Product Description: David Jackson offers a new and penetrating perspective on the practical theology of the politico-Christian leader, Reverend Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847). This investigative biography explores Chalmers’ fame before and after his conversion, eventually revealing the real Thomas Chalmers and what drove him...read more

Product Description: This book explores the lived, embodied experiences of aging men as a counterpoint to the weary stereotypes often imposed on them. Conventionally, in Western cultures, they are seen as inevitably in decline. The book challenges these distorted images through a detailed analysis of aging men's life stories...read more

In this detailed investigation of "masculine" gendered indentity David Jackson uses his own personal history and social experiences to look at the specific ways men become "men". In doing so he examines, but also offers some positive challenges, to the assumed qualities and values of growing up "manly", through an investigation of the psychological and social forces active in his own development: relations with his father, violence at school, male banter and joking, sporting activities, boys comics and sexual relations. The book is a deliberate blend between life story and critical commentary that makes use of some of the latest ideas from post-structuralist theory to make visible the social and emotional process that go into the making of one man's life history. Integral to "Unmasking Masculinity" is the recognition that the making of personal and social identities is central to the search for a new gender politics. It should prove to be of interest to anyone interested in the social, psychological and cultural forces that have gone into the historical shaping on men and masculinities.

Product Description: Leaky waves can explain observed phenomena associated with both antennas and fundamental electromagnetic propagation with minimal numerical calculation. The subject is of current interest as various forms of leaky-wave antennas continue to be developed...read more

Product Description: Ilya Repin (1844-1930) is a key figure of Russian nineteenth-century realism; his career spanned a period of huge cultural, social and political change, bearing witness to the challenge to the Russian autocracy, the coming of the October Revolution and the dawn of the Soviet Union...read more

Product Description: Spanish Notes is a series of humorous newspaper articles published by David Jackson between 2011 and 2012 looking at the British expatriates living along the coasts of Spain.

Product Description: How long could you last, cut off from your colleagues, your friends, your family, because if you go near them they'll die?  NYPD detective Callum doyle is about to find out.It's a bad enough day for NYPD detective Callum Doyle when his cop partner is murdered...read more

Product Description: 'Islands - The Epidemic' is the first in the Islands trilogy. Six months into an experiment to prove self-sufficiency is possible at the bottom of the sea, a war breaks out and, soon after, the five hundred specialists lose contact with the surface...read more

Product Description: 2.5 million-copy seller, Neta Jackson and Dave Jackson draw on proven strengths for entertaining, multi-ethnic and relationally-driven stories in the second book of the Windy City Neighbors series, Derailed.

Product Description: It's been more than 20 years since the story of the Ecclesia Athletic Association (EAA) captured national headlines. When 8-year-old Dana Broussard was beaten to death by the assumed cult, the story went national and was featured in various media outlets including The New York Times and, TIME Magazine...read more

Product Description: The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries marked a defining moment in Nordic art. From the cozy domestic landscapes of Carl Larsson to Edvard Munch’s darkly beautiful The Scream, the diverse artwork of the period mirrored shifting literary and intellectual pursuits in their attempts to broaden the cultural conversation to incorporate the identities and traditions of the region...read more

Product Description: The blistering third crime thriller featuring NYPD detective Callum Doyle In New York's East Village a young girl is brutally raped, tortured, and murdered. Detective Callum Doyle has seen the victim's remains. He has visited the distraught family...read more

Product Description: This the first monograph in English on Thomas Fearnley (1802-1842), a major romantic landscape artist from Norway. It reveals the full range of Fearnley’s landscape paintings, from large oils to spontaneous sketches, which he produced en plein air during his summer travels in Europe...read more

Jason Tan, a Eurasian from the near future of our world falls through a portal to land in South East Asia in a parallel universe. The story covers his confusion and his struggle to get home. The society in which he lands is totally Asian. The great powers are Indian and Chinese empires; the local powers are Greater Khmer, and the Bugis. This new world is peopled by all these groups interacting with each other. During his journey he experiences the surface differences between this world and his own, but gradually realizes the underlying similarities. This new world is in a feudal, pre-industrial age but great things have been achieved. What he eventually understands is that under totally different circumstances, people are still the same and a social situation develops that in many ways closely mimics that existing in our world.

Product Description: Fast-paced and totally unforgettable second Callum Doyle thriller, for readers of Harlan Coben and Lee ChildA grisly murder in a shabby New York bookstore seems to hold a special significance for Detective Callum Doyle: the victim's been marked with a message that could have been left specially for him...read more

Product Description: The Kings Blue Knight was written in hopes to inspire people in their walk with God. A sub story of a mythalogical Knights in armor begins the book and parrallels the main story of a young man (Eric) who struggles with his place in this world and his walk with God...read more

Product Description: Behind all the calm on the streets of London, United Kingdom, a growing problem still exists, and one in ten of us undoubtedly has been impacted by this problem, whether directly or indirectly. That problem is a five-letter word that still exists today: fraud...read more

Product Description: For convenience, the fourth edition of this clear and practical book has been reformatted as a hardback (from its present looseleaf format). Thoroughly revised, rewritten, and updated, Immigration Law and Practice takes into account recent UK legislation (including the Borders Act 2007), rules and policies, the introduction of the new points-based system, and relevant UK case law...read more

Product Description: The rise of critical realism in nineteenth-century Russia culminated in 1870 with the formation of the Wanderers, Russia's first independent artistic society. Through depictions of the harsh lives of the peasantry, the fate of political activists, Russian history, landscapes, and portraits of the nation's cultural elite, such as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, the society became synonymous with dissident sentiments...read more

Product Description: This is an important, and in some ways revolutionary, book. The point count method of hand evaluation was first proposed in 1914 and popularized in 1934 by Milton Work. The Banzai Method advanced by David Jackson and Ron Klinger improves on Milton Work by reassessing the relative values of the honour cards but also adds a further dimension to accurate hand evaluation by including the tens and is of crucial importance when assessing balanced hands...read more

Product Description: One definition of logic is a method of human thought that involves thinking in a linear, step-by-step manner about how a problem can be solved, but as there has been in the life of most people, there was a lot of pressure involved in trying to get to know who I am and what I would come to be about...read more