Miriam: 1115 books
by Miriam Bird Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Winner of the 2015 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Winner of the 2017 Bob Bush Memorial Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters
Miriam Bird Greenberg’s stunning first collection, which roves across a lush, haunting rural America both real and imagined, observed...
Five Big Questions in Life
And how to answer them
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
In Five Big Questions and How to Answer Them Miriam Pia gives the reader a basic description of philosophy and explains how to use it to answer the five most important questions in life. Included are basic mental exercises that everyone can do that will help the reader to practice philosophy. This...
Swing Low
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
“Audacious, original and profoundly moving . . . . Healing is a likely outcome of a book imbued with the righteous anger, compassion and humanity of Swing Low.” —Globe and Mail (Canada)
Reverberating with emotional power, authenticity, and insight*,* Swing Low is Miriam Toews's daring...
Victorian Reformations
Historical Fiction and Religious Controversy, 1820-1904
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
In Victorian Reformations: Historical Fiction and Religious Controversy, 1820-1900, Miriam Elizabeth Burstein analyzes the ways in which Christian novelists across the denominational spectrum laid claim to popular genres—most importantly, the religious historical novel—to narrate the aftershocks...
Socrates and the Jews
Hellenism and Hebraism from Moses Mendelssohn to Sigmund Freud
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
"What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” Asked by the early Christian Tertullian, the question was vigorously debated in the nineteenth century. While classics dominated the intellectual life of Europe, Christianity still prevailed and conflicts raged between the religious and the secular. Taking...
by Miriam Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Thinkers such as Aristotle, Plato and Parmenides have shaped the way we see the world, and it is their original conception of philosophy which has placed topics such as logic, metaphysics, ethics and ontology at the heart of philosophical debates for centuries.
Miriam Leonard not only explores...
Never Better!
The Modern Jewish Picaresque
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
It was only when Jewish writers gave up on the lofty Enlightenment ideals of progress and improvement that the Yiddish novel could decisively enter modernity. Animating their fictions were a set of unheroic heroes who struck a precarious balance between sanguinity and irony that author Miriam Udel...
by Miriam Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Most people did not have a lot in Ireland in the 1950’s but life was good, people were kind to each other, there was very little crime and the streets the children played in were safe. Children were respectful of adults, were told to be `seen and not heard’ and generally were happy with their...
Dissident Syria
Making Oppositional Arts Official
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2007
From 1970 until his death in 2000, Hafiz Asad ruled Syria with an iron fist. His regime controlled every aspect of daily life. Seeking to preempt popular unrest, Asad sometimes facilitated the expression of anti-government sentiment by appropriating the work of artists and writers, turning works of...
Cinema and Experience
Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno—affiliated through friendship, professional ties, and argument—developed an astute philosophical critique of modernity in which technological media played a key role. This book explores in depth their reflections on cinema and photography...
The Life of George Bass
Surgeon and sailor of the Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
On 5 February 1802, the 142-ton brig Venus cleared Sydney heads to begin a trading voyage through the islands of the Pacific. On board as captain was one of her owners, the surgeon, navigator, adventurer and now entrepreneur George Bass. Neither Bass nor the Venus completed the voyage. They simply...
Rat Training
A Comprehensive Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
The ultimate survivors that have flourished in the most difficult of circumstances, rats have a long history of being the smartest rodent in the room! Rats are growing more and more popular as pets for adults and children alike. Having raised and trained rats for over forty years, Miriam Fields-Babineau,...
Rebels in White Gloves
Coming of Age with Hillary's Class--Wellesley '69
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
When the women of the Wellesley class of 1969 entered the ivory tower, they were initiated into a rarefied world. Many were daughters of privilege, many were going for their "MRS." But by the time they graduated four years later, they faced a world turned upside down by the Pill, NOW, student...
by Miriam Kinai
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2011
How to Use Eucalyptus Essential Oil teaches you how to use this versatile aromatherapy essential oil to improve your physical, mental and emotional well being.
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