Catherine: 5496 books
Sound Unbound
Sampling Digital Music and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
The role of sound and digital media in an information-based society: artists—from Steve Reich and Pierre Boulez to Chuck D and Moby—describe their work.
If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remix—how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines...
Une Femme Française
The Seductive Style of French Women
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
All American women aspire to have the nonchalant style and grace of French women, that je ne sais quoi that makes all of their habits seem natural and effortless. In Une Femme Française, fashion designer Catherine Malandrino, a Frenchwoman who has lived and worked in the US for twenty years, reveals...
Soldiers Once
My Brother and the Lost Dreams of America's Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Catherine Whitney's brother, Vietnam veteran Jim Schuler, died at just fifty-three years old, while living in a flophouse. It had been sixteen years since, in one of his drunken rages, he had last seen his family. He was one of countless veterans who never recovered from the trauma of war and the...
Tara Revisited
Women, War, & the Plantation Legend
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Cutting through romantic myth, this captivating volume combines period photographs and illustrations with new documentary sources to tell the real story of southern women during the Civil War.
Drawing from a wealth of poignant letters, diaries, slave narratives, and other accounts, Catherine...
Chris Marker
Memories of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004
Chris Marker is one of the most extraordinary and influential filmmakers of our time. In landmark films such as Letter from Siberia, La Jetée, Sans Soleil, and Level Five, he has overturned cinematic conventions by confounding the distinction between documentary and fiction, writing and visual recording,...
The Uskoks of Senj
Piracy, Banditry, and Holy War in the Sixteenth-Century Adriatic
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
In this highly original and influential book, Catherine Wendy Bracewell reconstructs and analyzes the tumultuous history of the uskoks of Senj, the martial bands nominally under the control of the Habsburg Military Frontier in Croatia, who between the 1530s and the 1620s developed a community based...
Sleeping Around
Flings and Faux Pas of an American Girl in London
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
"Sexy, confident and brimming with attitude."
Cosmopolitan
The provocative international bestseller, published in 8 countries, finally comes home to the U.S.
Catherine Townsend leaves her martini swilling life as a New York City gossip columnist to find love and adventure in London...
by Catherine McGrew Jaime
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
New York City -- what a city, what a history!
If it happened anywhere in America, it probably happened in New York City. Reading the history of this city is fascinating and exciting, as if watching the people and the events, that traveled through the region and across the years.
This little ebook is an annotated timeline of the major events of this incredible city.
The Final Dawn
A Debut Novella of Revenge, Betrayal and Treacherous Love
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
In Joseph Stalin’s early 1930’s Russia, an entire class of people were at risk of exploitation. Valeyria and Alexei Yolkin were members of one such family. … It was a freezing day when the first Yolkin sibling turned on another. With the young children listening in fear below in the darkness, they...
Black Diamonds
The Downfall of an Aristocratic Dynasty and the Fifty Years That Changed England
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Secret Rooms, the extraordinary true story of the downfall of one of England’s wealthiest families
Fans of Downton Abbey now have a go-to resource for fascinating, real-life stories of the spectacular lives led by England’s aristocrats....
A Castle in Wartime
One Family, Their Missing Sons, and the Fight to Defeat the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
**"I was gripped by A Castle in Wartime--it contained more tension, more plot in fact--than any thriller."--Kate Atkinson, author of Big Sky and Case Histories
An enthralling story of one family's extraordinary courage and resistance amidst the horrors of war from the New York Times...
Victoria
Portrait of a Queen
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Catherine Reef brings history vividly to life in this sumptuously illustrated account of a confident, strong-minded, and influential woman.
Victoria woke one morning at the age of eighteen to discover that her uncle had died and she was now queen. She went on to rule for sixty-three years,...
Virginia Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Virginia Women is the first of two volumes exploring the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. This collection of seventeen essays, written by established and emerging scholars, recovers the stories and voices of a diverse group of women, from the seventeenth...
Crafting Lives
African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
From the colonial period onward, black artisans in southern cities--thousands of free and enslaved carpenters, coopers, dressmakers, blacksmiths, saddlers, shoemakers, bricklayers, shipwrights, cabinetmakers, tailors, and others--played vital roles in their communities. Yet only a very few black craftspeople...