Alice: 2648 books
by Alice A. Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Initiation, Human and Solar
by Alice A. Bailey
The subject of Initiation is one that has a great fascination for thinkers of all schools of thought, and even those who remain sceptical and critical would like to believe that this ultimate attainment is possible. To those who do not believe...
by Alice Notley
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1998
Alice Notley vividly reconstructs the mysteries, longings, and emotions of her past in this brilliant new collection of poems that charts her growth from young girl to young woman to accomplished artist. In this volume, memories of her childhood in the California desert spring to life through evocative...
The World Will Follow Joy
Turning Madness into Flowers (New Poems)
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
A poetry collection of “playful and crooning lyricism” from the National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple (Booklist).
In this dazzling new collection, Alice Walker offers over sixty new poems to incite and nurture contemporary activists. Hailed as a “lavishly...
by Alice Morse Earle
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Nineteenth-century historian Alice Morse Earle brings the religious beliefs and practices of the Puritans to life in this fascinating discussion of the Protestant sect's way of worship. From the accompanying music to the common themes of sermons, no detail of Puritan religious services is overlooked.
by Alice Manzoni
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Come poter ottenere maggiore controllo e coscienza sulle potenzialità che ognuno di noi possiede? Ho tentato di rispondere esplorando le parti di noi stessi che più ci sfuggono, mostrando come siano esse stesse ad aprire possibilità di comunicazione prima di tutto con noi e poi con gli altri.
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In the Museum of Man
Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850–1950
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the Museum of Man offers new insight into the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high-water mark of French imperialism and European racism. Alice L. Conklin takes us into the formative years of French anthropology and social theory between 1850 and 1900; then deep into...
by Alice Basso
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 14, 2015
L’imprevedibile piano della scrittrice senza nome è il sorprendente esordio di Alice Basso. Una voce nuova, unica, esilarante pronta a colpirvi pagina dopo pagina. Un tributo al mondo dei libri, all’amore che non ha regole e ai misteri che solo l’intuito può risolvere. Una protagonista indimenticabile...
Wicked Albany
Lawlessness & Liquor in the Prohibition Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Albany, New York, experienced massive upheaval when the Volstead Act of 1919 established Prohibition. Crime already proliferated in the capital of the Empire State, with rival political machines stooping to corruption and the mob with their heavy-handed powers of persuasion. As it did nationwide, Prohibition...
The Indispensable Zinn
The Essential Writings of the "People's Historian"
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
A “well-chosen anthology of the radical historian’s prodigious output,” from A People’s History of the United States and lesser known sources (Kirkus Reviews).
When Howard Zinn died in early 2010, millions of Americans mourned the loss of one of the nation’s foremost intellectual...
On the Run
Fugitive Life in an American City
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
A RIVETING, GROUNDBREAKING ACCOUNT OF HOW THE WAR ON CRIME HAS
TORN APART INNER-CITY COMMUNITIES
Forty years in, the tough on crime turn in American politics has spurred a prison boom of historic proportions that disproportionately affects Black communities. It has also torn at the lives of...
Wicked Danville
Liquor and Lawlessness in a Southside Virginia City
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
Prostitution, gambling, moonshine and drugs could all be found behind closed the closed doors of Danville, VA from 1919 to 1933. During Prohibition, the "Law and Order League," of Danville was, of course, "dry," but the city's mayor was personally was known to be "personally wet," and in 1911 citizens...
Croire au matin
Cinq écrivains à la rencontre de Charles Palant, rescapé d'Auschwitz
Language: French
Release Date: January 17, 2018
« Je crois au matin. »
Charles Palant
Qu’en est-il de l’enfance, de la transmission, de la parole, de l’espoir, de l’humanité, soixante-dix ans après Auschwitz ? Lorsque l’analyse historique et la politique ont échoué à faire barrage à la barbarie, à ...
Tamed
Ten Species that Changed our World
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
**'A masterpiece of evocative scientific storytelling.' BRIAN COX**
**'Will appeal to fans of Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens'. Mail on Sunday **
The extraordinary story of the species that became our allies.
Dogs became our companions
Wheat fed a booming population
Cattle gave us...
by Alice LaPlante
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
The New York Times bestseller—a stunning first novel, both literary and thriller, about a retired orthopedic surgeon with dementia.
With unmatched patience and a pulsating intensity, Alice LaPlante brings us deep into a brilliant woman’s deteriorating mind, where the impossibility of recognizing...