Jeffrey: 3395 books
Undeclared Wars with Israel
East Germany and the West German Far Left, 1967–1989
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Undeclared Wars with Israel examines a spectrum of antagonism by the East German government and West German radical leftist organizations - ranging from hostile propaganda and diplomacy to military support for Israel's Arab armed adversaries - from 1967 to the end of the Cold War in 1989. This period...
by Jeffrey R. Holland
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
"Often in our most difficult times the only thing we can do is endure. We may have no idea what the final cost in suffering or sacrifice may be, but we can vow never to give up. In doing so we will learn that there is no worthy task so great nor burden so heavy that will not yield to our perseverance....
Before Waters Edge
A Poetry Collection
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
This poetry collection portrays one mans journey through lifes exquisite angles and the endless refractions of the heart. Personal, emotional, sensuous--each poem portrays moments and dreams well worth portrayal upon the canvas of the page.
Jeffrey Ritters words illuminate a chapter of life...
Are We Not Foreigners Here?
Indigenous Nationalism in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Since its inception, the U.S.-Mexico border has invited the creation of cultural, economic, and political networks that often function in defiance of surrounding nation-states. It has also produced individual and group identities that are as subversive as they are dynamic. In Are We Not Foreigners...
Hungary and NATO
Problems in Civil-Military Relations
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2003
Since the revolutions of 1989-1990, most Central and Eastern European states have been striving to adhere to Euro-Atlantic institutions; and when NATO developed its own 'criteria' for membership, democratic control of the military was considered an essential precondition. Based on firsthand participatory...
The Lesbian Lyre
Reclaiming Sappho for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Hailed by Plato as the “Tenth Muse” of ancient Greek poetry, Sappho is inarguably antiquity’s greatest lyric poet. Born over 2,600 years ago on the Greek island of Lesbos, and writing amorously of women and men alike, she is the namesake lesbian. What’s left of her writing, and what we know...
Virtues of Renewal
Wendell Berry's Sustainable Forms
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
For over fifty years, Wendell Berry has argued that our most pressing ecological and cultural need is a renewed formal intelligence -- a mode of thinking and acting that fosters the health of the earth and its beings. Yet the present industrial economy prioritizes a technical, self-centered way of...
Loving God's Wildness
The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
When the Puritans arrived in the New World to carry out the colonization they saw as divinely mandated, they were confronted by the American wilderness. Part of their theology led them to view the natural environment as “a temple of God” in which they should glorify and serve its creator. The...
The Five Flirting Styles
Use the Science of Flirting to Attract the Love You Really Want
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Flirt Smarter. Date Better. *Love Happily Ever After. *
Do you always attract the wrong type? Have a hard time making relationships last? Or get stuck being friends instead of lovers?
There's no one right way to flirt, but how you flirt says a lot about your chance at love. Dr. Jeffrey...
by Jeffrey Nix
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
On November 7th, 1919, Bartow Grover Nix, was hanged for a double murder in Columbus, Georgia. And that wasn't the first time he found himself in hot water over killing. Like many great tragedies, the story is not as clear-cut as it would seem on paper. Questions continue concerning the prosecution...
The Sins of the Fathers
Germany, Memory, Method
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
National identity and political legitimacy always involve a delicate balance between remembering and forgetting. All nations have elements in their past that they would prefer to pass over—the catalog of failures, injustices, and horrors committed in the name of nations, if fully acknowledged, could...
by Jeffrey McDaniel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
"Heartbreaking and hilarious simultaneously... " James Tate
In Jeffrey McDaniel's second book, it is hard to separate the humor from the pain. Both qualities are omnipresent whether he's tackling dysfunctional family memories in 'The Most Awful Lullaby', or broken-hearted romance in poems like 'Another Long Day in the Office of Dreams'.
China's Brave New World
And Other Tales for Global Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2007
If Chairman Mao came back to life today, what would he think of Nanjing’s bookstore, the Librairie Avant-Garde, where it is easier to find primers on Michel Foucault’s philosophy than copies of the Little Red Book? What does it really mean to order a latte at Starbucks in Beijing? Is it possible...
by Jeffrey Avalon Friedberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Prophetic Novel Nailed Reasons For Republican Election Defeat---LEARN WHAT'S IN STORE FOR YOU NEXT!Michael Moore/MoveOn.org, Oct 30, 2012: "We will burn this *otherf**ker down and c*ck-punch Romney...""Prisonplanet.com, Oct 3, 2012: A leaked U.S. Army document obtained by Wired...