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Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 42.00What we now know of as environmentalism began with the establishment of the first empire forest in 1855 in British India. The empire forestry movement spread rapidly throughout the world, and Gregory Barton's pioneering study is amongst the first to look at the origins of environmentalism in global perspective. more...
English Industrial Cities of the Nineteenth Century
Cambridge University Press 1984; US$ 53.00To contemporaries the nineteenth century was 'the age of great cities'. As early as 1851 over half the population of England and Wales could be classified as 'urban'. In the first full-length treatment of nineteenth-century urbanism from a geographical perspective, Richard Dennia focuses on the industrial towns and cities of Lancashire,... more...
Milton's Good God
Cambridge University Press 1982; US$ 37.00Milton's Good God is an interdisciplinary study, which will lead the student of literature to a deeper appreciation of Paradise Lost. more...
Educational Interventions for Refugee Children
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 47.50How can schools best prepare themselves to successfully educate refugee children? By focusing on the education of refugee children, this book takes a rare look at a subject of increasing significance in current educational spheres. Highlighting the many difficulties facing refugee children, the editors draw upon a wealth of international experience... more...
How Should One Live?
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 119.00Chinese and Greco-Roman ethics present highly articulate views on how one should live; both of these traditions remain influential in modern philosophy. The question arises how these traditions can be compared with one another. Comparative ethics is a relatively young discipline; this volume is a major contribution to the field. Fundamental questions... more...
The Black Ice Score
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 14.00A corrupt African colonel has converted half his country's wealth into diamonds and smuggled them to a Manhattan safe house. Four upstanding citizens plan to rescue their new nation by stealing the diamonds back—with the help of a “specialist”—Parker, that is. He has the best references in town. Will Parker break his rule... more...
The Green Eagle Score
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 14.00Here’s Parker—planning to steal the entire payroll of an Air Force base in upstate New York, with help from Marty Fusco, fresh out of the pen, and a smart aleck finance clerk named Devers. Holed up with family in a scrappy little town, the hoisters prepare for the risky job by trying to shorten the odds. But the ice is thinner than Parker... more...
The Sour Lemon Score
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 14.00Bank robberies should run like clockwork, right? If your name’s Parker, you expect nothing less. Until, that is, one of your partners gets too greedy for his own good. The four-way split following a job leaves too small a take for George Uhl, who begins to pick off his fellow hoisters, one by one. The first mistake? That he doesn’t begin... more...
The Gospels and Christian Life in History and Practice
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2009; US$ 33.99The four canonical gospels arose in unique circumstances in different parts of the Roman Empire. This book studies the gospels as formative documents that reveal how these four communities refracted the life of Jesus to express their unique community life in their historical contexts. Reading Mark, Matthew, Luke and Acts, and John as distinct communities... more...
Education and Policy in England in the Twentieth Century
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 180.00In the 1990s education has become one of the major social and political questions of the day. This book has been written to provide an authoritative guide to the issues which underlie the formulation of educational policy. It stands both as a substantial historical study in its own right and as an essential background and introduction to the current... more...









