Scanlon: 60 books
by Liz Garton Scanlon
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Award-winning author Liz Garton Scanlon presents a young, rhythmic read-aloud about a girl who solves a windy problem with an environmentally sound solution: planting trees.
A wild wind blows on the tippy-top of a steep hill, turning everything upside down for the man who lives there. Luckily,...
by Seamus Scanlon
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Rooted in Ireland’s history of internal violence, an inescapable brutality that drags like a shadow for natives and exiles alike, the ‘war of Ireland’ ensues in Seamus Scanlon’s short story collection, As Close As You’ll Ever Be. From Dublin to New York, Scanlon’s stories cover the vicious...
by T. M. Scanlon
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
T. M. Scanlon offers a qualified defense of normative cognitivism—the view that there are irreducibly normative truths about reasons for action. He responds to three familiar objections: that such truths would have troubling metaphysical implications; that we would have no way of knowing what they...
The Child Before
An absolutely gripping detective thriller
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
She began to sing, the girl. Her voice was soft, so soft it was almost of the wind. It was a lullaby. She cradled her arms, rocking them gently back and forth. As if she was holding a baby. But she was not. Her arms were empty.
On a cold morning a cyclist finds the brutally slaughtered body...
Bad News for McEnroe
Blood, Sweat, and Backhands with John, Jimmy, Ilie, Ivan, Bjorn, and Vitas
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
In the golden age of tennis, when players were just learning how to become media personalities, men like John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, Björn Borg and Ivan Lendl ruled the court. Now in a tell-all memoir, former top 10 seeded tennis star and chief McEnroe rival, Bill Scanlon, presents an unfettered...
Until There Is Justice
The Life of Anna Arnold Hedgeman
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
A demanding feminist, devout Christian, and savvy grassroots civil rights organizer, Anna Arnold Hedgeman played a key role in over half a century of social justice initiatives. Like many of her colleagues, including A. Philip Randolph, Betty Friedan, and Martin Luther King, Jr., Hedgeman ought to...
by Thomas F. Scanlon
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2002
Ancient Greek athletics offer us a clear window on many important aspects of ancient culture, some of which have distinct parallels with modern sports and their place in our society. Ancient athletics were closely connected with religion, the formation of young men and women in their gender roles,...
The Role of Research in Teachers' Work
Narratives of Classroom Action Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
In the debate regarding what constitutes teachers’ work, academics and bureaucrats continue to speak for teachers, with teachers’ voices rarely heard and not accorded equal recognition. The Role of Research in Teachers’ Work addresses this imbalance by privileging teachers’ voices as they...
by T. M. Scanlon
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Inequality is widely regarded as morally objectionable: T. M. Scanlon investigates why it matters to us. Demands for greater equality can seem puzzling, because it can be unclear what reason people have for objecting to the difference between what they have and what others have, as opposed simply...
A History of Leadville Theater
Opera Houses, Variety Acts and Burlesque Shows
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
When the West was wild, the glitziest streets in Colorado ran through Leadville, where opera, variety and burlesque lit up Magic City theaters. Theatrical legends Buffalo Bill and Oscar Wilde graced the Tabor Opera House, while revolutionary Susan B. Anthony reached a rough mining audience from a stage...
Bad Girls Go Everywhere
The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, the Woman Behind Cosmopolitan Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
The biography of the revolutionary magazine editor who created the “Cosmo Girl” before Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw was even born
As the author of the iconic Sex and the Single Girl (1962) and the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for over three decades, Helen Gurley Brown...
Latin Grammar
Preparation for the Reading of the Missal and Breviary
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1976
Prepares students to read the Roman Missal and Breviary. 195 pp. of grammar and a 130-page Latin-English glossary, containing all the words in the Roman Missal and the Roman Breviary. Lessons and readings from these two books, plus from the Latin Vulgate Bible. Fantastic tool for the study of Church Latin.
by Liz Garton Scanlon
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
All the world is here. It is there. It is everywhere. All the world is right where you are. Now. This simple, profound, Caldecott Honor story is now available as a Classic Board Book.
Following a circle of family and friends through the course of a day from morning until night, this book affirms...
Happy Birthday, Bunny!
With Audio Recording
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
A fun and cozy celebration of birthdays from the author of the Caldecott Honor book All the World.
What are these and what are those?
Fancy shoes and party clothes!
Bunny’s big day has arrived, and her family and their forest friends are ready to celebrate in style. There’s hugging...