David Kroll's Books

The God of Jesus

A Comprehensive Examination of the Nature of the Father, Son and Spirit

By: David A. Kroll

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The God of Jesus

A Comprehensive Examination of the Nature of the Father, Son and Spirit

By: David A. Kroll

Jesus said the Father is the one and only true God (John 5:43-44, 17:3). Apostle Paul taught the same thing (1 Corinthians 8:4-6, 11:3, 1Timothy 2:5). Jesus said the Father is greater than Him and that He receives his life from the Father (John 14:28, 5:26). Yet Christian theology teaches Jesus is also the one and only true God, is equal with the Father, and has existed eternally with the Father in an indwelling relationship of Father, Son, and Spirit. The Bible repeatedly speaks of God the Father. You will not find the phrase God the Son or God the Spirit in the Scriptures. The Bible consistently speaks of the Son of God and Spirit of God but never speaks of the Father of God. In The God OF Jesus, it will be demonstrated that the reason the Bible never speaks of God the Son, God the Spirit, or the Father of God, is because the Father, and only the Father, IS God. It will be clearly shown who Jesus is and what the Spirit is in relation to who God is.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

325

Publisher

WestBow Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1449772862

ISBN 13

9781449772864

A Degree of Success through Curiosity

True Story of a Young Boy Eager to Learn and Find His Calling in Life

By: David M. Sablan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Degree of Success through Curiosity

True Story of a Young Boy Eager to Learn and Find His Calling in Life

By: David M. Sablan

A Degree of Success through Curiosity by David M. Sablan David M. Sablan shares his experiences and personal account growing up during the World War II years on Saipan in this book, A Degree of Success through Curiosity. Because there was a heavy battle between the U.S. forces and the Japanese Imperial Army on Saipan during 1944 (World War II), the idyllic island life under the Japanese regime changed with the arrival of war on Saipan. David and his family fled to the hills when the battle became very intense during the early summer of 1944. There he and his family lived in a well-hidden cave and survived on coconuts, sugarcane, and whatever they could scrounge in the immediate vicinity of the cave. They survived on this diet for at least three weeks before the Americans rescued them from the cave and took them to a safety stockade, where local residents were held out of harm’s way. A Degree of Success through Curiosity teaches us, the readers, a fascinating account of someone who experienced living under the Japanese regime before and during WWII on a remote Pacific island, who grew up under hardship but made something positive out of his life.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

135

Publisher

Dorrance Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

148093710X

ISBN 13

9781480937109

Diagnostic Bacteriology Protocols

By: Jenny Howard,David M. Whitcombe

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Diagnostic Bacteriology Protocols

By: Jenny Howard,David M. Whitcombe

Enhanced public awareness of microbiological issues and increased governmental regulation have ensured that microbiology and bacteriology remain important, from the academic laboratory to a broad range of indus trial environments. Since the techniques used in bacteriology vary widely and have advanced rapidly of late, it has become increasingly desirable to gather a collection of up-to-date protocols from a comprehensive range of disciplines into a single volume. Diagnostic Bacteriology Protocols thus aims to provide a wide variety of up-to-date protocols for the identification and differentiation of bacteria from pure or mixed cultures, and for the study of bacteria at the genus through to subspecies levels. In addition, we aim to provide methods covering a range of complexities, some requiring little or no special equipment, others exploiting recent advances in sophisticated instrumentation or novel nucleic acid-based technology. We also present techniques to study a variety of aspects of bacteria—from the features of whole cells and their growth, through their enzyme activities and structural components, to nucleic ac- based analysis.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

285

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

1592595332

ISBN 13

9781592595334

Notes for Violists

A Guide to the Repertoire

By: David M. Bynog

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Notes for Violists

A Guide to the Repertoire

By: David M. Bynog

Notes for Violists: A Guide to the Repertoire offers historical and analytical information about thirty-five of the best-known pieces for the instrument, making it an essential resource for professional, amateur, and student violists alike. With engaging prose supported by fact-filled analytical charts, the book offers rich biographical information and insightful analyses that help violists gain a more complete understanding of pieces like Béla Bartók's Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, Rebecca Clarke's Sonata for Viola and Piano, Robert Schumann's Märchenbilder for Viola and Piano, op. 113, Carl Stamitz's Concerto for Viola and Orchestra in D Major, Igor Stravinsky's Élégie for Viola or Violin Unaccompanied, and thirty other masterpieces. This comprehensive guide to key pieces from the viola repertoire from the eighteenth through the twentieth century covers concertos, chamber pieces, and works for solo viola by a wide range of composers, including Bach, Telemann, Mozart, Hoffmeister, Walton, and Hindemith. Author David M. Bynog not only offers clear structural analyses of these compositions but also situates them in their historical contexts as he highlights crucial biographical information on composers and explores the circumstances of the development and performance of each work. By connecting performance studies with scholarship, this indispensable handbook for students and professionals allows readers to gain a more complete picture of each work and encourages them to approach other compositions in a similarly analytical manner.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

352

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0190916125

ISBN 13

9780190916121

The Collected Papers of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 1

A Florilegium of Sherlockian Adventures in Multiple Volumes

By: David Marcum

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Collected Papers of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 1

A Florilegium of Sherlockian Adventures in Multiple Volumes

By: David Marcum

At the age of ten in the mid-1970's, David Marcum discovered Mr. Sherlock Holmes, and from that point, he knew that the original 60 Canonical adventures would never be enough. This, coupled with his life-long desire to write, meant that eventually he would find a way to add new stories to The Great Holmes Tapestry. The years passed, and David collected, read, and chronologicized literally thousands of traditional Canonical Sherlockian pastiches. Then, in 2008, with time on his hands while laid off from his civil engineering job during the Great Recession, David finally found his way to Watson's Tin Dispatch Box, producing The Papers of Sherlock Holmes. These first nine short stories originally sat on a shelf in his Holmes book collection before he eventually decided to share them with others. That first collection was initially published by a small press in 2011, and then in 2013 by the premiere Sherlockian publisher, MX Publishing - and after that, there was no turning back. Since then, in addition to editing over 60 volumes (most of which are Sherlockian anthologies), David has written and published over 80 Sherlockian adventures in a variety of anthologies and magazines. Now these are being collected - along with a few others that haven’t been seen before. These first five volumes contain the majority of David’s Holmesian stories - so far, with additional adventures to be collected and published as part of this ongoing series in 2022. Join us as we return to Baker Street and discover more authentic adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the man described by the estimable Dr. Watson as “the best and wisest . . . whom I have ever known.” The game is afoot! Volume I - Tales (9 Short Stories and a Novel) The Papers of Sherlock Holmes (9 Short Stories) The Adventure of the Least Winning Woman The Adventure of the Treacherous Tea The Singular Affair at Sissinghurst Castle The Adventure of the Second Chance The Haunting of Sutton House The Adventure of the Missing Missing Link The Affair of The Brother’s Request The Adventure of the Madman’s Ceremony The Adventure of the Other Brother and Sherlock Holmes and A Quantity of Debt (A Novel)

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

585

Publisher

Andrews UK Limited

Published Date

ISBN 10

1787059014

ISBN 13

9781787059016

Driven to the Field

Sharecropping and Southern Literature

By: David A. Davis

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Driven to the Field

Sharecropping and Southern Literature

By: David A. Davis

Driven to the Field traces the culture of sharecropping—crucial to understanding life in the southern United States—from Emancipation to the twenty-first century. By reading dozens of works of literature in their historical context, David A. Davis demonstrates how sharecropping emerged, endured for a century, and continues to resonate in American culture. Following the end of slavery, sharecropping initially served as an expedient solution to a practical problem, but it quickly developed into an entrenched power structure situated between slavery and freedom that exploited the labor of Blacks and poor whites to produce agricultural commodities. Sharecropping was the economic linchpin in the South’s social structure, and the region’s political system, race relations, and cultural practices were inextricably linked with this peculiar form of tenant farming from the end of the Civil War through the civil rights movement. Driven to the Field analyzes literary portrayals of this system to explain how it defined the culture of the South, revealing multiple genres of literature that depicted sharecropping, such as cotton romances, agricultural uplift novels, proletarian sharecropper fiction, and sharecropper autobiographies—important works of American literature that have never before been evaluated and discussed in their proper context.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

396

Publisher

University of Virginia Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0813948665

ISBN 13

9780813948669

Drawing Theories Apart

The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics

By: David Kaiser

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Drawing Theories Apart

The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics

By: David Kaiser

Winner of the 2007 Pfizer Prize from the History of Science Society. Feynman diagrams have revolutionized nearly every aspect of theoretical physics since the middle of the twentieth century. Introduced by the American physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) soon after World War II as a means of simplifying lengthy calculations in quantum electrodynamics, they soon gained adherents in many branches of the discipline. Yet as new physicists adopted the tiny line drawings, they also adapted the diagrams and introduced their own interpretations. Drawing Theories Apart traces how generations of young theorists learned to frame their research in terms of the diagrams—and how both the diagrams and their users were molded in the process. Drawing on rich archival materials, interviews, and more than five hundred scientific articles from the period, Drawing Theories Apart uses the Feynman diagrams as a means to explore the development of American postwar physics. By focusing on the ways young physicists learned new calculational skills, David Kaiser frames his story around the crafting and stabilizing of the basic tools in the physicist's kit—thus offering the first book to follow the diagrams once they left Feynman's hands and entered the physics vernacular.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

376

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0226422658

ISBN 13

9780226422657

The Papers of Sherlock Holmes - Volume II

By: David Marcum

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Papers of Sherlock Holmes - Volume II

By: David Marcum

Spanning events over thirty years, Volume II of The Papers of Sherlock Holmes relates further narratives of Holmes and Watson's days in Baker Street, as well as particulars of Holmes's supposed retirement. Follow along as The Master and his Boswell travel to Yorkshire, where surprising new details of Holmes's past are revealed, and even to the United States in 1921. Written in traditional canonical style, these stories provide fresh details of Holmes's world. Join us as we climb the seventeen steps to the Baker Street sitting room, where Holmes and Watson prepare to begin their next adventure. The game is afoot!

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

193

Publisher

Andrews UK Limited

Published Date

ISBN 10

178092447X

ISBN 13

9781780924472

Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story, Updated with New Epilogue

By: David Einhorn

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story, Updated with New Epilogue

By: David Einhorn

A revealing look at Wall Street, the financial media, and financial regulators by David Einhorn, the President of Greenlight Capital Could 2008's credit crisis have been minimized or even avoided? In 2002, David Einhorn-one of the country's top investors-was asked at a charity investment conference to share his best investment advice. Short sell Allied Capital. At the time, Allied was a leader in the private financing industry. Einhorn claimed Allied was using questionable accounting practices to prop itself up. Sound familiar? At the time of the original version of Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short Story the outcome of his advice was unknown. Now, the story is complete and we know Einhorn was right. In 2008, Einhorn advised the same conference to short sell Lehman Brothers. And had the market been more open to his warnings, yes, the market meltdown might have been avoided, or at least minimized. Details the gripping battle between Allied Capital and Einhorn's Greenlight Capital Illuminates how questionable company practices are maintained and, at times, even protected by Wall Street Describes the failings of investment banks, analysts, journalists, and government regulators Describes how many parts of the Allied Capital story were replayed in the debate over Lehman Brothers Fooling Some of the People All of the Time is an important call for effective government regulation, free speech, and fair play.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

455

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

0470481544

ISBN 13

9780470481547

Thwarting the Wayward Seas

A Critical and Theatrical History of Shakespeare's Pericles in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

By: David Skeele

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Thwarting the Wayward Seas

A Critical and Theatrical History of Shakespeare's Pericles in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

By: David Skeele

Skeele then looks at stage production of the play during the greater part of the twentieth century, contrasting two trends in Pericles production: the spectacular approach (a la Phelps) and the spare, stripped-down treatments initially inspired by Poel and Granville-Barker's rebellions against Victorian excess. Finally, Skeele blends critical and production history, examining Pericles in light of recent trends in poststructuralist criticism and postmodern staging.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

200

Publisher

University of Delaware Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0874136466

ISBN 13

9780874136463

The Demes of Attica, 508/7 -ca. 250 B.C.

A Political and Social Study

By: David Whitehead

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Demes of Attica, 508/7 -ca. 250 B.C.

A Political and Social Study

By: David Whitehead

This work is a richly detailed study of the nature and development of the 139 Attic demes, the local units that made up the city-state of Athens during the classical and early Hellenistic periods. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

515

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1400857686

ISBN 13

9781400857685

Potassic Igneous Rocks and Associated Gold-Copper Mineralization

By: Daniel Müller,David I. Groves

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Potassic Igneous Rocks and Associated Gold-Copper Mineralization

By: Daniel Müller,David I. Groves

This book reviews the geochemical and petrological characteristics of potassic igneous rock complexes, and investigates the various tectonic settings in which these rocks occur. The authors provide an overview and classification of these rocks and elucidate the geochemical differences between barren and mineralized potassic igneous complexes. High-K rocks are genetically associated with a number of epithermal gold and porphyry copper-gold deposits. In recent years, there has also been growing recognition of an association of such rocks with iron-oxide copper-gold (IOCG) deposits, intrusion-related gold deposits (IRGDs) and Carlin-type gold deposits. This fifth updated and expanded edition incorporates new data and references from world-class copper and gold deposits worldwide. It also includes the latest publications on the petrogenesis of high-K magmatism and related mineral deposits. Numerous new representative ore photographs of the mineral deposits described are also included in the new edition. As such, the book offers a valuable guide not only for academic petrologists working on alkaline rocks, but also for exploration geologists prospecting for epithermal gold and/or porphyry copper-gold deposits in modern and ancient terrains.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

430

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

3319929798

ISBN 13

9783319929798

Breast Cancer

By: David J. Winchester

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Breast Cancer

By: David J. Winchester

Breast Cancer, Second Editionis intended to provide a comprehensive description of current and evolving aspects of breast cancer including the biologic basis of disease, epidemiology, risk assessment, diagnostic evaluation, treatment strategies, and surveillance measures. The second edition expands considerably on the first edition, containing greater emphasis on issues relevant to medical oncology and the broader oncology community. New to this edition are chapters on the male breast, breast cancer in the augmented breast and breast cancer in multiethnic/multiracial populations. Part of the American Cancer Societyâ€™s acclaimedAtlas of Clinical Oncology series, this volume offers an expert overview of breast cancer. Topics range from epidemiology and genetics to diagnosis, management and reconstruction. Post-treatment care, as well as male breast cancer, is also discussed.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

632

Publisher

PMPH-USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

1550092723

ISBN 13

9781550092721

Hot Rod Pin-ups

By: David Perry

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hot Rod Pin-ups

By: David Perry

David Perry, Foreword by Robt. Williams. For as long as young men have been channeling, chopping, and hopping up rods and customs, women - whether loyal girlfriends or trouble-seeking "bad girls" - have been an integral to their scene. In this unique portfolio evoking great 1950s pin-up artists like Vargas and Elvgren, talented photographer David Perry depicts models in and out of cherry-picked rods and customs wearing painstakingly chosen period dress and hairstyles. More than 100 photos present these modern-day pin-ups under three themes: Garage, Cruising, and Race. In addition, essays explore each topic and are also accompanied by pulp novel covers, period mags, and ads that place the photography in a historical context. Captions identify the car owners, photo location, and, where appropriate, interesting car specs and histories.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

152

ISBN 10

1610609611

ISBN 13

9781610609616

Shadow Force

Private Security Contractors in Iraq

By: David Isenberg

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Shadow Force

Private Security Contractors in Iraq

By: David Isenberg

From their limited use in China during World War II, for example, to their often clandestine use in Vietnam ferrying supplies before the war escalated in 1964 and 1965 when their role became more prominent-and public-private military contractors (PMCs) have played made essential contributions to the success and failures of the military and United States. Today, with an emphasis on force restructuring mandated by the Pentagon, the role of PMCs, and their impact on policy-making decisions is at an all time peak. This work analyzes that impact, focusing specifically on PMCs in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Isenberg dissects their responsibilities, the friction that exists between contractors and military commanders, problems of protocol and accountability, as well as the problems of regulation and control that PMC companies create for domestic politics. Isenberg organizes his work thematically, addressing all facets of PMCs in the current conflict from identifying who the most influential companies are and how they got to that point, to the issues that the government, military, and contractors themselves face when they take the field. He also analyzes the problem of command, control, and accountability. It is no secret that PMCs have been the source of consternation and grief to American military commanders in the field. As they work to establish more routine protocols in the field, however, questions are also being raised about the role of the contractors here at home. The domestic political arena is perhaps the most crucial battleground on which the contractors must have success. After all, they make their corporate living off of taxpayer dollars, and as such, calls for regulation have resonated throughout Washington, D.C., growing louder as the profile of PMCs increases during the current conflict.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

262

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

0275996344

ISBN 13

9780275996345

The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach

By: David Schulenberg

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach

By: David Schulenberg

The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach provides an introduction to and comprehensive discussion of all the music for harpsichord and other stringed keyboard instruments by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Often played today on the modern piano, these works are central not only to the Western concert repertory but to musical pedagogy and study throughout the world. Intended as both a practical guide and an interpretive study, the book consists of three introductory chapters on general matters of historical context, style, and performance practice, followed by fifteen chapters on the individual works, treated in roughly chronological order. The works discussed include all of Bach's individual keyboard compositions as well as those comprising his famous collections, such as the Well-Tempered Clavier, the English and French Suites, and the Art of Fugue.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

546

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1136091548

ISBN 13

9781136091544

Rare Metal Technology 2015

By: Neale R. Neelameggham,Shafiq Alam,Harald Oosterhof,Animesh Jha,David Dreisinger,Shijie Wang

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rare Metal Technology 2015

By: Neale R. Neelameggham,Shafiq Alam,Harald Oosterhof,Animesh Jha,David Dreisinger,Shijie Wang

This collection presents the papers presented in the symposium on extraction of rare metals as well as rare extraction processing techniques used in metal production. Paper topics include the extraction and processing of elements like antimony, arsenic, calcium, chromium, hafnium, gold, indium, lithium, molybdenum, niobium, rare earth metals, rhenium, scandium, selenium, silver, strontium, tantalum, tellurium, tin, tungsten, vanadium, and zirconium. Rare processing techniques presented include bio leaching, molecular recognition technology, recovery of valuable components of commodity metals such as magnesium from laterite process wastes, titanium from ilmenites, and rare metals from wastes such as phosphors and LCD monitors.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

285

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

1119093236

ISBN 13

9781119093237

Athenian Democracy at War

By: David Pritchard

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Athenian Democracy at War

By: David Pritchard

Studies all four branches of the Athenian armed forces to show how they helped make democratic Athens a superpower.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

313

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1108422918

ISBN 13

9781108422918

The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis: The Secret White House Tapes

By: David Coleman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis: The Secret White House Tapes

By: David Coleman

A portrait of the JFK White House after the Cuban Missile Crisis as it really was…human and revealing." —Evan Thomas Popular history marks October 28, 1962, as the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Yet as JFK’s secretly recorded White House tapes reveal, the aftermath of the crisis was a political and diplomatic minefield. The president had to push hard to get Khrushchev to remove Soviet weaponry from Cuba without reigniting the volatile situation, while also tackling midterm elections and press controversy. With a new preface that highlights recently declassified information, historian David G. Coleman puts readers in the Oval Office during the turning point of Kennedy’s presidency and the watershed of the Cold War.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

273

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Published Date

ISBN 10

0393089223

ISBN 13

9780393089226

Riddle, Mystery, and Enigma

Two Hundred Years of British–Russian Relations

By: David Owen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Riddle, Mystery, and Enigma

Two Hundred Years of British–Russian Relations

By: David Owen

A history of relations between Britain and Russia from the nineteenth century to the present. With Riddle, Mystery, and Enigma, statesman and author David Owen tells the story of Britain’s relationship with Russia, which has been surprisingly underexplored. Through his characteristic insight and expertise, he depicts a relationship governed by principle as often as by suspicion, expediency, and necessity. When the two nations formed a pragmatic alliance and fought together at the Battle of Navarino in Greece in 1827, it was overwhelmingly the work of the British prime minister, George Canning. His death brought about a drastic shift that would see the countries fighting on opposite sides in the Crimean War and jostling for power during the Great Game. It was not until the Russian Revolution of 1917 that another statesman had a defining impact on relations between Britain and Russia: Winston Churchill, who opposed Bolshevism yet never stopped advocating for diplomatic and military engagement with Russia. In the Second World War, he recognized early on the necessity of allying with the Soviets against the menace of Nazi Germany. Bringing us into the twenty-first century, Owen chronicles how both countries have responded to their geopolitical decline. Drawing on both imperial and Soviet history, he explains the unique nature of Putin’s autocracy and addresses Britain’s return to “blue water” diplomacy. Newly revised, this paperback edition features extended chapters on Putin’s Russia and the future of British–Russian relations after the Russo-Ukrainian War.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

426

Publisher

Haus Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1913368408

ISBN 13

9781913368401

Unsettling Opera

Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky

By: David J. Levin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Unsettling Opera

Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky

By: David J. Levin

What happens when operas that are comfortably ensconced in the canon are thoroughly rethought and radically recast on stage? What does a staging do to our understanding of an opera, and of opera generally? While a stage production can disrupt a work that was thought to be established, David J. Levin here argues that the genre of opera is itself unsettled, and that the performance of operas, at its best, clarifies this condition by bringing opera’s restlessness and volatility to life. Unsettling Opera explores a variety of fields, considering questions of operatic textuality, dramaturgical practice, and performance theory. Levin opens with a brief history of opera production, opera studies, and dramatic composition, and goes on to consider in detail various productions of the works of Wagner, Mozart, Verdi, and Alexander Zemlinsky. Ultimately, the book seeks to initiate a dialogue between scholars of music, literature, and performance by addressing questions raised in each field in a manner that influences them all.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

276

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0226475255

ISBN 13

9780226475257

Architectural Research Methods

By: Linda N. Groat,David Wang

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Architectural Research Methods

By: Linda N. Groat,David Wang

ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH METHODS ARCHITECTURE/GENERAL A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO RESEARCH FOR ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERS—NOW UPDATED AND EXPANDED! From searching for the best glass to prevent glare to determining how clients might react to the color choice for restaurant walls, research is a crucial tool that architects must master in order to effectively address the technical, aesthetic, and behavioral issues that arise in their work. This book’s unique coverage of research methods is specifically targeted to help professional designers and researchers better conduct and understand research. Part I explores basic research issues and concepts, and includes chapters on relating theory to method and design to research. Part II gives a comprehensive treatment of specific strategies for investigating built forms. In all, the book covers seven types of research, including historical, qualitative, correlational, experimental, simulation, logical argumentation, and case studies and mixed methods. Features new to this edition include: Strategies for investigation, practical examples, and resources for additional information A look at current trends and innovations in research Coverage of design studio–based research that shows how strategies described in the book can be employed in real life A discussion of digital media and online research New and updated examples of research studies A new chapter on the relationship between design and research Architectural Research Methods is an essential reference for architecture students and researchers as well as architects, interior designers, landscape architects, and building product manufacturers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

699

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

1118415477

ISBN 13

9781118415474

Corrosion Science and Technology

By: David E.J. Talbot,James D.R. Talbot

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Corrosion Science and Technology

By: David E.J. Talbot,James D.R. Talbot

Twenty years after its first publication, Corrosion Science and Technology continues to be a relevant practical guide for students and professionals interested in material science. This Third Edition thoroughly covers the basic principles of corrosion science in the same reader-friendly manner that made the previous editioninvaluable, and enlarges the scope of the content with expanded chapters on processes for various metals and new technologies for limiting costs and metal degradation in a variety of commercial enterprises not explored in previous editions. This book also presents expertly developed methods of corrosion testing and prediction.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

597

Publisher

CRC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

149875242X

ISBN 13

9781498752428

The Weimar Origins of Rhetorical Inquiry

By: David L. Marshall

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Weimar Origins of Rhetorical Inquiry

By: David L. Marshall

The Weimar origins of political theory is a widespread and powerful narrative, but this singular focus leaves out another intellectual history that historian David L. Marshall works to reveal: the Weimar origins of rhetorical inquiry. Marshall focuses his attention on Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and Aby Warburg, revealing how these influential thinkers inflected and transformed problems originally set out by Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, Theodor Adorno, Hans Baron, and Leo Strauss. He contends that we miss major opportunities if we do not attend to the rhetorical aspects of their thought, and his aim, in the end, is to lay out an intellectual history that can become a zone of theoretical experimentation in para-democratic times. Redescribing the Weimar origins of political theory in terms of rhetorical inquiry, Marshall provides fresh readings of pivotal thinkers and argues that the vision of rhetorical inquiry that they open up allows for new ways of imagining political communities today.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

381

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

022672235X

ISBN 13

9780226722351

Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens

By: David M. Pritchard

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens

By: David M. Pritchard

In his On the Glory of Athens, Plutarch complained that the Athenian people spent more on the production of dramatic festivals and “the misfortunes of Medeas and Electras than they did on maintaining their empire and fighting for their liberty against the Persians.” This view of the Athenians’ misplaced priorities became orthodoxy with the publication of August Böckh’s 1817 book Die Staatshaushaltung der Athener [The Public Economy of Athens], which criticized the classical Athenian dēmos for spending more on festivals than on wars and for levying unjust taxes to pay for their bloated government. But were the Athenians’ priorities really as misplaced as ancient and modern historians believed? Drawing on lines of evidence not available in Böckh’s time, Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens calculates the real costs of religion, politics, and war to settle the long-standing debate about what the ancient Athenians valued most highly. David M. Pritchard explains that, in Athenian democracy, voters had full control over public spending. When they voted for a bill, they always knew its cost and how much they normally spent on such bills. Therefore, the sums they chose to spend on festivals, politics, and the armed forces reflected the order of the priorities that they had set for their state. By calculating these sums, Pritchard convincingly demonstrates that it was not religion or politics but war that was the overriding priority of the Athenian people.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

161

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

029277205X

ISBN 13

9780292772052

Texas Furniture, Volume Two

The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840–1880

By: Lonn Taylor,David B. Warren

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Texas Furniture, Volume Two

The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840–1880

By: Lonn Taylor,David B. Warren

The art of furniture making flourished in Texas during the mid-nineteenth century. To document this rich heritage of locally made furniture, Miss Ima Hogg, the well-known philanthropist and collector of American decorative arts, enlisted Lonn Taylor and David B. Warren to research early Texas furniture and its makers. After more than a decade of investigation, they published Texas Furniture in 1975, and it quickly became the authoritative reference on this subject. An updated edition, Texas Furniture, Volume One, was issued in the spring of 2012. Texas Furniture, Volume Two presents over 150 additional pieces of furniture that were not included in Volume One, each superbly photographed in color and accompanied by detailed descriptions of the piece’s maker, date, materials, measurements, history, and owner, as well as an analysis by the authors. Taylor and Warren have also written a new introduction for this volume, in which they amplify the story of early Texas furniture. In particular, they compare and contrast the two important traditions of cabinetmaking in Texas, Anglo-American and German, and identify previously unknown artisans. The authors also discuss nineteenth-century Texans’ desire for refinement and gentility in furniture, non-commercial furniture making, and marquetry work. And they pay tribute to the twentieth-century collectors who first recognized the value of locally made Texas furniture and worked to preserve it. A checklist of Texas cabinetmakers, which contains biographical information on approximately nine hundred men who made furniture in Texas, completes the volume.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

351

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0292745818

ISBN 13

9780292745810

The Image of God and the Psychology of Religion

By: Richard L Dayringer,David Oler

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Image of God and the Psychology of Religion

By: Richard L Dayringer,David Oler

What are the implications of a client’s image of God? Improve your confidence—and your practice skills—by enhancing your knowledge of how individuals are likely to perceive God, and of how those perceptions impact the way they function as human beings. Theologians have long speculated and theorized about how humans imagine God to be. This book merges theology with science, presenting empirical research focused on perceptions of God in a variety of populations living in community and mental health settings. Each chapter concludes with references that comprise an essential reading list, and the book is generously enhanced with tables that make data easy to access and understand. “Liberating Images of God” discusses the constriction and impoverishment of God images due to the traditional restrictions of God images to those that are male and personified. This chapter examines the potential for the client and counselor’s co-creation of images of God which embrace the feminine as well as the masculine, the nurturer as well as the warrior, and the natural world in all its dimensions as well as the human world, to liberate, enrich, sustain, and transform the client’s relationships with God and with him/herself. “Attachment, Well-Being, and Religious Participation Among People with Severe Mental Disorders” examines the relationship between attachment states of mind and religious participation among people diagnosed with severe mental illness. “Concepts of God and Therapeutic Alliance Among People with Severe Mental Disorders” explores the transferential aspects of God representation among severely mentally ill adults. It highlights research on the relationship between a patient’s image of God and that patient’s working relationship with his/her case manager, and discusses the implications for clinical practice of those findings. “The Subjective Experience of God” presents a theory about the psychological basis for the experience of God that argues that this experience is essentially a form of projection and as such is an internal event that does not exist independent of an individual’s psyche. This chapter draws a distinction between faith in a particular belief—namely, faith in the existence of a loving, omnipotent God—and an attitude of faith, which is the basis for experiences of transcendence. “Relationship of Gender Role Identity and Attitudes” presents the results of a study in which nearly 300 Catholic attendees at three university Catholic centers completed the Bern Sex Role Inventory, the Attitudes Toward Women Scale, and the Perceptions of God Checklist. This chapter looks at images of God as masculine or feminine, and at the connection for people between the way they perceive God and the way they relate towards men and women. “Reflections on a Study in a Mental Hospital,” brings you groundbreaking new research on perceptions of God in an inpatient population. This chapter examines the positive effects (as opposed to the negative effects previously portrayed by the psychological community) of religious belief and practice for residential care patients in a psychiatric hospital.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

146

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1136434518

ISBN 13

9781136434518

Berlin

By: David Clay Large

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Berlin

By: David Clay Large

In the political history of the past century, no city has played a more prominent-though often disastrous-role than Berlin. At the same time, Berlin has also been a dynamic center of artistic and intellectual innovation. If Paris was the "Capital of the Nineteenth Century," Berlin was to become the signature city for the next hundred years. Once a symbol of modernity, in the Thirties it became associated with injustice and the abuse of power. After 1945, it became the iconic City of the Cold War. Since the fall of the Wall, Berlin has again come to represent humanity's aspirations for a new beginning, tempered by caution deriving from the traumas of the recent past. David Clay Large's definitive history of Berlin is framed by the two German unifications of 1871 and 1990. Between these two events several themes run like a thread through the city's history: a persistent inferiority complex; a distrust among many ordinary Germans, and the national leadership of the "unloved city's" electric atmosphere, fast tempo, and tradition of unruliness; its status as a magnet for immigrants, artists, intellectuals, and the young; the opening up of social, economic, and ethnic divisions as sharp as the one created by the Wall.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

894

Publisher

Basic Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0465010121

ISBN 13

9780465010127

Mechanics of the Cell

By: David H. Boal

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mechanics of the Cell

By: David H. Boal

A biological physics text for a multidisciplinary audience, exploring the architectural structure of the cell.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

424

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521796814

ISBN 13

9780521796811

Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826-1925

By: David Bernard Dearinger,National Academy of Design (U.S.)

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826-1925

By: David Bernard Dearinger,National Academy of Design (U.S.)

This is the first installment of a fully illustrated catalogue of the Academy's priceless collection of paintings and sculptures.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

712

Publisher

Hudson Hills

Published Date

ISBN 10

1555950299

ISBN 13

9781555950293

The Rhetoric of Empiricism

Language and Perception from Locke to I.A. Richards

By: Jules David Law

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Rhetoric of Empiricism

Language and Perception from Locke to I.A. Richards

By: Jules David Law

Empiricism favors the visual over the verbal, the literal over the rhetorical, the static over the temporal: This is the standard charge leveled by literary theorists and writers. It is, Jules David Law demonstrates, remarkably misguided. His ambitious and challenging book explores the interplay of language and visual perception at the heart of empiricism. A re-evaluation of the British empiricist tradition from the perspective of contemporary literary theory, it also offers a sustained challenge to theory itself. In failing to grasp the issues confronting early empiricist writers or to be fully aware of their rhetorical strategies, Law says, theory has defined itself needlessly in opposition to empiricism. -- Description from http://www.booktopia.com.au (April 19, 2012).

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

282

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0801427061

ISBN 13

9780801427060

Sanctions and the Search for Security

Challenges to UN Action

By: David Cortright,George A. Lopez,Linda Gerber,International Peace Academy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sanctions and the Search for Security

Challenges to UN Action

By: David Cortright,George A. Lopez,Linda Gerber,International Peace Academy

Cortright and Lopez (both of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, U. of Notre Dame) follow up on their earlier work The Sanctions Decade by examining some of the UN changes in sanctions design since 1999 and suggesting that still further changes need to be carried out. Noting that it has now become evident that the full-scale strangulation of a national economy fails to produce political compliance. Recent sanctions against the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Taylor government in Liberia are seen as a laudable refinement, but a move from seeing sanctions a solely a punishment towards seeing them as also a form of persuasion is recommended. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

266

Publisher

Lynne Rienner Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

158826078X

ISBN 13

9781588260789

Book's by David Kroll

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email