Sharon: 4072 books
More Badder Grammar!
150 All-New Bloopers, Blunders, and Reasons Its Hilarious When People Dont Check There Spelling and Grammer
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
MORE missspellings! MORE badder grammar! MORE than 150 photos of laugh-out-loud funny signs from the creators of the smash-hit book (and Facebook group) I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar.
After the success of her first hilarious collection of poorly worded signs—and with 430,000 members...
Gendering Culture in Greater Syria
Intellectuals and Ideology in the Late Ottoman Period
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
The Nahda (lit. 'the Awakening') was one of the most significant cultural movements in modern Arab history. By focusing on the neglected role of women in the intellectual Islamic renaissance of the late Ottoman Period, Fruma Zachs and Sharon Halevi provide a refreshingly interdisciplinary exploration...
Colonial Complexions
Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
In Colonial Complexions, historian Sharon Block examines how Anglo-Americans built racial ideologies out of descriptions of physical appearance. By analyzing more than 4,000 advertisements for fugitive servants and slaves in colonial newspapers alongside scores of transatlantic sources, she reveals...
On the Defensive
Reading the Ethical in Nazi Camp Testimonies
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
On the Defensive considers how our ethical responses to the Nazi camps have unintentionally repressed and denied the experiences of their victims. Through detailed readings of survivor narratives, particularly the works of political deportees Jorge Semprun and Charlotte Delbo, Sharon Marquart examines...
Referred Pain
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Everyone has a face that they show to the outside world—but our thoughts, fears, and perversions lie just beneath
“Referred pain” describes the sensation of pain, not at the actual point of injury, but somewhere else in the body. This disorientation of the senses is felt, in one way or...
The Marsh Builders
The Fight for Clean Water, Wetlands, and Wildlife
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Swamps and marshes once covered vast stretches of the North American landscape. The destruction of these habitats, long seen as wastelands that harbored deadly disease, accelerated in the twentieth century. Today, the majority of the original wetlands in the US have vanished, transformed into farm...
by Sharon Cramer
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2016
Book 3 of the Wintergrave Chronicles:NIVEUS is…perfectly peculiar.Wintergrave seems the perfect place to shield Niveus from untold dangers until…Malik, smitten with such profound hatred of Ravan, comes with one intent—to destroy the mercenary’s daughter.Malik’s scheme...
by Sharon Cramer
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The towering series is complete!
The WINTERGRAVE CHRONICLES showcases all three novels—The Execution, Risen, and Niveus. Follow your favorite characters through this epic saga about love, hate, revenge, and redemption.
Parallel lives are fated to collide in this medieval, paranormal...
by Sharon J. Kirsch
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Gertrude Stein is recognized as an iconic and canonical literary modernist. In Gertrude Stein and the Reinvention of Rhetoric, Sharon J. Kirsch broadens our understanding of Stein’s influence to include her impact on the field of rhetoric.
For humanities scholars as well as popular audiences,...
Learning from Baby P
The politics of blame, fear and denial
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
Sharon Shoesmith was Director of Children's Services for Haringey in 2007 at the time of the death of Peter Connelly, also known as 'Baby P'.
In Learning from Baby P, she carries out a dispassionate analysis of the events which followed Peter Connelly's death, documenting the responses of the...
Draping Period Costumes: Classical Greek to Victorian
(The Focal Press Costume Topics Series)
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
One way of creating a theatrical costume is called flat patterning. This is when a costume designer uses a pattern made to the wearer's measurements to cut out and sew together a costume. In many cases flat patterning is the more appropriate method for creating a period costume - skirts, pants, and...
by Sharon Bong
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Different forms of trauma affect many millions of people. Trauma also helps to shape individual and collective memories. This innovative book explores how traumatic occurrences and processes are remembered. Using examples from well-known events like the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia, the Indian...
by Sharon Finmark
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Colour is fundamental to painting and the ability to mix and reproduce specific hues is an art in itself. Colour theory can be dull and complicated, but in this book, experienced artist and teacher, Sharon Finmark, demonstrates colour mixing in a practical and easy-to-follow way. In addition to being...
A Blessing of Toads
A Guide to Living with Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Through this collection of delightful essays and beautiful illustrations, long-time contributor to Country Living Gardner Sharon Lovejoy shares the boundless joys of a country garden. Lovejoy has chosen to focus on the natural world to be found just outside the door, including hummingbirds, caterpillars,...