Leslie: 2389 books
by Sir Leslie Stephen
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
CHILDHOOD AND EARLY LIFE. The disease had scarred and disfigured features Otherwise regular and always impressive. It had seriously injured his eyes, entirely destroying, it seems, the sight of one. He could not, it is said, distinguish a friend's face half a yard off, and pictures were to him meaningless...
by Sir Leslie Stephen
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
If that was a fair judgment, what are we to say to the modern work, which includes thousands of names too obscure for mention in its predecessor? When Mr. Lee speaks of the 'commemorative instinct' as justifying his undertaking, the enemy replies that a very small minority of the names deserve commemoration....
On Ealue Lake
Wade Davis and The Battle for Todagin Mountain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The land around Ealue Lake in northwestern British Columbia is Canada's own Eden, where humans are scarce and jaw-dropping scenery is plentiful. Famed anthropologist Wade Davis long a defender of indigenous peoples and their remote lands makes his summer home here. But a nearby open pit gold mine...
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by Leslie Buswell
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
“Letters describing the daily life and activities of a section of the voluntary “American Ambulance Field Service in France”, operating over a period of four months in 1915 in Lorraine in support of the French.
These letters were written by a member of the American Ambulance Field Service in...
by Janet Brennan Croft, Leslie A. Donovan
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Since the earliest scholarship on The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, critics have discussed how the works of J. R. R. Tolkien seem either to ignore women or to place them on unattainable pedestals. To remedy such claims that Tolkien’s fiction has nothing useful or modern to say about women,...
by L. Leslie Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
A children's book illustrator of pen-and-ink line drawings and watercolors. And include free audio-book link to download that could follow along and listen to the audio portion helping children learn to read.
There is a story-book that will be occupied for children to read at bedtime or...
Editing Lives
Essays in Contemporary Textual and Biographical Studies in Honor of O M Brack, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. The life of our fellow human beings, and how we know and tell lives, is one such area of modern knowledge...
Life, Death, and Meaning
Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
Life, Death, and Meaning
Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
by Eliza Leslie
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Polish up on the art of becoming a true lady!
Are you…
• Planning to visit a friend or family but don’t want to outstay your welcome?
• Going shopping on a budget but need to improve your negotiating techniques?
• Attending a formal event and would like to find...
Understanding Inequality
The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals...
Civil Society and Its Discontents
Why Complex Organizations Come Apart Book I--Iii
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2006
The history of the United States in the last thirty years, its preoccupation with the Vietnam War and the devastating affects of that war on the psyche of this nation is evidence of a foreign policy tragedy. Foreign policy tragedy brings domestic tragedy in its wake. The purpose of this study is to...
by John Leslie Evans
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2003
Los Angeles Police Department homicide detectives, Joe Kellermann and his partner, Mike Rodriguez, are drawn into a baffling case, when top Hollywood television producer, Jonathan Barry vanishes without a trace.As the story unfolds, the detectives soon become enmeshed in a web of lust, passion, betrayal...
by Leslie Stephen
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
The prolific biographer, first editor of the 26 volumes of the Dictionary of National Biography, and father of Virginia Woolf, shares secrets of the trade in this wide-ranging collection of essays. This second of four volumes published from 1898-1902 includes "The Story of Scott's Ruin," "The Importation...