Gaillard: 65 books
Gaillard in Deaf America
A Portrait of the Deaf Community, 1917, Henri Gaillard
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
The Third Volume in the Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies Series In 1917, Henri Gaillard led a delegation of deaf French men to the United States for the centennial celebration of the American School for the Deaf (ASD). The oldest school for deaf students in America, ASD had been cofounded by renowned...
by Frye Gaillard
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
More than twenty years ago, Robert Croshon, an elderly friend of Frye Gaillard's, told him the story of Croshon's ancestor, Gilbert Fields, an African-born slave in Georgia who led his family on a daring flight to freedom. Fields and his family ran away intending to travel north, but clouds obscured...
Journey to the Wilderness
War, Memory, and a Southern Family's Civil War Letters
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
On the one-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the Civil War, award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflects on the war—and the way we remember it—through letters written by his family, including his great-great grandfather and his two sons, both of whom were Confederate officers. As Gaillard explains...
A Singularly Unfeminine Profession
One Woman's Journey in Physics
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
In 1981 Mary K Gaillard became the first woman on the physics faculty at the University of California at Berkeley. Her career as a theoretical physicist spanned the period from the inception — in the late 1960s and early 1970s — of what is now known as the Standard Model of particle physics and...
Cradle of Freedom
Alabama and the Movement That Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Cradle of Freedom puts a human face on the story of the black American struggle for equality in Alabama during the 1960s. While exceptional leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Fred Shuttlesworth, Ralph Abernathy, John Lewis, and others rose up from the ranks and carved their places...
The Soul of Art
Analysis and Creation
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
The beginnings of art are lost in the dim reaches of prehistory, eons before humans began recording and codifying their experiences in writing. And yet philosophers, artists, and historians have for centuries noted the intimate and perhaps inseparable relationship between human consciousness and the...
The Quilt
And the Poetry of Alabama Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
With a combination of song lyrics and reflective essays, Alabama author Frye Gaillard and recording artist Kathryn Scheldt pay tribute to the literary legacy of Alabama songwriters. Included here are reflections on the works of Hank Williams, Emmylou Harris, and W. C. Handy, among many others. Scheldt...
The Books That Mattered
A Reader’s Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Frye Gaillard’s first encounters with books were disappointing. As a child he never cared much for fairy tales – “stories of cannibalism and mayhem in which giants and witches, tigers and wolves did their best to eat small children.” But at the age of nine, he discovered Johnny Tremain, a...
Le joueur et le sapajou
Suite de La vie d'un joueur. Trente ans de souvenirs
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1955
A certains de ceux qui lui donnent leur vie, le théâtre donne le pouvoir de transformer cette vie. Il est alors un accomplissement du même ordre que la création poétique : les personnages se retournent vers celui qui les a fait vivre et ils le marquent. A l’acteur qui a « vécu en théâtre »...
A Hard Rain
America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Frye Gaillard has given us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller’s eye to this pivotal time in American life. He explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times — civil rights, black power, women’s liberation, the...
Watermelon Wine
The Spirit of Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Originally published 25 years ago, Watermelon Wine was praised for its honest, unsentimental examination of the compassion as well as the passion behind authentic country music. Author Frye Gaillard looked at the commercialization of the Grand Ole Opry; the tradition-minded rebels such as Hank Williams,...
Boule de suif de Guy de Maupassant (Analyse de l'oeuvre)
Comprendre la littérature avec lePetitLittéraire.fr
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 2011
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by Afsaneh Gaillard, Frederic Gaillard, Michel Roger
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
The first experiments with neural transplantation into the brain (for a review, see Bjorklund and Stenevi 1985) were reported at the end of the last century by Thompson (1890), who took cortical tissue from adult cats and implanted the tissue pieces into the neocortex of adult dogs. The neurons did...
Alabama's Civil Rights Trail
An Illustrated Guide to the Cradle of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
No other state has embraced and preserved its civil rights history more thoroughly than Alabama. Nor is there a place where that history is richer. Alabama’s Civil Rights Trail tells of Alabama’s great civil rights events, as well as its lesser-known moments, in a compact and accessible narrative,...