Kevin: 5344 books
by Kevin Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
**100% of the profits from this book are donated to support the future of NaNoWriMo and other writing programs.**
Every November, hundreds of thousands take up the challenge of National Novel Writing Month and attempt to write a book in just thirty days. Most will give up along the way,...
George Washington
A Life in Books
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
When it comes to the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton are generally considered the great minds of early America. George Washington, instead, is toasted with accolades regarding his solid common sense and strength in battle. Indeed, John Adams once snobbishly...
The Brain Defense
Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Called “the best kind of nonfiction” by Michael Connelly, this riveting new book combines true crime, brain science, and courtroom drama.
In 1991, the police were called to East 72nd St. in Manhattan, where a woman's body had fallen from a twelfth-story window. The woman’s husband, Herbert...
by Kevin O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Truth
Megan Keeler died years ago--or so everyone believes. In fact, she disappeared to escape from her sadistic husband, Glenn. When dismembered body parts were found near their home, Glenn was convicted of his wife's murder. And Megan, terrified for her unborn child's safety, never came forward...
Reformasi
The Struggle for power in post-Soeharto Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
In July 1996, President Soeharto crossed a point of no return. Small but vocal student groups were staging daily demonstrations to demand 'reformasi' - Indonesia's byword for democratic reform. Disturbed by the unprecedented show of dissent, Soeharto cracked down. But by demonstrating that he would...
The Philosopher's Song
The Poets' Influence on Plato
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
The Philosopher's Song is a full-length treatment of Plato and the dynamic course of his philosophical thought, regarded from a distinctly poetic point of view. Kevin Crotty demonstrates how Plato's invention of philosophy needs to be situated within the context of a society where poets were cultural...
Marx at the Margins
On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
In Marx at the Margins, Kevin Anderson uncovers a variety of extensive but neglected texts by Marx that cast what we thought we knew about his work in a startlingly different light. Analyzing a variety of Marx’s writings, including journalistic work written for the New York Tribune, Anderson presents...
Tri-Faith America
How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
President Franklin D. Roosevelt put it bluntly, if privately, in 1942-the United States was "a Protestant country," he said, "and the Catholics and Jews are here under sufferance." In Tri-Faith America, Kevin Schultzexplains how the United States left behind this idea that it was...
The Water in Between
A Journey at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002
A broken heart leads Kevin Patterson to the dock of a sailboat brokerage on Vancouver Island, where he stands contemplating the romance of the sea and his heartfelt desire to get away. By the end of the day, he finds himself the owner of a thirty-seven-foot ketch called Sea Mouse. Although he's never...
by Kevin Dwyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Parking the Mind is a precise essay on meditation, dream and the correlation between the two. It is based around the internal disciplines of Chi Kung, Dream Yoga, clairvoyance and a specific meditation called Knowledge. Often at clairvoyance circles people would say "I'd like to see colour"...
by Kevin Osbourne
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Freshman Thomas Fernal, picks up a mysterious hitchhiker on the night of his college mixer. Immediately he feels as he'd known the stranger before.As the night continues and the mystery unfolds Thomas finds himself in a race to uncover who the stranger before they are both destroyed.Battling...
by Ginger Carlisle, Kevin Carlisle
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
In Search of a Family: A Story of an International Adoption takes the reader inside a personal journey through the unknowns of an international adoption. This true story takes place in the ex-Soviet bloc country of Ukraine. As they travel through this young, independent republic, Kevin and Ginger...
Natural Aristocracy
History, Ideology, and the Production of William Faulkner
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Kevin Railey uses a materialist critical approach--which envisions literature as a discourse necessarily interactive with other forces in the world--to identify and historicize Faulkner’s authorial identity. Working from the assumption that Faulkner was deeply affected by the sociohistorical forces...
by Kevin C Dunn, Iver B Neumann
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Kevin C. Dunn and Iver B. Neumann offer a concise, accessible introduction to discourse analysis in the social sciences. A vital resource for students and scholars alike, Undertaking Discourse Analysis for Social Research combines a theoretical and conceptual review with a “how-to” guide for using...