Aaron: 2032 books
Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales
Nation, Gender, Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
The first volume in the new series Gender Studies in Wales, this book argues that the way in which people came to perceive and to represent themselves as Welsh was profoundly affected by the gender ideologies prevalent during the Romantic and Victorian periods. "Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing...
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2006
This astonishingly rich volume collects the work of an international group of scholars, including some of the best known in academia. Experts in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, political theory, aesthetics, history, critical theory, and hermeneutics bring to light the best philosophical...
Manifestations
Life after Death
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
One of the greatest mysteries that have baffled the living is the knowledge of where we go after this life is over. . . . Manifestations, Life after Death takes you on a journey into this afterlife. It explores a new plight of existence, an existence that presents complex challenges; challenges that...
Modernist Star Maps
Celebrity, Modernity, Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Bringing together Canadian, American, and British scholars, this volume explores the relationship between modernism and modern celebrity culture. In support of the collection's overriding thesis that modern celebrity and modernism are mutually determining phenomena, the contributors take on a range...
by Aaron W. Leland And Elihu W. Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
by Aaron Herskovits
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
I have been involved in meditation from an early age when I started to learn martial arts in the 1980’s. I needed to participate in many tasks and I needed strength and wisdom - meditation was the perfect mysterious world for me. It would appear to me that for some people meditation is the belief...
by Aaron Ridley
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
Nietzsche is one of the most important modern philosophers and his writings on the nature of art are amongst the most influential of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This GuideBook introduces and assesses:
Nietzsche's life and the background to his writings on art
the ideas and texts of...
by Aaron Elkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The French police call on the Skeleton Detective when a dog digs up some human bones: “Terrific” —Publishers Weekly
Les‑Eyzies‑de‑Tayac is known for three things: pâté de fois gras, truffles, and prehistoric remains. The little village, in fact, is the headquarters of the prestigious...
My People Are Rising
Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
A Time to Remember offers a behind the scenes look inside the iconic Black Panther Party and rare insights from a founding member
Highly personal, Time to Remember is also a fascinating, political coming of age story
Revolving around the story of the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther...
The End of Greatness
Why America Can't Have (and Doesn't Want) Another Great President
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The Presidency has always been an implausible—some might even say an impossible—job. Part of the problem is that the challenges of the presidency and the expectations Americans have for their presidents have skyrocketed, while the president's capacity and power to deliver on what ails the nations...
The Sentimental Touch
The Language of Feeling in the Age of Managerialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
Between 1850 and 1940, with the rise of managerial capitalism in the United States, the most powerful businesses ceased to be family owned, instead becoming sprawling organizations controlled by complex bureaucracies. Sentimental literature—work written specifically to convey and inspire deep feeling—does...
The Greatest and the Grandest Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 from Reconstruction to Today
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
In this volume ten expert historians and legal scholars examine the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the first federal civil rights statute in American history. The act declared that all persons born in the United States were citizens without regard to race, color, or previous condition of slavery. Designed...
Presidential Elections
Strategies and Structures of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Brimming with data and examples from the 2008 and 2012 elections, and laced with previews of 2016, the fourteenth edition of this popular text offers a complete overview of the presidential election process from the earliest straw polls and fundraisers to final voter turnout and exit interviews. The...
by Aaron Rosenberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2003
During the Dominion War, Commander Salek and Lt. Commander Duffy of the S.C.E. dealt with a runaway vessel that was endangering a star system -- a mission from which Salek did not return. Now, a year later, Salek's and Duffy's replacements -- Commander Gomez and Lt. Commander Tev -- are faced with...