Ross: 3639 books
Reinventing Diversity
Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose, and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Diversity in business and other organizations has been a goal for more than a quarter of a century, yet companies struggle to create an inclusive work place. In Reinventing Diversity, one of America's leading diversity experts explains why most diversity programs fail and how we can make them work....
Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners
Compliments, Charades & Horrible Blunders
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners is a light-hearted, insightful handbook written as if intended for her original Regency Era readers, and illustrated throughout with beautiful watercolors. When Anna, Jane Austen's young niece, sent her a novel for ""literary comment," Jane loved everything about...
by Jenn Ashworth, Tom Bromley, Sarah Butler
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2015
How do you write a novel?
Practising novelists and teachers of creative writing reveal their working methods and offer practical advice. Subjects covered range from magic realism to characterisation, surrealism to historical fiction, via perspective, plot twists and avoiding being boring, among...
by Mary Laurel Ross
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Veiled Honor gives us a glimpse into an American’s encounter with the radically changing Arab world, particularly Saudi Arabia, before and after 9/11. From the shock of seeing how women (and non-Muslims) are treated to the fears and suspicions she and we all have come to feel regarding that part...
by Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaid
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
"Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?"
In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy, along with its critical weaknesses, and reconceive the practice to accommodate new political...
by Ross Abotteen
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
From his birth on the West Bank of the Jordan River in Palestine in 1950 to present-day Texas, A Space Mind narrates the story of Ross Abotteen. This memoir explores the transitions of his life and his views, sharing his experiences from his birthplace in the Holy Land through Saudi Arabia and onto...
Gendered Media
Women, Men, and Identity Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Gendered Media addresses the broad topic of gender and media, where 'gender' is not simply a shorthand for 'woman' but also embraces masculinitiy/ies, queer, lesbian and gay identities. Karen Ross provides the necessary historical context against which to read recent sex- and gender-based media phenomena...
Philip Roth's Rude Truth
The Art of Immaturity
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2008
Has anyone ever worked harder and longer at being immature than Philip Roth? The novelist himself pointed out the paradox, saying that after establishing a reputation for maturity with two earnest novels, he "worked hard and long and diligently" to be frivolous--an effort that resulted in...
by Nancy Ross
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
WOULD YOU LIKE TO LEARN THE EASY WAY TO TRAIN YOUR DOG?
Whether you want to potty train or learn basic dog training commands this book will help.
Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn...
Reasons to Train Your Puppy
Being the Alpha
Obedience Training
Potty...
Figuring the Feminine
The Rhetoric of Female Embodiment in Medieval Hispanic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
Figuring the Feminine examines the female body as a means of articulating questions of literary authority and practice within the cultural spheres of the Iberian Peninsula (both Romance and Semitic) as well as in the larger Latinate literary culture. It demonstrates the centrality in medieval literary...
by Ross B. Emmett
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2009
Over the last twenty years, Ross B. Emmett has explored the work of Frank H. Knight, the philosopher of the Chicago School of economics. Knight occupies a paradoxical place in the history of Chicago economics: vital to the tradition’s teaching of price theory and the twentieth-century re-articulation...
Relive
Media Art Histories
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Leading historians of the media arts define a new materialist media art history, discussing temporality, geography, ephemerality, and the future.
In Relive, leading historians of the media arts grapple with this dilemma: how can we speak of “new media” and at the same time write the histories...
Jacques Rancière
History, Politics, Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
The French philosopher Jacques Rancière has influenced disciplines from history and philosophy to political theory, literature, art history, and film studies. His research into nineteenth-century workers’ archives, reflections on political equality, critique of the traditional division between...
The Druid's Daughter
Our Ancient Ancestors, #2
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
It is 320 AD and Hadrian's Wall separates Roman Britannia Inferior (now the northern counties of England) from the free lands to the north where the village of Darbarri is located. There, Jelena is asked by her father Druid Floyd to travel south of the wall into Roman territory to help the people...