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Elibron Classics eBook Series

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  • Elements of Logic

    by Richard Whately ...
    Series series Elibron Classics
    Elibron Classics.Replica of 1875 edition by Longmans, Green and Co., London.Richard Whately (1787-1863 was an English rhetorician, logician, economist, and theologian who also served as the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin.Whately was the first English logician to correct a mistaken conception of the nature and function of logic that had dominated English thought since the time of Locke and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Book of the People

    How to Read the Bible

    by A. N. Wilson ...
    "An erudite, elegant, and quietly impassioned plea" exploring historical and literary aspects of the Bible is "an easy, pleasurable read" ( The Guardian).In The Book of the People, acclaimed author A. N. Wilson explores how readers and thinkers have approached the Bible, and how it might be read today. Charting his own relationship with the Bible over a lifetime of writing, Wilson argues that it ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Theatres of Memory

    Past and Present in Contemporary Culture

    by Raphael Samuel ...
    When Theatres of Memory was first published in 1994, it transformed the debate about what is to be considered history and questioned the role of “heritage” that lies at the heart of every Western nation’s obsession with the past. Today, in the age of Downton Abbey and Mad Men, we are once again conjuring historical fictions to make sense of our everyday lives.In this remarkable book, Samuel looks ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Telling Stories

    The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History

    by Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, Barbara Laslett ...
    In Telling Stories, Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett argue that personal narratives-autobiographies, oral histories, life history interviews, and memoirs-are an important research tool for understanding the relationship between people and their societies. Gathering examples from throughout the world and from premodern as well as contemporary cultures, they draw from labor ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Engineering Agriculture at Texas A&M

    The First Hundred Years

    by Henry C. Dethloff, Stephen W. Searcy ...
    Series series Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Service Series
    The abundance of agricultural production enjoyed in the United States is the result of a federal-state partnership that relies on land grant universities to respond to the needs of society through research, invention, problem-solving, outreach, and applied science and engineering.The Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department at Texas A&M University, established in 1915, has been an ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • At the Table

    Food and Family around the World

    Edited by Ken Albala ...
    What's for dinner? Not just in America, but around the world? And how is it cooked, what's the historical significance of that food, how is it served and consumed, and who gets to clean up? This book provides fascinating insight into how dinner is defined in countries around the world.Almost universally, "dinner" is a key meal in most countries around the world, whether it be a simple dish of rice ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Oral History in Latin America

    Unlocking the Spoken Archive

    by David Carey Jr ...
    This field guide to oral history in Latin America addresses methodological, ethical, and interpretive issues arising from the region’s unique milieu. With careful consideration of the challenges of working in Latin America – including those of language, culture, performance, translation, and political instability – David Carey Jr. provides guidance for those conducting oral history research in the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Fordham, A History of the Jesuit University of New York

    1841-2003

    by Thomas J. Shelley ...
    Based largely on archival sources in the United States and Rome, this book documents the evolution of Fordham from a small diocesan college into a major American Jesuit and Catholic university. It places the development of Fordham within the context of the massive expansion of Catholic higher education that tookplace in the United States in the twentieth century. This was reflected at Fordham in ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The English Protestant Churches since 1770

    Politics, Class and Society

    by Kenneth Hylson-Smith ...
    This book aims to describe and analyse the political and social thinking, attitudes and actions of the English Protestant churches since the late eighteenth century. It focuses in particular on how they have responded to the plight of the least privileged members of society – individuals and groups marginalised or placed at a disadvantage as a consequence of their ethnicity or socioeconomic ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • Reframing the History of Family and Kinship: From the Alps towards Europe

    Edited by Dionigi Albera, Luigi Lorenzetti, Jon Mathieu ...
    Over the past few years, the cross-disciplinary field of research devoted to family and kinship history in Europe has seen the emergence of an important stream of studies developing wide-ranging comparative perspectives on great spaces and long periods. Their hypotheses and interpretative models differ somewhat with regard of the factors taken into account, and of the underlying logic identified ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • None but the Nightingale

    An Introduction to Chinese Literature

    by Margaret Thiele ...
    This classic introduction to the Chinese literature is a fundamental step towards the West's understanding of the rich literary legacy of China.Readable, condensed, entertaining, the selections contained in this book belong to enduring world literature; the "Great Society" envisioned by Confucius; the "Fireside Chats" of K'ang Hei; the supercilious letter of the Emperor Ch'ien Lung to King George ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Intermarriage in Transylvania, 1895–2010

    Edited by Ioan Bolovan, Luminita Dumanescu ...
    This book reconstructs the perceptions about mixed marriages across generations, starting from a detailed analysis of the statistical background and a description of this phenomenon in the historical past, and then focusing on the case history of families. As ethnic and religious diversity has long been an important source of social tension in Transylvania, mixed marriages have the potential to ... Read more

    $80.39 USD