Whitney: 626 books
Politics, Kingship, and Poetry in Medieval South India
Moonset on Sunrise Mountain
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
In this compelling new study, Whitney Cox presents a fundamental re-imagining of the politics of pre-modern India through the reinterpretation of the contested accession of Kulottunga I (r.1070–1120) as the ruler of the imperial Chola dynasty. By focusing on this complex event and its ramifications...
Ice Blink
Navigating Northern Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Northern Canada's distinctive landscapes, its complex social relations and the contested place of the North in contemporary political, military, scientific and economic affairs have fueled recent scholarly discussion. At the same time, both the media and the wider public have shown increasing interest...
The Women of Windsor
Their Power, Privilege, and Passions
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Who are the women of Windsor? We know them as Elizabeth, the Queen; Elizabeth, the Queen Mother; Princess Margaret; Anne, the Princess Royal. Their images have been with us on film and in print for more than a century, like priceless artifacts that call to mind a grander era. Seen at a distance, they...
Queer Beauty
Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
The pioneering work of Johann Winckelmann (1717-1768) identified a homoerotic appreciation of male beauty in classical Greek sculpture, a fascination that had endured in Western art since the Greeks. Yet after Winckelmann, the value (even the possibility) of art's queer beauty was often denied. Several...
The Age of Light
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
"Rapturous and razor sharp all at once, The Age of Light fearlessly unzips anything we might know of Lee Miller as model and muse and recasts her as artist, free thinker and architect of a singular and unapologetic life. This novel sparks on every page." --Paula McLain, New York Times bestselling...
Obscenity Rules
Roth v. United States and the Long Struggle over Sexual Expression
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
For some, he was "America's leading smut king," hauled into court repeatedly over thirty years for peddling obscene publications through the mail. But when Samuel Roth appealed a 1956 conviction, he forced the Supreme Court to finally come to grips with a problem that had plagued both American...
by Donald S. Whitney
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
“This little book is explosive and powerful.”
R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
When you pray, does it ever feel like you’re just saying the same old things about the same old things?
Offering us the encouragement and the practical advice we’re all looking for, Donald S. Whitney, best-selling...
by D. Quincy Whitney
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2008
The resourcefulness of Granite Staters in their efforts to innovate and improvise is the reason for this incredible and intriguing cast of true stories about New Hampshire people living what they love and loving what they do.Hidden in the cracks and crevices of the Granite State are the stories of pioneers...
Paid
Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Stories about objects left in the wake of transactions, from cryptocurrencies to leaf-imprinted banknotes to records kept with knotted string.
Museums are full of the coins, notes, beads, shells, stones, and other objects people have exchanged for millennia. But what about the debris, the things...
by Whitney Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
This is your guide to making money from home by participating in paid surveys on the internet!
You WILL NOT get rich in a hurry, but you will make a good deal of cash if you read what this ebook has to say about this lucrative undertaking.
More than 10 million people work from home using the internet.
Mom's...
Portland's Greatest Conflagration
The 1866 Fire Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2010
On the Fourth of July in 1866, joy turned to tragedy in Portland, Maine. A boy threw a firecracker onto a pile of wood shavings and it erupted in a blaze as residents prepared to celebrate the 110th anniversary of American independence in the momentous time following the Civil War. The violent conflagration...
More Mortgage Meltdown
6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
A clear look at how to capture investment profits during difficult financial times
The U.S. economy has become crippled by the credit and real estate catastrophe. Even though we've all been affected by the calamity and have heard no shortage of news about it, it still seems unfathomable and...
by David L. Whitney
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2012
Management often lacks the winsome clarity to sports. On the field of play, we see what works and what doesn’t. It’s not possible to drop the ball anonymously, no matter how clever or charming we are. That’s clarity. Perhaps it’s one reason why we love sports.
Management is different. We can...
by Emily Cheney Neville, Mabel Louise Robinson Mabel Louise Mabel Louise Robinson Robinson, Cornelia Meigs
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
The Young Adult Award-Winners MEGAPACK™ assembles seven classic YA books, from fiction to biography, written by some of the most celebrated 20th century children's authors. Included in this volume are: IT'S LIKE THIS, CAT, by Emily Cheney Neville (Newbery Medal Winner, 1964) RUNNER OF THE MOUNTAIN...