Parsons: 402 books

This first-hand account tells the story of turbulent civil rights era Atlanta through the eyes of a white upper-class woman who became an outspoken advocate for integration and racial equality. As a privileged white woman who grew up in segregated Atlanta, Sara Mitchell Parsons was an unlikely...

During the years between the publication of the first of his two major works, The Structure of Social Action (1937), and the writing of his second, The Social System (1951), Talcott Parsons was primarily engaged in political activity through the Office of Strategic Services in its efforts to bring...

THE CASTLE OF WOLFENBACH is a groundbreaking English Gothic novel, written by Eliza Parsons during the time of the French Revolution. It was one of the seven "horrid novels" recommended by the character Isabella Thorpe in Jane Austen's novel NORTHANGER ABBEY, and predates several well-known...

On July 3, 1961, Ian Parsons reported to RCMP Depot Division in Regina as a raw recruit. It was the beginning of a 33-year adventure that took him from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island and many points between. By the time he retired with the rank of inspector, Parsons had a policeman’s trunk full...

In Exploded View “graphic” essays play with the conventions of telling a life story and with how illustration and text work together in print. As with a graphic novel, the story is not only in the text but also in how that text interacts with the images that accompany it. Diagrams were...

The leading interpretations of The Prince focus on Machiavelli's historical context, but they give little attention to the source on which the moral and political thought of Machiavelli's sixteenth century was based, the Christian Bible. In this study of The Prince, William Parsons plumbs Machiavelli's...

3 works of Elsie Clews Parsons American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist, and feminist (1875-1941) This ebook presents a collection of 3 works of Elsie Clews Parsons. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - Mysticism...

3 works of Lucy Parsons American labor organizer and radical socialist and anarchist communist (1853-1942) This ebook presents a collection of 3 works of Lucy Parsons. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - Speech to the...

4 works of George Parsons Lathrop American poet and novelist (1851-1898) This ebook presents a collection of 4 works of George Parsons Lathrop. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: Dreams and Days Rose and Roof-Tree Poems Spanish Vistas The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Critics greeted Russ Parsons’ first book, How to Read a French Fry, with raves. The New York Times praised it for its “affable voice and intellectual clarity”; Julia Child lauded it for its “deep factual information.” Now in How to Pick a Peach, Parsons takes on one of the hottest...

A gritty, powerful debut that evokes The Outsiders. You won't be able to look away. High school senior Jason knows how to take a punch. Living with an abusive father will teach a kid that. But he’s also learned how to hit back, earning a reputation at school that ensures no one will mess...

“An awe-inspiring, helter-skelter journey through mind-blowing SF, western dime novel, noir mystery, and near-future dystopian horror” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The debut novel from Zack Parsons, editor of the Something Awful website and author of My Tank Is Fight!, is a mind-bending...

Talcott Parsons needs little introduction to anyone acquainted with the literature of sociology. Few men have dominated their fields so much as Dr. Parsons does his. In this collection of nineteen essays, Dr. Parsons focuses his attention on subjects ranging from the social structure of Japan to propaganda...

The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with startling acuity. Historians have traced the origins of the Klan to Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866, but the details behind the group's emergence have long remained shadowy....