Levy: 696 books
by Deborah Levy
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
From the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Swimming Home,a single volume comprising her first two novels: Beautiful Mutants, long out of print, and Swallowing Geography, never before published in the United States.
Beautiful Mutants, Deborah Levy's surreal first novel, introduces a manipulative...
by Rene Levy
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
What is hatred? What is baseless hatred? And how does this basic human emotion affect our relationships, our communities, and our world? In this fascinating study, pharmacological researcher Rene H. Levy looks through a scientific, sociological, and religious lens at the causes and effects of baseless...
Huck Finn's America
Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
A provocative, exuberant, and deeply researched investigation into Mark Twain’s writing of America’s favorite icon of childhood, Huckleberry Finn: “A boldly revisionist reading of Twain’s Huckleberry Finn…Twain’s masterpiece emerges as a compelling depiction of nineteenth-century troubles...
by Marc Levy
Language: French
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Retrouvez l'univers de Marc Levy dans ce coffret exceptionnel ! 12 romans en version numérique :
Et si c'était vrai...
Où es-tu ?
Sept jours pour une éternité...
La Prochaine Fois,
Vous revoir, - suite de Et si c'était vrai...
Mes amis mes amours
Les Enfants de la liberté
Toutes ces...
Where the Cherry Tree Grew
The Story of Ferry Farm, George Washington’s Boyhood Home
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Noted historian pens biography of Ferry Farm—George Washington's boyhood home—and its three centuries of American history
In 2002, Philip Levy arrived on the banks of Rappahannock River in Virginia to begin an archeological excavation of Ferry Farm, the eight hundred acre plot of land that...
by Owen Levy
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Through much of the 1980's & 1990's, Owen Levy got to know the divided city of Berlin inside out working as a film and music journalist. He was struck by the realization that a city so ravaged by tensions and division still boasted all of the underground cultures, scenes and venues usually associated...
Sirens of the Western Shore
The Westernesque Femme Fatale, Translation, and Vernacular Style in Modern Japanese Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2006
Indra Levy introduces a new archetype in the study of modern Japanese literature: the "Westernesque femme fatale," an alluring figure who is ethnically Japanese but evokes the West in her physical appearance, lifestyle, behavior, and, most important, her use of language. She played conspicuous...
Hope Will Find You
My Search for the Wisdom to Stop Waiting and Start Living
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
How can I get my life off hold? When will my life really begin?
We all ask ourselves the same questions when we are struggling to move forward. As a rabbi, Naomi Levy frequently offered spiritual guidance to people seeking the answers. But when a doctor told her that her young daughter, Noa,...
Return to Casablanca
Jews, Muslims, and an Israeli Anthropologist
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
In this book, Israeli anthropologist André Levy returns to his birthplace in Casablanca to provide a deeply nuanced and compelling study of the relationships between Moroccan Jews and Muslims there. Ranging over a century of history—from the Jewish Enlightenment and the impending colonialism of...
Of Course I Love You... Now Go to Your Room!
Strategies for Raising Toddlers to Teens In New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Top family therapist Diane Levy gives clear parenting guidelines in this bestselling title. This book presents a modern approach to parenting. Diane Levy believes children must be taught to experience and handle their emotions and they must learn self-discipline. She also believes that it takes about...
How to Read African American Literature
Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
How to Read African American Literature offers a series of provocations to unsettle the predominant assumptions readers make when encountering post-Civil Rights black fiction. Foregrounding the large body of literature and criticism that grapples with legacies of the slave past, Aida Levy-Hussen’s...
The Great Uprising
Race Riots in Urban America during the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Between 1963 and 1972 America experienced over 750 urban revolts. Considered collectively, they comprise what Peter Levy terms a 'Great Uprising'. Levy examines these uprisings over the arc of the entire decade, in various cities across America. He challenges both conservative and liberal interpretations,...
by Paul Levy
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2014
The decline in private sector unions in America is well documented, but some unions have bucked this trend, most notably the 2.1 million member Service Employees International Union. Its former president liked to say: “We use the power of persuasion first. If it doesn’t work, we try the persuasion...
Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways
From Words to Housing
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
On any given night, there are over 643,000 homeless people residing in shelters and on the streets across America. What can we do to help?
"Levy crafts stories of characters who sear the memory: Old Man Ray, the World War II veteran who resents the VA system and regards himself as the de facto...