Amy: 4691 books

Book cover of How To Theme: Understanding and Analysing the Connection Between Theme and Story for Writers And Students
by Amy Laurens
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2018

Does the idea of analysing theme leave you confused and bewildered? Are you an author seeking to understand the power of theme in your own writing? Or a student trying to grapple with theme in the classroom? How To Theme is here to help! In How To Theme, you will learn: * How...
Book cover of White Lilac; or the Queen of the May
by Amy Walton
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016

Amy Walton, better known as Mrs. O.F. Walton, was a 20th century British writer best known for kids books with Christian themes. Many of them are still read today.
Book cover of Laughing at the Devil

Laughing at the Devil

Seeing the World with Julian of Norwich

by Amy Laura Hall
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018

Laughing at the Devil is an invitation to see the world with a medieval visionary now known as Julian of Norwich, believed to be the first woman to have written a book in English. (We do not know her given name, because she became known by the name of a church that became her home.) Julian “saw...
Book cover of Day to Night
by Amy Michaud
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017

day to night is a delightful blend of poetry and prose about enjoying companionship, embracing romance, and accepting love, a sweet and heartfelt collection from beginning to end.
Book cover of Film Studies

Film Studies

A Global Introduction

by Glyn Davis, Kay Dickinson, Lisa Patti
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015

Film Studies: A Global Introduction reroutes film studies from its Euro-American focus and canon in order to introduce students to a medium that has always been global but has become differently and insistently so in the digital age. Glyn Davis, Kay Dickinson, Lisa Patti and Amy Villarejo’s...
Book cover of Ethereal Queer

Ethereal Queer

Television, Historicity, Desire

by Amy Villarejo
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014

In Ethereal Queer, Amy Villarejo offers a historically engaged, theoretically sophisticated, and often personal account of how TV representations of queer life have changed as the medium has evolved since the 1950s. Challenging the widespread view that LGBT characters did not make a sustained appearance...
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Lesbian Rule

Cultural Criticism and the Value of Desire

by Amy Villarejo, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2003

With hair slicked back and shirt collar framing her young patrician face, Katherine Hepburn's image in the 1935 film Sylvia Scarlett was seen by many as a lesbian representation. Yet, Amy Villarejo argues, there is no final ground upon which to explain why that image of Hepburn signifies lesbian or...
Book cover of Towards a Cultural Philology

Towards a Cultural Philology

"Phedre" and the Construction of 'Racine'

by Amy Wygant
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017

"Amy Wygant reads Racine's ""Phedre"" (1677) through an analysis of its 17th-century cultural contexts and a consideration of its subsequent reception history. She explores the construction of Racinian language as ""musical"", the poetics of the Racinian...
Book cover of The Art of Storytelling

The Art of Storytelling

Telling Truths Through Telling Stories

by Amy E. Spaulding
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011

Storytelling is an art, as well as a skill. It allows the listener to take an idea and shape it into something that is relatable on a personal level. In The Art of Storytelling: Telling Truths Through Telling Stories, Amy E. Spaulding enables the reader to learn how to develop this skill, while also...
Book cover of Functional Strength: Build Stength with Crossfit, Kettlebells, and More!
by Amy Boyce
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2018

Are You Tired Of Fad Diets And Exercise Plans That Are Expensive And Just Don't Seem To Work? Discover a complete training for For Building Functional Strength That Covers Compound Movements, Kettlebell training, Crossfit and More!
Book cover of Sprints And Marathons: What You Need to Know About Stamina and Running
by Amy Boyce
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015

Scientific research has demonstrated that sprinters and marathoners have predominantly different muscle fiber types. Sprinters will have fast-twitch muscle fibers that create greater force and bear a faster contraction or response time. Marathoners have slow-twitch muscle fibers that create force...
Book cover of In the Kingdom of Gorillas

In the Kingdom of Gorillas

The Quest to Save Rwanda's Mountain Gorillas

by Bill Weber, Amy Vedder
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012

When Bill Weber and Amy Vedder arrived in Rwanda to study mountain gorillas with Dian Fossey, the gorilla population was teetering toward extinction. Poaching was rampant, but it was loss of habitat that most endangered the gorillas. Weber and Vedder realized that the gorillas were doomed unless something...
Book cover of Museum Representations of Maoist China

Museum Representations of Maoist China

From Cultural Revolution to Commie Kitsch

by Amy Jane Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016

The collection, interpretation and display of art from the People’s Republic of China, and particularly the art of the Cultural Revolution, have been problematic for museums. These objects challenge our perception of ’Chineseness’ and their style, content and the means of their production question...
Book cover of Il libro delle verità nascoste
by Amy Gail Hansen
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 4, 2014

Ruby vuole solo dimenticare. Vuole solo cancellare l’ultimo anno al Tarble College e nascondere nel profondo quel segreto che non ha confessato a nessuno. Eppure, quando crede che il peggio sia alle spalle si ritrova tra le mani il libro da cui tutto è cominciato. Il libro che custodisce le ombre...
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