Vincent: 2487 books
The Delectable Negro
Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person’s claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on...
by Vincent Quatroche
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Got Abstract? is Vincent Quatroches look at the linguistic shadow world between the relationship of language and meaning in a literal sense of fundamental comprehension. Questioning the accuracy of the written word within the readers perception his concept of composition as taking emotional stenography...
by Vincent Descombes
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
As a logical concept, identity refers to one and the same thing. So how can it describe membership in various groups, as in ethnic and religious identity? Bringing together an analytic conception of identity with a psychosocial understanding, Vincent Descombes demonstrates why a person has more than one answer to the essential question Who am I?
In the Wake of the Frontier
A True Account of Living in Alaskan Isolation
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2005
In 1954, Ruth Vincent was a young teacher and Alaska was not yet a state when her biologist husband, Bob, decided to conduct research on rugged, isolated Afognak Island. As they left Oregon for the unknown, both Ruth and Bob eagerly anticipated their pioneer adventure. Hours later, the two stood on...
Donkey Cons
Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2006
Shameless bribery. Illicit sex. Sweeping corruption.
"The Democratic Party is like the Gambino mob, but with matching federal funds."
In this raucous, head-spinning look at the follies and felonies of today's most famous and infamous liberals, journalists Lynn Vincent and Robert Stacy...
Redefining Black Power
Reflections on the State of Black America
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Obama's presidency represents a major milestone in black history and the struggle for political, economic and cultural equality in the United States. Through interviews with black intellectuals, leaders and activists BBC journalist Griffith connects the dots with past civil rights and black power...
American Passage
The History of Ellis Island
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
"By bringing us the inspiring and sometimes unsettling tales of Ellis Island, Vincent Cannato’s American Passage helps us understand who we are as a nation.”
— Walter Isaacson
“Never before has Ellis Island been written about with such scholarly care and historical wisdom. Highly...
by Vincent Bugliosi
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
"Grips you by the throat from beginning to end."—Cleveland Plain Dealer
ALONE WITH HER NEW HUSBAND on a tiny Pacific atoll, a young woman, combing the beach, finds an odd aluminum container washed up out of the lagoon, and beside it on the sand something glitters: a gold tooth in a scorched...
La Face cachée du Quai d'Orsay
Enquête sur un ministère à la dérive
Language: French
Release Date: April 7, 2016
C'est le ministère le plus prestigieux de la République – le gardien de la " grandeur " de la France. Pourtant, malgré les apparences, le Quai d'Orsay est aujourd'hui à la dérive.
Quels sont les vrais privilèges de la nomenklatura diplomatique ? Jusqu'où les petits arrangements...
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[you] Ruined It for Everyone!
101 People Who Screwed Things Up for the Rest of Us
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Energy sources are massively depleted. The government is wasteful and incompetent. The economy is imploding, the environment is toxic, and international terrorism threatens our day-to-day lives. And gum sucks. It just sucks. Who is responsible? Who made our world so dangerous, so unlivable, so stupid?
Matthew...
Conflict in the Horn of Africa
The Kenya-Somalia Border Problem 1941–2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Conflict in the Horn of Africa examines how the Kenya-Somalia border problem has deep roots in pre-colonial and colonial times mirroring the phenomenon of shifting territorial and human frontiers and treaties which Britain, France, Italy, and Ethiopia made before and after World Wars I and II. This...
by Vincent Diaz
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
This book describes a system to change the current state of taxation without representation due to no person every having every political opinion represented to a state of taxation with representation where people can use technology to self represent in the case represantatives do not want to vote the way they want.
No Island of Sanity
Paula Jones v. Bill Clinton: The Supreme Court on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
" One would like to think that the U.S. Supreme Court, the highest Court in the land, is the one island of sanity still remaining. But if what you folks are about to read is any indication, we've all got a lot to worry about. The question that presents itself is whether the near pathological...
The Death of Cancer
After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable--and How We Can Get There
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Cancer touches everybody’s life in one way or another. But most of us know very little about how the disease works, why we treat it the way we do, and the personalities whose dedication got us where we are today. For fifty years, Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr. has been one of those key players: he has...