Margaret: 4917 books
What Are You Doing in There?
Balancing Your Need to Know With Your Adolsecent's Need to Grow
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
The "middler years," ages ten through fifteen, have always been characterized by an urge for independence and secrecy from parents. But these days, that secrecy can lead to more danger than ever before. Tackling the frustrations and fears of parenting in a world where cyber predators make...
Dire Cartographies
The Roads to Ustopia and The Handmaid's Tale
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
In honor of the thirtieth anniversary of The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret Atwood describes how she came to write her utopian, dystopian works.
The word “utopia” comes from Thomas More’s book of the same name—meaning “no place” or “good place,” or both. In “Dire Cartographies,”...
Classic Imaginary Voyage Stories (Golden Deer Classics)
Gulliver's Travels, Gargantua, Pantagruel, The Blazing World, Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Imaginary voyage is a kind of narrative in which utopian or satirical representation (or some popular science content) is put into a fictional frame of travel account. This Golden Deer Classics compilation contains the following imaginary voyage stories: - Utopia by Thomas More - Gargantua by François...
Kant's Theory of Virtue
The Value of Autocracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Anne Margaret Baxley offers a systematic interpretation of Kant's theory of virtue, whose most distinctive features have not been properly understood. She explores the rich moral psychology in Kant's later and less widely read works on ethics, and argues that the key to understanding his account of...
Upside Down
Seasons among the Nunamiut
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In the roadless Brooks Range Mountains of northern Alaska sits Anaktuvuk Pass, a small, tightly knit Nunamiut Eskimo village. Formerly nomadic hunters of caribou, the Nunamiut of Anaktuvuk now find their destiny tied to that of Alaska’s oil-rich North Slope, their lives suddenly subject to a century’s...
Keeping It Civil
The Case of the Pre-nup and the Porsche & Other True Accounts from the Files of a Family Lawyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Provocative true cases that explore the intersection of our most intimate relationships and the law—and offer a window into how we define a family today.
A woman seeking a divorce has no idea of the family finances—her husband doled out money only after she gave him requisition slips for...
Horse Housekeeping
Everything You Need to Know to Keep a Horse at Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
In Horse Housekeeping, Margaret and Michael Korda (she is a successful novice- and training-level eventer and he is the author of Horse People) provide everything you need to know to set up a barn of your own and care for your horse (or horses) at home.
Authoritative, inspirational, highly...
Brethren by Nature
New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands of Indians. Massachusetts became the first English colony to legalize slavery in 1641, and the colonists' desire for slaves shaped the major New England...
The Death of Josseline
Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Dispatches from Arizona—the front line of a massive human migration—including the voices of migrants, Border Patrol, ranchers, activists, and others
For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border, ground zero for immigration since 2000....
Legacy of a False Promise
A Daughter's Reckoning
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The compelling story of a teenage girl caught up in the throes of the McCarthy era.
Margaret Fuchs was thirteen in June 1955 when she learned that her parents had been Communists while working for the U.S. government in the 1930s and '40s. This book chronicles the years during which her parents...
by Margaret Truman
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
The murder of the secretary of state in the executive mansion sparks a mystery with “a superb denouement . . . one wonders if all is fiction” (Time).
In a city where the weapon of choice is usually gossip, the strangling of Secretary of State Lansard Blaine in the Lincoln Bedroom is a gruesome...
by Margaret Mayotte-Hirn
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
Born in a small town in Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Lake Linden, Margaret Mayotte-Hirn grew up experiencing her life to the fullest. Today, she can look back and remember and be glad she experienced all those things that made her who she is today. She worked full-time in hospitals for 48 years and...
by Margaret Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Sticky Readers is a humorous, but helpful book about writing better blog posts. While the book is helpful for all writers, it was written with bloggers in mind.
Sticky Readers explains the various ways to make your writing more engaging (i.e. less boring) so that a reader will "stick"...
by Margaret Atwood
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
In this collection of short works that defy easy categorization, Margaret Atwood displays, in condensed and crystallized form, the trademark wit and viruosity of her best-selling novels, brilliant stories, and insightful poetry. Among the jewels gathered here are Gertrude offering Hamlet...