Dunn: 935 books
Privatizing Poland
Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
The transition from socialism in Eastern Europe is not an isolated event, but part of a larger shift in world capitalism: the transition from Fordism to flexible (or neoliberal) capitalism. Using a blend of ethnography and economic geography, Elizabeth C. Dunn shows how management technologies like...
by Rae Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Brimming with joie de vivre, France provides a glimpse into the gorgeous sketchbooks that artist Rae Dunn compiles during her annual sojourns in Paris, Provence, and the French Riviera. Colors, tastes, and smells come to life with each turn of the page, as Dunn's charming watercolor sketches and dreamy...
by Suzannah Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
A tremendously vivid, page-turning and plausible novel that depicts the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn, the most spirited, independent and courageous of Henry’s queens, as viewed from both the bedrooms and the kitchens of the Tudor court. Everyone knows the story of Anne Boleyn. Henry VIII divorced...
by Stephen Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 1998
"Dunn's new poems are driven by the same tireless force that made his New and Selected Poems (1994) so powerful, but there is a new tone here, a deepening of his recognition of life's perversities."—Booklist
In this tenth collection, Stephen Dunn turns his "wise, well-practiced...
Loopers
A Caddie's Twenty-Year Golf Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
John Dunn never expected that his summer job as a caddie at the local course in Connecticut might turn into something more. The lifers who plied the loops were an ensemble of misfits and degenerates who made the caddie yard look more like a gambling hall than a country club. But Dunn came of age...
Reclaiming Opportunities for Effective Teaching
An Institutional Ethnographic Study of Community College Course Outlines
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
This book examines the increased standardization and management of community college course outlines in Ontario and the associated decline in the ability of college professors to effectively educate their students. Dunn tracks the changes of increased pressure from corporations to privatize public...
by Stephen Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
“[Stephen Dunn] has taken his place among our major, indispensable poets.”—Miami Herald
In his seventeenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn confronts the lines we fight against and the ones we draw for ourselves. Lines of Defense poignantly captures the absurdities...
Sentinel
A Will Cochrane Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
“Great talent, great imagination, and real been-there done-that authenticity.”
—Lee Child
“Not since Fleming charged Bond with the safety of the world has the international secret agent mystique been so anchored with an insider’s reality.”
—Noah Boyd, author of The Bricklayer...
Sugar and Slaves
The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
First published by UNC Press in 1972, Sugar and Slaves presents a vivid portrait of English life in the Caribbean more than three centuries ago. Using a host of contemporary primary sources, Richard Dunn traces the development of plantation slave society in the region. He examines sugar production...
by Patria L. Dunn (Patria Dunn-Rowe)
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
The Gifts: (Vol 1-The Gifts Trilogy) Nine gifts were stolen from a mythical man with wings ages ago. Those nine gifts found themselves transferred into human eggs, delved out through in vitro fertilization. These newly made beings were born into the world unbeknownst to man. There...
Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt
Advanced Engineering in the Temples of the Pharaohs
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
A unique study of the engineering and tools used to create Egyptian monuments
• Presents a stone-by-stone analysis of key Egyptian monuments, including the statues of Ramses II and the tunnels of the Serapeum
• Reveals that highly refined tools and mega-machines were used in ancient...
Contracultura
Alternative Arts and Social Transformation in Authoritarian Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Christopher Dunn's history of authoritarian Brazil exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during the rule of an iron-fisted military regime during the sixties and seventies. The Brazilian contracultura was a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that...
Blockading the Border and Human Rights
The El Paso Operation that Remade Immigration Enforcement
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
To understand border enforcement and the shape it has taken, it is imperative to examine a groundbreaking Border Patrol operation begun in 1993 in El Paso, Texas, "Operation Blockade." The El Paso Border Patrol designed and implemented this radical new strategy, posting 400 agents directly on the...
by Patria L. Dunn (Patria Dunn-Rowe)
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Book 2 of The Gifts: Trilogy- Signs & Wonders Decisions Decisions…. Nahla and Gideon say good bye to the first part of their journey to begin a new life together, their hearts set on finding the other seven gifts. Their honeymoon begins in a whirlwind of unexpected events, the first being the...