PhD - Literary 1

Some journeys don’t start with a map. They begin with a heartbreak, a question, or the quiet realization that something has to change. Years after leaving the warmth of her homeland for a snowy, unf……続きを見る

From Liberty to Magnolia: In Search of the American Dream vividly recounts the journey of an African-American woman from rural, segregated Mississippi through academia, corporate America, and politi……続きを見る

Het bewogen verhaal van een van Nederlands bekendste onderzoeksjournalisten, die van verschillende kanten werd bedreigd. Wie de macht controleert, maakt machtigen boos. Joep Dohmen nam het in zijn l……続きを見る

Authors Rory O'Neill Schmitt and Rosary O'Neill share the NOLA life of Kate Chopin, the first great American woman novelist. In this epic story, Chopin becomes a Phoenix rising amidst the disgrace, ……続きを見る

These journal accounts of life as a trauma specialist in Kenya, Eritrea and Uganda present poignant, engrossing yet disturbing view of African life. In shocking detail, HIV/AIDS deaths, inhuman trea……続きを見る

Scam Story features my scary experience when a scammer tried to scam me by posing as a PayPal rep. As the book describes, since I thought he was really working for PayPal and trying to give me a ref……続きを見る

"An absorbing chronicle of discovery" (Booklist) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reviving Ophelia and The Shelter of Each Other Like most lives, Mary Pipher’s is filled with glory a……続きを見る

New Edition A Powerful, Compelling, and Inspiring True Story For girls and women who seek to discover their purpose in life, their role in society, and dare not let any obstacle stop them from reali……続きを見る

This is the first full-scale biography of Osip Mandelstam to combine an analysis of his poetry with a description of his personal life, from his beginnings as a young intellectual in pre-revolutiona……続きを見る

Many people love the American Southwest without truly understanding it. Ross Randall Calvin did and we are the richer for it. Calvin began his search as a pilgrim health-seeker, believing he had lef……続きを見る

The Experimentalists is a collective biography, capturing the life and times of the British experimental writers of the swinging 1960s. A decade of research, including as-yet unopened archives and i……続きを見る

The secret life of the sensational woman behind the Morgan masterpieces, who lit up New York society. What would you give up to achieve your dream? When J. P. Morgan hired Belle da Costa Greene in 1……続きを見る

Loren Miller was one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the early 1960s and successfully fought discrimination in housing and education. Alongside Thurgood ……続きを見る

A lively and utterly singular travelogue of the intricate curiosities that are directly within one’s own reach In 1790, while serving in the Piedmontese army, the French aristocrat Xavier de Maistre……続きを見る

“A detailed, finely written portrait of the imposing 19th-century leader.” ーDavid Levering Lewis, New York Times Book Review Born into but escaped from slavery, Frederick Douglassーorator, journali……続きを見る

Cesaire, Cesairology, and Universal Humanism (in English) Csaire, Csairologie et Humanisme Universel (en franais) By Zekeh S. Gbotokuma, Editor/Translator Book Summary This two-part, twelve chapter,……続きを見る

KIRKUS STAR REVIEW--Failing Up was recognized as one of only 2% of books reviewed to earn a Kirkus STAR--the most prestigious designation in the book industry in awarding books of exceptional merit.……続きを見る

Hurdles presents true episodes in the lives of my wife, a pediatrician; myselfーthe authorーa chemical engineer; and of our four young children. Having survived World War II, we arrive in this count……続きを見る

“ I mean to live and die by my own mind,” Zora Neale Hurston told the writer Countee Cullen. Arriving in Harlem in 1925 with little more than a dollar to her name, Hurston rose to become one of the ……続きを見る

• illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS Introduction I On the Trail of Adventure II The Building of the "Snark" III On the High Seas IV A Pacific Paradi……続きを見る

"A beautifully cadenced work of artーit will remind some readers of Nabokov's classic Speak, Memory."ーJoyce Carol Oates Paris in the 1930sーmelancholy, erotic, intensely politicizedーprovides the p……続きを見る