Knapp: 241 books
After a While You Just Get Used to It
A Tale of Family Clutter
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
A vibrant new voice ups the self-deprecating memoir ante with tragicomic tales of her dysfunctional life in swampland Florida and America’s Big Easy
A dive bar palm reader who calls herself the Disco Queen Taiwan; a slumlord with a penis-of-the-day LISTSERV; and Betty, the middle-aged Tales of...
by Jim Knapp
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2012
In the summer of 1974 Jim Knapp, a High School student living in rural Northeastern Pennsylvania was wading in a stream near his home with his friend, when he discovered a mysterious stone with strange carvings of mountains, the sun, and trees on it. He carried the foot-long by eight inch stone home....
William James
Psychical Research and the Challenge of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
In this insightful new book on the remarkable William James, the American psychologist and philosopher, Krister Dylan Knapp provides the first deeply historical and acutely analytical account of James's psychical research. While showing that James always maintained a critical stance toward claims...
Pack of Two
The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
At the age of 36, Caroline Knapp, author of the acclaimed bestseller Drinking:A Love Story, found herself confronted with a monumental task: redefining her world. She had faced the loss of both her parents, given up a twenty-year relationship with alcohol, and, as she writes, "I was wandering around...
In den Krallen des Raubvogels
Der Burn-out-Erfahrungsbericht
Language: German
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Es war das erste Buch aus dem Oltner Verlag Textwerkstatt und das bislang erfolgreichste. Im Sommer 2005 erschien der Burn-out-Erfahrungsbericht «In den Krallen des Raubvogels». Nun liegt die 5. Auflage, eine Sonderausgabe, vor. «Ich hätte mir nie träumen lassen, dass mein Erfahrungsbericht so...
Pleasing Everyone
Mass Entertainment in Renaissance London and Golden-Age Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
Shakespeare's plays were immensely popular in their own day -- so why do we refuse to think of them as mass entertainment? In Pleasing Everyone, author Jeffrey Knapp opens our eyes to the uncanny resemblance between Renaissance drama and the incontrovertibly mass medium of Golden-Age Hollywood cinema....
Making Light
Haydn, Musical Camp, and the Long Shadow of German Idealism
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
In Making Light Raymond Knapp traces the musical legacy of German Idealism as it led to the declining prestige of composers such as Haydn while influencing the development of American popular music in the nineteenth century. Knapp identifies in Haydn and in early popular American musical cultures...
Up Up, Down Down
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
In the tradition of John Jeremiah Sullivan and David Foster Wallace, Cheston Knapp’s Up Up, Down Down “is an always smart, often hilarious, and ultimately transcendent essay collection” (Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See) that brilliantly explores authenticity...
by Gary Knapp
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2007
Building the American Dream depicts the journey of author, Gary Knapp, from his very beginnings on a rural dairy farm in southern Michigan through his teens, his tour of duty in the army, his broadcast training and then follows him as he begins his career in radio broadcasting and branches into television....
Drinking
A Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 1999
Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor," a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of life. In this extraordinarily...
by Martin Wells Knapp
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Martin W. Knapp was born in 1853 in a log cabin in southern Michigan. With $50 received from selling a calf, Martin enrolled at a Methodist college in Albion, Michigan at the age of 17. He continued his work on the family farm while balancing a rigorous schedule at school. Knapp’s first pastorate...
by Martin Wells Knapp
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Martin W. Knapp was born in 1853 in a log cabin in southern Michigan. With $50 received from selling a calf, Martin enrolled at a Methodist college in Albion, Michigan at the age of 17. He continued his work on the family farm while balancing a rigorous schedule at school. Knapp’s first pastorate...
Connecting Leadership with Learning
A Framework for Reflection, Planning, and Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2006
What kind of leadership makes learning possible for all students? How can school leaders help teachers increase their knowledge and improve their instructional abilities? What actions should leaders take to ensure that learning occurs? In Connecting Leadership with Learning: A Framework for Reflection,...
by Martin Wells Knapp
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Martin W. Knapp was born in 1853 in a log cabin in southern Michigan. With $50 received from selling a calf, Martin enrolled at a Methodist college in Albion, Michigan at the age of 17. He continued his work on the family farm while balancing a rigorous schedule at school. Knapp’s first pastorate...