Beth: 2483 books
The Medicine Line
Life and Death on a North American Borderland
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The Medicine Line: Life and Death on the North American Borderland, is a complex and oftentimes dramatic mix of narrative storytelling and history in which ironies are explored, patterns of deed and response are uncovered, examined and evaluated...Beth Ladow is a compelling stylist who writes with...
Doctrine and Race
African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism between the Wars
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Doctrine and Race examines the history of African American Baptists and Methodists of the early twentieth century and their struggle for equality in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism.
By presenting African American Protestantism in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism,...
Starring Madame Modjeska
On Tour in Poland and America
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
The “important . . . meticulously researched” prize-winning biography of the pre-eminent Polish star of the nineteenth century global stage (CosmopolinReview.com).
In reintroducing “a little-remembered actress to a new American audience” biographer Beth Holgram delivers a revelatory...
Nest. Flight. Sky.
On Love and Loss, One Wing at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
In Nest. Flight. Sky. award-winning memoirist Beth Kephart returns to the form for the first time in years to reckon with the loss of her mother and a slow-growing but soon inescapable obsession with birds and flight. Kephart finds herself drawn to the startle of the winter finch, the quick pulse...
by Prof. Lawrence Manley, Prof. Sally-Beth MacLean
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
In this major contribution to theater history and cultural studies, authors Lawrence Manley and Sally-Beth MacLean paint a lively portrait of Lord Strange’s Men, a daring company of players that dominated the London stage for a brief period in the late Elizabethan era. During their short theatrical...
Plastic-Free
How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Guides readers toward the road less consumptive, offering practical advice and moral support while making a convincing case that individual actions . . . do matter.” -Elizabeth Royte, author, Garbage Land and Bottlemania
Like many people, Beth Terry didn’t think an individual could have...
Handling the Truth
On the Writing of Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
In the tradition of Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird, a critically acclaimed National Book Award finalist shares inspiration and practical advice for writing a memoir.
Writing memoir is a deeply personal, and consequential, undertaking. As the acclaimed author of five memoirs spanning significant...
License to Harass
Law, Hierarchy, and Offensive Public Speech
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Offensive street speech--racist and sexist remarks that can make its targets feel both psychologically and physically threatened--is surprisingly common in our society. Many argue that this speech is so detestable that it should be banned under law. But is this an area covered by the First Amendment...
The Rites of Identity
The Religious Naturalism and Cultural Criticism of Kenneth Burke and Ralph Ellison
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
The Rites of Identity argues that Kenneth Burke was the most deciding influence on Ralph Ellison's writings, that Burke and Ellison are firmly situated within the American tradition of religious naturalism, and that this tradition--properly understood as religious--offers a highly useful means for...
True to Life
Fifty Steps to Help You Write Your Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2014
In fifty informative and inspiring steps, Beth Kaplan shows you how to write your story by putting on your writer's hat, then your editor's hat, then digging down to bring out the vital details of the story, and finally living the writing life. Steps include:
Read Like a Writer
Unleash the "I" Word
Claim Your Truth
Write from Scars, Not Wounds
Enter the Marketplace
by Beth McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
There are tons of books out there telling you how to set up a profile, how to be original, and how to choose good photos. Many of them are helpful and offer advice for how to say things, but none of them tell you exactly what you should say. The purpose of this book is to answer that all-important...
Separated by Their Sex
Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
In Separated by Their Sex, Mary Beth Norton offers a bold genealogy that shows how gender came to determine the right of access to the Anglo-American public sphere by the middle of the eighteenth century. Earlier, high-status men and women alike had been recognized as appropriate political actors,...
In the Devil's Snare
The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in thisstartlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study.
In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were living in fear, and not solely of satanic afflictions. Horrifyingly violent Indian attacks had...
Touched by a Vampire
Discovering the Hidden Messages in the Twilight Saga
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
**Examine the Twilight Saga series through a Biblical lens. **
People around the world are asking the same question, enraptured with Edward and Bella’s forbidden romance in the Twilight Saga, a four-book serial phenomenon written by Stephenie Meyer. The bestsellers tell the story of a regular...