Christopher Lane: 10 books
The Ruling Passion
British Colonial Allegory and the Paradox of Homosexual Desire
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In The Ruling Passion, Christopher Lane examines the relationship between masculinity, homosexual desire, and empire in British colonialist and imperialist fictions at the turn of the twentieth century. Questioning the popular assumption that Britain’s empire functioned with symbolic efficiency...
Surge of Piety
Norman Vincent Peale and the Remaking of American Religious Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The dramatic, untold story of how Norman Vincent Peale and a handful of conservative allies fueled the massive rise of religiosity in the United States during the 1950s Near the height of Cold War hysteria, when the threat of all-out nuclear war felt real and perilous, Presbyterian minister Norman Vincent...
Hatred and Civility
The Antisocial Life in Victorian England
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
To understand hatred and civility in today's world, argues Christopher Lane, we should start with Victorian fiction. Although the word "Victorian" generally brings to mind images of prudish sexuality and well-heeled snobbery, it has above all become synonymous with self-sacrifice, earnest...
by Christopher Lane
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
For The Barbara Eden Lover. This book is your ultimate resource for Barbara Eden. Here you will find the most up-to-date 162 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Barbara Eden's Early...
by Christopher Lane
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
by Christopher Lane
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
A mysterious ritual murder at a remote Alaskan oil rig brings an Inupiat Eskimo police detective back to the land of his People to catch a killer, and save his own hide.
Police Detective Ray Attla, an Inupiat Eskimo, is spending a few days with his grandfather on the reservation when he's called...
by Christopher Lane
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This thesis describes the development of a new technique to solve an important industrial inspection requirement for a high-value jet-engine component. The work – and the story told in the thesis – stretches all the way from the fundamentals of wave propagation in anisotropic material and ultrasonic...
Season of Death
An Inupiat Eskimo Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Inupiat police officer Ray Attla joins two of his police buddies for a three-day caribou hunt in the Alaskan Bush country. But when gear and supplies are lost, the trio fishes for food and pulls in the remains of a human head. Ray assumes the deceased fell victim to a tragic accident -- until he and...
After the End
Making U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War World
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 1999
In the political landscape emerging from the end of the Cold War, making U.S. foreign policy has become more difficult, due in part to less clarity and consensus about threats and interests. In After the End James M. Scott brings together a group of scholars to explore the changing international situation...
Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...