Kathleen: 2959 books
by Kathleen Norris
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2002
Shy and sheltered as a young woman, Kathleen Norris wasn't prepared for the sex, drugs, and bohemianism of Bennington College in the late 1960s**-and when she moved to New York City after graduation, it was a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire. In this chronicle, Norris remembers the...
Lucille
The Life of Lucille Ball
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Everyone loved Lucy, the scheming, madcap redhead who ruled television for more than twenty years. In life, however, Lucille Ball presented a far more complex and contradictory personality than was ever embodied by the television Lucy. In Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball Kathleen Brady presents the...
Catherine Cookson
Child of the Tyne
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
Catherine Cookson was an illegitimate child brought up in one of the poorest places in the western world. She left school at 13 to become a domestic servant and was later employed in a workhouse laundry. Yet she became one of the best selling novelists of all time and one of the richest women...
I think … I am going to die.'
Katherine Mansfield at Fontainebleau
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
When Miss Katherine Mansfield, the brilliant novelist, passed away the other day in almost the spring of her promise, it was in a curious little oasis in the historic Forest of Fontainebleau… From 'The Graphic', 10 March 1923
This moving, beautifully written chapter from Kathleen Joness biography...
Learning Not To Be First
The Life of Christina Rossetti
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2019
Christina was the youngest of the four Rossetti children, born in England to Italian parents. Although she and her brother, the artist Dante Gabriel, were known as the 'two storms', Christina's passionate nature was curbed in a way that her brother's was not, as she submitted to the social and religious...
Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice
From Loncheras to Lobsta Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Aspects of the urban food truck phenomenon, including community economic development, regulatory issues, and clashes between ethnic authenticity and local sustainability.
The food truck on the corner could be a brightly painted old-style lonchera offering tacos or an upscale mobile vendor serving...
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery in Virginia. But...
The Grace in Dying
A Message of Hope, Comfort and Spiritual Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
In this brilliantly conceived and beautifully written book, Kathleen Dowling Singh illuminates the profound psychological and spiritual transformations experiences by the dying as the natural process of death reconnects them with the source of their being. Examining the end of life in the light of...
The Press Effect
Politicians, Journalists, and the Stories that Shape the Political World
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2002
Was the 2000 presidential campaign merely a contest between Pinocchio and Dumbo? And did Dumbo miraculously turn into Abraham Lincoln after the events of September 11? In fact, Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Paul Waldman argue in The Press Effect, these stereotypes, while containing some elements of the...
The Chicken Trail
Following Workers, Migrants, and Corporations across the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In The Chicken Trail, Kathleen C. Schwartzman examines the impact of globalization—and of NAFTA in particular—on the North American poultry industry, focusing on the displacement of African American workers in the southeast United States and workers in Mexico. Schwartzman documents how the transformation...
Echo Chamber
Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Joseph Cappella-two of the nation's foremost experts on politics and media-offers a searching analysis of the conservative media establishment, from talk radio to Fox News to the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal. Echo Chamber is the first serious account of how...
For Fear of an Elective King
George Washington and the Presidential Title Controversy of 1789
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
In the spring of 1789, within weeks of the establishment of the new federal government based on the U.S. Constitution, the Senate and House of Representatives fell into dispute regarding how to address the president. Congress, the press, and individuals debated more than thirty titles, many of which...
unSpun
Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
The founders of FactCheck.org teach you how to identify and debunk spin, hype, and fake news in this essential guide to informed citizenship in an age of misinformation.
Americans are bombarded daily with mixed messages, half-truths, misleading statements, and out-and-out fabrications masquerading...
African Women
Early History to the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
African women's history is a topic as vast as the continent itself, embracing an array of societies in over fifty countries with different geographies, social customs, religions, and historical situations. In African Women: Early History to the 21st Century, Kathleen Sheldon masterfully delivers a...