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  • Law and Religion between Petra and Edessa

    Studies in Aramaic Epigraphy on the Roman Frontier

    by John Healey ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    The thousands of surviving inscriptions in Middle Aramaic (e.g., in the Nabataean, Syriac and Palmyrene dialects) are an underused resource in the study of the Near East in the Roman period, especially in the study of religion and law. Particularly important was the emergence during this period of new peoples with their cultural roots in Arabia, such as the Nabataeans. This volume collects ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Samurai of Seville

    A Novel

    by John J. Healey ...
    A sumptuous novel inspired by one of history’s most intriguing forgotten chapters—the arrival of Japanese Samurai on the shores of Europe.In 1614, twenty-two Samurai warriors and a group of tradesmen from Japan sailed to Spain, where they initiated one of the most intriguing cultural exchanges in history. They were received with pomp and circumstance, first by King Philip III and later by Pope ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Samurai's Daughter

    A Novel

    by John J. Healey ...
    A tale of personal discovery, familial obligations, and competing cultural expectations is at the heart of this exciting sequel to The Samurai of Seville.Soledad Maria, called Masako by her father, is a child of two worlds. Born in Seville in the seventeenth century, she is the daughter of a beloved Spanish lady and a fearsome samurai warrior sent to Spain as a member of one of the most intriguing ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • April in Paris

    A Novel

    by John J. Healey ...
    A transatlantic novel for fans of A.S. Byatt and Don DeLillo.Shaun is an American professor enjoying his sabbatical—and his substantial inheritance—in Paris, until one night when he is startled awake by a nightmare. His attempts to decipher the dream lead him to a New York murder trial that occurred in 1916 in the Bronx.Upon discovering that the murder took place in the basement of his father's ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • A Brief Introduction to the Arabic Alphabet

    Its Origins and Various Forms

    by John F. Healey, G. Rex Smith ...
    Series series Brief Introduction
    The Arabic alphabet has a rich history, one that is closely linked with the development of culture and society in the Middle East. In this comprehensive introduction the authors trace the origins of the Arabic alphabet back to Aramaic, which also gave rise to the Hebrew and Greek alphabets. Using detailed illustrations the authors investigate early Arabic papyri and early Islamic inscriptions as ... Read more

    $9.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Create Your Future: Jack Healey

    Lessons from a life in human and civil rights

    by John (Jack) G Healey ...
    Create Your Future tells the gripping story of how a kid named Jack Healey growing up as the youngest of eleven children in a poor family in Pittsburgh went on to become one of the foremost champions of human rights in the world. Along the way, he became a friend and ally to such civil rights icons as John Lewis, Muhammad Ali, Dick Gregory, and Fannie Lou Hamer. After running the American Freedom ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Emily & Herman

    A Literary Romance

    by John J. Healey ...
    The manuscript of this novel was discovered by John J. Healey in a box left by his grandfather, Professor Vincent P. Healey, after his death. This engaging work of fiction is a romantic account in which four iconic figures of American Letters play a leading role.In the summer of 1851 Herman Melville was finishing Moby Dick on his family farm in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Awakening of a Foot Soldier

    A Journal of Liberation from the Suffering of War

    by John M. Healey ...
    I was in the recognition that I was here for many more reasons than I could possibly comprehend; the superficial, the psychological, the emotional, spiritual and the anything else ending with an "al" that could be squeezed into this being. I was here to seek, to sit, to eat, to make money, to live, and to die.In 1992, author John M. Healey enlisted in the U.S. Army and was sent to Somalia. Upon ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Natural History

    Translated by John Healey ...
    by Pliny the Elder ...
    Pliny's Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a fascinating view of the world as it was understood in the first century AD, whether describing the danger of diving for sponges, the first water-clock, or the use of asses' milk to remove wrinkles. Pliny ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Gotham Baseball

    New York's All-Time Team

    by Mark C Healey, Todd Radom ...
    "The Big Apple's greatest squad . . . Selecting either a Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants, New York Yankees or New York Mets player for each position." — Long Island HeraldBaseball may be the great American pastime, but in New York, it is a religion. Names like Ruth, Mays, Gehrig, Wright and Robinson live in the hearts and minds of New York fans like apostles. From the street corner to the subway ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exploring Social Issues

    Using SPSS for Windows

    Edited by Joseph F. Healey, John E. Boli, Earl R. Babbie, Frederick S. Halley ...
    A hands-on introduction to the craft of social research for Introductory Sociology courses, Exploring Social Issues: Using SPSS for Windows, Third Edition puts students in the role of active researchers as they test their own ideas about topics such as divorce, abortion, crime, inequality, prejudice, and television violence using SPSS, the pre-eminent software program in the social sciences.This ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

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    A BRAND NEW unputdownable thriller of secrets, paranoia and deadly truths

    by Natasha Boydell ...
    A totally gripping and unputdownable psychological thriller. Fans of Lisa Jewell, Clare Mackintosh, Freida McFadden and Daniel Hurst will be kept up all night! You saw something terrible… now you’ll never be safe againEllie can’t stop having nightmares. It’s been the same ever since she saw the car accident, where a man lost his life.Awaiting the trial of the dangerous driver, where she’s the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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