Laura: 7402 books
Selling the American Way
U.S. Propaganda and the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In 1955, the United States Information Agency published a lavishly illustrated booklet called My America. Assembled ostensibly to document "the basic elements of a free dynamic society," the booklet emphasized cultural diversity, political freedom, and social mobility and made no mention...
The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts
Murder and Memory in an American City
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
“A haunted, haunting examination of mental illness and murder in a more or less ordinary American city…Mature and thoughtful…A Helter Skelter for our time, though without a hint of sensationalism—unsettling in the extreme but written with confidence and deep empathy” (Kirkus Reviews, starred...
Race and the Education of Desire
Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 1995
Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality has been one of the most influential books of the last two decades. It has had an enormous impact on cultural studies and work across many disciplines on gender, sexuality, and the body. Bringing a new set of questions to this key work, Ann Laura Stoler examines...
by Jennifer OConnell, Meg Cabot, Beth Kendrick
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
"I wonder if Judy Blume really knows how many girls' lives she affected. I wonder if she knows that at least one of her books made a grown woman finally feel like she'd been a normal girl all along..."
—from Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume
Whether...
by Laura Perkins
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The number 5 is embodied in the heavens by the Pentagram that Venus draws over time. Hidden within the Pentagram is the Golden Ratio, thought to confer beauty on everything that exists in its harmonious proportion. Correspondences to the divine mathematics of the Venus Pentagram are found throughout...
by Laura Beers
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Ellen Wilkinson viewed herself as part of an international radical community and became involved in socialist, feminist, and pacifist movements that spanned the globe. By focusing on the extent to which Wilkinson’s activism transcended Britain’s borders, Laura Beers adjusts our perception of the British Left in the early twentieth century.
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Immer wieder beste Freunde
Language: German
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Nach ihrem Welterfolg "Immer montags beste Freunde" ist Laura Schroff vielen Menschen begegnet, die ebenfalls durch spontane Hilfeleistungen große Wirkung erzielt haben. In dreißig Geschichten erzählt die Bestsellerautorin davon, wie wichtig eine gute Tat in schweren Momenten ist, wie...
by Laura Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
For thousands and thousands of years our Jewish brothers and sisters have celebrated Passover. This holiday commemorates their Exodus from slavery. These miraculous events changed misery to peace, slavery to freedom, sin to grace. One of the last things Jesus did with his disciples was to celebrate...
The Making of a Dream
How a group of young undocumented immigrants helped change what it means to be American
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
A journalist chronicles the next chapter in civil rights—the story of a movement and a nation, witnessed through the poignant and inspiring experiences of five young undocumented activists who are transforming society’s attitudes toward one of the most contentious political matters roiling America...
Freedom's Empire
Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2008
In this pathbreaking work of scholarship, Laura Doyle reveals the central, formative role of race in the development of a transnational, English-language literature over three centuries. Identifying a recurring freedom plot organized around an Atlantic Ocean crossing, Doyle shows how this plot structures...
by Laura Vosika
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
On a misty night in the Scottish Highlands, Shawn Kleiner, a womanizing modern American musician, and Niall Campbell, devout medieval warrior, both fall asleep in the tower of Glenmirril Castle, seven centuries apart. They wake up in each other's time.
In The Minstrel Boy, Shawn's girlfriend...
by Laura Moscato
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Esistono amori che sfidano lo spazio e il tempo e si impongono per la loro inevitabilità.
È quello che succede a Viola, la protagonista di questa storia, quando si ritrova da sola con le due persone più importanti della sua vita e nasce in lei l'urgenza di rispondere ad una sola domanda: si possono...
A Revolution for Our Rights
Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880–1952
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2008
A Revolution for Our Rights is a critical reassessment of the causes and significance of the Bolivian Revolution of 1952. Historians have tended to view the revolution as the result of class-based movements that accompanied the rise of peasant leagues, mineworker unions, and reformist political projects...
Blue Grit
Making Impossible, Improbable, and Inspirational Political Change in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
As the right-wing has known for decades: in tight elections, motivated grassroots groups with grit make the difference. Don’t sell them out, Democrats, for the centrist voter on the fence, says Flanders. There’s a tide of progressive activism rising that’s changing what’s possible in American...