Barnes: 1105 books
The Bowden Dynasty
A Story of Faith, Family & Football An Insider's Account
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
From 1987 to 2000 the Florida State Seminoles won the hearts of America and thrilled their fans with fourteen consecutive ten-win, top-five seasons. In seven of those seasons they lost only one game. More often than not, the players’ quest for a perfect season came down to one play where mere inches...
Brief Gaudy Hour
A Novel of Anne Boleyn
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
The enigmatic Anne Boleyn comes to life in this charming, brilliant portrayal by acclaimed British novelist Margaret Campbell Barnes.
The infamous love of King Henry VIII and the mother of Queen Elizabeth I, Anne Boleyn undertook a rocky journey from innocent courtier to powerful Queen of England....
Constantine
Dynasty, Religion and Power in the Later Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Drawing on recent scholarly advances and new evidence, Timothy Barnes offers a fresh and exciting study of Constantine and his life.
First study of Constantine to make use of Kevin Wilkinson's re-dating of the poet Palladas to the reign of Constantine, disproving the predominant scholarly belief...
by Julian Barnes
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Eind jaren dertig staat een jonge man – aanstormende componist, toegewijde huisvader – met een ingepakt koffertje bij de lift van een flatgebouw in Leningrad. Hij wacht er de hele nacht, nachtenlang, in de overtuiging dat hij opgepakt zal worden en afgevoerd naar het Grote Huis. Geen enkele beroemdheid...
With Liberty and Dividends for All
How to Save Our Middle Class When Jobs Don't Pay Enough
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Peter Barnes argues that because of globalization, automation, and winner-take-all capitalism, there won’t be enough high-paying jobs to sustain America’s middle class in the future. Therefore, to survive economically, our middle class needs—and deserves—a supplementary source of nonlabor...
by Peter Barnes, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Peter Barnes avers that we are no longer in the Holocene epoch, but in the Anthropocene epoch, an era in which humans are "a, if not...
Socializing the Classroom
Social Networks and Online Learning
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Socializing the Classroom: Social Networks and Online Learning, by Susan B. Barnes, examines how social media can be used in education through two research grants and real-world applications. Barnes analyzes social media including Facebook, Courseware, and Second Life, while providing a theoretical...
The Road to Mount Lemmon
A Father, A Family, and the Making of Summerhaven
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
As you wind your way up the Catalina Highway, it doesn’t matter whether you’re a first-time visitor or a native Tucsonan; you know you’re on the way to someplace special.
The Santa Catalina Mountains first captivated Tony Zimmerman on a 1937 hunting trip. Regard for the alpine beauty...
The Tennyson Hardwick Collection
Casanegra, In the Night of the Heat, and From Cape Town with Love
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
A dream team collaboration of award-winning Hollywood actor and author of Before I Got Here Blair Underwood and award-winning novelists—and married couple—Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes bring you three of their hot, action-packed novels.
Casanegra
Casanegra follows the adventures of Tennyson...
Searching for Home
Spirituality for Restless Souls
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Deep down it's easy to believe that the better job, the nicer house, or the more dynamic church will finally make us feel "at home." In Searching for Home, M. Craig Barnes challenges this belief. He reminds us that paradise is lost and we can't go home again. Our great comfort and hope,...
by Julian Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending and one of Britain’s greatest writers, a twist on the workshop story and defense of Papa Hemingway, with art, love, ambition mixed in.
“Homage to Hemingway” is modeled...
In the Wilderness
Coming of Age in Unknown Country
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Poet Kim Barnes grew up in northern Idaho, in the isolated camps where her father worked as a logger and her mother made a modest but comfortable home for her husband and two children. Their lives were short on material wealth, but long on the riches of family and friendship, and the great sheltering...
by Steven Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Steven Barnes’s Great Sky Woman unveiled the world of a prehistoric people in the shadow of modern-day Mount Kilimanjaro. Now, in Shadow Valley, the astounding sequel, we follow the Ibandi people’s odyssey through a land where everything has changed—a land from whose ashes will grow the roots...
The Minority Body
A Theory of Disability
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Elizabeth Barnes argues compellingly that disability is primarily a social phenomenon—a way of being a minority, a way of facing social oppression, but not a way of being inherently or intrinsically worse off. This is how disability is understood in the Disability Rights and Disability Pride movements;...