Ellen: 2931 books
The Brightening Glance
Imagination and Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
In this remarkable book, Ellen Handler Spitz shows how to promote children’s creative and emotional growth by making the most of the unlimited possibilities of everyday experiences.Through delightful anecdotes about real children and their treasures, bedrooms, play spaces, music, scary things, and...
Pastel Painting Atelier
Essential Lessons in Techniques, Practices, and Materials
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Revel in the luminous and vibrant qualities of pastel with Ellen Eagle’s essential course in the history, techniques, and practices of the medium. In this comprehensive yet intimate guide, Eagle explores pastel’s rich but relatively unexamined past, reveals her own personal influences and approaches,...
The Prince Of Tennessee
The Rise Of Al Gore
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2000
In The Prince of Tennessee, David Maraniss and Ellen Nakashima explore in rich detail the forces that have shaped Al Gore's life, and the ways that his past offers clues to what kind of president he would be. The Gore who comes to life in these pages is an intelligent and competent man, struggling...
Frontier Women and Their Art
A Chronological Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
While often less celebrated than their male counterparts, women have been vital contributors to the arts for centuries. Works by women of the frontier represent treasured accomplishments of American culture and still impress us today, centuries after their creation. The breadth of creative expression...
by Ellen Oh, Elsie Chapman, Renée Ahdieh
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Star-crossed lovers, meddling immortals, feigned identities, battles of wits, and dire warnings: these are the stuff of fairy tale, myth, and folklore that have drawn us in for centuries.
Fifteen bestselling and acclaimed authors reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia in...
Tokyo Museum Guide
A Complete Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
This Japan travel companion is a complete guide to over 195 fascinating museums in Tokyo, Yokahoma, and Chiba.
Tokyo affords no better-or cheaper-day trip than a visit to one of its many fascinating museums. Now for the first time in English is a complete guide to all the museums, large and...
Book of Witchery: Spells, Charms & Correspondences for Every Day of the Week
Spells, Charms & Correspondences for Every Day of the Week
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Witchery isn’t limited to the sabbats and to the occasional full moon; magick happens every day. In this treasury of enchantments, spells and witchery, popular author Ellen Dugan presents her personal grimoire of magick essentials to keep you happily conjuring seven days a week! Formerly available...
Cottage Witchery: Natural Magick for Hearth and Home
Natural Magick for Hearth and Home
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Ellen Dugan, the author of Garden Witchery, is the ideal guide to show us how to bring the beauty of nature and its magickal energies indoors. Using common household and outdoor items-such as herbs, spices, dried flowers, plants, stones, and candles-she offers a down-to-earth approach to creating...
by Ellen Klages
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Inspired by the pulps, film noir, and screwball comedy, Passing Strange is a story as unusual and complex as San Francisco itself from World Fantasy Award winning author Ellen Klages, and a finalist for the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novella
San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional....
by Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Throughout the centuries, ballet has had a rich and ever-evolving role in the humanities. Renowned choreographers, composers, and performers have contributed to this unique art form, staging enduring works of beauty. Significant productions by major companies embrace innovations and adaptations, enabling...
by Ellen T. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
During his lifetime, the sounds of Handel’s music reached from court to theater, echoed in cathedrals, and filled crowded taverns, but the man himself—known to most as the composer of Messiah—is a bit of a mystery. Though he took meticulous care of his musical manuscripts and even provided for...
Beginning to See the Light
Sex, Hope, and Rock-and-Roll
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
From the New Yorker’s inimitable first pop music critic comes this pioneering collection of essays by a conscientious writer whose political realm is both radical and rational, and whose prime preoccupations are with rock ’n’ roll, sexuality, and above all, freedom. Here Ellen Willis assuredly...
The Color of Success
Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2013
The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of...
by Ellen Silver Stange
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised on the south shore of Long Island, Ellen Stange experienced the rhythm and vibe that is unequivocally New York. One can’t escape this, it’s in the DNA of the New Yorker. Like so many of the fortunate people who are born and bred here, exposed to these...