Gerald: 1985 books
Black and Brown
African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Winner of a 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (Honorable Mention)
The Mexican Revolution was a defining moment in the history of race relations, impacting both Mexican and African Americans. For black Westerners, 19101920 did not represent the clear-cut promise of populist power, but a...
by Gerald Sathiyasiva
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2016
After reading through a multitude of self-help books that only gave out impractical advice to the reader with no strong stories or examples from history and current events. I went on to read and research how Kings, Presidents, Billionaires and the most successful people succeed in their life.Their...
The Power of Negative Thinking
Coming to Terms with our Forbidden Emotions
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1999
Although society encourages us to deny and repress such negative emotions as rage and resentment, psychiatrists know that such denial can lead to a variety of psychological, physical, and social problems. In this bold book, Gerald Amada reveals how our forbidden emotions, if properly understood and...
by Gerald Sathiyasiva
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
In a world where power dominates, two alpha males in their prime go head to head in this thrilling and exciting book one chapter at a time. This Book manages to capture the real world struggles and ruthlessness for power.
One of them is motivated to keep the power he has, the other to gain as much...
Civilization and Monsters
Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2000
Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the “stuff” of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern, or, at best, seen as representative of traditional beliefs that are overcome and left behind...
Dealing with a Rising Power
Turkey's Transformation and its Implications for the EU
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Turkey’s growing assertiveness on the international stage, difficulties with EU accession, rapidly rising economy, and the long and controversial reign of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) are all necessitating a need for analysis. The present study of the Centre for European Studies presents...
A Gift for the Asking:
Eight Principles of Successful Fundraising
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Dr. Gerald Levey can “Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk.” At UCLA as the former dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine and the former vice chancellor of Medical Sciences, he led a team that raised $1.75 billion for the medical sciences.
Dr. Levey shares his...
Goze
Women, Musical Performance, and Visual Disability in Traditional Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
In a tradition extending from the medieval era to the early twentieth century, visually disabled Japanese women known as goze toured the countryside as professional singers. An integral part of rural musical culture, the goze sang unique narratives of their own making and a significant repertory of...
The Tyranny of the Ideal
Justice in a Diverse Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
In his provocative new book, The Tyranny of the Ideal, Gerald Gaus lays out a vision for how we should theorize about justice in a diverse society. Gaus shows how free and equal people, faced with intractable struggles and irreconcilable conflicts, might share a common moral life shaped by a just...
Vigilante Newspapers
Tales of sex, religion, and murder in the northwest
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
This riveting work of social history documents the role the news media played in spurring two murders revolving around Edmund Creffield, a charismatic "Holy Roller" evangelist who arrived in Corvallis, Oregon, in 1903 and quickly enraged the citizenry by defiantly challenging the religious...
Reflections of Life
Therapeutic Poetry to Stimulate Contemplative Thoughts
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Reflections of Life is a collection of spirit fill poems and thoughts covering daily lives of people from every ethnic back ground. It acts as an therapeutic guide to examine emotions and stimulate contemplative thought through poetry. Much like the first book written by Gerald, this book reflects his thoughts, moods, and feelings on issues in life.
by Gerald Stern
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
From the National Book Award–winning author of This Time, a new volume of poems that explore the very nature of existence.
Divine Nothingness is a meditative reflection on the poet’s past and an elegy to love and the experience of the senses in the face of mortality. From the Jersey side...
by Gerald Murnane
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
This collection of essays leads into the eccentric imagination of Gerald Murnane, one of the masters of contemporary Australian writing.
World Religions
An Indispensable Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
An essential introduction to eight of the world’s major religions. Gerald R. McDermott explains what you need to understand about major world religions in order to engage people of other faiths while better understanding your own Christian faith and practice. McDermott offers an overview of the...