Beth: 2483 books
Dear Friend and Gardener
Letters on Life and Gardening
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
In this exchange of personal letters two of Britain's leading gardeners - Christopher Lloyd and Beth Chatto - share their successes and failures, and learn from each other's experiences in their two very different gardens.
Understanding John Duns Scotus
Of realty the rarest-veined unraveller
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In this ninth volume of the Franciscan Heritage Series, Mary Beth Ingham introduces readers to the Franciscan vision and values of Blessed John Duns Scotus (1266-1308). Framed within the context of Franciscan spiritual values, chapters focus on creation and the dignity of each individual being, on...
Home
Chronicle of a North Country Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Home is like a leaf on a tree: other people, other homes, are the other leaves. They live beneath the same sky, share the same memories, survive the same storms. But one leaf is a solitude. After twenty-five years on a New Brunswick farm, award-winning Canadian author Beth Powning came to understand...
Stray Wives
Marital Conflict in Early National New England
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Whereas my husband, Enoch Darling, has at sundry times used me in so improper and cruel a manner, as to destroy my happiness and endanger my life, and whereas he has not provided for me as a husband ought, but expended his time and money unadvisedly, at taverns . . . . I hereby notify the public that...
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust
Language, Rhetoric and the Traditions of Hatred
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust surveys the history of the Holocaust whilst demonstrating the pivotal importance of the historical tradition of anti-Semitism and the power of discriminatory language in relation to the Nazi-led persecution of the Jews.
The book examines varieties of anti-Semitism...
Turning Texas Blue
What It Will Take to Break the GOP Grip on America's Reddest State
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
In the 2014 midterm election, Democrats in Texas did not receive even 40 percent of the statewide vote; Republicans swept the tables both in Texas and nationally. But even after two decades of democratic losses, there is a path to turn Texas blue, argues Mary Beth Rogers - if Democrats are smart enough...
Candidate Hillary
From Senator to Presidential Hopeful
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Hillary is up in the polls! Hillary is down in the polls!
She’s a feminist and women love her; she’s an enabler and women hate her.
She’s brilliant and hardworking; she’s entitled and untrustworthy.
Sounds like Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2016 or even 2008 presidential...
The Betrayal of Work
How Low-wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans And Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Following its publication in hardcover, the critically acclaimed Betrayal of Work became one of the most influential policy books about economic life in America; it was discussed in the pages of Newsweek, Business Week, Fortune, the Washington Post, Newsday, and USA Today, as well as in public policy...
by Beth Harden
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Lissa Braum leaves rural Maine to embrace a world of diverse people she yearns to know. Unfortunately, the big city that awaits her includes strangers that don't share same the same empathy. The brutal assault she endures catapults her on a jarring course of self-doubt and dysfunction that leads...
Child Survivors of the Holocaust
The Youngest Remnant and the American Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
The majority of European Jewish children alive in 1939 were murdered during the Holocaust. Of 1.5 million children, only an estimated 150,000 survived. In the aftermath of the Shoah, efforts by American Jews brought several thousand of these child survivors to the United States. In Child Survivors...
by Mary Beth Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Before Abraham Lincoln became the calm, wise and compassionate president whom all presidents try to emulate, he looked and acted much differently. He had no beard to hide his gaunt, wrinkled and pock marked face, no well-tailored suit to disguise his sloping, thin shoulders and wrinkled neck. Abraham...
by Mary Beth Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
After unbearable pressure at home and at work, the author became manic and crashed her car into a tree thinking she would become reincarnated. After going to an incompetent psychiatrist, she had the enormous good luck to switch to the best psychiatrist in the county. Here she tells her own story along...
Consuming Grief
Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2010
Mourning the death of loved ones and recovering from their loss are universal human experiences, yet the grieving process is as different between cultures as it is among individuals. As late as the 1960s, the Wari' Indians of the western Amazonian rainforest ate the roasted flesh of their dead as...
Trains, Literature, and Culture
Reading and Writing the Rails
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
Trains, Literature and Culture: Reading and Writing the Rails delves into the rich connections between rail travel and the creation of cultural products from short stories to novels, from photographs to travel guides, and from artistic manifestos of the avant-garde to Freud’s psychology. Each of...