Young: 2898 books
by Young Jean Lee
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
“A subversive, seriously funny new theater piece by the adventurous playwright Young Jean Lee. . . . Ms. Lee does not shy away from prodding the audience’s racial sensitivities—or insensitivities—in a style that is sometimes sly and subtle, sometimes as blunt as a poke in the eye.”—Charles...
by Taylor Young
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
What do blown Cadillac coups, cops, and credit cards share? Where do inheritances gone AWOL, horrible houses, and greasy food get intertwined? And how in the heck would payday loan sharks, rich people, and your neighbor’s yappy psycho dogs mix in any story with an other-than-disastrous ending?
Through...
by Young Jean Lee
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
"Sly, weird, and thoroughly winning . . . Bracing, funny, and, yes, consoling."—The New York Times
"Young Jean Lee will give you whiplash. Her ability to stake out aesthetic territory and then abruptly abandon it makes her unpredictable; her tendency to excel at each new genre...
Liberty Tree
Ordinary People and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2006
With the publication of Liberty Tree, acclaimed historian Alfred F. Young presents a selection of his seminal writing as well as two provocative, never-before-published essays. Together, they take the reader on a journey through the American Revolution, exploring the role played by ordinary women...
by Michael Young
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Every young man reaches a point in his life where he must leave the nest and spread his wings. I tried my wings during the turbulent, early years of the seventies. The trials I endured tested my skills and made me stronger. I made many mistakes that could have caused my demise and I look back on them...
Farewell Britannia
A Family Saga Of Roman Britain
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
A vivid and gripping account of Roman Britain, written as a family history
Brilliant young historian Simon Young has invented a multi-generational family, part Roman, part Celtic (invaders intermarrying with natives) to tell the dramatic story of 400 years of Roman rule in Britain. Vivid historical...
Boston Ballerina
A Dancer, a Company, an Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
As a charter member of Boston Ballet and its predecessor, New England Civic Ballet, Laura Young has been affiliated with the company longer than any other dancer in its history. This book is both a memoir of her personal journey and a fascinating account of Boston Ballet’s rise from a regional troupe...
by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Upon publication of her 'field manual,' The Origins of Totalitarianism, in 1951, Hannah Arendt immediately gained recognition as a major political analyst. Over the next twenty-five years, she wrote ten more books and developed a set of ideas that profoundly influenced the way America and Europe addressed...
Walk in My Shoes
Conversations between a Civil Rights Legend and his Godson on the Journey Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
A top aide to Martin Luther King, Jr., Andrew Young has been a witness to history and has made his own. During the cvil rights movement, he worked tirelessly as a strategist and negotiator during the campaigns that resulted in the passage of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, and was at Martin...
Bunk
The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction
“There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we merely want. Unexpectedly essential.”—Marlon James
Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue’s gallery...
The Drama of Social Life
Essays in Post-modern Social Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
These essays explore the many ways theater and dramaturgy are used to shape the everyday experience of people in mass societies. Young argues that technologies combine with the world of art, music, and cinema to shape consciousness as a commodity and to fragment social relations in the market as well...
Afgeleid
filosofie voor een vrijer leven
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 7, 2014
In ‘Afgeleid’ behandelt de Australische publieksfilosoof Damon Young een voor iedereen zeer herkenbaar “probleem”. Voortdurend worden we afgeleid – iedereen kent dat gevoel. Niet alleen door e-mails en social media, maar ook door mooiere banen, mannen of vrouwen dan de onze. In ‘Afgeleid’...
by Neil Young
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Never content to rest on his laurels, iconic singer/songwriter Neil Young has constantly and successfully reinvented himself, always producing true and sincere music. This incredible collection assembles 16 hits he penned from 1969 to 1991, which are now classic...
Mission Life in Cree-Ojibwe Country
Memories of a Mother and Son
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2014
In May of 1868, Elizabeth Bingham Young and her new husband, Egerton Ryerson Young, began a long journey from Hamilton, Ontario, to the Methodist mission of Rossville. For the next eight years, Elizabeth supported her husband’s work at two mission houses, Norway House and then Berens River. Unprepared...