Melanie: 1971 books
Escape from North Korea
The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
From the world’s most repressive state comes rare good news: the escape to freedom of a small number of its people. It is a crime to leave North Korea. Yet increasing numbers of North Koreans dare to flee. They go first to neighboring China, which rejects them as criminals, then on to Southeast Asia...
Mary Breckinridge
The Frontier Nursing Service and Rural Health in Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In 1925 Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965) founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), a public health organization in eastern Kentucky providing nurses on horseback to reach families who otherwise would not receive health care. Through this public health organization, she introduced nurse-midwifery to...
by Melanie Storie
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Tennessee's Thirteenth Union Cavalry was a unit composed mostly of amateur soldiers that eventually turned undisciplined boys into seasoned fighters. At the outbreak of the Civil War, East Tennessee was torn between its Unionist tendencies and the surrounding Confederacy. The result was the persecution...
by Melanie Zimmer
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
The people of Central New York know there's something different--perhaps strange--in the air. Across this vast and often wild region, history and lore are remarkably and markedly unusual. Ancient Iroquois mystical traditions still infuse the landscape with a sense of the otherworldly, and for some, witchcraft...
Curiosities of the Finger Lakes
Hidden Ancient Ruins, Flying Machines, the Boy Who Caught a Trout with His Nose and More
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The Finger Lakes region is known for its beauty, but look carefully and you will discover some of New York's other abundant--and unusual--treasures. The cliffs of Excelsior Glen are scattered with ancient Indian pictographs, and Bluff Point conceals the ruins of an unknown civilization. The wine industry...
by Melanie Raabe
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
‘Full of suspense, right up to the final paragraphs…An edgy thriller.’ AU Review
She doesn't know him. But he knows everything about her.
Philip Petersen, a wealthy businessman, disappears without trace on a trip to South America. His wife, Sarah, is left to bring up their son...
Feminism and Popular Culture
Investigating the Postfeminist Mystique
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
When the term “postfeminism” entered the media lexicon in the 1990s, it was often accompanied by breathless headlines about the “death of feminism.” Those reports of feminism’s death may have been greatly exaggerated, and yet contemporary popular culture often conjures up a world in which...
by Melanie Brown, Louise Gannon
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
The tell-all memoir from the loudest, proudest Spice Girl and the truth behind the headlines As one-fifth of the iconic Spice Girls and judge on X Factor and America's Got Talent, Melanie Brown, a. k. a Scary Spice, has been an international star since her twenties. Brutally Honest is an exposé...
Eating for Beginners
An Education in the Pleasures of Food from Chefs, Farmers, and One Picky Kid
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
A memoir of a year spent working at a Brooklyn restaurant—and on a series of farms—to get the lowdown on organic, local, ethical cooking. Includes recipes!
Food was always important to Melanie Rehak. She studied the experts on healthy nutrition, from Michael Pollan to Eric Schlosser to...
by Melanie Rost
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
In a review of "The Return of the King" published in the Observer in 1955, Edwin Muir criticizes that "all the characters are boys masquerading as adult heroes [...] and will never come to puberty [...]. Hardly one of them knows anything about women," and similar observations have...
by Melanie Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2007
The suicide bombings carried out in London in 2005 by British Muslims revealed an enormous fifth column of Islamist terrorists and their sympathizers. Under the noses of British intelligence, London has become the European hub for the promotion, recruitment and financing of Islamic terror and extremism...
How the States Shaped the Nation
American Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout, 1920-2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
The United States routinely has one of the lowest voter turnout rates of any developed democracy in the world. That rate is also among the most internally diverse, since the federal structure allows state-level variations in voting institutions that have had—and continue to have—sizable local...
In-House SEO
Taming the Challenges to Win in Search
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Take charge of SEO in your organization: do what it takes to get outstanding search results that translate into improved business performance! World-renowned search strategist Melanie Mitchell covers everything you need to know to build a rock-solid foundation for search success in your organization....
Thanksgiving
The Holiday at the Heart of the American Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
We all know the story of Thanksgiving. Or do we? This uniquely American holiday has a rich and little known history beyond the famous feast of 1621.
In Thanksgiving, award-winning author Melanie Kirkpatrick journeys through four centuries of history, giving us a vivid portrait of our nation's...