Katherine: 2489 books
The Mourner's Dance
What We Do When People Die
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
When her daughter's fiancé died suddenly, Katherine Ashenburg was surprised to see how her daughter intuitively re-created the traditional rituals of mourning, even those of which she was ignorant. Intrigued, Ashenburg began to explore the rich and endlessly inventive choreographies different cultures...
by Katherine Ludwig Jansen
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Medieval Italian communes are known for their violence, feuds, and vendettas, yet beneath this tumult was a society preoccupied with peace. Peace and Penance in Late Medieval Italy is the first book to examine how civic peacemaking in the age of Dante was forged in the crucible of penitential religious...
Thanksgiving Story Book
Classic Holiday Tales for Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This carefully edited collection of the greatest tales of Thanksgiving is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: An English Dinner of Thanksgiving (George Eliot) An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery)...
Peasants under Siege
The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
In 1949, Romania's fledgling communist regime unleashed a radical and brutal campaign to collectivize agriculture in this largely agrarian country, following the Soviet model. Peasants under Siege provides the first comprehensive look at the far-reaching social engineering process that ensued. Gail...
Political Thought in Canada
An Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
What, if anything, makes Canada's political identity unique? Pollsters can measure values, but they cannot explain how these values arose over time, why they changed, or how people have attempted to make sense of them within a changing social and political environment. By examining the history of...
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
Losing a parent is a traumatic blow, and the grief can seem unbearable. But you are not alone, and you can get through this. In this first book dedicated to the...
by Aaron Elliott, Michael Newton, Katherine Ramsland
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
The debut issue of Serial Killer Quarterly, “21st Century Psychos”, explores seven of the new millennium’s most notorious multiple murder cases and examines how modern technological advancements and political developments are influencing the manner in which serial murder is being articulated....
Experiencing Spirituality
Finding Meaning Through Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
From the authors of contemporary classic The Spirituality of Imperfection comes this long-awaited sequel.
A great master once said, “The shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story.” In***Experiencing Spirituality***, Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham take readers on a...
Prophecy of Magic
A Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy Collection
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2019
Dangerous fates, mysterious curses, twisted fairy tales, and doomed prophecies…
Explore new worlds in Prophecy of Magic: a collection of over twenty urban fantasy and paranormal romance novels curated especially for the genre’s biggest fans!
These stories include all of your favorite...
by Katherine Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Published together for the first time, this anthology of essays on boxing covers the sport in all its forms and at its many levels. Written in bestselling author Katherine Dunn’s characteristic vernacular, these pieces range from portraits of legendary fighters such as Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto...
Driving Customer Equity
How Customer Lifetime Value Is Reshaping Corporate Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2001
In their efforts to become more customer-focused, companies everywhere find themselves entangled in outmoded systems, metrics, and strategies rooted in their product-centered view of the world. Now, to ease this shift to a customer focus, marketing strategy experts Roland T. Rust, Valarie A. Zeithaml,...
by Katherine Paterson
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
In an engrossing historical novel, the Newbery Medal-winning author of Bridge to Terebithia follows a young Cuban teenager as she volunteers for Fidel Castro’s national literacy campaign and travels into the impoverished countryside to teach others how to read.
When thirteen-year-old Lora...
Funded
The Entrepreneur's Guide to Raising Your First Round
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
The venture capital world is often intimidating and hard to navigate, even for the most seasoned entrepreneurs. But it doesn’t have to be. Entrepreneurs who run effective fundraising processes don’t do it by accident. With this book, you’ll learn what it takes to successfully raise a round of...
Concordance
Black Lawmaking in the U.S. Congress from Carter to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
During the height of the civil rights movement, Blacks were among the most liberal Americans. Since the 1970s, however, increasing representation in national, state, and local government has brought about a more centrist outlook among Black political leaders.
Focusing on the Congressional Black...