Louise: 3015 books
When China Ruled the Seas
The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405–1433
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
One hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began their voyages of discovery, fleets of giant junks commanded by the eunuch admiral Zheng He and filled with the empire’s finest porcelains, lacquerware, and silk ventured to the world’s “four corners.” Seven epic expeditions brought...
Young Children's Behaviour
Guidance approaches for early childhood educators
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
'The book provides a comprehensive, yet practical discussion of guidance strategies that can be implemented in a variety of situations. These strategies promote a respect for children and their rights, enhance children's self-esteem, and help to foster pro-social skills. This book is a must-read for...
White Women's Rights
The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 1999
This study reinterprets a crucial period (1870s-1920s) in the history of women's rights, focusing attention on a core contradiction at the heart of early feminist theory. At a time when white elites were concerned with imperialist projects and civilizing missions, progressive white women developed...
Book of Infinite Love
The Needs of Our Time: a Little Treatise of Infinite Love
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1992
Shortly before her death, Mother Louise Margaret Claret de la Touche (1868-1915) was commissioned by her bishop to write THE BOOK OF INFINITE LOVE. Aimed at all Catholics, it is an effort to expound upon the nature and bounties of God s love for men, but more particularly, it shows how God s love...
What Soldiers Do
Sex and the American GI in World War II France
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly—but if you’re the US Army in 1944, you also try another tack: you dangle...
Theory for Classics
A Student's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
This student's guide is a clear and concise handbook to the key connections between Classical Studies and critical theory in the twentieth century. Louise Hitchcock looks at the way Classics has been engaged across a number of disciplines.
Beginning with four foundational figures –...
Left and Right
Explores the human beings world
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Left and Right One cozy evening while they in the living room were playing with their tiny toy cars, their mother and father where watching the television. They saw something about a red cross. It was not just only about the red cross because they could both see and hear many people talk and entertain...
Black Water
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
From the author of Apple Tree Yard**, a masterful thriller about espionage, love, and redemption**
John Harper is in hiding in a remote hut on a tropical island. As he lies awake at night, listening to the rain on the roof, he believes his life may be in danger. But he is less afraid of what...
by Louise Doughty
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
A short from Louise Doughty to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love. A young woman turns off her phone and books herself into a deserted seaside hotel. In a state of shock, she starts small conversations with the staff and begins to unfurl, until someone turns up to claim her.
Sentimental Collaborations
Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2000
During the 1992 Democratic Convention and again while delivering Harvard University’s commencement address two years later, Vice President Al Gore shared with his audience a story that showed the effect of sentiment in his life. In telling how an accident involving his son had provided him with...
The Extreme In-between (politics and Literature)
Jean Paulhan's Place in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"Frequently referred to as the eminence grise of French literature in the interwar years, Jean Paulhan (1884-1968) was not just the editor responsible for giving writers as varied as Francis Ponge and Jean-Paul Sartre their first start in the pages of the renowned Nouvelle Revue Francaise. He...
by Louise Farmer Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
The House After It was Leveled, the first story of this novel in stories, opens in Chisom, Oklahoma, in 1960 with Alice Brady, wife, mother, and good Methodist, collapsed under the weight of a severe depression. A lifetime of silence and suppressed anger has finally overcome this strong woman. This story...
A Philosophical Investigation of Rape
The Making and Unmaking of the Feminine Self
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
This book offers a critical feminist perspective on the widely debated topic of transitional justice and forgiveness. Louise Du Toit examines the phenomenon of rape with a feminist philosophical discourse concerning women’s or ‘feminine’ subjectivity and selfhood. She demonstrates how the hierarchical...
by Louise Mack
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
A commemorative edition of TEENS by Louise Mack, which was the first children's book published by Angus & Robertson in 1897.
Ages 9+
TEENS: A STORY OF AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLGIRLS was the first fiction title to be published by Angus and Robertson and was released in 1897. Illustrated with...