Walker Walker: 3764 books
Danielle Walker's Against All Grain Celebrations
A Year of Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, and Paleo Recipes for Every Occasion: A Cookb ook
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
This New York Times bestselling cookbook from Danielle Walker presents 125 recipes for grain-free, dairy-free, and gluten-free comfort food dishes for holidays and special occasions.
When people adopt a new diet for health or personal reasons, they worry most about the parties, holidays, and...
Franz Liszt, Volume 2
The Weimar Years: 1848-1861
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
The second volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt.
"You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed."-D. Kern Holoman, New York Review of Books
"A...
by Murray Walker
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
The voice of motor racing and much loved public figure – and the man responsible for introducing millions of viewers to the previously inaccessible world of Formula 1 – tells the story of his incident-packed life, with a brand new chapter on his globetrotting adventures since retirement. Murray...
Franz Liszt, Volume 3
The Final Years: 1861-1886
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
The third volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt.
"You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed."-D. Kern Holoman, New York Review of Books
"A...
Getting My Bounce Back
How I Got Fit, Healthier, and Happier (And You Can, Too)
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Female, fit and fifty
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Exercise is not optional: You don’t have to run a marathon to be fit and healthy or suffer through a triathlon that includes a half-mile swim in the ocean. But you do need an exercise habit. Especially as we age, exercise is not optional. Yet unless...
The 1929 Sino-Soviet War
The War Nobody Knew
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
For seven weeks in 1929, the Republic of China and the Soviet Union battled in Manchuria over control of the Chinese Eastern Railroad. It was the largest military clash between China and a Western power ever fought on Chinese soil, involving more that a quarter million combatants. Michael M. Walker’s...
by Alice Walker
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this exquisite book, Alice Walker’s first new collection of poetry since 1991, are poems that reaffirm her as “one of the best American writers of today” (The Washington Post). The forces of nature and the strength of the human spirit inspire the poems in Absolute Trust in the Goodness of...
The Cushion in the Road
Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
The National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple explores our modern world with “compassion, courage, and humor” (Booklist).
Alice Walker once ached for retirement, but in the turmoil of the Democratic primaries and the economic collapse of 2008, she realized...
Smoldering Ashes
Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780-1840
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 1999
In Smoldering Ashes Charles F. Walker interprets the end of Spanish domination in Peru and that country’s shaky transition to an autonomous republican state. Placing the indigenous population at the center of his analysis, Walker shows how the Indian peasants played a crucial and previously unacknowledged...
by Karen Walker
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
In her poignant memoir, Karen Helene Walker traces the effects of a cold, loveless home environment and an early sexual molestation on her growth, marriage, motherhood, and career. After freeing herself from a desert of a marriage, Walker loses custody of her child and then journeys to discover who...
When Winter Come
The Ascension of York
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
A sequel to the award-winning Buffalo Dance, Frank X Walker's When Winter Come: The Ascension of York is a dramatic reimagining of Lewis and Clark's legendary exploration of the American West. By focusing on the humanity and struggles of York, Clark's slave, When Winter Come challenges conventional...
The Lost Education of Horace Tate
Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
**A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018
An important contribution to our understanding of how ordinary people found the strength to fight for equality for schoolchildren and their teachers.”
-Wall Street Journal
In the epic tradition of Eyes on the Prize and with the cultural significance...
The Genuine Teachers of This Art
Rhetorical Education in Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Genuine Teachers of This Art examines the technê, or "handbook," tradition—which it controversially suggests began with Isocrates—as the central tradition in ancient rhetoric and a potential model for contemporary rhetoric. From this innovative perspective, Jeffrey Walker offers reconsiderations...
Style and Status
Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2007
Between the 1920s and the 1970s, American economic culture began to emphasize the value of consumption over production. At the same time, the rise of new mass media such as radio and television facilitated the advertising and sales of consumer goods on an unprecedented scale. In Style and Status:...