Joshua: 1696 books
by Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon, Joshua Phillips, Mark D. Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Securing privacy in the current environment is one of the great challenges of today’s democracies. Privacy vs. Security explores the issues of privacy and security and their complicated interplay, from a legal and a technical point of view. Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon provides a thorough account of...
by Lieut.-Col. Joshua Duke
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Recollections of the Kabul Campaign, 1879 & 1880 is a firsthand account of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80). The author, Joshua Duke, was a British officer in the Bengal Medical Service, attached to “our native army in India.” The war began in Nov. 1878 when Great Britain, fearful of...
by Joshua Mete
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2014
Aaron and Juniper Cooper, a couple who's wit and charm are limitless, a couple who are in as deep a love as they are in financial burdens. They may be upper lower class in terms of wealth but that never stops them from enjoying the company of their quirky personalities. This seemingly humorous life...
Long, Obstinate, and Bloody
The Battle of Guilford Courthouse
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
On March 15, 1781, the armies of Nathanael Greene and Lord Charles Cornwallis fought one of the bloodiest and most intense engagements of the American Revolution at Guilford Courthouse in piedmont North Carolina. In Long, Obstinate, and Bloody, the first book-length examination of the Guilford Courthouse...
by Margaret Doody, David Fairer, Sophie Gee
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered beginswith the brute fact that poetry jostledup alongside novels in the bookstallsof eighteenth-century England. Indeed,by exploringunexpected collisions and collusionsbetween poetry and novels, this volumeof exciting, new essays offers...
by Joshua Glasgow
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
Social commentators have long asked whether racial categories should be conserved or eliminated from our practices, discourse, institutions, and perhaps even private thoughts. In A Theory of Race, Joshua Glasgow argues that this set of choices unnecessarily presents us with too few options.
Using...
by Joshua Landy
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
Why does Mark's Jesus speak in parables? Why does Plato's Socrates make bad arguments? Why are Beckett's novels so inscrutable? And why don't stage magicians even pretend to summon spirits anymore? In a series of captivating chapters on Mark, Plato, Beckett, Mallarmé, and Chaucer, Joshua Landy not...
Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film
Building the Soviet and Cuban Nations
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
In the charged atmosphere of post-revolution, artistic and political forces often join in the effort to reimagine a new national space for a liberated people. Joshua Malitsky examines nonfiction film and nation building to better understand documentary film as a tool used by the state to create powerful...
In This Hour
Heschel's Writings in Nazi Germany and London Exile
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
In This Hour offers the first English translations of selected German writings by Abraham Joshua Heschel from his tumultuous years in Nazi-ruled Germany and months in London exile, before he found refuge in the United States. Moreover, several of the works have never been published in any language....
Six Seasons
A New Way with Vegetables
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
**Winner, James Beard Award for Best Book in Vegetable-Focused Cooking
Named a Best Cookbook of the Year by the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Bon Appétit, Food Network Magazine, Every Day with Rachael Ray, USA Today, Seattle Times, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Library Journal, Eater, and...
by Joshua Cox-Steib
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Magic is alive and well throughout the world. It's always been there, and it still is; just waiting for those willing to see it. For most it is but a passing dream, too elusive to grasp, but for those who look closely it comes roaring into their lives with the strength of inevitable permanency.Long...
Red China's Green Revolution
Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development Under the Commune
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
China’s dismantling of the Mao-era rural commune system and return to individual household farming under Deng Xiaoping has been seen as a successful turn away from a misguided social experiment and a rejection of the disastrous policies that produced widespread famine. In this revisionist study,...
Impurity of Blood
Defining Race in Spain, 1870-1930
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Although Francisco Franco courted the Nazis as allies during the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s, the Spanish dictator's racial ideals had little to do with the kind of pure lineage that obsessed the Nazis. Indeed, Franco's idea of race -- that of a National Catholic state as the happy meeting...
Hold Fast to Dreams
A College Guidance Counselor, His Students, and the Vision of a Life Beyond Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
An “invaluable” memoir by a counselor who left the elite private-school world to help poor and working-class kids get into college (Washington Monthly).
Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Award
Joshua Steckel left an elite Manhattan school to serve as the first-ever college guidance...