Eldridge: 134 books
by Frances H. Whipple, Elleanor Eldridge
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Elleanor Eldridge, born of African and US indigenous descent in 1794, operated a lucrative domestic services business in nineteenth century Providence, Rhode Island. In defiance of her gender and racial background, she purchased land and built rental property from the wealth she gained as a business...
Lyric Orientations
Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
In Lyric Orientations, Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge explores the power of lyric poetry to stir the social and emotional lives of human beings in the face of the ineffable nature of our mortality. She focuses on two German-speaking masters of lyric prose and poetry: Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843)...
In Our Control
The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
The efficacy and risks of different birth control options are dramatically different today from what they once were thanks to scientific advances and increased awareness of STDs and other factors. In the most comprehensive book on birth control since the 1970s, women's health activist Laura Eldridge...
20 Things Adoptive Parents Need to Succeed
Discover the Secrets to Understanding the Unique Needs of Your Adopted Child-and Becoming the Best Parent You Can Be
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Do I have what it takes to be a successful adoptive parent?
Does my child consider me a successful parent?
Will I ever hear my rebellious teen say, “I love you”?
What tools do I need to succeed?
In her groundbreaking first book, Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew,Sherrie...
by Richard Eldridge
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
Richard Eldridge explores the ability of dense and formally interesting literature to respond to the complexities of modern life. Beyond simple entertainment, difficult modern works cultivate reflective depth and help their readers order and interpret their lives as subjects in relation to complex...
Chronicles of a Two-Front War
Civil Rights and Vietnam in the African American Press
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
During the Vietnam War, young African Americans fought to protect the freedoms of Southeast Asians and died in disproportionate numbers compared to their white counterparts. Despite their sacrifices, black Americans were unable to secure equal rights at home, and because the importance of the war...
Target Zero
A Life in Writing
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Former Black Panther information minister Eldridge Cleaver was a complex man who inspired profound adulation, love, rage, and, among many, fear. Target Zero brings Cleaver's controversial story into focus through his own words. This books charts Cleaver's life through his writings: his quiet childhood,...
Images of History
Kant, Benjamin, Freedom, and the Human Subject
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Developing work in the theories of action and explanation, Eldridge argues that moral and political philosophers require accounts of what is historically possible, while historians require rough philosophical understandings of ideals that merit reasonable endorsement. Both Immanuel Kant and Walter...
by William F. Nolan, Matthew Costello, F. Paul Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Apocalypse-definition: the complete final destruction of the world, especially as described from the Book of Revelation in The Bible; an event involving destruction or damage on an awesome or catastrophic level.
Eighteen bestselling and award-winning authors have contributed their visions of...
by Philip J. Eldridge
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The divide between the West and Southeast Asia seems to be nowhere more apparent than in debates about human rights. Within these diverse geographical, political and cultural climates, human rights seem to have become relative, and the quest for absolutes seems unattainable. In this new book Philip...
A Distant Heritage
The Growth of Free Speech in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
Historians often rely on a handful of unusual cases to illustrate the absence of free speech in the colonies—such as that of Richard Barnes, who had his arms broken and a hole bored through his tongue for seditious words against the governor of Virginia. In this definitive and accessible work, Larry...
by J. Nelson Eldridge
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
There is no statute of limitations for murder. And former nightclub owner Josie Chapman knows it. In the genteel heart of Charleston, SC, a secret buried for forty-four years, is resurrected with dire implications for Josie, his wife and his two closest friends. The Merch is a taut, viscerally acute...
Tripping up the Basement Stairs Before Dawn
An Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
John Seymour Eldridge began writing poetry and lyrics in Seattle, during the social revolution of the 60s, when the war in Vietnam was causing turbulent times in the lives of a generation of flower children around the world. The Spiritual leaders of that revolution, our poets and songwriters, were...
Unkempt
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In the seven stories and one novella collected in Unkempt, Courtney Eldridge gives life to characters of astounding originality. Probing the darker corners of the human psyche, she shows—with a sly and unexpected sense of humor—the neurotic mind at work, the skewed perspective of an alcoholic...