Jean Conrad's Books

In the Company of Angels

A Compilation of Stories and Poems on Angelman Syndrome, by Those Who Know It Best

By: Pamela Jean Lyman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

In the Company of Angels

A Compilation of Stories and Poems on Angelman Syndrome, by Those Who Know It Best

By: Pamela Jean Lyman

Pam and her husband were ecstatic when they found out they were having a baby. When their precious son was born, they felt that their family was finally complete. But soon they realized that something was wrong and eventually were delivered the shocking news---their baby had been born with an irreversible condition called Angelman Syndrome"--Page 4 of cover

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

236

Publisher

Tate Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1621475646

ISBN 13

9781621475644

A Handbook of Modernism Studies

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Handbook of Modernism Studies

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

Featuring the latest research findings and exploring the fascinating interplay of modernist authors and intellectual luminaries, from Beckett and Kafka to Derrida and Adorno, this bold new collection of essays gives students a deeper grasp of key texts in modernist literature. Provides a wealth of fresh perspectives on canonical modernist texts, featuring the latest research data Adopts an original and creative thematic approach to the subject, with concepts such as race, law, gender, class, time, and ideology forming the structure of the collection Explores current and ongoing debates on the links between the aesthetics and praxis of authors and modernist theoreticians Reveals the profound ways in which modernist authors have influenced key thinkers, and vice versa

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

485

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

111912140X

ISBN 13

9781119121404

Ghosts in the Middle Ages

The Living and the Dead in Medieval Society

By: Jean-Claude Schmitt

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ghosts in the Middle Ages

The Living and the Dead in Medieval Society

By: Jean-Claude Schmitt

In this fascinating study, Schmitt examines the significance of the widespread belief in ghosts during the Middle Ages and traces the imaginative, political, and religious contexts of these everyday haunts. Ghosts were pitiful or terrifying, usually solitary, creatures who arose from their tombs to haunt their friends and relatives. Including numerous color illustrations of ghosts and their trappings, this book presents a unique and intriguing look at medieval culture. 28 color plates.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

332

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0226738876

ISBN 13

9780226738871

The Romance of the Rose or Guillaume de Dole

By: Jean Renart

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Romance of the Rose or Guillaume de Dole

By: Jean Renart

The author of at least two noteworthy romances of the early thirteenth century, Le Roman de la Rose or Guillaume de Dole and L'Escoufle (The Kite), as well as Le Lai de l'Ombre, Jean Renart is today recognized as the most accomplished practitioner of the "realistic romance" in Old French literature.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

126

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0812292359

ISBN 13

9780812292350

The Analyzing Situation

By: Jean-Luc Donnet

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Analyzing Situation

By: Jean-Luc Donnet

In this book the author explores the particularities of the status of the method in psychoanalysis, linked to the specificity of unconscious psychic processes. If the method aims at ensuring a level of technical mastery, it must also make sure that analytic treatment does not become an 'application' of knowledge. A modern conception of the analytic situation implies going beyond the classical pair of 'setting-interpretation'. Starting out from the postulate of a transferential dynamic of the encounter, the author brings into play the pair 'analyzing site-situation'. The 'analyzing situation' emerges from the utilization, in a found-created mode (Winnicott), of an initial site constituted by a set of means put at the patients disposal. The analyzing situation includes patient and analyst in a self-organizing structure. The notion of a site makes it possible to approach the difference between psychoanalysis and analytic psychotherapy differently: each site has a 'logic', an intrinsic functional coherence, which have their own incidence on the therapeutic process.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

236

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

0429920067

ISBN 13

9780429920066

Transpacific Community

America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network

By: Richard Jean So

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Transpacific Community

America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network

By: Richard Jean So

In the turbulent years after World War I, a transpacific community of American and Chinese writers and artists emerged to forge new ideas regarding aesthetics, democracy, internationalism, and the political possibilities of art. Breaking with preconceived notions of an "exotic" East, the Americans found in China and in the works of Chinese intellectuals inspiration for leftist and civil rights movements. Chinese writers and intellectuals looked to the American tradition of political democracy to inform an emerging Chinese liberalism. This interaction reflected an unprecedented integration of American and Chinese cultures and a remarkable synthesis of shared ideals and political goals. The transpacific community that came together during this time took advantage of new advances in technology and media, such as the telegraph and radio, to accelerate the exchange of ideas. It created a fast-paced, cross-cultural dialogue that transformed the terms by which the United States and China—or, more broadly, "West" and "East"—knew each other. Transpacific Community follows the left-wing journalist Agnes Smedley's campaign to free the author Ding Ling from prison; Pearl Buck's attempt to fuse Jeffersonian democracy with late Qing visions of equality in The Good Earth; Paul Robeson's collaboration with the musician Liu Liangmo, which drew on Chinese and African American traditions; and the writer Lin Yutang's attempt to create a typewriter for Chinese characters. Together, these individuals produced political projects that synthesized American and Chinese visions of equality and democracy and imagined a new course for East-West relations.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

303

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

023154183X

ISBN 13

9780231541831

The Troubadours Quartet Boxset

By: Jean Gill

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Troubadours Quartet Boxset

By: Jean Gill

Like 'Game of Thrones' with real history. The complete set of four award-winning books: Historical Fiction series The Troubadours Quartet Set in the period following the Second Crusade, Jean Gill's spellbinding romantic thrillers evoke medieval France with breathtaking accuracy. She captures the soul of the age and the characters who lived in it. The characters leap off the page and include amazing women like Eleanor of Aquitaine and Ermengarda of Narbonne, who shaped history in battles and in bedchambers. Four Discovered Diamonds Awards; Historical Novel Society Editor's Choice Three out of three: Readers Favourite 5* Awards; Winner of the Global Ebooks Award for Best Historical Fiction Book 1 Song at Dawn: 1150 in Provence On the run from abuse, Estela wakes in a ditch with only her lute, her amazing voice, and a dagger hidden in her underskirt. Her talent finds a patron in Eleanor of Aquitaine and more than a music tutor in the Queen's finest troubadour and Commander of the Guard, Dragonetz los Pros. Meanwhile, their enemies gather, ready to light the political and religious powder-keg of medieval Narbonne. Book 2 Bladesong: 1151 in The Holy Land Estela, the troubadour, is following the destiny of her beautiful voice. Dragonetz, her passionate knight, has a dangerous mission to fulfil. Divided by the times they love in, they fight to be together. Imprisoned in Damascus, Dragonetz suffers the mind games inflicted by his anonymous enemies, as he is forced to remember the traumatic events of the crusade, two years earlier. Instead of remaining safely at home, Estela is desperate to rescue Dragonetz at all costs. She sets out for the Holy Land, never realising that the person she thinks will be her knight's saviour might actually be his doom. Can Estela get him out alive, despite Nur-ad-Din, the Muslim Atabeg; Mélisende, the Queen of Jerusalem; and an avenger from the past? Will she still want to, when she knows what they've done to him? Book 3 Plaint for Provence: 1152 in Les-Baux-de-Provence The Troubadours, Estela and her lover, Dragonetz, are embroiled in two rival claims for power as their feuding liege lords gather in Provence. If the peace fails, Dragonetz' sword will decide the winner and friends will die. Dragonetz weaves a precarious path through the rival factions at court where an uneasy truce prevails behind the chivalry of hunt and tournament. Meanwhile, Estela faces her own demons. Confronted with her childhood abusers, threatened and attacked, she confides in her friends. Tragically, one of those friends is Dragonetz' worst enemy and Estela has no idea of what he is capable. In this third volume of the Troubadours Quartet, Jean Gill, the 'master of historical intrigue', continues to weave the gripping adventures of Dragonetz and Estela seamlessly into real historical events. Medieval France comes alive in all its facets, from healing with leeches to training a goshawk. Book 4 Song Hereafter: 1153 in Hispania and the Isles of Albion Dragonetz has failed Eleanor of Aquitaine once. Now that she plans to be Queen of England he could make amends. Although prepared to risk his own life on an impossible quest, a knight should protect his lady, or so say the troubadour songs. His lady, however, plays to a different tune and she wants partnership, not protection. Estela and Dragonetz fight their enemies, both on the battlefield and in the courts of Christendom, from the sophistication of Zaragossa to the wilds of Wales. Can they win through to song hereafter, together? Or have they broken one rule too many?

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

971

Publisher

The 13th Sign

Published Date

ISBN 10

1386554111

ISBN 13

9781386554110

Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire

The Poetics of Imperial Space

By: Jean Fernandez

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire

The Poetics of Imperial Space

By: Jean Fernandez

In this pioneering study, Dr. Fernandez explores how the rise of institutional geography in Victorian England impacted imperial fiction’s emergence as a genre characterized by a preoccupation with space and place. This volume argues that the alliance between institutional geography and the British empire which commenced with the founding of the Royal Geographical Society in 1830, shaped the spatial imagination of Victorians, with profound consequences for the novel of empire. Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire examines Presidential Addresses and reports of the Royal Geographical Society, and demonstrates how geographical studies by explorers, cartographers, ethnologists, medical topographers, administrators, and missionaries published by the RGS, local geographical societies, or the colonial state, acquired relevance for Victorian fiction’s response to the British Empire. Through a series of illuminating readings of literary works by R.L. Stevenson, Olive Schreiner, Flora Annie Steel, Winwood Reade, Joseph Conrad, and Rudyard Kipling, the study demonstrates how nineteenth-century fiction, published between 1870 and 1901, reflected and interrogated geographical discourses of the time. The study makes the case for the significance of physical and human geography for literary studies, and the unique historical and aesthetic insights gained through this approach.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

301

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

100002959X

ISBN 13

9781000029598

TEMPLARS Who were they? Where did they go? Vol 2 of 2

By: Diana Jean Muir

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

TEMPLARS Who were they? Where did they go? Vol 2 of 2

By: Diana Jean Muir

Much has been written about the Knights Templar; their code of conduct, their way of life, the battles and political machinations that took place, the trials which ended their order, and the 9 men who founded their order, and the one who commanded them at the end, Jacque de Molay. While some work has been done to identify the men and women who served as Templars in individual kingdoms and countries, this is the first comprehensive work to merge all of them together and to review the commanderies where they served. Volume 2 of this series identifies the commanders, seneschals, treasurers, drapers, turcopoliers, and more in Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Italy, Rhodes, Malta, Cyprus, Jerusalem, Outremer, Turkey, Greece, Armenia, Syria, Egypt, Germany, Poland and the Netherlands and the commanderies and fortresses that they built. Tour the castles and fortresses that they commanded and learn how each area played a part in the Crusades.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

736

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

035938286X

ISBN 13

9780359382866

Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras

A Biography

By: Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras

A Biography

By: Jean Moorcroft Wilson

This is the extraordinary life of a poetic genius. Along with Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas is by any reckoning a major first world war poet. A war poet is not one who chooses to commemorate or celebrate a war, but one who reacts against having a war thrust upon him. His great friend Robert Frost wrote 'his poetry is so very brave, so unconsciously brave.' Apart from a most illuminating understanding of his poetry, Dr Wilson shows how Thomas' life alone makes for absorbing reading: his early marriage, his dependence on laudanum, his friendships with Joseph Conrad, Edward Garnett, Rupert Brooke and Hilaire Belloc among others. The novelist Eleanor Farjeon entered into a curious menage a trois with him and his wife. He died in France in 1917, on the first day of the Battle of Arras. This is the stuff of which myths are made and posterity has been quick to oblige. But this has tended to obscure his true worth as a writer, as Dr Wilson argues. Edward Thomas's poems were not published until some months after his death, but they have never since been out of print. Described by Ted Hughes as 'the father of us all', Thomas's distinctively modern sensibility is probably the one most in tune with our twenty-first century outlook. He occupies a crucial place in the development of twentieth century poetry.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

513

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1408187140

ISBN 13

9781408187142

Lost & Found

The Adoption Experience

By: Betty Jean Lifton

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Lost & Found

The Adoption Experience

By: Betty Jean Lifton

Explores the obstacles and issues that adoptees, orphans, and foster children face when they have been separated from a parent or denied the right to know their origins

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

346

Publisher

University of Michigan Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

047203328X

ISBN 13

9780472033287

Breathing Aesthetics

By: Jean-Thomas Tremblay

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Breathing Aesthetics

By: Jean-Thomas Tremblay

In Breathing Aesthetics Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk in a contemporary era marked by the increasing contamination, weaponization, and monetization of air. Tremblay shows how biopolitical and necropolitical forces tied to the continuation of extractive capitalism, imperialism, and structural racism are embodied and experienced through respiration. They identify responses to the crisis in breathing in aesthetic practices ranging from the film work of Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta to the disability diaries of Bob Flanagan, to the Black queer speculative fiction of Renee Gladman. In readings of these and other minoritarian works of experimental film, endurance performance, ecopoetics, and cinema-vérité, Tremblay contends that articulations of survival now depend on the management and dispersal of respiratory hazards. In so doing, they reveal how an aesthetic attention to breathing generates historically, culturally, and environmentally situated tactics and strategies for living under precarity.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

146

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

147802349X

ISBN 13

9781478023494

Encounters

By: Jean L. Croyle

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Encounters

By: Jean L. Croyle

Once in a rare while, an author shares real life experiences-not those descriptions of perfectly built and beautiful people with predictable outcomes, but everyday situations the average person can identify with. Encounters is that book. Author Jean L. Croyle based this richly humorous journal on her own dating life experiences as well as on those told to her by friends, family and acquaintances. There were too many for one novel but she chose the most heartfelt ones to share with her readers. Encounters will bring the reader into the often maddening, sometimes laughable and occasionally bittersweet times the single person lives while trying to make a life connection. Then, after group discussions, book clubs and other public arenas where Encounters is spoken of, the reader will find a quiet place and read it all over again. For inside each of us is a Tessa of sorts, complete with unique memories and heartaches. It simply feels good to relive the ups and downs the dating life offers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

iUniverse

Published Date

ISBN 10

059551068X

ISBN 13

9780595510689

Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questionnaires

By: Stanley Presser,Jennifer M. Rothgeb,Mick P. Couper,Judith T. Lessler,Elizabeth Martin,Jean Martin,Eleanor Singer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questionnaires

By: Stanley Presser,Jennifer M. Rothgeb,Mick P. Couper,Judith T. Lessler,Elizabeth Martin,Jean Martin,Eleanor Singer

The definitive resource for survey questionnaire testing and evaluation Over the past two decades, methods for the development, evaluation, and testing of survey questionnaires have undergone radical change. Research has now begun to identify the strengths and weaknesses of various testing and evaluation methods, as well as to estimate the methods’ reliability and validity. Expanding and adding to the research presented at the International Conference on Questionnaire Development, Evaluation and Testing Methods, this title presents the most up-to-date knowledge in this burgeoning field. The only book dedicated to the evaluation and testing of survey questionnaires, this practical reference work brings together the expertise of over fifty leading, international researchers from a broad range of fields. The volume is divided into seven sections: Cognitive interviews Mode of administration Supplements to conventional pretests Special populations Experiments Multi-method applications Statistical modeling Comprehensive and carefully edited, this groundbreaking text offers researchers a solid foundation in the latest developments in testing and evaluating survey questionnaires, as well as a thorough introduction to emerging techniques and technologies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

624

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

0471654736

ISBN 13

9780471654735

The Crusades, C.1071-c.1291

By: Jean Richard

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Crusades, C.1071-c.1291

By: Jean Richard

A concise history of the crusades - whose chief goal was the liberation and preservation of the 'holy places' of the middle east - from the first calls to arms in the later twelfth century to the fall of the last crusader strongholds in Syria and Palestine in 1291. This is the ideal introductory textbook for all students of the crusades. Professor Richard considers the consequences of the crusades, such as the establishment of the Latin east, and its organisation into a group of feudal states, as well as crusading contacts with the Muslim world, eastern Christians, Byzantines, and Mongols. Also considered are the organisation of expeditions, the financing of such expeditionary forces, and the organisation of operations and supply. Jean Richard is one of the world's great crusader historians and this work, the distillation of over forty years' research and contemplation, is the only one of its kind in English.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

540

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521625661

ISBN 13

9780521625661

Harriet Tubman

The Life and the Life Stories

By: Jean M. Humez

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Harriet Tubman

The Life and the Life Stories

By: Jean M. Humez

Harriet Tubman’s name is known world-wide and her exploits as a self-liberated Underground Railroad heroine are celebrated in children’s literature, film, and history books, yet no major biography of Tubman has appeared since 1943. Jean M. Humez’s comprehensive Harriet Tubman is both an important biographical overview based on extensive new research and a complete collection of the stories Tubman told about her life—a virtual autobiography culled by Humez from rare early publications and manuscript sources. This book will become a landmark resource for scholars, historians, and general readers interested in slavery, the Underground Railroad, the Civil War, and African American women. Born in slavery in Maryland in or around 1820, Tubman drew upon deep spiritual resources and covert antislavery networks when she escaped to the north in 1849. Vowing to liberate her entire family, she made repeated trips south during the 1850s and successfully guided dozens of fugitives to freedom. During the Civil War she was recruited to act as spy and scout with the Union Army. After the war she settled in Auburn, New York, where she worked to support an extended family and in her later years founded a home for the indigent aged. Celebrated by her primarily white antislavery associates in a variety of private and public documents from the 1850s through the 1870s, she was rediscovered as a race heroine by woman suffragists and the African American women’s club movement in the early twentieth century. Her story was used as a key symbolic resource in education, institutional fundraising, and debates about the meaning of "race" throughout the twentieth century. Humez includes an extended discussion of Tubman’s work as a public performer of her own life history during the nearly sixty years she lived in the north. Drawing upon historiographical and literary discussion of the complex hybrid authorship of slave narrative literature, Humez analyzes the interactive dynamic between Tubman and her interviewers. Humez illustrates how Tubman, though unable to write, made major unrecognized contributions to the shaping of her own heroic myth by early biographers like Sarah Bradford. Selections of key documents illustrate how Tubman appeared to her contemporaries, and a comprehensive list of primary sources represents an important resource for scholars.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

489

Publisher

Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0299191230

ISBN 13

9780299191238

Book's by Jean Conrad

In the Company of Angels

In the Company of Angels

A Handbook of Modernism Studies

A Handbook of Modernism Studies

Ghosts in the Middle Ages

Ghosts in the Middle Ages

The Romance of the Rose or Guillaume de Dole

The Romance of the Rose or Guillaume de Dole

The Analyzing Situation

The Analyzing Situation

Transpacific Community

Transpacific Community

The Troubadours Quartet Boxset

The Troubadours Quartet Boxset

Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire

Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire

TEMPLARS Who were they? Where did they go? Vol 2 of 2

TEMPLARS Who were they? Where did they go? Vol 2 of 2

Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras

Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras

Lost & Found

Lost & Found

Breathing Aesthetics

Breathing Aesthetics

Encounters

Encounters

Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questionnaires

Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questionnaires

The Crusades, C.1071-c.1291

The Crusades, C.1071-c.1291

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email