Elizabeth Norman: 13 books
Women at War
The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Norman tells the dramatic story of fifty women—members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corps—who went to war, working in military hospitals, aboard ships, and with air evacuation squadrons during the Vietnam War. Here, in a moving narrative, the women talk about why they went to war, the...
Growing up Ebony and Ivory
A Conversation Between Two Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Here is that conversation about race that needs to transpire. And it goes like this: a black woman grows up in the segregated south and moves to Chicago becoming successful in the corporate world then retires and decides to substitute teach. There she meets a white woman around her age who grew up...
South Wind Through the Kitchen
The Best of Elizabeth David
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
A posthumous collection of recipes and articles—recommended by her friends and fans—from “the best food writer of her time” (Jane Grigson, The Times Literary Supplement).
Before Elizabeth David died in 1992, she and her editor, Jill Norman, had begun work on a volume of “The Best of,”...
Tears in the Darkness
The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Tears in the Darkness is an altogether new look at World War II that exposes the myths of war and shows the extent of suffering and loss on both sides.
For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America's first major land battle of World War II,...
We Band of Angels
The Untold Story of the American Women Trapped on Bataan
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
In the fall of 1941, the Philippines was a gardenia-scented paradise for the American Army and Navy nurses stationed there. War was a distant rumor, life a routine of easy shifts and dinners under the stars. On December 8 all that changed, as Japanese bombs began raining down on American bases in...
by Neil Clarke, Harry Turtledove, Elizabeth Bear
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Forever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Each issue will feature a novella, two short stories, and cover art by Ron Guyatt. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke....
Lincoln's Enduring Legacy
Perspective from Great Thinkers, Great Leaders, and the American Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Coming on the heels of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, Lincoln's Enduring Legacy offers highly readable and accessible perspectives on Lincoln at 200 in terms of his impact on great leaders and thinkers and his place in American history. The book explores how Lincoln's words and deeds...
by Wenn Lawson, Tracy Turner, Alex Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
In an immensely varied and thoughtful collection of true life reflections on love, marriage and the single life, 26 authors with autism share their experiences and knowledge about successful (and unsuccessful) relationships. Digging deep into the many and varying ways in which autism affects feelings...
by Norman P. Lieberman, Elizabeth T. Lieberman
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
The latest methods for troubleshooting and maintaining process equipment
Applicable to a broad range of technicians and industries and fully updated throughout, A Working Guide to Process Equipment, Fourth Edition, explains how to diagnose, troubleshoot, and correct problems with chemical and petroleum...
A Nazi Past
Recasting German Identity in Postwar Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Since the end of World War II, historians and psychologists have investigated the factors that motivated Germans to become Nazis before and during the war. While most studies have focused on the high-level figures who were tried at Nuremberg, much less is known about the hundreds of SS members, party...
The Archaeology of Slavery
A Comparative Approach to Captivity and Coercion
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Plantation sites, especially those in the southeastern United States, have long dominated the archaeological study of slavery. These antebellum estates, however, are not representative of the range of geographic locations and time periods in which slavery has occurred. As archaeologists have begun...
Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community
Everything I Know about Relationships I Learned from Television
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community analyzes how television narratives form the first decade of the twenty-first century are powerful socializing agents which both define and limit the types of acceptable interpersonal relationships between co-workers, friends, romantic partners, family members,...
by Ann Norman, Elizabeth Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
At some point in their careers, most nurses encounter patients who are directly or indirectly involved with the criminal justice system whether on hospital wards where prisoners are receiving treatment whilst guarded by prison officers, in schools where children have a parent in prison, or in a GP practice...