Conklin: 137 books
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2005: The Year We Wrote a Book About the Mets
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
**Critic Ivan Felt and poet Harris Conklin are the Don Quixote and Sancho Panza of baseball fandom. Or, perhaps, the Felix and Oscar of baseball fandom. Or the Pollock and de Kooning. Or the Bugs and Daffy.
The New York Mets are, of course, the New York Mets of baseball.**
In 2005, Felt...
The Invisible Origins of Legal Positivism
A Re-Reading of a Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Conklin's thesis is that the tradition of modern legal positivism, beginning with Thomas Hobbes, postulated different senses of the invisible as the authorising origin of humanly posited laws. Conklin re-reads the tradition by privileging how the canons share a particular understanding of legal language...
AN Angel From Hell
Real Life on the Front Lines
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
An edgy, gripping report from the front lines by a young veteran and cast member of The Real World: Brooklyn
Ryan Conklin enlisted in the Army at age seventeen, following 9/11, and joined Angel Company. As a turret gunner with the famed 101st Airborne "Screaming Eagles," and a member...
The House Girl
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
The House Girl, the historical fiction debut by Tara Conklin, is an unforgettable story of love, history, and a search for justice, set in modern-day New York and 1852 Virginia.
Weaving together the story of an escaped slave in the pre–Civil War South and a determined junior lawyer, The House...
In the Museum of Man
Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850–1950
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the Museum of Man offers new insight into the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high-water mark of French imperialism and European racism. Alice L. Conklin takes us into the formative years of French anthropology and social theory between 1850 and 1900; then deep into...
Comeback Moms
How to Leave Work, Raise Children, and Restart Your Career Even if You Haven't Had a Job in Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
What happens when an educated professional wants to become a stay-at-home mom but not end her career forever?
Here is a book for the millions of moms who want to do what's best for their families and for themselves. Monica Samuels and J.C. Conklin show what to do when you’re ready to leave...
by Tara Conklin
Language: Dutch
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: Dutch
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Tara Conklin – De huisbediende 1852: Josephine is een zeventienjarige huisslaaf op een plantage in Virgina. Ze zorgt voor Lu Anne Bell, haar eigenaar, die amateurschilder is. 2004: Lina Sparrow is een jonge ambitieuze advocaat die schadevergoedingen voor de nazaten van slaven probeert te regelen....
The Last Romantics
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
A READ WITH JENNA • **TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK **
“A richly observed novel, both ambitious and welcoming.” -- Meg Wolitzer
An Instant New York Times Bestseller
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH BY:
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Consuming Grief
Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2010
Mourning the death of loved ones and recovering from their loss are universal human experiences, yet the grieving process is as different between cultures as it is among individuals. As late as the 1960s, the Wari' Indians of the western Amazonian rainforest ate the roasted flesh of their dead as...
Conversation
What to Say and How to Say It
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Does the mere thought of engaging in small talk strike fear into your heart? Do you ever steer clear of social events just so you'll be able to avoid the awkward silence that inevitably descends when you run out of chit-chat? If so, you need the comprehensive and straightforward advice that Mary Greer...
by Melanie Conklin
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Newbery-winning Rules meets Counting by 7s in this affecting story of a girl’s devotion to her brother and what it means to be home
When eleven-year-old Thyme Owens’ little brother, Val, is accepted into a new cancer drug trial, it’s just the second chance that he needs. But it also means...
by Lane Diamond, D.T. Conklin
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
From the first-ever Short Story Contest hosted by Evolved Publishing: 10 great stories from 10 terrific authors. [DRM-Free]
An eclectic mix that will excite, interest, and intrigue from the first story to the last. Laugh a little, cry a little, think a little.
Many genres, many voices, one goal:...
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Smoking Cessation
A Practical Guidebook to the Most Effective Treatments
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Practitioners helping smokers to quit can be more effective by learning key therapeutic techniques aimed at increasing any smoker’s chances of success. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Smoking Cessation is a valuable guidebook to an empirically based CBT approach to smoking cessation that has been...
Idols in the East
European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100–1450
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Representations of Muslims have never been more common in the Western imagination than they are today. Building on Orientalist stereotypes constructed over centuries, the figure of the wily Arab has given rise, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, to the "Islamist" terrorist. In Idols in the East,...