Weldon: 254 books
The Collected Novels Volume One
The Life and Loves of a She Devil, The Hearts and Lives of Men, and Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
With wicked wit and savage glee, British novelist Fay Weldon “breaks taboos like tape at a marathon” (Los Angeles Times).
Perhaps best known for her “small, mad masterpiece,” The Life and Loves of a She Devil, Man Booker Prize nominee Fay Weldon has been writing some of the boldest, funniest...
When Protest Makes Policy
How Social Movements Represent Disadvantaged Groups
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
"A must-read for scholars across a broad sweep of disciplines. Laurel Weldon weaves together skillfully the theoretical strands of gender equality policy, intersectionality, social movements, and representation in a multimethod/level comparative study that unequivocally places women's movements...
Sacred Cows
The Rushdie Affair - How it Seemed Then
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
In 1989, after the Ayatollah Khomeini declared a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for writing The Satanic Verses, Fay Weldon published Sacred Cows, a pamphlet critical of the fundamentalist interpretation of the Koran.
Weldon’s pamphlet received a lot of attention on publication – mostly criticism...
by James Weldon Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
“A canonical collection, splendidly and sensitively edited by Rudolph Byrd.”
–Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
One of the leading voices of the Harlem Resaissance and a crucial literary figure of his time, James Weldon Johnson was also an editor, songwriter, founding member and leader of the NAACP,...
by James Weldon Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
3 works of James Weldon Johnson American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and early civil rights activist (1871-1938)
This ebook presents a collection of 3 works of James Weldon Johnson. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
Table...
Why Will No-One Publish My Novel?
A Handbook for the Rejected Writer
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
You've written a book, triumphantly typed 'The End', but now, it seems, no-one wants to publish it. What do you do next?
Author of over thirty novels, stories and screenplays, and tutor on the prestigious creative writing course at Bath Spa, Fay Weldon has a lifetime of wisdom to impart on the art...
Escape Points
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
“I don’t know how Michele Weldon made wrestling, breast cancer, and single parenting tie together so naturally, so beautifully, but in fact each is a perfect metaphor for this book’s message of soulful triumph.” —Elizabeth Berg, New York Times–bestselling author, The Dream Lover**
Deftly...
The Collected Novels Volume Two
Letters to Alice, Worst Fears, and The Heart of the Country
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Three novels from the “prolific and provocative” British satirist: from the joy of inspiration to the shock of betrayal and the pleasure of vengeance (Time Out).
Perhaps best known for her “small, mad masterpiece,” The Life and Loves of a She Devil, Man Booker Prize nominee Fay Weldon has...
The Caped Crusade
Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
“A roaring getaway car of guilty pleasures” (The New York Times Book Review), Glen Weldon’s The Caped Crusade is a fascinating, critically acclaimed chronicle of the rises and falls of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes and the fans who love him—now with a new afterword.
Since...
by James Weldon Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
The Best Works of James Weldon Johnson
Fifty Years And Other Poems
Self Determining Haiti
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
The Book Of American Negro Poetry
by Fay Weldon
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Once again the acclaimed British author of Rhode Island Blues and Big Girls Don't Cry draws us into an unmistakably wild, rollicking tale full of her trademark satirical wit and sharp observation. Grace McNab Salt is the recently divorced wife of the millionaire Barley Salt, who has married Doris Dubois,...
Watching Me, Watching You
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Fay Weldon’s first short-story collection features her trademark themes of feminism, sisterhood, and domestic livelihood, where the ties that bind can also draw blood
Love, loss, and the ever-changing sexual battlefield are the themes of this early anthology by master storyteller Fay Weldon:...
by Jo Weldon
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
“Jo Weldon is the gold-standard for New Burlesque. I am proud to call her my friend, and unashamed to admit she’s my idol.” — Lily Burana, author of Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America
From one of the stars of the New Burlesque scene, Jo Weldon, comes a definitive,...
Free Range Learning
How Homeschooling Changes Everything
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Free Range Learning presents eye-opening data about the meaning and importance of natural learning. This data-from neurologists, child development specialists, anthropologists, educators, historians and business innovators-turns many current assumptions about school-based education upside down. The book’s...