Judith: 2966 books
Kyoto City of Zen
Visiting the Heritage Sites of Japan's Ancient Capital
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
This travel pictorial and Japan travel guide captures the sites and soul of Kyoto—Japan's historical and spiritual center.
An elaborate kaleidoscope of craft, artistry and religion, Kyoto is one of the world's most popular travel destinations. Art and design form the weft and warp of this...
by Carl Spadoni, Judith Skelton Grant
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Robertson Davies (1913–1995), one of Canada’s most distinguished authors of the twentieth century, was known for his work as a novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. This descriptive bibliography is dedicated to his writing career, covering all publications from his first venture...
Visions of Belonging
Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940-1960
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Visions of Belonging explores how beloved and still-remembered family stories—A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, I Remember Mama, Gentleman's Agreement, Death of a Salesman, Marty, and A Raisin in the Sun—entered the popular imagination and shaped collective dreams in the postwar years and into the 1950s....
by Kathryn Shay, Patricia McLinn, Judith Arnold & Julie Ortolon
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Let best-selling authors Kathryn Shay, Patricia McLinn, Judith Arnold and Julie Ortolon take you on the life-changing journeys of four men who find their soul mates in four very strong women. Four complete novels in one volume.
COP OF THE YEAR, Book One of the Bayview Heights series--When Captain...
God Has Ninety-Nine Names
Reporting from a Militant Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
A FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER IN TODAY'S MIDDLE EAST
God Has Ninety-Nine Names is a gripping, authoritative account of the epic battle between modernity and militant Islam that is is reshaping the Middle East.
Judith Miller, a reporter who has covered the Middle east...
The Battlefield and Beyond
Essays on the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
In The Battlefield and Beyond leading Civil War historians explore a tragic part of our nation's history though the lenses of race, gender, leadership, politics, and memory. The essays in this strong collection shed new light on the defining issues of the Civil War era.
Orville Vernon Burton, Leonne...
Against Their Will
The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
During the Cold War, an alliance between American scientists, pharmaceutical companies, and the US military pushed the medical establishment into ethically fraught territory. Doctors and scientists at prestigious institutions were pressured to produce medical advances to compete with the perceived...
by Judith M. Richards
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Elizabeth I was Queen of England for almost forty-five years. The daughter of Henry VIII and Ann Boleyn, as an infant she was briefly accepted as her father’s heir. After her mother was executed at her father’s command she was declared illegitimate and led a sometimes scandalous existence until...
by Judith Mackrell
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Glamorized, mythologized and demonized – the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to reinvent the way they lived. Flappers is in part a biography of that restless generation: starting with its first fashionable acts of rebellion just before the Great War, and continuing...
by Judith Holder
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
We all know what it means these days to be a grumpy old man, because part of that role is to be outspoken. Well, we've heard just about enough out of the men, thank you very much! Grumpy Old Women gives us the other perspective: the female take on the million irritations of today's world.
So...
Byzantium
The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism--gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization. Avoiding a standard chronological account of the Byzantine Empire's millennium--long history, she identifies the fundamental questions...
Margins and Metropolis
Authority across the Byzantine Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
This volume explores the political, cultural, and ecclesiastical forces that linked the metropolis of Byzantium to the margins of its far-flung empire. Focusing on the provincial region of Hellas and Peloponnesos in central and southern Greece, Judith Herrin shows how the prestige of Constantinople...
Christmas
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
A critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author explores the Christmas holiday, from the original festival through present day traditions.
Christmas has always been a magical time. Or has it? Thirty years after the first recorded Christmas, the Pope was already warning that too many...
The Long Embrace
Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Raymond Chandler was among the most original and enduring crime novelists of the twentieth century. Yet much of his pre-writing life, including his unconventional marriage, has remained shrouded in mystery. In this compelling, wholly original book, Judith Freeman sets out to solve the puzzle of who...