Alexandra: 2078 books
The Psychophysical Ear
Musical Experiments, Experimental Sounds, 1840-1910
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
An examination of how the scientific study of sound sensation became increasingly intertwined with musical aesthetics in nineteenth-century Germany and Austria.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, German and Austrian concertgoers began to hear new rhythms and harmonies as non-Western musical...
Telling Genes
The Story of Genetic Counseling in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
For sixty years genetic counselors have served as the messengers of important information about the risks, realities, and perceptions of genetic conditions. More than 2,500 certified genetic counselors in the United States work in clinics, community and teaching hospitals, public health departments,...
Loving My Actual Christmas
An Experiment in Relishing the Season
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The Christmas season is a particularly difficult time for women to slow down and relish what's right in front of them. An annual marker for many, it is a holiday that can often remind us how life is not going as we'd planned. Our family relationships remain strained, our finances stretched, and our...
by Alexandra Esperance
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2017
"Diary of a Haitian Church Girl" takes you on a spiritual journey with a woman whose troubled past - from childhood to her present-day adulthood - was transformed by the unconditional love of God.Written with 100% transparency, the words penned on the pages of this book are truly God-inspired....
Assassin of Youth
A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslinger’s War on Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics from its establishment in 1930 until his retirement in 1962, Harry J. Anslinger is the United States’ little known first drug czar. Anslinger was a profligate propagandist with a flair for demonizing racial and immigrant groups and perhaps best known...
by Alexandra Kitty
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
When a woman who reads fortunes from Turkish coffee sees a dark omen in her cup, it is up to the Sparrow to help her save her daughter -- in the own woman's troubling dreams.
About the Author
Alexandra Kitty is a dangerous woman who is the author of Don’t Believe It!: How lies become...
by Alexandra Kitty
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The Stories
Fiction: The Case of the Enigma Clause: Who is the most frightening entity living in the dream world and how will the Sparrow thwart his mission to break into the waking world? Includes the bedtime stories The army that lost a war because they won a battle that they absolutely had...
by Alexandra Gray
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
Dissatisfied with her job as a pharmaceutical rep and struggling with the decline of her long-term relationship, Grace, a well-heeled Londoner, uses yoga class to unwind, reflect, and momentarily transcend her earthly dilemmas. While pitching her company’s latest antidepressant to the disarming Dr....
by Belinda Alexandra
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
From internationally bestselling author Belinda Alexandra comes a sweeping, emotional journey that “depicts vividly the powerful lifelong bond between mothers and daughters” (Paullina Simons, author of The Bronze Horseman).
In a district of the city of Harbin, a haven for White Russian...
Blood and Thunder
The Boys of Eton College and the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
A photograph of three friends on the football field, taken in 1912. Less than five years later all three would be killed and buried beneath the fields of Belgium. This story is typical of many schoolboys across Britain who signed up for or were conscripted to fight in World War I. In this groundbreaking...
DIY Citizenship
Critical Making and Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption.
Today, DIY—do-it-yourself—describes more than self-taught carpentry. Social media enables DIY citizens to organize and protest in new ways...
Think Like a Boss
31 Tips to Grow Your Brand from the Inside Out
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Dreams don't work unless you do! Think Like a Boss is for the aspiring entrepreneur in all of us that want to live happy, fulfilling, and successful lives. Information is today's competitive edge, and Think Like a Boss is a comprehensive guide that will lead you straight through your entrepreneurial...
Paid
Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Stories about objects left in the wake of transactions, from cryptocurrencies to leaf-imprinted banknotes to records kept with knotted string.
Museums are full of the coins, notes, beads, shells, stones, and other objects people have exchanged for millennia. But what about the debris, the things...
Make Disruption Work
a CEO handbook for digital transformation
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Digital disruption is the biggest challenge businesses are facing; Make Disruption Work gives you the blueprints of what it is and how to win at it. Jankovich and Voskes have worked with some of the biggest companies in the world, building their digital capabilities from the ground up. This book crystallizes...