Dennis: 3281 books
Re-Quest
Dark Fantasy Stories of Quests & Searches
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Home is behind, the world ahead. - J.R.R. Tolkien
Old gods outwitted by heroes. Magical weapons that bring good and evil. Dragons winging over the city or walking upon the earth. A wizard witnessing endless battles. These stories and more explore the theme of Re-Quest.
Leave home behind...
by Dennis Burch
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Experience Judd Apatow. This book is your ultimate resource for Judd Apatow. Here you will find the most up-to-date 195 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Judd Apatow's Early life,...
Bob Dylan
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The ultimate biography of the musical icon.
A groundbreaking and vibrant look at the music hero to generations, DYLAN: The Biography digs deep into Bob Dylan lore—including subjects Dylan himself left out of Chronicles: Volume One.
DYLAN: The Biography focuses on why this beloved artist...
by Dennis Altman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
In this fascinating exploration—part memoir, part political discourse—Dennis Altman, one of the preeminent academics studying gay and lesbian culture around the world, connects the changes that have happened in the queer world over the last 40 years to larger social, political, and cultural trends....
Between Word and Image
Heidegger, Klee, and Gadamer on Gesture and Genesis
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
A groundbreaking examination of word and image through the lenses of modern art and Continental philosophy: “Probing and lucid” (Stephen H. Watson, University of Notre Dame).
Engagement with the image has played a decisive role in the formulation of the very idea of philosophy since Plato....
Why the Jews?
The Reason for Antisemitism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
From the bestselling authors of The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism comes a completely revised and updated edition of a modern classic that reflects the dangerous rise in antisemitism during the twenty-first century.
The very word Jew continues to arouse passions as does no other religious,...
The Crime of the Century
Richard Speck and the Murders That Shocked a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The story behind the attack that shocked a nation and opened a new chapter in the history of American crime.
On July 14th, 1966, Richard Franklin Speck swept through several student nurses’ townhouse like a summer tornado and changed the landscape of American crime. He broke in as his helpless...
America in the Gilded Age
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1993
When the first edition of America in the Gilded Age was published in 1984, it soon acquired the status of a classic, and was widely acknowledged as the first comprehensive account of the latter half of the nineteenth century to appear in many years. Sean Dennis Cashman traces the political and social...
by Denise Dennis
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
Here is a reprint of one of the most popular Beginners books. Covering a rich history often ignored, Denise Dennis chronicles the struggle from capture and enslavement in Africa right up through Civil Rights and the different kind of struggle Blacks face today.
The Great American Railroad War
How Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris Took On the Notorious Central Pacific Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
How two of America's greatest authors took on the Central Railroad monopoly
The notorious Central Pacific Railroad riveted the attention of two great American writers: Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris. In The Great American Railroad War, Dennis Drabelle tells a classic story of corporate greed...
by Dennis Powers
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
“Kirkus Reviews” summarized: “Maritime historian Powers ("Treasure Ship" and others) offers a series of vignettes from the golden age of American marine salvage. It extended from the end of the Civil War to the decade following World War I. Sail was merging with steam, wooden hulls...
by Dennis Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1994
At the end of the twentieth century, many fear that the bonds holding civil society together have come undone. Yet, as the noted scholar Dennis Wrong shows us, our generation is not alone in fearing a breakdown of social ties and a descent into violent conflict.
The New Imperatives of Educational Change
Achievement with Integrity
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
The New Imperatives of Educational Change is a clarion call to move beyond the standardized testing and marketplace competition that have become pervasive in school systems to focus instead on creating the conditions that will encourage all students to become critical and independent thinkers. Dennis...
America in the Age of the Titans
The Progressive Era and World War I
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1988
Detailing the events of the Progressive Era and World War I (1901-20), America in the Age of the Titans is the only interdisciplinary history covering this period currently available. The book contains the results of research into primary sources an drecent scholarship with an emphases on leading...