Gavin: 705 books
by Gavin Baddeley
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
In Dissecting Marilyn Manson, author Gavin Baddeley performs a cultural autopsy upon Manson, examining the seminal influences and psychotic sources that have gone into making him the Frankenstein monster that he is today. With its heavily visual approach, the text and pictures create the impression...
Dyslexia
A Practitioner's Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Newly updated, Gavin Reid’s best-selling handbook remains an essential resource for those helping dyslexic individuals of all ages, from preschoolers to adults in the workplace.
Combines theoretical explanations, the latest research, and practical solutions with a focus on inclusion and meeting...
American Hungers
The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
Social anxiety about poverty surfaces with startling frequency in American literature. Yet, as Gavin Jones argues, poverty has been denied its due as a critical and ideological framework in its own right, despite recent interest in representations of the lower classes and the marginalized. These insights...
by Gavin Cologne-Brookes
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
The first critical study of William Styron since his death in 2006, Rereading William Styron offers an eloquent reflection on the writer's works, world, and character. Bringing an innovative approach to literary criticism, Gavin Cologne-Brookes combines personal anecdote, scholarly research, travel...
Dark Eyes on America
The Novels of Joyce Carol Oates
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
"A sound and engaging book that creates a balanced overview of Oates's career while tackling the question of her role in the wider community." -- Modern Fiction Studies
Joyce Carol Oates is America's most extraordinary and prolific woman of letters. In Dark Eyes on America, Gavin Cologne-Brookes illuminates...
by David Brown, Gavin Hopps
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
This book explores the ways in which music can engender religious experience, by virtue of its ability to evoke the ineffable and affect how the world is open to us. Arguing against approaches that limit the religious significance of music to an illustrative function, The Extravagance of Music sets...
by Jim Gavin
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
FULLY LOADED AND HALF IN THE BAG, FIGHTING EVIL ON TWO 99-CENT TACOS A DAY!
Most people would call Ty Trotter a loser. He lives off his vampire girlfriend, can't hold a job, drinks and smokes the cheapest stuff on the shelves, and is Chairman for Life of his own Pity Committee, spending all...
by Jim Gavin
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
CJ Shifflett is 29 years old, unemployed, and living in his mother’s basement. He has a BA in Philosophy from a 2nd-tier state university. When his great-grandmother dies, they go to her funeral at their estranged family's historic mansion in Richmond. There, Chance discovers a legacy left for him...
The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour through America's Food
An Ecstatic Tour through America’s Food
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
A richly illustrated culinary tour of the United States through fifty signature dishes, and a radical exploration of our gastronomic heritage.
Following his critically acclaimed Preparing the Ghost, renowned essayist Matthew Gavin Frank takes on America’s food. In a surprising style reminiscent...
Fair Trade Coffee
The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Over the past two decades, sales of fair trade coffee have grown significantly and the fair trade network has emerged as an important international development project. Activists and commentators have been quick to celebrate this sales growth, which has allowed socially just trade, labour, and environmental...
Kwaito's Promise
Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
In mid-1990s South Africa, apartheid ended, Nelson Mandela was elected president, and the country’s urban black youth developed kwaito—a form of electronic music (redolent of North American house) that came to represent the post-struggle generation. In this book, Gavin Steingo examines kwaito...
The Daring Dozen
12 Special Forces Legends of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
In this new book, Gavin Mortimer reveals the 12 legendary Special Forces commanders of World War II. Prior to the war, the concept of 'special forces' simply didn't exist, but thanks to visionary leaders like David Stirling and Charles Hunter, our very concept of how wars can be fought and won has...
by Gavin Mortimer
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Formed in June 1940 for the purpose of gathering intelligence behind
enemy lines, the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) played a secretive but vital role in North Africa during World War II. Highly trained in mechanized reconnaissance and specializing in desert operations, the unit provided support to...
The First Eagles
The American Pilots Who Flew With the British, Became Aces, and Won World War I
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
An incredible history of the American WWI pilots who refused to be grounded.
There was a time when the United States didn’t believe in aerial warfare. Wars, after all, were for men—not flying machines. When Europe went to war in the summer of 1914, the U.S. military boasted a measly collection...