Nancy Armstrong: 14 books
How Novels Think
The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2006
Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, one displaying wit, will, or energy capable of shifting the social order to grant the exceptional person...
Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing
The American Example
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
During the thirty years following ratification of the U.S. Constitution, the first American novelists carried on an argument with their British counterparts that pitted direct democracy against representative liberalism. Such writers as Hannah Foster, Isaac Mitchell, Royall Tyler, Leonore Sansay,...
100 Questions You'd Never Ask Your Parents
Straight Answers to Teens' Questions About Sex, Sexuality, and Health
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Teens have questions about sex. This simple manual answers their questions--honestly, simply, and reliably.
What does an orgasm feel like?
Does masturbating have any long-term negative effects?
Does alcohol kill brain cells?
Teens have questions about sex; it's a matter...
Individualism
The Cultural Logic of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity explores ideas of the modern sovereign individual in the western cultural tradition. Divided into two sections, this volume surveys the history of western individualism in both its early and later forms: chiefly from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries,...
Desire and Domestic Fiction
A Political History of the Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 1990
Desire and Domestic Fiction argues that far from being removed from historical events, novels by writers from Richardson to Woolf were themselves agents of the rise of the middle class. Drawing on texts that range from 18th-century female conduct books and contract theory to modern psychoanalytic...
40 Days and 40 Bytes
Making Computers Work for Your Congregation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
"Today we are awash in computerized Bible games, pastoral care software, and church management systems with members’ personal information and giving records," observe authors Spiegel, Armstrong, and Bill, but "too often we blindly accept and use technology without asking the big questions. Questions...
Field Guide to Stains
How to Identify and Remove Virtually Every Stain Known to Man
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
At last, a field guide to identifying and doing battle with more than 100 stains, from tomato juice to tar, from avocado to urine!
Field Guide to Stains is divided into handy sections for easy access to information when time is of the essence: Fruits and Vegetables, Meat and Protein, Household...
Field Guide to Gestures
How to Identify and Interpret Virtually Every Gesture Known to Man
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Finally, a field guide to interpreting more than 100 international gestures, from the wave to the finger, from the shrug to the nod.
Here’s easy access to the essential information about common (and some not-so-common) gestures you may encounter at home or abroad. Field Guide to Gestures...
by Nancy Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Whether you're going solo, looking to heighten your pleasure with a longtime partner, or in search of threesomes, a crowd, or even extreme kinkiness, this menu of delights offers something to fit every taste. So open up for basic information and answers, tips on getting it on in style, and sizzling erotica—all served with just the right touch of snark and heat.
nEvermore!
Tales of Murder, Mayhem and the Macabre
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Enjoy this anthology of Neo-Gothic fiction inspired by the imagination of Edgar Allan Poe. Winner of the Paris Book Festival Award – Best anthology of the yearNominated for a Bram Stoker Award – Superior Achievement in an Anthology"Make sure your belt is done up good and tight when you read...
by Mark Leslie, Robert J. Sawyer, Kelley Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Prepare to have your blood run cold, your heart race and your brow bead with sweat: this anthology of horror stories ranges from the starkly terrifying to the tantalizingly creepy. There's magic mixed in with the chalk dust, evil lurking in the textbooks, malevolence biding its time in the labs and...
by Melissa Marr, Kelley Armstrong, Veronica Roth
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
The world is gone, destroyed by human, ecological, or supernatural causes. Survivors dodge chemical warfare and cruel gods; they travel the reaches of space and inhabit underground caverns. Their enemies are disease, corrupt corporations, and one another; their resources are few and their courage...
Blood Sisters
Vampire Stories By Women
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
A tantalizing selection of stories from some of the best female authors who’ve helped define the modern vampire.
Bram Stoker was hardly the first author—male or female—to fictionalize the folkloric vampire, but he defined the modern iconic vampire when Dracula appeared in 1897. Since...
by Nancy M. Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1994
Navajo Long Walk is the story of Kee, a young boy who traveled this long, arduous route with his mother, grandmother, sister and what few domestic animals they could bring. Over the four-year period, Kee learns to adapt to his inhospitable surroundings. Ultimately, Kee realizes the frailty of his...