Allison: 1539 books
On Their Own
Women, Urbanization, and the Right to the City in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
South Africa, the most urbanized country on the African continent, displays some of the highest levels of socio-economic inequality in the world. What is life like for low-income African women in urban South Africa in the post-apartheid era? Does urban life offer new opportunities for personal development,...
by Allison Graham
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Emi Nakano just wants to eat carrion in peace. And thanks to a business deal she had going with Goro Nanase, that was possible...until a group of teenagers posed a threat to her way of life. No big deal, though. She'll just scare them off; how hard can it be? Jikininki is eighth story in the Bestiary Tales.
Living and Dying with Confidence
A Day-by-Day Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
A daily companion for embracing life, preparing for death, and awakening to reality.
Anyen Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist master and teacher, and his longtime student and translator Allison Choying Zangmo present ancient and rich teachings on death in a contemporary, accessible manner. Learn how...
Public Interests
Media Advocacy and Struggles over U.S. Television
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA)
Nearly as soon as television began to enter American homes in the late 1940s, social activists recognized that it was a powerful tool for shaping the nation’s...
by Allison Rain
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Jason Reynolds wanted a night of companionship, to be in the arms of a man – any man – and no longer feel lonely. But he picked the wrong man, and events led him to make a twisted deal to save his own life. Now he’s in the mysterious and distant nation of Japan, where the death of another means...
by Kenneth D. Wald, Allison Calhoun-Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Using an evidenced-based, social-scientific approach to religion, Kenneth D. Wald and Allison Calhoun-Brown challenge the perception that religious influence in American politics is a problem to be solved. Instead, they contend that religion is a form of social identification that not only shapes...
New Day Begun
African American Churches and Civic Culture in Post-Civil Rights America
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2003
New Day Begun presents the findings of the first major research project on black churches’ civic involvement since C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya’s landmark study The Black Church in the African American Experience. Since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights...
Quick & Easy Recipes for Lunch
Quick and Easy Recipes, #2
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
A tasty lunch is the perfect midday pick-me-up. Don’t settle for boring leftovers. You can make an original lunch dish in less than 15 minutes! We’ve compiled 40 recipes for a variety of
tastes. There are vegetarian dishes, hot or cold entrees, sandwiches, and pastas. Many of these lunches...
Quick & Easy Recipes for Desserts
Quick and Easy Recipes, #5
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
You don’t have to be a master chef to create a dazzling dessert. And, the best part—you can do it in under 15 minutes! We have recipes for beautiful trifles and layered parfaits. These desserts are sure to impress your family or dinner guests. If you’re simply looking for a afternoon treat,...
Son
A Novel of Racial Justice Based on True Events
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
A family's compelling racial truth has been unearthed for future generations with Al Allison eloquently redefining justice and healing. Joyce F. King, Author of Hate Crime: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas It is 11 PM, July 8, 1932 in Austin, Texas. Sixty-year-old African-American Charles...
Monstrous Progeny
A History of the Frankenstein Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein is its own type of monster mythos that will not die, a corpus whose parts keep getting harvested to animate new artistic creations. What makes this tale so adaptable and so resilient that, nearly 200 years later, it remains vitally relevant in a culture radically...
The 3rd & 9th Texas Cavalry: The War Between The States As I Saw It.
Civil War Texas Ranger & Cavalry, #7
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
"The 3rd & 9th Texas Cavalry: The War Between The States As I Saw It." by Allison W. Sparks is a first hand memoir of the American Civil experience of a private Confederate soldier.
Sparks 1841-1912 who was nicknamed "Tuck" was raised in Cypress, Texas & is buried...
by Frank M. Allison III
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
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Global Appetites
American Power and the Literature of Food
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Global Appetites explores how industrial agriculture and countercultural food movements underpin US conceptions of global power in the century since the First World War. Allison Carruth's study centers on what she terms the 'literature of food' - a body of work that comprises literary realism, late...