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  • The Other Pendle Witches

    by John Clayton ...
    An fascinating account of witch trials in 1634 where over 60 local people were arrested in the area of Pendle Forest (East Lancashire - Northern England). These unfortunates were tried for their lives on the evidence of a ten year-old boy who became famous as the 'Pendle Witch-finder.'This case became nationally famous when King Charles the First took a personal interest. Playwrights wrote and ... Read more

    $4.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What’s Faith Got to Do with It?

    Learning to Love and Live the Questions

    by John Clayton Lentz Jr. ...
    Do you have questions about God, prayer, politics, religion, sex, Jesus, and the Bible but aren't satisfied with traditional pat answers? Then join the journey of loving the questions, shaping your life by curiosity, discovery, and appreciation. This is a book for lifelong learners, seekers, doubters, believers who wonder, and the nonaffiliated. The questions that are addressed arose from a small ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Remembering Manchester

    Towering Titans and Unsung Heroes

    by John Clayton ...
    Series series American Chronicles
    The general's courage and calm under pressure would be echoed by many other sons and daughters of Manchester in the succeeding centuries, as the hamlet settled around Amoskeag Falls grew into New Hampshire's largest city. John Clayton describes thirty-two of the Queen City's most remarkable residents, from Iwo Jima flag raiser Rene Gagnon and fast-food innovator Richard McDonald to lesser-known ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Future of Public Administration around the World

    The Minnowbrook Perspective

    by Rosemary O'Leary, Soonhee Kim, H. George Frederickson, W. Henry Lambright, Donald P. Moynihan, Suzanne Piotrowski, Mary E. Guy, Meredith A. Newman, Sharon H. Mastracci0, Domonic Bearfield1, Susan T. Gooden2, Kimberley R. Isett3, Dale Jones4, Austen Givens5, Bidhya Bowornwathana6, Yilin Hou7, Ora-orn Poocharoen8, Michael McGuire9, Jeffrey L. Brudney0, Beth Gazley1, Theresa A. Pardo2, J. Ramon Gil-Garcia3, Luis F. Luna-Reyes4, Kirk Emerson5, Peter Murchie6, Tina Nabatchi7, John Clayton Thomas8, Ines Mergel9, Scott E. Robinson0, Guy B. Adams1, Danny L. Balfour2, David H. Rosenbloom3, Katherine C. Naff4, Justin Marlowe5, Daniel L. Smith6, Matt Leighninger7, Kristina Lambright8, Kelly LeRoux9, Bradley E. Wright0, David M. Van Slyke2 ...
    Series series Public Management and Change series
    A once-in-a-generation event held every twenty years, the Minnowbrook conference brings together the top scholars in public administration and public management to reflect on the state of the field and its future. This unique volume brings together a group of distinguished authors—both seasoned and new—for a rare critical examination of the field of public administration yesterday, today, and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stories from Montana's Enduring Frontier

    Exploring an Untamed Legacy

    by John Clayton ...
    Series series American Chronicles
    At the turn of the twentieth century, Montana started emerging from its rugged past. Permanent towns and cities, powered by mining, tourism, and trade, replaced ramshackle outposts. Yet Montana's frontier endured, both in remote pockets and in the wider cultural imagination. The frontier thus played a continuing role in Montanans' lives, often in fascinating ways. Author John Clayton has written ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cotton and Cold Blood

    by John Clayton ...
    A historical novel of life, love and murder in Victorian England.This well-researched true story follows the life of Sarah Ann Davis as she leaves her Black Country home in search of a better life in the booming cotton district of East Lancashire.Sarah goes on to work in service and the humour and hardship of life in the cotton village of Barrowford are superbly described.The humanity of northern ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pendle Witch Fourth Centenary Handbook

    by John Clayton ...
    We have reached that prominent milestone of four centuries since the Pendle Witch trials of 1612. During the period of March to August of that year the number of people accused of witchcraft, and eventually standing trial for their lives, numbered almost two-score. Over half of these unfortunates ended their days on the rope at Gallows Hill in Lancaster.Four hundred years on it is perhaps ... Read more

    $4.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Source

    by John Clayton ...
    What is the origin of the world and of life itself?Did a series of accidents and evolution bring about the world as we know it?Or is there a design and purpose behind it all?And if there is a design, is there an ultimate designer?A number of years ago, John Clayton, a second-generation atheist and respected scientist and teacher, set out to disprove the Bible from a scientific point of view. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Public Value and Public Administration

    by John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby, Laura Bloomberg, John Alford, Jean Hartley, Owen Hughes, Jodi Sandfort, Kathryn Quick0, George Richardson1, David Andersen2, Luis F. Luna-Reyes3, Clive R. Belfield4, Mark Moore5, Jennie Welch6, Heather Rimes7, Barry Bozeman8, Timo Meynhardt9, John Clayton Thomas0, Theodore Poister1, Min Su2, Donald P. Moynihan3, Alexander Kroll4, Anthony M. Cresswell5, Meghan Cook6, Natalie Helbig7, Enrico Guarini8 ...
    Series series Public Management and Change series
    Governments and nonprofits exist to create public value. Yet what does that mean in theory and practice?This new volume brings together key experts in the field to offer unique, wide-ranging answers. From the United States, Europe, and Australia, the contributors focus on the creation, meaning, measurement, and assessment of public value in a world where government, nonprofit organizations, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Natural Rivals

    by John Clayton ...
    John Muir and Gifford Pinchot have often been seen as the embodiment of conflicting environmental philosophies. Muir, the preservationist and co-founder of the Sierra Club. Pinchot, the first chief of the U.S. Forest Service advocating sustainability in timber harvests, instituted conservation. The idealistic Muir saw nature as something special and separate; the pragmatic Pinchot accepted that ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Landscapes of Hate

    Tracing Spaces, Relations and Responses

    Edited by Edward Hall, John Clayton, Catherine Donovan ...
    Series series Spaces and Practices of Justice
    Providing a much-needed perspective on exclusion and discrimination, this book offers a distinct spatial approach to the topic of hate studies.Of interest to academics and students of human geography, criminology, sociology and beyond, the book highlights enduring, diverse and uneven experiences of hate in contemporary society. The collection explores the intersecting experiences of those targeted ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Death in Living Gray

    by John Clayton ...
    Prudence Abernathy left her job in a California art gallery to marry a young army captain on the way home from Vietnam. She settled into the life of a country housewife at the old family plantation in Mason County, Virginia—that is, until her husband is disbarred from practicing law. Prudence has to pitch in to keep the family finances afloat, first by selling off antiques from the manor house, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD