37 results for 'Walter Henry Howe'

""Glaser is clearly cloaked in Henri's mantle as he reflects on specific gems from Henri's works. The reader is treated to the enriched nourishment of Henri's thought enhanced by the insights and...

Ghost stories are always in conversation with novelistic modes with which they are contemporary. This book examines examples fromSir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Henry James andRudyard...

HOW WOMEN'S BODIES FUNCTION WITHIN PRODUCTIONS OF IDEAL AND PROGRESSIVE BLACK MASCULINITIES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATUREUsing the slave narratives of Henry Bibb and Frederick Douglass, as well as...

This book is an interdisciplinary study of antebellum American literature and the problem of political emergency. Arguing that the United States endured sustained conflicts over the nature and...

Here Lies is a book compiled by Walter Henry Howe in 1900, consisting of a collection of ancient and modern, humorous and queer inscriptions from tombstones. The book is a fascinating glimpse into...

Kazuo Ishiguro's novels are suffused with a sense of memory, nostalgia and mourning. Memory is an area of research that continues to grow in importance within the humanities and this unique study...

This book is a compilation of five papers published in two journals, Family Systems Forum and Family Systems: A Journal of Natural Systems Thinking in Psychiatry, between 2008 and 2013. These...

African Books Collective and the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation organised the African-Writers Publishers Seminar in Tanzania in 1998. Major African writers and publishers hammered out a 'New Deal' for...

Hotel London: How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories examines Victorian London's grand hotels as both an institution and a culture intimately connected to the urban...

""Irish Wit and Humor"" is a collection of humorous stories, jokes, and anecdotes from Ireland, compiled by Walter Henry Howe and originally published in 1908. The book features a variety of Irish...

Scotch Wit and Humor is a hilarious collection of jokes, stories, and anecdotes from Scotland. Written by Walter Henry Howe, a noted Scottish humorist of the early 20th century, the book is organized...

On The True Meaning Of The Word Shin: As Exhibited In The Quotations Adduced Under That Word In The Chinese Imperial Thesaurus, Called The Pel-Wan-Yun-Foo is a book written by Walter Henry Medhurst...

Few women of her time lived to see their name in print. But Katherine was no ordinary woman. She was Sir Walter Raleigh's mother. This is her story.Set against the turbulent background of a Devon...

An essential new account of some of the most valuable research and development in international military history. Roy F. Houchin II shows how the roots of US Air Force hypersonic research and...

Title: A History of Rome to the death of Cæsar.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest...

An epic narrative of the struggle against injustice, hailed as "the definitive history of the NAACP" by Henry Louis Gates Jr.A "civil rights Hall of Fame" (Kirkus) that was published to remarkable...

Originally published in 1916, Roy J. Cook's "101 Famous Poems" is one of the finest collections of poetry ever assembled. The book seems to include a poem, word, or even a phrase (e.g. tinnabulation...

In Pursuit of the Speckled Gumball is a heartrending and hilarious recounting of the quest for recognition and acceptance by a young boy amid the chaos of alcoholism, abuse, and deceit. Henry, a...

Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works serves as a wide-ranging analysis of texts written by individuals who experienced the American Civil War. Edited by Gary W...

America and the Automobile: A Historical Entertainment of the Mechanics, Moguls, and Moments that Changed a Nation is a history of milestone events in the evolution of the American automobile...

Did we "know" the gas chambers were there? Could we have destroyed them? Why didn't we bomb? For decades, debate has raged over whether the Allies should have bombed the gas chambers at Auschwitz and...

Defend the Defenseless takes us into the lived experience of the Nigerian Civil War (Biafran War) through the eyes of the author as a young girl and then the struggle for democracy during the...

Is this another collection of stupid poems and stories that children cannot use? Will they look hopelessly through this volume for poems and stories that suit them? Will they say despairingly, "This...

Memories of my grandfather, Frederick John Burns (1875–1956), a homeopathic doctor who graduated from Rush Medical School in Chicago, and his daughter who was my mother, Lois Burns Stoddard...