Ellis: 2610 books
Becoming Nicole
The Transformation of an American Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The inspiring true story of transgender actor and activist Nicole Maines, whose identical twin brother, Jonas, and ordinary American family join her on an extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all.
Nicole appears...
Encountering the Jewish Future
With Wiesel, Buber, Heschel, Arendt, Levinas
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The most vital questions about Judaism—present and future—are prefigured, says Marc Ellis in the work of Elie Wiesel, Martin Buber, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Hannah Arendt, and Emmanuel Levinas. Ellis encounters each thinker to contemplate biblical, theological, and philosophical insights so to foster Jewish empowerment and to ensure a Jewish future.
Why Do People Treat Me The Way They Do?
The Autobiography Of Jefferson Evans
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
"Why Do People Treat Me The Way They Do?," is the autobiography of Jefferson Evans, the very first black graduate of the Culinary Institute of America. It is also so much more. It is a look at the life of a legendary chef and man. It is the perspective of a man who has almost seen a century...
The New Pioneers
Sustainable business success through social innovation and social entrepreneurship
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
New times create new needs – and new needs require new solutions. The New Pioneers is a practical guide for capitalists and idealists on how to navigate in the new economic world order.
It is about the social megatrends that are shaping our lives in new ways and creating a new face of capitalism....
The Measure of My Powers
A Memoir of Food, Misery, and Paris
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
**INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 TASTE CANADA AWARDS AND THE RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE. For fans of Eat Pray Love, Wild, and H is for Hawk, The Measure of My Powers is the story of one woman's search for self-love, experienced through food and travel.
"With...
The Quartet
Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
From Pulitzer Prize–winning American historian Joseph J. Ellis, the unexpected story of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew.
We all know the famous opening phrase of Lincoln’s...
Freedom's Pragmatist
Lyndon Johnson and Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
History has labeled Lyndon B. Johnson "Lincoln's successor." But how did a southern president representing a predominately conservative state, with connections to some of the nation's leading segregationists, come to play such an influential role in civil rights history? In Freedom's Pragmatist,...
by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
**“Passionate Sage is [Ellis’s] best book.”—Judith Shulevitz, The New York Times Book Review **
A fresh look at this astute, likably quirky statesman, by the author of the Pulitzer Award-winning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award winning American Sphinx. "The most lovable...
Children of War
Voices of Iraqi Refugees
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
USBBY Outstanding International Books Honor List
In this book, Deborah Ellis turns her attention to the most tragic victims of the Iraq war -- Iraqi children. She interviews young people, mostly refugees living in Jordan, but also a few who are trying to build new lives in North America. Some...
Revolutionary Summer
The Birth of American Independence
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis.
The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed to...
by Edith Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Scribe Edith Ellis met the spirit of George Washington one evening in 1955. He contacted her from the Other Side to ask if she would serve as a channel so that he could dictate his autobiography for his "fellow American Patriots," believing that he had kept his personal feelings about his...
by Havelock Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
An engrossing collection of literary essays, The New Spirit was Havelock Ellis’s first book. In it he attempts to trace “the modern spirit” through the works of five great writers—Diderot, Heine, Whitman, Ibsen, and Tolstoy. Controversial when published, the book remains essential reading for anyone interested in Ellis’s early work and philosophy.
Gaters, Skeeters And Malary
Recollections of a Pioneer Florida Judge
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
A young man on the eve of his departure for Florida in the 1880’s would be met with something like the following from his elders:
“Well, ye prob’ly won’t git back. Them there bad men’ll kill ye, er the ‘gators’ll eat ye, er the skeeters’ll give ye malary an’ that’ll kill...
Bone to Pick
Of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Reparation, and Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2004
In a world riven by conflict, reconciliation is not always possible -- but it offers one of the few paths to peace for a troubled nation or a troubled soul. In Bone to Pick, bestselling author and Newsweek editor Ellis Cose offers a provocative and wide-ranging discussion of the power of reconciliation,...