Leslie: 2389 books
by Leslie Shimotakahara
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
A mother-daughter story of a family, focused on the tensions between the two female generations working through the trauma of the internment camps of the Second World War
Dramatizes how the internment of Japanese families in the U.S. and Canada has long been a subject of shame rarely spoken of in affected...
Locker Room Diaries
The Naked Truth about Women, Body Image, and Re-imagining the ""Perfect"" Body
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2007
Often dressed in no more than a towel, author Leslie Goldman spent five years talking with women of all ages, shapes, and sizes about what goes into shaping” not just their bodies but their body image. From compulsive workouts to daily dates with the scale to body fat measurements, American women...
Surviving Death
A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
“While exploring the evidence for an afterlife, I witnessed some unbelievable things that are not supposed to be possible in our material world. Yet they were unavoidably and undeniably real. Despite my initial doubt, I came to realize that there are still aspects of Nature which are neither understood...
by Leslie Meier
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
It’s late autumn in Tinker’s Cove, Maine, and the last surviving flowers on Lucy Stone’s porch have fallen victim to the first frost of the season. But as the part-time reporter learns, this cold November morning will claim more than potted plants . . .
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Besides the annual Turkey Trot...
UFOs
Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
An Air Force major is ordered to approach a brilliant UFO in his Phantom jet over Tehran. He repeatedly attempts to engage and fire on unusual objects heading right toward his aircraft, but his missile control is locked and disabled. Witnessed from the ground, this dogfight becomes the subject of...
Love Among the Ruins
A memoir of life and love in Hamburg, 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
At 22, the war is over for RAF serviceman Harry Leslie Smith – the now 92-year-old activist and author of the acclaimed Harry’s Last Stand – but the battle for love and hope rages on. Stationed in occupied Hamburg, a city physically and emotionally ripped apart by Allied bombing, and determined...
by Leslie Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In 2007, a massive, concentrated deposit of dinosaur fossils, some of theoldest ever found, were discovered in the mountain ridges of northernBritish Columbia, near an old coal mining town. The site contained thelargest number of tyrannosaur teeth ever found with another species, anunfortunate lambeousaur...
Aesopic Conversations
Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost entirely the product of an elite of birth, wealth,...
Killing My Own Snakes
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
She has been shot at by Bosnian snipers, been pursued by Robert Mugabe’s notorious secret police, filed from the North Korean border, propositioned by both Salvador Dali and David Niven and been driven maniacally through London by Steve McQueen.
But Ann Leslie’s life is every bit as remarkable...
Now It Can Be Told
The Story Of The Manhattan Project
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name "The Manhattan Project." As the ranking military officer in charge of marshalling men and material for what was to be the most ambitious,...
The Nominee
A Political and Spiritual Journey
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
President George W. Bush nominated Leslie H. Southwick in 2007 to the federal appeals court, Fifth Circuit, based in New Orleans. Initially, Southwick seemed a consensus nominee. Just days before his hearing, though, a progressive advocacy group distributed the results of research it had conducted...
I Could Not Call Her Mother
The Stepmother in American Popular Culture, 1750–1960
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Stories of the stepmother, the substitute mother, or the “other mother” have infused popular culture for centuries and continue to do so today. She plays a substantial role in our collective imagination, whether we are a part of a step family or not. Despite the fact that the stepmother remains...
by LESLIE STEPHEN
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
The English Utilitarians, Volume 1 (of 3) by Leslie Stephen.
by Leslie Stephen
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Bentham's mantle fell upon James Mill. Mill expounded in the tersest form the doctrines which in Bentham's hands spread into endless ramifications and lost themselves in minute details. Mill became the leader of Bentham's bodyguard; or, rather, the mediator between the prophet in his 'hermitage'...