Kristin: 1189 books
Housewife
Home-remaking in a Transgender Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Kristin Collier and her husband struggle to decide whether and how to stay together after it becomes apparent that he is transgender. As her husband transitions to live the rest of his life as a woman, Collier leans into her garden, community, and new romantic interests while she transforms in her...
Tracing Tangueros
Argentine Tango Instrumental Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Tracing Tangueros offers an inside view of Argentine tango music in the context of the growth and development of the art form's instrumental and stylistic innovations. Rather than perpetuating the glamorous worldwide conceptions that often only reflect the tango that left Argentina nearly 100 years...
Just Let Me Lie Down
Necessary Terms for the Half-Insane Working Mom
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Kristin van Ogtrop knows she's lucky--fulfilling career, great husband, three healthy kids, and, depending on the hamster count, an impressive roster of pets. She also knows she is tired. Always.
Using stories and insights from her own life, she provides a lexicon for the half-insane working...
by Kristin Gleeson
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Ireland 590 A.D.
A woman is found by a track, nearly dead from appalling wounds and remembers nothing. Her terror and her injuries are so great that she is given sanctuary in Mother Gobnait's unusual community of nuns, while all around her a war is being waged in which she is a pawn. The women...
While They're at War
The True Story of American Families on the Homefront
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2006
Many Americans will never experience the gut-wrenching act of sending a loved one off to war, or the joy and stress of welcoming him or her home. Still less known to most of us are the anxiety-ridden moments between these two scenes, the day-to-day reality of life in a military family when a loved...
Mile Markers
The 26.2 Most Important Reasons Why Women Run
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
In Mile Markers, Runner's World contributing editor Kristin Armstrong captures the ineffable and timeless beauty of running, the importance of nurturing relationships with those we love, and the significance of reflecting on our experiences. This collection considers the most important reasons women...
The Sweetness of Forgetting
A Book Club Recommendation!
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
A baker in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, must travel to Paris to uncover a family secret for her dying grandmother—and what she learns may change everything. The Sweetness of Forgetting is the book that made Kristin Harmel an international bestseller.
At thirty-six*,* Hope McKenna-Smith is no...
by Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaid
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
"Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?"
In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy, along with its critical weaknesses, and reconceive the practice to accommodate new political...
Jacques Rancière
History, Politics, Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
The French philosopher Jacques Rancière has influenced disciplines from history and philosophy to political theory, literature, art history, and film studies. His research into nineteenth-century workers’ archives, reflections on political equality, critique of the traditional division between...
Fact in Fiction
1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Historical novels can be windows into other cultures and eras, but it's not always clear what's fact and what's fiction. Thousands have read Ba Jin's influential novel Family, but few realize how much he shaped his depiction of 1920s China to suit his story and his politics. In Fact in Fiction, Kristin...
Ginseng Dreams
The Secret World of America's Most Valuable Plant
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2006
American Ginseng has a strange and perilous history. It has one of the longest germination periods of any known species, and only two environments in the world have offered the ideal growing conditions for wild ginseng. The first was the forests of northern China, which disappeared over a millennium...
Beyond the Sound Barrier
The Jazz Controversy in Twentieth-Century American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Beyond the Sound Barrier examines twentieth-century fictional representations of popular music-particularly jazz-in the fiction of James Weldon Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, and Toni Morrison. Kristin K. Henson argues that an analysis of musical tropes in the work of these four authors...
Formerly Known As Food
How the Industrial Food System Is Changing Our Minds, Bodies, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
One of Bustle's "17 Best Nonfiction Books Coming Out In June 2018" • One of The Revelator's "16 New Environmental Books for June" • One of Equinox's "5 Books High Performers Should Read in June" • One of Foodtank's "18 Books Making a Splash This Summer"...
The Soil Will Save Us
How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practices—and, especially, modern industrial agriculture—have led to the loss of up to 80 percent of carbon from the world's soils. That carbon is now floating in the atmosphere, and even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it would continue...