John Woods
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2012
Philosophy of Linguistics investigates the foundational concepts and methods of linguistics, the scientific study of human language. This groundbreaking collection, the most thorough treatment of the philosophy of linguistics ever published, brings together philosophers, scientists and historians...
Down These Green Streets
Irish Crime Writing in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This book suggests crime fiction is now the most relevant and valid form of writing which can deal with modern Ireland in terms of the post-'Troubles' landscape and post-Celtic Tiger economic boom. The book takes a chapter by chapter approach with each chapter and author discussing a different facet...