Nancy: 4645 books
The Muse of the Revolution
The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Praised by her mentor John Adams, Mercy Otis Warren was America's first woman playwright and female historian of the American Revolution. In this unprecedented biography, Nancy Rubin Stuart reveals how Warren's provocative writing made her an exception among the largely voiceless women of the eighteenth century.
The Cast of Character
Style in Greek Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Well before Aristotle's Rhetoric elucidated the elements of verbal style that give writing its persuasive power, Greek poets and prose authors understood the importance of style in creating compelling characters to engage an audience. And because their works were composed in predominantly oral settings,...
Debating the American Conservative Movement
1945 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Debating the American Conservative Movement chronicles one of the most dramatic stories of modern American political history. The authors describe how a small band of conservatives in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War launched a revolution that shifted American politics to the right,...
A Red State of Mind
How a Catfish Queen Reject Became a Liberty Belle
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
A columnist for the "Philadelphia Daily News," Nancy French blends her hilarious fish-out-of-water tale with humorous observations about the South's obsession with everything from church attendance to the blue-state notion that red staters think as slowly as they speak.
Embodying the Sacred
Women Mystics in Seventeenth-Century Lima
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
In seventeenth-century Lima, pious Catholic women gained profound theological understanding and enacted expressions of spiritual devotion by engaging with a wide range of sacred texts and objects, as well as with one another, their families, and ecclesiastical authorities. In Embodying the Sacred,...
Delirium
The Politics of Sex in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
“An insightful look at the history of sexual mores and politics and how we got to such a contentious place.” —Booklist
Perhaps if the Pill had never been invented, American politics would be very different today, Nancy L. Cohen writes, as she takes us on a gripping journey through the confounding...
Propaganda, Inc.
Selling America's Culture to the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
An eye-opening overview of American cultural policy fully updated through the end of the Bush presidency, Propaganda, Inc. reveals how the United States Information Agency became a bureaucracy deeply distrustful of dissent, and one-way in its promotion of American corporate interests overseas.
Nancy...
by Nancy Jo Sales
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Entre 2008 e 2009, as residências de Lindsay Lohan, Orlando Bloom, Paris Hilton e diversas outras celebridades foram invadidas e saqueadas. Os ladrões, um grupo de jovens de famílias abastadas, levaram o equivalente a 3 milhões de dólares em joias, dinheiro e artigos de grife, como relógios...
Objection!
How High-Priced Defense Attorneys, Celebrity Defendants, and a 24/7 Media Have Hijacked Our Criminal Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2005
Court TV host Nancy Grace presents her case in this behind-the-scenes look at the high-profile cases everyone is talking about ancy Grace is a name millions of Americans recognize from her regular appearances on Court TV and Larry King Live. Legions of loyal fans tune in for her opinions on today's...
Breakthrough
The Making of America's First Woman President
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
A “well-reasoned and researched” look at why Americans have never elected a woman president, what will make it possible, and why it matters (Booklist).
From Hollywood to the halls of Congress, a lively conversation about women’s leadership, equal pay, and family-work balance is underway....
The China Threat
Memories, Myths, and Realities in the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker confronts the coldest period of the cold war—the moment in which personality, American political culture, public opinion, and high politics came together to define the Eisenhower Administration's policy toward China. A sophisticated, multidimensional account based on prodigious,...
Settling the South Carolina Backcountry
The Pressly Family and Life Along Hard Labor Creek, 1767-1850
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
In tracing three generations of a family in the South Carolina backcountry, Nancy Pressly explores how the communities along Hard Labor Creek, located at the crossroads of several major wagon routes, evolved from a newly settled frontier in the 1760s to a remarkable center of wealth and power in the...
Alabama Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women celebrates women’s histories in the Yellowhammer State by highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as politics, arts, and civic organizations, this...
Storm Warning
The Story of a Killer Tornado
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
A nail-biting, captivating look at tornados, from personal stories of those impacted by the natural disasters to the history of the struggle to understand this bewildering force of Mother Nature.
May 3, 1999, is a day that Oklahomans will never forget. By the time the sun set over a ravaged...