Catherine: 5496 books
Global Families
A History of Asian International Adoption in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
In the last fifty years, transnational adoption—specifically, the adoption of Asian children—has exploded in popularity as an alternative path to family making. Despite the cultural acceptance of this practice, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the factors that allowed Asian international...
by Catherine Hall
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England was a phenomenal Victorian best-seller which shaped much more than the literary culture of the times: it defined a nation's sense of self, charting the rise of the British Isles to its triumph as a homogenous nation, a safeguard of the freedom of belief...
Red Fortress
History and Illusion in the Kremlin
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
A magisterial, richly detailed history of the Kremlin, and of the centuries of Russian elites who have shaped it—and been shaped by it in turn
The Moscow Kremlin is the heart of the Russian state, a fortress whose blood-red walls have witnessed more than eight hundred years of political drama...
by Alastair Gunn, Dinah Maria Craik, Catherine Ann Crowe
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Twenty ghostly tales from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the first in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 1 in the series spans the years 1852 to 1901 and includes stories...
Men of Letters in the Early Republic
Cultivating Forums of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, after decades of intense upheaval and debate, the role of the citizen was seen as largely political. But as Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan reveals, some Americans saw a need for a realm of public men outside politics. They believed that neither the nation nor...
by TACITE, Catherine SALLES
Language: French
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Pour la première fois chez " Bouquins ", les œuvres complètes du plus grand des historiens romains, accompagnées de nouvelles traductions.
Né en Gaule Narbonnaise, le plus grand des historiens romains a vécu entre la seconde moitié du Ier et le début du IIe siècle. Une période...
Repetition and Identity
The Literary Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly...
The Jester and the Sages
Mark Twain in Conversation with Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The Jester and the Sages approaches the life and work of Mark Twain by placing him in conversation with three eminent philosophers of his time—Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Karl Marx. Unprecedented in Twain scholarship, this interdisciplinary analysis by Forrest G. Robinson, Gabriel Noah...
by Catherine Z. Elgin
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
The development of an epistemology that explains how science and art embody and convey understanding.
Philosophy valorizes truth, holding that there can never be epistemically good reasons to accept a known falsehood, or to accept modes of justification that are not truth conducive. How can...
Motherhood in the Balance
Children, Career, Me, and God
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001
Juggling the daily demands of career and motherhood is challenging for many of today’s working women. When the question of spirituality is raised they may feel as if they’ve dropped the ball. In Motherhood in the Balance, Catherine Wallace recounts her ordinary, and often hilarious, endeavors to...
Archiveology
Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Archiveology Catherine Russell uses the work of Walter Benjamin to explore how the practice of archiveology—the reuse, recycling, appropriation, and borrowing of archival sounds and images by filmmakers—provides ways to imagine the past and the future. Noting how the film archive does not function...
The Hold Life Has
Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
This second edition of Catherine J. Allen's distinctive ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes brings their story into the present. She has added an extensive afterword based on her visits to Sonqo in 1995 and 2000 and has updated and revised parts of the original text. The book focuses...
by Catherine BARDON
Language: French
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Des cafés viennois des années trente aux plages des Caraïbes, découvrez une formidable histoire d'amour et d'exil, et le destin exceptionnel d'Almah et de Wilhelm.
Vienne, 1932. Au milieu du joyeux tumulte des cafés, Wilhelm, journaliste, rencontre Almah, libre et radieuse. Mais la montée de...
The Subject in Art
Portraiture and the Birth of the Modern
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2006
Challenging prevailing theories regarding the birth of the subject, Catherine M. Soussloff argues that the modern subject did not emerge from psychoanalysis or existential philosophy but rather in the theory and practice of portraiture in early-twentieth-century Vienna. Soussloff traces the development...