Crossings
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Crossings
By Stephen J. Noel Jr.George had found a job working on the telephone systems after he brought me to America and it placed us right here in this house.” She stopped and surveyed the room as if it was new to her, then continued. “For the next two years George ...
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Crossings: Self-Discovery Through Travel
By Charles KlotscheMy approach has been compared to that of Charles Kuralt , but I also devote attention to speculations about the planet as a whole , and to other dimensions of reality . CROSSINGS , like the other volumes in the trilogy , takes an ...
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Crossings: A Doctor-soldier's Story
By Jon KerstetterMy first lesson in that regard came when Dr. Rhodes, a staff pediatrician, assigned me to follow the case of a small-framed, freckled ten-yearold girl with leukemia who wore a blue bandana to hide her chemo head.
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Crossings
By Marsha Carow MarkmanAunt Victoria met me at the curb with a taxi that took us to her Beacon Hill house. When Uncle Simon died in 2014, Mom pleaded with Aunt Vic to come to New York and live with her and Dad. “You're all alone in that big house,” my mother ...
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Crossings: Africa, the Americas and the Atlantic Slave Trade
By James WalvinWe all know the story of the slave trade—the infamous Middle Passage, the horrifying conditions on slave ships, the millions that died on the journey, and the auctions that awaited the slaves upon their arrival in the Americas.
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Crossings: Nietzsche and the Space of Tragedy
By John SallisThis is the first sustained philosophical reading of Nietzsche treatise to follow in the wake of the new openings made by Heidegger and Derrida for the articulation of the texts of philosophy.
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Crossings: Nietzsche and the Space of Tragedy
By John SallisBoldly contesting recent scholarship, Sallis argues that The Birth of Tragedy is a rethinking of art at the limit of metaphysics.
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Crossings: Africa, the Americas and the Atlantic Slave Trade
By James WalvinWe all know the story of the slave trade—the infamous Middle Passage, the horrifying conditions on slave ships, the millions that died on the journey, and the auctions that awaited the slaves upon their arrival in the Americas.
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Crossings: A Doctor-Soldier's Story
By Jon KerstetterThe story of his work in theater, which involved everything from saving soldiers’ lives to organizing the joint U.S.–Iraqi forensics team tasked with identifying the bodies of Saddam Hussein’s sons, is a bracing, unprecedented ...
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Crossings: A Novel
By Alex LandraginThe first story in Crossings is a never-before-seen ghost story by the poet Charles Baudelaire, penned for an illiterate girl.
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Crossings: A Novel
By Danielle SteelShe meets Nick Burnham, an American steel magnate, a kind man trapped in a loveless marriage. Their passion remains unacknowledged.
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Crossings
By Danielle SteelDespite rumors of impending war, the majestic ship Normandie makes its transatlantic voyage from Washington DC, to France. Aboard is beautiful, American-born Liane De Villiers, devoted to her much-older husband,...
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Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870-1914
By Walter Nugent"The primary purpose of this book is to pull together in one place the main contours of population change in the Atlantic region during the 1870-1914 period.
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Crossings: Memoirs of a Mountain Medical Doctor
By Elam S. Kurtz, Michael D. Kurtz D. MinPops eighty-six years of life yielded numerous transitions and changes in various areas and aspects of his living, or crossings as Dad alluded to these transitions. This book attempts to capture and share many of these crossings.
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Crossings: Extraordinary Structures for Extraordinary Animals
By Katy S. DuffieldThis powerful nonfiction picture book explores wildlife crossings around the world and how they are helping save thousands of animals every day.
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Crossings
By Hua ChuangYears later it would be widely recognized as the first modernist novel to address the Asian-American experience, its deeply imagistic prose--marked by spatial and temporal leaps, an unconventional syntax, and unanticipated shifts in plot- ...
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Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870-1914
By Walter T. K. NugentDuring the period 1870-1914, the Atlantic was a broad highway for migration. Unchecked by government restrictions, wars, or economic depressions, and aided by the new technologies of steamships and railroads,...
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Crossings
By Mel OdomBuffy and Dawn are finding it difficult to adjust now that their mother has gone.
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Crossings: A Bald Asian American Latter-Day Saint Woman Scholar's Ventures Through Life, Death, Cancer, and Motherhood (not Necessarily In
By Melissa InouyeActual letters, lightly edited to be comprehensible to a general audience and to preserve people's privacy, generally reflecting the perspective of a bald Asian American Mormon feminist religious studies China scholar.
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Crossings: Extraordinary Structures for Extraordinary Animals
By Katy S. DuffieldThis powerful nonfiction picture book explores wildlife crossings around the world and how they are helping save thousands of animals every day.