Hebert: 87 books

From antebellum times, Louisiana's unique multipartite society included a legal and social space for intermediary racial groups such as Acadians, Creoles, and Creoles of Color. In Becoming Cajun, Becoming American, Maria Hebert-Leiter explores how American writers have portrayed Acadian culture over...

More than Kings and Less than Men: Tocqueville on the Promises and Perils of Democratic Induvidualism examines Alexis de Tocqueville's hopes and fears for modern democracy, arguing that the distinctive political philosophy informing Democracy in America can help us to think more profoundly about the...

In Paul Hebert’s inspirational memoir, The Sun Above the Clouds, travel back to a day when men cleared wooded homesteads by hand and horse but raised their families with violence. Watch Paul escape his upbringing to find joy and purpose in being a lineman, skiing, travel, nature, and love, after...

To be a successful volleyball coach, you need to know more than just how to teach the basic skills and implement a plan. In such a fast-paced game, not only do you need to outperform your opponent, but you must outthink him as well. Thinking Volleyball has you covered! Hall-of-fame coach Mike...

Have you ever wanted to learn to draw and paint but were afraid you had no talent? This book will open your eyes to what it's all about. Talent is not required. Follow one woman's journey of discovery and share her stories of what it took to become an artist. Meet her teachers, the good...

A bottle that kills. Newspaper reporter Jill Breaux knows about the bottle’s deadly past. She calls on Mike Steel, a man she hasn’t spoken to in fifteen years, to help her end the killings. It shouldn’t be that difficult — after all, it’s just a bottle… The follow-up to The...

An ambitious young man struggles to define himself and his future while his Caribbean homeland plunges into a violent revolution, in a novel that recalls Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day: Hopwood Award-winning writer Christopher Hebert’s The Boiling Season. A...

For Jake LaMonica, steroids seem like a fast way to win the attention of athlete Angela Talbot. Doctor Louis Rousse offers Jake an opportunity -- get stronger faster.Jake's wish is granted, but the results and side effects aren't exactly what Jake had expected. Lust, jealousy, and rage are...

Toledo's history as a frontier town turned manufacturing powerhouse is well known. However, few know that it was once home to a champion racehorse that galloped into the record books. Many are unaware that East Toledo's verdant urban woodlands sprang from the work of just one man or that a local girl's...

Get over your excuses now! This is the second edition of this seriously lighthearted look at making excuses not to run. Of course these excuses - hundreds to choose from - are not just about running. They reflect personal choice in every sphere of life. It is packed with real and not-so-real excuses....

Blood Warrior by H.D. GordonA young girl tossed into a world of monsters, the worst of which resides inside herRivulet by Jamie MageeCan she bend the laws of nature and fight the improbability that fire and ice could ever be one? As far as Indie is concerned, there is not a myth, spoken fate,...

A few million humans are isolated on a earth-like planet. They occupy a continent that has an ecosystem that is identical to North America of 100,000 BC, complete with Wooly Mammoths and Saber Toothed Tigers. They have just discovered that other, alien races also inhabit the planet and that these...

This study re-examines Morgan le Fay in early medieval and contemporary Arthurian sources, arguing that she embodies the concerns of each era even as she defies social and gender expectations. Hebert uses leFay as a lens to explore traditional ideas of femininity, monstrousness, resistance, identity, and social expectations for women and men alike.

In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville famously called for 'a new political science' that could address the problems and possibilities of a 'world itself quite new.' For Tocqueville, the democratic world needed not just a new political science but also new arts of statesmanship and leadership. In this volume,...