Author : Marie Ferrarella
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,75 MB
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1474078818
Is a killer back for more?
Author : Robert W. Gordon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 17,43 MB
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1107193230
A critical catalogue of how lawyers use history - as authority, as evocation of lost golden ages, as a nightmare to escape and as progress towards enlightenment.
Author : Grace Lee Boggs
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 42,16 MB
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 145295447X
No one can tell in advance what form a movement will take. Grace Lee Boggs’s fascinating autobiography traces the story of a woman who transcended class and racial boundaries to pursue her passionate belief in a better society. Now with a new foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley, Living for Change is a sweeping account of a legendary human rights activist whose network included Malcolm X and C. L. R. James. From the end of the 1930s, through the Cold War, the Civil Rights era, and the rise of the Black Panthers to later efforts to rebuild crumbling urban communities, Living for Change is an exhilarating look at a remarkable woman who dedicated her life to social justice.
Author : George Barton
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 24,31 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Hospitals
ISBN :
Author : Dan Morgenstern
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 19,8 MB
Release : 2009-08-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 0307487601
A collection of essays, biographical profiles, and critical analyses by one of the twentieth century's leading jazz writers includes commentary on the work of jazz entertainers, including Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Louis Armstrong, as well as assessment of the role of jazz in contemporary culture and its influence on modern music.
Author : Giovanni Arrighi
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 17,70 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780816631520
Adopting an historical approach, explores four controversies facing global analyses today: the geography of world power, the power of states versus the power of capital, the social power of subordinate groups, and the changing balance of civilizational power.
Author : George Grant
Publisher :
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 37,85 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780943497280
Author : Jonathan Gosling
Publisher : Springer
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
Release : 2012-11-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1137272759
Management theory is vague about the experience of leading. Success, power, achievement are discussed but less focus is given to negative experiences leaders faced such as loneliness or disappointment. This book addresses difficult-to-explore aspects of leadership through well-known works of literature drawing lessons from fictional leaders.
Author : Mary Frances Cusack
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 22,56 MB
Release : 2009-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409926399
Margaret Anna Cusack (1832-1899), who also wrote as MFC, Sister, Mary Frances Cusack, and Vigilant, was a Catholic nun and the founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace. She was a strong advocate for the poor and oppressed, especially women. At the age of 29 she was received into the Catholic Church and immediatey joined the Poor Clares in Newry, County Down. During her stay at Kenmare she dedicated herself to her writings, which ranged from biographies of saints to pamphlets on social issues. She wrote 35 books, including many popular, pious and sentimental texts on private devotions, poems, Irish history and biography and founded Kenmare Publications, through which 200,000 volumes of her works were issued in under ten years. Chief amongst her works are: A Student's History of Ireland (1870), Woman's Work in Modern Society (1872), The Liberator (1872), The Pilgrim's Way to Heaven (1873), The Book of the Blessed Ones (1874), A Nun's Advice to Her Girls (1877) and St. Patrick, St. Columba, and St. Bridget (1877). Two autobiographies are The Nun of Kenmare (1888) and The Story of My Life (1893).
Author : Thomas Beamish Akins
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 28,53 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Halifax (N.S.)
ISBN :
