Gaines: 310 books
In Dylan Town
A Fan's Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
For fifty years, the music, words, story, and fans of Bob Dylan have fascinated David Gaines. As a son, a husband, a father, a teacher, and a passionate lover of the literary in all its guises, he has pursued the poetic fusion of knowledge and emotion all his life. More often than not, Dylan’s lyrics...
The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity
A Simple Guide to Unlimited Abundance
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2005
An empowering message about the true meaning of prosperity—to help anyone achieve a life of spiritual and material abundance.
Imagine if you could achieve a life of true prosperity, enjoying:
- A vitally alive, healthy body through which you experience relationships that are always satisfying...
Bloodline
Five Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
In these five stories, Ernest Gaines returns to the cane fields, sharecroppers' shacks, and decaying plantation houses of Louisiana, the terrain of his great novels A Gathering of Old Men and A Lesson Before Dying. As rendered by Gaines, this country becomes as familiar, and as haunted by cruelty,...
Pink-Slipped
What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Women held more positions of power in the silent film era than at any other time in American motion picture history. Marion Leonard broke from acting to cofound a feature film company. Gene Gauntier, the face of Kalem Films, also wrote the first script of Ben-Hur. Helen Holmes choreographed her own...
From Truth to Technique at Trial
A Discursive History of Advocacy Advice Texts
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
From Truth to Technique addresses key questions raised by the burgeoning literature in what Philip Gaines calls advocacy advice texts-manuals, handbooks, and other how-to guides-written by lawyers for lawyers, both practicing and aspiring, to help them be as effective as possible in trial advocacy....
Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left
A History of the Impossible
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Articulates the role black theatricality played in the radical energy of the sixties
Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left illustrates the black political ideas that radicalized the artistic endeavors of musicians, playwrights, and actors beginning in the 1960s. These ideas paved the...
by W. Craig Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
On the evening of February 2, 1864, Confederate Commander John Taylor Wood led 250 sailors in two launches and twelve boats to capture the USS Underwriter, a side-wheel steam gunboat anchored on the Neuse River near New Bern, North Carolina. During the ensuing fifteen-minute battle, nine Union crewmen...
Why Are Students Not Learning on the School Bus?
The Future of Learning Outside the Classroom in American Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
SoWhy Are Students NOT Learning On The School Bus?
According to Dr. Keshia L. Gaines, students should learn from academic content on the school bus and other unique learning areas (the bus stop, cafeteria, playgrounds, bathrooms, academic clothing, etc.). The key to improving Americas educational...
Fool's Paradise
Players, Poseurs, and the Culture of Excess in South Beach
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
From the acclaimed bestselling author of Philistines at the Hedgerow comes a remarkably revealing profile of the Miami Beach no one knows–a tale of fabulous excess, thwarted power, and rekindled lives that will take its place among the decade’s best works of social portraiture.
Created...
The Magic Of Money
21 Action Strategies To Make Money Work For You
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
When you’re making excuses, fulfilling impulse purchases, and making big financial plans with no foundation, you’ve lost sight of the big picture. Join Rich Gaines, as he brings to light the 21 simple action “how to’s” in building current and future wealth.
“A penny saved is a...
by Ernest J. Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
"This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960's. In this woman Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure, a woman equipped to stand beside William Faulkner's...
Philistines at the Hedgerow
Passion and Property in the Hamptons
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Bestselling author Steven Gaines's "richly entertaining" (People) and juicy social history of the Hamptons.
As one of America's most fabled communities--long a magnet for artists, celebrities, the very rich, and their respective hangers-on--the Hamptons have been a scene of constant...
by Jason M. H. Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Applying criteria for the identification of biblical Hebrew poetry, Jason M. H. Gaines distinguishes a nearly complete poetic Priestly stratum in the Pentateuch (“Poetic P”), coherent in literary, narrative, and ideological terms, from a later prose redaction (“Prosaic P”), which is fragmentary,...
by Ernest J. Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2015
A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection
The fish are nearly jumping in the bayous of Louisiana, but hoodoo magic is just as easy to find. And one day, Bobby’s grandfather catches a haint.
With his characteristically rich sense of place and deep understanding of the human psyche,...