Todd: 2560 books
Bergen County Voices from the American Revolution
Soldiers and Residents in Their Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Bergen County saw much of the American Revolution from its own doorstep. Close to British-occupied New York City, this corner of New Jersey was divided by the Revolution. Some people were staunch Loyalists or Patriots, in disagreement with their families and neighbors; others wavered or remained neutral,...
Out of Time
Desire in Atemporal Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
In Out of Time, Todd McGowan takes as his starting point the emergence of a temporal aesthetic in cinema that arose in response to the digital era. Linking developments in cinema to current debates within philosophy, McGowan claims that films that change the viewer’s relation to time constitute a new...
Tiny Terror:Why Truman Capote (Almost) Wrote Answered Prayers
Why Truman Capote (Almost) Wrote Answered Prayers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Truman Capote was one of the most gifted and flamboyant writers of his generation, renowned for such books as Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and his masterpiece, the nonfiction novel In Cold Blood. What has received comparatively little attention, however, is Capote's last, unfinished...
The National Joker
Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Satire
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Abraham Lincoln’s sense of humor proved legendary during his own time and remains a celebrated facet of his personality to this day. Indeed, his love of jokes—hearing them, telling them, drawing morals from them—prompted critics to dub Lincoln “the National Joker.” The political cartoons...
Mobile Modernity
Germans, Jews, Trains
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
Though the history of the German railway system is often associated with the transportation of Jews to labor and death camps, Todd Presner looks instead to the completion of the first German railway lines and their role in remapping the cultural geography and intellectual history of Germany's Jews.
Treating...
by Janet Todd
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
In this book, Janet Todd, one of the leading authorities on seventeenth- and eighteenth century women writers, discusses gender issues from the Restoration to Romanticism investigating women authors and the fascination with culturally privileged art and with heroic death.
by Todd Pettigrew
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
You have to write an essay on Shakespeare and you need some help. Fast. This short, easy-to-read guide covers all the ins and outs of writing about The Bard.
Here you'll learn how to approach the Shakespeare play, how to understand its language, how to build a strong argument and much more.
Included...
by Nancy Jack Todd, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Nancy Jack Todd shows us that the power of positive work can overcome horrific destruction. Describing the models created by the New Alchemy...
Surrogate Suburbs
Black Upward Mobility and Neighborhood Change in Cleveland, 1900–1980
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
The story of white flight and the neglect of black urban neighborhoods has been well told by urban historians in recent decades. Yet much of this scholarship has downplayed black agency and tended to portray African Americans as victims of structural forces beyond their control. In this history of...
Society of the Dead
Quita Manaquita and Palo Praise in Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
In a riveting first-person account, Todd Ramón Ochoa explores Palo, a Kongo-inspired "society of affliction" that is poorly understood at the margins of Cuban popular religion. Narrated as an encounter with two teachers of Palo, the book unfolds on the outskirts of Havana as it recounts...
by Anna Todd
Language: French
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Il y avait la vie avant que Tessa rencontre Hardin, et il y a AFTER (après) !
Avant, rien n'aurait pu les séparer...
Le caractère ombrageux d'Hardin continue de lui jouer des tours et il échappe de peu à l'expulsion de l'université. Tessa, qui vient de retrouver son père au hasard d'une...
The Persuadable Voter
Wedge Issues in Presidential Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The use of wedge issues such as abortion, gay marriage, and immigration has become standard political strategy in contemporary presidential campaigns. Why do candidates use such divisive appeals? Who in the electorate is persuaded by these controversial issues? And what are the consequences for American...
God Less America
Real Stories From the Front Lines of the Attack on Traditional Values
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Pay attention, people of faith. Dark clouds are gathering. The winds of intolerance are blowing. There’s a great storm approaching. American Christians are facing uncertain times. Our nation’s values are under assault. Religious liberty has been undermined. We live in a day when right is now wrong...
The Sixties
Years of Hope, Days of Rage
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Say "the Sixties" and the images start coming, images of a time when all authority was defied and millions of young Americans thought they could change the world--either through music, drugs, and universal love or by "putting their bodies on the line" against injustice and war.
Todd...