Lawrence Douglas: 11 books
The Right Wrong Man
John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk’s legal odyssey began in 1975, when American investigators received evidence...
The Vices
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Oliver Vice, forty-one, prominent philosopher, scholar, and art collector, is missing and presumed dead, over the side of Queen Mary 2.Troubled by his friend’s possible suicide, the unnamed narrator of Lawrence Douglas’ new novel launches an all-consuming investigation into Vice’s life history....
Sense and Nonsensibility
Lampoons of Learning and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Two widely published humor columnists and "bad boys" of academia take their wit and wisdom to dazzling new lows in this irreverent send-up of highbrow literary culture.
At last, the thinking person's take on the life of the mind in today's increasingly mindless age. Sense and Nonsensibility...
by Charlaine Lawrence Watt-Evans Harris, Elaine Viets, Carole Nelson Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
The Malice Domestic cozy anthology series returns with a new take on mysteries in the Agatha Christie tradition -- 30 original tales with historical settings! Included are:
The Blackness Before Me, by Mindy Quigley
Honest John Finds a Way, by Michael Dell
Spirited Death, by Carole Nelson Douglas
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by Douglas Glover, Lawrence Mathews
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
A 16th-century belle turned Robinson Crusoe, a female Don Quixote with an Inuit Sancho Panza this is the heroine of the novel that won the 2003 Governor Generals Award. Elle is a lusty, subversive riff on the discovery of the New World, the moment of first contact. Based on what might be a true...
The Archaeology of Engagement
Conflict and Revolution in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
When a historic battlefield site is discovered and studied, the focus is often on the “hardware”: remnants of weaponry, ammunition, supplies, and equipment that archaeologists carefully unearth, analyze, conserve, and frequently place on display in museums.
But what about the “software”?...
Two Hearts Desire
Gay Couples on their Love
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
A declaration of love - gay couples talk about their significant other. Current and past liaisons, passion and daily routine, longtime relationships and the tingle of first dates - the day-to-day reality of love is manifold. This anthology also tells about a time of loss, when many men lost their...
Understanding Inequality
The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals...
The Search for Mabila
The Decisive Battle between Hernando de Soto and Chief Tascalusa
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
One of the most profound events in sixteenth-century North America was a ferocious battle between the Spanish army of Hernando de Soto and a larger force of Indian warriors under the leadership of a feared chieftain named Tascalusa. The site of this battle was a small fortified border town within...
Dietetic and Nutrition
Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
The ideal companion resource to ‘Manual of Dietetic Practice’, this book takes a problem-based learning approach to dietetics and nutrition with cases written and peer reviewed by registered dietitians, drawing on their own experiences and specialist knowledge
Each case study follows the...
I love you
Schwule Paare über ihre Liebe
Language: German
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Eine Liebeserklärung an die schwule Liebe - aus der Feder von Paaren! Aktuelle und verflossene Liebschaften, Leidenschaft und Alltag, Langzeitpartnerschaften oder das Prickeln neuer Beziehungen - die tagtägliche Realität der Liebe ist vielfältig. Diese Anthologie erzählt auch von einer Zeit der...