Angela: 3342 books

In Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now? Angela Dillard offers the first comparative analysis of a conservatism which today cuts across the boundaries of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. To be an African-American and a conservative, or a Latino who is also a conservative and a homosexual, is to...

Control Suppress Delete troubles received ideas. Interested in rules and randomness and in finding the randomness in rules, Angela Hibbs writes poetry that questions the human condition and finds social structures provide little support. Swarming with bees and lizards, and inspired by the artwork...

History has always portrayed Jane Seymour as a shadowy, meek and obedient woman whose only effect on the troubled and dangerous world in which she lived was to quietly provide Henry VIII with his dearest wish and then obligingly fade away. How did she, a woman with seemingly no personality...

Want to write page-turning fiction? All authors do; no one sets out to write a boring novel.Your readers want to enter your novel's world. They want to experience your book -- they want to live your book with your main characters.In short, they want to be entertained. Sadly the gap between...

Tantric Porno is a short story collection that follows a young woman through sexual maturity. "Motivations" discusses early exposure to porn, LGBT, and respect. Blowjobs abound. In early life, Entrada's perceptions of sexuality are modified through religious taboos, and pornographic exposure. As she...

Although the concept of the performative has influenced literary theory in numerous ways, this book represents one of the first full-length studies of performative language in literary texts. Creating States examines the visionary poetry of John Milton and William Blake, using a critical approach...

Having been jailed for surviving unscathed after a tree falling on him, Bear finds himself fed up with local superstition and tries to break out of jail without anyone noticing.

Victims of violence are unfortunately ever-present in healthcare today. Regardless of the setting, nurses are often the first to interact with victims and regularly must step into uncomfortable or difficult situations. To ensure patient and provider safety and enable the best possible outcomes, every...

Around the world communities that have suffered the trauma of unspeakable violence--in Liberia, Somalia, West Africa, Columbia, and elsewhere--are struggling to recover and reconcile, searching for ways not just to survive but to heal. In When Blood and Bones Cry Out, John Paul Lederach, a pioneer...

This new title from Bradt is the only English-language guide to focus on Pays de la Loire: The Vendée and surrounding area including Pornic, La Rochelle, Île de Ré and Nantes, an increasingly popular part of France. Written by award-winning travel writer Murray Stewart and Angela Bird, who for...

An introduction and step by step method to delineate the work of Gateway to the Heart. This is designed to help people gain access to vast inner resources and gain great freedom in relating to themselves and others. As a result, people live fuller and richer lives and are able to shed difficult memories, pain, depression and many other issues that render life difficult.

Messages from the Borderlands are diaries and stories left behind after a series of cataclysmic disasters on earth. These tragic and early survivor stories are uncovered from the debris and shared. Acts of desperation, treachery and violence are the norm in the post-apocalyptic world of the Borderlands,...

'If you do the crime you gotta do the time.' This adage reflects the overall attitude most Americans have about crime and the criminal justice system. Implicit in this adage is the notion that once 'the time' is done, the individual is free to re-enter society and resume a normal life. In Prisoner...

Although the rate of gun ownership in U.S. households has declined from an estimated 50 percent in 1970 to approximately 32 percent today, Americans' propensity for carrying concealed firearms has risen sharply in recent years. Today, more than 11 million Americans hold concealed handgun licenses,...