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  • Volcanic

    Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions

    by John Brewer ...
    A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of RomanticismVesuvius is best known for its disastrous eruption of 79CE. But only after 1738, in the age of Enlightenment, did the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii reveal its full extent. In an era of groundbreaking scientific endeavour and violent revolution, Vesuvius became a focal point of strong emotions and ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • The Sinews of Power

    War, Money and the English State 1688-1783

    by John Brewer ...
    First published in 1989. `The book is a distinguished work - of importance to students of governmental development generally. It is written in a fluent, non-technical manner that should reach a wide audience.' American Historical Review. ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Monotheism and Peacebuilding

    by John D Brewer ...
    Series series Elements in Religion and Monotheism
    This Element addresses the opportunities and constraints operating on monotheistic peacebuilding, focusing on the three Abrahamic faiths, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, which share a common origin. These opportunities and constraints are approached through what the volume calls 'the paradox of monotheism'. Monotheism is defined by belief in one omnipotent, benign, and loving God, but this God ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Pleasures of the Imagination

    English Culture in the Eighteenth Century

    by John Brewer ...
    The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. It charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to th public in coffee-houses, concert halls, libraries, theatres and pleasure gardens. In 1660, there were few ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Peace Processes

    A Sociological Approach

    by John D. Brewer ...
    Peace processes are mostly very fragile. This engagingly written book takes a bold new approach to the topic by beginning from the premise that sociology can identify those factors that help to stabilize them.The book draws a distinction between the political and social dimensions of peace processes, arguing that each is dependent on the other. Consideration of the social peace process, neglected ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • The Sociology of Everyday Life Peacebuilding

    by John D. Brewer, Bernadette C. Hayes, Francis Teeney, Katrin Dudgeon, Natascha Mueller-Hirth, Shirley Lal Wijesinghe ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book uses in-depth interview data with victims of conflict in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka to offer a new, sociological conceptualization of everyday life peacebuilding. It argues that sociological ideas about the nature of everyday life complement and supplement the concept of everyday life peacebuilding recently theorized within International Relations Studies (IRS). It ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The American Leonardo

    A Tale of Obsession, Art and Money

    by John Brewer ...
    In 1919 a returning World War I veteran named Harry Hahn and his French bride attempted to sell what they thought was a painting by Leonardo Da Vinci in New York. Renowned art dealer Sir Joseph Duveen declared the picture-La Belle Ferronnière-a fake without ever seeing the canvas. The Hahns sued Duveen for slander, setting off a legal battle that would last for decades. In The American Leonardo, ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Public Value

    Deepening, Enriching, and Broadening the Theory and Practice

    Edited by Adam Lindgreen, Nicole Koenig-Lewis, Martin Kitchener, Timo Meynhardt, John Brewer, Mark Moore ...
    Over the last 10 years, the concept of value has emerged in both business and public life as part of an important process of measuring, benchmarking, and assuring the resources we invest and the outcomes we generate from our activities. In the context of public life, value is an important measure on the contribution to business and social good of activities for which strict financial measures are ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • An Ungovernable People

    The English and Their Law in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

    Edited by John Brewer, John Styles ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    How ungovernable were seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Englishmen? Certainly, the historical evidence attests to an unruly and contumacious populace: riot was widespread, such criminal activities as the counterfeiting of coin flourished, disorder pervaded even London’s gaols, and men at all levels of authority were often hard pressed to enforce the law. On the other hand, the ruling elite had a ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Terpsichore

    by John M. Brewer ...
    Ballroom dancing frees Michael Renard from his insecurities in social and academic situations. He marries Alice, a pretty librarian searching for a better life. Their marriage is soon interrupted by the drums of World War I. Michael joins the Royal Artillery initially becoming a sergeant. Meanwhile, Alice is swept off her feet by a handsome debonair man pretending to be upper class, a toff. A ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Quests

    by John M. Brewer ...
    Joe Stallings has woman trouble. Stacey, his pathologically controlling, unfaithful ex-wife, is stalking him. She wants revenge and is hurling threats. At the same time, hes trying to finish his PhD in applied genetics by analyzing an ancient skull, one of forty or fifty gleaned from a cave near Lovelock, Nevada.Joe is determined to find out where the giant man came from and when he lived by ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Golden Mary

    A Historical Romance Novel

    by John M. Brewer ...
    Theres a bit of bad history between Master Henry Barrowby, a member of the Commons for Bedfordshire, and nobleman Lord Lavenham. Barrowby was once engaged to Mary Swanford, whose familys land bordered his. But Lavenham stepped in and seduced Mary, leaving Barrowby heartbroken.While helping Master Easterling, a wealthy London goldsmith, purchase church land seized by Henry VIII, Barrowby meets ... Read more

    $2.99 USD