Rosemary: 955 books
The Thurber Letters
The Wit, Wisdom and Surprising Life of James Thurber
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Though he died more than forty years ago, James Thurber remains one of America's greatest and most enduring humorists, and his books -- for both adults and children -- remain as popular as ever. In this comprehensive collection of his letters -- the majority of which have never before been published...
The Treatment Trap
How the Overuse of Medical Care is Wrecking Your Health and What You Can Do to Prevent It
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
With health reform enacted by the Congress and signed by the President, the subject matter of The Treatment Trap is a compelling component in the national debate. Taking advantage of Rosemary Gibson's knowledge gleaned from extended experience in the field of medical care and Janardan Singh's similar...
Mother-Daughter Movies
101 Films to See Together
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Nobody has a perfect mother. And, despite what some pushy moms would have us believe, nobody has a perfect daughter, either. It's sometimes hard to communicate with each other, but what can you do? Should you turn to Dr. Phil, psychotropic drugs, a hit man? No! Here's the solution: It's so simple,...
by Rosemary Lloyd
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
In nineteenth-century Paris, Charles Baudelaire provoked the excoriations of critics and was legally banned for corrupting public morality, yet he was a key influence on many later thinkers and writers, including Marcel Proust, Walter Benjamin, and T. S. Eliot. Baudelaire’s life was as controversial...
Villa Air-Bel
World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
France, 1940. The once glittering boulevards of Paris teem with spies, collaborators, and the Gestapo now that France has fallen to Hitler's Wermacht. For André Breton, Max Ernst, Victor Serge, Marc Chagall, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, Remedios Varo, Benjamin Péret, and scores of other cultural...
by Rosemary Richards
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2016
Born to ChangeHow do you tell a life story? Hmmmm. Well, suppose you are me and have lived two lives? Now, imagine you are writing for understanding from people, including your only surviving child? How do you tell it? I tell it this way. Painfully. Honestly. Completely. In 1939, I was...
20th-Century Fashion Illustration
The Feminine Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
This fascinating retrospective chronicles the rise and development of modern fashion illustration from the early 1900s to the dawn of the twenty-first century. Its lively narration, illustrated by over seventy original works by fashion's top illustrators, explores the social context of fashion illustration...
All This Hell
U.S. Nurses Imprisoned by the Japanese
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
""Even though women were not supposed to be on the front lines, on the front lines we were. Women were not supposed to be interned either, but it happened to us. People should know what we endured. People should know what we can endure."" -- Lt. Col. Madeline Ullom More than one...
by Kate Rosemary
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
"In this refreshingly honest book, the prospective parent is given not only the realistic view of what could happen, but also real-life examples and a challenge to prepare for when that day eventually happens in one's own home. When I was doing foster care I could have really used Rosemary's...
A Few Good Women
America's Military Women from World War I to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
** **In this riveting narrative history, women veterans from the world wars, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq tell their extraordinary stories.
Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee spent fifteen years combing through archives, journals, histories, and news reports, and...
Maritime Annapolis
A History of Watermen, Sails & Midshipmen
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2009
With fortunes that have ebbed and flowed with the tides, Annapolis has graced the banks of the Severn River and the Chesapeake Bay since the seventeenth century. Generations have worked the docks, sailed its waters and hunted for Chesapeake Gold--oysters--even as the city became home to a proud military...
by Rosemary Ashton
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
While Bloomsbury is now associated with Virginia Woolf and her early-twentieth-century circle of writers and artists, the neighborhood was originally the undisputed intellectual quarter of nineteenth-century London. Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival resources, Rosemary Ashton brings to life the...
That's Just How My Spirit Travels
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
In her inspiring memoir, Rosemary Fillmore Rhea, granddaugher of Unity's cofounders, shares the spiritual journey of her life. With anecdotes and spiritual insights, she recalls her formative years at Unity Village, experiences with key leaders in the early development of Unity, and her world travels....
Thomas And Jane Carlyle
Portrait of a Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
They were the most remarkable couple in London: the great sage Carlyle, with his vehement prophecies, and his witty, sardonic wife Jane. It was a strong, close, mutually admiring yet often mutually antagonistic partnership, fascinating to all who observed it. The Carlyles lived at the heart of English...