Chapman: 1246 books

A novel approach to Israelite kinship, arguing that maternal kinship bonds played key social, economic, and political roles for a son who aspired to inherit his father’s household Upending traditional scholarship on patrilineal genealogy, Cynthia Chapman draws on twenty years of research to uncover...

Philosophy for Linguists provides students with a clear, concise introduction to the main topics in the philosophy of language. Focusing on what students of linguistics need to know and how philosophy relates to modern linguistics, the book is structured around key branches of the field: semantics,...

What if you are a little girl, and the only person who truly loves you is your grandfather, who happens to be a notorious mobster? Little Mandie and the Mob is the second novel by Bunny Chapman, and is inspired by a true story—her own! Her mother's pregnancy had led to a divorce. Mandie is...

8 Rules for the Messy Mind is self-help book with a simple aim: to make the reader aware of how the human mind operates on a psychological loop; and that by understanding and controlling this loop the mind can be made much more efficient and effective so as to serve its owner better. Firstly...

Todo casamento passa por diferentes estações. Às vezes, é inverno, e predominam o desânimo e a insatisfação na vida conjugal. É isso que estão descobrindo os recém-casados Brad e Ashley Hanes. Horários de trabalho opostos, visões diferentes sobre as finanças e a incerteza sobre se devem...

Depois do sol forte e das altas temperaturas do verão, é a vez do outono mudar a paisagem, trazer novas cores e grandes mudanças para a vida dos habitantes de Deepwater Cove. Esther e Charlie Moore percebem que a vida feliz que construíram ao longo de quase cinquenta anos de união começa a desmoronar,...

Reeling from the news of the destruction of the mountain, Vann flees a victorious Coastside with the fish people. Meanwhile, Karesh and Aerlid must find a way to survive outside the safety of the mountain while the ehlkrid become ever more vicious.The people of Astar remain safe behind their shields,...

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EXTRAIT: I Avant de terminer, mère, un dernier volume, Je suis venu, d’un pas ému, te l’apporter. Mère, au bord de ta fosse, où l’oiseau vient chanter, Sens-tu mon pied fouler le sol que mai parfume ?… Mère, dans ton cercueil, reconnais-tu...

EXTRAIT: LE GIVRE « Depuis un mois il neige à flots » — Le Givre Depuis un mois il neige à flots. La nuit dernière Il a plu. Maintenant sous la froide lumière Du soleil hivernal le givre immaculé Étincelle aux rameaux...

It happened. He’s met her, and she is it. She’s not merely the one he tells all his buddies about, or the one where he wants to call his mother and entire family. She is…the one. She’s the one. The one that he dreams about, the one he can’t stop talking and thinking about. The one...

In an empty and dangerous world, the human city of Astar shines as a lone beacon of peace, free from the constant warring of the inhuman, gemeng tribes of the Plains. Aerlid, a man neither human nor gemeng, tricks his way into Astar with his charge, a young gemeng named Riley. In the human city, she...

Manchester’s Stone Roses woke up a stagnant late-Eighties music scene with an eponymous debut album of danceable rock that set the charts ablaze and remains a fixture in critics’ lists today. The UK went mad for them but legal hassles, family responsibilities and personal problems ensured it was...

Circling Faith is a collection of essays by southern women that encompasses spirituality and the experience of winding through the religiously charged environment of the American South.   Mary Karr, in “Facing Altars,” describes how the consolation she found in poetry directed her...