Author: Professor Hoffmann
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: games, table, card, cyclopaedia
Number of Pages: 644
Published: 2004-10-15
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 1417976462
ISBN-13: 9781417976461

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

Authors:Porphyry, R. Joseph Hoffmann, R. Joseph Hoffmann,
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Keywords: remains, literary, christians, porphyry
Number of Pages: 181
Published: 1994-07
List price: $39.98
ISBN-10: 0879758899
ISBN-13: 9780879758899

Prominent among the pagan critics of the early Christians was Porphyry of Trre (ca. 232-305), scholar, philosopher, and student of religions. His Against the Christians, condemned to be burned in 448, was a work of admirable historical criticism. The surviving fragments of this work, newly translated by Biblical scholar Hoffmann, present Porphyry’s most trenchant comments on key figures, beliefs, and doctrines of Christianity.

Author: Professor Robert V. Hine Professor John Mack Fara
Publisher: Yale University Pre
Keywords: history, series, western, lamar, american, short, frontiers, west
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-04-30
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0300117108
ISBN-13: 9780300117103

Published in 2000 to critical acclaim, The American West: A New Interpretive History quickly became the standard in college history courses. Now Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher offer a concise edition of their classic, freshly updated. Lauded for their lively and elegant writing, the authors provide a grand survey of the colorful history of the American West, from the first contacts between Native Americans and Europeans to the beginning of the twenty-first century.Frontiers introduces the diverse peoples and cultures of the American West and explores how men and women of different ethni

Author: Professor Clive DimmockProfessor Allan David Walk
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: diversity, culture, leadership, educational
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2005-07-12
List price: $56.95
ISBN-10: 076197170X
ISBN-13: 9780761971702

`Clive Dimmock and Allan Walker’s books is a valuable addition to the overcrowded literature on leadership. This is a useful and important book because citizenship, globalization and the tensions with nationality should be the concern of all who lead any school; even monofaith, monoethic and monolingual schools’ - Tim Brighouse, TES Friday ’The authors offer a rigorous and systematic analysis based on careful definition, illustration and discussion which demonstrates the importance of understanding culture, leadership and their interaction in different contexts: in doing so t

Authors:Paul Henry Lang, Professor Alfred Mann, Professor Ge
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: performance, musicology
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1997-08-25
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0300068050
ISBN-13: 9780300068054

Arriving in the United States at age twenty-seven, Hungarian-born Paul Henry Lang (1901-1991) went on to exert a powerful influence on musical life and scholarship in his adopted country for more than six decades. As professor of musicology at Columbia University, editor of the Musical Quarterly, a founder of the American Musicological Society, and chief music critic of the New York Herald Tribune, Lang became one of America`s foremost musical scholars and commentators. This anthology of his previously uncollected writings includes essays written throughout his career on a full array of music

Authors:Professor Tony Bush, Professor Les Bell, David Middl
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: management, amp, leadership, educational, principles
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2010-05-05
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 1848602103
ISBN-13: 9781848602106

Fully revised and thoroughly updated, this Second Edition of this classic book brings together many leading international authors on educational leadership, with brand new chapters from leaders in the field – Ken Leithwood, Paul Begley, Allan Walker and Alma Harris. Providing an overview of essential topics within the field, this book adopts an international perspective and offers conceptual and empirical insights. 

Author: Professor Robert V. HineProfessor John Mack Farag
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: history, lamar, western, series, interpretive, west, new, american
Number of Pages: 632
Published: 2000-01-11
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0300078358
ISBN-13: 9780300078350

A survey of frontier history, tracing the story from the first Columbian contacts between Indians and Europeans to the multicultural encounters of the modern southwest. It provides details about topics such as western landscapes, environmental movements, literature, arts and film.