Kenneth: 4007 books

Two years have passed since Keric Olwyhn defeated the demon-summoning sorcerers of the Academy, and the scroll mage has been content to return to his quiet life of a professor at the University of Sacreth. But his radical theories about the nature of magic have created a stir, and the conservative...

Highlighting what is melodramatic, flashy, low, and gritty in the characters, images, and plots of African cinema, Kenneth W. Harrow uses trash as the unlikely metaphor to show how these films have depicted the globalized world. Rather than focusing on topics such as national liberation and postcolonialism,...

The definitive study of Beethoven’s piano sonatas is “remarkable as an insider’s account of the works in an individual perspective.” (European Music Teacher) In “one of the most interesting, useful and even exciting books on the process of musical creation” (American Music Teacher),...

Of all the elements that combine to make movies, music sometimes seems the forgotten stepchild. Yet it is an integral part of the cinematic experience. Minimized as mere “background music,” film scores enrich visuals with emotional mood and intensity, underscoring directors’ intentions, enhancing...

Kenneth Finkelstein’s first novel is an edgy narrative surging with comic originality and irreverent absurdity. In this introspective saga, trials of conscience ruminate beneath blossoming awareness. This is the story of Sam Shackleton. Sam is on the cusp of middle age, barreling through life, certain...

Stroke:How to Deal with It! A stroke is known also known as a cerebrovascular accident (CVA). There is usually someone suffering from one every minute. It happens when the blood vessel to a part of the brain is blocked (due to a blood clot) or burst. The brain cells in...

Children’s literature has spent decades on the psychiatrist’s couch, submitting to psychoanalysis by scores of scholars and popular writers alike. Freud in Oz turns the tables, suggesting that psychoanalysts owe a significant and largely unacknowledged debt to books ostensibly written for children....

For the half-century duration of the Cold War, the fallout shelter was a curiously American preoccupation. Triggered in 1961 by a hawkish speech by John F. Kennedy, the fallout shelter controversy-"to dig or not to dig," as Business Week put it at the time-forced many Americans to grapple...

This book examines the experiences of Americans in Europe during the First World War prior to the U.S. declaration of war. Key groups include volunteer soldiers, doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers, reporters, diplomats, peace activists, charitable workers, and long-term American expatriate civilians....

Chapter 1 Laryngitis What is Laryngitis? Laryngitis is the inflammation of the mucous membranes of the Larynx which produces the sound of the voice. What are the causes of Laryngitis? Laryngitis is caused by bacterial or viral infections of the larynx. excessive...

Responding to volatile criticisms frequently leveled at Leo Strauss and those he influenced, the prominent contributors to this volume demonstrate the profound influence that Strauss and his students have exerted on American liberal democracy and contemporary political thought. By stressing the enduring...

For years the Ewing family of Ohio has been lost in the historical shadow cast by their in-law, General William T. Sherman. In the era of the Civil War, it was the Ewing family who raised Sherman, got him into West Point, and provided him with the financial resources and political connections to succeed...

Shadowed Ground explores how and why Americans have memorialized—or not—the sites of tragic and violent events spanning three centuries of history and every region of the country. For this revised edition, Kenneth Foote has written a new concluding chapter that looks at the evolving responses to...

This third edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere. Written with the non-specialist in mind, its user-friendly style and layout, delightful original passages, and exotic scripts, will continue to fascinate the reader. This...