By: Ralph Beaver Strassburger and William J. Hinke, Orig. Pub. 1934, 828 pages, E-BOOK, ISBN #978-1-63914-543-0. This 2-volume set of books is a consolidation of 506 original lists of persons who arrived in Pennsylvania through the port of Philadelphia from 1727-1808. Information to be found within: immigrants name, ages, occupation, birthplace, names of ships, dates of arrival, and places of origin. All information was compiled from the state archives. This volume I covers the period 1727...

Delving into an encyclopaedic array of little-known primary sources, William Beaver uncovers a vigorous intelligence function at the heart of Victoria's Empire. A cadre of exceptionally able and dedicated officers, they formed the War Office Intelligence Division, which gave Britain's foreign policy its backbone in the heyday of imperial acquisition.Under Every Leaf is the first major study to examine the seminal role of intelligence gathering and analysis in 'England's er...

Nearly 400 pages of Prophecy, Poetry, Scripture, and New KnowledgePertaining to Mankind's Last Days...Some will label these writings as False ProphecySome will label it the workings of a CultCall it what you will, it is the WORD of GODINFANCY(from the apocrypha)And when the master threatened to whip him,the Lord Jesus explained to himthe meaning of the letters Aleph and Beth;Also which were the straight figures of the ...

Advancing Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy is a definitive sourcebook that is comprised of contributions from some of the most recognized experts in criminology and criminal justice policy. The book is essential reading for students taking upper level courses and seminars on crime, public policy and crime prevention, as well as for policy makers within the criminal justice sphere.There has been a growing recognition of the importance of evidence-based criminal justi...

By: Ralph Beaver Strassburger and William J. Hinke, Orig. Pub. 1934, 734 pages, Index, E-BOOK, ISBN #978-1-63914-544-7. This 2-volume set of books is a consolidation of 506 original lists of persons who arrived in Pennsylvania through the port of Philadelphia from 1727-1808. Information to be found within: immigrants name, ages, occupation, birthplace, names of ships, dates of arrival, and places of origin. This volume #2 covers 182 lists for the period 1785-1808 along with the index which...

On the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded throughout the British Isles as 'the workshop of the Empire'. Not only were Clyde-built ships known the world over, Scotland produced half of Britain's total production of railway equipment, and the cotton and jute industries flourished in Paisley and Dundee. In addition, Scots were a hugely important source of manpower for the colonies. Yet after the war, Scotland became an industrial and financial backwater. Emigration increased ...

Trapped in complicated Christianity? Here's permission to come out of confinement!How did so many people wind up trapped by complicated systems of performance-based faith? Why do we push ourselves past our limits in pursuit of more works than any reasonable Pharisee would have demanded? Must we run at a pace somewhere between maddening and insane to prove we're among the faithful?"No!" is the emphatic answer from best-selling author Chuck Swindoll. In Simple Faith,...

In September 1915, Keith Murdoch, then a young war journalist, wrote an 8000-word letter to the Prime Minister, Andrew Fisher. 'The Gallipoli Letter', as it came to be known, changed the course of the Gallipoli campaign.The letter, protesting against the conduct of the campaign and describing conditions at the front, is both intimate and conversational: 'I shall talk to you as if you were by my side.' It is also at times angry, passionate, vivid and very moving: 'Then in the early ...

Winston Churchill is probably still the best-known Prime Minster of Great Britain. Born at Blenheim Palace, he joined the army after Harrow, but in 1899 resigned his commission to report on the Boer War. Elected to Parliament in 1900, he served in both Conservative and Liberal governments, and became Chancellor of the Exechequer under Baldwin, A period in the political wilderness was ended by the declaration of the Second World War and his appointment to the Admiralty; aft...

In recent years, the lifecourse perspective has become a popular theoretical orientation toward crime. Yet despite its growing importance in the field of criminology, most textbooks give it only cursory treatment. Crime and the Lifecourse: An Introduction by Michael L. Benson provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary research and theory on the life-course approach to crime. The book emphasizes a conceptual understanding of this approach. A special feature is the integratio...

"Australia seemed to bring out the worst in Winston Churchill. Often enough to form a discernible pattern, Australia found itself on the wrong side of the very qualities-his strength of will, singleness of purpose, his refusal to 'give way, in things great or small, large or petty', the power of his imagination to set grim reality at defiance, his mastery of the English language-that made Winston Churchill, as the philosopher Isaiah Berlin described him, 'the saviour of his country, the la...