Elizabeth Ford: 10 books
Sometimes Amazing Things Happen
Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
From the Executive Director of Mental Health for Correctional Services in New York City, comes a revelatory and deeply compassionate memoir that takes readers inside Bellevue, and brings to life the world—the system, the staff, and the haunting cases—that shaped one young psychiatrist as she learned...
Smart Girls Marry Money
How Women Have Been Duped Into the Romantic Dream--And How They're Paying For It
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Why does society applaud a girl who falls for a guy's “big blue eyes” yet denounces one who chooses a man with a “big green bankroll”? After all, isn't earning power more a reflection of a man's values and character? Smart Girls Marry Money challenges the ideals and assumptions women have...
by Elizabeth Ford Wells
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Everything started in a garden. The source of one of the most important pieces of knowledge known to modern man was found in a gardenthe ability to distinguish between good and evil. But thats not where it ended. This book reveals the everyday wisdom available to everyone found in the garden. You...
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction's Finest Voices
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
“Ellen Datlow is the queen of anthology editors in America.”—Peter Straub
With original stories by Jeffrey Ford, Pat Cadigan, Elizabeth Bear, Margo Lanagan, and others
From Del Rey Books and award-winning editor Ellen Datlow, two of the most respected names in science fiction and...
Royal Portraits in Hollywood
Filming the Lives of Queens
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Few lives provide as much history or drama as those of monarchs. Filmmakers from the silent era to onward have displayed a deep fascination with the lives of royalty and with queens in particular. Still, the question remains: what do these films really tell us about the women beneath the crowns?
Drawing...
The Lone Wolverine
Tracking Michigan's Most Elusive Animal
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
It began in late winter of 2004. Almost 100 years had passed since the last spotting of a wild wolverine in Michigan when coyote hunters caught a glimpse of one of the animals in a frozen farm field in the northern thumb region. For the next six years, Jeff Ford, a local science teacher...
Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices
A Novel in 36 Voices
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page.
Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary...
by Sheree N. Alexander, Mariella I. Arredondo, Tabetha Bernstein-Danis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
This volume examines the school-to-prison pipeline, a concept that has received growing attention over the past 10–15 years in the United States. The “pipeline” refers to a number of interrelated concepts and activities that most often include the criminalization of students and student behavior,...
by Elizabeth A. Ford, Deborah C. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
The apocalypse on the big screen has expanded beyond the familiar end-of-the-world movies. Romantic comedies, teen adventures and even children’s films frequently feature apocalyptic imagery—disintegrating cities, extreme weather events, extinctions, rogue military forces, epidemics, zombie armies...
Black Women and Popular Culture
The Conversation Continues
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
With the emergence of popular culture phenomena such as reality television, blogging, and social networking sites, it is important to examine the representation of Black women and the potential implications of those images, messages, and roles. Black Women and Popular Culture: The Conversation Continues...