Margaret: 4917 books
We Face the Dawn
Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson, and the Legal Team That Dismantled Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The decisive victories in the fight for racial equality in America were not easily won, much less inevitable; they were achieved through carefully conceived strategy and the work of tireless individuals dedicated to this most urgent struggle. In We Face the Dawn, Margaret Edds tells the gripping story...
The Lost Gutenberg
The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
“A lively tale of historical innovation, the thrill of the bibliophile’s hunt, greed and betrayal.” – The New York Times Book Review
"An addictive and engaging look at the ‘competitive, catty and slightly angst-ridden’ heart of the world of book collecting.” - *The Houston...
Bon Jovi
America's Ultimate Band
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
In 1986, when Bon Jovi’s third studio album, Slippery When Wet, was released, America had found its next superband. In Bon Jovi: America’s Ultimate Band, Margaret Olson chronicles the history and music of the band from its inception to present day. She closely examines Bon Jovi’s musical and...
Penny Wong
Passion and Principle
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
A revelatory portrait of one of the most talented, poised and respected Australian politicians, written by one of Australia’s foremost biographers.
Senator Penny Wong is an extraordinary Australian politician. Resolute, self-possessed and a penetrating thinker on subjects from climate change...
St. Philip's Church of Charleston
An Early History of the Oldest Parish in South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
St. Philip's Church was commissioned shortly after the Carolina colony was founded in 1670. Because the Church of England was the established church, St. Philip's tried to meet the spiritual needs of the early settlers and also was responsible for oversight of elections, education and social services...
by Margaret Kilibwa
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012
Taking the right action is what feels right according to your own heart and intuition. Action is our relationship to everything. Sometimes we resist doing what it takes to get where we want to go. We look for the magic formula, or the magic person to make it all better. It would be less painful to...
by Margaret Queen Of Navarre
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
It is probable that every one who has had much to do with the study of literature has conceived certain preferences for books which he knows not to belong absolutely to the first order, but which he thinks to have been unjustly depreciated by the general judgment, and which appeal to his own tastes...
by Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
When the term “ageism” was coined in 1969, many problems of exclusion seemed resolved by government programs like Social Security and Medicare. As people live longer lives, today’s great demotions of older people cut deeper into their self-worth and human relations, beyond the reach of law or...
Save your Gallbladder
and what to do if you've already lost it
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Bestselling author Sandra Cabot MD and naturopath Margaret Jasinska provide a comprehensive step by step plan for dissolving gallstones and improving gallbladder function. A book to help everyone affected by disease of the gallbladder or bile ducts. If you are having gallbladder problems, whether you...
by Margaret Forster
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
‘I was born on 25th May, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, a house on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl.’
So begins Margaret Forster’s journey through the houses she’s lived in, from that sparkling new council house, to her beloved London...
by Margaret Heslop
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Behind closed doors, all may not be as it seems. With the Arc de Triomphe and the avenues radiating from it in a circle as leit motif for the choices made in life, we look into the lives of fourteen women and two men as they are used, abused and undermined by words, deeds and circumstances.Some suffer...
Boilerplate
The Fine Print, Vanishing Rights, and the Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Boilerplate--the fine-print terms and conditions that we become subject to when we click "I agree" online, rent an apartment, enter an employment contract, sign up for a cellphone carrier, or buy travel tickets--pervades all aspects of our modern lives. On a daily basis, most of us accept boilerplate...
by Margaret MacMillan
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 16, 2014
A Primeira Guerra Mundial que acabaria com as guerras
No centenário de um dos conflitos que marcou a história do século XX, a Globo Livros lança "A Primeira Guerra Mundial", considerado um dos melhores lançamentos do ano em não ficção por publicações como The New York Times...
Sewing Women
Immigrants and the New York City Garment Industry
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2005
Many Latino and Chinese women who immigrated to New York City over the past several decades found work in the garment industry-an industry well known for both hiring immigrants and its harsh working conditions. In the 1990s, the garment industry was one of the largest immigrant employers in New York...