Jones: 7670 books
by Thomas Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
At the time of the Lincoln assassination, Thomas A. Jones was 45 years old and had spent the years of the American Civil War working “with zeal” in the Confederate cause in Southern Maryland. He primarily acted as an aid to Confederate spies moving through Charles County and helping the substantial...
Vessel
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The imagination of a girl, the retelling of family stories, and the unfolding of a rich and often painful history: Parneshia Jones’ debut collection explores the intersections of these elements of experience with refreshing candor and metaphorical purpose. A child of the South speaking in the rhythms...
by Prudence J. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2005
Reading Rivers is the first book in a new series: Roman Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Author Prudence Jones examines rivers as a literary phenomenon, particularly in the poetry of Vergil. The point of such an investigation is twofold: an examination of VergilOs poetry elucidates particularly...
by Ewan James Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Ewan James Jones argues that Coleridge engaged most significantly with philosophy not through systematic argument, but in verse. Jones carries this argument through a series of sustained close readings, both of canonical texts such as Christabel and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and also of less...
The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy
Négritude, Vitalism, and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2010
In the early twentieth century, the life philosophy of Henri Bergson summoned the élan vital, or vital force, as the source of creative evolution. Bergson also appealed to intuition, which focused on experience rather than discursive thought and scientific cognition. Particularly influential for...
American Hungers
The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
Social anxiety about poverty surfaces with startling frequency in American literature. Yet, as Gavin Jones argues, poverty has been denied its due as a critical and ideological framework in its own right, despite recent interest in representations of the lower classes and the marginalized. These insights...
What People Believe When They Say That People Believe
Folk Sociology and the Nature of Group Intentions
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
In modern life, we often hear people say things like, 'Catholics don't believe in using birth control.' There are many reasons that we want to know what groups of people (such as Catholics) are thinking and doing. But it's hard to understand which social situations are being described by such statements....
New Treaty, New Tradition
Reconciling New Zealand and Maori Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Legal traditions respond to social and economic environments. Māori author and legal scholar Carwyn Jones provides a timely examination of how the resolution of land claims in New Zealand has affected Māori law and the challenges faced by Indigenous peoples as they attempt to exercise self-determination...
by Kathleen Jones
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Kathleen Jones travelled to the islands of Haida Gwaii off the northernmost coastline of British Columbia, to visit a nation who have lived in harmony with their environment for more than ten thousand years. They have a saying, 'Everything is Connected', and their philosophy, Yah' Guudang, is about...
The Disallowed
The Humorous Story Of A Contemporary Vampire Family
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
'The Disallowed' - Review by Eric Gates
When you see the word 'vampire' in a book's description, it is too easy, in this facile world of the archaic categorisation used by most publishers, to dismiss the work as yet another regurgitation of the popular teen-angst novels of late, or the titillating...
by Richard Nelson-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
This sixth edition provides an essential introduction to the major theoretical approaches in counselling and psychotherapy today. Comprehensive and accessible, it now includes two brand new chapters on Mindfulness and Positive Therapy, as well as additional content on ethics, on new developments...
The Domesticated Penis
How Womanhood Has Shaped Manhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The Domesticated Penis challenges long-held assumptions that, in the development of Homo sapiens, form follows function alone. In this fascinating exploration, Loretta A. Cormier and Sharyn R. Jones explain the critical contribution that conscious female selection has made to the attributes of the...
The Wesleyan Way
A Faith That Matters
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
In this exciting and inspiring new study, Scott J. Jones helps seekers and believers to envision and practice discipleship as a way of life. Presenting Christianity from a Wesleyan perspective, Jones invites participants into a deeper, more thoughtful, more active commitment to Christ. This 8-session...
Earnest Enquirers After Truth
A Gifford Anthology: excerpts from Gifford Lectures 1888-1968
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
First published in 1970, Bernard E. Jones’s selection of Gifford lectures includes excerpts from the writings of over ninety scholars who occupied a Gifford Chair between 1888 and 1968. Lord Gifford had asked his lecturers to be ‘honest to God’, insisting that they should be ‘earnest enquirers...