In the pre-dawn darkness of rural America, a telephone rings in a modest farmhouse, and Dr. James Gordon Bryson reaches for his black medical bag one more time. For over four decades, this dedicated country physician answered every call, from difficult births in remote cabins to desperate midnight emergencies on isolated farms. His hands delivered babies who would grow up to become his patients, and those same weathered hands would later close the eyes of the elderly he had cared for acros...

In the freezing snows of Siberia, a heavily pregnant tiger is hunted for her pelt. Veterinarian Doctor Blaze Marshall FRCVS is part of T.I.G.R.E.S. – an international conservation organisation that is desperately trying to rescue her and others like her. In doing so he crosses an enigmatic global crime lord, Lee Chin, who has a penchant for endangered species. Now brought to Chin's attention, Marshall becomes highly endangered himself. Soon they engage in a battle of wits and brawn across ...

The United Arab Emirates are renowned for their enormous production of oil and the rise of great cities like Dubai and Abu Dhabi, which attract millions of tourists annually. It is as if the great aridity of the country did not exist. Yet the UAE is essentially a vast desert, thinly peopled for thousands of years by nomads, grazing sheep, camels and growing a few crops in great oases like Al Ain and Liwa. Early people used spears and falcons to hunt rich populations of oryx, gazelle, ibex,...

Are God, angels, and demons really invisible? Or can the spirits be seen with human eyes, through the lens of Church Ethics? The gift of discerning of spirits is indispensible to the study of church ethics. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), wrote two sets of Rules for Discerning of Spirits in his Spiritual Exercises in the early 1500s. He taught how the church can receive from God the gift to see otherwise invisible angels, demons, and the Holy Spirit. Ignatius...

With clear instructions and plenty of screenshots, this book provides all the support and guidance you will need as you begin to create your classroom website. Step-by-step tutorials show you how to use Drupal in the most efficient and effective ways possible. People new to Drupal will find a good introduction of the basics; while more experienced users will learn useful tips and tricks for using Drupal in a classroom context.If you are an teacher, tutor or an educator who wants to build a...

In his memoir "Burragorang Tales", George Gordon James takes readers on a nostalgic journey through his childhood in the 1920s, growing up in the rugged wilderness of the Burragorang Valley, west of Sydney. From the beauty of the valley's natural landscape to the hardworking community of farmers, George paints a vivid picture of a simpler time. He shares personal stories of adventure, hardship, and family, offering a unique perspective on the area's history. This memoir is not only a recol...

Marxist Modernism is a comprehensive yet concise and conversational introduction to the Frankfurt School. It is also a new resource from one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers: Gillian Rose.Her 1979 lectures on the Frankfurt School explore the lives and philosophies of a range of the school's members and affiliates, including Adorno, Luk�cs, Brecht, Bloch, Benjamin, and Horkheimer, and outline the way each theorist developed Marx's theory of commodity f...

This book provides a modern introduction to the representation theory of finite groups. Now in its second edition, the authors have revised the text and added much new material. The theory is developed in terms of modules, since this is appropriate for more advanced work, but considerable emphasis is placed upon constructing characters. Included here are the character tables of all groups of order less than 32, and all simple groups of order less than 1000. Applications covered include Bur...

Together with My Cousin & Me: And Other Animals plus Wolves: Ryders in the Whirlwind, this book comprises a trilogy, I call The Land. They tell the epic story of four generations of a Celtic family battling the elements and the animals to scrape a living from a land with no fat and little lean. Ours was a wilderness farm in Central Ontario populated by animals, insects, and rocks. The early generations killed the animals and fought the land. My g...

In Crossing Bar Lines: The Politics and Practices of Black Musical Space James Gordon Williams reframes the nature and purpose of jazz improvisation to illuminate the cultural work being done by five creative musicians between 2005 and 2019. The political thought of five African American improvisers—trumpeters Terence Blanchard and Ambrose Akinmusire, drummers Billy Higgins and Terri Lyne Carrington, and pianist Andrew Hill—is documented through insightful, multilayered case studi...

Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls are perhaps the two most renowned and influential figures in social and political philosophy of the second half of the twentieth century. In the 1990s, they had a famous exchange in the Journal of Philosophy. Quarreling over the merits of each other’s accounts of the shape and meaning of democracy and legitimacy in a contemporary society, they also revealed how great thinkers working in different traditions read—and misread—one another’s work.

This is the story of Flurry a field assart from west oxfordshire and his expedition through england to find his long lost family. After being left alone when his mother and sister get tragically killed by a car.He believes he is the last of his kind, until his good friend Oz tells him of a journey his father made a few years ago to reunite the field assarts with their long lost scottish relatives the Mc sporrans and begins a fun yet dangerous quest to unite himself with his long lost relat...