Claudia: 2015 books
Union-Occupied Maryland
A Civil War Chronicle of Civilians & Soldiers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
When the first Federal troops arrived in the spring of 1861, Maryland was in the precarious position of a border state. Predominately loyal to the Union, Marylanders saw the influx of soldiers as defenders. Yet for the minority supporting the Confederacy, the Federals were oppressors. Historian Claudia...
by Claudia Nice
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
Claudia Nice shows you how to turn ink and watercolors into the coarse-barked trunk of an oak, or the burnished smoothness of brass, or the verdant velvet of moss. Or any of many other things. She shows you how to use dots, fine lines, brushstrokes, black and white, color-a mixture of mediums and...
Brazilian Art under Dictatorship
Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, and Cildo Meireles
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Brazilian Art under Dictatorship is a sophisticated analysis of the intersection of politics and the visual arts during the most repressive years of Brazil's military regime, from 1968 until 1975. Raised in Rio de Janeiro during the dictatorship, the curator and art historian Claudia Calirman describes...
by Claudia Dey
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Described by Variety as ‘Yukon Gothic,’ Claudia Dey’s acclaimed Trout Stanley is set in northern British Columbia, on the outskirts of a mining town between Misery Junction and Grizzly Alley. In this inhospitable setting live a pair of sisters, twins who are not identical in any way: Sugar,...
Meet Me in Manhattan
A sparkling, feel-good romantic comedy to whisk you away!
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
From the number one bestselling author Claudia Carroll comes a warm, witty feel-good story.
He's the one. Definitely... Isn't he?
When aspiring Dublin journalist Holly Johnson finds the man of her dreams online she can't believe her luck!
But when strange things start to happen she decides...
by Claudia L. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Jane Austen completed only six novels, but enduring passion for the author and her works has driven fans to read these books repeatedly, in book clubs or solo, while also inspiring countless film adaptations, sequels, and even spoofs involving zombies and sea monsters. Austen’s lasting appeal to...
The Odd Man Karakozov
Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On April 4, 1866, just as Alexander II stepped out of Saint Petersburg's Summer Garden and onto the boulevard, a young man named Dmitry Karakozov pulled out a pistol and shot at the tsar. He missed, but his "unheard-of act" changed the course of Russian history-and gave birth to the revolutionary...
by Claudia Moscovici
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2007
Claudia Moscovici asserts in Romanticism and Postromanticism that the Romantic heritage, far from being important only in a historical sense, has philosophical relevance and value for contemporary art and culture. With an emphasis on artistic tradition as a continuing source of inspiration and innovation,...
Confronting Evils
Terrorism, Torture, Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
In this contribution to philosophical ethics, Claudia Card revisits the theory of evil developed in her earlier book The Atrocity Paradigm (2002), and expands it to consider collectively perpetrated and collectively suffered atrocities. Redefining evil as a secular concept and focusing on the inexcusability...
Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity
The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Between 300 and 600, Christianity experienced a momentous change from persecuted cult to state religion. One of the consequences of this shift was the evolution of the role of the bishop—as the highest Church official in his city—from model Christian to model citizen. Claudia Rapp's exceptionally...
Precocious Children and Childish Adults
Age Inversion in Victorian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Especially evident in Victorian-era writings is a rhetorical tendency to liken adults to children and children to adults. Claudia Nelson examines this literary phenomenon and explores the ways in which writers discussed the child-adult relationship during this period.
Though far from ubiquitous,...
Finding the Right Words
Isidore's Synonyma in Anglo-Saxon England
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Isidore of Seville (circa 570-636) was the author of the Etymologiae,. the most celebrated and widely circulated encyclopaedia of the western Middle Ages. In addition, Isidore's Synonyma were very successful and became one of the classics of medieval spirituality. Indeed, it was the Synonyma that...
I soldati del popolo
Arditi, partigiani e ribelli: dalle occupazioni del biennio 1919-20 alle gesta della Volante Rossa, storia eretica delle rivoluzioni mancate in Italia
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Quando, alla fine della prima guerra mondiale, i contadini scesero in piazza e, in città, gli operai occuparono in armi le fabbriche, l'intero ordinamento politico italiano venne sconvolto dalla domanda di un nuovo ordine sociale, presto raccolta dall'organizzazione paramilitare degli Arditi del...
The Power of Huacas
Change and Resistance in the Andean World of Colonial Peru
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The role of the religious specialist in Andean cultures of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries was a complicated one, balanced between local traditions and the culture of the Spanish. In The Power of Huacas, Claudia Brosseder reconstructs the dynamic interaction between religious specialists...