Katherine: 2489 books
Freedom's Teacher, Enhanced Ebook
The Life of Septima Clark
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Civil rights activist Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987) developed a citizenship education program that enabled tens of thousands of African Americans to register to vote and to link the power of the ballot to concrete strategies for individual and communal empowerment. Clark, who began her own teaching...
Taxing the Poor
Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2011
This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to income taxes, and where regressive sales taxes apply even to food for home consumption. Katherine S. Newman and Rourke L. O’Brien argue that these policies...
Cooking and Eating in Renaissance Italy
From Kitchen to Table
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Renaissance Italy’s art, literature, and culture continue to fascinate. The domestic life has been examined more in recent years, and this book reveals the preparation, eating, and the sociability of dining in Renaissance Italy. It takes readers behind the scenes to the Renaissance kitchen and dining...
Octopus!
The Most Mysterious Creature in the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
“A pleasant, chatty book on a fascinating subject.” — Kirkus Reviews
Octopuses have been captivating humans for as long as we have been catching them. Yet for all of our ancient fascination and modern research, we still have not been able to get a firm grasp on these enigmatic creatures.
Katherine...
Open Development
Networked Innovations in International Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Experts explore current theory and practice in the application of digitally enabled open networked social models to international development.
The emergence of open networked models made possible by digital technology has the potential to transform international development. Open network structures...
Coming of Age on Zoloft
How Antidepressants Cheered Us Up, Let Us Down, and Changed Who We Are
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
A compelling and troubling exploration of a generation raised on antidepressants, and a book that combines expansive interviews with substantive research-based reporting, Coming of Age on Zoloft is a vitally important and immediately engrossing study of one of America’s most pressing and omnipresent...
The New Voices in Fiction Sampler
Summer Selection
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
New York Times bestselling novelist Joshilyn Jackson presents The New Voices in Fiction Sampler: Summer Selection. This free e-book sampler is a curated volume of excerpts from new and upcoming titles by debut fiction authors you'll want to get familiar with early on.
The New Voices in Fiction...
by Katherine Vaz
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
In this long-awaited collection of short fiction by the author of Mariana and Our Lady of the Artichokes, beauty is continually and painfully present in all places—in a Thanksgiving dinner assembled by a widowed DMV worker being stalked by an irate customer; in a middle-aged Hollywood actress who...
by Dr. Jane Grant, Dr Ian Crawford, Dr Katherine Joy
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
As an artist Jane Grant is curious working with sound, moving images and drawings. She asks questions. Questions that investigate human behaviour, experimenting through sound and vision, in order to record and draw attention to everyday movement, gesture, noise. This is brought together with Scientific...
Cosmopolitan Fictions
Ethics, Politics, and Global Change in the Works of Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Jamaica Kincaid, and J. M. Coetzee
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Participating in the reframing of literary studies, Cosmopolitan Fictions identifies, as "cosmopolitan fiction", a genre of global literature that investigates the ethics and politics of complex and multiple belonging.
The fictions studied by Katherine Stanton represent and revise the global...
by Katherine Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
For most of my life I have had vivid and strange dreams and sometimes struggle to interpret them. In college as part of my Psychology degree we studied dreams and the various theories of Freud, Carl Jung and others. I think dreams are more personal than one theory or one explanation for everyone....
by Katherine Duhon
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2014
This collection of poems reminds us about how time is floating, and how there are no moments to waste. The poems describe the beauty of nature found in trees, flowers, water, and creatures. The words remind us of the beauty around us and our responsibility to nature.
The Dirt on Clean
An Unsanitized History
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The question of cleanliness is one every age and culture has answered with confidence. For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures, scraping the body with a miniature rake, and a final application of oil. For the aristocratic Frenchman in the seventeenth...
by Katherine Mary Bartrum
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny]
Life for Katherine Mary Bartrum must have seemed to have been almost perfect in early 1857, wife of a well-liked and respected medical officer posted just outside Lucknow...