Theodore: 1024 books
Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea
Freedom's Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Korean writers and filmmakers crossed literary and visual cultures in multilayered ways under Japanese colonial rule (1910–1945). Taking advantage of new modes and media that emerged in the early twentieth century, these artists sought subtle strategies for representing the realities of colonialism...
The Great William
Writers Reading Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
The Great William is the first book to explore how seven renowned writers—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Virginia Woolf, Charles Olson, John Berryman, Allen Ginsberg, and Ted Hughes—wrestled with Shakespeare in the very moments when they were reading his work. What emerges is a constellation...
Not With a Bang But a Whimper
The Politics and Culture of Decline
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Theodore Dalrymple's new book of essays follows on the extraordinary success of his earlier collections, Life at the Bottom and Our Culture, What's Left of It. No social critic today is more adept and incisive in exploring the state of our culture and the ideas that are changing our ways of life....
by Theodore Roszak
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
The Summer of Love. Vietnam. Woodstock. These are the milestones of the baby boomer generation Theodore Roszak chronicled in his 1969 breakthrough book The Making of a Counter Culture. Part of an unprecedented longevity revolution those boomers form the most educated most socially conscientious politically...
Reincarnation
A Study in Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Do you believe in the persistence of the human soul? Convinced that we live through multiple iterations of life on Earth before finally achieving enlightenment and moving to the next plane of being? Interested in learning more about the early Western response to the Buddhist and Hindu doctrines of reincarnation?...
by Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 January 6, 1919), also known as T.R., and to the public (but never to friends and intimates) as Teddy, was the 26th President of the United States. A leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Party, he was a Governor of New York...
Redeeming the Dream
The Case for Marriage Equality
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
“Breathtakingly inspiring.” —Laurence H. Tribe, Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School
When advocates for marriage equality sought to challenge California’s notorious Proposition 8, they were fortunate to have the support of two of the nation’s preeminent lawyers, David...
Napoleon: a History of the Art of War Vol. II
from the Beginning of the French Revolution to the End of the 18th Century [Ill. Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Includes over 200 maps, plans, diagrams and uniform prints
Lt.-Col. Theodore Ayrault Dodge was a soldier of long and bloody experience, having served with the Union Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War losing one of his legs during the battle of Gettysburg. After the end of the war he...
The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1
Racial Oppression and Social Control
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no “white” people there. Nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. In this seminal two-volume work, The Invention of the White Race, Theodore W. Allen tells the story of how America’s ruling classes...
Admirable Evasions
How Psychology Undermines Morality
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought. Most psychological explanations of human behavior are not only ludicrously inadequate oversimplifications, argues Dalrymple, they...
The Pleasure of Thinking
A Journey through the Sideways Leaps of Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
What is the connection between God and East Sheen? How do you talk your way out of an Albanian jail? Why do dictators love to make comic books? How does a missed penalty-kick lead to a bloody war? Theodore Dalrymple, a psychiatrist who gives expert witness in murder cases, has a passion for sideways...
Horace's Compromise
The Dilemma of the American High School
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2004
First published in 1984, this best-selling classic is Theodore Sizer's eloquent call to arms for school reform. In a new preface, Sizer addresses the encouraging movements afoot today for better schools, smaller classes, and fully educated students. Yet, while much has changed for the better in the...
God, Country, Notre Dame
The Autobiography of Theodore M. Hesburgh
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
I have traveled far and wide, far beyond the simple parish I envisioned as a young man. My obligation of service has led me into diverse yet interrelated roles: college teacher, theologian, president of a great university, counselor to four popes and six presidents. Excuse the list, but once called...
by Binky Theodore
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
God paints on a canvas bigger than we can see, and his beautiful and perfect tapestry of life is woven from the back side with nothing but knots and criss-crossed, broken lines. And somehow, Gods perfect work of art would be less beautiful without the brokenness and overwhelming disappointments he...