Sylvia: 1490 books
Fullerton
The Boom Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
America enjoyed newfound prosperity in the decades following World War II, and Southern California was an epicenter of postwar growth. Among the many Orange County communities that grew and flourished in this hopeful and exciting era, Fullerton led the way. Join authors Sylvia Palmer Mudrick, Debora...
by Sylvia Lavin
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Kissing Architecture explores the mutual attraction between architecture and other forms of contemporary art. In this fresh, insightful, and beautifully illustrated book, renowned architectural critic and scholar Sylvia Lavin develops the concept of "kissing" to describe the growing intimacy...
The Keeper of the Kumm
Ancestral longing and belonging of a Boesmankind
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Award-winning journalist Sylvia Vollenhoven tells the story of her life and how it's been turned upside down by an Ancestor: //Kabbo, a Bushman storyteller and revolutionary. She writes of being "too black" for her coloured school mates, working as one of the early female journalists in...
The Fisher Queen: A Deckhand's Tales of the BC Coast
A Deckhand's Tales of the BC Coast
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
It’s 1981, and Sylvia Taylor has signed on as rookie deckhand on a wallowy 40-foot salmon troller. Looking forward to making money for university, she is determined to master the ins and outs of fishing some of the most dangerous waters in the world: the Graveyard of the Pacific. For four months,...
by Sylvia Day
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
#1 New York Times Bestselling Author Sylvia Day
America’s premier author of provocative fiction delivers the dramatic finale to a series set within the inner circle of glamour, sex and privilege.
Now an original movie from PassionFlix.
When it came to playing games, my lover,...
Love Affairs
A Collection of Contemporary, Historical and Paranormal Novellas
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bared to You, A Touch of Crimson, and Seven Years to Sin presents some of her most beloved novellas--collected in one edition for the first time.
WISH LIST
When Nicholas James draws Stephanie Martin’s name in their law firm’s Secret Santa...
by Sylvia Day
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
#1 New York Times Bestselling Author Sylvia Day
America’s premier author of provocative fiction delivers the first installment of a series set within the inner circle of glamour, sex and privilege.
Now an original movie from PassionFlix.
The realization that Jax still affected...
The Oriental Obscene
Violence and Racial Fantasies in the Vietnam Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
The Oriental Obscene is a sophisticated analysis of Americans’ reactions to visual representations of the Vietnam War, such as the photograph of the “napalm girl,” news footage of the Tet Offensive, and feature films from The Deer Hunter to Rambo: First Blood Part II. Sylvia Shin Huey Chong...
Freedom's Pragmatist
Lyndon Johnson and Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
History has labeled Lyndon B. Johnson "Lincoln's successor." But how did a southern president representing a predominately conservative state, with connections to some of the nation's leading segregationists, come to play such an influential role in civil rights history? In Freedom's Pragmatist,...
by Sylvia Wrigley
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2015
Air travel is one of the safest modes of travel when we take into account the distances and freedom that it allows us. And yet, we still remain obsessed with aviation disasters. What caused these accidents? Whose fault was it? In her series of books, Why Planes Crash, Sylvia Wrigley investigates the...
Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets
Why Women Are the Solution
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
The war for talent is heating up in emerging markets. Without enough brain power,” multinationals can’t succeed in these markets. Yet they’re approaching the war in the wrong way-bringing in expats and engaging in bidding wars for hotshot local male” managers.
The solution is hiding...
Happiness Is an Inside Job
Practicing for a Joyful Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
How can we stay engaged with life day after day? How can we continue to love–to keep our minds in a happy mood–when life is complex, difficult, and, often, disappointing? Bestselling author and beloved teacher Sylvia Boorstein asked herself these questions when she started to write this inspiring...
Accessories After the Fact
The Warren Commission, the Authorities & the Report on the JFK Assassination
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The famous book that “argued for a conspiracy involving anti-Castro Cubans . . . instrumental in establishing conspiracy theory as mainstream pursuit” (Los Angeles Times).
Originally published in 1967, Meagher’s masterful dissection of the Warren Report, based on the Warren Commission’s...
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
A tribute to the campaigner and political reformer Richard Pankhurst, husband to Emmeline Pankhurst and father to suffragists Adela, Sylvia and Christine Pankhurst. He helped found the Manchester Liberal Association and established a National Society for Women's Suffrage as well as drafting the first...