Kristen: 1057 books
Seeking Imperialism's Embrace
National Identity, Decolonization, and Assimilation in the French Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In 1946, at a time when other French colonies were just beginning to break free of French imperial control, the people of the French Antilles-the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe-voted to join the French nation as departments (Départments d'outre mer, or DOMs). Eschewing independence...
Girl Defined
God's Radical Design for Beauty, Femininity, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
In a Culture of Distortions, Discover God-Defined Womanhood and Beauty
In a culture where airbrushed models and career-driven women define beauty and success, it's no wonder we have a distorted view of femininity. Our impossible standards place an incredible burden of stress on the backs of...
Goth
Undead Subculture
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
Since it first emerged from Britain’s punk-rock scene in the late 1970s, goth subculture has haunted postmodern culture and society, reinventing itself inside and against the mainstream. Goth: Undead Subculture is the first collection of scholarly essays devoted to this enduring yet little examined...
Explore Mixed Media Collage
Innovative Layering Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Collage Inspiration, Ideas and New Techniques!
Inside Explore Mixed Media Collage, authors Kristen Robinson and Ruth Rae transform timeless and classic techniques into fresh, trendy artwork. You will learn not only which techniques to use and how to best combine them, but you'll also follow...
The Left Side of History
World War II and the Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2015
In The Left Side of History Kristen Ghodsee tells the stories of partisans fighting behind the lines in Nazi-allied Bulgaria during World War II: British officer Frank Thompson, brother of the great historian E.P. Thompson, and fourteen-year-old Elena Lagadinova, the youngest female member of the...
The Mominatrix's Guide to Sex
A No-Surrender Advice Book for Naughty Moms
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
From the Introduction:
For a mother regaining her sexual self, it’s less about learning the latest and greatest blow job technique and more about figuring out how to make a sexual relationship work when the batteries from your vibrator are now powering your baby monitor and the last orgasm...
Disney/Pixar's Coco Songbook
Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Ukulele
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
(Ukulele). This 2017 3D animated film from Disney/Pixar prominently features ukulele music. Our songbook features 7 songs in melody, lyrics and chord diagrams for standard G-C-E-A uke tuning. Includes the signature song "Remember Me" by Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez; original...
Styling Masculinity
Gender, Class, and Inequality in the Men's Grooming Industry
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
The twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new style of man: the metrosexual. Overwhelmingly straight, white, and wealthy, these impeccably coiffed urban professionals spend big money on everything from facials to pedicures, all part of a multi-billion-dollar male grooming industry. Yet...
The Hand of Compassion
Portraits of Moral Choice during the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Through moving interviews with five ordinary people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, Kristen Monroe casts new light on a question at the heart of ethics: Why do people risk their lives for strangers and what drives such moral choice? Monroe's analysis points not to traditional explanations--such...
by Kristen Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
'His courage, determination, skill and his undoubtedly outstanding ability as a leader are an inspiration to his wing and worthy of the highest praise.' Extract from Distinguished Service Order citation
Clive Caldwell was officially attributed with more than 27 victories and became Australia's...
Abolitionizing Missouri
German Immigrants and Racial Ideology in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Historians have long known that German immigrants provided much of the support for emancipation in southern Border States. Kristen Layne Anderson's Abolitionizing Missouri, however, is the first analysis of the reasons behind that opposition as well as the first exploration of the impact that the...
by Kristen LePine
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Historic Heroines is pleased to release the fourth installment in its first original fiction series: Daughter of Sparta by Kristen LePine. In Chapter Four, Gorgo, the daughter of King Cleomenes I, and her family attend a dinner party and meet two foreigners who have traveled across the Aegean Sea...
GIS Tutorial 1 for ArcGIS Pro
A Platform Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
GIS Tutorial 1 for ArcGIS® Pro: A Platform Workbook is an introductory text for learning ArcGIS Pro, the premier professional desktop GIS application. In-depth exercises that use ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, and other ArcGIS apps feature the latest GIS technology to show readers how to make maps,...
The Red Riviera
Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2005
This compelling ethnography of women working in Bulgaria’s popular sea and ski resorts challenges the idea that women have consistently fared worse than men in Eastern Europe’s transition from socialism to a market economy. For decades western European tourists have flocked to Bulgaria’s beautiful...