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(0)John Jackson
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A newly discovered account of life in the trenches that challenges our perception of how British troops viewed the First World War. There is no shortage of personal accounts from the First World War. So why publish another memoir? The principal reason is the tone of enthusiasm, pride and excitement conveyed by its author, Private John Jackson. Jackson served on the Western Front from 1915 until the war's end; he was present at Loos in 1917, on the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A classic resource that connects the cardinal doctrines of Christianity to their origins in the ancient civilizations that preceded the religion. In Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth , John G. Jackson sources the pagan origins of Christian doctrine with particular focus on the creation and atonement myths. Rooted in historical facts, Jackson's claims are steeped in research and demonstrate how Christianity synthesizes the rituals, beliefs, and characteristics...
3) Pigeons
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitats of pigeons.
6) Bats
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Describes the habitat, physical characteristics, life cycle, and behavior of the many species of bats.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"ULSTER' S OTHER POETRY proves that the people of Ulster have never been humourless or dour. Far from it. With its sparkling variety of rhymes, songs and humorous poems from every tradition of the province, the book demonstrates that those who dwell in the northern quarter of Ireland have their own unique take on the strange ways of the world, coupled with a whole-hearted appreciation of good fun. Spanning over three centuries of Ulster's past, this...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"DRAWN FROM FOUR CENTURIES of writing in English by the famous and the forgotten, Ireland's Other Poetry: Anonymous to Zozimus is a major new anthology of entertaining and unusual poems, rhymes and songs. It revisits a forgotten Irish poetic landscape, bringing the reader on an exhilarating alphabetical tour through a country freighted with unexpected curiosities, from Dunluce to Belfast, Dublin, Cork and the Skelligs.Many anonymous or neglected poets,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Dublin's writers rarely remain solemn for long: their wicked sense of humour has travelled the world. This is an irresistible new anthology of what used to be called 'comic and curious verse' about the city, written by some of her most entertaining poets and songwriters. Fashions in verse come and go. Too often we forget -- paradoxically -- the most memorable works of wit, sarcasm or absurdity. The ones gathered here were written over four centuries,...
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