Pearson: 793 books
by Roger Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2008
Voltaire Almighty provides a lively look at the life and thought of one of the major forces behind European Enlightenment. A rebel from start to finish (1694-1778), Voltaire was an ailing and unwanted bastard child who refused to die; and when he did consent to expire some eighty-four years later,...
Red Sky in the Morning
The Battle of the Barants Sea 1942
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2007
The Arctic convoys that sailed through the cold malevolent waters of the Barents Sea ran the gauntlet of German air and sea attacks as they struggled to transport vital supplies to Britains Russian allies. Convoy JW51B sailed in December 1942 with a small close escort of five destroyers, plus a reserve...
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2006
This astonishingly rich volume collects the work of an international group of scholars, including some of the best known in academia. Experts in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, political theory, aesthetics, history, critical theory, and hermeneutics bring to light the best philosophical...
by Max Pearson Cushing
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Diderot, writing to the Princess Dashkoff in 1771, thus analysed the spirit of his century: Chaque siècle a son esprit qui le caractérise. L'esprit du nôtre semble être celui de la liberté. La première attaque contre la superstition a été violente, sans mesure. Une fois que les hommes ont osé...
Women Constructing Men
Female Novelists and Their Male Characters, 1750 - 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in constructing their male characters_heroes and villains_as in envisioning their female protagonists, but this fact has received very little scholarly attention to date. In Women Constructing Men, scholars from Australia, Canada, Germany,...
W.M.Thackery and the Mediated Text: Writing for Periodicals in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Writing for Periodicals in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This title was first published in 2000: Thackeray's "minor writings" remain caught in a debate about what constitutes "literature" and whether magazine writing and journalism might be construed as such. This debate was present during the inception of the mass periodical press...
Mental Floss Presents Be Amazing
Glow in the Dark, Control the Weather, Perform Your Own Surgery, Get Out of Jury Duty, Identify a Witch, Colonize a Nation, Impress a Girl, Make a Zombie, Start Your Own Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Be amazing
Who says you can't? It's time to get off the couch and take your life to the next level.
Step one: stand on the shoulders of geniuses
What good are the world's greatest geniuses if you can't muddy their shoulder pads and use their accomplishments as a step stool?...
BitterSweet
The Memoir of a Chinese Indonesian Family in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Behind the statistics of migration are the life stories of millions of migrants and their descendants. The movement of people out of China is one of the largest movements of humanity in modern times and large numbers of Chinese emigrated to the colony of the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. While many...
by Lisa E. Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Established in 1872 and designed in collaboration with landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, the Arnold Arboretum is a National Historic Landmark. Founded as a partnership between the City of Boston and Harvard University, the Arnold Arboretum is a unique blend of a respected research institution...
by Carol Lynn Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Women will laugh out loud at the jokes and one-liners in I'm Still a Hot Babe, but Now It Comes in Flashes. Loaded with quips on everything from menopause to mammograms, pregnancy to PMS, this book makes the perfect gift for women everywhere.
Cancer Sucks
Our Family's Journey with Childhood Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Sometimes a chance event can change the course of our lives forever. If you believe in destiny it may not just be a chance event, in fact it may be something that has brought us to a path in life that was meant to be. In our journey with childhood cancer you will see just that and maybe if you are going...
by Rachel Pearson, MD
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
A brutally frank memoir about doctors and patients in a health care system that puts the poor at risk.
No Apparent Distress begins with a mistake made by a white medical student that may have hastened the death of a working-class black man who sought care in a student-run clinic. Haunted by...
The Triumph of Evolution
and the Failure of Creationism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
Eldredge presents the most up-to-date examination of the creation-evolution confrontation available.
by Gloria Pearson-Vasey
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Franciscan Footprints is a collection of spiritual reflections and inspirational stories in two books. BOOK I consists of word images and photography derived from a pilgrimage to Assisi and the surrounding caves, cloisters and countryside once frequented by Francis of Assisi. An Appendix contains...