In Playing the Game, Wally Armstrong and Jim Sheard vividly illustrate many of the parallels between golf and life. On every hole you will gain wisdom and encouragement from the Bible and also from some of our greatest golf professionals.
Best-selling guide covering over 90 collecting sites. Maps, detailed text and photos lead the collector to sites as diverse as the rocks and minerals found there. Color photos highlight specimens from azurite to wulfenite. Indexed by location and by mineral. Includes glossary.
This groundbreaking guide to successful management in architecture, engineering, and design, the culmination of a decade of work, combines practical solutions with business theory and an eye-opening treatise on the anatomy of leadership.
This thoughtful, inspiring, often humorous, and intensely spiritual collection brings together for the first time the most searching writings from the world of monks and nuns. They reveal and explore the mystique of lives given totally to God.
Spanish Agriculture: The Long Siesta, 1765-1965 is the first major study in English of Spanish agrarian history. James Simpson examines how traditional agriculture responded to population growth and the integration of commodity markets, emphasising both Spain's regional variations and its context in Europe. Using statistical data as well as his ...
Contents: knowledge and faith; influence of science upon religious thought; principles of biology; evolution; natural selection; variation; heredity; sociological aspects of heredity; environment; directive factor in evolution; evolution and creation; mental evolution; evolution and morality; evolution and evil; science and miracles; evolution and ...
Reflections, witticisms, bon mots, epigrams, and profundities from the famous and infamous, the renowned and obscure, fill this compilation. With more than 3,000 quotes, this is the most detailed collection of its kind. All entries in the 25 major categories include full sources.
Simpson's witty, lively, sobering, surprising collection of quotations by people in public life contains over nine thousand gems from 1950 to the present on diverse subjects ranging from politics to religion, from business to literature, from family life to the theater, and more. Two indexes.
Essays in this volume argue that it is time for a powerful reassessment of John Lydgate's poetic projects. The pre-eminent poet of his own century, Lydgate (c. 1370-1449) addressed the historical challenges of war with France, of looming civil war, and of new theological forces in the vernacular. He wrote for household, parish, city, monastery, ...
The evidence is everywhere: fundamentalist reading can stir passions and provoke violence that changes the world. Amid such present-day conflagrations, this illuminating book reminds us of the sources, and profound consequences, of Christian fundamentalism in the 16th century.James Simpson focuses on a critical moment in early modern England, ...
In this study James Simpson examines two great poems of the later medieval period, the Latin philosophical epic, Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus (1181-3), and John Gower's English poem, The Confessio Amantis (1390-3). Simpson locates these works in a cultural context dominated by two kinds of literary humanism: the absolutist, whose philosophical ...
This book provides an accessible, concise and intellectually stimulating introduction and guide to one of the richest, most challenging poems of pre-Reformation English. New to the internationally-renowned "Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies" series, James Simpson's indispensable guide to Piers Plowman has been fully revised for this reissue. As ...
Heralding a new era in literary studies, the Oxford English Literary History breaks the mould of traditional approaches to the canon by focusing on the contexts in which the authors wrote and how their work was shaped by the times in which they lived. Each volume offers a fresh, ground-breaking re-assessment of the authors, their works, and the ...
Heralding a new era in literary studies, the Oxford English Literary History breaks the mould of traditional approaches to the canon by focusing on the contexts in which the authors wrote and how their work was shaped by the times in which they lived. Each volume offers a fresh, ground-breaking re-assessment of the authors, their works, and the ...
A collection of quotable comments uttered between 1950 and 1996. This edition contains 20,000 quotes, from the famous to infamous, the renowned to the obscure. To enable readers to find quotes easily, the book is indexed by sources, subjects and key lines.
Discover the benefits of effective risk management practices. Risk management may not be a standard course in architecture school, but it is an essential concern for architects and related professionals working today. "Managing Project Risk" is a key resource for integrating good risk management into professional practice. Based on a popular ...
The accurate diagnosis and effective long term therapy or control of alimentary disease in the dog and cat are difficult goals to achieve, due to a lack of comprehensive information on the specific conditions affecting the alimentary tract together with a lack of suitably practical methods of investigation. The book presents, in a practical way, ...
This complete one-volume reference contains up-to-date information on U.S. and world history, governments of states and countries, major world events, elections, advances in science and technology, the environment, travel, first aid, and more. The most comprehensive guide to the most sought-after facts and figures.
The Daily Mail Answers to Correspondents column has received every possible question over the years. Collected together in one volume, are some of the answers to the queries, including: why is bureaucracy called red tape, rather than blue or yellow?; and who was the original Smart Alec?
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