Susan Ronald: 19 books
Heretic Queen
Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
**Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald delivers a stunning account of Elizabeth I that focuses on her role in the Wars on Religion—**the battle between Protestantism and Catholicisim that tore apart Europe in the 16th Century
Elizabeth's 1558 coronation procession was met with an extravagant...
The Sancy Blood Diamond
Power, Greed, and the Cursed History of One of the World's Most Coveted Gems
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
The fascinating six-hundred-year history of one of the world's most coveted gems and the royal feuds, intrigues, and betrayals it engendered
The Sancy Diamond first came to Europe from India in the fourteenth century, and until 1661 it was the largest white diamond-and the most concentrated...
The Pirate Queen
Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Dubbed the "pirate queen" by the Vatican and Spain's Philip II, Elizabeth I was feared and admired by her enemies. Extravagant, whimsical, and hot-tempered, Elizabeth was the epitome of power. Her visionary accomplishments were made possible by her daring merchants, gifted rapscallion adventurers,...
Hitler's Art Thief
Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe's Treasures
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
The world was stunned when eighty-year old Cornelius Gurlitt became an international media superstar in November 2013 on the discovery of over 1,400 artworks in his 1,076 square-foot Munich apartment, valued at around $1.35 billion. Gurlitt became known as a man who never was - he didn't have a bank...
Condé Nast
The Man and His Empire -- A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
The first biography in over thirty years of Condé Nast, the pioneering publisher of Vogue and Vanity Fair and main rival to media magnate William Randolph Hearst.
Condé Nast’s life and career was as high profile and glamourous as his magazines. Moving to New York in the early twentieth...
A Dangerous Woman
American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator - The Life of Florence Gould
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
A revealing biography of Florence Gould, fabulously wealthy socialite and patron of the arts, who hid a dark past as a Nazi collaborator in 1940’s Paris.
Born in turn-of-the-century San Francisco to French parents, Florence moved to Paris at the age of eleven. Believing that only money brought...
Genetic Influences on Addiction
An Intermediate Phenotype Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
A comprehensive review of research examining intermediary mechanisms to understand the link between genetic variation and addiction liability.
Although there is scientific consensus that genetic factors play a substantial role in an individual's vulnerability to drug or alcohol addiction, specific...
Sitting Together
Essential Skills for Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
This practical guide helps therapists from virtually any specialty or theoretical orientation choose and adapt mindfulness practices most likely to be effective with particular patients, while avoiding those that are contraindicated. The authors provide a wide range of meditations that build the core...
Sport and the Neoliberal University
Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
College students are now regarded as consumers, not students, and nowhere is the growth and exploitation of the university more obvious than in the realm of college sports, where the evidence is in the stadiums built with corporate money, and the crowded sporting events sponsored by large conglomerates.
The...
Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth
Developing Evidence-Based International Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
Therapeutic Residential Care For Children and Youth takes a fresh look at therapeutic residential care as a powerful intervention in working with the most troubled children who need intensive support.
Featuring contributions from distinguished international contributors, it critically examines...
by Kenneth L. Deutsch, John A. Murley, George Anastaplo
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1999
Responding to volatile criticisms frequently leveled at Leo Strauss and those he influenced, the prominent contributors to this volume demonstrate the profound influence that Strauss and his students have exerted on American liberal democracy and contemporary political thought. By stressing the enduring...
by Ronald M. James, Susan A. James
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Founded in 1859, Virginia City quickly became world famous for its extraordinary prosperity. Over the next two decades, the mines of “the Richest City on Earth” yielded millions in gold and silver. The newly wealthy built mansions and churches, opera houses and schools, with furniture, fashions,...
Teaching Peace
Nonviolence and the Liberal Arts
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2003
This book opens a new frontier in understanding nonviolence. Discussions of peace and nonviolence usually focus on either moral theory or practical dimensions of applying nonviolence in conflict situations. Teaching Peace carries the discussion of nonviolence beyond ethics and into the rest of the...
True Green
Executive Effectiveness in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Drawing on the careers of senior executives of the US Environmental Protection Agency, True Green identifies the concrete actions that work in protecting our nation’s environment. By examining the exquisitely difficult tasks of executive leadership in environmental protection, one of the most conflicted...
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