Young: 2898 books
by Alan Young
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2001
In 1960, four young men went into a Chicago recording studio and revolutionized the sound of African American gospel music. When they made that groundbreaking recording, the Pilgrim Jubilees had been singing together for more than ten years. Today they are still singing, and they are still at the forefront...
by Damon Young
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Most of us struggle with distraction every day: the familiar feeling that our attention is not quite where it should be. We feel it at work and at home and it can be frustrating and uncomfortable. But what is distraction? In his lucid, timely book, Damon Young shows that distraction is more than too...
A Taste for Brown Sugar
Black Women in Pornography
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
A Taste for Brown Sugar boldly takes on representations of black women's sexuality in the porn industry. It is based on Mireille Miller-Young's extensive archival research and her interviews with dozens of women who have worked in the adult entertainment industry since the 1980s. The women share their...
The Persona of Ingmar Bergman
Conquering Demons through Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Born to a mother who did not want him and a father who humiliated him during his upbringing, Ingmar Bergman somehow endured his dysfunctional family to become one of the great artists of the twentieth century. However, the scars left from his early agony affected him both physically and emotionally....
The Sherlock Effect
How Forensic Doctors and Investigators Disastrously Reason Like the Great Detective
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Forensic science is in crisis and at a cross-roads. Movies and television dramas depict forensic heroes with high-tech tools and dazzling intellects who—inside an hour, notwithstanding commercials—piece together past-event puzzles from crime scenes and autopsies. Likewise, Sherlock Holmes—the...
by Brian Young
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
INTO FRAGILE SILVERS is a unique collection of poetry spanning over two decades. Each work represents a picture of life, as seen through the eyes of Brian Young, who has been writing poetry, essays and short stories since the early 1980’s. Brian’s unique writing style has developed and grown significantly...
Trapped at Pearl Harbor
Escape from Battleship Oklahoma
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2013
Stephen Bower Young was a seaman first class assigned to gunnery duty in turret no. 4 on the Oklahoma when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Struck by torpedoes, the battleship started to sink, and Young and others became trapped when it overturned. Here, he recounts their terrifying experience...
The Early Modern Global South in Print
Textual Form and the Production of Human Difference as Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Early modern geographers and compilers of travel narratives drew on a lexicon derived from cartography’s seemingly unchanging coordinates to explain human diversity. Sandra Young’s inquiry into the partisan knowledge practices of early modernity brings to light the emergence of the early modern...
by Anna Young
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
For Anna Young, stabbing at her veins with a needle was a normal part of life. Its what she had wanted since she learned in seventh grade that her idols were heroin addicts. She strived to become a junkie and was successful. In I Hate Myself and Want to Die, Young recounts her struggles with drugs,...
by G.M. Young
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
This brilliant and evocative book is now widely regarded as the greatest single study of the age in any language. The late George Kitson Clark characterized it as "an historical essay of unique interest and importance." Though the book deserves to rank as a classic, its allusive style makes...
Seducing the Eighteenth-Century French Reader
Reading, Writing, and the Question of Pleasure
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
As he demonstrates that narratives of seduction function as a master plot for French literature in the eighteenth century, Paul Young argues that the prevalence of this trope was a reaction to a dominant cultural discourse that coded the novel and the new practice of solitary reading as dangerous,...
Soul Power
Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Soul Power is a cultural history of those whom Cynthia A. Young calls “U.S. Third World Leftists,” activists of color who appropriated theories and strategies from Third World anticolonial struggles in their fight for social and economic justice in the United States during the “long 1960s.”...
by Patricia Young
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Marriage to the chairman's niece secures Richard Nye's place on the Board and an estate in the country. Acquitting himself brilliantly in the field he becomes a darling of the Countryside Alliance and a target for the hunt saboteurs. What Nye's besotted wife fails to see is that it is not just in the...
by Reyna Young
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2016
When their parents settle into their summer vacation cabins deep into the woodlands, three restless young teens happen upon an eerie and exciting mystery when they encounter a strange colossal beast and embark on secret yet daring night adventures to try to prove that the creature's not only real,...