Summers: 1017 books
A Dangerous Stir
Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Reconstruction policy after the Civil War, observes Mark Wahlgren Summers, was shaped not simply by politics, principles, and prejudices. Also at work were fears--often unreasonable fears of renewed civil war and a widespread sense that four years of war had thrown the normal constitutional process...
The Ordeal of the Reunion
A New History of Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
For a generation, scholarship on the Reconstruction era has rightly focused on the struggles of the recently emancipated for a meaningful freedom and defined its success or failure largely in those terms. In The Ordeal of the Reunion, Mark Wahlgren Summers goes beyond this vitally important question,...
The Press Gang
Newspapers and Politics, 1865-1878
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Relations between the press and politicians in modern America have always been contentious. In The Press Gang, Mark Summers tells the story of the first skirmishes in this ongoing battle. Following the Civil War, independent newspapers began to separate themselves from partisan control and assert...
Insomnia
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2008
This cultural, historical, and scientific exploration of sleeplessness by Eluned Summers-Bremner begins with the literature of ancient times, and finds its sufferers in prominent texts such as the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Mesopotamian epic Gilgamesh, and the Bible. Moving to Romantic and Gothic literature,...
by Eric Summers
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
If you dont have gray you dont get to play! Eric Summers gives us the men you want to call Daddy and the boys who are the lucky ones in a collection by the most popular writers in gay erotica.The mature man knows how to make love slow and steady wins the race. Do you want to be wined and dined? Do you...
by Eric Summers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
RIDE ME COWBOY - EROTIC TALES OF THE WEST edited by Eric Summers is the latest anthology from STARbooks Press. A cowboy never walks when he can ride and never stands when he can sit. A man is not born a cowboy - he becomes one. Horses aren't the only ones who are hung in the West. Who hasn't...
by Indian Summers
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
When author Indian Summers family moved from Mississippi to New York City, it was as if they fell prey to the fantasies New York City offered, when all along, they were just a poor family with false hopes and sinister secrets rooted deeply in the family history.
In My Life in My Own Words,...
Transcending the Self
An Object Relations Model of Psychoanalytic Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Despite the popularity of object relations theories, these theories are often abstract, with the relation between theory and clinical technique left vague and unclear. Now, in Transcending the Self: An Object Relations Model of Psychoanalytic Therapy, Summers answers the need for an integrative object...
Official and Confidential
The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
A New York Times–bestselling author’s revealing, “important” biography of the longtime FBI director (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
No one exemplified paranoia and secrecy at the heart of American power better than J. Edgar Hoover, the original director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation....
by Marshall Vian Summers
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2013
For thousands of years, humanity has looked into the night sky and wondered: who is out there?
Now you have a chance to travel into that night sky, to go beyond wondering and experience for yourself the reality and spirituality of life beyond our world.
Life in the Universe is a window into the living...
Goddess
The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
New York Times Bestseller: The definitive biography based on over six hundred interviews with people who knew Marilyn Monroe both professionally and intimately.
Marilyn Monroe, born in obscurity and deprivation, became an actress and legend of the twentieth century, romantically linked to famous...
by Anne Summers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This provocative examination by a media-savvy writer who remains at the forefront of the political debate surrounding gender equality explores why equality between men and women has failed to be achieved in Australia. In 2012, Anne Summers gave two landmark speeches about women in Australia, attracting...
Morality After Calvin
Theodore Beza's Christian Censor and Reformed Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
In Morality After Calvin, Kirk M. Summers examines the development of ethical thought in the Reformed Orthodox tradition immediately following the death of Calvin. Framed around a previously unstudied poetic work of French theologian Theodore Beza, the Cato Censorius Christianus (1591), and read in...
No Future for You
Salvos from The Baffler
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
A new collection on carnival hokum and magical thinking in post-apocalypse America—brought to you by The Baffler.
There's never been a better time to be outside the consensus—and if you don't believe it, then peer into these genre-defining essays from The Baffler, the magazine that's been...