Authors:John Adams,  Gregg L. Lint, Anne Decker Cecere
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Pre
Keywords: papers, adams, general, statesmen, correspondence, series, october, john, volume, april
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 067401281X
ISBN-13: 9780674012813

The American victory at Yorktown in October 1781 and the fall of Lord North’s ministry in March 1782 opened the possibility that John Adams might soon be involved in negotiations to end the war for American independence. To prepare for the occasion, Adams and Benjamin Franklin discussed in their letters the fundamentals for peace. Adams made it clear to the British government that there would be no negotiations without British recognition of the United States as independent and sovereign. This volume chronicles Adams’s efforts, against great odds, to achieve formal recognition of

Authors:John Adams, Gregg L. Lint, C. James Taylor, Margar
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Pre
Keywords: papers, adams, statesmen, correspondence, general, october, john, volume, series
Number of Pages: 648
Published: 2006-04-30
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0674018125
ISBN-13: 9780674018129

A new chapter in John Adams’s diplomatic career opened when the Dutch recognized the United States in April 1782. Operating from the recently purchased American legation at The Hague, Adams focused his energies on raising a much needed loan from Dutch bankers and negotiating a Dutch-American commercial treaty. This volume chronicles Adams’s efforts to achieve these objectives, but it also provides an unparalleled view of eighteenth-century American diplomacy on the eve of a peace settlement ending the eight-year war of the American Revolution. John Adams was a shrewd observer of

Authors:John Adams, Gregg L. Lint, C. James Taylor, Hobson Wo
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: papers, adams, statesmen, correspondence, general, october, john, volume, series
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2008-05-31
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 0674026071
ISBN-13: 9780674026070

John Adams reached Paris on October 26, 1782, for the final act of the American Revolution: the peace treaty. This volume chronicles his role in the negotiations and the decision to conclude a peace separate from France. Determined that the United States pursue an independent foreign policy, Adams’s letters criticized Congress’s naive confidence in France. But in April 1783, frustrated at delays over the final treaty and at real and imagined slights from Congress and Benjamin Franklin, Adams believed the crux of the problem was Franklin’s moral bankruptcy and servile Franco

Authors:Gregg A. Ten Elshof,  Dallas Willard,
Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Keywords: life, christian, deception
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-06-22
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0802864112
ISBN-13: 9780802864116

Think you’ve ever deceived yourself? Then this book is for you. / Think you’ve never deceived yourself? Then this book is really for you. / “Socrates famously asserted that the unexamined life is not worth living. But Gregg Ten Elshof shows us that we make all sorts of little deals with ourselves every day in order to stave off examination and remain happily self-deceived. Most provocatively, he suggests this is not all bad! While naming its temptations, Ten Elshof also offers a ‘strange celebration’ of self-deception as a gracious gift. In the tradition of Dallas Willard, I Told Me So is

Authors:Charles de Lint,  Charles Ve,
Publisher: Tachyon Publicatio
Keywords: road, medicine
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2009-06-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1892391880
ISBN-13: 9781892391889

Marking the return of the mischievous, red-headed Dillard twins, this bewitching fantasy entangles the lovely sisters in a 100-year wager in the Native American spirit world. Laurel and Bess are touring bluegrass musicians who encounter two mysterious strangers with a powerful secret in Tucson, Arizona. In addition to their animal natures, Jim Changing Dog and Alice Corn Hair have been given human forms by the powerful Coyote Woman, but in return they must both find their true human loves in 100 years or be exiled into the animal world alone. Although Alice has found her love, trickster Jim ha

Authors:John Muir, Tosh Gregg,  Peter Aschwande,
Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing
Keywords: compleat, idiot, procedures, manual, alive, volkswagen
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2001-09-09
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1566913101
ISBN-13: 9781566913102

First published in 1969, this classic manual of automotive repair equips VW owners with the knowledge to handle every situation they will come across with any air-cooled Volkswagen built through 1978, including Bugs, Karmann Ghias, vans, and campers. With easy-to-understand, fun-to-read information -- for novice and veteran mechanics alike -- anecdotal descriptions, and clear language, this book takes the mystery out of diagnostic, maintenance, and repair procedures, and offers some chuckles along the way. This edition features new information on troubleshooting, new photos, and an updated res

Authors:Gregg Bordowitz,  James Meyer, Douglas Crim,
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: writing, art, writings, ridiculous, crisis, aids
Number of Pages: 339
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0262524597
ISBN-13: 9780262524599

College Art Association’s Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism, February 2006. The HIV epidemic animates this collection of essays by a noted artist, writer, and activist. "So total was the burden of illness—mine and others’—that the only viable response, other than to cease making art entirely, was to adjust to the gravity of the predicament by using the crisis as a lens," writes Gregg Bordowitz, a film- and video-maker whose best-known works, Fast Trip Long Drop (1993) and Habit (2001), address AIDS globally and personally. In The AIDS Crisis Is Ridicu