Jennifer: 8341 books
Action versus Contemplation
Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone,” Blaise Pascal wrote in 1654. But then there’s Walt Whitman, in 1856: “Whoever you are, come forth! Or man or woman come forth! / You must not stay sleeping and dallying there in the house.”
It...
by Jennifer Heller
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Using printed and manuscript texts composed between 1575 and 1672, Jennifer Heller defines the genre of the mother's legacy as a distinct branch of the advice tradition in early modern England that takes the form of a dying mother's pious counsel to her children. Reading these texts in light of specific...
by Gemma Halliday, Jennifer Fischetto
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
From New York Times bestselling author Gemma Halliday and USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Fischetto...
Her name is Bond. Jamie Bond. And her luck may have just run out...
P.I. Jamie Bond knows there's corruption in the Los Angeles County D.A.'s office. What she doesn't know is...
by Jennifer Baker
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
"Country Girl Goes To Hollywood" is a book, created by a truestory of a girl next door. After a tragedy in her home town, she heads to the L.A. and falls into almost all possibletraps and troubles, awaiting young girls. She confronts some really bad things, such as porn industry, sex slavetraders, party drug abuse and much more.
by Jennifer Jansen
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
One of the most impactful and inspiring books, this bestseller by Stephen R. Covey has been an invaluable guide for millions of people. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was first published more than 25 years ago and has remained one of the highest-selling books of all-time. It is not only a...
Attachments to War
Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In Attachments to War Jennifer Terry traces how biomedical logics entangle Americans in a perpetual state of war. Focusing on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars between 2002 and 2014, Terry identifies the presence of a biomedicine-war nexus in which new forms of wounding provoke the continual development...
Commonsense Anticommunism
Labor and Civil Liberties between the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Between the Great War and Pearl Harbor, conservative labor leaders declared themselves America's "first line of defense" against Communism. In this surprising account, Jennifer Luff shows how the American Federation of Labor fanned popular anticommunism but defended Communists' civil liberties...
Hirelings
African American Workers and Free Labor in Early Maryland
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Hirelings, Jennifer Dorsey recreates the social and economic milieu of Maryland's Eastern Shore at a time when black slavery and black freedom existed side by side. She follows a generation of manumitted African Americans and their freeborn children and grandchildren through the process of inventing...
Building a City
C.S. Daley and the story of Canberra
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2015
Canberra residents have little reason to know Charles Daley’s name or be aware of the details of his life in Victoria as a teacher, botanist, writer and historian. But they might be more familiar with the name of his eldest son, Charles Studdy (C.S.) Daley, whose close connection with the story...
by Jennifer Baker
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2012
Hi, my name is Jenny and I'm a rape victim. This is a sad, but true story about my abused life. I'm not a professional author, just a 21y old girl next door, who has written this book from the bottom of her heart and soul. I have exposed myself, because I wanted to encourage others like me to change their lives to the better.
Running from Office
Why Young Americans are Turned Off to Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
The past two decades of politics in Washington have seen increased partisanship, prolonged stalemates, and numerous scandals. For today's teenagers and young adults, years of ineffective and inefficient political leadership have completely eroded any sense that politicians or government have the ability...
Growing Up Jim Crow
How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006
In the segregated South of the early twentieth century, unwritten rules guided every aspect of individual behavior, from how blacks and whites stood, sat, ate, drank, walked, and talked to whether they made eye contact with one another. Jennifer Ritterhouse asks how children learned this racial "etiquette,"...
F 'em!
Goo Goo, Gaga, and Some Thoughts on Balls
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
From Jennifer Baumgardner, one of the leading voices of Third Wave feminism, comes this provocative, thoughtful, often funny collection of essays and interviews that offers a state of the union on contemporary feminist issues.
F 'em! is a mix of old and new essays by Baumgardner, ranging in...
Falling in Honey
How a Tiny Greek Island Stole My Heart
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
"This book will make you laugh and cry and laugh again. I didn't want it to end."—Emma Woolf, author of An Apple a Day
The Best Gifts in Life are the Gifts We Give Ourselves...
Eat Pray Love meets My Big Fat Greek Wedding with a sprinkling of Mamma Mia in this unforgettable...