Kathleen: 2959 books
Outside the Paint
When Basketball Ruled at the Chinese Playground
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
This fascinating book reveals that Chinese Americans began “shooting hoops” nearly a century before Chinese superstar Yao Ming turned pro. Drawing on interviews with players and coaches, Outside the Paint takes readers back to San Francisco in the 1930s and 1940s, when young Chinese American men...
by Kathleen Denigan
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
From across north Queensland Aboriginal people were systematically rounded-up by police and forced onto missions and settlements including Yarrabah Mission.Well-cared for children as young as five-years-old were arrested by police and charged as neglected under an act of legislation that discriminated...
by Kathleen Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
At the end of the twentieth century, a woman's awakening passion takes her on a journey of self-discovery. Based on the myth of Psyche and Eros, this novel tells the story of a woman who boldly navigates through the complexities of love and loss, masculinity and femininity, eroticism and spirituality,...
Moscow 1956
The Silenced Spring
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
In 1956 Khrushchev stunned Communists by reciting a litany of Stalin’s abuses. His bid to rejuvenate the Party opened the door to upheaval, as Soviet citizens asked where the system had gone astray. Kathleen Smith contends that the year’s brief thaw set in motion a cycle of reform and retrenchment that would recur until the Soviet Union’s collapse.
Chinese Cubans
A Transnational History
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
In the mid-nineteenth century, Cuba's infamous "coolie" trade brought well over 100,000 Chinese indentured laborers to its shores. Though subjected to abominable conditions, they were followed during subsequent decades by smaller numbers of merchants, craftsmen, and free migrants searching for better...
The Measure of a Man
My Father, the Marine Corps, and Saipan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Maj. Roger G. B. Broome, USMCR, died from wounds received on Saipan before his daughter had a chance to know him. Now a well-known naval historian and author of award-winning books, that daughter, Kathleen Broome Williams, has turned the research skills she honed studying naval technology to find her...
Cape Cod's Highfield and Tanglewood
A Tale of Two Cottages
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
In 1876 wealthy Bostonian Pierson Beebe chose a secluded hill in Falmouth, Massachusetts, as the spot to build his summer cottage, Highfield Hall. The following year, his brother James Arthur Beebe began construction next door on his own mansion, Tanglewood. The Beebe Woods and the surrounding buildings...
A City of Marble
The Rhetoric of Augustan Rome
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In A City of Marble, Kathleen Lamp argues that classical rhetorical theory shaped the Augustan cultural campaigns and that in turn the Augustan cultural campaigns functioned rhetorically to help Augustus gain and maintain power and to influence civic identity and participation in the Roman Principate...
Birgitta Moran Farmer
The Life and Collected Works of an American Miniaturist
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Birgitta Kathleen Moran Farmer, artist, wife, mother, and community volunteer was born 23 May 1881. She died 17 January 1939 leaving her husband and four children. Her life, work and legacy are enduring examples for our children and grandchildren and all her relatives as they (paraphrasing Birgitta)...
by Kathleen Puckett PhD, Terry D. Turchie
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
Many of the same people who inhabited the political jungles of Washington, D.C. during Watergate are still in power today. In their constant jockeying for political power and influence on public opinion, they foster the same ill will and distrust of the FBI they have for 30 years. Their political...
Cyberwar
How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President What We Don't, Can't, and Do Know
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018
The question of how Donald Trump won the 2016 election looms over his presidency. In particular, were the 78,000 voters who gave him an Electoral College victory affected by the Russian trolls and hackers? Trump has denied it. So has Vladimir Putin. Others cast the answer as unknowable. In Cyberwar,...
Understanding and Assessing Trauma in Children and Adolescents
Measures, Methods, and Youth in Context
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2007
In this volume, Kathleen Nader has compiled an articulate and comprehensive guide to the complex process of assessment in youth and adolescent trauma. There are many issues that are important to evaluating children and adolescents, and it is increasingly clear that reliance on just one type of assessment...
Potatoes Not Prozac
A Natural Seven-Step Plan to: Control Your Craving
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Can't say no to fattening foods, alcohol or compulsive behaviors?
You're not lazy, self-indulgent or undisciplined; you may be one of the millions of people who are sugar sensitive. Many people who suffer from sugar sensitivity don't even know it; they continue to consume large quantities of sweets,...
Russia's Dangerous Texts
Politics Between the Lines
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Russia’s Dangerous Texts examines the ways that writers and their works unnerved and irritated Russia’s authoritarian rulers both before and after the Revolution. Kathleen F. Parthé identifies ten historically powerful beliefs about literature and politics in Russia, which include a view of the...