Helen: 3878 books
The Image before the Weapon
A Critical History of the Distinction between Combatant and Civilian
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Since at least the Middle Ages, the laws of war have distinguished between combatants and civilians under an injunction now formally known as the principle of distinction. The principle of distinction is invoked in contemporary conflicts as if there were an unmistakable and sure distinction to be...
by Helen Zimmern
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Helen Zimmern was a British writer and translator. Zimmern wrote detailed biographies on other writers including the great Irish author Maria Edgeworth. A table of contents is included.
Gender, Society and Print Culture in Late-Stuart England
The Cultural World of the Athenian Mercury
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Focusing on a largely unknown type of popular print culture that developed in the late 1600s-the coffee house periodical-Helen Berry here offers new evidence that the politics of gender, far from being a marginal or frivolous topic, was an issue of general interest and wide-spread concern to the early...
The Ordeal of Captain Roeder
From the Diary of an Officer in the First Battalion of Hessian Lifeguards During the Moscow Campaign of 1812-13
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Originally published in 1960, Captain Franz Roeder’s ability to bring to life the rigours in the Hessian Lifeguards during Napoleon’s ill-fated invasion of Russia in 1812-13, together with Helen Roeder’s skilful narrative, make this book one of the most compelling accounts of the sufferings...
Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus
A Routledge Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
A highly original and influential work of modern British literature, Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus combines a fantastically creative plot with a strong political undertone. The result is an emotive and provocative novel, which has attracted much critical attention from a range of perspectives...
Spectacular Television
Exploring Televisual Pleasure
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
In terms of visual impact, television has often been regarded as inferior to cinema. It has been characterised as sound-led and consumed by a distracted audience. Today, it is tempting to see the rise of HD television as ushering in a new era of spectacular television. Yet since its earliest days,...
Museum Bodies
The Politics and Practices of Visiting and Viewing
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Museum Bodies provides an account of how museums have staged, prescribed and accommodated a repertoire of bodily practices, from their emergence in the eighteenth century to the present day. As long as museums have existed, their visitors have been scrutinised, both formally and informally, and their...
by HELEN HOOVEN SANTMYER
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
This New York Times best seller by Helen Hooven Santmyer recounts the lives of a group of women who start a study club in a small town in southwestern Ohio in 1868. Over the years, the club evolves into an influential community service organization in the town. Numerous characters are introduced in...
by Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Antonio Damasio
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
An orientation to affective neuroscience as it relates to educators.
In this ground-breaking collection, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang—an affective neuroscientist, human development psychologist, and former public school teacher—presents a decade of work with the potential to revolutionize...
The Ethics of War and Peace
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
The Ethics of War and Peace is a lively introduction to one of the oldest but still most relevant ethical debates. Focusing on the philosophical questions surrounding the ethics of modern war, Helen Frowe presents contemporary just war theory in a stimulating and accessible way.
This 2nd edition...
The Thinking Moms' Revolution
Autism beyond the Spectrum: Inspiring True Stories from Parents Fighting to Rescue Their Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
The Thinking Moms’ Revolution (TMR) is a group of twenty-three moms (and one awesome dad) from Montana to Malaysia who all have children with developmental disabilities. Initially collaborating online about therapies, biomedical intervention, alternative medicine, special diets, and doctors on the...
Baudelaire in Song
1880-1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Why do we find it hard to explain what happens when words are set to music? This study looks at the kind of language we use to describe word/music relations, both in the academic literature and in manuals for singers or programme notes prepared by professional musicians. Helen Abbott's critique of...
by Helen Baker
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
The machinations of the Thorpe family dominate Northanger Abbey. Read now how John Thorpe's extravagance brought his family to the brink of ruin and enabled Captain Tilney to master that proud beauty Isabella Thorpe. Nor would he stop there when she possessed two lovely sisters, one barely sixteen....
The Habits of Racism
A Phenomenology of Racism and Racialized Embodiment
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
The Habits of Racism examines some of the complex questions raised by the phenomenon and experience of racism. Helen Ngo draws on the resources of Merleau-Ponty to show how the conceptual reworking of habit as bodily orientation helps to identify the subtle but more fundamental workings of racism--to...