Manning: 607 books
All Night, All Day
A Child's First Book of African-American Spirituals
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Ashley Bryan says, "I have subtitled this collection A Child's First Book of African-American Spirituals. It could really be called Spirituals for the Young and ALL! And so it could be, for the songs it presents can be enjoyed by people of every age and every level of musical skill.
Mr. Bryan goes...
Crackers & Dips
More than 50 Handmade Snacks
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
This is the DIY guide to making homemade crackers, with 52 formulas for crisp snacks and the luscious dips to eat them with, all celebrated with 25 playful photographs. Portland, Oregon–based food writer and baker Ivy Manning capitalizes on the pure flavors of whole grains, real butter, cheese,...
Beyond Freedom
Disrupting the History of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Did freedom just mean the absence of...
Bound to Last
30 Writers on Their Most Cherished Book
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Lovers of the printed book, arise! Thirty of today’s top writers are here to tell you you’re not alone.
In Bound to Last,an amazing array of authors comes to the passionate defense of the printed book with spirited**,** never-before-published essays celebrating the hardcover or paperback...
by Daniel Manning
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
According to Urban Dictionary, adulting is “to do grown up things and hold responsibilities, such as a 9-to-5 job, a mortgage/rent, a car payment, or anything else that makes one think of grown ups.” This is a guide to navigating just one part of your new “adulting” life—your personal finances....
by Tony Manning
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Value management’s time has come. In a world roiled by terrorism, economic meltdown, and corporate governance scandals, executives everywhere face the challenge of delivering new growth against the odds. Competing Through Value Management provides the guidance you need to get ahead of your competition...
Congress and the People’s Contest
The Conduct of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
The American Civil War was the first military conflict in history to be fought with railroads moving troops and the telegraph connecting civilian leadership to commanders in the field. New developments arose at a moment’s notice. As a result, the young nation’s political structure and culture...
Troubled Refuge
Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army’s escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States.
Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage was at the...
Abba's Child
The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Is an impostor robbing you of God’s love?
We’ve bought into the lie that we are worthy of God’s love only when our lives are going well. If our families are happy or our jobs are meaningful, life is a success. But when life begins to fall through the cracks and embarrassing sins threaten to...
by Brennan Manning
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Imagine a stormy day at sea, your ship yielding to a relentless wind, pummeled by crashing waves, subject to the awesome force of nature. A force that is both fierce and majestic. A power that is nothing short of furious.
Such is God's intense, consuming love for His children. It's a love that...
Poetics of Character
Transatlantic Encounters 1700–1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
This study of character in a comparative context presents a new approach to transatlantic literary history. Rereading Romanticism across national, generic and chronological boundaries, and through close textual comparisons, it offers exciting possibilities for rediscovering how literature engages...
Whitegirl
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
*I was not always a white girl. I used to be just Charlotte. A person named Charlotte Halsey. But when I met Milo, when I fell in love with him, I became White, like a lit light bulb is white. In the mirror there is my skin the color of sand, hair the color of butter, eyes blue as seawater. Just so...
Speaking Truth To Power
Essays On Race, Resistance, And Radicalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Through public appearances, radio and television interviews, and his many articles and books, Manning Marable has become one of America's most prominent commentators on race relations and African-American politics. Speaking Truth to Power brings together for the first time Marable's major writings...
The Autobiography of Medgar Evers
A Hero's Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
The Autobiography of Medgar Evers is the first and only comprehensive collection of the words of slain civil rights hero Medgar Evers. Evers became a leader of the civil rights movement during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He established NAACP chapters throughout the Mississippi delta region, and...