Miller: 6357 books
by J. Hillis Miller
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
This book—the culmination of forty years of friendship between J. Hillis Miller and Jacques Derrida, during which Miller also closely followed all Derrida’s writings and seminars—is “for Derrida” in two senses. It is “for him,” dedicated to his memory. The chapters also speak, in acts...
by Lorraine Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
Lorraine Miller weaves a multi-colored tapestry of her quest to true self, an inward and outward journey both heartbreaking and inspiring with startling revelations and quantum-consciousness experiences.Part One recounts childhood tragedies and unexplained past-life memories while growing up...
Creating Miracles
Understanding the Experience of Divine Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Miracles Can Happen to You! We normally use the term “miraculous” to describe dramatic, larger-than-life events, but not all miracles are out of this world. Ordinary miracles — surprising positive occurrences, such as surviving a horrible automobile accident or finding our soul mate — can...
The Smart Woman's Guide to Midlife and Beyond
A No Nonsense Approach to Staying Healthy After 50
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Smart women understand that taking care of their health is essential to maintaining an active lifestyle. This comprehensive guide shows you how to work with your body instead of against it to stay healthy and happy through menopause and beyond. Written by two practicing doctors who have been close...
The Perils of Federalism
Race, Poverty, and the Politics of Crime Control
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
Much of the existing research on race and crime focuses on the manipulation of crime by political elites or the racially biased nature of crime policy. In contrast, Lisa L. Miller here specifically focuses on political and socio-legal institutions and actors that drive these developments and their...
by Norman Miller
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
In World War II, most aviation pilots were armed with many weapons. But in the US Air Force reconnaissance squadron, these men flew ongoing missions over enemy lines, photographing enemy targets before and after they were bombed – facing onslaughts of enemy fighters and armed with -- a camera!
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by Ethel Lee-Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
We are defined by our relationships. From seven-second meetings with strangers to lifelong bonds among family members, relationships nurture us, challenge us, and teach us not to take ourselves so seriously. Seedlings: Stories of Relationships pays tribute to those connections, honoring the friends,...
by Jonathan Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
On Your Own follows the kind of people you know, but reveals the thoughts and feelings they might never tell you. In this collection of short stories and vignettes, simple, precise language is used to convey complex emotions.
These characters – young brothers, struggling husbands and wives,...
Because It's Israel
An Aliyah Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
When young law student Arthur Miller books a trip to Israel for himself and his new wife Ronnie in the aftermath of the Six Day War, he unknowingly begins an odyssey that will last almost four decades. After thirty-five years of annual visits, he finally fulfills his dream of making aliyah*.* Join...
Love and Compassion
Exploring Their Role in Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Academics often speak about love for their subject, mathematicians discuss their love for figures and numbers, and elementary school teachers speak about their love of children. As multidimensional as love is, it is often a taboo subject relative to teachers and students. In Love and Compassion, John...
Lincoln and His World
The Early Years: Birth to Illinois Legislature
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Just as an archeologist can reassemble pot shards and draw inferences about the civilization that produced it, I've examined a mass of verbal chunks left by Lincoln and people around him. I've sorted jumbled piles of fragments, restored them, and pieced them together in a way that reveals the speakers'...
by Charles Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2010
"We live in an age of relativism. Miller, a Stanford grad, class of 47, in English, asserts that he is an absolutist. That is, he has convictions. One of his convictions is that literature traces, depicts, illuminates and expounds human nature and circumstances with a profound wisdom unique to...
Fanatical Schemes
Proslavery Rhetoric and the Tragedy of Consensus
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
What was the relationship between rhetoric and slavery, and how did rhetoric fail as an alternative to violence, becoming instead its precursor?
Fanatical Schemes is a study of proslavery rhetoric in the 1830s. A common understanding of the antebellum slavery debate is that the increased...
The Audacious Ascetic
What the Bin Laden Tapes Reveal About Al-Qa'ida
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2015
In late 2002, over 1500 audiotapes were discovered in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in a house once occupied by Osama bin Laden. The Audacious Ascetic is the first book to explore this extraordinary archive. It details how Islamic cultural, legal, theological and linguistic vocabularies shaped militants'...