Agnes: 634 books

The book starts by discussing the significance of walking for the experience of being human, including a comparative study of the language and cultures of walking. It then reviews in detail, relying on archaeology, two turning points of human history: the emergence of cave art sanctuaries and a new...

In the Bible, 2 Corinthians 3:18 tells us that as you gaze upon the beauty of the Lord, as you worship the God of Love, you become like the object of your worship and adoration. The nature of God is love, which means that everything that God does is born out of love. It's in every fiber of His being....

Google announced early 2016 that they had decided to sunset the hardware-based Google Search Appliance (GSA). This step results in significant changes for many organizations. The retirement of GSA is unprecedented. If you are an existing GSA customer and want to know what to do know and what’s...

Writing for domestic servants in a conversational, accessible way, eighteenth-century housewife Hannah Glasse disapproved of French terminology and fussiness, instead favouring simple dishes that are still cooked today - a preference that has earned her the reputation of 'the first Domestic Goddess'. With...

The writers of the present volume have a purely practical object in view. They have no desire to discuss, theoretically, the duties, rights, and responsibilities of women. They consider that it would be unwise to give prominence to considerations affecting the political or social position of women,...

Human resources for health are a priority to improve health outcomes in Africa. In order to strengthen policies based on evidence, a better understanding is needed of health worker choice and behaviour. This book tries to help fill that gap. Relying on unique survey data, it analyses the career preferences...

Human resources for health are a priority to improve health outcomes in Africa. In order to strengthen policies based on evidence, a better understanding is needed of health worker choice and behaviour. This book tries to help fill that gap. Relying on unique survey data, it analyses the career preferences...

" Tiens, tu fais la couverture d'un magazine avec Dieudonné et Zemmour. En dessous du trio, les mots : "antisémitisme, racisme' et en rouge sang : "voyage dans une France xénophobe'. Tu n'en es pas arrivé là ?! J'ai envie de m'allonger par terre, de pleurer, vomir, ou hurler ;...

Depuis un certain temps, Mady rêve à Guillaume, son amour de jeunesse, qui lui propose un nouvel avenir commun. Alors que ses songes lui semblent si vrais, la réalité est tout autre. Un décès, la découverte d’un oncle inconnu et un étrange colis venu du Québec sont autant d’événements...

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This book, first published in 1941, is concerned to relate the argument for Trade Unionism to the needs of women who work, whether in their homes or outside them. It is, in part, a historical analysis of the inter-war years, and it also prefigures the changes to women’s working conditions brought...

At the very time the early explorers of New France were pressing from the east, westward, a tide of adventure had set across Siberia and the Pacific from the west, eastward. Cartier and Champlain of New France in the east have their counterparts and contemporaries on the Pacific coast of America in...

Firelight falling on soft velvet carpet, where white lily buds trail along azure ground, on chairs of white-polished wood that glitters like ivory, with puffy of seats of blue satin; on blue and gilt panelled walls; on a wonderfully carved oaken ceiling; on sweeping draperies of blue satin and white...