Margaret Watts's Books

Notebooks

By: Margaret Rose Thornton,Tennessee Williams

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Notebooks

By: Margaret Rose Thornton,Tennessee Williams

Meticulously edited and annotated, Tennessee Williams's notebooks follow his growth as a writer from his undergraduate days to the publication and production of his most famous plays, from his drug addiction and drunkenness to the heights of his literary accomplishments.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

868

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0300116829

ISBN 13

9780300116823

Cooler Smarter

Practical Steps for Low-Carbon Living

By: The Union of Concerned Scientists,Seth Shulman,Jeff Deyette,Brenda Ekwurzel,David Friedman,Margaret Mellon,John Rogers,Suzanne Shaw

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cooler Smarter

Practical Steps for Low-Carbon Living

By: The Union of Concerned Scientists,Seth Shulman,Jeff Deyette,Brenda Ekwurzel,David Friedman,Margaret Mellon,John Rogers,Suzanne Shaw

How can each of us live Cooler Smarter? While the routine decisions that shape our days—what to have for dinner, where to shop, how to get to work—may seem small, collectively they have a big effect on global warming. But which changes in our lifestyles might make the biggest difference to the climate? This science-based guide shows you the most effective ways to cut your own global warming emissions by twenty percent or more, and explains why your individual contribution is so vital to addressing this global problem. Cooler Smarter is based on an in-depth, two-year study by the experts at The Union of Concerned Scientists. While other green guides suggest an array of tips, Cooler Smarter offers proven strategies to cut carbon, with chapters on transportation, home energy use, diet, personal consumption, as well as how best to influence your workplace, your community, and elected officials. The book explains how to make the biggest impact and when not to sweat the small stuff. It also turns many eco-myths on their head, like the importance of locally produced food or the superiority of all hybrid cars. The advice in Cooler Smarter can help save you money and live healthier. But its central purpose is to empower you, through low carbon-living, to confront one of society’s greatest threats.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

336

Publisher

Island Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1610912349

ISBN 13

9781610912341

The First Knowledge Economy

Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750–1850

By: Margaret C. Jacob

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The First Knowledge Economy

Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750–1850

By: Margaret C. Jacob

Ever since the Industrial Revolution debate has raged about the sources of the new, sustained western prosperity. Margaret Jacob here argues persuasively for the critical importance of knowledge in Europe's economic transformation during the period from 1750 to 1850, first in Britain and then in selected parts of northern and western Europe. This is a new history of economic development in which minds, books, lectures and education become central. She shows how, armed with knowledge and know-how and inspired by the desire to get rich, entrepreneurs emerged within an industrial culture wedded to scientific knowledge and technology. She charts how, across a series of industries and nations, innovative engineers and entrepreneurs sought to make sense and a profit out of the world around them. Skilled hands matched minds steeped in the knowledge systems new to the eighteenth century to transform the economic destiny of western Europe.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

269

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1107661005

ISBN 13

9781107661004

Women of Mystery

The Lives and Works of Notable Women Crime Novelists

By: Martha Hailey DuBose,Margaret C. Thomas

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Women of Mystery

The Lives and Works of Notable Women Crime Novelists

By: Martha Hailey DuBose,Margaret C. Thomas

And though she laments, "So many mysteries, so little time," she makes a good effort at mentioning "some of the best of the rest.""--BOOK JACKET.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

486

Publisher

Macmillan

Published Date

ISBN 10

0312209428

ISBN 13

9780312209421

The Driving Instructor's Handbook

By: John Miller,Margaret Stacey

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Driving Instructor's Handbook

By: John Miller,Margaret Stacey

The Driving Instructor's Handbook is widely recognized in the driver training industry as the authoritative reference guide for trainee and qualified instructors. This best-selling handbook covers every aspect of the profession, from the role and the characteristics needed to do the job well, preparation for the three ADI examination requirements (Theory and hazard perception, Driving ability and Instructional ability), through to the driving test and driving larger vehicles. Updated for 2011 with the latest information relating to the ever-changing driving industry, The Driving Instructor's Handbook is essential reading for anyone involved in the training of new drivers and instructors at all levels.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

443

Publisher

Kogan Page Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

0749463201

ISBN 13

9780749463205

The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference

By: Margaret E. Wagner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference

By: Margaret E. Wagner

The bloody conflict that sundered the United States from 1861 to 1865 took 620,000 lives, laid waste to large sections of the American South, and decided the future course of the nation. Its reverberations are still felt in American life. Now from the home of "The Nation's Memory" comes "The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference." Drawn from the Library's unparalleled Civil War collections -- including previously unpublished letters and diaries, maps and photographs, as well as thousands of works by post-Civil War scholars and experts -- this is the ultimate one-volume reference on the Civil War. A comprehensive yet accessible compendium, "The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference" is organized into chapters that address broad themes such as "Antebellum America," "Wartime Politics," "Armies," and "Reconstruction and Aftermath of the War." Each of these chapters includes more specific topics, such as "The Election of 1860," "Notable Civil War Officers," and "African Americans During Reconstruction." There are timelines that chronicle major events, brief profiles of significant people, and excerpts from key pieces of legislation and addresses that reflect the passions and politics of the times. Here readers can find, for example, detailed information on the arms used on both sides during the Civil War in the "Weaponry" chapter. And descriptions of significant battles, as well as information on casualties, military strategy and tactics, and logistical support, are to be found in the "Battles and the Battlefield" chapter. Topics ranging from economic conditions north and south of the Mason-Dixon line on the eve of the war to the history of slavery in the United Statesto the impact of the Civil War on literature and the fine arts give additional depth and context to the book's presentation of Civil War events. "The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference" also looks beyond the major events and figures and examines the lives of the common soldiers (from their diet, training, and medical treatment to the struggles of the Union's black soldiers), the various roles women played in the war, and telling events on the home fronts. Along with the words of writers such as Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, readers will find excerpts from the journals and letters of nurses, soldiers, refugees and freedmen. A final chapter offers a guide to further study of the Civil War -- including information about major archival collections, important published resources, and national historic sites-for those who wish to learn more. Prodigious in its scope, illustrated with more than 100 photographs and drawings and dozens of maps, "The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference" is sure to become the indispensable one-volume reference on the Civil War.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

984

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

0684863502

ISBN 13

9780684863504

The Oxford English Literary History

Volume V: 1645-1714: The Later Seventeenth Century

By: Margaret J. M. Ezell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Oxford English Literary History

Volume V: 1645-1714: The Later Seventeenth Century

By: Margaret J. M. Ezell

The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. The series will enlighten and inspire not only everyone studying, teaching, and researching in English Literature, but all serious readers. This volume covers the period 1645-1714, and removes the traditional literary period labels and boundaries used in earlier studies to categorize the literary culture of late seventeenth-century England. It invites readers to explore the continuities and the literary innovations occurring during six turbulent decades, as English readers and writers lived through unprecedented events including a King tried and executed by Parliament and another exiled, the creation of the national entity 'Great Britain', and an expanding English awareness of the New World as well as encounters with the cultures of Asia and the subcontinent. The period saw the establishment of new concepts of authorship and it saw a dramatic increase of women working as professional, commercial writers. London theatres closed by law in 1642 reopened with new forms of entertainments from musical theatrical spectaculars to contemporary comedies of manners with celebrity actors and actresses. Emerging literary forms such as epistolary fictions and topical essays were circulated and promoted by new media including newspapers, periodical publications, and advertising and laws were changing governing censorship and taking the initial steps in the development of copyright. It was a period which produced some of the most profound and influential literary expressions of religious faith from John Milton's Paradise Lost and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, while simultaneously giving rise to a culture of libertinism and savage polemical satire, as well as fostering the new dispassionate discourses of experimental sciences and the conventions of popular romance.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

518

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0192537830

ISBN 13

9780192537836

Forest Canopies

By: Margaret D. Lowman,H. Bruce Rinker

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Forest Canopies

By: Margaret D. Lowman,H. Bruce Rinker

The treetops of the world's forests are where discovery and opportunity abound, however they have been relatively inaccessible until recently. This book represents an authoritative synthesis of data, anecdotes, case studies, observations, and recommendations from researchers and educators who have risked life and limb in their advocacy of the High Frontier. With innovative rope techniques, cranes, walkways, dirigibles, and towers, they finally gained access to the rich biodiversity that lives far above the forest floor and the emerging science of canopy ecology. In this new edition of Forest Canopies, nearly 60 scientists and educators from around the world look at the biodiversity, ecology, evolution, and conservation of forest canopy ecosystems. - Comprehensive literature list - State-of-the-art results and data sets from current field work - Foremost scientists in the field of canopy ecology - Expanded collaboration of researchers and international projects - User-friendly format with sidebars and case studies - Keywords and outlines for each chapter

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

543

Publisher

Elsevier

Published Date

ISBN 10

0080491340

ISBN 13

9780080491349

Julia Margaret Cameron

Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

By: Julia Margaret Cameron,J. Paul Getty Museum

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Julia Margaret Cameron

Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

By: Julia Margaret Cameron,J. Paul Getty Museum

This volume, another in the In Focus series on photographers well represented in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, features the work of the British artist Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79). Approximately fifty plates by this pioneer of the medium are reproduced, along with commentary by Julian Cox, Assistant Curator in the Museum's Department of Photographers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

148

Publisher

Getty Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

0892363746

ISBN 13

9780892363742

Mass Communication Theories

Explaining Origins, Processes, and Effects

By: Melvin L. DeFleur,Margaret H. DeFleur

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mass Communication Theories

Explaining Origins, Processes, and Effects

By: Melvin L. DeFleur,Margaret H. DeFleur

Mass Communication Theories: Explaining Origins, Processes, and Effects explores mass communication theories within the social and cultural context that influenced their origins. An intimate examination of the lives and times of prominent mass communication theorists both past and present bring the subject to life for the reader.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

609

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317346572

ISBN 13

9781317346579

Early Years Non-Fiction

A Guide to Helping Young Researchers Use and Enjoy Information Texts

By: Margaret Mallett

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Early Years Non-Fiction

A Guide to Helping Young Researchers Use and Enjoy Information Texts

By: Margaret Mallett

This lively and informative text examines children's first experience of non-fiction during the pre-school and foundation years. Its careful consideration of different kinds of quality non-fiction, including books, posters, charts and computer software will provide a helpful framework from which Early Years teachers can work. The book offers a rich resource of information, with illustrative case studies and many examples of children's responses to non-fiction, providing: coverage of pre-school and foundation years for children up to 6 years of age, references to research findings on the place of non-fiction in early years, and references to The National Literacy Strategy, Early Learning Goals, and the National Curriculum for English.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

205

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1134525885

ISBN 13

9781134525881

Struggle and Suffrage in Sheffield

Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality

By: Margaret Drinkall

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Struggle and Suffrage in Sheffield

Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality

By: Margaret Drinkall

A history of the women’s movement in Sheffield, England in the twentieth century, examining how women’s roles evolved during and between the world wars. This book looks into the role of women of Sheffield and how it has evolved from the powerlessness of a woman involved in a wife sale, to the achievement of the election of its first female Lord Mayor. Using newspapers of the period, archive material and modern photographs, Struggle and Suffrage in Sheffield examines how the role of women slowly changed in the city. It also highlights the militancy of the Sheffield suffragettes who not only organised demonstrations in Sheffield, but also sent groups to take part in some of the most notorious demonstrations in London. Following these demonstrations several local women were badly manhandled by police before being arrested and sent to Holloway Prison. Adela Pankhurst tried at first to bring the women of the Sheffield WSPU to achieve the vote through peaceful means, only when the Conciliation Bill of June 1910 was dropped, did she then encourage them to take more militant action. Following the outbreak of both world wars the women of Sheffield worked in the steelworks making munitions. They worked day and night shifts as bombs were falling about them, but when both wars ended they were abruptly dismissed, as the men returned to take up their former jobs. Only following a meeting with PM Gordon Brown and the erection of a bronze statue of Women of Steel in 2016, did Sheffield women truly get the acknowledgment they deserved.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

197

Publisher

Casemate Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1526712768

ISBN 13

9781526712769

Bodies in Society

Essays on Christianity in Contemporary Culture

By: Margaret R. Miles

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Bodies in Society

Essays on Christianity in Contemporary Culture

By: Margaret R. Miles

Education is about learning to think. Much of what we call thinking, however, is a hodge-podge of repetitious self-talk, opinion, and cutting and pasting of second-hand ideas. Moreover, thinking in the present has often been alien to scholars who were tempted to think abstractly. But life and thought belong together and require each other, as Plotinus pointed out many centuries ago: [T]he object of contemplation is living and life, and the two together are one (Ennead 3.8.8). Presently, many women and men in the academic world are thinking concretely within the context of their own lives and with acknowledged accountability to broader communities with whom they think and to whom they are answerable. The essays in this volume consider Christianity as an aspect of North American culture, bringing the critical tools of the academy to thinking about some of the perplexing and pressing problems of contemporary public life. Three interactive and interdependent themes traverse these essays: gender, the effects of media culture, and institutions. Each of these themes has been central to Margaret Miles's work for thirty years. Each understands corporeality as fundamental both to subjectivity and society. Miles finds that Christianity, critically appropriated, provides ideas and methods for thinking concretely about life in North American society.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

243

Publisher

Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1556354215

ISBN 13

9781556354212

Echoes of a Blacksmith

By: Margaret Anne Storey

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Echoes of a Blacksmith

By: Margaret Anne Storey

The moment Joseph Simpson’s boot was found at the fire he became a suspect. It was no secret Joseph had it in for John Taylor, the man who opened a blacksmith shop in opposition to him. Was Joseph so resentful he would set fire to the man’s hay shed? Set in Deniliquin in the 1800’s, this is a true story about opportunity, family life and conflict.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

228

Publisher

Australian Self Publishing Group

Published Date

ISBN 10

0987346326

ISBN 13

9780987346322

Interpreting the CMMI (R)

A Process Improvement Approach, Second Edition

By: Margaret K. Kulpa,Kent A. Johnson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Interpreting the CMMI (R)

A Process Improvement Approach, Second Edition

By: Margaret K. Kulpa,Kent A. Johnson

Written by experienced process improvement professionals who have developed and implemented computer based systems in organizations around the world, Interpreting the CMMI: A Process Improvement Approach, Second Edition provides you with specific techniques for performing process improvement. Employing everyday language and supported by real world

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

424

Publisher

CRC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1439832196

ISBN 13

9781439832196

Older People and the Law

By: McDonald, Ann,Taylor, Margaret

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Older People and the Law

By: McDonald, Ann,Taylor, Margaret

This book is a revised and updated edition of Elders and the Law (PEPAR Publications, 1993). It describes the legal framework for working with older people following the modernising agenda in health and social care, and the length has been considerably expanded to enable topics to be dealt with more comprehensively. It covers the range of legal issues affecting the welfare and financial security of older people in the community and residential settings, and emphasises the empowering nature of legal knowledge. It also describes and explains the application of law and policy relating to older people in the context of social work practice." "Older People and the Law is aimed at all professionals working with older people but particularly social workers. Its clarity of style means that older people themselves and carers will find it accessible."--BOOK JACKET.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

184

Publisher

Policy Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1861347146

ISBN 13

9781861347145

Regulating Religion and Morality in the King's Armies

1639-1646

By: Margaret Griffin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Regulating Religion and Morality in the King's Armies

1639-1646

By: Margaret Griffin

Many talk about the religious fervor of Parliamentarian supporters during the English Civil Way, says Griffin, but none have produced a corresponding portrayal of religion among Royalists. She challenges the orthodoxy that Protestants had a monopoly on religion and piety, drawing from the printed English military orders of Charles I aimed at regula.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

288

Publisher

BRILL

Published Date

ISBN 10

9004131701

ISBN 13

9789004131705

The World of Rural Dissenters, 1520-1725

By: Margaret Spufford

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The World of Rural Dissenters, 1520-1725

By: Margaret Spufford

There has been dispute amongst social historians about whether only the more prosperous in village society were involved in religious practice. A group of historians working under Dr. Spufford's direction have produced a factual solution to this dispute by examining the taxation records of large groups of dissenters and churchwardens, and have established that both late Lollard and post-Restoration dissenting belief crossed the whole taxable spectrum. We can no longer speak of religion as being the prerogative of either 'weavers and threshers' or, on the other hand, of village elites. The group also examined the idea that dissent descended in families, and concluded that this was not only true but that such families were the least mobile population group so far examined in early modern England - probably because they were closely knit and tolerated in their communities. The cause of the apparent correlation of 'dissenting areas' and areas of early by-employment was also questioned. The group concludes that travelling merchants and carriers on the road network carried with them radical ideas and dissenting print, the content of which is examined, as well as goods. In her own substantial chapter Dr. Spufford draws together the pieces of the huge mosaic constructed by her team of contributors, adds radical ideas of her own, and disagrees with much of the prevailing wisdom on the function of religion in the late seventeenth century. Professor Patrick Collinson has contributed a critical conclusion to the volume. This is a book which breaks new ground, and which offers much original material for ecclesiastical, cultural, demographic, and economic historians of the period.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

490

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521410614

ISBN 13

9780521410618

Moon Tennessee

By: Margaret Littman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Moon Tennessee

By: Margaret Littman

The cradle of country, the birthplace of blues, and the home of the Smokies: get to know the Volunteer State with Moon Tennessee. Inside you'll find: Strategic, flexible itineraries, from a long weekend in Nashville to a Great Smokies road trip, curated for history buffs, families, outdoor adventurers, music lovers, and more, including day trips from Memphis and Nashville Must-see highlights and unique experiences: Try fiery hot chicken and authentic Southern barbecue, or sip on samples at the Jack Daniels Distillery. See the stars on the Grand Ole Opry stage, or follow in the footsteps of the King at Graceland. Two-step with the locals at a beloved honkytonk, listen to the strums of bluegrass, or see where legends like Johnny Cash recorded their hits. Go whitewater rafting in Cherokee National Forest, hike to rushing waterfalls in the Smokies, or spot wild bison in the Land Between the Lakes Honest recommendations from local Nashvillian¬¬¬ Margaret Littman on when to go, where to eat, how to get around, and where to stay, from historic inns to budget campgrounds Full-color photos and detailed maps throughout Accurate, up-to-date information on the landscape, wildlife, and history of Tennessee Advice for LGBTQ+ travelers, international visitors, seniors, and travelers with disabilities With Moon Tennessee's myriad activities, practical advice, and local know-how, you can plan your trip your way. Hitting the road? Check out Moon Nashville to New Orleans Road Trip.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

571

Publisher

Moon Travel

Published Date

ISBN 10

163121263X

ISBN 13

9781631212635

Thinking about Sexual Harassment

A Guide for the Perplexed

By: Margaret A. Crouch

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Thinking about Sexual Harassment

A Guide for the Perplexed

By: Margaret A. Crouch

This illuminating work on one of today's most provocative issues provides all the necessary information for careful, critical thinking about the concept of sexual harassment. Consisting mainly of two parts, it first traces the construction of the concept of sexual harassment from the original public uses of the term to its definitions in the law, in legal cases, and in empirical research. It then analyzes philosophical definitions of sexual harassment and a number of issues that have arisen in the law, including the reasonable woman standard and whether same-sex harassment should be considered sex discrimination. Sure to spark intense discussion, this book explains a complex notion in a lucid and engaging manner appropriate for anyone broadly curious about the notion of sexual harassment.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

332

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

0195143779

ISBN 13

9780195143775

Julia Margaret Cameron

By: Virginia Woolf,Julia Margaret Cameron,Roger Fry

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Julia Margaret Cameron

By: Virginia Woolf,Julia Margaret Cameron,Roger Fry

Bringing together three of the most important early writings about Julia Margaret Cameron—her own autobiographical fragment, "Annals of My Glass House," the biographical essay by Virginia Woolf, and the pathbreaking appreciation by Roger Fry—this book is essential for anyone interested in Victorian culture and photography. It is being published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of her birth, the 150th anniversary of her most extensive exhibition, and two major new exhibitions: Julia Margaret Cameron, at the Victoria & Albert Museum, and Art and Photography from the Pre-Raphaelites to the Modern Age, at Tate Britain. Illustrated with over 40 of Julia Margaret Cameron’s greatest photographs, and with an introduction and notes by Tristram Powell.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

196

Publisher

Getty Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

1606065807

ISBN 13

9781606065808

The Colors of Courage

Gettysburg's Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women, and African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle

By: Margaret S Creighton

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Colors of Courage

Gettysburg's Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women, and African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle

By: Margaret S Creighton

Gettysburg has been written about and studied in great detail over the last 140 years, but there are still many participants whose experiences have been overlooked. In augmenting this incomplete history, Margaret Creighton presents a new look at the decisive battle through the eyes of Gettysburg's women, immigrant soldiers, and African Americans. An academic with a superb flair for storytelling, Creighton draws on memoirs, letters, diaries, and newspapers to get to the hearts of her subjects. Mag Palm, a free black woman living with her family outside of town on Cemetery Ridge, was understandably threatened by the arrival of Lee's Confederate Army; slavers had tried to capture her three years before. Carl Schurz, a political exile who had fled Germany after the failed 1848 revolution, brought a deeply held fervor for abolitionism to the Union Army. Sadie Bushman, a nine-year-old cabinetmaker's daughter, was commandeered by a Union doctor to assist at a field hospital. In telling the stories of these and a dozen other participants, Margaret Creighton has written a stunningly fluid work of original history -- a narrative that is sure to redefine the Civil War's most essential battle.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

364

Publisher

Basic Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0786722061

ISBN 13

9780786722068

The Woman in White

Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler

By: Margaret F. MacDonald

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Woman in White

Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler

By: Margaret F. MacDonald

A fascinating look at the partnership of artist James McNeill Whistler and his chief model, Joanna Hiffernan, and the iconic works of art resulting from their life together “[A] lavish volume. . . . Illuminating. . . . MacDonald’s deep research has . . . unearthed important new facts.”—Gioia Diliberto, Wall Street Journal In 1860 James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) and Joanna Hiffernan (1839–1886) met and began a significant professional and personal relationship. Hiffernan posed as a model for many of Whistler’s works, including his controversial Symphony in White paintings, a trilogy that fascinated and challenged viewers with its complex associations with sex and morality, class and fashion, academic and realist art, Victorian popular fiction, aestheticism and spiritualism. This luxuriously illustrated volume provides the first comprehensive account of Hiffernan’s partnership with Whistler throughout the 1860s and 1870s—a period when Whistler was forging a reputation as one of the most innovative and influential artists of his generation. A series of essays discusses how Hiffernan and Whistler overturned artistic conventions and sheds light on their interactions with contemporaries, including Gustave Courbet, for whom she also modeled. Packed with new insights into the creation, marketing, and cultural context of Whistler’s iconic works, this study also traces their resonance for his fellow artists, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edgar Degas, John Singer Sargent, and Gustav Klimt.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

233

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0300254504

ISBN 13

9780300254501

The Vanishing Moment

By: Margaret Wild

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Vanishing Moment

By: Margaret Wild

A moment. That's all it takes. A bewildering moment when the world spins upside-down, and then life can never be the same again. Arrow was just a girl when she saw something no child should have to see. And Marika is living a sister's worst nightmare. When Arrow and Marika come together in a small seaside town, they meet a mysterious 'magician' who says he knows how to escape the now and step into a new future. A brilliant and bittersweet story of loss and courage, with a surprising twist.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

194

Publisher

Allen & Unwin

Published Date

ISBN 10

1743433379

ISBN 13

9781743433379

Frances Burney

The Life in the Works

By: Margaret Anne Doody

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Frances Burney

The Life in the Works

By: Margaret Anne Doody

Treating Frances Burney (1752-1840) with the seriousness usually reserved for later novelists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Margaret Anne Doody combines biographical narrative with informed literary criticism as she analyzes not only Burney's published novels, but her plays, fragments of novels, poems, and other works never published. Doody also draws upon a mine of letters and diaries for detailed and sometimes surprising biographical information. Burney's feelings and emotions forcefully emerge in her sophisticated and complex late novels, Camilla and The Wanderer. Her novels all relate to personal experience; as an artist she is attracted to the violent, the grotesque, and the macabre. She is a powerful comic writer, but her comedy is far from reflecting a shallow cheerfulness. Bringing a novelist's perspective to her material, in this 1989 book Doody shows an appreciation of the many dimensions of a predecessor's writings and she tells her story with force and conviction.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

484

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0813513553

ISBN 13

9780813513553

Index of English Literary Manuscripts

Volume 3, Part 2, John Gay-Ambrose Philips

By: Margaret M. Smith

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Index of English Literary Manuscripts

Volume 3, Part 2, John Gay-Ambrose Philips

By: Margaret M. Smith

Eleven authors are included in this final part of Volume III of the Index, beginning with Laurence Sterne and concluding with Edward Young. It also includes the final cumulative first-line index of all the verse which is described in the manuscript entries or mentioned in the Introductions in Parts 1-4 of Volume III.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

679

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1847143091

ISBN 13

9781847143099

Julia Margaret Cameron

A Critical Biography

By: Colin Ford,Julia Margaret Cameron

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Julia Margaret Cameron

A Critical Biography

By: Colin Ford,Julia Margaret Cameron

Cameron's transition from enthusiastic novice to accomplished artist is revealed in this sensitive study of the woman behind the camera. Colin Ford's unique appraisal of her life and work firmly establishes Julia Margaret Cameron as one of the greatest photographers of all time."--BOOK JACKET.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

216

Publisher

Getty Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

0892367075

ISBN 13

9780892367078

Clifford Odets

American Playwright : the Years from 1906 to 1940

By: Margaret Brenman-Gibson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Clifford Odets

American Playwright : the Years from 1906 to 1940

By: Margaret Brenman-Gibson

(Applause Books). Clifford Odets through his plays, which include "Waiting for Lefty" and "Awake" and "Sing!", was the champion of the oppressed, avenger for the poor. He and his plays, as presented by the influential Group Theatre, were the conscience of America during the Depression. Author Margaret Brenman-Gibson, a respected psychoanalyst and close personal friend, penned what is considered the classic biography of Odets. Based on exhaustive research, including access to his personal papers, plus her own insights into the man and his career, it is at last back in prtin. The book is richly annotated, with a thorough bibliography, personal chronology, a list of Odets' works, published and unpublished, and a section of rare photographs.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

788

Publisher

Hal Leonard Corporation

Published Date

ISBN 10

1557834571

ISBN 13

9781557834577

Book's by Margaret Watts

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email