Darryl Robinson's Books

The Stone

By: Darryl Hines

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

He played deception like music, the way Miles played his horn. Every note moved her until she almost had no will of her own. Pregnant and alone, 26 year old Dahlia Reynolds recounts the events that led to her imprisonment in Thailand, an unlikely place for a Sista from Waycross, Georgia. Nervously awaiting the ultimate punishment, Dahlia realizes how far she is from Washington, DC, her best friends, Stacy and El, her job as a Pentagon analyst and from Antoine Blackwell, her occasional lover. This could be the end of a journey full of treachery and deceit launched by a mystery from her family's past and a quilt she inherited from a slave ancestor, all started with a chance encounter with a much older man. Mackenzie Powell stole Dahlia's heart and holds the key to a treasure that made her an unknowing pawn in a high stakes game of murder and intrigue that began deep inside a South African mine before she was born. Dahlia was swept away by the Bentley driving Mackenzie's classy good looks and debonair charm, but "Mac" has a secret and only The Stone has the power to unlock it and make sense of what appears to be a series of unrelated events. She wonders: Is Mac hero or villain?

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

260

Publisher

iUniverse

Published Date

ISBN 10

0595456790

ISBN 13

9780595456796

The Hound of the Baskervilles

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Hound of the Baskervilles

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!' The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville brings Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to Dartmoor in the most famous of all of Arthur Conan Doyle's books. Is Sir Charles the latest victim of the ancestral Curse of the Baskervilles, which summons a demonic hound to stalk the moor and exact vengeance for a past misdeed, or is there a more modern, more prosaic explanation for the sudden death? In The Hound of the Baskervilles, the modern, rational world, and the ancient, supernatural world collide in the novel which brought Sherlock Holmes back from the dead. This new edition of Conan Doyle's classic mystery is part of a series of new editions of the Sherlock Holmes stories published in Oxford World's Classics. Darryl Jones's Introduction explores the competing worlds of the supernatural and the scientific in the novel and in Arthur Conan Doyle's life, the novel's colonial background and origins, and the role of landscape, folklore, and folk horror in the novel.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

225

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0198835221

ISBN 13

9780198835226

Rosa Parks

A Life in American History

By: Darryl Mace

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rosa Parks

A Life in American History

By: Darryl Mace

Rosa Parks's crucial decision proved more than one to remain seated. This book uses historical analysis and Parks's own words to paint a complete picture of her life as a courageous and defiant civil rights activist. Rosa Parks: A Life in American History explores the life of this important civil rights activist in the context of the cultural and social history of her time. The book focuses heavily on the influence of her mother and grandparents in her civil rights activism and emphasizes the fact that Rosa Parks was always active and engaged in the struggle for civil rights. Analyses of speeches she delivered provide a picture that broadens her influence and importance far beyond the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Chapters are organized chronologically, beginning with Rosa Parks' family history and ending with her death and legacy, and a culminating chapter explores her extensive impact on American history. The work also includes a timeline of key events in her life and a bibliography to aid additional research. Readers will benefit from a holistic approach that explores Parks' life well beyond her refusal to give up her seat on the Montgomery bus line. Of note, this book connects Parks' lifelong activism to the spirit of justice and resistance she learned at a young age.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

198

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published Date

ISBN 13

9798216140832

Black Comedians on Black Comedy

How African-Americans Taught Us to Laugh

By: Darryl Littleton

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Black Comedians on Black Comedy

How African-Americans Taught Us to Laugh

By: Darryl Littleton

Describes the history of Black comedy from slavery through blackface, vaudeville, and the chitlin' circuit, to the present, interspersing commentary and criticism with interviews with Eddie Murphy, Marla Gibbs, and Chris Rock.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

372

Publisher

Hal Leonard Corporation

Published Date

ISBN 10

1557836809

ISBN 13

9781557836809

A Guide to Land Snails of Australia

By: John Stanisic,Lorelle Stanisic,Darryl Potter

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Guide to Land Snails of Australia

By: John Stanisic,Lorelle Stanisic,Darryl Potter

Australia's native land snails are an often-overlooked invertebrate group that forms a significant part of terrestrial biodiversity, with an estimated 2500 species present in Australia today. A Guide to Land Snails of Australia is an overview of Australia's native and introduced land snail faunas, offering a greater understanding of their role in the natural environment. The book presents clear diagnostic features of live snails and their shells, and is richly illustrated with a broad range of Australia's native snail, semi-slug and slug species. Comprehensive coverage is also included of the many exotic species introduced to Australia. In a unique bioregional approach, the reader is taken on a trek through some of Australia's spectacular regional landscapes, highlighting their endemic and special snail faunas. This section is supplemented with key localities where species can be found.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

185

Publisher

CSIRO PUBLISHING

Published Date

ISBN 10

1486313531

ISBN 13

9781486313532

Jane Austen

By: Darryl Jones

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Jane Austen

By: Darryl Jones

This book offers a one-volume study of Jane Austen that is both a sophisticated critical introduction and a valuable contribution to the study of one of the most popular and enduring British novelists. Darryl Jones provides students with a coherent overview of Austen's work and an idea of the current state of critical debate.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

206

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

135031756X

ISBN 13

9781350317567

The Theory and Practice of Third World Solidarity

By: Darryl C. Thomas

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Theory and Practice of Third World Solidarity

By: Darryl C. Thomas

This study examines the development of Third World solidarity within the broader historical context of changing hegemonic power systems, from Pax Britannia to Pax Americana. Thomas focuses on the political, economic, and racial structures that are fundamental to hegemonic supremacy over peripheral and semiperipheral states, and he analyzes the divergent modes of Third World incorporation (subordination) into the world system. He concludes that the racial structure of global apartheid that dominated the world system during the colonial period is re-emerging under the rubric of a New World Order.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

340

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

0313075891

ISBN 13

9780313075896

Infrastructure Regulation

What Works, why and how Do We Know? : Lessons from Asia and Beyond

By: Darryl S. L. Jarvis,Xun Wu

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Infrastructure Regulation

What Works, why and how Do We Know? : Lessons from Asia and Beyond

By: Darryl S. L. Jarvis,Xun Wu

Regulation of public infrastructure has been a topic of interest for more than a century. Yet, little is known about what works and why, when it comes to infrastructure regulation. This book intends to contribute to the understanding of infrastructure regulations by analyzing empirical cases in telecommunications, electricity and water, with examples drawn from a number of countries in Asia and beyond. The book addresses the following questions: Does regulation work? What kind of regulation works? What kinds don't work? Why do some forms of regulation work and not others? How do we know whether they work or not? How do we isolate the effects of different political, economic and legal contexts? Are there systematic differences across infrastructure sectors that necessitate particular regulatory design? It brings together distinguished scholars and practitioners who are experts in the area to address essential issues in regulation through conceptual and empirical studies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

622

Publisher

World Scientific

Published Date

ISBN 10

9814335738

ISBN 13

9789814335737

Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy

With a New Essay

By: Darryl Pinckney

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy

With a New Essay

By: Darryl Pinckney

An incisive reflection on black electoral politics, disenfranchisement, and the lasting legacy of the civil rights movement—now with a brand-new essay on the Covid-19 pandemic, reparations, and the 2020 George Floyd protests. Blackballed is Darryl Pinckney’s meditation on a century and a half of participation by blacks in US electoral politics. In this combination of memoir, historical narrative, and contemporary political and social analysis, he investigates the struggle for black voting rights from Reconstruction through the civil rights movement to Barack Obama’s two presidential campaigns. Drawing on the work of scholars, the memoirs of civil rights workers, and the speeches and writings of black leaders like Martin Luther King and Stokely Carmichael, Andrew Young and John Lewis, Pinckney traces the disagreements among blacks about the best strategies for achieving equality in American society as well as the ways in which they gradually came to create the Democratic voting bloc that contributed to the election of the first black president. Interspersed through the narrative are Pinckney’s own memories of growing up during the civil rights era and the reactions of his parents to the changes taking place in American society. He concludes with an examination of ongoing efforts by Republicans to suppress the black vote, with particular attention to the Supreme Court’s recent decision striking down part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Also included here is Pinckney’s essay “What Black Means Now,” on the history of the black middle class, stereotypes about blacks and crime, and contemporary debates about “post-blackness,” as well as a new essay, “Buck Moon in Harlem,” which reflects on Juneteenth and the ongoing fight for racial justice, and offers a glimpse of New York City amid the Covid-19 pandemic and the protests following the killing of George Floyd.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

145

Publisher

New York Review of Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1681375605

ISBN 13

9781681375601

Becoming American in Creole New Orleans, 1896–1949

By: Darryl Barthé, Jr.

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Becoming American in Creole New Orleans, 1896–1949

By: Darryl Barthé, Jr.

Extensive scholarship has emerged within the last twenty-five years on the role of Louisiana Creoles in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, yet academic work on the history of Creoles in New Orleans after the Civil War and into the twentieth century remains sparse. Darryl Barthé Jr.’s Becoming American in Creole New Orleans moves the history of New Orleans’ Creole community forward, documenting the process of “becoming American” through Creoles’ encounters with Anglo-American modernism. Barthé tracks this ethnic transformation through an interrogation of New Orleans’s voluntary associations and social sodalities, as well as its public and parochial schools, where Creole linguistic distinctiveness faded over the twentieth century because of English-only education and the establishment of Anglo-American economic hegemony. Barthé argues that despite the existence of ethnic repression, the transition from Creole to American identity was largely voluntary as Creoles embraced the economic opportunities afforded to them through learning English. “Becoming American” entailed the adoption of a distinctly American language and a distinctly American racialized caste system. Navigating that caste system was always tricky for Creoles, who had existed in between French and Spanish color lines that recognized them as a group separate from Europeans, Africans, and Amerindians even though they often shared kinship ties with all of these groups. Creoles responded to the pressures associated with the demands of the American caste system by passing as white people (completely or situationally) or, more often, redefining themselves as Blacks. Becoming American in Creole New Orleans offers a critical comparative analysis of “Creolization” and “Americanization,” social processes that often worked in opposition to each another during the nineteenth century and that would continue to frame the limits of Creole identity and cultural expression in New Orleans until the mid-twentieth century. As such, it offers intersectional engagement with subjects that have historically fallen under the purview of sociology, anthropology, and critical theory, including discourses on whiteness, métissage/métisajé, and critical mixed-race theory.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

230

Publisher

LSU Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0807175528

ISBN 13

9780807175521

Birder's Handbook

By: Paul Ehrlich,David S. Dobkin,Darryl Wheye

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Birder's Handbook

By: Paul Ehrlich,David S. Dobkin,Darryl Wheye

On t.p.: A field guide to the natural history of North American birds : including all species that regularly breed north of Mexico.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

820

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

0671659898

ISBN 13

9780671659899

An Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure

By: Robert Cryer,Darryl Robinson,Sergey Vasiliev

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

An Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure

By: Robert Cryer,Darryl Robinson,Sergey Vasiliev

A leading work in the field of international criminal law, which is accessible, comprehensive and up to date.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

643

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1108481922

ISBN 13

9781108481922

The Man Who Cared Too Much

By: Darryl Kennedy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Man Who Cared Too Much

By: Darryl Kennedy

“He’s so funny, Ma. Uncle’s a bit like the Devil, isn’t he – if he knew the truth he’d only lie about it.” “Devil or not, you won’t pull the wool over his eyes. He’s always ten steps ahead. He’s like that electric hare at the greyhound races – you’re never going to catch him, no matter how hard you try.” Not a black hearted liar, more Prince of Fibs, Teresa’s uncle keeps everyone on their toes. Rich, a scholar, and ex-national boxing champion – some say a Communist crackpot – Fergus O’Flynn, with devilish cunning, teaches his pretty teenage niece higher things of life, even citing scripture, and how to fight dirty, take care of herself on Hope Street where she’s considered easy bait walking home from school. Neglect had once been his demon, allowing his own sister to die. He was never to let that happen again. Teresa prefers to watch the world from her giant fig tree. One day she is stirred into action, saving a street girl savagely beaten. She takes revenge; a plot unexpectedly hatched by her uncle. Set in Australia’s Tropics, more about school assignments than school proms; of an uncle who brings richness to Teresa’s life in guiding her to self acceptance while continually working behind the scenes. But Fergus is like those painted Russian dolls – out they come, small, large, larger again, all empty as before. Or is he? His fourth novel, Darryl Kennedy is a retired English teacher now writing fulltime in Australia.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

306

Publisher

Xlibris Corporation

Published Date

ISBN 10

1483629139

ISBN 13

9781483629131

Reckoning Methodism

Mission and Division in the Public Church

By: Darryl W. Stephens

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Reckoning Methodism

Mission and Division in the Public Church

By: Darryl W. Stephens

Reckoning Methodism addresses the brokenness of The United Methodist Church (UMC) in the United States. Homosexuality is but one of several fault lines with decades-long histories in this predominantly White denomination. Demographic shifts, racism, and imperialism are heavily implicated in the current state of division. What, then, is the true nature and mission of this church? The UMC is the public church divided. Distinct missional theologies arise from competing commitments and priorities. When Methodist programmatic initiatives—such as vital congregations, environmental witness, and volunteers in mission—fail to account for these differences, denominational unity is weakened. Constructively, this book seeks historical clarity, collective repentance, charismatic learning, and institutional courage as United Methodists reckon with inherited animosities and divisions. This book provides no answers or programmatic fixes. Rather, it provides possibilities for repairing past harms as United Methodists seek ways to continue living out their Wesleyan faith. Reckoning with the public church divided, we glimpse the nature and mission of the church—not only as it has been but also as it could be. Podcast interview with GCAH

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

293

Publisher

Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1666775630

ISBN 13

9781666775631

Free Market Criminal Justice

How Democracy and Laissez Faire Undermine the Rule of Law

By: Darryl K. Brown

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Free Market Criminal Justice

How Democracy and Laissez Faire Undermine the Rule of Law

By: Darryl K. Brown

Free Market Criminal Justice explains how faith in democratic politics and free markets has undermined the rule of law in US criminal process. It argues that, to strengthen the rule of law, US criminal justice needs less democracy, fewer market mechanisms, and more law.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

321

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0190457872

ISBN 13

9780190457877

Performance Improvement

Making it Happen, Second Edition

By: Darryl D. Enos,Dana Vincent J.M.,Suzanna E. M.D.

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Performance Improvement

Making it Happen, Second Edition

By: Darryl D. Enos,Dana Vincent J.M.,Suzanna E. M.D.

Combining state-of-the-art knowledge and techniques in organizational development with practical experiences using a step-by-step approach, Performance Improvement: Making it Happen provides important principles and techniques of organizational development to improve performance. Based on experiences of over 300 organizations, this second edition features real-world examples from a variety of industries that illustrate the different types of problems presented throughout the text as well as the various methods of improvement. In addition, this text also demonstrates numerous ways of measuring organizational improvement after implementing these concepts and methods.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

326

Publisher

CRC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1420045865

ISBN 13

9781420045864

Canine Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy

By: Darryl Millis,David Levine

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Canine Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy

By: Darryl Millis,David Levine

Bridging the gap between human physical therapy and veterinary medicine, Canine Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy, 2nd Edition provides vets, veterinary students, and human physical therapists with traditional and alternative physical therapy methods to effectively evaluate and treat dogs with various debilitating conditions. Coverage includes treatment protocols for many types of cutaneous, neurologic, and musculoskeletal injuries to facilitate a faster and more complete recovery. "Overall, this book is an extensive text for anyone interested in pursuing canine rehabilitation and physical therapy" Reviewed by: Helen Davies, University of Melbourne on behalf of Australian Veterinary Journal, March 2015 Invaluable protocols for conservative and postoperative treatment ensure the successful healing of dogs and their return to full mobility. Printable medical record forms on the companion website, including client information worksheets, referral forms, orthopedic evaluation forms, and more, can be customized for your veterinary practice. Six completely updated chapters on exercising dogs define the basic principles of aquatic and land-based exercise and how they may be applied to dogs, as well as how physical therapy professionals can adapt common "human" exercises to dogs. Numerous chapters on therapeutic modalities, including therapeutic lasers, illustrate how physical therapy professionals can adapt common "human" modalities to dogs. Physical examination chapters offer comprehensive information on orthopedics, neurology, and rehabilitation. New chapters keep you up to date with coverage of joint mobilization, rehabilitation of the athletic patient, biomechanics of rehabilitation, and physical therapy for wound care. A companion website includes 40 narrated video clips of various modalities and exercises used to correct problems with lameness, hip disorders, and gait analysis, plus downloadable and printable orthopedic, neurologic, and physical rehabilitation forms, in addition to a client information worksheet, referral form and letter, and a daily flowsheet form.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

821

Publisher

Elsevier Health Sciences

Published Date

ISBN 10

1437703097

ISBN 13

9781437703092

Sternberg's Diagnostic Surgical Pathology

By: Stacey E. Mills,Darryl Carter,Joel K. Greenson,Victor E. Reuter,Mark H. Stoler

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sternberg's Diagnostic Surgical Pathology

By: Stacey E. Mills,Darryl Carter,Joel K. Greenson,Victor E. Reuter,Mark H. Stoler

Completely updated, the Fifth Edition of this standard-setting two-volume reference presents the most advanced diagnostic techniques and the latest information on all currently known disease entities. More than 90 preeminent surgical pathologists offer expert advice on the diagnostic evaluation of every type of specimen from every anatomic site. The Fifth Edition contains over 4,400 full-color photographs. This edition provides detailed coverage of the latest developments in the field, including new molecular and immunohistochemical markers for diagnosis and prognosis of neoplasia, improved classification systems for diagnosis and prognosis, the role of pathology in new diagnostic and therapeutic techniques, and the recognition of new entities or variants of entities. All full-color illustrations have been color-balanced to dramatically improve image quality.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

7176

Publisher

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published Date

ISBN 10

1451152892

ISBN 13

9781451152890

It Came From the 1950s!

Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties

By: Darryl Jones,Elizabeth McCarthy,Bernice M. Murphy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

It Came From the 1950s!

Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties

By: Darryl Jones,Elizabeth McCarthy,Bernice M. Murphy

An eclectic and insightful collection of essays predicated on the hypothesis that popular cultural documents provide unique insights into the concerns, anxieties and desires of their times. 1950s popular culture is analysed by leading scholars and critics such as Christopher Frayling, Mark Jancovich, Kim Newman and David J. Skal.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

277

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

0230337236

ISBN 13

9780230337237

About Psychology

Essays at the Crossroads of History, Theory, and Philosophy

By: Darryl B. Hill,Michael J. Kral

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

About Psychology

Essays at the Crossroads of History, Theory, and Philosophy

By: Darryl B. Hill,Michael J. Kral

A critical and historical overview of psychology.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

196

Publisher

SUNY Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0791457044

ISBN 13

9780791457047

57 Years of Presidential Photography and Stops Along the Way

By: Darryl Heikes

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

57 Years of Presidential Photography and Stops Along the Way

By: Darryl Heikes

While working for the Salina Journal I made a lot of feature pictures which I had done in high school. Reporting to work each morning, I would see what they wanted me to do. The two editors in charge would say, We dont have anything going onso go out and beat the bushes. I had roughly two hours to drive around and photograph, come back and develop the film, and give to the editors to see what they wanted. I then had to print the image and engrave it. Their comments were always the samenothing going ongo beat the bushes. I learned quickly how to find something to fill the hole on the front page without saying I could not find anything. I had to fulfill my military obligation. Over a Christmas holiday in 1960 and January of 1961, I came back to work for the Journal until October. Charlie McCarty called me stating, We do not have a photo position but we have a reporting job in the Kansas City bureau and we would like for you to take it. Sounds great - quit the Salina Journal and drove to Kansas City where I saw Joe Galloway whom I had known from the UPI days. The first day of work the boss, David Otracker, told me that Vice President, Lyndon Johnson was coming to meet with Harry Truman. During the 1960 convention, Truman refused to go because it was thought it was rigged for Kennedy. Johnson was in town to soothe Trumans feathers. I went as a reporter and UPI sent me a photographer. I wrote the story about Johnson and Truman but did not photograph it. I stayed in Kansas City until they had an opening in Oklahoma City thinking this was a good place to be but was there only two weeks. I learned there was an opening in Austin, Texas and went to work for UPI as a staff photographer at the Austin American Statesman. There was an arrangement between UPI and the newspapers purchasing the UPI telephoto network and Charlie McCarty included four photographers. The same arrangement existed at the Dallas Times Herald. When Felix McKnight was hired at the Dallas paper he brought all his people with him therefore changing the photo operations. Three UPI staffers worked for the Herald and this is where I was November 22, 1963. I photographed the Kennedys and Connollys at the intersection of Main and Hardware.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

231

Publisher

Xlibris Corporation

Published Date

ISBN 10

1499084765

ISBN 13

9781499084764

The Birds at My Table

Why We Feed Wild Birds and Why It Matters

By: Darryl Jones

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Birds at My Table

Why We Feed Wild Birds and Why It Matters

By: Darryl Jones

Darryl Jones is fascinated by bird feeders. Not the containers supplying food to our winged friends, but the people who fill the containers. Why do people do this? Jones asks in The Birds at My Table. Does the food even benefit the birds? What are the unintended consequences of providing additional food to our winged friends? Jones takes us on a wild flight through the history of bird feeding. He pinpoints the highs and lows of the practice. And he ponders this odd but seriously popular form of interaction between humans and wild animals. Most important, he points out that we know very little about the impact of feeding birds despite millions of people doing it every day. Unerringly, Jones digs at the deeper issues and questions, and he raises our awareness of the things we don’t yet know and why we really should. Using the latest scientific findings, The Birds at My Table takes a global swoop from 30,000 feet down to the backyard bird feeder and pushes our understanding of the many aspects of bird feeding back up to new heights.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

268

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

150171080X

ISBN 13

9781501710803

Florence! Foster!! Jenkins!!!

The Life of the World's Worst Opera Singer

By: Darryl W. Bullock

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Florence! Foster!! Jenkins!!!

The Life of the World's Worst Opera Singer

By: Darryl W. Bullock

An inspiring biography of the socialite and amateur soprano who didn’t let her terrible voice stop her—Now the subject of a major motion picture. Magazine Madame Jenkins couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket: despite that, in 1944 at the age of seventy-six, she played Carnegie Hall to a capacity audience and had celebrity fans by the score. Her infamous 1940s recordings are still highly prized today. In his well-researched and thoroughly entertaining biography, Darryl W. Bullock tells of Florence Foster Jenkins’s meteoric rise to success and the man who stood beside her, through every sharp note. Florence was ridiculed for her poor control of timing, pitch, and tone, and terrible pronunciation of foreign lyrics, but the sheer entertainment value of her caterwauling packed out theatres around the United States, with the “singer” firmly convinced of her own talent, partly thanks to the devoted attention for her husband and manager St. Clair Bayfield. Her story is one of triumph in the face of adversity, courage, conviction and of the belief that with dedication and commitment a true artist can achieve anything. “Darryl W. Bullock’s charming FLORENCE! FOSTER!! JENKINS!!! is just about right for those who want to know more about the world’s worst opera singer. . . . Thoroughly readable and entertaining. This appealing little biography―which arrives just as a film version of its heroine’s story, starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant, has been released in the U.S.―is warmhearted and delightful. At its core is a touching love story, as well as a message about the human spirit.” —Alexander McCall Smith, The New York Times Book Review

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

150

Publisher

Abrams

Published Date

ISBN 10

1468314092

ISBN 13

9781468314090

African American Concert Singers Before 1950

By: Darryl Glenn Nettles

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

African American Concert Singers Before 1950

By: Darryl Glenn Nettles

Marian Roberts, Roland Hayes, and Paul Robeson were among the most visible early African American concert singers, but they were not the only ones. Many others were involved in the arts as concert singers and, given the times in which they lived, achieved tremendous results in the face of great adversity and helped pave the way for the post-1950 African American vocal artist. Drawn from articles, reviews, programs, biographical sources, and interviews, this work is a survey of the unknown early African American concert singers. Much of the information from periodicals was taken from The New York Amsterdam News, The Chicago Defender, and The New York Age. The book covers the African Americans who came before Roberts, Hayes, and Robeson, and details the opportunities available in Europe for black concert singers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

204

Publisher

McFarland

Published Date

ISBN 10

0786414677

ISBN 13

9780786414673

Relationship Is the Transformative Space

Living in the Not Yet

By: Darryl Wooldridge

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Relationship Is the Transformative Space

Living in the Not Yet

By: Darryl Wooldridge

This book affirms relationship as the shared human elemental pursuit and proposes relationship as the transformative space. Wonderfully, the author asserts, it is God's intention to fulfill this intrinsic human desire in the present in all of us and universally. This desire is an often inarticulate, innate desire and pursuit to enjoy and reflect the divine image in which every human being was created. In this book, this pursuit is referred to as proleptic spiritual transformation (PrōST). That is, this book demonstrates that what is too often relegated to eternity is available now. Relationship is the Transformative Space considers God's heart, in relationship, and its implication toward human spirituality and how this intent has been interrupted and restored. God is actively interested in the recovery of a fully expressed image in humanity.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

292

Publisher

Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1498280420

ISBN 13

9781498280426

The Infamous Cherry Sisters

The Worst Act in Vaudeville

By: Darryl W. Bullock

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Infamous Cherry Sisters

The Worst Act in Vaudeville

By: Darryl W. Bullock

Raised in poverty on an Iowa farm, the Cherry Sisters had little education and no training. But they possessed a burning desire to take to the stage and show the world what they could do--and what they could do was awful. Their unique act was "so bad it was good." When the sisters took the stage, they were met with rotten fruit and vegetables, festering meat, dead cats... Riots often broke out after (and sometimes during) their concerts, but they carried on, changing attitudes--and laws--along the way. This book follows the five women through their forty-year career in vaudeville theaters across the U.S. Proud, fearless and fiercely independent in a time when women were treated as second-class citizens, the Cherry Sisters insisted that their voices be heard.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

215

Publisher

McFarland

Published Date

ISBN 10

1476675562

ISBN 13

9781476675565

Memo from Darryl F. Zanuck

The Golden Years at Twentieth Century-Fox

By: Darryl Francis Zanuck

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Memo from Darryl F. Zanuck

The Golden Years at Twentieth Century-Fox

By: Darryl Francis Zanuck

This volume provides an insider's view of Hollywood's most glamorous era and the elements of film production.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

324

Publisher

Grove Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0802133320

ISBN 13

9780802133328

If I Never Get Back

A Novel

By: Darryl Brock

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

If I Never Get Back

A Novel

By: Darryl Brock

Time travel meets baseball in this “grand adventure” about a modern-day reporter who witnesses the birth of America’s favorite pastime (The Washington Times) Contemporary reporter Sam Fowler is stuck in a dull job and a failing marriage when he is suddenly transported back to the summer of 1869. After a wrenching period of adjustment, he feels rejuvenated by his involvement with the nation’s first pro baseball team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings. But American sports isn't the only thing to undergo a major transformation—Sam himself starts to change as he faces life-threatening 19th-century challenges on and off the baseball diamond. With the support of his fellow ballplayers and the lovely Caitlin O'Neill, will he regain the sense of family he desperately needs? Darryl Brock masterfully evokes post-Civil War America—its smoky cities and transcontinental railroad, its dance halls and parlour houses, its financial booms and busts. Equally appealing to sports fans and anyone who appreciates a well-told story, If I Never Get Back is a literary home run that "grabs you from line one on page one and never lets go" (San Francisco Chronicle).

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

432

Publisher

Frog Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1583949291

ISBN 13

9781583949290

Communicating Creativity

The Discursive Facilitation of Creative Activity in Arts

By: Darryl Hocking

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Communicating Creativity

The Discursive Facilitation of Creative Activity in Arts

By: Darryl Hocking

This book provides an extensive and original analysis of the way that written and spoken communication facilitates creative practice in the university art and design studio. Challenging the established view of creativity as a personal attribute which can be objectively measured, the author demonstrates instead that creativity and creative practice are constructed through a complex array of intersecting discourses, each shaped by wider socio-historical contexts, beliefs and values. The author draws upon a range of methods and resources to capture this dynamic complexity from corpus linguistics to ethnography and multimodal analysis. This innovative volume will appeal to students and scholars of discourse analysis, creativity, and applied linguistics. It will also appeal to art and design educators.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

311

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

1137558040

ISBN 13

9781137558046

Trapped by History

The Indigenous-State Relationship in Australia

By: Darryl Cronin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Trapped by History

The Indigenous-State Relationship in Australia

By: Darryl Cronin

The Australian nation has reached an impasse in Indigenous policy and practice and fresh strategies and perspectives are required. Trapped by History highlights a fundamental issue that the Australian nation must confront to develop a genuine relationship with Indigenous Australians. The existing relationship between Indigenous people and the Australian state was constructed on the myth of an empty land – terra nullius. Interactions with Indigenous people have been constrained by eighteenth-century assumptions and beliefs that Indigenous people did not have organised societies, had neither land ownership nor a recognisable form of sovereignty, and that they were ‘savage’ but could be ‘civilized’ through the erasure of their culture. These incorrect assumptions and beliefs are the foundation of the legal, constitutional and political treatment of Indigenous Australians over the course of the country’s history. They remain ingrained in governmental institutions, Indigenous policy making, judicial decision making and contemporary public attitudes about Indigenous people. Trapped by History shines new light upon historical and contemporary examples where Indigenous people have attempted to engage and dialogue with state and federal governments. These governments have responded by trying to suppress and discredit Indigenous rights, culture and identities and impose assimilationist policies. In doing so they have rejected or ignored Indigenous attempts at dialogue and partnership. Other settler countries such as New Zealand, Canada and the United States of America have all negotiated treaties with Indigenous people and have developed constitutional ways of engaging cross culturally. In Australia, the limited recognition that Indigenous people have achieved to date shows that the state is unable to resolve long standing issues with Indigenous people. Movement beyond the current colonial relationship with Indigenous Australians requires a genuine dialogue to not only examine the legal and intellectual framework that constrains Indigenous recognition but to create new foundations for a renewed relationship based on intercultural negotiation, mutual respect, sharing and mutual responsibility. This must involve building a shared understanding around addressing past injustices and creating a shared vision for how Indigenous people and other Australians will associate politically in the future.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

281

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

1786611465

ISBN 13

9781786611468

Justice in Extreme Cases

Criminal Law Theory Meets International Criminal Law

By: Darryl Robinson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Justice in Extreme Cases

Criminal Law Theory Meets International Criminal Law

By: Darryl Robinson

The book shows how moral theory can challenge and improve international criminal law and how extreme cases can challenge and improve mainstream theory.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

327

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1107041619

ISBN 13

9781107041615

Captain

My Life and Career

By: Darryl Sittler,Mike Leonetti

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Captain

My Life and Career

By: Darryl Sittler,Mike Leonetti

The incredible story of the life and phenomenal career of one of the greatest players ever to wear a Maple Leafs uniform, told through stories and never-before-seen photographs. Darryl Sittler may well be best remembered for two of the most remarkable performances in the history of the National Hockey League. On February 7, 1976, he scored six goals and added four assists for an NHL record total of ten points in a game. That spring, he joined Maurice Richard in hockey history by recording five goals in one playoff game. He also scored one of the most famous goals in hockey history, the overtime goal against Czechoslovakia to win the 1976 Canada Cup. Now, #27 looks back at his incredible career and greatest moments on and off the ice. He writes about growing up in St. Jacobs, Ontario, his days in junior hockey with the London Knights, and his rookie year in 1970-71. Also included are his personal reflections on some of his greatest teammates (Lanny McDonald, Borje Salming, Ian Turnbull, and Mike Palmateer, to name a few) and his encounters with his greatest rivals (Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito, Bobby Hull, Brian Trottier, Bobby Clarke, Guy Lafleur, Ken Dryden, and Larry Robinson). He recounts his childhood hockey heroes (waiting in the cold outside an arena in Kitchener for Bobby Hull's autograph), his years playing for Philadelphia and Detroit, his induction into the Hall of Fame, and deep devotion to his family. Full of great anecdotes from his personal and professional life, this is an inspiring, revealing book by a revered leader and legend in hockey history.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

226

Publisher

McClelland & Stewart

Published Date

ISBN 10

0771072732

ISBN 13

9780771072734

Recovering Mother Kirk

The Case for Liturgy in the Reformed Tradition

By: Darryl Glen Hart

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Recovering Mother Kirk

The Case for Liturgy in the Reformed Tradition

By: Darryl Glen Hart

Endorsements: "Liturgical Presbyterians? No, this is not an oxymoron. D. G. Hart has written a lively polemic against the well-intentioned dumbing-down of worship by advocates of church growth. This book is going to make some people very mad, and it will make others very glad. Those who have thrown away the theological substance of the great Reformed tradition of Christian worship ought to be mad. Hart shames them. And yet, for those whose privilege it is to praise and serve God in a church that enjoys the Reformed way of worship in all its depth, glory, and joy, this book is a great summons to faithfulness in our time." --WILLIAM H. WILLIMON, Duke Divinity School "Beginning to realize just how much they have been shaped by non-Reformed influences, conservative Presbyterian and Reformed churches are now being forced to decide between a generic 'low-church' Protestantism, a 'high church' tradition, or, oddly enough, a more traditional Reformed and Presbyterian approach. D. G. Hart believes that Reformed theology provides resources not only for understanding that we are saved, but also for how we worship and mature in the Christian faith. There's a lot of wisdom here, and whether one agrees or disagrees with Hart, his well-considered arguments cannot be responsibly ignored by adherents of Reformed Christianity." --MICHAEL HORTON, Editor in Chief, Modern Reformation "Unabashedly writing to inform, rouse, and serve his fellow Presbyterians, D. G. Hart has nonetheless produced a book that is properly and profoundly ecumenical. Christians from all communions who take seriously the identity and nature of the church will learn from Hart's analysis of the complex arrangement under God of cult and culture, form and content, church and state, praise and proclamation, cross and crown. Hart reminds us that the chronicles of the people of God always offer encouragement to strengthen feeble arms, weak knees, and lazy minds." --KEN MYERS, host and producer of the Mars Hill Audio Journal "Hart's book combines world-class scholarship with keen social and ecclesiastical awareness and should be read and reread by those who want to transmit the piety and ethos of the Reformed tradition to the next generation." --TERRY L. JOHNSON, Independent Presbyterian Church, Savannah, Georgia

Average ratings

N/A