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The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

18 reviews
Pico Iyer

Knopf, 2008

The Open Road
Pico Iyer's new book subtitled "The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama" takes its title and theme from an essay by D. H. Lawrence about Walt Whitman and his poem, "The Song of the Open Road". Lawrence wrote "The great home of the Soul is the open road. Not heaven, not paradise, not `above'" The human person (or "soul" for Lawrence) "is a wayfarer down the open road" and democracy flowers ...

The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine

1 review
William E. Nelson

Harvard University Press, 1998

By: Dan D'Amico and John Makarewicz
In The 14th Amendment: From Political Discussion to Judicial Doctrine, William E. Nelson examines the political rhetoric and circumstances that surrounded the framing of the Fourteenth Amendment, and from that, he attempts to determine what the purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment was supposed to be for the original framers. Nelson claims that the ideas of equality, individual rights, and local ...

We the People: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court

5 reviews

Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

Author bites back
Given what Mounty Rainey said last week (see below) about this book (which was published five years ago), I want to reproduce here what some others have said about it. I'm not in the habit of responding to critics--usually I'm just grateful for the attention--but Rainey's comments are so over the top and misleading. (I defy Rainey to identify any passage in the book that is either a "tirade" or ...

Down to Earth Sociology: Introductory Readings, Fourteenth Edition

2 reviews
James M. Henslin

Free Press, 2007

Very interesting book
No matter if you're studying sociology or just have an interest in how people think, this book will intrigue you. I bought it for class and expected a boring textbook. Instead I am finding it well worth reading and I especially like how it relates to how everyday people think, not just people in studying sociology.

The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos
John Dos Passos

Gambit Inc., 1973

In the 1960's John Dos Passos began calling his novel contemporary chronicles, and to his lastest piece of fiction he gave the working title The Thirteenth Chronicle. These letters abd duarues naje a chronicle too.

One Fourteenth of an Elephant

1 review
Ian Denys Peek

Doubleday, 2004

One man: one fourteenth of an elephant
More than 20 thousand prisoners of war, and uncounted slave labourers, died building the Thai Burma Railway during the final years of World War II. Ian Denys Peek was one of the survivors. Thousands of Australian and British personnel were captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in 1942. This book is Mr Peek's testimony to the suffering and bravery of those who lived and died ...

European Art of the Fourteenth Century (Art Through the Centuries)
Sandra Baragli

Getty Publications, 2007

Fourteenth-century Europe was ravaged by famine, war, and, most devastatingly, the Black Plague. These widespread crises inspired a mystical religiosity, which emphasized both ecstatic joy and extreme suffering, producing emotionally charged and often graphic depictions of the Crucifixion and the martyrdoms of the saints. While the great boom of cathedral building that had marked the previous century waned, cathedrals continued to serve as ...

The Fourteenth Paw: Growing up on an Iowa farm in the 1930s - a memoir
Everett M. Rogers

Asian Media Information & Communication Centre (AMIC), 2008

The Fourteenth Paw is a memoir written by the pioneer of Diffusion of Innovations theory, Everett M. Rogers. Stories about the trials of his boyhood days growing up on his family's Iowa farm following the Great Depression are interwoven with anecdotes from his education, academic career, and an acutely poignant account of his battle with Cancer. Each of the narratives provide insight into the way in which the values absorbed in his early years ...

A Dictionary Of Archaic And Provincial Words: Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs And Ancient Customs From The ...
John Orchard Halliwell

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007

Luca di Tomme: A Sienese Fourteenth-Century Painter
Sherwood A. Fehm

Southern Illinois University, 1986

Sherwood A. Fehm, Jr., analyzes the paintings, provides ecclesiastical and communal documents pertaining to both the artist and his art, and presents a complete catalogue to re-create the life and to explicate the art of Luca di Tommè, the leading painter in Siena after the Black Plague of 1348. In this first full-length study of Luca di Tommè, Fehm revives a neglected yet important artist who flourished during a period previously ...

The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights

3 reviews
Raoul Berger

Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 1989

Excoriated Truth
Berger is intellectually honest about the dark history of Fourteenth Amendment, so he does not dutifully subscribe to the prevailing, liberal, revisionist view. Consequently, for telling the indisputable fact of the North's negrophobia and racism following the War between the States, his work is excoriated by most, but not all, in the legal establishment precisely because he challenges its most ...

A Dictionary Of Archaic And Provincial Words: Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs And Ancient Customs From The ...
John Orchard Halliwell

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007

The Fourteenth Year

5 reviews
Kelly Watt

Mill City Press, Inc., 2007

Real and Inspiring
This book touched my heart and soul. I believe it takes a great deal of courage to reveal such details of a person's life in order to help others. Kelly has put her story out there to let people in similiar situations know that they are not alone and there is hope. She proves that dreams and personal achievements do not have to be lost at the hands of an abuser. A very personal and candid ...

Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876

1 review
Stephen P. Halbrook

Praeger Publishers, 1998

Firearms Favor Equality
Stephen Halbrook does it again with a scholarly exegesis of the Fourteenth Amendment exposing anew the racist roots of gun control. Halbrook reveals the lies and lays bare the cynicism of those who claim the Constitution permits or even favors anti-gun laws. A must read for those who still believe in liberty. The Fourteenth Amendment meant to enshrine and extend the Second Amendment ...

1381: The Peel Affinity: An English Knight's Household in the Fourteenth Century

2 reviews
La Belle Compagnie and Friends

Shumacher Publishing, 2008

The Peel Affinity is an Amazing Book!
This book is a wonderful addition to the bookshelf of any reenactor. It accurately portrays life in the late 14th century. The clothing, equipment and armour are extremely authentic and the images often are recreations of medieval art staged with living reenactors. I could not ask for more than this book has to offer! It is simply amazing.

Jousts and Tournaments: Charny and the Rules for Chivalric Sport in Fourteenth-Century France

1 review
Geoffroi De Charny, Steven Muhlberger

Chivalry Bookshelf, 2003

Fantastic if this is what your after.
I must say that I LOVE this book, but that's because I'm very much in to chivalric culture (especially of the 14thC!) I don't know how wide an appeal such a specific book has, but for those who have some background understanding of this topic and still can't get enough; your in for a treat...

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