Craig: 3265 books
The Angelic Mother and the Predatory Seductress
Poor White Women in Southern Literature of the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
In The Angelic Mother and the Predatory Seductress, Ashley Craig Lancaster examines how converging political and cultural movements helped to create dualistic images of southern poor white female characters in Depression-era literature. While other studies address the familial and labor issues that...
Watson Manor Eventually
1 of 4 books in series
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Charlie Watson didn't realize his regular stop at the diner that morning was going to turn his world upside down and change him forever. A cross country truck driver, he lives his life a safe distance from people and relationships. When he offers to lead Jenny, a stranger, on his run from Arkansas,...
The Anglican Communion at a Crossroads
The Crises of a Global Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Worldwide debates over issues of sexuality and gender have come to a head in recent years in mainline and evangelical churches, with the Anglican Communion—a worldwide network of churches that trace their practice to Canterbury and claim some 85 million members—among the most publicly visible...
by Marion Craig Wentworth
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This early work by Marion Craig Wentworth was originally published in 1915 and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series. 'War Brides: A Play in One Act' is a drama about a young woman whose husband is killed in the fighting of the First World War. She contemplates suicide but...
How to Feel Manly in a Minivan
The Desperate Dad's Survival Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
For every guy who has wondered how he could possibly become a dad while preserving any masculinity, sanity or dignity, this practical and hilarious guide will teach you
HOW TO FEEL MANLY IN A MINIVAN
...and many other essential self-preservation techniques for new dads
Men are ill equipped...
The Aesthetics of Democracy
Eighteenth-Century Literature and Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
This book offers an original and interdisciplinary interpretation of the relation between aesthetics and modern liberal democracy, uniting the fields of art theory with the democratic political philosophy and modern liberal economic theory. The central argument of the books offers an explanation of...
How America Was Lost
From 9/11 to the Police/Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Even as the view of America as a rogue state consolidates abroad, Americans appear largely bystanders at the spectacle of their government running amok. People forget the myriad instances of their government's flouting of the Constitution and international legal norms-- if ever they were aware of them...
In The Company Of Black Men
The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
From the subaltern assemblies of the enslaved in colonial New York City to the benevolent New York African Society of the early national era to the formation of the African Blood Brotherhood in twentieth century Harlem, voluntary associations have been a fixture of African-American communities.
In...
The Selma Campaign
Martin Luther King Jr., Jimmie Lee Jackson, and the Defining Struggle of the Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Troopers, advance! Those two words, shouted by a police commander in Selma, Alabama, some 50 years ago, changed the course of U.S. history. The date was March 7, 1965. The scene was the Edmund Pettus Bridge. And the resulting violence spurred an appalled nation into action. The Selma Campaign chronicles...
Sugar Man
The Life, Death and Resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Like many South Africans in the seventies and eighties, Stephen ‘Sugar’ Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom were obsessed with the music of Rodriguez, but the man himself was a mystery. Only his name was known, and the fact that he had killed himself on stage. After years of searching in a...
The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
In The Canadian Labour Movement, historian Craig Heron tells the story of Canada's workers from the mid-nineteenth century through to today, painting a vivid picture of key developments such as the birth of craft unionism, the breakthroughs of the fifties and sixties, and the setbacks of the early...
The Tyranny of Good Intentions
How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
A thousand years of legal protections against tyranny are being stolen right before our eyes. Under the guise of good intentions, personal liberties as old as the Magna Carta have become casualties in the wars being waged on pollution, drugs, white-collar crime, and all of the other real and imagined...
The Passport in America
The History of a Document
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
In today's world of constant identification checks, it's difficult to recall that there was ever a time when "proof of identity" was not a part of everyday life. And as anyone knows who has ever lost a passport, or let one expire on the eve of international travel, the passport has become...
Listen Up, Mr. President
Everything You Always Wanted Your President to Know and Do
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Helen Thomas has covered the administrations of ten presidents in a career spanning nearly sixty years. She is known for her famous press conference closing line, "Thank you, Mr. President," but here she trades deference for directness. Thomas and veteran journalist Craig Crawford hold nothing back...