Katherine: 2489 books
Pearl Harbor
The Verdict of History
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
The New York Times–bestselling authors of Miracle at Midway delve into the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor during WWII in “a superb work of history” (Albuquerque Journal Magazine).
In the predawn hours of December 7, 1941, a Japanese carrier group sailed toward Hawaii. A few minutes before...
by Donald M. Goldstein; Katherine V. Dillon
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2005
The Pacific War Papers is an annotated collection of extremely rare Japanese primary-source documents, translated into English, that provides an invalu-able resource for historians and students of World War II. These naval and diplomatic documents come from the collection of the late Gordon Prange, the...
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
by Katherine C. Mooney
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Katherine C. Mooney recaptures the sights, sensations, and illusions of America's first mass spectator sport. Her central characters are not the elite white owners of slaves and thoroughbreds but the black jockeys, grooms, and horse trainers who called themselves race horse men and made the racetrack run--until Jim Crow drove them from their jobs.
Who's Teaching Your Children?
Why the Teacher Crisis Is Worse Than You Think and What Can Be Done About It
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Many of the problems afflicting American education are the result of a critical shortage of qualified teachers in the classrooms. The teacher crisis is surprisingly resistant to current reforms and is getting worse. This important book reveals the causes underlying the crisis and offers concrete, affordable...
The Northern Conquest
Vikings in Britain and Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Most historical accounts examine the Viking Age in one part rather than the whole region of the British Isles and Ireland. Very few pay attention to the continued contact between England and Scandinavia in the post-Norman Conquest period. This book aims to offer an alternative approach by presenting...
The Leaning Tower and Other Stories
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Incomparable in their dramatic clarity and emotional force, the nine gems in this 1944 collection, now available in an exclusive Library of America e-book edition, affirm Katherine Anne Porter’s genius for writing stories, as Eudora Welty observed, “with a power that stamps them to their very last detail on the memory.”
by Katherine Fair Donnelly
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
An extremely well-written, compassionate guide for the millions of people who come face to face with a death in their own families
When a brother or sister dies, surviving siblings often receive little support or recognition of their pain. But their grief is real, and there is a way to recover...
Shouting Won't Help
Why I--and 50 Million Other Americans--Can't Hear You
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
For twenty-two years, Katherine Bouton had a secret that grew harder to keep every day. An editor at The New York Times, at daily editorial meetings she couldn't hear what her colleagues were saying. She had gone profoundly deaf in her left ear; her right was getting worse. As she once put it, she...
by Katherine Neville
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
A female financial whiz plans the perfect bank heist in this “high-tech, high-stakes” thriller from the #1 international-bestselling author of The Eight (The Washington Post).
Verity Banks is the one of the most powerful women in finance, but she still reports to a man. Her boss not only...
by William Shakespeare, Christina Rossetti, Walt Whitman
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter or a poem speaks a thousand more... Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter or that of a poem. LIST OF POEMS: 1. Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved...
True Stories of CSI
The Real Crimes Behind the Best Episodes of the Popular TV Show
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
The bestselling forensic psychologist examines the true crimes that inspired the television smash hit, C.S.I.
Katherine Ramsland follows the evidence and revisits some of the most absorbing episodes of the phenomenally popular C.S.I. television franchise, and explores the real-life crimes that...
Stolen Honor
Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2008
The covered Muslim woman is a common spectacle in Western media—a victim of male brutality, the oppressed and suffering wife or daughter. And the resulting negative stereotypes of Muslim men, stereotypes reinforced by the post-9/11 climate in which he is seen as a potential terrorist, have become...
Business, Not Politics
The Making of the Gay Market
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2005
In a hard-hitting book that refutes conventional wisdom, Katherine Sender explores the connection between the business of marketing to gay consumers and the politics of gay rights and identity. She disputes some marketers'claims that marketing appeals to gay and lesbian consumers are a matter of "business,...