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In this book, John Nelson reconstructs everyday Anglican religious practice and experience in Virginia from the end of the seventeenth century to the start of the American Revolution. Challenging previous characterizations of the colonial Anglican establishment as weak, he reveals the fundamental role the church played in the political, social, and economic as well as the spiritual lives of its parishioners. Drawing on extensive research in parish and county records and other primary sources, Nelson describes Anglican Virginia's parish system, its parsons, its rituals of worship and rites of passage, and its parishioners' varied relationships to the church. All colonial Virginians--men and w...
Includes instructions for woodwork projects varying in degree of difficulty from very simple to very detailed, such as toys, furniture, mirrors, and clocks
Fast and easy woodworking projects, from toys to furniture, folk art to garden items.
'...a page turning, high octane novel that's firing on all cylinders,' - EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS '...a good old-fashioned murder mystery which keeps you enthralled till the very last page.' - YORKSHIP EVENING PRESS NYPD homicide detective John Corey has moved to Long Island, restlessly recuperating from wounds received in the line of duty when he's hired to consult on the murder of Tom and Judy Gordon, biologists who worked on Plum Island, the site of animal disease research for the Department of Agriculture. Were the Gordons murdered because they'd stolen some valuable new vaccine, or even a dreaded virus? They'd obviously outspent their income. Had they been running drugs? Corey doesn't thi...
John Nelson was an entrepreneur born in the mid-seventeenth century--a man, in Richard Johnson's words, "operating ahead of the government and settled society from which he came," who "responded to conventions and conditions derived from several different and often competing cultures." For Nelson, this meant trading out of Boston to the French and Indians of Canada, pursuing his family's dreams of the proprietorship of Nova Scotia, and promoting schemes of espionage and military conquest on both sides of the Atlantic. In the course of a long and adventurous life, Nelson served as middleman between Canada and New England; led an uprising that toppled the royal government of Massachusetts in 1...
Nelson: A Dream of Glory is the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched account ever written of Horatio Nelson's rise to international fame. Giving us the private as well as the public man, it combines ground-breaking scholarship with a brilliantly vivid and compelling style.
For more than 35 years, What Color Is Your Parachute? Has guided millions of job-hunters to find satisfying careers. Now, Parachute for Retirement will help people plan for the next stage of life. Going way beyond financial planning, Richard N. Bolles and retirement expert John E. Nelson use all the latest research from economics, medicine and psychology to provide a complete essential guide for planning this important and inevitable stage of anyone's career. It aims to inspire readers to take charge of their retired life and get the most possible out of their retirement, emotionally, financially and physically.