Clark: 4067 books

Louisville boasts many award-winning fine dining restaurants, but long before Derby City mastered upscale cuisine, it perfected the diner. Explore Louisville's tasty offerings with local food writer Ashlee Clark Thompson as she surveys the city's impressive variety of greasy spoons from the Highlands...

Miguel de Quintana was among those arriving in New Mexico with Diego de Vargas in 1694. He was active in his village of Santa Cruz de la Cañada where he was a notary and secretary to the alcalde mayor, functioning as a quasi-attorney. Being unusually literate, he also wrote personal poetry for himself...

In the engaging tradition of Tuesdays with Morrie-a unique memoir of friendship, family, and irreplaceable memories. Throughout her life and career, Kristin Clark Taylor, the first woman of color appointed to Director of White House Media Relations, has gathered mementos to keep in her "forever...

Contentment and happiness are highly valued but only a few attain and sustain them. The book explores what prevents people from achieving both in a world that presents great challenges. It explains how our conscious fantasies and largely unconscious phantasies can make lived experience seem painful,...

Depression is an experience known to millions. But arguments rage on aspects of its definition and its impact on societies present and past: do drugs work, or are they merely placebos? Is the depression we have today merely a construct of the pharmaceutical industry? Is depression under- or over-diagnosed?...

Ellery Harding Clark (March 13, 1874 – February 17, 1949) was an American track and field athlete. He was the first modern Olympic champion in high jump and long jump. He excelled as an author, lawyer, track coach, teacher and Boston city alderman

Master the Principles and Vocabulary of Game Design   Why aren’t videogames getting better? Why does it feel like we’re playing the same games, over and over again? Why aren’t games helping us transform our lives, like great music, books, and movies do? The problem is language. We still don’t...

Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, as one judge described her, was “a coldly calculated criminal recidivist and serial killer.” She had experienced a lifetime of murder, mayhem, and mental illness. She killed two boyfriends, including one whose body was stuffed in a freezer. And she was convicted in one...

After a career at sea that caused his health to deteriorate, William Clark Russell retired and turned his attention to writing. Though he published several novels before The Wreck of the Grosvenor, this action-packed account of growing tensions among a ship's crew that eventually erupt into full-blown mutiny was his first major success.

Jesus was a Hebrew. He went to the Temple, often. He called it His Father's house. He went to synagogue on the Sabbath. He attended the feasts, even when people were waiting to kill him. He argued doctrine from Moses, the Prophets, and the Writings. He said the Shema (“the LORD our God, the...

This celebration of short stories, poems, and essays gives us a glimpse into the Deaf signing community, something that literature by hearing authors featuring deaf characters has rarely done. Between these covers, a Deaf couple fights over their son’s language use, an Australian woman joins the...

Sometimes we find ourselves complaining about particular pain; but, in all actuality we're the cause of the pain. "Addicted To Pain" deals with this issue and gives strategies in overcoming our addictions of familiar pain. " Addicted To Pain" by Eric Maurice Clark coming fall 2012!!

The Value of Ecocriticism offers a brief, incisive overview of the fast-changing field of environmental literary criticism in a bewildering age of global environmental threat. The intellectual, moral and political complexity of environmental issues, especially at the global scale (the so-called 'Anthropocene')...

Viewing a lifetime that spans nearly a century, a remarkable woman shares the secrets she has gleaned from her world travels and spiritual journey. From a sod house in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma Territory to life as the wife of a Hollywood lawyer, she has experienced the most vital influences...