Ferguson: 869 books
Bad Boys
Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Statistics show that black males are disproportionately getting in trouble and being suspended from the nation's school systems. Based on three years of participant observation research at an elementary school, Bad Boys offers a richly textured account of daily interactions between teachers and students...
Crazy U
One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The cutthroat competition to get into the perfect college can drive students to the brink of madness and push their parents over the edge—and bury them in an avalanche of books that claim to hold the secret of success. Don’t worry: Crazy U is not one of those books. It is instead a disarmingly...
Carry a Big Stick
A Funny, Fearless Life of Friendship, Laughter and MS
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
A funny, poignant and inspirational story of widely acclaimed comedian, writer and producer, Tim Ferguson.
Tim Ferguson was a star of the international comedy circuit. Along with Paul McDermott and Richard Fidler he was part of the edgy, provocative and very funny Doug Anthony Allstars (DAAS)....
The Square and the Tower
Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
**The instant New York Times bestseller.
A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks.
“Captivating and compelling.” —The New York Times
"Niall...
to remember love
two promises that led me to the notes in the ashes
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
"to remember love" is a book based on the true story of how Tonya Ferguson and her family, were forced to live their lives clinging to the edge of a jagged cliff, while battling a fierce, non-stop, thirteen year storm.
Look around you and you will find someone that is a Caregiver,...
Joe Dallesandro
Warhol Superstar, Underground Film Icon, Actor
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
The story of Warhol’s greatest superstar
The renowned photographer Francesco Scavullo has called Joe Dallesandro “one of the ten most photogenic men in the world.” Springing to fame at the beginning of the sexual revolution in films such as Flesh, Trash, and Heat, Dallesandro, with the...
by Robert Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Prior to the First World War T.E. Hulme was one of the most original and striking creative personalities in England, strongly admired by both Pound and Eliot. Yet he died in 1917, virtually unknown. A key figure in the genesis of Modernism, Hulme mixed among a great range of gifted artists and was...
Subject to Others (Routledge Revivals)
British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
First published in 1992, Subject to Others considers the intersection between late seventeenth- to early nineteenth-century British female writers and the colonial debate surrounding slavery and abolition. Beginning with an overview that sets the discussion in context, Moira Ferguson then chronicles...
The Abyss
World War I and the End of the First Age of Globalization--A Selection from The War of the World (Penguin Tracks)
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Excerpted from Niall Ferguson’s sprawling bestseller The War of the World, The Abyss now stands on its own as one of the most thrilling short histories of World War I ever written. This is not a conventional military history about battles and generals. Rather, The Abyss examines how World War I...
by Catherine Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Curl up by the fire this Christmas with the ebook bestseller Catherine Ferguson. When Poppy’s boyfriend Harrison proposes the week before Christmas and gives her twelve days to decide, she doesn’t know what to do. With the festive season in full swing, it’s make or break time for the couple...
by Robert Burns, James Barke, Sydney Goodsir Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The Merry Muses of Caledonia is among Burns' best known, but least read, work. This collection of bawdy poems, some written by and some collected by Burns, ranges from celebrations of spirited women in Ellibanks, to misogyny in There was twa wives and male fantasy in Nine Inch will please a lady....
Scandinavians
In Search of the Soul of the North
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Scandinavia is the epitome of cool: we fill our homes with Nordic furniture; we envy their humane social welfare system and their healthy outdoor lifestyle; we glut ourselves on their crime fiction; even their strangely attractive melancholia seems to express a stoic, commonsensical acceptance of...
Has the European Experiment Failed?: The Munk Debate on Europe
The Munk Debate on Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
In the sweep of human history, the European Union stands out as one of humankind's most ambitious endeavours. It encompasses half a billion people, twenty-seven member states, twenty-three languages, and an economy valued at over $15 trillion. Modern Europe's stunning achievements aside, its sovereign...
Alone in America
The Stories that Matter
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
With more people living alone today than at any time in U.S. history, Ferguson investigates loneliness in American fiction, from its mythological beginnings in Rip Van Winkle to the postmodern terrors of 9/11. At issue is the dark side of a trumpeted American individualism. Ferguson shows that we can learn, from our literature, how to live alone.