Frances: 2004 books
History Teaches Us to Resist
How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Historian and civil rights activist proves how progressive movements can flourish even in conservative times.
Despair and mourning after the election of an antagonistic or polarizing president, such as Donald Trump, is part of the push-pull of American politics. But in this incisive book, historian...
The Evangelicals
The Struggle to Shape America
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
* Winner of the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award
* National Book Award Finalist
* Time magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year
* New York Times Notable Book
* Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017
This “epic history” (The Boston Globe) from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Frances...
by Mary Frances Berry
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
This is the story of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, through its extraordinary fifty years at the heart of the civil rights movement and the struggle for justice in America.
Mary Frances Berry, the commission’s chairperson for more than a decade, author of My Face Is Black Is True (“An...
Insecure Majorities
Congress and the Perpetual Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
As Democrats and Republicans continue to vie for political advantage, Congress remains paralyzed by partisan conflict. That the last two decades have seen some of the least productive Congresses in recent history is usually explained by the growing ideological gulf between the parties, but this explanation...
by Frances Millard
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This book is a political history of democratic elections in Poland from the first fully competitive parliamentary elections in 1991 to the unexpected, most recent election in 2007. Until now, there has been no equivalent study covering similar developments in this, or any other, post-communist country;...
Black Resistance/White Law
A History of Constitutional Racism in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1995
How the government has used the Constitution to deny black Americans their legal rights
From the arrival of the first twenty slaves in Jamestown to the Howard Beach Incident of 1986, Yusef Hawkins, and Rodney King, federal law enforcement has pleaded lack of authority against white violence...
by Frances Black, The Rise Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Here the many sides to addiction are explored in stories which, though often raw and at times heart-breaking, are bound together by their courage, honesty, hope and resolve. Each one recognises the power of openness in emerging from the dark shadow cast by addiction. In looking to a brighter day,...
The Door of Last Resort
Memoirs of a Nurse Practitioner
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Having spent decades in urban clinical practice while working simultaneously as an academic administrator, teacher, and writer, Frances Ward is especially well equipped to analyze the American health care system. In this memoir, she explores the practice of nurse practitioners through her experiences...
Becoming Dead Right
A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
All of us are entitled to the rewards of a peaceful, pain-free death. This book honors that with true stories about hospice patients and inspiring insights from the author. Becoming Dead Right guides us through the general and "how to" information maze that prepares us for dealing with death.
Improving...
Let This Mind Be in You
Thinking Thoughts of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
What does it mean to have the mind of Christ?
In this classic book, Frances Hunter shares a wonderful revelation of the transforming power that is ours when we learn to think the thoughts of Jesus. As we share in His thoughts, we become energized and empowered in every area of our lives, and our desires...
by Frances Worthington
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
In Abraham: One God, Three Wives, Five Religions, author Frances Worthington explores the three wives/concubines (Sarah, Hagar, and Keturah) of Abraham, and traces their lineage to five different religions--Christianity, Judaism, Islam, the Babi Faith, and the Bahai Faith. Examining the scripture and...
The Church in the Nineteenth Century
The I.B.Tauris History of the Christian Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2008
The nineteenth century was one of the most fascinating and volatile periods in Christian history. It was during this time that Christianity evolved into a truly global religion, which led to an ever greater variety of ways for Christians to express and profess their faith. Frances Knight addresses...
Ding Dong Bell - Death in a Stairwell
A Medical Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Trish McLeod MD, professor of psychiatry in a southern medical school returns once again to discover the reason for a series of mysterious deaths when a woman is discovered in the stairwell. Why do all the victims have the same tiny heart tattoo? Fellow faculty members and a high school friend...
A Harlot's Cry
One Woman's Thirty-Five-Year Journey through the Sex Industry
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
It all started at an ice cream truck.
In a typical American city on a typical neighborhood street, fifteen-year-old Mary Frances found herself the object of interest to Dirty Dan, a biker gang member more than a decade her senior. Neglected, abused, and hungry, Mary thought she had found the...