Lawrence S Sullivan

Historical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China: 1949-1997

Historical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China

Deng Xiaoping: Chronicle of an Empire

Beijing Spring, 1989: Confrontation and Conflict The Basic Documents

Beijing Spring, 1989: Confrontation and Conflict The Basic Documents

China's Search for Democracy : The Student and Mass Movement of 1989

Chinese Communist Materials at the Bureau of Investigation

Physiology of the Kidney

Icanchu's Drum: An Orientation to Meaning in South American Religions

Native American Religions of Central and South America: Anthropology of the Sacred

The New World came into being in the Europeans' encounter with the indigenous religions and cultures of Central and South America. Yet these religions remain little known or are filtered through inadequate categories such as "animism," "superstition," or "syncretism." In this volume, an internationa...

Confucianism and Ecology: The Interrelation of Heaven, Earth, and Humans (Religions of the World and Ecology)

Confucianism demonstrates a remarkable wealth of resources for rethinking human-earth relations. This second volume in the series on religions of the world and the environment includes sixteen essays that address the ecological crisis and the question of Confucianism from three perspectives: the his...

Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary

Zhou Enlai, the premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death in 1976, is the last Communist political leader to be revered by the Chinese people. He is considered "a modern saint" who offered protection to his people during the Cultural Revolution; an admirable figure in an ot...

China Mission: A Personal History from the Last Imperial Dynasty to the People's Republic

When the Reverend Halvor Ronning, his sister Thea, and fellow missionary Hannah Rorem set out in 1891 to found a Lutheran mission and school in the interior of China, they could not have foreseen the ways in which that decision would ripple across generations of the Ronning family. Halvor and Hannah...

Religions of the World: An Introduction to Culture and Meaning

Contemporary introductions to the study of religion generally align with either historical or phenomenological approaches. Increasingly, however, methodologies from the social sciences are being employed. This new survey text for comparative religion, authored and edited by Lawrence Sullivan, succes...

Knight of the Lone Star: The Life and Texas of Lawrence Sullivan Ross

The action of the play takes place in front of the statue of Sully on the campus of Texas A&M in 1918. The ghost of Lawrence Sullivan Ross (Texas Ranger, sheriff, CSA army general, state senator, governor, and president of Texas A&M) has come to see the unveiling of his likeness and encounters the a...

Ross’ Texans & the American Civil War: Accounts of the Confederate Soldiers Commanded by General Lawrence Sullivan Ross

The rollicking, rascally and brave boys from the Lone Star StateThe American Civil War brought forth several notable soldiers and commanders on both the Union and Confederate sides of the conflict. Sometimes the man and the men they led became both exceptional and inextricably linked. The principal ...