Catherine: 5496 books
Michael Haneke's Cinema
The Ethic of the Image
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Existing critical traditions fail to fully account for the impact of Austrian director, and 2009 Cannes Palm d'Or winner, Michael Haneke’s films, situated as they are between intellectual projects and popular entertainments. In this first English-language introduction to, and critical analysis of,...
"That Fiend in Hell"
Soapy Smith in Legend
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
As the Klondike gold rush peaked in spring 1898, adventurers and gamblers rubbed shoulders with town-builders and gold-panners in Skagway, Alaska. The flow of riches lured confidence men, too—among them Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith (1860–98), who with an entourage of “bunco-men” conned...
by Marie Catherine Aulnoy
Language: French
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Marie-Catherine, baronne d’Aulnoy, née Le Jumel de Barneville à Barneville-la-Bertran le 14 janvier 1651 et morte à Paris le 13 janvier 1705, est un écrivain français. Femme « d'esprit » et scandaleuse, elle est l'un des auteurs à l'origine du genre écrit du conte merveilleux. Là où d'autres...
Mavericks of the Sky
The First Daring Pilots of the U.S. Air Mail
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
It was the pilots of the U.S. Air Mail service who made it possible for flight to evolve from an impractical and deadly fad to today's worldwide network of airlines. Nicknamed "The Suicide Club," this small but daring cadre of pilots took a fleet of flimsy World War I "Jenny" Biplanes...
The Rise and Fall of American Art, 1940s–1980s
A Geopolitics of Western Art Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In The Rise and Fall of American Art, 1940s-1980s, Catherine Dossin challenges the now-mythic perception of New York as the undisputed center of the art world between the end of World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall, a position of power that brought the city prestige, money, and historical...
The Black Prince of Florence
The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Ruler of Florence for seven bloody years, 1531 to 1537, Alessandro de' Medici was arguably the first person of color to serve as a head of state in the Western world. Born out of wedlock to a dark-skinned maid and Lorenzo de' Medici, he was the last legitimate heir to the line of Lorenzo the Magnificent....
Leslie's Stamps
A Saga of the Holocaust and Escape to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
He had an idyllic childhood in a small Hungarian town where, it seemed, there was no animosity between the Christian majority and Jews like him. But with the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, Leslie Meisels ended up in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp with his family. In Leslie's Stamps: A Saga of the Holocaust...
Stop Fixing Women
Why Building Fairer Workplaces Is Everybody's Business
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Millions of words have been spent in our quest to explain men's seemingly never-ending dominance in boardrooms, in parliaments, in the bureaucracy and in almost every workplace. So why is gender inequality still such a pressing issue? Wage inequality between men and women seems one of the intractables...
by Catherine McGrew Jaime
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2010
We studied Jamestown in great depth a few years ago, just in time for the 400 year anniversary. I was surprised how little a knew about the settlement and its history. This little booklet came out of my research. I hope you enjoy getting to know this fascinating history as much as we did.
by Catherine McGrew Jaime
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2013
This Teacher Key gives the answers for the optional mid-term exam and final exam in Simply Put: A Study in Economics Student Book. It is not meant to be a stand-alone product, but is meant to accompany the Student Book.
Debussy's Paris
Piano Portraits of the Belle Époque
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Debussy’s Paris: Piano Portraits of the Belle Époque explores how key works reflect not only the most appealing and innocent aspects of Paris but also more disquieting attitudes of the time such as racism, colonial domination, and nationalistic hostility. Debussy left no avenue unexplored, and...
by Catherine Tackley
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
On January 16, 1938 Benny Goodman brought his swing orchestra to America's venerated home of European classical music, Carnegie Hall. The resulting concert - widely considered one of the most significant events in American music history - helped to usher jazz and swing music into the American cultural...
Chapter and Hearse
And Other Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2004
A wealthy businessman has died under suspicious circumstances. A Christmas with the family provides more drama than could be expected. A girl accuses the hospital of killing her grandmother. In 16th Century Scotland, the death of a clansman is not what it first appears.
From the investigations of...
Our Prince of Scribes
Writers Remember Pat Conroy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In...