Crowther: 71 books
Gather at the River
Notes from the Post-Millennial South
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
To read Hal Crowther is to find yourself agreeing with views on topics you never knew you cared so much about. In Gather at the River, Crowther extends the wide-angle vision of Southern life presented in his highly acclaimed collection Cathedrals of Kudzu. He cuts to the heart of recent political,...
The Political Activities of Detroit Clubwomen in the 1920s
A Challenge and a Promise
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
In the early 1900s, Detroit's clubwomen successfully lobbied for issues like creating playgrounds for children, building public baths, raising the age for child workers, and reforming the school board and city charter. But when they won the vote in 1918, Detroit's clubwomen, both black and white, were...
Philosophy After Postmodernism
Civilized Values and the Scope of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Formulating a new approach to philosophy which, instead of simply rejecting postmodern thought, tries to assimilate some of its main features, Paul Crowther identifies conceptual links between value, knowledge, personal identity and civilization understood as a process of cumulative advance.
To establish...
An Infuriating American
The Incendiary Arts of H. L. Mencken
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
As American journalism shape-shifts into multimedia pandemonium and seems to diminish rapidly in influence and integrity, the controversial career of H. L. Mencken, the most powerful individual journalist of the twentieth century, is a critical text for anyone concerned with the balance of power between...
The No Recipe Cookbook
A Beginner's Guide to the Art of Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
What has happened to cooking? Where has it gone? For most people, it is left to the experts in restaurants and on television. Thanks to the constant availability of takeout, frozen dinners, and fast food restaurants, for the majority of Americans, cooking has become a spectator sport—an entertaining...
The Vegetarian Chef
Mastering the Art of Recipe-Free Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Mastering the Art of Recipe-Free Cooking
This information-packed book-part memoir, part recipe-free instruction-hums with the conviction of a talented, knowledgeable cook.” -Crescent Dragonwagon, James Beard Award-winning author
Thanks to the constant availability of takeout, frozen...
The Workhouse System 1834-1929
The History of an English Social Institution
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
First published in 1981. Professor Crowther traces the history of the workhouse system from the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 to the Local Government Act of 1929.
At their outset the large residential institutions were seen by the Poor Law Commissioners as a cure for nearly all social ills....
by Yasmin Crowther
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
In a powerful debut novel that moves between the crowded streets of London and the desolate mountains of Iran, Yasmin Crowther paints a stirring portrait of a family shaken by events from decades ago and worlds away. On a rainy day in London the dark secrets and troubled past of Maryam Mazar surface...
by Bruce Crowther
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
With the advent of the Second World War a new mood was discernible in film drama - an atmosphere of disillusion and a sense of foreboding, a dark quality that derived as much from the characters depicted as from the cinematographer's art. These films, among them such classics as Double Indemnity,...
by J G Crowther
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
J G Crowther has chosen five of the greatest scientists of the nineteenth century – Davy, Faraday, Clerk-Maxwell, Joule, Lord Kelvin and examines every aspect of their lives and work.
Nothing: Los Angeles
Nothing, #1
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2015
An amoral violent Chicago enforcer is heading for the sun and ocean breeze of California to the get to the bottom of the recent suspicious death of his sister. He runs into his own kind as soon as the plane touches asphalt, and they don't appreciate him being around. Not content to let the police...
by Paul Crowther
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
Why are the visual arts so important and what is it that makes their forms significant? Countering recent interpretations of meaning that understand visual artworks on the model of literary texts, Crowther formulates a theory of the visual arts based on what their creation achieves both cognitively...
Make a Statement
25 Handcrafted Jewelry & Accessory Projects
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
From runways to boutiques, statement jewelry has become the coveted accessory. In Make a Statement, jewelry designers Janet Crowther and Katie Covington share their trade secrets for using basic techniques and easy-to-source materials to make stylish jewelry and accessories, from a gold bib necklace...
Every Secret Thing
A novel of friendship, betrayal and second chances, for fans of Joanna Trollope and Hilary Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Can you ever bury the past?
'A wonderful page-turner of a novel' Fay Weldon on The Things You Do for Love
She'd recognised in him something of herself: that sense of not belonging, of secrets fiercely kept . . .
Five friends, newly graduated, travel together to the Lake District....