A Lewis: 214 books
Adalberto Ortiz
From Margin to Center
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Pablo Adalberto Ortiz Quiñones (1914–2002) was one of the most gifted writers in Ecuador and all of Latin America. Yet outside of Ecuador and amongst Afro-Hispanic literature scholars in the United States, little critical attention has been given to this pioneer whose multi-genre contributions...
by Judith A. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
A BOLD WALKABOUT ACROSS THE LAND OF VISION, IMAGINATION, AND REALITY
"The stories in this book are a combination of my imagination, vision, and experiences and contacts," writes storyteller Judith A. Lewis about this compelling collection of 65 stories about the Australian Outback,...
by L.A. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Things You Never Thought You'd Have to Teach Your Child is the ultimate parent's guide to raising successful and happy children. Successful educator, L.A. Lewis, imparts her expertise on showing you how to help teach your children how to study properly, respect and socialize well with others, and...
Freedom and Tradition in Hegel
Reconsidering Anthropology, Ethics, and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2005
Freedom and Tradition in Hegel stands at the intersection of three vital currents in contemporary ethics: debates over philosophical anthropology and its significance for ethics, reevaluations of tradition and modernity, and a resurgence of interest in Hegel. Thomas A. Lewis engages these three streams...
Security, Clans and Tribes
Unstable Governance in Somaliland, Yemen and the Gulf of Aden
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Offering an introduction to clanism and tribalism in the Gulf of Aden area, Dr Lewis uses these concepts to analyse security in Yemen, Somalia, Somaliland and the broader region. This historical overview of conflict in each country, and the resulting threats of piracy and terrorism, will benefit both the casual reader and student of development.
For Slavery and Union
Benjamin Buckner and Kentucky Loyalties in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Benjamin Forsythe Buckner (1836--1901) faced a dire choice as the flames of Civil War threatened his native Kentucky. As an ambitious Bluegrass aristocrat, he was sympathetic to fellow slave owners, but was also convinced that the Peculiar Institution could not survive a war for southern independence....
Hall of Mirrors
Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2003
Through an examination of caste in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mexico, Hall of Mirrors explores the construction of hierarchy and difference in a Spanish colonial setting. Laura A. Lewis describes how the meanings attached to the categories of Spanish, Indian, black, mulatto, and mestizo were...
Chocolate and Corn Flour
History, Race, and Place in the Making of “Black” Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Located on Mexico's Pacific coast in a historically black part of the Costa Chica region, the town of San Nicolás has been identified as a center of Afromexican culture by Mexican cultural authorities, journalists, activists, and foreign anthropologists. The majority of the town's residents, however,...
Fear of Crime
Incivility and the Production of a Social Problem
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Most studies of fear of crime assume that is rimarily induced by direct or indirect contact with a criminal event. Consequently programs designed to deal with this problem focus on either increased police protection or a number of crime prevention programs. In this study, Dan A. Lewis and Greta W....
by Thomas A. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Work in philosophy of religion is still strongly marked by an excessive focus on Christianity and, to a lesser extent, Judaism — almost to the exclusion of other religious traditions. Moreover, in many cases it has been confined to a narrow set of intellectual problems, without embedding these in...
Fire on the Water
The Red-hot Career of Superstar Rower Ned Hanlan
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
How did the son of Irish immigrants outrow blueblood scullers from Oxford and Cambridge to become one of the most famous athletes of his time? Award-winning author Wendy A. Lewis recounts the compelling story of the "Boy in Blue," from his childhood on the Toronto Islands, where he rowed...
by P.A. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Vacationing on Planet Xanax: Vacationing on Planet Xanax is the story of P.A. Lewiss evolving relationship with her dysfunctional parents and immediate family members. Beginning in early childhood, Lewis catalogs pivotal events and moments that resulted in epiphanies and sometimes painful learning...
by L.A. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
Mark and Holly James feel their marriage has endured the worst. They've overcome infidelity and the looming question of their daughter's paternity. Life is almost back to normal until jealousy rears its ugly head, and someone they least expect decides it's time to once again turn their world upside down. Their bond may be strong, but can it handle the unexpected?
The Secret World of Sleep
The Surprising Science of the Mind at Rest
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
In recent years neuroscientists have uncovered the countless ways our brain trips us up in day-to-day life, from its propensity toward irrational thought to how our intuitions deceive us. The latest research on sleep, however, points in the opposite direction. Where old wives tales have long advised...