Marilyn Marilyn: 1342 books
The Port of Houston
A History
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Sam Houston's army reached Buffalo Bayou on April 18, 1836, and the ensuing Battle of San Jacinto called attention to the "meandering stream" as a link between the interior of sprawling Texas and the sea. Early in Texas history, the waterway that would one day be known as the Houston Ship Channel evoked...
De Grazia
The Man and the Myths
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Artist Ted De Grazia (1909–1982) lived life with passion and verve, embracing risk and romance, becoming a legend in Arizona, and gaining international acclaim. De Grazia: The Man and the Myths is a biography that reveals the eccentric, colorful man behind the myths.
Born in Arizona Territory...
Not Your Mother's Midlife
A Ten-Step Guide to Fearless Aging
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Aging ain't what it used to be. For one thing, people are staying younger longer. For another, countless baby boomers are rising up against the notion that with age comes worthlessness.In fact, Not Your Mother's Mid-Life: A Ten-Step Guide to Fearless Aging is more than a book; it's a movement....
A Life of Courage
Sherwin Wine and Humanistic Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Compiled by Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Harry Cook & Marilyn Rowens, A Life of Courage is both a biography of and a tribute to the remarkable life of Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine. founder of Humanistic Judaism. Wine began the movement of Humanistic Judaism in the early 1960s at The Birmingham Temple in suburban Detroit,...
Plenty Good Room
A Lenten Bible Study Based on African American Spirituals
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This unique short-term Bible study combines an in-depth look at Scripture, American history, and the music and lyrics of six African American spirituals. The six-session study provides biblical, social, and historical analyses of the spirituals: 'Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit," "This Lonesome...
by Marilyn LeClere
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
“Irresistible but Dangerous” should be tattooed on Griffith McLaclan’s forehead to warn small town Indiana that the international film star was coming their way.Young widow, Meritt Chandler, was dubious—no—downright antagonistic, when asked to keep him in her historical country mansion for...
Among the Garifuna
Family Tales and Ethnography from the Caribbean Coast
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Among the Garifuna is the first ethnographic narrative of a Garifuna family. The Garifuna are descendants of the “Black Carib,” whom the British deposited on Roatan Island in 1797 and who settled along the Caribbean coast from Belize City to Nicaragua.
In 1980, medical anthropologist Marilyn...
Thesis Survivor Stories
Practical advice on getting through your PhD or Masters thesis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Whether youre toiling through the depths of thesis research, about to embark on further study or supervising others on the journey, these 23 stories will entertain and inspire. At times humorous, poignant and uplifting, theres plenty to learn from the struggles and success of those who survived a thesis...
An Unconventional Childhood
Growing up in the Catskill Mountains During the 1950s and 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
This light-hearted memoir takes place in Fleischmanns, NY, a small Catskill Mountain village whose population increased from a few hundred to many thousands during the summer in the 1950s and 1960s. While some people think small towns are boring places to live, the author and her brothers were seldom...
A Brief History of Rockville Centre
The History and Heritage of a Village
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
The village of Rockville Centre is a suburban haven on Long Island. Beginning in the eighteenth century with families like the DeMotts, this small farming community quickly grew. Ship captains left their families here while they sailed, and the arrival of the South Shore Railroad brought the wealthy...
Assurance for a Lifetime
Knowing and Living in the Confidence of Christ
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2004
After making the life-changing decision to follow Christ, many new believers are left wondering "What's next?" Written in her warm, conversational style, popular speaker and author Marilyn Meberg explores five topics vital to the health and growth of the new Christian. They are:
Assurance...
Screenwriting With a Conscience
Ethics for Screenwriters
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2003
Screenwriting With a Conscience: Ethics for Screenwriters is for screenwriters who care deeply about what they write; who are aware that movie images matter and can influence audiences; and who want to create meaningful screenplays that make powerful statements while entertaining and winning over...
Passionate Communities
Reading Lesbian Resistance in Jane Rule's Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
In this new full-length study of Jane Rule's life and work, Marilyn Schuster argues that Rule's novels provide a way of "writing and reading lesbian" that resists and subverts dominant discourses of gender and sexuality-both those of mainstream culture and of political and sexual subcultures.
From...
Qualitative Research in Education
A User's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Qualitative Research in Education: A User's Guide, Third Edition continues to bring together the essential elements of qualitative research, including traditions and influences in the field and practical, step-by-step coverage of each stage of the research process. Synthesizing the best thinking on...