Beasley: 171 books

Book cover of Count the Waves: Poems
by Sandra Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015

“Beasley uses humor and surprise like a scythe, cutting to the root of a matter.”—Washington Post In Count the Waves, Sandra Beasley turns her eclectic imagination to the heart's pursuits. A man and a woman sit at the same dinner table, an ocean of worry separating them. An iceberg sets...
Book cover of Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France
by Faith E. Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017

The first half of the book is a detailed study of how the salons influenced the development of literature. Beasley argues that many women were not only writers, they also served as critics for the literary sphere as a whole. In the second half of the book Beasley examines how historians and literary...
Book cover of The Corpse Flower

The Corpse Flower

New and Selected Poems

by Bruce Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017

The Corpse Flower brings works from Bruce Beasley's first four award-winning collections together with twenty-five new poems, organizing them around the metaphor that gives the book its title: an enormous tropical bloom that reeks like carrion, and around whose three-day florescence "dung beetles...
Book cover of Beasley's Guide to Library Research
by David Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000

Beasley's Guide to Library Research offers straightforward help in navigating the complex labyrinth of library research. Suitable for novice and experienced researcher alike, this revised classic is an invaluable tool for locating and using materials from research libraries anywhere in the world. Written...
Book cover of The Frog Princess
by Angie Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011

The Frog Princess is the story of Angie Beasley's transformation from ugly duckling to beauty queen. With few jobs around, bland food and cold weather, the best that Angie could hope for was a job at the local Findus factory. Her family didn't have it easy. Her baby brother was a cot...
Book cover of Collected Writings of W. G. Beasley

Collected Writings of W. G. Beasley

The Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars of Japan Volume 5

by W. G. Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014

Developed in close collaboration with W. G. Beasley, this book contains a wide and substantial cross-section of writings, thematically structured around essays in the special areas of Bakufu and Meji Studies.
Book cover of Opting Out

Opting Out

Losing the Potential of America's Young Black Elite

by Maya A. Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012

Why has the large income gap between blacks and whites persisted for decades after the passage of civil rights legislation? More specifically, why do African Americans remain substantially underrepresented in the highest-paying professions, such as science, engineering, information technology, and...
Book cover of Theophobia
by Bruce Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012

Theophobia is the latest volume in Bruce Beasley's ongoing spiritual meditation which forms a kind of postmodern devotional poetry in a reinvention of the tradition of John Donne, George Herbert, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot. Theophobia is structured around a series of poems...
Book cover of Gender and Sexuality

Gender and Sexuality

Critical Theories, Critical Thinkers

by Chris Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005

This accessible introduction to gender and sexuality theory offers a comprehensive overview and critique of the key contemporary literature and debates in feminism, sexuality studies and men's studies. Chris Beasley's clear and concise introduction combines a wide-ranging survey of the major...
Book cover of All Soul Parts Returned
by Bruce Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017

When the Gnostic Gospels collide with new age spiritualism, the Oxford Happiness Test, and treatises on Buddhist practice, we know we're in the territory of a Bruce Beasley collection. Alternately devout and heretical, Beasley-known for his intense and continuing soul-quest through previous award-winning...
Book cover of Beasley's Surgery of the Hand
by Robert W. Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011

While new techniques and instruments are constantly being developed, the fundamental concepts and principles of hand surgery remain the basic components of every surgeon's knowledge. This book provides the vital information needed to perform all types of hand surgery, including a guiding philosophy...
Book cover of José Mourinho: Up Close and Personal
by Robert Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017

The gripping biography of one of the most successful managers in the game, José Mourinho, giving a rare insight into Mourinho the man as well as Mourinho the manager. José Mourinho is undoubtedly one of the most charismatic and controversial characters in football today. Never far away from the...
Book cover of Japanese Imperialism, 1894-1945
by W. G. Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 1987

This is a study of the origins and nature of Japanese imperialism from the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895 through to 1945. Japan is the only Asian country in modern times to have built both a successful industrial economy and an empire, and it is Professor Beasley's contention that these two phenomena...
Book cover of Who Really Invented the Automobile?

Who Really Invented the Automobile?

Skulduggery at the Crossroads

by David R Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008

The automobile was perfected in 1829 and ran well on English roads. Who prevented its development? Was it the railway entrepreneurs? Was it the landed interests? Was it the free-traders? The same interests prevented its development in Europe and in America. Beasley takes you from the beginning through...
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