Ruth: 3308 books
by Ruth Kirkby
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
“Tonight, we have strawberry and rhubarb pie and a story about the time my friend from high school set fire to our headmaster’s car, or Grasshopper pie and a story about when my Uncle Anthony punched a cop.”While working the graveyard shift at the local greasy spoon, Marnie entertains the customers with stories of her eccentric Aunt Sarah.
by Dr. Ruth Carr
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
CommitmentHow to Build a Committed Relationship and Understand the Benefits you will Receive from CommitmentBy Dr. Ruth CarrWould you consider yourself committed to your relationships? How would you define your commitment? These are some very important questions everyone should...
Bach's Numbers
Compositional Proportion and Significance
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
In eighteenth-century Germany the universal harmony of God's creation and the perfection of its proportions still held philosophical, moral and devotional significance. Reproducing proportions close to the unity (1:1) across compositions could render them beautiful, perfect and even eternal. Using...
The Padre of Isleta
The Story of Father Anton Docher; Facsimile of the 1940 Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
Adolph F. Bandelier, Charles Fletcher Lummis, and Father Anton Docher are names closely associated with the early colonial days in New Mexico. All of these characters appear in this narrative of Isleta Pueblo which tells the story of Father Docher’s life in the Indian pueblo from the day when he...
Cosmopolitan Anxieties
Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2008
In Cosmopolitan Anxieties, Ruth Mandel explores Germany’s relation to the more than two million Turkish immigrants and their descendants living within its borders. Based on her two decades of ethnographic research in Berlin, she argues that Germany’s reactions to the postwar Turkish diaspora have...
Rex Ingram
Visionary Director of the Silent Screen
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Noted for his charisma, talent, and striking good looks, director Rex Ingram (1893−1950) is ranked alongside D. W. Griffith, Marshall Neilan, and Erich von Stroheim as one of the greatest artists of the silent cinema. Ingram briefly studied sculpture at the Yale University School of Art after emigrating...
Discounted Labour
Women Workers in Canada, 1870-1939
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
The years between 1870 and 1939 were a crucial period in the growth of industrial capitalism in Canada, as well as a time when many women joined the paid workforce. Yet despite the increase in employment, women faced a difficult struggle in gaining fair remuneration for their work and in gaining access...
by Ruth Kibler Peck
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2008
The poetry of Ruth Kibler Peck reflects her love for life and her interest in people, history, literature, and art. She uses both rhyming forms and free verse to explore these topics. More than half of the poems in this volume have received national, state, or local awards. Peck brings to her poetry...
by Ruth P. Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Implementation Monitoring and Process Evaluation by Ruth P. Saunders is a practical guide that helps readers understand and use the steps that program planners and evaluators take in implementing and monitoring a new program, policy, or practice in an organizational setting. The book covers the entire...
Processing Inaccurate Information
Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying, understanding, and remediating people's reliance on inaccurate information that they should know to be wrong.
Our lives revolve around the acquisition of information. Sometimes the information we acquire—from other people, from books, or from the...
The Poster
Art, Advertising, Design, and Collecting, 1860s–1900s
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The Poster: Art, Advertising, Design, and Collecting, 1860s–1900s is a cultural history that situates the poster at the crossroads of art, design, advertising, and collecting. Though international in scope, the book focuses especially on France and England. Ruth E. Iskin argues that the avant-garde...
Jewish Liturgy
A Guide to Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Jewish Liturgy: A Guide to Research enables the reader to access the rich bibliography now available in English. In this volume, Ruth Langer, an expert on Jewish liturgy, provides an annotated description of the most important books and articles on topics ranging historically from the liturgy of the...
by Ruth Finnegan
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Ruth Finnegan’s Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa.
This revised edition makes Finnegan’s...
Sexuality in Medieval Europe
Doing Unto Others
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Challenging the way the Middle Ages have been treated in general histories of sexuality, Sexuality in Medieval Europe shows how views at the time were conflicted and complicated; there was no single medieval attitude towards sexuality any more than there is one modern attitude. Focusing on marital...