Noy: 16 books
New Kids on the Block
Five Brothers and a Million Sisters
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
An authorized biography of supergroup New Kids on the Block—tracking their rise, fall, and recent return as one of the biggest acts of all time (with a special focus on the fans who have supported them every step of the way).
Jordan Knight, Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg,...
Bird
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This is a novel about the persistence of longing in which the twin lives of the title character blur and overlap. Bird puts her child on the bus for school and passes the day with her baby. Interwoven into the passage of the day are phone calls from a promiscuous, unmarried friend, and Bird’s recollection...
Propos d'un moine orthodoxe
Entretiens avec Jean-Claude Noyé
Language: French
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Qu'est-ce que l'orthodoxie ? Qu'est-ce qu'être moine dans la tradition orientale ? Jean-Claude Noyé interroge le père Placide Deseille, fondateur des monastères de Solan (Gard) et de Saint-Laurent-en-Royans (Drôme). Il aborde avec lui les grandes thématiques liées à cet univers spirituel....
So Much to Say
Dave Matthews Band--20 Years on the Road
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND has one of the largest and most loyal followings of any band today—after twenty years of constant touring and several acclaimed, multiplatinum albums, the members enjoy a connection with their fans that few other acts can match. Ask DMB devotees and they’ll happily tell you...
I Was Trying to Describe What it Feels Like
New and Selected Stories
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
“By turns earthy, reverent, poetic, and wry, these stories . . . make you feel what it feels like . . . to be fully alive in the world.” —Oprah.com
In the twenty years since her first short story collection, The Spectacle of the Body, Noy Holland has become a singular presence in American...
A Natural Sense of Wonder
Connecting Kids with Nature through the Seasons
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
The technology boom of recent years has given kids numerous reasons to stay inside and play, while parents' increasing safety concerns make it tempting to keep children close to home. But what is being lost as fewer kids spend their free time outdoors? Deprived of meaningful contact with nature, children...
La Tanzanie
Entre tradition et modernité
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1996
L’Afrique constitue certainement l’armoire aux clichés les plus tenaces. De l’humanitaire à l’ethnologie, l’exotisme l’emporte toujours. La Tanzanie n’échappe pas à cette règle. Ayant choisi la voie socialiste dans les années 70, le pays est passé au multipartisme politique depuis...
Gold Rush Stories
49 Tales of Seekers, Scoundrels, Loss, and Luck
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
This volume explores the deeply human stories of the California Gold Rush generation, drawing out all the brutality, tragedy, humor, and prosperity as lived by those who experienced it. In less than ten years, more than 300,000 people made the journey to California, some from as far away as Chile...
by Fernando Noy
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Caída la dictadura, en los #80 se apropió de Buenos Aires un espíritu de renovación radical de las artes que mezcló e involucró desde actores, performers, periodistas, rockers y artistas plásticos en escenarios míticos como Cemento y Ave Porco.
Este libro es una visita a una época...
Sierra Stories
Tales of Dreamers, Schemers, Bigots, and Rogues
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The Sierra Nevada, with its 14,000-foot granite mountains, crystalline lakes, conifer forests, and hidden valleys, has long been the domain of dreams, attracting the heroic and the delusional, the best of humanity and the worst. Stories abound, and characters emerge so outlandish and outrageous that...
by Noy Holland
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 1994
In this debut work of fiction, a young author from Alabama is able to capture with startling clarity the lives of the characters in her stories. Her nine stories deal honestly with everyday life situations, especially those that are agonizing. - Library Journal
by Chaim Noy
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
An intertextual examination of the storytelling of Israeli backpackers that analyzes their unique patterns of communication to create a thorough picture of this “narrative community.”
Banking on Health
The World Bank and Health Sector Reform in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book addresses the puzzle of why the World Bank was unable to effect sweeping neoliberal health reforms in Latin America from the 1980s onward. Through the use of quantitative regional data together with interview and archival data collected during fieldwork in Argentina, Costa Rica, Peru, and...
Thank You for Dying for Our Country
Commemorative Texts and Performances in Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Combining ethnographic, semiotic, and performative approaches, this book examines texts and accompanying acts of writing of national commemoration. The commemorative visitor book is viewed as a mobilized stage, a communication medium, where visitors' public performances are presented, and where acts...
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