Sheila: 1246 books
Beethoven in China: How the Great Composer Became an Icon in the People's Republic: Penguin Specials
Beethoven in China: How the Great Composer Became an Icon in the People's Republic: Penguin Specials
How the Great Composer Became an Icon in the People's Republic: Penguin Specials
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
At the turn of the twentieth century, students returning from abroad introduced Beethoven to China. The composer's perseverance in the face of adversity and his musical genius resonated in a nation searching for a way forward. Beethoven remained a durable part of Chinese life in the decades that followed,...
by Sheila Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1992
In her first two books, Sheila Davis classified the major song forms and enduring principles that have been honored for decades by America's foremost songwriters. Those books have become required reading in music courses from NYU to UCLA.
In The Songwriters Idea Book, Davis goes one step further,...
Infinite Grace
The Devotional
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
From all of your favorite Women of Faith®!
This lighthearted and inspirational collection of brand new devotions shares a message of grace with the warmth and wisdom fans have come to expect from Women of Faith®.
Boundless Grace offers a love that has no limits, a spacious freedom for...
by Sheila Deeth
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
A picture book for beginning mathematicians, parents, friends and Sunday school teachers.
Simple number repetition aids in pattern recognition and numeracy. Simple questions and answers aid in Bible understanding.
What IFS Books, because the answers can’t breathe if we don’t ask questions.
Queering Bathrooms
Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
The intersection of public washrooms and gender has become increasingly politicized in recent years: queer and trans folk have been harassed for allegedly using the 'wrong' washroom, while widespread campaigns have advocated for more gender-neutral facilities. In Queering Bathrooms, Sheila L. Cavanagh...
The Making of a Patriot
Benjamin Franklin at the Cockpit
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
On January 29, 1774, Benjamin Franklin was called to appear before the Privy Council--a select group of the king's advisors--in an octagonal-shaped room in Whitehall Palace known as the Cockpit. Spurred by jeers and applause from the audience in the Cockpit, Solicitor General Alexander Wedderburn...
by Brenda Kimsey Warneka, Carol Hughes, Lois McFarland
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Women who skirt traditions, whether on the frontier of a young state or in a male-dominated profession, have relied on resilience, creativity, and grit to survive…and to flourish. These short biographies of twenty-eight female writers and journalists from Arizona span the one hundred years since...
On Stalin's Team
The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin was a group of loyal men who formed a remarkably...
Everyday Stalinism:Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 1999
Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by one of our foremost authorities on modern Russian history. Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, Sheila Fitzpatrick shows that with the adoption of collectivization and the first Five-Year Plan, everyday life was utterly transformed....
First Lady of Letters
Judith Sargent Murray and the Struggle for Female Independence
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820), poet, essayist, playwright, and one of the most thoroughgoing advocates of women's rights in early America, was as well known in her own day as Abigail Adams or Martha Washington. Her name, though, has virtually disappeared from the public consciousness. Thanks to...
by Sheila Hardy, Terry Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
During renovation work on a hunting lodge in 1996, a carpenter uncovered a plank of wood revealing a chilling penciled message: “A fearful murder was committed the first day of this month (October 1887) at Cretingham. A curate cut the vicar's throat at 12 o'clock at night.” The discovery brought...
by Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
A major historical account of the Korean War, its origins, and its evolving impact on the world.
Sixty years after North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea, the Korean War has not yet ended. Sheila Miyoshi Jager presents the first comprehensive history of this misunderstood...
Women and Popular Music
Sexuality, Identity and Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Women and Popular Music explores the changing role of women musicians and the ways in which their songs resonate in popular culture. Sheila Whiteley begins by examining the counter-culture's reactionary attitudes to women through the lyrics of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. She explores the ways...
The Space Between the Notes
Rock and the Counter-Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
The Space Between the Notes examines a series of relationships central to sixties counter-culture: psychedelic coding and rock music, the Rolling Stones and Charles Manson, the Beatles and the `Summers of love', Jimi Hendrix and hallucinogenics, Pink Floyd and space rock. Sheila Whiteley combines...