Search results for “[Subject: adventurers-explorers]”

• Author(s): Giovanni Boccaccio • Publisher: Penguin • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: ClassicsFrom the Back CoverIn the early summer of the year 1348, as a terrible plague ravages the city, ten charming y...

• Author(s): John Nogowski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Language Arts Nearly all of the Gadsden County's student body is black and considered economically disadva...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): Benjamin J. Burns • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Walter Hinton was a pilot on the first plane to cross the Atlantic (eight years before Lindbergh)--a four-engine, Na...

• Author(s): Victor Carl Friesen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This is a literary discussion of one-half of Zane Grey's Westerns, selected to best show the broad scope of this p...

• Author(s): Mary F. McVicker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women The past quarter-century has seen a number of biographies and anthologies on women travelers but to date there has been...

• Author(s): Diana Preston • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Adventurers & ExplorersSeventeenth-century pirate genius William Dampier sailed around the world three times when crossing...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Charles B. Osburn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Emotions, feelings and morality play a critical role in our daily decision-making. With the rapid advance of industr...

• Author(s): Ian Baker • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: ReligiousThe myth of Shangri-la originates in Tibetan Buddhist beliefs in beyul, or hidden lands, sacred sanctuaries that reveal themselves to devout pi...

• Author(s): Alexi Kukuljevic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; fr...

• Author(s): Sharon Barcan Elswit • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Storytelling, as oral tradition and in writing, has long played a central role in Jewish soc...

• Author(s): Brian Taves • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Literary Figures This critical biography chronicles both the actual travels and the philosophical meanderings of Talbot Mundy, one...

• Author(s): Peter O. Koch • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Daring exploits and astounding achievements were common for two 19th century adventurers--John Lloyd Stephens, a New Yor...

• Author(s): Gerry Max • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Literary Figures Richard Halliburton was the quintessential world traveler of the early 20th century. In 1930, his celebrity equaled...

• Author(s): Irwin Weintraub • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Jewish Studies This annotated bibliography documents Jews' significant contributions to American agriculture as farmers, ranch...

• Author(s): Rolf Giesen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Hitler and the Nazis saturated their country with many types of propaganda to convince the German c...

• Author(s): William G. Lycan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIn this book, William Lycan defends an original theory of mind that he calls "homuncular functionalism." What is consciousn...

• Author(s): Janet M. Atwill • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalThoroughly embedded in postmodern theory, this book offers a critique of trad...

• Author(s): Ann C. Paietta • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The teaching profession has a long history in motion pictures. As early as the late 19th century...

• Author(s): David Whitt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & Humanities Popular music has long been a subject of academic inquiry, with college courses taught...

• Author(s): William Clark | James J. Holmberg • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: Adventurers & ExplorersThis collection of William Clark's letters to his brother Jonathan - many published f...

• Author(s): Malcolm Quinn • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralDespite the enormous amount of material on the subject of Nazism, there has been no substantial work on its emblem, the swastika. This ori...

• Author(s): El Hadji Malick Ndiaye | Moussa Sow • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: European - French Much of Francophone literature is a response to an elaborate discourse that served to bo...

• Author(s): Marc Raymond Strauss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General Prominent dance critic Arlene Croce wrote for The New Yorker during the 1970s, '80s and '90s. Through mor...

• Author(s): Samuel Bowles • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Economics - GeneralThis edited collection looks at the emerging relationship between politics and economics. The analysis of power relations - tr...

• Author(s): Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Psychic Phenomena - GeneralA pioneering, richly interdisciplinary volume, this is the first work in any language o...

• Author(s): Juris Dilevko | Lisa Gottlieb • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Reference librarians are no longer expected to know much about the information they find; they are merel...

• Author(s): Marc Raymond Strauss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Alfred Hitchcock's imperative was to charge the screen with emotion. Subject matter and ac...

• Author(s): Stephen Large • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: HistoricalEmperor Hirohito reigned for more than sixty years, yet we know little about him or the part he really played in the turbulent history ...

• Author(s): James Morwood • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesA comprehensive overview of the teaching of classics. The Teaching of Classics ...

• Author(s): Wyman | Richard • Publisher: Springer Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Springer • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyGlobal Climate Change and Life on Earth focuses on the greenhouse effect and its relation...

• Author(s): Paul Lerner • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoryPaul Lerner traces the intertwined histories of trauma and male hysteria in German society and psychiatry and shows how t...