Barnes: 1105 books
Everything I Know About Business I Learned from the Grateful Dead
The Ten Most Innovative Lessons from a Long, Strange Trip
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
The Grateful Dead is one of the most popular bands of all time and they have enjoyed incredible relevance to this day. But let's admit it, they were not exactly poster boys for corporate America. In EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT BUSINESS I LEARNED FROM THE GRATEFUL DEAD, Deadhead and business scholar Barry...
by Bernadine Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Today most of us enjoy the work of famed Renaissance artist Michelangelo by perusing art books or strolling along the galleries of a museum—and the luckier of us have had a chance to see his extraordinary frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. But as Bernadine Barnes shows in this book,...
Something to Declare
Essays on France and French Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Anyone who loves France (or just feels strongly about it), or has succumbed to the spell of Julian Barnes’s previous books, will be enraptured by this collection of essays on the country and its culture.
Barnes’s appreciation extends from France’s vanishing peasantry to its hyper-literate...
by Julian Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
In his first collection of short stories, Barnes explores the narrow body of water containing the vast sea of prejudice and misapprehension which lies between England and France with acuity humor, and compassion. For whether Barnes's English characters come to France as conquerors or hostages, laborers,...
Death and Redemption
The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Death and Redemption offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag--the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons--in Soviet society. Soviet authorities undoubtedly had the means to exterminate all the prisoners who passed through the Gulag, but...
Love's Whipping Boy
Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
Working to reconcile the Christian dictum to "love one's neighbor as oneself" with evidence of U.S. sociopolitical aggression, including slavery, corporal punishment of children, and Indian removal, Elizabeth Barnes focuses her attention on aggressors--rather than the weak or abused--to...
by Marc Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Marc Barnes first cared about being Catholic, “not out of any profound love for the person of Christ, but out of a profound distaste for my other options.” After exploring the options of the secular world, Barnes came to the conclusion that even the secular world isn’t secular enough. In fact,...
Democracy at the Crossroads
Princes, Peasants, Poets, and Presidents in the Struggle for (and against) the Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Some were warriors. Some were lawyers, some historians, some moved by an inner passion so great that they appeared to move against kingly power like moths to the flame, risking, and often giving, their lives. They wrote, cajoled, and sometimes cried out for all to hear that the law is above the king.This...
The Challenge of Rural Electrification
Strategies for Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Douglas Barnes and his team of development experts provide an essential guide that can help improve the quality of life to the estimated 1.6 billion rural people in the world who are without electricity. The difficulties in bringing electricity to rural areas are formidable: Low population densities...
Value Vote Ballot
the Barnes Theory of Voting
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Human society is constantly evolving, but is democracy keeping pace?
Most citizens of today’s democracies spend 12 years in public schools. Humanity is more educated now than at any time in history. Yet we still vote as though most of our citizens are illiterate.
The present ballot...
Mary of Carisbrooke
The Girl Who Would Not Betray Her King
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
"Margaret Campbell Barnes has been one of the most reliable of England's historical novelists."
-Chicago Tribune
A Girl, A King, and the castle that changed them both Forever...
Charles I, king of England, thought that Carisbrooke Castle would be safe, an Isle of Wight refuge...
by John Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Shatter the line between fiction and fantasy...
The life of an award-winning novelist probably bears more resemblance to "normal" than most fans would want to believe. But every once in awhile, strange things are bound to erupt around those most equipped to document them... so imagine...
by Anna Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Anna Barnes’ MinusOneSister is a contemporary retelling of Sophocles’ classic tragedy, Electra. The teenage siblings take the stage, and loyalties are challenged as each confronts their own grief and guilt. Barnes challenges patterns of blame that persist today when dealing with violence and sexuality....
The Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries Volume Two
Snapshot, Hardware, Cold Case, and Flashpoint
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
“The most refreshing, creative female character to hit mystery fiction since Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone” is back—in four more fast-paced crime thrillers (People).
Six-foot-tall, redheaded ex-cop and Boston-based private eye Carlotta Carlyle is “the genuine article: a straightforward,...