Helen: 3878 books
Mass Communication and American Social Thought
Key Texts, 1919-1968
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2004
This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies...
Deeds Not Words
The Story of Women's Rights - Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
'An uplifting record of progress and strength... You'll lay the book down feeling not only informed, but galvanised to take action yourself.' Independent
'An incredible book . . . with the potential to change women's lives.' Sandi Toksvig
Why is it taking so long? Despite huge progress...
Africa as a Living Laboratory
Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Tropical Africa was one of the last regions of the world to experience formal European colonialism, a process that coincided with the advent of a range of new scientific specialties and research methods. Africa as a Living Laboratory is a far-reaching study of the thorny relationship between imperialism...
Scarlett's Women
'Gone With the Wind' and its Female Fans
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
One of the most successful books ever published and the basis of one of the most popular and highly praised Hollywood films of all time, Gone With the Wind has entered world culture in a way that few other stories have.
Seventy-five years on from the cinematic release of Gone with the Wind,...
Early Christian Literature
Christ and Culture in the Second and Third Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005
Helen Rhee’s outstanding work is the first book to bring together The Apologies and the semi-fictional Apocryphal Acts and Martyr Acts in a single study. Filling a significant gap in the scholarship, she looks at Christian self definition and self representation in the context of pagan-Christian...
by Helen Fairbairn
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The Wild Atlantic Way follows the magnificent west coast of Ireland, passing golden beaches, thrusting headlands and soaring sea cliffs. Renowned walking-guide author Helen Fairbairn explores the best walking routes of the region, recommending trips to uninhabited islands, coastal mountains and much...
The Way of Woman
Awakening the Perennial Feminine
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Why do so many women now feel so conflicted about their roles, so cut off from sources of spiritual nourishment in their lives? More importantly, what can they do about it? In The Way of Woman, Helen M. Luke has brought six decades of experience to bear in answering these two questions, drawing on...
by Helen Ellerbe
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Over a period of nearly two millennia, the Christian Church has oppressed and brutalized millions of individuals. Meticulously researched and courageously written, "The Dark Side of Christian History" by Helen Ellerbe examines the Church's devastating impact upon human freedom, dignity and spirituality....
by Helen Small
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear through works by Thomas Mann, Balzac, Dickens, Beckett, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, to more recent writing...
Invisible Listeners
Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
When a poet addresses a living person--whether friend or enemy, lover or sister--we recognize the expression of intimacy. But what impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible listeners, seeking an ideal intimacy--George Herbert with God, Walt Whitman with a reader in the future,...
Just Like Us
The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
A powerful and moving account of four young women from Mexico who have lived most of their lives in the United States and attend the same high school. Two of them have legal documentation and two do not. Just Like Us is their story.
A stunning work of in-depth journalism in the tradition of...
by Helen Humphreys
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1999
Winner of the 2000 Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 2000 Pat Lowther Award and the 2001 Milton Acorn Memorial People’s Poetry Prize Physical and fiercely lyric, Helen Humphreys' Anthem is a litany of want. A song of poverty and of desire, of the reach forward...
A Short History of Stupid
The Decline of Reason and Why Public Debate Makes Us Want to Scream
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
How did everything get so dumb?
How did we become hostages to idiocy?
What must we do to be freed from a captor whose ransom note simply reads, 'D'oh'?
The deteriorating quality of our public debate and the dwindling of common sense in media, politics and culture can drive you to despair and...
Made With Love
The Meals On Wheels Family Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Recipes and personal stories from dozens of celebrities including Martha Stewart, Suzanne Somers, Al Roker, and more!
Celebrating the importance of family, Made With Love: The Meals On Wheels Family Cookbook includes recipes from the tables of well-known actors, chefs, writers, and other celebrities—along...