Leonard: 2410 books
Theatre in French Canada
Laying the Foundations 1606-1867
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
It is only recently that historians of the theatre in French Canada have turned their attention to playwrights active before the twentieth century. Their practice had been to trace the roots of theatre to mid-1930s, to the appearance of Father Emile Legault and his troupe, the Compagnons de Saint-Laurent,...
Berlin for Jews
A Twenty-First-Century Companion
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
What is it like to travel to Berlin today, particularly as a Jew, and bring with you the baggage of history? And what happens when an American Jew, raised by a secular family, falls in love with Berlin not in spite of his being a Jew but because of it? The answer is Berlin for Jews. Part history...
Mock Modernism
An Anthology of Parodies, Travesties, Frauds, 1910-1935
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
How was the modernist movement understood by the general public when it was first emerging? This question can be addressed by looking at how modernist literature and art were interpreted by journalists in daily newspapers, mainstream magazines like Punch and Vanity Fair, and literary magazines. In...
by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
Language: Dutch
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Language: Dutch
Release Date: December 13, 2018
De schrijver neemt zijn intrek in het illustere maar in verval geraakte Grand Hotel Europa om te overdenken waar het is misgegaan met Clio, op wie hij in Genua verliefd is geworden en met wie hij in Venetië is gaan wonen. Hij reconstrueert het meeslepende verhaal van liefde in tijden van massatoerisme,...
From the Barren Lands
Fur Trade, First Nations, and a Life in Northern Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
This is a story about the fur trade and First Nations, and the development of northern Canada, seen and experienced not only through Leonard Flett’s eyes, but also through the eyes of his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather.The lives of indigenous people in remote areas of northern Ontario,...
by Sarah J. Tugman, Leonard D. DuBoff
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
“No writer, beginning or experienced, will want to be without this book.” —Jean Auel, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Clan of the Cave Bear and the Earth’s Children series
A career as a writer involves much more than the act of writing itself. In The Law (in Plain English) for...
by Jesse Leonard Rosenberger
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This history of the University of Rochester at Rochester, New York, has been prepared by Jesse Leonard Rosenberger primarily for those who are in one way or another interested in the university and who wish to know somewhat in detail concerning its peculiar origin; the sound, liberal principles on...
by Michael Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
A spiritual journey that enlightens, educates, cleanses and uplifts the reader, so they can start enjoying the best year of their life!
by Leonard A. Swann Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Leonard A. Swann, Jr. in his memoir, Son of Sassamansville, traces his humble childhood in rural Pennsylvania, education in a one-room schoolhouse, graduation from Muhlenberg College and Harvard University, experiences in the petroleum industry, bankruptcy and oblivion, rebirth as a producer of documentary...
by S. Leonard Syme
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
S. Leonard Syme tells the story of a skinny 12-year-old boy whose father challenged him to squish the caps of soda pop bottles. He regularly failed. He clearly remembers feeling bruised every time his father walked away muttering about his useless boy. Looking back, he realized that he devoted his...
Colorado
A History of the Centennial State, Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Since 1976, newcomers and natives alike have learned about the rich history of the magnificent place they call home from Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. In the fifth edition, coauthors Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel incorporate recent events, scholarship, and insights...
by Stephen J. Leonard, Thomas J. Noel
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
A Short History of Denver covers more than 150 years of Denver’s rich history. The book recounts the takeover of Native American lands, the founding of small towns on the South Platte River at the base of the Rocky Mountains, and the creation of a city, which by 1890 was among the nation’s major...
Beatleness
How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
“A must-have for Beatles fans looking for new insight . . . Leonard uncovers fresh ideas [that] six decades of Beatles literature passed over” (The Spectrum).
Part generational memoir and part cultural history of the sixties, Beatleness is the first book to tell the story of the Beatles...
Hilltop Doc
A Marine Corpsman Fighting Through the Mud and Blood of the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
As a Marine corpsman, Leonard Adreon saw some of the worst of the Korean War’s carnage and the best of its humanity. His gripping description brings to life the war between the Chinese army and the U.S. Marines as they battled to take the high ground. You will feel the anguish, the frustration and...