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John Hope
Excerpt from John Hope: Philanthropist and Reformer L? Is now seven years since the Life ofjolm Hope issued to the public; and the writer has the pleasure of knowing that the book was generally well received, and that it has been read with much gratification by many who had personal knowledge of Mr. Hope, or who took a deep interest in those causes that were dear to him. This present volume is an abridgment of that work. It is issued now with the view of marking the centenary of Mr. Hape's birth; and it is proposed to utilise it as a gift book, by means of which information regarding the Founder of the Hope Trust may be difiused among the youths and children attending the Abstinence Meetings...
Hope and Glory
Memoir and original screenplay of the childhood of John Boorman.
Witness to Hope
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "A remarkable book. Weigel's biography is likely to remain the standard one-volume reference on John Paul II for many years to come." — Pittsburg Post-Gazette ?“Fascinating. . . sheds light on the history of the twentieth century for everyone.” —New York Times Book Review The definitive biography of Pope John Paul II that explores how influential he was on the world stage and in some of the most historic events of the twentieth century that can still be felt today Witness to Hope is the authoritative biography of one of the singular figures—some might argue the singular figure—of our time. With unprecedented cooperation from John Paul II and the people wh...
The Queer Art of Failure
DIVProminent queer theorist offers a "low theory" of culture knowledge drawn from popular texts and films./div
The Communion of Saints
When good and evil come home***Following the violent murder of his father, John Ray is getting his life back on track, and putting the criminal past of his family behind him. But when Shirley Kirk of the West Yorkshire Police asks him for a favour, he's sucked into a mystery that is as confusing as it is devastating.Allegations of historical abuse have emerged at a Catholic Boys' Home in the city. They involve a prominent businessman who is keen to get to the bottom of who is making the accusations. And he wants John Ray to do the looking. Discreetly.John soon begins to uncover a more complex mystery involving blackmail, kidnap and murder. But why are the police really asking for his help? There are people on the Force still out to get John Ray for his past misdemeanours. And they are not the only ones who know about his family's past.A novel set in Leeds, THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS is novel about innocence, vengeance, and the power of good and evil. It is the third crime thriller in the John Ray / LS9 series.
Makers of British Botany
First published in 1913, this volume contains biographies of influential botanists written by distinguished botanists of the period. A discussion of each botanist's life and scientific contribution is provided, with each contributor specialising in the same botanical area as the subject.
Vibrant Matter
In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in events. Toward that end, she theorizes a “vital materiality” that runs through and across bodies, both human and nonhuman. Bennett explores how political analyses of public events might change were we to acknowledge that agency always emerges as the effect of ad hoc configurations of human and nonhuman forces. She suggests that recognizing that agency is distributed this way, and is not...
A Clashing of the Soul
John Hope (1868-1936), the first African American president of Morehouse College and Atlanta University, was one of the most distinguished in the pantheon of early-twentieth-century black educators. Born of a mixed-race union in Augusta, Georgia, shortly after the Civil War, Hope had a lifelong commitment to black public and private education, adequate housing and health care, job opportunities, and civil rights that never wavered. Hope became to black college education what Booker T. Washington was to black industrial education. Leroy Davis examines the conflict inherent in Hope's attempt to balance his joint roles as college president and national leader. Along with his good friend W. E. B. Du Bois, Hope was at the forefront of the radical faction of black leaders in the early twentieth century, but he found himself taking more moderate stances in order to obtain philanthropic funds for black higher education. The story of Hope's life illuminates many complexities that vexed African American leaders in a free but segregated society.
