Katherine: 2489 books
The Politics of Reproduction
Race, Medicine, and Fertility in the Age of Abolition
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Many British politicians, planters, and doctors attempted to exploit the fertility of Afro-Caribbean women's bodies in order to ensure the economic success of the British Empire during the age of abolition. Abolitionist reformers hoped that a homegrown labor force would end the need for the Atlantic...
by Marvin J. Wolf, Katherine Mader
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Los Angeles. The entertainment capital of the world. The city that movie director John Waters called “rich, hilarious, of questionable taste and throbbing with fake glamour.” In Fallen Angels, award-winning journalist Marvin Wolf and noted criminal justice attorney Katherine Mader take you beyond...
Out With It
How Stuttering Helped Me Find My Voice
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
A vividly powerful memoir of a young woman who fought for years to change who she was until she finally found her voice and learned to embrace her imperfection.
Imagine waking up one day to find your words trapped inside your head, leaving you unable to say what you feel, think, want, or need....
Excellent Daughters
The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
For more than a decade, Katherine Zoepf has lived in or traveled throughout the Arab world, reporting on the lives of women, whose role in the region has never been more in flux. Only a generation ago, female adolescence as we know it in the West did not exist in the Middle East. There were only children...
by Katherine Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England explores the dynamic between kingship and masculinity in fifteenth century England, with a particular focus on Henry V and Henry VI. The role of gender in the rhetoric and practice of medieval kingship is still largely unexplored by medieval historians....
The Human Predator
A Historical Chronicle of Serial Murder and Forensic Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
When we think of serial killing, we tend to think of it as a perversion of contemporary society. The Human Predator makes an eye-opening case for the existence of serial killers throughout time—the motives and methods, the societies that spawned them, and the historical periods in which they lived...
The Devil's Dozen
12 Notorious Serial Killers Caught by Cutting-Edge Forensics
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
What led authorities to the murder castle of H. H. Holmes? What cast a cloud of suspicion over cannibal Albert Fish? What drove Russia’s Killer X to confess?
How many victims were actually buried on that Vancouver pig farm?
In The Devil’s Dozen, Katherine Ramsland explores the true stories...
Psychometric Portraiture of the Victorian Era
Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Varla Ventura, Coast to Coast favorite, Weird News blogger on Huffington Post, and author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces Weiser Books new Collection of forgotten occult classics. Paranormal Parlor is an eerie assemblage of affordable digital editions, curated with Varlas...
by Katherine Swift
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
One of the most admired gardening writers of her generation, Katherine Swift returns to describe a year in the life of her garden she created over twenty years in the grounds of the Dower House at Morville, Shropshire, meditating on everything from the terrain and its history, to the plants and trees,...
My Exaggerated Life
Pat Conroy
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Pat Conroy’s memoirs and autobiographical novels contain a great deal about his life, but there is much he hasn’t revealed to readers—until now. My Exaggerated Life is the product of a special collaboration between this great American author and oral biographer Katherine Clark, who recorded...
A God in the House
Poets Talk About Faith
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Editors Ilya Kaminsky and Katherine Towler have gathered conversations with nineteen of America’s leading poets, reflecting upon their diverse experiences with spirituality and the craft of writing. Bringing together poets who are Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, Pagan, Native American, Wiccan,...
Virginia Woolf
Becoming a Writer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
By the time she was twenty-four, Virginia Woolf had suffered a series of devastating losses that later she would describe as sledge-hammer blows,” beginning with the death of her mother when she was thirteen years old and followed by those of her half-sister, father, and brother. Yet vulnerable as...
Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
This classic 1939 collection of three short novels, now available in an exclusive Library of America e-book edition, elevated Katherine Anne Porter, in the words of one contemporary critic, “into the illustrious company headed by Hawthorne, Flaubert, and Henry James.”
In “Noon Wine?”...
Of Khans and Kremlins
Tatarstan and the Future of Ethno-Federalism in Russia
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Katherine E. Graney examines one of the most important, puzzling, and ignored developments of the post-Soviet period: the persistence of the claim to possess state sovereignty by the ethnic republic of Tatarstan, one of the constituent members of the Russian Federation. In the first book by a Western...