Julia: 3709 books
Winning Women's Votes
Propaganda and Politics in Weimar Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
In November 1918, German women gained the right to vote, and female suffrage would forever change the landscape of German political life. Women now constituted the majority of voters, and political parties were forced to address them as political actors for the first time.
Analyzing written...
by Julia Timpe
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This book explores the activities of the Nazi regime's vast leisure programme. Shortly after coming to power in Germany, it began a large-scale undertaking to bring happiness and a good life to so-called 'Aryan' Germans, carried out by the Nazi leisure organization Kraft durch Freude. Julia Timpe...
Beyond Bibliometrics
Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing ways we measure scholarly performance and research impact.
Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available...
Letting Go of the Glitz
The true story of one woman's struggle to live the simple life in Chelsea
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Help! I'm Married Alive!Julia Stephenson, struggling to cope with life as a Surrey housewife, grimly welded to her electric floor polisher and fed up with her golf-addicted, BMW-driving husband, bolts to the fleshpots of London. Here she forges a new life as single girl about town in her Chelsea eyrie,...
Race, Religion, and the Pulpit
Rev. Robert L. Bradby and the Making of Urban Detroit
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
During the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to the cities of the Northeast, Midwest, and West, the local black church was essential in the making and reshaping of urban areas. In Detroit, there was one church and one minister in particular that demonstrated this power of the pulpit—Second...
Tunisian Revolutions
Reflections on Seas, Coasts, and Interiors
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
In December 2010 an out-of-work Tunisian street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire and precipitated the Arab Spring. Popular interpretations of Bouazizi's self-immolation presented economic and political oppression by the Ben Ali regimes as the root causes of widespread social despair that...
Why Mugabe Won
The 2013 Elections in Zimbabwe and their Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
The 2013 general elections in Zimbabwe were widely expected to mark a shift in the nation's political system, and a greater role for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. However, the results, surprisingly, were overwhelmingly in favour of long-time...
Haunted Fells Point
Ghosts of Baltimore’s Waterfront
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
The narrow streets and ancient pubs of historic Fells Point are filled with the spirits of the past. Pirates, privateers, sailors, smugglers and a host of others refused to let death change their address. Walk with Edward Fell in the town he founded in 1760 or flirt with the "ladies" at the Cat's...
Newsprint Metropolis
City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
At the turn of the twentieth century, ambitious publishers like Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, and Robert McCormick produced the most spectacular newspapers Americans had ever read. Alongside current events and classified ads, publishers began running comic strips, sports sections, women’s...
Awaken the Diet Within
From Overweight to Looking Great - If I Can Do It,So Can You
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2009
In this title, Julia Griggs Havey shares the weight-loss secrets which enabled her to lose 130 pounds and become a beauty queen. With more than 130 delicious recipes, nutritional advice and fitness tips, readers will discover how easy it is to achieve success.
Electric City
General Electric in Schenectady
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
For seven decades the General Electric Company maintained its manufacturing and administrative headquarters in Schenectady, New York.
Electric City: General Electric in Schenectady explores the history of General Electric in Schenectady from the company’s creation in 1892 to the present....
Nursing the Image
Media, Culture and Professional Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Ideas of 'nursing' and 'nurses' carry a powerful social charge. The image of the nurse continues to be a symbol of caring and of duty at the same time as it projects a view of femininity, 'stereotypical' in its gender relations.
How has this image come to be constructed?
An empirical...
by Jennifer Alsop, Matthew Beaudoin, Jean-Sébastien Boutet
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
People across Canada’s North have created vibrant community institutions to serve a wide range of social and economic needs. Neither state-driven nor profit-oriented, these organizations form a relatively under-studied third sector of the economy. Researchers from the Social Economy Research Network...
by Julia Nole
Language: French
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Language: French
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Il espérait la faire fuir. Maintenant, il ne veut plus qu’elle parte.
Ça fait des mois qu’Alexander ne s’est pas senti libre. Et les gardes-malades que sa sœur s’entête à lui imposer n’aident pas. Il a beau les faire fuir l’une après l’autre, elle continue de les embaucher...