Martha: 1810 books
The Treatment
The Story of Those Who Died in the Cincinnati Radiation Tests
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2002
The Treatment is the story of one tragedy of medical research that stretched over eleven years and affected the lives of hundreds of people in an Ohio city. Thirty years ago the author, then an assistant professor of English, acquired a large set of little-known medical papers at her university. These...
by Martha Brill Olcott
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
In Uzbekistan, Central Asia's most populous country, Islam has been an ever-present factor in the lives of its people and a contentious force for political officials trying to build a secular and authoritarian government.
In the Whirlwind of Jihad examines the intertwined and evolving relationships...
The Illustrated Slave
Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800–1852
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
From the 1787 Wedgwood antislavery medallion featuring the image of an enchained and pleading black body to Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012) and Steve McQueen’s Twelve Years a Slave (2013), slavery as a system of torture and bondage has fascinated the optical imagination of the transatlantic...
The Staff of Oedipus
Transforming Disability in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Ancient Greek images of disability permeate the Western consciousness: Homer, Teiresias, and Oedipus immediately come to mind. But The Staff of Oedipus looks at disability in the ancient world through the lens of disability studies, and reveals that our interpretations of disability in the ancient...
Treating Trauma in Adolescents
Development, Attachment, and the Therapeutic Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
This book presents an innovative and empathic approach to working with traumatized teens. It offers strategies for getting through to high-risk adolescents and for building a strong attachment relationship that can help get development back on track. Martha B. Straus draws on extensive clinical experience...
by Martha Biondi
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The Black Revolution on Campus is the definitive account of an extraordinary but forgotten chapter of the black freedom struggle. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Black students organized hundreds of protests that sparked a period of crackdown, negotiation, and reform that profoundly transformed...
For All of Humanity
Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Smallpox, measles, and typhus. The scourges of lethal disease—as threatening in colonial Mesoamerica as in other parts of the world—called for widespread efforts and enlightened attitudes to battle the centuries-old killers of children and adults. Even before edicts from Spain crossed the Atlantic,...
The ADD Myth: How to Cultivate the Unique Gifts of Intense Personalities
How to Cultivate the Unique Gifts of Intense Personalities
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
More than 5 million children in the United States take stimulant medication to treat ADHD. Yet, there is no objective method of diagnosis for ADHD. And, many of these medications can cause serious side effects including amphetamine psychosis.
In The ADD Myth, ADHD coach Martha Burge proposes...
Queen Boudica and Historical Culture in Britain
An Image of Truth
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Taking a long chronological view and a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary approach, this is an innovative and distinctive book. It is the definitive work on the posthumous reputation of the ever-popular warrior queen of the Iceni, Queen Boadicea/Boudica, exploring her presence in British historical discourse,...
The Passion of David Lynch
Wild at Heart in Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Filmmaker David Lynch asserts that when he is directing, ninety percent of the time he doesn't know what he is doing. To understand Lynch's films, Martha Nochimson believes, requires a similar method of being open to the subconscious, of resisting the logical reductiveness of language. In this innovative...
From Silence to Secrecy
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
As a young girl growing up in Kansas, Martha Leiker always felt a pull toward Africa. She couldnt explain why, but she dreamed of working in Africa with the African people. In From Silence to Secrecy, Leiker narrates the story of how she made that dream come true.
Leiker likens her life to...
by Martha Robles
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Hoy en día, aunque el quehacer de las mujeres ha ganado espacios y reconocimiento, los rezagos son todavía incalculables. Martha Robles (1948) indaga sobre las contradicciones respecto de las mujeres a través de personalidades como Virginia Woolf, Elena Garro y María Zambrano, entre otras, para...
by Martha Robles
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Esta obra, única por sus características y aspiraciones, desvela un sentido del idioma que hasta hace poco se mantuvo oculto: su aspecto femenino.
En una época de grandes transformaciones en la que es necesario que los avances de género se asienten y permeen toda manifestación social y...
Forgettable Jokes for Older Folks
Jokes You Wish You Could Remember about Things You Thought You'd Never Forget
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Laugh all the way to your next birthday… and beyond!
We all age, despite some of our best efforts, but any day above ground is a good day. Why not have a little fun? From well-known comedy writer Martha Bolton comes a refreshing book of jokes for older folks.
Topics for laughter include:
senior...