Melissa: 3186 books
Objects as Actors
Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Objects as Actors charts a new approach to Greek tragedy based on an obvious, yet often overlooked, fact: Greek tragedy was meant to be performed. As plays, the works were incomplete without physical items—theatrical props. In this book, Melissa Mueller ingeniously demonstrates the importance of...
The Night Country
A Hazel Wood Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2020
The highly anticipated sequel to Melissa Albert’s beloved, New York Times bestselling debut The Hazel Wood!
In The Night Country, Alice Proserpine dives back into a menacing, mesmerizing world of dark fairy tales and hidden doors. Follow her and Ellery Finch as they learn The Hazel Wood was...
The Everything Ghost Hunting Book
Tips, tools, and techniques for exploring the supernatural world
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2009
Shadowpeople ... cold spots ... orbs. Ghosthunter Melissa Martin Ellis takes readers on an exciting high-tech journey into the supernatural world of haunted sites, restless souls, and messages from beyond the grave. Readers explore motion sensors, highly sensitive digital cameras, and so-called Ghost...
by Melissa Heart
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Jonathan, a mental case and grocery store employee, engages in a losing battle against “the Gun” his other self and alter ego in order to prevent himself, an ex-military sniper from spilling the beans and wrecking havoc across the civil peace of America’s homes, streets and neighborhoods alike.
Cruising the Library
Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Cruising the Library offers a highly innovative analysis of the history of sexuality and categories of sexual perversion through a critical examination of the Library of Congress and its cataloging practices. Taking the publication of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemologies of the Closet as emblematic...
Dacha Idylls
Living Organically in Russia's Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Dacha Idylls is a lively account of dacha life and how Russians experience this deeply rooted tradition of the summer cottage amid the changing cultural, economic, and political landscape of postsocialist Russia. Simultaneously beloved and reviled, dachas wield a power that makes owning and caring...
Camouflage Isn't Only for Combat
Gender, Sexuality, and Women in the Military
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
Drawing on surveys and interviews with almost 300 female military personnel, Melissa Herbert explores how women's everyday actions, such as choice of uniform, hobby, or social activity, involve the creation and re-creation of what it means to be a woman, and particularly a woman soldier. Do women...
Measuring Manhood
Race and the Science of Masculinity, 1830–1934
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
From the “gay gene” to the “female brain” and African American students’ insufficient “hereditary background” for higher education, arguments about a biological basis for human difference have reemerged in the twenty-first century. Measuring Manhood shows where they got their start.Melissa...
Mobilizing the Russian Nation
Patriotism and Citizenship in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The First World War had a devastating impact on the Russian state, yet relatively little is known about the ways in which ordinary Russians experienced and viewed this conflict. Melissa Kirschke Stockdale presents the first comprehensive study of the Great War's influence on Russian notions of national...
Eco-Republic
What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
An ecologically sustainable society cannot be achieved without citizens who possess the virtues and values that will foster it, and who believe that individual actions can indeed make a difference. Eco-Republic draws on ancient Greek thought--and Plato's Republic in particular--to put forward a new...
Plum Dandi Knits
Simple Designs for Luxury Yarns
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Polished knits. Plush yarns. Perfect match.
Sometimes nature's most beautiful details are the perfect inspiration for creating simple yet luxurious knits. In Plum Dandi Knits, Alicia Plummer and Melissa Schaschwary--designers, friends, and leaders of the much-love Plum Dandi group on Ravelry--bring...
by Melissa Forgey
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Aging Do you fear it, or do you embrace it?
True Empathy takes you on a journey through the eyes of a care provider with thirty-two years of experience in caring for the elderly. Melissa fearlessly talks about aging from a professional perspective and as a daughter of aging parents. A feeling...
Get Your House in Order
A 21 Day Journey to Breakthrough Victory
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
“Get Your House in Order” is a 21 day Christian daily devotional for men and women who need breakthrough in their life.
This unique devotional is designed to bring health and harmony to your “whole man” taking you from an ordinary Christian walk to the extraordinary, victorious life...
Women's Experimental Cinema
Critical Frameworks
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
Women’s Experimental Cinema provides lively introductions to the work of fifteen avant-garde women filmmakers, some of whom worked as early as the 1950s and many of whom are still working today. In each essay in this collection, a leading film scholar considers a single filmmaker, supplying biographical...