Deborah: 3153 books
A Working Girl Can't Win
and Other Poems
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Deborah Garrison, whose work as an editor and writer has enlivened the pages of The New Yorker for more than a decade, evokes the characters and events of her everyday life with intense feeling and, more important, conjures up the universal dilemmas and pleasures of a young woman trying to come to terms with love and work.
by Deborah Digges
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
These lush, rewarding reflections on a woman’s passage into midlife are grounded in our intimacy with nature and mortality. Deborah Digges, now in her fifties, looks back in such poems as “Boat” to see younger mothers and their children, and ponders her own “brilliant, trivial unmooring.”...
Yet a Stranger
Why Black Americans Still Don't Feel at Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2009
In a provocative examination of the state of race relations today, Deborah Mathis provides personal and sociological perspective on what it feels like for African Americans who continue to be segregated spiritually and emotionally from the rest of the country. Mathis airs mutual fears and suppositions...
Tough Enough
Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
This book focuses on six brilliant women who are often seen as particularly tough-minded: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and Joan Didion. Aligned with no single tradition, they escape straightforward categories. Yet their work evinces an affinity of style and...
Theorists of the Modernist Novel
James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Tracing the developing modernist aesthetic in the thought and writings of James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf, Deborah Parsons considers the cultural, social and personal influences upon the three writers. Exploring the connections between their theories, Parsons pays particular attention...
At Home in the World
Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
A bold new literary history that says women's writing is defined less by domestic concerns than by an engagement with public life
In a bold and sweeping reevaluation of the past two centuries of women's writing, At Home in the World argues that this body of work has been defined less by domestic...
by Deborah O'Toole
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2012
"U.S. Political Parties" by Deborah O'Toole is a non-partisan essay about political parties in the United States, including the history of Democrats and Republicans and other political parties, facts about the Electoral College, related trivia, presidential quotes, resources and links for further study.
Ready for Kindergarten!
From Recognizing Colors to Making Friends, Your Essential Guide to Kindergarten Prep
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Give your child a running start into kindergarten!
"Deborah helps parents see how simple, experiential, even play-based activities that are easily woven into a child's and parent's day can help make a difference." - Rae Pica, cofounder of BAM Radio Network: The Education Station and author...
by Deborah Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
William James, Pragmatism, and American Culture focuses on the work of William James and the relationship between the development of pragmatism and its historical, cultural, and political roots in 19th-century America. Deborah Whitehead reads pragmatism through the intersecting themes of narrative,...
The Culture Industry Revisited
Theodor W. Adorno on Mass Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1996
As the culture wars continue to dominate newspaper headlines and conference panels, much of the debate revolves around the value of and values in popular culture. Many opponents of popular culture have cited Theodor W. Adorno, one of the leading figures of the Frankfurt School of critical theorists....
by Deborah Beck
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
The Iliad and the Odyssey are emotional powerhouses largely because of their extensive use of direct speech. Yet this characteristic of the Homeric epics has led scholars to underplay the poems' use of non-direct speech, the importance of speech represented by characters, and the overall sophistication...
Denying the Holocaust
The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat. Yet there are those who insist that the death of six million Jews in Nazi concentration camps is nothing but a hoax perpetrated by a powerful Zionist conspiracy. Sixty years ago, such notions were the province...
The Argument Culture
Stopping America's War of Words
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
In her number one bestseller, You Just Don't Understand, Deborah Tannen showed why talking to someone of the other sex can be like talking to someone from another world. Her bestseller Talking from 9 to 5 did for workplace communication what You Just Don't Understand did for personal relationships....
Adiós Niño
The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
In Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, Deborah T. Levenson examines transformations in the Guatemalan gangs called Maras from their emergence in the 1980s to the early 2000s. A historical study, Adiós Niño describes how fragile spaces of friendship and exploration...