S Thomas: 567 books
by Thomas S. Hischak
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Jerome Kern (1885-1945) is considered one of the most versatile and influential of all American theatre and film composers. His pioneer work in developing a truly American musical sound inspired many of the great songwriters of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, and his songs include dozens of beloved standards...
Broadway Plays and Musicals
Descriptions and Essential Facts of More Than 14,000 Shows through 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
New York City’s Broadway district is by far the most prestigious and lucrative venue for American performers, playwrights, entertainers and technicians. While there are many reference works and critical studies of selected Broadway plays or musicals and even more works about the highlights of the...
Corps Commanders in Blue
Union Major Generals in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The outcomes of campaigns in the Civil War often depended on top generals having the right corps commanders in the right place at the right time. Mutual trust and respect between generals and their corps commanders, though vital to military success, was all too rare: Corps commanders were often forced...
Theatre as Human Action
An Introduction to Theatre Arts
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
Theatre as Human Action: An Introduction to Theatre Arts, Third Edition is designed for the college student who may be unacquainted with many plays and has seen a limited number of theatre productions. Focusing primarily on four plays, this textbook aims to inform the student about theatre arts, stimulate...
by Thomas S. Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Henry VIII remains the most iconic and controversial of all English Kings. For over four-hundred years he has been lauded, reviled and mocked, but rarely ignored. In his many guises - model Renaissance prince, Defender of the Faith, rapacious plunderer of the Church, obese Bluebeard-- he has featured...
CALL "M" FOR MURDER: Ultimate Collection - 885 Murder Mysteries, Thriller Novels & Detective Stories in One Edition
880+ True Crime Stories, Action Thrillers, Whodunit Mysteries & Supernatural Mysteries: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Thorndyke Cases, Bulldog Drummond, Detective Standish, Martin Hewitt, Max Carrados…
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2018
e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited thriller collection, formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Excerpt from Content: Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes Series True Crime Stories Edgar Wallace: Four Just Men P.-C. Lee The Angel of Terror…...
Espectros
Ghostly Hauntings in Contemporary Transhispanic Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Espectros is a compilation of original scholarly studies that presents the first volume-length exploration of the spectral in literature, film, and photography of Latin America, Spain, and the Latino diaspora. In recent decades, scholarship in deconstructionist "hauntology," trauma studies, affect...
Religious Freedom in America
Constitutional Roots and Contemporary Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
All Americans, liberal or conservative, religious or not, can agree that religious freedom, anchored in conscience rights, is foundational to the U.S. democratic experiment. But what freedom of conscience means, what its scope and limits are, according to the Constitution—these are matters for heated...
by Philip B. Bedient, James B. Blackburn Jr., Shannon S. Van Zandt
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
If Hurricane Ike had made landfall just fifty miles down the Texas coast, the devastation and death caused by what was already one of the most destructive hurricanes in US history would have quadrupled. Ike made everyone realize just how exposed and vulnerable the Houston-Galveston area is in the...
by Thomas Söderqvist
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Biographies of scientists carry an increasingly prominent role in today's publishing climate. Traditional historical and sociological accounts of science are complemented by narratives that emphasize the importance of the scientific subject in the production of science. Not least is the realization...
American Catholics and Civic Engagement
A Distinctive Voice
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2003
Sheed & Ward, in partnership with the Commonweal Foundation and with funding from the Pew Charitable Trust, proudly presents the first of two volumes in a groundbreaking series called American Catholics in the Public Square. The result of a three-year study sponsored by Pew aimed at understanding...
by Thomas S. Monson
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
Using the account of David and Goliath, President Monson compares David's plight to that which we encounter in mortality. As President Monson explains, our Goliaths of envy, greed, pride, discouragement, and so forth can be conquered when we are armed with 'stones' of courage, effort, humility, prayer, and duty.
Ladies in the Laboratory III
South African, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian Women in Science: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Published in 1998, Ladies in the Laboratory provided a systematic survey and comparison of the work of 19th-century American and British women in scientific research. A companion volume, published in 2004, focused on women scientists from Western Europe. In this third volume, author Mary R.S. Creese...
by Diana Star Helmer, Thomas S. Owens
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Belles of the Ballpark: Celebrating the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League recaptures the AAGPBL’s 12 amazing seasons. From its inspiring beginnings during World War II, thanks to the innovation of Chicago Cubs owner P.K. Wrigley, the “Girls League” gave Midwestern towns a league...