Alison: 1980 books
by Alison Plowden
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Caroline of Brunswick, wife of George Prince of Wales and Prince Regent, and her daughter, Princess Charlotte, lived out their lives surrounded by a cast of characters who might have been lifted straight from the pages of some Gothic novel. Theirs was a saga of passion and pathos, tragedy and black...
by Alison Hawthorne Deming
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
New from a poet renowned for her lyricism, wisdom, and originality
Alison Hawthorne Deming ’s fourth collection of poems follows the paths of imagination into meditations on salt, love, Hurricane Katrina, Greek myth, and the search for extraterrestrial life, all linked by the poet’s faith...
Bess of Hardwick’s Letters
Language, Materiality, and Early Modern Epistolary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Bess of Hardwick's Letters is the first book-length study of the c. 250 letters to and from the remarkable Elizabethan dynast, matriarch and builder of houses Bess of Hardwick (c. 1527–1608). By surveying the complete correspondence, author Alison Wiggins uncovers the wide range of uses to which...
Boys and Girls Forever
Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2002
Are some of the world's most talented children's book authors essentially children themselves? In this engaging series of essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie considers this theory, exploring children's classics from many eras and relating them to the authors who wrote them, including...
Tuai
A Traveller in Two Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
In early 1817 Tuai, a young Ngare Raumati chief from the Bay of Islands, set off for England. He was one of a number of Māori who, after encountering European explorers, traders and missionaries in New Zealand, seized opportunities to travel beyond their familiar shores to Australia, England and...
by Alison Pick
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
In her elegant new collection, Alison Pick, a brilliant poet of sensuous moods, atmospheres, and dreams, explores the mystery concealed within the world we know and recognize. Always evocative, always alluring, her poems are not interested in mere events, but in the fabric inside the emotions that...
by Alison Ragsdale
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Founder and sole employee of Mere Accounting, Jeffrey Mere is a solitary man. He has spent his entire life close to home, in the picturesque Scottish town of Pitlochry. After sixty-four years of playing it safe, with retirement looming, Jeffrey resolves to climb Ben Macdhui, Britain's second highest...
by Alison Pargeter
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
For a reader unfamiliar with the history of Libya, Muammar Qaddafi might be mistaken for a character in fiction. His eccentric leadership as the nation's "Brother Leader," his repressive regime, sponsorship of terrorist violence, unique vision of the state, and relentless hold on power all...
The Postcolonial Eye
White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Informed by theories of the visual, knowledge and desire, The Postcolonial Eye is about the 'eye' and the 'I' in contemporary Australian scenes of race. Specifically, it is about seeing, where vision is taken to be subjective and shaped by desire, and about knowing one another across the cultural...
No Depression in Heaven
The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
In No Depression in Heaven, Alison Collis Greene demonstrates how the Great Depression and New Deal transformed the relationship between church and state. Grounded in Memphis and the Delta, this book traces the collapse of voluntarism, the link between southern religion and the New Deal, and the gradual...
Return to the Shadows
The Muslim Brotherhood and An-Nahda Since the Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
The Arab Spring heralded a profound shift in the Middle East, bringing to power Islamist movements which had previously been operating in the shadows. The Muslim Brotherhood stormed to victory in Egypt and emerged as a key player in Libya's nascent political arena. Meanwhile, An-Nahda found itself...
The North End Revisited
Photographs by John Paskievich
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Cities and the people who live in them are enduring subjects of photography. Winnipeg’s North End is one of North America’s iconic neighbourhoods, a place where the city’s unique character and politics have been forged. First built when Winnipeg was the “Chicago of the North,” the North...
Memory
Fragments of a Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Picture your twenty-first birthday. Did you have a party? If so, do you remember who was there? Now step back: how clear are those memories? Should we trust them to be accurate, or is there a chance that you’re remembering incorrectly? And where have the many details you can no longer recall gone?...
by Rev. John Wynburne & Alison Gibbs
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
A wedding is a day to remember for life. And the words that are spoken in celebration of such a joyous occasion need to be chosen with the greatest of care so that they encapsulate the style of the day and the deeply-felt emotions of the happy couple. John Wynburne regularly joins couples in matrimony...