Kathryn: 2617 books
Rethinking Absorptive Capacity
A New Framework, Applied to Afghanistan's Police Training Program
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
When recipients cannot absorb the aid and attention they are offered, the common response is “capacity building”—as if the source of the problem is the recipient’s implementation capacity. In this report, Robert D. Lamb and Kathryn Mixon present the results of their research on the sources...
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
A man stands trial for brutally killing a 12-year-old girl. But does a trial bring actual justice? And what can a father do to deal with the horror?
A heart-wrenching story about those left behind to cope with the aftermath.
“Like early Ray Bradbury, Rusch has the...
by Kathryn Hurd
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Like the train sitting at the bottom of its lake, the treasures of Estacada's history often elude the casual observer. From covert operations in a famous hotel to the untold trimmings of logger lore, surprising tales abound in this region. Learn of an explosion that threw men 150 feet away, a nudist...
by Kathryn Leigh Scott, Jim Pierson
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Dark Shadows: Return to Collinwood presents a look back at four decadesof the successful spooky soap opera that made sympathetic vampire Barnabas Collins a pop culture phenomenon and prompted the big-budget, big-screen Warner Bros. revival starring longtime fan Johnny Depp, directed by Tim Burton, that...
Voices of the Elders
Huu-ay-aht Histories and Legends
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
There is a special place on the southeastern shores of Barkley Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. It is a magnificent landscape of rocky cliffs fronting onto the wild Pacific Ocean, sheltered beaches, lakes, mountains and forests. Since the beginning of time, it has been the ancestral home...
Seeking Rapture
Scenes from a Woman's Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
In this exquisite book of personal reflections on a woman’s life as a child, wife, and mother, Kathryn Harrison, “a writer of extraordinary gifts” (Tobias Wolff), recalls episodes in her life, exploring how the experiences of childhood recur in memory, to...
by Kathryn Nuernberger
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
The End of Pink won the prestigious 2015 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, the only second-book award for poetry in the United States.
Nuernberger was also awarded the 2015 James Laughlin Award Residency in Miami Beach from the Academy of American Poets, which is a weeklong...
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Celebrities like Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson prove that you can always spend more money than you earn. Want to know how to make money while self employed? Learn how to manage the money you do earn. In this short book, international bestselling writer, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, shows you how.
The Anthology of Really Important Modern Poetry
Timeless Poems by Snooki, John Boehner, Kanye West, and Other Well-Versed Celebrities
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Required reading from great poets of our time. Drew Barrymore: “Upon Pondering Breasts.” Tom Cruise: “An Exegesis on Psychiatry.” Ann Coulter: “My Kind of Fun.” And Trump and Sheen and Snooki, John Boehner and Michelle Bachman, Miley and Ke$ha. Hugo Chavez. Even a Zen haiku by Emmitt Smith:
I...
Unusually Stupid Politicians
Washington's Weak in Review
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras, bestselling authors of the scathingly funny Unusually Stupid Americans and Unusually Stupid Celebrities, now set their bipartisan sights on the hallowed halls of the United States government. Unusually Stupid Politicians exposes the mind-boggling but true political...
Quiverfull
Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Kathryn Joyce's fascinating introduction to the world of the patriarchy movement and Quiverfull families examines the twenty-first-century women and men who proclaim self-sacrifice and submission as model virtues of womanhood—and as modes of warfare on behalf of Christ. Here, women live within stringently...
by Kathryn Kalinak
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Film music is as old as cinema itself. Years before synchronized sound became the norm, projected moving images were shown to musical accompaniment, whether performed by a lone piano player or a hundred-piece orchestra. Today film music has become its own industry, indispensable to the marketability...
The Sherlock Holmes Megapack: 25 Modern Tales by Masters
25 Modern Tales by Masters
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
This volume assembles a mammoth collection of modern Sherlock Holmes stories -- no less than 25 tales by modern masters, such as Carla Coupe, Gary Lovisi, Richard A. Lupoff, Robert J. Sawyer, Mike Resnick, and many more! (It's also an authorized edition, produced under license from Conan Doyle Estate,...
Lincoln's Final Hours
Conspiracy, Terror, and the Assassination of America's Greatest President
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
When John Wilkes Booth fired his derringer point-blank into President Abraham Lincoln's head, he set in motion a series of dramatic consequences that would upend the lives of ordinary Washingtonians and Americans alike. In a split second, the story of a nation was changed. During the hours that followed,...