Rogers: 1596 books
Alexander
The Ambiguity of Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2004
For nearly two and a half millennia, Alexander the Great has loomed over history as a legend–and an enigma. Wounded repeatedly but always triumphant in battle, he conquered most of the known world, only to die mysteriously at the age of thirty-two. In his day he was revered as a god; in our day...
by Pattiann Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
The Grand Array is a stunning collection of 18 essays by widely published and highly acclaimed poet Pattiann Rogers. Written over a span of 25 years, these essays show Rogers daringly yet delicately laying out her vision of the essential unity and interdependence of science, spirituality, the arts, and...
by John Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Join John Rogers as he ventures out into an uncharted London like a redbrick Indiana Jones in search of the lost meaning of our metropolitan existence. Nursing two reluctant knees and a can of Stella, he perambulates through the seasons seeking adventure in our city’s remote and forgotten reaches....
Life's About a Dream
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Veda Rogers grew up in Quenemo, Kansas, married her childhood sweetheart, and they went on to establish Vassar Playhouse near their hometown. Located at Pomona Lake 35 miles south of Topeka, they ran the theatre sixteen seasons beginning in 1970. Veda has more in common with Ginger Rogers than their...
Mother-Daughter Movies
101 Films to See Together
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Nobody has a perfect mother. And, despite what some pushy moms would have us believe, nobody has a perfect daughter, either. It's sometimes hard to communicate with each other, but what can you do? Should you turn to Dr. Phil, psychotropic drugs, a hit man? No! Here's the solution: It's so simple,...
by Katharine M. Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2006
According to ancient Egyptian lore, the goddess Bast, who protected her worshippers from disease and hard luck, had the figure of a woman and the head of a cat. Egyptians loved their feline companions, including them in family portraits, mummifying them alongside their owners, and creating exquisite...
Unpopular Sovereignty
Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Charles Redd Center Phi Alpha Theta Book Award for the Best Book on the American West
2018 Francis Armstrong Madsen Best Book Award from the Utah State Historical Society
2018 Best First Book Award from the Mormon History Association
Newly created territories in antebellum America were designed...
Incomparable Empires
Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Spanish-American War of 1898 seems to mark a turning point in both geopolitical and literary histories. The victorious American empire ascended and began its cultural domination of the globe in the twentieth century, while the once-mighty Spanish empire declined and became a minor state in the...
by Bobby C. Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2010
"There is something in American poetry that might be called the book of the small town or, equally, the tale of the good family; or, if you like, the American Grafitti Suite. Poems that discover life's bonuses in new love, wise parents, old books, venerable nature, and the mysteries of all that...
by George Rogers Clark
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
George Rogers Clark (November 19, 1752 February 13, 1818) was a soldier from Virginia and the highest ranking American military officer on the northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War. He served as leader of the Kentucky (then part of Virginia) militia throughout much of the war....
The Automatic 2nd Date
Everything to Say and Do on the 1st Date to Guarantee...
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
For women who long for serious commitment in a relationship, the harsh reality is that if they can't get a man to call them back for a second date, they will be doomed to a life of single-date relationships with no "till death do us part."
Dating expert, Victorya Michaels Rogers, author of...
On Becoming a Person
A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement, revolutionized psychotherapy with his concept of "client-centered therapy." His influence has spanned decades, but that influence has become so much a part of mainstream psychology that the ingenious nature of his work...
Rules to Break and Laws to Follow
How Your Business Can Beat the Crisis of Short-Termism
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Praise for Rules to Break & Laws to Follow: How Your Business Can Beat the Crisis of Short-Termism
"A fascinating, highly readable synthesis of business principles, technology, sociology and common sense, Rules to Break and Laws to Follow persuasively shows the connection between customer...
by Richard Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Nothing else damages the earth's environment more than our cities. As the world's population has grown, our cities have burgeoned, and their impact on the environment worsened. Meanwhile, from the isolated, gated communities within Houston and Los Angeles, to the millions of residents of Bombay living...