Fleming: 677 books
Ninety Degrees North
The Quest for the North Pole
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The author of Barrow’s Boys offers a fascinating look at the exploration of the Arctic in the nineteenth century.
Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, the Seattle Times, Publishers Weekly, and Time
In the nineteenth century, theories about the North Pole...
Towers of Myth And Stone
Yeats's Influence on Robinson Jeffers
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
In this critical study of the influence of W. B. Yeats (1865–1939) on the poetry and drama of Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962), Deborah Fleming examines similarities in imagery, landscape, belief in eternal recurrence, use of myth, distrust of rationalism, and dedication to tradition. Although Yeats’s...
Emancipation and Illusion
Rationality and Gender in Habermas's Theory of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 1997
In this comprehensive analysis of Jürgen Habermas's philosophy and social theory, Marie Fleming takes strong issue with Habermas over his understanding of rationality and the lifeworld, emancipation, history, and gender. Throughout the book she focuses attention on the various ways in which an idea...
In the Shadow of Selma
The Continuing Struggle for Civil Rights in the Rural South
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2004
On March 7, 1965, voting rights demonstrators were brutally beaten as they crossed the Edmund Petis bridge in Selma, Alabama. One of the most-publicized incidents of the civil rights campaign, images from that day have been seared into the nation's consciousness. Yet little has been written about...
The Mythology of Work
How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
There was once a time when 'work' was inextricably linked to survival and self-preservation; where the farmer ploughed the land so their family could eat. But the sun has long since set on this idyllic tableau, and what was once an integral part of life has slowly morphed into a painful and meaningless...
by Robert Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Eddie Stevens is burning inside. . .
. . .and he's burning mad at the world. He's mad at the family he lost--his parents and sisters viciously killed by a gang in their own home; and he's mad at the foster family that "rescued" him--headed up by a powerful Harlem congressman who sees...
The Mind of a Preaching Woman
This is my Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Dr. Helen Fleming life depicts the transformation of a woman who had to learn how to walk in obedience and faith during her life’s journey. This transitional journey she so graciously speaks of, has exposed her to many forms of metamorphosis, just like the caterpillar, you must die to your old ways...
Juana I
Legitimacy and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Castile
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
This book examines the deep and lengthy crisis of legitimacy triggered by the death of Prince Juan of Castile and Aragon in 1497 and the subsequent ascent of Juana I to the throne in 1504. Confined by historiography and myth to the madwoman’s attic, Juana emerges here as a key figure at the heart...
Inventing Atmospheric Science
Bjerknes, Rossby, Wexler, and the Foundations of Modern Meteorology
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
How scientists used transformative new technologies to understand the complexities of weather and the atmosphere, told through the intertwined careers of three key figures.
“The goal of meteorology is to portray everything atmospheric, everywhere, always,” declared John Bellamy and Harry...
by May Agnes Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Classic Canadian novel, first published in 1885. According to Wikipedia: "May Agnes Fleming (November 15, 1840 - March 24, 1880) was a Canadian novelist. She was "one of the first Canadians to pursue a highly successful career as a writer of popular fiction." She was born May Early in Carleton, West...
by May Agnes Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of A Changed Heart - A Novel. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.
This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by May Agnes...
by May Agnes Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Classic Canadian novel, first putished in 1882. According to Wikipedia: "May Agnes Fleming (November 15, 1840 - March 24, 1880) was a Canadian novelist. She was "one of the first Canadians to pursue a highly successful career as a writer of popular fiction." She was born May Early in Carleton, West...
by May Agnes Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Classic Canadian novel, first published in 1887. According to Wikipedia: "May Agnes Fleming (November 15, 1840 - March 24, 1880) was a Canadian novelist. She was "one of the first Canadians to pursue a highly successful career as a writer of popular fiction." She was born May Early in Carleton, West...
by May Agnes Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This collection includes 9 books: The Actress' Daugher, The Baronet's Bride, Kate Danton, The Midnight Queen, Norine's Revenge, Sharing Her Crime, Sir Noel's Heir, A Terrible Secret, and The Unseen Bridegroom. According to Wikipedia: "May Agnes Fleming (November 15, 1840 - March 24, 1880) was...