Williams: 7228 books
Healer's Sword
Part Seven of the Okal Rel Saga
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Change has come at last to the Sevolite empire
The conservative Demish of Lion House want it stopped — now!
Ilse Marin is a middle-class leader of a merchant house who gets embroiled in the business of her betters to help pay the bills, and winds up falling for the most dangerous...
Teenage Suicide Notes
An Ethnography of Self-Harm
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
"Picturing myself dying in a way I choose myself seems so comforting, healing and heroic. I'd look at my wrists, watch the blood seeping, and be a spectator in my last act of self-determination. By having lost all my self-respect it seems like the last pride I own, determining the time I die."-Kyra...
Kraken
The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Kraken is the traditional name for gigantic sea monsters, and this book introduces one of the most charismatic, enigmatic, and curious inhabitants of the sea: the squid. The pages take the reader on a wild narrative ride through the world of squid science and adventure, along the way addressing some...
Invasive Objects
Minds Under Siege
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The "Director" controls Ms. B’s life. He flatters her, beguiles her, derides her. His instructions pervade each aspect of her life, including her analytic sessions, during which he suggests promiscuous and dangerous things for Ms. B to say and do, when he suspects that her isolated state...
Daniel O'Connell, The British Press and The Irish Famine
Killing Remarks
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Through an investigation of the reportage in nineteenth-century English metropolitan newspapers and illustrated journals, this book begins with the question 'Did anti-O'Connell sentiment in the British press lead to "killing remarks," rhetoric that helped the press, government and public...
Television
Technology and Cultural Form
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Television: Technology and Cultural Form was first published in 1974, long before the dawn of multi-channel TV, or the reality and celebrity shows that now pack the schedules. Yet Williams' analysis of television's history, its institutions, programmes and practices, and its future prospects, remains...
An Anzac on the Western Front
The Personal Reflections of an Australian Infantryman from 1916 to 1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
“A remarkably candid and graphic account” of the World War I service of a member of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Britain at War Magazine).
Having enlisted in 1915 and serving in the 56th Battalion Australian Imperial Force, Harold Roy Williams arrived in France, from Egypt, on...
Resources of Hope
Culture, Democracy, Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Collected essays and talks from one of Britain’s great thinkers, ranging across political and cultural theory
Raymond Williams possessed unique authority as Britain’s foremost cultural theorist and public intellectual. Informed by an unparalleled range of reference and the resources of...
Middle English Marvels
Magic, Spectacle, and Morality in the Fourteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
This multidisciplinary volume illustrates how representations of magic in fourteenth-century romances link the supernatural, spectacle, and morality in distinctive ways.
Supernatural marvels represented in vivid visual detail are foundational to the characteristic Middle English genres of romance...
Intellectual Manhood
University, Self, and Society in the Antebellum South
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
In this in-depth and detailed history, Timothy J. Williams reveals that antebellum southern higher education did more than train future secessionists and proslavery ideologues. It also fostered a growing world of intellectualism flexible enough to marry the era's middle-class value system to the honor-bound...
by Stanley Williams, Fen Montaigne
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2001
This true, up-close account of a volcano’s eruption “artfully blends science writing and history with pure, heart-pounding action” (Mark Bowden, bestselling author of Black Hawk Down).
In 1993, Stanley Williams, an eminent volcanologist, was standing on top of a Colombian volcano called...
In Time
Poets, Poems, and the Rest
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Winner of the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and numerous other awards, C. K. Williams is one of the most distinguished poets of his generation. Known for the variety of his subject matter and the expressive intensity of his verse, he has written on topics as resonant as war,...
by C. K. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Collected Poems brings together nearly four decades of C. K.Williams's work: more than four hundred poems that, though remarkable in their variety, have in common Williams's distinctive outlook—restless, passionate, dogged, and uncompromising in the drive to find words for the truth about life as...
by Wendy S. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
The position of George Eliot’s poetry within Victorian poetry and within her own canon is crucial for an accurate picture of the writer, as Wendy S. Williams shows in her in-depth examination of Eliot’s poetry and her role as poetess. Williams argues that even more clearly than her fiction, Eliot’s...