Katherine: 2489 books
Food Will Win the War
Minnesota Crops, Cook, and Conservation during World War I
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Meatless Mondays, Wheatless Wednesdays, vegetable gardens and chickens in every empty lot. When the United States entered World War I, Minnesotans responded to appeals for personal sacrifice and changed the way they cooked and ate in order to conserve food for the boys "over there." Baking...
Rampage
The Social Roots of School Shootings
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
A distinguished sociologist reveals the warning signs of a school shooter--and why we so often miss them
Parkland. Sandy Hook. Columbine. The list of school shootings gets longer by the day, and it often seems like no school is safe. Over the last decades, school shootings have decimated communities...
by Katherine Irons
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Katherine Irons returns to a realm of elemental power, ambition, desire, and tenderness in Oceanborne. . .
An Irresistible Tide
Elena Carter has loved the sea all her life. As an underwater archaeologist, she works with it every day, cajoling it into giving up the treasures and mysteries...
by Katherine Grandjean
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Katherine Grandjean shows that the English conquest of New England was not just a matter of consuming territory, of transforming woods into farms. It entailed a struggle to control the flow of information—who could travel where, what news could be sent, over which routes winding through the woods along the early American communications frontier.
The Liberal Illusion
Does Trade Promote Peace?
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
"A very important and long-awaited major contribution to the debate . . . Her work cannot be ignored."
--Nils Petter Gleditsch, Journal of Peace Research
"Barbieri builds on a solid foundation of work on trade and conflict and specifies the conditions under which trade reduces...
by Katherine Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
This book is about the Bainbridge family, their journey from Yorkshire, England to Princeton New Jersey in America in the 1600s and onward. They were originally Quakers who later became Presbyterians.
My personal line of the Bainbridge family went to West Tennessee. Other family lines ended up in Kentucky, Georgia, Missouri and more.
by Katherine W. Goldman
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Motherhood comes naturally.Working motherhood doesn't.
So admit it. You need some help. Though there's not a full-time nanny inside this book, there's information on how to find one. This is the book for you if you can't spare even five minutes to use your common sense. It's all laid out for...
Chi running
revolutionaire techniek voor blessurevrij en moeiteloos hardlopen
Language: Dutch
Release Date: December 22, 2015
In dit toonaangevende, compleet herziene boek toont ultramarathonloper Danny Dreyer ons de hardlooptechniek die hij heeft gecreëerd om blessures te voorkomen en te genezen, en die ervoor zorgt dat men met minder moeite sneller en verder kan lopen. De Chi Running-methode maakt gebruik van de diepe...
Beyond Bibliometrics
Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing ways we measure scholarly performance and research impact.
Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available...
Buzz
A Year of Paying Attention
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
"An absorbing, sharply observed memoir."
-Kirkus Reviews
A hilarious and heartrending account of one mother's journey to understand and reconnect with her high-spirited preteen son-a true story sure to beguile parents grappling with a child's bewildering behavior.
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From Apartheid to Democracy
Deliberating Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings can be considered one of the most significant rhetorical events of the late twentieth century. The TRC called language into action, tasking it with promoting understanding among a divided people and facilitating the construction of...
by Katherine N. Probst, Thomas C. Beierle
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
In most countries, the development of environmental programs follows a similar pattern. Early efforts concentrate on direct threats to public health, such as contaminated drinking water and air pollution. Only after these problems are addressed does the need to improve day-to-day management of hazardous...
The Accordion Family
Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents,and the Private Toll of Global Competition
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Why are adults in their twenties and thirties boomeranging back to or never leaving their parents' homes in the world's wealthiest countries? Acclaimed sociologist Katherine Newman addresses this phenomenon in this timely and original book that uncovers fascinating links between globalization and...
Women at the Wheel
A Century of Buying, Driving, and Fixing Cars
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Ever since the Ford Model T became a vehicle for the masses, the automobile has served as a symbol of masculinity. The freedom of the open road, the muscle car's horsepower, the technical know-how for tinkering: all of these experiences have largely been understood from the perspective of the male...