Miller: 6357 books
Singing Schumann
An Interpretive Guide for Performers
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005
Singing Schumann is likely to become the standard introduction to some of the best-loved songs in the singer's repertoire. Written by a distinguished performer and internationally known teacher, the book offers astute, practical advice for bringing Robert Schumann's Lieder to life in performance....
Silent Stories
Sharing Hope, Love, and Loss after Miscarriage
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriage. If so many women experience this painful loss, why are so many of them silent about the issue? Many walk through the aftermath feeling betrayed and alone. Through sharing her story, Rachael Miller hopes to invite other women to open up about their wounds from pregnancy loss and begin their journey to healing.
by Joaquin Miller
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Ship in the Desert. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.
This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Joaquin...
Kodiak Kreol
Communities of Empire in Early Russian America
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
From the 1780s to the 1820s, Kodiak Island, the first capital of Imperial Russia's only overseas colony, was inhabited by indigenous Alutiiq people and colonized by Russians. Together, they established an ethnically mixed "kreol" community. Against the backdrop of the fur trade, the missionary work...
The Conflagration of Community
Fiction before and after Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
“After Auschwitz to write even a single poem is barbaric.” The Conflagration of Community challenges Theodor Adorno’s famous statement about aesthetic production after the Holocaust, arguing for the possibility of literature to bear witness to extreme collective and personal experiences. J....
You Don't Say!
Over 1,000 Hilarious Sports Quotes and Quips
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
If John Bartlett (Familiar Quotations) was reborn as a sportscaster his name would be Hartley Miller. You Don't Say! is a highly readable collection of more than 1,000 sports quotes that's destined to become the definitive source of the funniest and most quotable things ever said by, for, or about...
Baroness of Hobcaw
The Life of Belle W. Baruch
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Belle W. Baruch (1899–1964) could outride, outshoot, outhunt, and outsail most of the young men of her elite social circle—abilities that distanced her from other debutantes of 1917. Unapologetic for her athleticism and interests in traditionally masculine pursuits, Baruch towered above male and...
by J. Hillis Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 1991
Tropes, Parables, Performatives collects J. Hillis Miller’s essays on seven major twentieth-century authors: Lawrence, Kafka, Stevens, Williams, Woolf, Hardy, and Conrad. For all their evident differences, these essays from early to late explore a single intuition about literature, which may be...
The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy
Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of nearly everyone, it suddenly collapsed. Why did this happen? And what role did Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's economic reforms play in the country's dissolution? In this groundbreaking study,...
Reading in the Wild
The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
In Reading in the Wild, reading expert Donalyn Miller continues the conversation that began in her bestselling book, The Book Whisperer. While The Book Whisperer revealed the secrets of getting students to love reading, Reading in the Wild, written with reading teacher Susan Kelley, describes how...
Belongings
The Fight for Land and Food
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Land used to produce food is at the core of disputes, violent conflicts and despair across the world. As farmers increasingly can no longer afford to grow food and as one in ten Canadians faces food insecurity each year, it is clear that our culture-specific land systems lie at the heart of the current...
by Kelly Miller
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
Kelly Miller's history of the world war for human rights is an intensely human and brilliant account of the First World Warshe describes why America entered the conflict, and what the allies fought for.It is a thrilling account of the important part taken by the black contingent of American soldiers...
Armed State Building
Confronting State Failure, 1898–2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Since 1898, the United States and the United Nations have deployed military force more than three dozen times in attempts to rebuild failed states. Currently there are more state-building campaigns in progress than at any time in the past century—including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, the Democratic...
by Emmett E. Miller, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1996
Emmett Miller, M.D., practicing as a traditional family doctor for 20 years, discovered that when a part of your body is sick, the whole body system is out of balance. He saw that how his patients thought about and saw life, affected and seemed to create whatever their current state of health was....