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  • The House on the Brink

    by John Gordon ...
    Returning home through a bog late one night, sixteen-year-old Dick Dodds passes a trail that for some reason sends a chill up his spine. He feels the same inexplicable terror the next day when he explores the trail further and meets a girl, Helen Johnson, who saw something that looked like a man with no arms or legs moving and gliding across the landscape. The mystery deepens when a local widow, ... Read more

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  • South Carolina and the American Revolution

    A Battlefield History

    An assessment of critical battles on the southern front that led to American independenceAn estimated one-third of all combat actions in the American Revolution took place in South Carolina. From the partisan clashes of the backcountry's war for the hearts and minds of settlers to bloody encounters with Native Americans on the frontier, more battles were fought in South Carolina than any other of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Washington's Monument

    And the Fascinating History of the Obelisk

    The colorful story behind one of America's greatest monuments and of the ancient obelisks of Egypt, now scattered around the world.Conceived soon after the American Revolution ended, the great monument to George Washington was not finally completed until almost a century later; the great obelisk was finished in 1884 and remains the tallest stone structure in the world at 555 feet. The story behind ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Society, Politics, and Education in Uncertain Times

    Rethinking Citizenship and Belonging in International Contexts

    Drawing on chapters from a selection of authors from the fields of education, philosophy, political science, and sociology this book presents provocations on how citizenship might be experienced, conceptualised, expressed, and practiced in a range of settings.Comprised of thirteen chapters by a group of international academics, the book engages with the concepts of ‘citizenship’ and ‘political ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Sensational Joyce

    The Psychology of Ulysses

    by John Gordon ...
    Series series The Florida James Joyce Series
    Exploring how Ulysses imitates the human mind at work, connecting close readings to psychological theories of Joyce’s timeIn this book, John Gordon uses historically oriented close readings to demonstrate that Ulysses is a book that mimics the workings of the human mind. Gordon highlights James Joyce’s exceptional ability to capture and represent lived experiences, showing how Joyce’s writings ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Landscapes and Landforms of Scotland

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides an appealing and informative overview of the outstanding landforms and landscapes of Scotland. Scotland is internationally renowned for the diversity of its geology, landforms and landscapes. The rock record spans most of geological time, from the Archaean to the Palaeogene, and represents the outcome of tectonic plate movements, associated geological processes, and sea-level ... Read more

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  • Reminiscences Of The Civil War [Illustrated Edition]

    Few generals of the Confederate States Army had such a glittering career as John Brown Gordon, although without any formal military training he rose from captain of a company of Georgia mountineers to the rank of Major-General. He was described by the Robert E. Lee as one of his finest commanders and that his actions were "characterized by splendid audacity". He was distinguished in many the early ... Read more

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  • Researching Interpretive Talk Around Literary Narrative Texts

    Shared Novel Reading

    by John Gordon ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics
    Drawing on a multidisciplinary approach integrating insights from conversation analysis, narrative analysis, and narratology, this book theorizes teaching around narrative prose in each level of education, with a focus on a new framework of Pedagogic Literary Narration which emphasizes the practice of shared novel reading and the importance of the role of the teacher in mediating this practice. // ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Sainted Women of the Dark Ages

    Sainted Women of the Dark Ages makes available the lives of eighteen Frankish women of the sixth and seventh centuries, all of whom became saints. Written in Latin by contemporaries or near contemporaries, and most translated here for the first time, these biographies cover the period from the fall of the Roman Empire and the conversion of the invading Franks to the rise of Charlemagne's family ... Read more

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  • Falling Backwards

    A Windowed Chronical of Loss and Finding

    by John Gordon ...
    His second wife divorces him citing no reason. Boredom, another man? He never finds out. The company he works for folds. Taking a job in far away upstate New York. he rents an empty farmhouse on Coal Yard Road giving his only companion and loyal friend, his dog, a huge yard to run in. Winter and his new job are both harsh and endless. His dog dies. He is broken, fallen past the bottom. An act of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Conversations

    20 years of Trance Mediumship

    by John Gordon ...
    I don't know why I was chosen for this, or even how it happened.After many years of meditation and development, one night my Guide told me to "let go and we'll do the rest."This book is all about what heppened next. ... Read more

    $5.38 USD

  • Miss Fit

    Confessions and Lessons from a College Dropout

    by John Gordon ...
    In September of 1964, as my family’s green Chevy pulled away from campus, I choked up. I wondered what the heck am I doing? I know NOBODY here, and I am seven hundred miles from home. I had been a popular and capable student-athlete during high school. However, as a naïve eighteen-year-old, I wasn’t ready for my new situation. To varying degrees, the young men in my dormitory who became my best ... Read more

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