Ann P Weiss

If you're a fan of exquisite art or like to read biographies about fascinating figures, make room for this book in your library. It is lavishly illustrated with 32 color plates and black-and-white photographs of the late Frederik Ebbesen Grue's (1951-1995) finest paintings. You can also learn ...

The growing population of aging Americans is bringing with it thousands of new workers into agencies serving the elderly each year. Now, the need for supervisors to administer and train staff in programs for older persons is increasing as well. This is a practical, "how-to" guide for the supervision...

In October of 1986, Ann Weiss entered a locked room at Auschwitz and came across an archive of over 2,400 photographs brought to the death camp by Jewish deportees from across Europe during the Holocaust. The photos, both candid snapshots and studied portraits, had been confiscated, but instead of b...

According to the ethos of the late 1800s and early 1900s, a woman’s natural destiny was to be a wife, mother, and guardian of the virtues of hearth and home. Some women wanted more, however, and despite cultural expectations chose to explore their creativity and seek training in art. Often at consid...

Like a lot of good stories, this one begins with a rumor: in 1239, Pope Gregory IX accused Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor, of heresy. Without disclosing evidence of any kind, Gregory announced that Frederick had written a supremely blasphemous book—De tribus impostoribus, or the Treatise of th...

In 1986, Ann Weiss discovered more than 2400 photographs of Jewish deportees in the archives of Auschwitz. This volume represents a selection of 400 images and the stories behind them, showing those portrayed "as they were in life, not as the victims they became in death". Over a decade was spent re...

Analyzes church-state relations, considering situations in which government and religion have supported each other as well as those in which the two are in conflict.