Rod Thompson's Books

Animal Welfare and Human Values

By: Rod Preece,Lorna Chamberlain

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Animal Welfare and Human Values

By: Rod Preece,Lorna Chamberlain

As the most populous province in Canada, Ontario is a microcosm of the animal welfare issues which beset Western civilization. The authors of this book, chairman and vice-chairman, respectively, of the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, find themselves constantly being made aware of the atrocities committed in the Society’s jurisdiction. They have been, in turn, puzzled, exasperated and horrified at humanity’s cruelty to our fellow sentient beings. The issues discussed in this book are the most contentious in animal welfare disputes — animal experimentation, fur-farming and trapping, the use of animals for human entertainment and the conditions under which animals are raised for human consumption. They are complex issues and should be thought about fairly and seriously. The authors, standing squarely on the side of the animals, suggest “community” and “belonging” as concepts through which to understand our relationships to other species. They ground their ideas in Wordsworth’s “primal sympathy” and Jung’s “unconscious identity” with the animal realm. The philosophy developed in this book embraces common sense and compromise as the surest paths to the goal of animal welfare. It requires respect and consideration for other species while acknowledging our primary obligations to our fellow humans.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

345

Publisher

Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1554587670

ISBN 13

9781554587674

Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lamb

A Chronicle of Sensibility to Animals

By: Rod Preece

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lamb

A Chronicle of Sensibility to Animals

By: Rod Preece

Respect for animals has always been a part of human consciousness. Poets, thinkers, philosophers, scientists and statesmen have long celebrated our compassion towards Earth's other beasts.Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lamb compiles the most significant statements of sensibility to animals in the history of thought. From the myths of the ancient world to the Middle Ages to Darwin and beyond, Preece captures the most telling and fascinating accounts of humankind's relationship to the wild world, placing them in historical context. Jung called it an unconscious identity with animals, while Wordsworth saw it as the primal sympathy which having been must ever be. Linking the diverse chords of human experience that are touched by the animal world, Preece shows that despite a historical thread of cruelty, there still remains in all humanity a constant underlying concern for other beings as an integral part of the moral community. With musings and meditations from Lao Tse to Mohammed, from Plato to Jane Goodall, from classical religion to parliamentary proceedings, Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lamb is an original, superbly researched history that deepens our understanding of all living beings.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

447

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1135946981

ISBN 13

9781135946982

Booze, Blood & Justice

A Southern Tale of Death, Decadence and Redemption

By: Rod Wallsmith

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Booze, Blood & Justice

A Southern Tale of Death, Decadence and Redemption

By: Rod Wallsmith

Desperate with fear, noted author J. B. Colefield squeezes the trigger on a 30.06 deer rifle and blows a young black man's brains all over the inside of his car. The sensational murder trial which follows peels the skin off a small southern town, revealing a community oozing with hate, sexual secrets and political squalor. In an atmosphere charged with racial tension and violence, the burden falls to an unlikely few, who must find the courage, of justice.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

182

Publisher

AuthorHouse

Published Date

ISBN 10

1425988393

ISBN 13

9781425988395

A Thousand Dead Horses

By: Rod Miller

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Thousand Dead Horses

By: Rod Miller

SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR ROD MILLER It is 1840. The fur trade has all but ended and trappers in Taos feel the pinch. With a band of Ute Indians, they follow the Old Spanish Trail to California to steal horses and mules, then return and reap the profits in Santa Fe. The unprecedented raid results in the theft of some 3,000 animals. Daniel Boone Pickens, a young man on the run from the law in Missouri and in search of a future, signs on for the adventure. Nooch, a young Ute, follows the leader of his band to prove his worth as a warrior. A young vaquero from California, Juan Medina, finds himself involved more from circumstance than choice. Along the trail, the young men forge bonds that surpass race and culture as they face hunger and thirst, fire and flood, bullet and blade. And together they grieve the deaths of more than a thousand of the stolen horses and mules on a mad dash across the dry and desolate Mojave Desert. Based on the real-life exploits of mountain men “Pegleg” Smith, “Old Bill” Williams, and Jim Beckwourth with Ute leader Wakara, A Thousand Dead Horses dramatizes conflicts in the evolving Old West.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

227

Publisher

Speaking Volumes

ISBN 10

1645409880

ISBN 13

9781645409885

When The Green Flag Drops

Memoirs Of A Baja And Pro-Rally Racer

By: Rod Koch

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

When The Green Flag Drops

Memoirs Of A Baja And Pro-Rally Racer

By: Rod Koch

Ride once again with the author, Rod Koch, and share his adventures as he struggles to gain another victory in the epic Baja 1000. His fi rst autobiography, 7 Years from Start to Finish, covered the early years of the Baja races from 1968-1975, up to the moment when the author became a fi rst place winner in that incredible endurance race down and around the Baja California peninsula. When the Green Flag Drops conti nues those adventures in off -road racing through the 1980s not just in Baja, but back in the U. S. A. with events like the Parker 400, Casinos 350, Mint 400 and the Riverside Off -Road Championships. The author then makes the transiti on into the intensity of the Pro-Rally race scene, bringing the reader along with him as he takes on some of the best and fastest off -road and performance rally drivers in North America. The action streaks across the High Sierras from San Francisco to Reno, from Las Vegas to Laughlin, Nevada, from Carson City to Virginia City to Yerington, through the rain, mud, snow, even the heat of the Mojave Desert near Palm Springs and east of Indio, wherever the dirt mountain and desert roads of the performance and Pro-Rally circuit goes. You are there with the author in the co-driver’s seat for what may be the ride of your life—if you dare.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

496

Publisher

Xlibris Corporation

Published Date

ISBN 10

1456858645

ISBN 13

9781456858643

The Last Happy Year

A Novel

By: Rod Coneybeare

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Last Happy Year

A Novel

By: Rod Coneybeare

The Last Happy Year: A Novel by Rod Coneybeare

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1264

Publisher

Dundurn

Published Date

ISBN 10

0888821549

ISBN 13

9780888821546

The Duke of Kent

The Memoirs of Darcy McKeough

By: Darcy McKeough,Rod McQueen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Duke of Kent

The Memoirs of Darcy McKeough

By: Darcy McKeough,Rod McQueen

A refreshingly honest memoir about politics and private life Few Canadians have served their nation as well and as widely as the Honourable Darcy McKeough. He was elected Member of Provincial Parliament for Chatham–Kent, Ontario, five times between 1963 and 1977. In 1967 he was mockingly dubbed the Duke of Kent by an opposition MPP, a title he has worn as a badge of honour ever since. As Treasurer of Ontario, Minister of Municipal Affairs, and Minister of Energy during his time in office, McKeough fought to achieve budget surpluses long before it was fashionable, created regional governments that brought more efficient services to citizens, and attempted to tame Ontario Hydro. In The Duke of Kent, McKeough takes readers behind the scenes and into the Cabinet rooms of government, putting on full display the thrust and parry of legislative sittings where he almost always gave better than he got. He brings to life the political and constitutional issues of the day as led, litigated, and legislated by an array of provincial and federal politicians, including Charles MacNaughton, John Robarts, William Davis, John Diefenbaker, Robert Stanfield, Lester B. Pearson, Pierre Trudeau, Joe Clark, Brian Mulroney, Jean Chrétien, Jacques Parizeau, and Peter Lougheed.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

370

Publisher

ECW Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1770908900

ISBN 13

9781770908901

Chasing Butterflies

By: Rod Martinez

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Chasing Butterflies

By: Rod Martinez

Devastation is coming, not just for Palm Creek, Florida - a small town just a few miles from Cape Kennedy and N.A.S.A. - but eventually - it could destroy the entire eastern Florida coast if it isn't stopped. A predator with mysterious origins and no understanding of its inherent danger is on the prowl with seemingly nothing that can stop it. It hosts a cancer of epic proportions, not only the kind that eats away at your body - it's also the kind that transforms your soul. Four total strangers from different walks of life will be on a mission, they just don't know it yet. And the decisions and outcomes of these four unlikely friends will either save or destroy the populace.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

162

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

1365648141

ISBN 13

9781365648144

The Illustrated Gettysburg Reader

An Eyewitness History of the Civil War?s Greatest Battle

By: Rod Gragg

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Illustrated Gettysburg Reader

An Eyewitness History of the Civil War?s Greatest Battle

By: Rod Gragg

One hundred and fifty years after the Battle of Gettysburg, the words of the soldiers and onlookers present for those three fateful days still reverberate with the power of their courage and sacrifice. The Illustrated Gettysburg Reader: An Eyewitness History of the Civil War's Greatest Battle gathers letters, journals, articles and speeches from the people who lived through those legendary three days. Tied together with narrative by historian Rod Gragg and illustrated with a wealth of photographs and images, The Illustrated Gettysburg Reader will transport you to the battlefield, immersing you in the emotional intensity of the struggle of brother against brother for the future of the United States of America. "Here they are penetrating the heart of a hostile country leaving their homes beyond broad rivers and the largest of the enemies armies while in front of them is gathering all of resistance that can be obtained by a power fruitful of every element of military power." —Confederate soldier T.G. Pollock on the 30th of June, 1863, the day before the Battle of Gettysburg

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

497

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1621570738

ISBN 13

9781621570738

Mesh Enhancement: Selected Elliptic Methods, Foundations And Applications

By: Glen A Hansen,Rod W Douglass,Andrew Zardecki

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mesh Enhancement: Selected Elliptic Methods, Foundations And Applications

By: Glen A Hansen,Rod W Douglass,Andrew Zardecki

This book focuses on mesh (grid) enhancement techniques — specifically, the use of selected elliptic methods for both structured and unstructured meshes associated with computational physics applications. Mesh enhancement is the process in which an existing mesh is modified to better meet the requirements of the physics application. To provide the reader with sufficient background information, seven of the nine chapters contain a summary of the numerical simulation process, basic background on mesh terminology and generation approaches, computational geometry, discretization of differential equations, methods of solving linear and nonlinear algebraic systems, geometry of surfaces in Euclidean space, and general elliptic methods for mesh enhancement. Furthermore, these chapters use the concept of harmonic coordinates to develop a unifying framework, the Laplace-Beltrami system, which is the governing principle of the book. The final two chapters apply this scheme, along with other selected elliptic methods, to various structured and unstructured example problems./a

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

533

Publisher

World Scientific

Published Date

ISBN 10

1783260564

ISBN 13

9781783260560

Migrations

Journeys in Time and Place

By: Rod Edmond

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Migrations

Journeys in Time and Place

By: Rod Edmond

Traces the journeys of his Scottish forebears as they separately made their way to New Zealand. The migration story begins with Charles Murray leaving Aberdeenshire in 1884 to become a missionary on the island of Ambrym. On the other side of Scotland, Catherine McLeod and her family had already abandoned their small coastal croft and sailed for Tasmania"--Back cover.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

257

Publisher

Bridget Williams Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1927131464

ISBN 13

9781927131466

Sam Steele

A Biography

By: Rod Macleod

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sam Steele

A Biography

By: Rod Macleod

The life of Canada’s police and military hero is “a story worth telling. Macleod’s solid research and clear writing also make it a story worth reading” (AlbertaPrimeTimes.com). Sam Steele, “the man who tamed the Gold Rush,” had a high-profile public career, yet his private life has been closely protected. This biography follows Steele’s rise from farm boy in backwoods Ontario to the much-lauded Major General Sir Samuel Benfield Steele. Drawing on the vast Steele archive at the University of Alberta, this comprehensive biography vividly recounts some of the most significant events of the first fifty years of Canadian Confederation—including the founding of the North-West Mounted Police, the opening of the North through the Klondike, and Canada’s participation in the South African War—from the perspective of a policeman who became a military leader. Impeccably researched and accessibly written, Sam Steele is perfect for anyone interested in Canada’s early decades. “Deeply-researched and elegantly written, this book brings alive one of the most intriguing characters of Canadian history who has been undeservedly forgotten.” —Charlotte Gray, bestselling author of Murdered Midas “A revealing story of a talented, dedicated Canadian who always strove to do his best for his country.” —Canadian Military History “Focusing on its subject’s life and career, Sam Steele paints a thoughtful portrait of an interesting and important man that, like any good book, raises interesting and important questions . . . this biography is likely to remain the definitive work on Steele’s life.” —Canadian Historical Review

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

512

Publisher

University of Alberta

Published Date

ISBN 10

1772124338

ISBN 13

9781772124330

Pinebox Collins

By: Rod Miller

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Pinebox Collins

By: Rod Miller

SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR ROD MILLER When Jonathon “Pinebox” Collins loses his right foot and lower leg to a cannonball in his first Civil War battle, the course of his life is forever changed. While recuperating, he learns The Dismal Trade of undertaking, the emerging art of arterial embalming, and coffin construction. His first customer is the victim of Wild Bill Hickok’s first showdown, and Collins crosses paths with the legendary gunfighter—and occasionally his victims—across the Old West. Lost love, monotony, and violence at the hands of men and Mother Nature repeatedly put the young undertaker on the road in pursuit of new places and new opportunities across the Western frontier. Violence is always there to greet him and there is never a shortage of clientele. Old West legends Phil Coe, John Wesley Hardin, Jim Levy, Porter Rockwell, Colorado Charley Utter, and Calamity Jane come and go in the life of Pinebox Collins, but death is ever-present. Often avoided and sometimes shunned owing to his practice of The Dismal Trade, Pinebox Collins learns to drink alone. Love eludes him and friends are hard to come by. His recurring acquaintance with Wild Bill proves the most lasting, even after Hickok is in the ground.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

211

Publisher

Speaking Volumes

ISBN 10

1645405427

ISBN 13

9781645405429

Alcohol

A History

By: Rod Phillips

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Alcohol

A History

By: Rod Phillips

Whether as wine, beer, or spirits, alcohol has had a constant and often controversial role in social life. In his innovative book on the attitudes toward and consumption of alcohol, Rod Phillips surveys a 9,000-year cultural and economic history, uncovering the tensions between alcoholic drinks as healthy staples of daily diets and as objects of social, political, and religious anxiety. In the urban centers of Europe and America, where it was seen as healthier than untreated water, alcohol gained a foothold as the drink of choice, but it has been regulated by governmental and religious authorities more than any other commodity. As a potential source of social disruption, alcohol created volatile boundaries of acceptable and unacceptable consumption and broke through barriers of class, race, and gender. Phillips follows the ever-changing cultural meanings of these potent potables and makes the surprising argument that some societies have entered "post-alcohol" phases. His is the first book to examine and explain the meanings and effects of alcohol in such depth, from global and long-term perspectives.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

381

Publisher

UNC Press Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1469617617

ISBN 13

9781469617619

Dead Ground

Prequel to the Simon Ellice series

By: Rod Humphris

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Dead Ground

Prequel to the Simon Ellice series

By: Rod Humphris

In the mountains and passes of Nuristan, British forces hunt the Taliban. Trouble is coming, that is certain. Only Lieutenant Simon Ellice, with a clarity born of grief and anger, can see what must be done. Dead Ground is a story of the impossibility of the task assigned to British soldiers in Afghanistan. A tale of the heroism, loyalty and individual responsibility in the chaos of war.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Rat's Tales Ltd

Published Date

ISBN 10

0993576117

ISBN 13

9780993576119

Grim Paradise

The Cold Case Search for the Mackinac Island Killer

By: Rod Sadler

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Grim Paradise

The Cold Case Search for the Mackinac Island Killer

By: Rod Sadler

The true crime story of a 1960 murder that rocked a tranquil Michigan vacation spot and the search for justice that followed. When widow Frances Lacey was murdered in July 1960 on Mackinac Island, only a few meager clues were found by police, and the case soon turned cold. But more than sixty years later, will those same clues finally solve the mystery? On July 24, 1960, the quaint charm and serenity of Mackinac, nestled between Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas, was shattered by Lacey’s brutal death. Despite a massive manhunt and thousands of pages of police reports, her killer was never caught. Now, in Grim Paradise, true crime author Rod Sadler (Killing Women) delves into the secrets of one of Michigan's most perplexing murder cases. Offering an in-depth and suspenseful account of the long-standing mystery, he poses the question: Could advancements in DNA technology lead to the identity of the Mackinac Island murderer as it did in the case of the Golden State Killer?

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

342

Publisher

WildBlue Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1960332244

ISBN 13

9781960332240

Physical Activity Epidemiology

By: Rod K. Dishman,Gregory Heath,Michael D. Schmidt,I-Min Lee

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Physical Activity Epidemiology

By: Rod K. Dishman,Gregory Heath,Michael D. Schmidt,I-Min Lee

Physical Activity Epidemiology, Third Edition, provides a comprehensive discussion of population-level studies on the effects of physical activity on disease. The text summarizes the current knowledge, details the methods used to obtain the findings, and considers the implications for public health

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

673

Publisher

Human Kinetics

Published Date

ISBN 10

149259301X

ISBN 13

9781492593010

By the Hand of Providence

How Faith Shaped the American Revolution

By: Rod Gragg

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

By the Hand of Providence

How Faith Shaped the American Revolution

By: Rod Gragg

Based on meticulous research into the correspondence and documentation of the founding fathers from the crafting of the Declaration of Independence to the signing of the peace treaty with Britain, this book sheds light on how the Judeo-Christian world view motivated America's founding fathers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

306

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1451623526

ISBN 13

9781451623529

On the Line

A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement

By: Rod Mickleburgh

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

On the Line

A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement

By: Rod Mickleburgh

The BC tradition of fighting back against unfair pay and unsafe working conditions has been around since before the colony joined Confederation. In 1849 Scottish labourers at BC’s first coal mine at Fort Rupert went on strike to protest wretched working conditions, and it’s been a wild ride ever since. For years the BC labour movement was the most militant in the land, led by colourful characters like Ginger Goodwin, murdered for his pains, and pull-no-punches communist Harvey Murphy, who brought the house of labour down on himself with his infamous “underwear speech.” Through years of battles with BC’s power elite and small victories followed by bitter defeats, BC unions established the five-day work week, the eight-hour day, paid holidays, the right to a safe, non-discriminatory workplace and many more taken-for-granted features of the modern work landscape. But unions’ enemies never sleep and, well into the second decade of the twenty-first century, battles still go on, like that of BC teachers in their long and ultimately successful struggle to improve classroom conditions. On the Line also highlights the role played by women, Indigenous and minority workers in working toward equality and democracy in workplaces and communities. In prose that is both accessible and engaging, accompanied by over two hundred archival photos, Mickleburgh tells the important story of how BC’s labour organizations have shaped the economic, political and social fabric of the province—at a cost of much blood, sweat, toil and tears. This volume is the most comprehensive overview of labour’s struggle in BC and will be of particular interest to union members, community activists, academics and readers of regional history.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

800

Publisher

Harbour Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

155017827X

ISBN 13

9781550178272

Sublime Communication Technologies

By: Rod Giblett

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sublime Communication Technologies

By: Rod Giblett

This lively new study is a critical cultural history of communication technologies, from railways and telegraphy to computers and the Internet, in which Rod Giblett argues that these technologies play a pivotal role in the cultural history of modernity and its project of the sublime.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

231

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

0230584020

ISBN 13

9780230584020

Secondary English

Subject and Method

By: Rod Quin,Duncan Driver

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Secondary English

Subject and Method

By: Rod Quin,Duncan Driver

Secondary English: Subject and Method is a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of teaching English in secondary schools for pre-service teachers. Written by highly accomplished teachers of subject English, the book's practical approach to language, literacy and literature, fosters the skills of assessment, unit planning and teaching strategies. With detailed consideration of reading, writing, grammar and language conventions, and chapters devoted to a variety of text types, Secondary English scaffolds you on the journey from learner to a teacher of English. To support this journey Secondary English uses a range of engaging features, including: Learning outcomes aligned to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers; The voice of teacher and student experiences; Pause and think questions; Theory to practice boxes; Lesson plans and classroom activities; End-of-chapter activities help build pre-service teachers' resource files. Secondary English is a useful resource for introducing pre-service teachers to the practice of teaching English.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

341

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

110880120X

ISBN 13

9781108801201

Dyslexia In Children

By: Angela Fawcett,Rod Nicolson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Dyslexia In Children

By: Angela Fawcett,Rod Nicolson

This text links general skills difficulties to dyslexia. It examines the research which has found that dyslexic children have problems not just with their reading but in a range of skills including several (such as balance) unrelated to reading.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

211

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1315504758

ISBN 13

9781315504759

Interpreting British Governance

By: Mark Bevir,Rod Rhodes

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Interpreting British Governance

By: Mark Bevir,Rod Rhodes

How is Britain governed? Have we entered a new era of governance? Can traditional approaches to governance help us to interpret 21st century Britain? This book develops the argument that we can understand political practices only by grasping the beliefs on which people act. It offers a governance narrative as a challenge to the Westminster model of British government and searches for a more accurate and open way of speaking about British government.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

241

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1134407939

ISBN 13

9781134407934

A Visitor's Guide to the University of Nevada, Reno Arboretum

By: James W. Hulse,Rod Haulenbeek,Cheryll Glotfelty

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Visitor's Guide to the University of Nevada, Reno Arboretum

By: James W. Hulse,Rod Haulenbeek,Cheryll Glotfelty

A Nevada State Arboretum, the University of Nevada, Reno campus is home to more than 3,000 trees representing more than 200 species and varieties. This attractive guidebook introduces readers to the university’s beautiful campus and its botanical treasures. Richly illustrated with both contemporary color and archival photos, this book captures the charm of the campus in all four seasons and shows how the grounds of the university have evolved over the years. Featuring 19 distinct tours around campus, a comprehensive map, and family-friendly interactive “tree hunts,” this guide showcases the campus' ecological diversity and interesting tree species and will appeal to first-time visitors as well as longtime residents.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

129

Publisher

University of Nevada Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1943859337

ISBN 13

9781943859337

The Cross

One Man. One Tree. One Friday.

By: Rod Parsley

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Cross

One Man. One Tree. One Friday.

By: Rod Parsley

Rod Parsley takes you deep into the mysterious territories of what the Bible calls “the foolishness of the cross” and the “scandal” of Jesus’s sacrifice to explore the significance of the cross in the unfailing light of Scripture.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

194

Publisher

Charisma Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

1621366308

ISBN 13

9781621366300

Korea 25 June 1950

A Screenplay

By: Rod Ernouf

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Korea 25 June 1950

A Screenplay

By: Rod Ernouf

I was there the day it started. Flying a MATS C-54, we landed at Seoul. The Commies strafed the base and our aircraft was the first US airplane lost in the Korean War, Aircraft # 5521. While the events depicted here are true to the best of my recollection it is what I call Bio-Fiction. What started out to be my story of the first ten days of the Korean War turned out to be an account of the determination of the American Woman to survive. I hope you enjoy this tale of how six women and ten children survived the trip from Seoul to Pusan in a weapons carrier. It was very exciting and frightening at times." --Armond F. Stoneman

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

162

Publisher

iUniverse

Published Date

ISBN 10

0595351646

ISBN 13

9780595351640

Governance Stories

By: Mark Bevir,Rod Rhodes

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Governance Stories

By: Mark Bevir,Rod Rhodes

An incisive examination of Britain today, which breaks from traditional studies, and takes a new approach to account for massive changes in the make-up of the nation. Over the last twenty years Britain has changed from being governed as a unitary state to a country ruled by the interplay of various forces: central government, the market, public-private partnerships, new local government structures (eg. the new Mayoral system), greater regional autonomy as well as the EU and transnational businesses and organizations. In their earlier book Interpreting British Governance, Bevir and Rhodes examined changes in British government by setting out an interpretative approach to British political science, which focussed on an aggregate analysis of British political traditions. This new study builds on this work to: provide a theoretical defence of situated agency located in the historical context of British political science compare their approach to British political science with others including, post-structural and institutional analysis present a general account of governance as the context for ethnographic analyses of governance in action deliver studies of the consumers of public services, the National Health Service, government departments and policy networks. This book will be of great interest to advanced students and researchers of political theory, public policy, British politics and British history.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

225

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1134184212

ISBN 13

9781134184217

Notorious Kansas Bank Heists

Gunslingers to Gangsters

By: Rod Beemer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Notorious Kansas Bank Heists

Gunslingers to Gangsters

By: Rod Beemer

Bank robbers wreaked havoc in the Sunflower State. After robbing the Chautauqua State Bank in 1911, outlaw Elmer McCurdy was killed by lawmen but wasn't buried for sixty-six years. His afterlife can be described only as bizarre. Belle Starr's nephew Henry Starr claimed to have robbed twenty-one banks. The Dalton gang failed in their attempt to rob two banks simultaneously, but others accomplished this in Waterville in 1911. Nearly four thousand known vigilantes patrolled the Sunflower State during the 1920s and 1930s to combat the criminal menace. One group even had an airplane with a .50-caliber machine gun. Join author Rod Beemer for a wild ride into Kansas's tumultuous bank heist history.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

144

Publisher

Arcadia Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1625853823

ISBN 13

9781625853820

Staying Fijian

Vatulele Island Barkcloth and Social Identity

By: Rod Ewins

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Staying Fijian

Vatulele Island Barkcloth and Social Identity

By: Rod Ewins

Barkcloth, or masi, is the traditional art form of the women of Vatulele Island. Its manufacture continues to flourish, even increase, while many other arts are declining, despite the fact that most of its functional roles have been usurped by Western cloth and paper. This book explores this apparent paradox and concludes that the reasons lie in the ability of its identity functions to buffer the effects of social stress. This is so for not only Vatuleleans but all Fijians. It is argued that the resultant strong indigenous demand has caused the efflorescence in barkcloth manufacture and use, contrary to the common assumption that the tourism market is the "savior" of art. This cultural vigor, however, has social costs that are explored here and weighed against its benefits. Rod Ewins locates a very local activity in both national and global contexts, historically, sociologically, and theoretically.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

430

Publisher

University of Hawaii Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0824860500

ISBN 13

9780824860509

Community Development for Social Change

By: Dave Beck,Rod Purcell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Community Development for Social Change

By: Dave Beck,Rod Purcell

Community Development for Social Change provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of community development and associated activities, discusses best practice from global experience and links that to the UK context. The book integrates the realities of practice to key underpinning theories, human rights, values and a commitment to promoting social justice. A range of practice models are described and analysed, including UK models, popular education and community organising, as well as a range of practice issues that need to be understood by community development workers. For example, strategies to promote individual and community empowerment, challenging discrimination, building and sustaining groups, and critical reflection on practice. Finally, a range of case studies from the UK and overseas illustrates good practice in diverse contexts. These case studies are analysed with reference to the values of community development, the promotion of social justice and the underpinning theories. It is an essential text for those on community development courses as well as for a range of workers, including local government, national and local voluntary agencies, and community-based organisations.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

486

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1315528592

ISBN 13

9781315528595

South, America

By: Rod Davis

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

South, America

By: Rod Davis

On an early Sunday morning walk through the empty streets of the Faubourg Marigny downriver of the French Quarter, maverick journalist and Big Easy transplant Jack Prine discovers the body of a well-dressed black man with a bashed-in skull. Soon Jack is drawn into an emerging web of violence threatening Elle Meridian, the victim’s beautiful, complicated sister, burdened with a past she can barely confess. They begin a dangerous, desperate flight through Alabama, the Delta and back to New Orleans searching and evading button men, goons, racists and family secrets. Deadly ties extend to the Dixie Mafia, priceless stolen art and debased Southern aristocracy. A final, violent showdown in the Arts District of New Orleans uncovers one last nightmarish revelation that may bind Elle, Jack and a mob enforcer named Big Red for years to come—if anyone survives.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

260

Publisher

NewSouth Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1603063153

ISBN 13

9781603063159

A Stranger Comes to Town

A Lake Alamo Mystery January 1967

By: Rod Van Wyngarden

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Stranger Comes to Town

A Lake Alamo Mystery January 1967

By: Rod Van Wyngarden

The Van Duren girls were all very smart and good at sports. Haylie and Rachel were ten-year-old twins. Haylie was strong and could even beat up the boys if she wanted to. Rachel could think her way out of any situation. She was the all-city checkers champion, and could even play chess and beat grownups, something that no other kid in her grade could do. Kayla was only seven, but she was a quick thinker and could keep up with her sisters, both on their bikes and using her brain. When the three of them team up to form a detective agency, no mystery stands a chance! As the sisters patrol the streets of Lake Alamo on their bikes, they're ready to take on any challenge. The Van Duren sisters solve mysteries of all kinds, from secret identities to stolen items to bullies, these sisters are ready to take it all on, one case at a time.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Tate Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1618623362

ISBN 13

9781618623362

From Rupert's Land to Canada

Essays in Honour of John E. Foster

By: John Elgin Foster,Rod Macleod,Theodore Binnema

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

From Rupert's Land to Canada

Essays in Honour of John E. Foster

By: John Elgin Foster,Rod Macleod,Theodore Binnema

Dr. John E. Foster spent many years researching and interpreting the Metis, continually re-examining his own thinking about the fur trade and the West, trying to find new lines of inquiry across disciplinary boundaries, and, playing with ideas that re-imagined the Canadian West. In From Rupert's Land to Canada, in tribute to John's work, his friends and colleagues further explore themes related to "Native History and the Fur Trade," "Metis History," and the "Imagined West". Contributors include Michael Payne, Nicole St-Onge, Jan Grabowski, Jennifer Brown, Heather Rollason, Frits Pannekoek, Heather Devine, Gerhard Ens, Gerry Friesen, Ted Binnema, Ian MacLaren, Rod Macleod, Tom Flanagan and Glen Campbell.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

328

Publisher

University of Alberta

Published Date

ISBN 10

0888643632

ISBN 13

9780888643636

Leprosy and Empire

A Medical and Cultural History

By: Rod Edmond

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Leprosy and Empire

A Medical and Cultural History

By: Rod Edmond

An innovative, interdisciplinary study of why leprosy, a disease with a very low level of infection, has repeatedly provoked revulsion and fear. Rod Edmond explores, in particular, how these reactions were refashioned in the modern colonial period. Beginning as a medical history, the book broadens into an examination of how Britain and its colonies responded to the believed spread of leprosy. Across the empire this involved isolating victims of the disease in 'colonies', often on offshore islands. Discussion of the segregation of lepers is then extended to analogous examples of this practice, which, it is argued, has been an essential part of the repertoire of colonialism in the modern period. The book also examines literary representations of leprosy in Romantic, Victorian and twentieth-century writing, and concludes with a discussion of traveller-writers such as R. L. Stevenson and Graham Greene who described and fictionalised their experience of staying in a leper colony.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1139462873

ISBN 13

9781139462877

Rang & Dale's Pharmacology E-Book

By: James M. Ritter,Rod J. Flower,Graeme Henderson,Yoon Kong Loke,David MacEwan,Emma Robinson,James Fullerton

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rang & Dale's Pharmacology E-Book

By: James M. Ritter,Rod J. Flower,Graeme Henderson,Yoon Kong Loke,David MacEwan,Emma Robinson,James Fullerton

Rang and Dale's Pharmacology is internationally acknowledged as the core textbook for students of pharmacology, and has provided accessible, up-to-date information on drugs and their mechanism of action for more than 30 years. Now in its tenth edition, it has been updated to include important new drugs such as gene therapies, personalised medicines and the new wave of RNA drugs. However it has not lost any of the elements that have contributed to its popularity, such as color coding and illustrations, making it reader-friendly while comprehensively covering the depth of detail required. This essential book is recommended as the first-choice undergraduate text for science and medical students and junior doctors and will also be useful for students in other professional disciplines such as pharmacy, veterinary medicine and nursing. - Comprehensive information on drug mechanisms, basic physiology and biochemistry, and underlying pathophysiology of disease – suitable for students from many disciplines - Clear figures to aid understanding, including data figures as well as mechanistic diagrams, - Key points box summaries, clinical boxes and colour-coded chapters help to master difficult concepts - Emphasis on therapeutic drugs to help apply theory to practice - Over 150 questions and 12 clinical cases to test your knowledge - New chapters on drugs and the eye and the pharmacological management of headache - Revised information on biopharmaceuticals (including RNA drugs), antivirals (including Covid-19 therapies) as well as general principles of antimicrobial therapy. - A completely revised and updated chapter on lifestyle drugs - Recent advances in oxygen sensing and response to reduced oxygen tension - Expanded chapters on dementia and analgesic drugs

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1001

Publisher

Elsevier Health Sciences

Published Date

ISBN 10

0323873987

ISBN 13

9780323873987

Book's by Rod Thompson

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email