Bøker av James Crawford

David Nobile is a handsome industrial mechanic in a world of sledgehammers and chain falls by day and a compassionate single dad of two young children by night. He learns his ideals of fatherhood by a popular song on the radio and desires to meet the heart behind the music.Riley Kragen is a beautiful aspiring singer/songwriter who is driven by an inner desire for an idyllic father figure she never knew. Meeting David, she is intrigued by his toughness and tenderness as he endeavors to help his children be the best they can be. She enters his world to find friendship and love.But this new romance is soon under attack by a jealous ex-wife whose selfish motives of bitterness and revenge threaten to shatter David's world, and take from him his only sources of love and happiness.Based in part on the author's own experiences, and set in the historic beauty of Charleston, SC, A Noble Paradise is a roller coaster ride of humor, wrath, ecstasy and despair, and a reaffirmation that eventually love wins over hate, good triumphs over evil, and that love, from a child or a woman, is a treasure worth fighting for.James Crawford is also the author of Mariner Valley and Seed of Aldebaran, as well as works in other genres.

In this book acclaimed author and presenter James Crawford introduces many forgotten places all over the country, from the ruins of prehistoric forts and ancient, arcane burial sites, to abandoned bothies and boathouses, and the derelict traces of old, faded industry.

An inviting, fascinating compendium of twenty-one of history's most famous lost places, from the Tower of Babel to the Twin TowersBuildings are more like us than we realize. They can be born into wealth or poverty, enjoying every privilege or struggling to make ends meet. They have parents-gods, kings and emperors, governments, visionaries and madmen-as well as friends and enemies. They have duties and responsibilities. They can endure crises of faith and purpose. They can succeed or fail. They can live. And, sooner or later, they die.In Fallen Glory, James Crawford uncovers the biographies of some of the world's most fascinating lost and ruined buildings, from the dawn of civilization to the cyber era. The lives of these iconic structures are packed with drama and intrigue. Soap operas on the grandest scale, they feature war and religion, politics and art, love and betrayal, catastrophe and hope. Frequently their afterlives have been no less dramatic-their memories used and abused down the millennia for purposes both sacred and profane. They provide the stage for a startling array of characters, including Gilgamesh, the Cretan Minotaur, Agamemnon, Nefertiti, Genghis Khan, Henry VIII, Catherine the Great, Adolf Hitler, and even Bruce Springsteen.The twenty-one structures Crawford focuses on include The Tower of Babel, The Temple of Jerusalem, The Library of Alexandria, The Bastille, Kowloon Walled City, the Berlin Wall, and the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Ranging from the deserts of Iraq, the banks of the Nile and the cloud forests of Peru, to the great cities of Jerusalem, Istanbul, Paris, Rome, London and New York, Fallen Glory is a unique guide to a world of vanished architecture. And, by picking through the fragments of our past, it asks what history's scattered ruins can tell us about our own future.

Since the earliest known marker denoting the edge of one land and the beginning of the next-a stone column inscribed with Sumerian cuneiform-borders have been imagined, mapped, moved, and fought over. In The Edge of the Plain, James Crawford skillfully blends history, travel writing, and reportage to trace these borderlines throughout history and across the globe.What happens on the ground when we impose lines on a map that contradict how humans have always lived-and moved? Crawford confronts that question from bloody territorial disputes in Mesopotamia, to the Sápmi lands of Scandinavia, the shifting boundaries of the Israel-Palestine conflict, efforts to build a wall on the United States-Mexico border, and the dangerous border crossings pursued by migrants into Europe.And yet the role of borders extends beyond specific sites of conflict. On the largest scale, borders define the limits of empire-the two walls in Britain that once represented the northwestern edge of the Roman Empire; the mythological eastern gate supposedly closed off by Alexander the Great; China's virtual "Great Firewall." On the smallest, human scale, cell walls are the last physical barrier against disease, after lines of quarantine have failed.Finally, as The Edge of the Plain reveals, humans have not only made their mark on the landscape: the landscape itself is now changing, more and more rapidly due to climate change. Crawford introduces us to both the Alpine watershed-one such shifting, natural borderline-and the "Great Green Wall" in Africa, envisioned as an international, community-built bulwark against desertification.Borders are as old as human civilization, and focal points for today's colliding forces of nationalism, climate change, globalization, and mass migration. The Edge of the Plain illuminates these lines of separation past and present, how we define them-and how they define us.

Your current stress level doesn't matter, this book will help you alleviate the stress in your life. This is possible if you take the time to put what you learn into practice. As you see changes in your life, you will also improve the lives of those around you.Many people often wait until stress becomes crushing before taking a step to deal with it; this isn't the right approach. You increase the risk of developing the various health issues associated with stress. Here's a preview of what you will learn with this book:How to identify your stress triggers How your diet has an impact on your stress levelsHow to take time for yourselfHow to let it all go Why the things you worry about don't matterHow important it is to say noHow to be grateful And much, much more...This book will assist with directing you to decrease your pressure while rethinking your life. It's an intense point and one that we see influencing a considerable lot of our entertainers at various times. It is an ideal subject for a jokester to cover because, collectively, most comics are impacted by nervousness and wretchedness. We use humor as a survival strategy in managing pressure as we continued looking for bliss.

In Who Built Scotland, the authors pick twenty-five buildings to tell the history of a nation. In vivid travelogues, they explore Scotland's social, political and cultural heritage, placing our people, ideas and passions at the heart of our architecture and archaeology. This is a story of how we shape buildings and how buildings, in turn, shape us.

The Articles mark a major step in international law, defining breaches of international law and the consequences of such breaches. Including a full introduction, the text of the Articles and commentary, plus guide to the legislative history, this will be an indispensable accompaniment to the ILC's work on this topic.

Annexed to GA Resolution 56/83 of 2001, the International Law Commission's Articles on Responsibility for Internationally Wrongful Acts put the international law of responsibility on a sound footing. As Special Rapporteur for the second reading, James Crawford helped steer it to a successful conclusion. With this book, he provides a detailed analysis of the general law of international responsibility and the place of state responsibility in particular within that framework. It serves as a companion to The International Law Commission's Articles on State Responsibility: Introduction, Text and Commentaries (Cambridge, 2002) and is essential reading for scholars and practitioners concerned with issues of international responsibility, whether they arise in interstate relations, in the context of arbitration or litigation, or in bringing international claims.

Bilingualism is a reality that many Americans still find difficult to accept; hence the prominence of English-only activism in U.S. politics. This collection of essays analyzes the sources of the anti-bilingual movement, its changing directions, and its impact on education policy. The book also explores efforts to resist the English-only trend.

The third book in a series showcasing Scotland's National Collection of Aerial Photography. Features some of the most recent high quality photography of the nation, divided into four chapters that capture the essence and uniqueness of Scotland's landscapes: Islands, Highlands, Lowlands and Coastlines.

Every state in the world has undertaken human rights obligations on the basis of UN treaties, but the system has been stretched almost to breaking point. This volume contains detailed analyses of the strengths and weaknesses of the system, by leading participants in the work of the treaty bodies.