Claudia: 2015 books
American Rhapsody
Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Ranging from the shattered gentility of Edith Wharton's heroines to racial confrontation in the songs of Nina Simone, American Rhapsody presents a kaleidoscopic story of the creation of a culture. Here is a series of deeply involving portraits of American artists and innovators who have helped to...
by Claudia Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Kate by Claudia Joseph, is a true-life fairy tale: the biography of Kate Middleton, Princess-in-Waiting, who is quite possibly poised to be the next Queen of England. The extraordinary Cinderella story of the beautiful, charming, sophisticated young woman who has snagged Britain’s most eligible...
The Golden Dozen: Is the Ivy League Worth the Dollars?
Is the Ivy League Worth the Dollars?
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Previously published as part of HIGHER EDUCATION?
A quarter of a million dollars. It's the going tab for four years at most top-tier colleges. But is it worth it?
In this provocative work, the renowned sociologist Andrew Hacker and New York Times writer Claudia Dreifus investigate whether...
The Athletics Incubus: How College Sports Undermine College Education
How College Sports Undermine College Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Previously published as part of HIGHER EDUCATION?
A quarter of a million dollars. It's the going tab for four years at most top-tier colleges. But is it worth it?
In this provocative work, the renowned sociologist Andrew Hacker and New York Times writer Claudia Dreifus make an incisive...
Passionate Minds
Women Rewriting the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
With a masterful ability to connect their social contexts to well-chosen and telling details of their personal lives, Claudia Roth Pierpont gives us portraits of twelve amazingly diverse and influential literary women of the twentieth century, women who remade themselves and the world through their...
by Claudia Moatti
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
In this classic work, now appearing in English for the first time, Claudia Moatti analyses the intellectual transformation that occurred at the end of the Roman Republic in response both to the political crisis and to the city's expansion across the Mediterranean. This was a period of great cultural...
by Claudia Heller
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Andres Duarte was a Mexican army veteran who was awarded a 6,595-acre grant south of the San Gabriel Mountains in 1841. Parceled out to settlers and farmers, the Rancho Azusa de Duarte began thriving when rail lines were built to access the citrus crops. Duarte was home to the City of Hope, a tuberculosis...
by Claudia Marforio, Francesco Aloe
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Narrativa - romanzo breve (56 pagine) - Un'emozionante raccolta di racconti che stupirà chi non è mai stato in India, ma anche chi crede di conoscerla.
Viaggi incostanti – Momenti di india è una raccolta di episodi che l'autrice ha vissuto in India durante diversi viaggi. Sono momenti...
by Claudia Gray
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Star Wars: Lost Stars comes a thrilling novel set in the years before the events of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
“Unmissable . . . Bloodline’s tense politics, vivid new characters, and perfectly characterized Leia make it feel as central...
by James Altucher, Claudia Altucher
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
"No" is sometimes the hardest word to say. It’s also the most necessary.
How many times have you heard yourself saying yes to the wrong things—overwhelming requests, bad relationships, time-consuming obligations? How often have you wished you could summon the power to turn them...
Madonna. Heaven
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Language: Italian
Release Date: July 9, 2009
È stata la regina dei locali underground della New York di inizio anni Ottanta, l’incarnazione assoluta del glamorama della decade di plastica. È stata la ragazza perduta che flirta con la pornografia, imprenditrice di se stessa efficientissima e scandalosa. È stata la Madre Terra, quando a metà...
Me & You
A bittersweet story of friendship, love and loss
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
What happens when your past catches up with you... Heartwarming and uplifting.
"I'm fine. I'm sorry. Please take care of him for me. And maybe one day I'll get to explain."
Angie knows a lot about her best friend Kitty. She knows Kitty is mad and wild and loves to wear clashing colors....
Women Who Ruled
History's 50 Most Remarkable Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
'Poisoners', 'whores', 'witches' and 'murderers' - or so their enemies claimed. From Queen Nefertiti of Egypt, to the villainous Catherine de Medici and her flying squadron, to England's 'Gloriana' Elizabeth I, and the modern phenomenon of female prime ministers - Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Margaret...
Generally Speaking
A Memoir by the First Woman Promoted to Three-Star General in the United States Army
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2008
Claudia J. Kennedy retired as the Army's first female three-star general and the highest-ranking woman ever in that branch, overseeing 45,000 soldiers worldwide. During her 32-year career she witnessed the dramatic advances made by military women, and she was a long-time champion for fairness and...