Allison: 1539 books
Nightwork
Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
In Nightwork, Anne Allison opens a window onto Japanese corporate culture and gender identities. Allison performed the ritualized tasks of a hostess in one of Tokyo's many "hostess clubs": pouring drinks, lighting cigarettes, and making flattering or titillating conversation with the businessmen...
Military Justice in Vietnam
The Rule of Law in an American War
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
The My Lai Massacre was the most publicized incident subjected to military law during the Vietnam War, but military lawyers in all the service branches had their hands full with less-publicized desertions, drug use, rapes, fraggings, black marketeering, and even small claims. William Allison reveals...
My Mind, My Thoughts, and My Reasons
The Story of Allison
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Allison like so many individuals, had a sad childhood. As a teen she felt very alone and unloved. As a young woman she searched for answers not easily found. In love and in marriage, she failed not once, but twice. Only this time Allison is not alone, she has 3 children. Would they suffer as she did?...
Friends Helping Friends
A Guide to Approaching Peers About Their Potential Eating Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Allison, one of the authors of this book, has an original piece of artwork in her room by Sally Huss which says, "Around me I wear a coat of many colors, fabrics, and textures. It's made of friends and family here and no longer here, far and not so far. They are all part of my coat which keeps...
Cooking Light Lighten Up, America!
Favorite American Foods Made Guilt-Free
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Cooking Light Lighten Up, America! is a celebration and discovery of regional American cooking, and the permission to eat the foods you love--it's the soul of American cooking made light. This collection of America's favorite fare offers healthy versions of classics new and old, memory-making recipes...
Billy Graham
An Ordinary Man and His Extraordinary God
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Just in time for the first anniversary of Billy Graham’s death, Allison’s reflection on the life and work of America’s pastor is now available in paperback. New preface by the author, new to this edition. Billy Graham said, “You have no idea how sick I get of the name Billy Graham, and how...
James Noble Allan - The Man · The Mason · The MPP
Ontario’s quiet leader
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
This biography of James Noble Allan is given the warm glow of a local “grass roots” tribute by Allison Gowling. Tracing James Allan's life from the humble beginning in Canborough, Ontario, through the years of power and influence at all levels of municipal and provincial politics, the author rewards...
by Allison McVety
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Allison McVety’s first collection, The Night Trotsky Came to Stay (Smith/Doorstop, 2007), was the overall winner of the 2006 Book & Pamphlet Competition, and was shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize 2008. Her poems have appeared in The Times, The Guardian, Poetry Review and...
by Allison Graham
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
"Learn how to fight back and win, no matter what. When you get bucked off the horse, get back up! Allison Graham shows you how to saddle up and ride in the game of life!"
–Jeffrey Hayzlett, Founder C-Suite Network
Don't let the book title throw you – I didn't literally marry my...
A Most Canadian Odyssey
Education Diplomacy and Federalism, 1844-1984
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
This book was first published as a peer-reviewed monograph by Althouse Press at Western University in London, Canada. Now, the original manuscript has been reprinted for worldwide distribution. Drawing on historical research, John Allison documents the history and development of Educational...
Setting Boundaries® with Food
Six Steps to Lose Weight, Gain Freedom, and Take Back Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
For the fourth book in her popular Setting Boundaries™ series, Allison Bottke turns to our relationship with food, and a problem that affects more than 200 million Americans (68 percent of the adult population)obesity.
Setting Boundaries® with Food is a very personal book for Allison. She...
Night Comes
Death, Imagination, and the Last Things
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
When he was 23 years old, Dale Allison almost died in a car accident. That terrifying experience dramatically changed his ideas about death and the hereafter. In Night Comes Allison wrestles with a number of difficult questions concerning the last things — such questions as What happens to us after...
How to Walk a Puma
And Other Things I Learned While Stumbling through South America
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
On his nineteenth birthday, Peter Allison flipped a coin. One side would take him to Africa and the other to South America, the two places he wanted to explore before he died. He recounted his time spent as a safari guide in Africa to much acclaim in Whatever You Do, Don’t Run and Don’t Look Behind...
Obsessed
A Memoir of My Life with OCD
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
A brave teen recounts her debilitating struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder—and brings readers through every painful step as she finds her way to the other side—in this powerful and inspiring memoir.
Until sophomore year of high school, fifteen-year-old Allison Britz lived a comfortable...