Ariel: 419 books
by Ariel Tachna
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Gabriel Blackstone’s world is divided quite clearly into castes: everyone knows their place and abides by it. As an inventor in the merchant caste, his life is predictable in its routine until the night his best friends and assistants, Caleb and Andrew, purchase the time—and body—of a companion...
by Ariel Tachna
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
A Partnership in Blood Story
Facing the Germans outside Amiens, Denis was prepared for the possibility he wouldn't survive the battle. Shot and left for dead, he didn't expect to open his eyes to a vampire offering him a chance at a different existence. Now newly turned, the hunger for blood...
What's It Like in Space?
Stories from Astronauts Who've Been There
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Everyone wonders what it's really like in space, but very few of us have ever had the chance to experience it firsthand. This captivating illustrated collection brings together stories from dozens of international astronauts—men and women who've actually been there—who have returned with accounts...
Cinematic Appeals
The Experience of New Movie Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Cinematic Appeals follows the effect of technological innovation on the cinema experience, specifically the introduction of widescreen and stereoscopic 3D systems in the 1950s, the rise of digital cinema in the 1990s, and the transition to digital 3D since 2005. Widescreen cinema promised to draw...
The Age of Napoleon
The Story of Civilization, Volume XI
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
The Story of Civilization, Volume XI: A history of European civilization from 1789 to 1815. This is the eleventh and final volume of the classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning series.
Rousseau and Revolution
The Story of Civilization, Volume X
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
The Story of Civilization, Volume X: winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a history of civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the rest of Europe from 1715 to 1789.
The Age of Reason Begins
The Story of Civilization, Volume VII
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
The Story of Civilization, Volume VII: A history of European civilization in the period of Shakespeare, Bacon, Montaigne, Rembrandt, Galileo, and Descartes: 1558-1648. This is the seventh volume of the classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning series.
Other Septembers, Many Americas
Selected Provocations, 1980-2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
"Let me tell you, America, of the hopes I had for you," Dorfman writes after the fall of the Twin Towers, remembering back to an earlier September 11 in 1973, when he was on the staff of Salvador Allende, then president of Chile, the day he was removed from office and murdered in a coup...
The Age of Voltaire
The Story of Civilization, Volume IX
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
The Story of Civilization, Volume IX: A history of civilization in Western Europe from 1715 to 1756, with special emphasis on the conflict between religion and philosophy. This is the ninth volume of the classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning series.
by Ariel Hessayon
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This is a study of the most fascinating and idiosyncratic of all seventeenth-century figures. Like its famous predecessor The Cheese and The Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, it explores the everyday life and mental world of an extraordinary yet humble figure. Born in Lincolnshire with...
by Ariel Clark Silver
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The enduring search for female salvation in American literature is first expressed through typology, an interpretive framework that pairs type with antitype, historical scriptural promise with future spiritual fulfillment. When Cotton Mather invokes the typos of Esther in Ornaments of the Daughters...
The Age of Louis XIV
The Story of Civilization, Volume VIII
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
The Story of Civilization, Volume VIII: A history of European civilization in the period of Pascal, Moliere, Cromwell, Milton, Peter the Great, Newton, and Spinoza: 1648-1715. This is the eighth volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning series.
by Ariel Gore
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
When Gore’s narcissistic mother is diagnosed with stage four lung cancer, she reluctantly moves with her girlfriend and their preschool-age son to New Mexico to help her. "We can do anything for a year," her girlfriend consoles her. But that year ends up pushing Gore to the edge of her...
An Unusual Relationship
Evangelical Christians and Jews
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
It
is generally accepted that Jews and evangelical Christians have little in
common. Yet special alliances developed
between the two groups in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Evangelicals
viewed Jews as both the rightful heirs of Israel and as a group who failed to
recognize their true savior....