Anna: 6644 books
by Carol Wellart, L. Chan, Anna Zumbro
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2018
Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine.
All the stories from the month, plus author biographies, interviews, and story origins.
Table of Contents
Heartwood – L. Chan
Ways to Face the Firing Squad – Anna Zumbro
The Early History of the Moon – Karolina Fedyk
The Questioning Bell – Jason Baltazar
Cover art by Carol Wellart.
by Anna Julia Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 1988
Considered one of the original texts foretelling the black feminist movement, this collection of essays, first published in 1892, offers an unparalleled view into the thought of black women writers in nineteenth-century America. A leading black spokeswoman of her time, Anna Julia Cooper came of age...
by Anna Bonus Kingsford
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
To the numerous and world-wide circle of genuine students of Divine things, who recognised in Anna Kingsford a Seer, an Interpreter, and a Prophet of the rarest lucidity and inspiration, and a foremost herald of the dawning better age: and especially to the Friend whose instant and enthusiastic appreciation...
by Anna Kingsford
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2014
IN the preface to Dreams and Dream-Stories Mrs Kingsford speaks of the "priceless insights and illuminations," acquired by means of dreams which had elucidated for her many difficulties and enigmas of life, and even of religion, by throwing on them a light which penetrated to their very...
Patriot or Traitor
The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Sir Walter Ralegh’s life is romantic, irresistible and of central importance to our island story. His death is a convoluted and contested tale of bargaining, failure and betrayal. Through the Elizabethan golden age and Ralegh’s famous adventures to the final act, Anna Beer presents his stranger-than-fiction...
by Anna Cento Bull
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The history of modern Italy is characterized by recurrent cultural and political projects of modernity, rejuvenation, and regeneration; projects which often had their roots in a widespread dissatisfaction with social and political reality, and perceived moral corruption. The Risorgimento, the movement...
Our Stories, Our Voices
21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
From Amy Reed, Ellen Hopkins, Amber Smith, Sandhya Menon, and more of your favorite YA authors comes an anthology of essays that explore the diverse experiences of injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America.
This collection of twenty-one essays from major YA authors—including...
Modernist Voyages
Colonial Women Writers in London, 1890–1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
London's literary and cultural scene fostered newly configured forms of feminist anticolonialism during the modernist period. Through their writing in and about the imperial metropolis, colonial women authors not only remapped the city, they also renegotiated the position of women within the empire....
by Anna Brownell Jameson, Clara Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
In 1836, Anna Jameson sailed from London, England, to join her husband in Upper Canada, where he was serving as attorney general. Shaking off the mud of Muddy York with mild disdain, young Mrs. Jameson swiftly sallied forth to discover the New World for herself.
The best known of all nineteenth...
The Exile Mission
The Polish Political Diaspora and Polish Americans, 1939–1956
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2004
At midcentury, two distinct Polish immigrant groups—those Polish Americans who were descendants of economic immigrants from the turn of the twentieth century and the Polish political refugees who chose exile after World War II and the communist takeover in Poland—faced an uneasy challenge to reconcile...
by Anna Snoekstra
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Tu casa puede ser el lugar más peligroso del mundo.
«Un impresionante debut... ¿Estamos ante la próxima La chica del tren?».
The Daily Mail
A sus dieciséis años, Rebecca Winter estaba disfrutando del mejor verano de su vida: ganaba algún dinero en un restaurante, tonteaba con...
Field Seasons
Reflections on Career Paths and Research in American Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
In Field Seasons, Anna Marie Prentiss chronicles her experiences as an archaeologist, providing an insider’s look at the diverse cultures, personal agendas, and career pathways associated with American archaeology since the late twentieth century. As the narrative moves from her academic training...
Rewriting the American Soul
Trauma, Neuroscience and the Contemporary Literary Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Rewriting the American Soul focuses on the political implications of psychoanalytic and neurocognitive approaches to trauma in literature, their impact on cultural representations of collective trauma in the United States, and their subversive appropriation in pre- and post-9/11 fiction. Anna Thiemann connects...
Cancer Fitness
Exercise Programs for Patients and Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
Increase your survival odds by creating and following an exercise program that counteracts the side effects of your treatment, speeds your recovery, and reduces your risk of recurrence.
Most cancer patients and survivors think that "rest" will decrease their fatigue and speed their recovery. But in...