Steven: 5874 books
Fireworks in the Rain
A Tor.Com Original
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
A tale from the world of Steven Brust and Skyler White's novel The Incrementalists
The Incrementalists are a secret society of two hundred people with an unbroken lineage reaching back forty thousand years. They cheat death, share lives and memories, communicate with one another across nations...
American Hardcore (Second Edition)
A Tribal History
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
"American Hardcore sets the record straight about the last great American subculture"-Paper magazineSteven Blush's "definitive treatment of Hardcore Punk" (Los Angeles Times) changed the way we look at Punk Rock. The Sony Picture Classicsdistributed documentary American Hardcore premiered at the 2006...
The Hot Climate of Promises and Grace
64 Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
“These gem-like tales form a kind of love song to the feminine principle, that aspect of each of us that is irrational, untamed, and intuitive.” —Lisa Alther
With these short stories, Steven Nightingale offers testimonies of revelation, mischief, miracles, and grace given him by sixty-four...
Indigenous Aesthetics
Native Art, Media, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
What happens when a Native or indigenous person turns a video camera on his or her own culture? Are the resulting images different from what a Westernized filmmaker would create, and, if so, in what ways? How does the use of a non-Native art-making medium, specifically video or film, affect the aesthetics...
The Age of Genomes
Tales from the Front Lines of Genetic Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
A leading geneticist explores what promises to be one of the most transformative advances in health and medicine in history
Almost every week, another exciting headline appears about new advances in the field of genetics. Genetic testing is experiencing the kind of exponential growth once seen...
Navigating the Medical Maze
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Consumers are bombarded with competing health-care suggestions. Too often, decisions are made from emotions, peer pressure, or marketing, rather than through careful investigation. Steven L. Brown guides readers through issues impacting medical choices, weaving a Christian worldview throughout his...
by Steven Hager
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2013
I met a girl while in graduate school and we ended up moving to New York City together. I found a job with Leo Shull's sleazy Showbusiness Newspaper and was making less than $150 a week, but that was okay because there were two of us and we had a wonderful sublease in Chelsea with a balcony overlooking...
Testimony
The Legacy of Schindler's List and the USC Shoah Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This illustrated, large-format book, Testimony: The Legacy of Schindler’s List and the USC Shoah Foundation—A 20th Anniversary Commemoration combines, for the first time, the behind-the-scenes story of the making of Schindler’s List with the history of the remarkable organization inspired by...
by Kenneth Steven
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
The story of a family from Sicily who leave for New York at the beginning of last century carrying with them a secret recipe for lemon ice cream.
Coded Territories
Tracing Indigenous Pathways in New Media Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
This collection of essays provides a historical and contemporary context for Indigenous new media arts practice in Canada. The writers are established artists, scholars, and curators who cover thematic concepts and underlying approaches to new media from a distinctly Indigenous perspective. Through...
The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter
A Portrait of Descartes
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
In the Louvre museum hangs a portrait that is considered the iconic image of René Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher. And the painter of the work? The Dutch master Frans Hals--or so it was long believed, until the work was downgraded to a copy of an original. But where is...
Cautious Crusade
Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion, and the War against Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2001
America's struggle against Nazism is one of the few aspects of World War II that has escaped controversy. Historians agree that it was a widely popular war, different from the subsequent conflicts in Korea and Vietnam because of the absence of partisan sniping, ebbing morale, or calls for a negotiated...
Van Gogh
Sein Leben
Language: German
Release Date: November 6, 2015
"Die maßgebliche Biographie für Jahrzehnte."Leo Jansen, Kurator des Van-Gogh-Museums, AmsterdamDie große, bahnbrechende, opulent illustrierte Biographie Vincent van Goghs, die einen völlig neuen Blick auf das Malergenie ermöglicht. Sie vereint große erzählerische Kraft mit psychologischem...
The Night Stalkers
Top Secret Missions of the U.S. Army's Special Operations Aviation Regiment
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
From the New York Times bestselling authors of In the Company of Heroes comes a thrilling account of military aviation for history buffs and “for those who love vivid tales of battlefield heroics” (Publishers Weekly).
In the world of covert warfare, Special Operations pilots are notoriously...