Brien: 1080 books

What key issues and challenges affect the lives of people with severe disabilities today's and what should tomorrow's professionals do to address them? Aligned with the core values and agenda of TASH, this visionary text prepares professionals to strengthen supports and services for people with disabilities...

Minerals and rocks form the foundation of geologic studies. This new textbook has been written to address the needs of students at the increasing number of universities that have compressed separate mineralogy and petrology courses into a one- or two-semester Earth materials course. Key features...

This book provides an illuminating perspective on alcohol use, drawing on approaches from both anthropological research and historical sociology to examine our ambivalent attitudes to alcohol in the modern West. From anthropological research on non-Western, non-modern cultures, the author demonstrates...

Love, Love Hearts, Love Mist: Tiny Thoughts - Vol 2, 7 & 8 is a short collection of contemplations to peruse.  Constructed in a simple style, 'Love, Love Hearts, Love Mist' is an interesting group of poems making this little book attractive and thought provoking.  A quick-to-read...

I have an eidetic memory, and things once seen lodge in my mind. Eventually to free my mind, I am driven to paint these things. I like my work to challenge the mind, not merely to appeal to the emotions. I use a wide variety of styles and subject matter and try to wed the two. I am a multimedia artist and spend my creative time in play and exploration. All things fascinate me.

Set amidst the glittering enclaves of money, power, and privilege in America's tumultuous Gilded Age, this richly detailed mystery follows private detective Pamela Thompson into an elite world where fortunes are flaunted and scandals are hidden--one body at time. . . Death Of A Robber Baron New...

In Georgie, Angel of Cell-Block Six, the author recounts the astonishing story of her mothers little brother, a nine-year-old child in a wheelchair, possessed of an amazing voice. Georgie sang all over St. Louis, at church and at concerts, private gatherings, in salons, and at the Cardinals games,...

In this raw, candid memoir, Deborah OBrien describes her life growing up and the steady progression of alcoholism that led her on a path of self-destruction. After twenty-four years of silence, OBrien reveals the lessons she learned about life while she was dying of an acute overdose of pills and...

The Welsh Marches, 1460 In the eerie depths of Llanwardine Priory, Elizabeth de Lacy is about to take the veil when she is told she must wed her family's sworn enemy! Lord Richard Malinder must produce an heir, and a union with the de Lacy family could prove advantageous-if only to keep...

War, famine, disease; just a few of the many evils with which we share our world and daily lives but never aware that they exist as physical forms, escaped from the prison world of Exilia. The key to Exilia, lost since before recorded history, has now been found. The entrance to the prison world has...

Entre craintes et phobies, hantises et autres démons intérieurs, chaque moment est une occasion d’avoir peur. Peur de rien ou de l’inconnu, peur de l’autre ou peur des mots, tout dépend du contexte et du profil. La peur est une émotion universelle qui provoque son lot de bouleversements....

Gaia Stone, parteira de dezasseis anos, vai para dentro das muralhas com a sua irmã quase recém-nascida, poucas provisões e uma espécie de bússula. Embora sobreviva, é capturada pelo povo de Sailum, uma sociedade distópica onde as mulheres ordenam, apesar da superioridade numérica dos homens...

Depois de desafiar o cruel Enclave, sobreviver ás terras baldias e derrubar o rígido matriarcado de Sailum, Gaia Pedra enfrenta o maior desafio da sua vida: levar as pessoas de Sailum até ao Enclave e convencer o Protetorado a conceder-lhes refúgio contra os mouros. Na ausência de Gaia, a crueldade...

Num mundo futurista fustigado pelo sol inclemente, onde a água é mais valiosa do que o ouro, há quem viva dentro das muralhas do Enclave e quem, como Gaia Stone, uma parteira de dezasseis anos, viva fora delas. Gaiga sempre acreditou que o seu dever, tal como a da mãe, era entregar uma pequena...