Leslie: 2389 books
Born to Eat
Whole, Healthy Foods from Baby's First Bite
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
For thousands of years, humans have thrived without baby food” (which was invented in the late nineteenth century). Think about it: the human race has made it this far largely on whole food. Only in recent decades have we begun overthinking and over-processing our foods, which has led to chronic...
Cleaning Nabokov's House
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
“I knew I could stay in this town when I found the blue enamel pot floating in the lake. The pot led me to the house, the house led me to the book, the book to the lawyer, the lawyer to the whorehouse, the whorehouse to science, and from science I joined the world.”
So begins Leslie Daniels’s...
by Katyjean Leslie
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
The events, thoughts and emotions that take place in a fictional week. Some might be light and amusing, others a bit disturbing and still others may be thought provoking. A collection of thirty-five poems designed to reflect the human condition and how thoughts and circumstances can change in a matter...
by L. Leslie Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
The story of the three little pigs is a well-known European folk tale, with many adaptations and variations, some of them with a different number of little pigs or other animals. It is a typical coming of age story. Like many other fable and fairy tale heroes, the three little pigs leave home to seek...
Spanish Modernism and the Poetics of Youth
From Miguel de Unamuno to 'La Joven Literatura'
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
In Spanish Modernism and the Poetics of Youth: From Miguel de Unamuno to La Joven Literatura, Leslie J. Harkema analyzes the literature of the modernist period in Spain in light of the emergence of youth culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Harkema argues for the prominent...
Constituting Federal Sovereignty
The European Union in Comparative Context
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Starting from the premise that the system of independent, sovereign, territorial states, which was the subject of political science and international relations studies in the twentieth century, has entered a transition toward something new, noted political scientist Leslie F. Goldstein examines the...
by Leslie Dewart
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
"Three hundred and fifty years after the death of René Descartes, the elementary issues raised by the founder of modern philosophy about the nature of the mental functions and activities of human organisms - or the 'mind,' as he thought of such functions - could not be said to have been resolved. Questions...
Synthetic Worlds
Nature, Art and the Chemical Industry
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006
This revealing study considers the remarkable alliance between chemistry and art from the late eighteenth century to the period immediately following the Second World War. Synthetic Worlds offers fascinating new insights into the place of the material object and the significance of the natural, the...
The Quarry Fox
And Other Critters of the Wild Catskills
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A red fox stands poised at the edge of a woodchuck den, his ears perked for danger as two pudgy fox cubs frolic nearby. A mother black bear and her cubs hibernate beneath a felled tree. A barred owl snags a hapless cottontail from a meadow with its precise talons. In The Quarry Fox and Other Tales...
The Longevity Project
Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight-Decade S tudy
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
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This landmark study--which Dr. Andrew Weil calls "a remarkable achievement with surprising conclusions"--upends the advice we have been told about how to live to a healthy old age.
We have been told that the key to longevity...
by Leslie Lockett
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Old English verse and prose depict the human mind as a corporeal entity located in the chest cavity, susceptible to spatial and thermal changes corresponding to the psychological states: it was thought that emotions such as rage, grief, and yearning could cause the contents of the chest to grow warm,...
by Leslie Balch
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
Join Twittery Tweets, a determined little Blue Bird, as he learns to fly for the very first time! This is a children's story that is written entirely in rhyme!
Democratization by Institutions
Argentina's Transition Years in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
In this pioneering study of democratization in Argentina, Leslie Anderson challenges Robert Putnam’s thesis that democracy requires high levels of social capital. She demonstrates in Democratization by Institutions that formal institutions (e.g., the executive, the legislature, the courts) can...
Kegan Paul – A Victorian Imprint
Publishers, Books and Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
The Kegan Paul imprint was created and its reputation for a distinguished list of titles established during a forty-year period from 1871 to 1911. Several publishers, and their firms, were involved in the development of the imprint during this period, beginning with Henry S. King and Company, and...