List 2 of books by Downs

Beyond Freedom

Disrupting the History of Emancipation

by Brenda Stevenson, Greg Downs, Carole Emberton
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017

This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Did freedom just mean the absence of...

Shut Up and Live! (You Know How)

A 93-Year-Old's Guide to Living to a Ripe Old Age

by Marion Downs
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007

A fun, spirited celebration of life from a woman who proves you can live vibrantly no matter how old you are. Marion P. Downs learned to ski at the age of fifty. On her fifty-first birthday, she stood at the top of a steep black diamond slope, afraid to go down the hill for the first time....

Fight Fair

Winning at Conflict without Losing at Love

by Joy Downs, Tim Downs
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010

Everyone disagrees on some things; this is inevitable. The question is, how can we disagree with those we love, but increase the odds that we will live and love to fight another day? How can we learn to fight fair? In this companion to One of Us Must Be Crazy... and I'm Pretty Sure It's You (a treatise...

Protecting Your Innocence

by Kimplachat A. Downs
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013

Inspired by lifes obstacles, poet Kimplachat Downs promotes the empowerment of women in her poetry collection, Protecting Your Innocence. She encourages women to tell their stories, resulting in the shedding of excess baggage, bitter pasts, and vague future views about love. The key mission is for...

Let's All Be Brave

Living Life with Everything You Have

by Annie F. Downs
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014

A call to embrace the God-given courage that lives inside you from bestselling author Annie F. Downs. How often does fear hold you back from the very things you most want to taste, touch, and experience? Author, blogger, and speaker Annie F. Downs admits she's not exactly the bravest girl in...

Kisses From Lillith

by Adele Downs
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017

"Adele Downs has presented something fresh and new." 5 Stars! ~Readers' Favorite *** Hunter receives an intriguing invitation to a Cave Party in a distant Pennsylvania town. Though his relationship with his girlfriend Rosa might be heading for a break-up, he invites her to...

Transforming the South

Federal Development in the Tennessee Valley, 1915-1960

by Matthew L. Downs
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014

Historians have long recognized the middle of the twentieth century as significant in the history of the modern South, owing to a convergence of social change, political realignment, and cultural expansion. This period in southern history has provided extensive material for scholars of race, gender,...

Childhood in the Promised Land

Working-Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France, 1880–1960

by Laura Lee Downs
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2002

Childhood in the Promised Land is the first history of France's colonies de vacances, a vast network of summer camps created for working-class children. The colonies originated as a late-nineteenth-century charitable institution, providing rural retreats intended to restore the fragile health of poor...

Spit Baths

Stories

by Greg Downs
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011

With a reporter's eye for the inside story and a historian's grasp of the ironies in our collective past, Greg Downs affectionately observes some of the last survivors of what Greil Marcus has called the old, weird America. Living off the map and out of sight, folks like Embee, Rudy, Peg, and Branch...

Cornell '69

Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University

by Donald A. Downs
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014

In April 1969, one of America's premier universities was celebrating parents' weekend—and the student union was an armed camp, occupied by over eighty defiant members of the campus's Afro-American Society. Marching out Sunday night, the protesters brandished rifles, their maxim: "If we die, you...

Blue Collar

by Delilah Devlin, Elle James, Layla Chase
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017

When it comes to love...Blue Collar is better! It's time to set aside those sexy billionaires and enjoy stories about the everyday, even sexier bad boys you meet in real life. They may have dirty hands and wear tool belts and jeans instead of Rolex watches, but they're earthy alpha males unafraid...

Stingers

by Graham Downs
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014

Every purchase of Stingers comes with a free book! Make sure you read it to the end for details. Now a High School English set work! Thirteen year old James Clarke is always being picked on in school. He hates sports, and he particularly hates Stingers, a schoolyard game in which children...

Perfectly Unique

Praising God from Head to Foot

by Annie F. Downs
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012

Stop struggling with your body image and start embracing every part of your body just as it was designed—sacred and unique with a specific plan and purpose—through this thoughtful, funny, spirit-filled exploration that will help you finally and fully accept … you. Because you were made...