Christina: 2525 books
by Christina E. Bejarano
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Many questions remain unanswered about the observable differences in voting behavior, partisanship, and cultural attitudes among men and women. Latino political participation in the United States is generally lower than the rest of the population, mainly due to their high proportion of youth and foreign...
Smuggled
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
The harrowing yet hopeful life story of a Jewish girl’s escape from Nazis, growing up under communist oppression, and finally reclaiming her true identity.
In a narrative sweeping from WWII rural Romania to 1990s cosmopolitan Budapest, Christina Shea’s Smuggled tells the story of Eva Farkas,...
Beyond Imported Magic
Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Studies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South.
The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptation, and use of science and technology in Latin America. They challenge the view that scientific ideas and technology travel unchanged from the...
Banishing Burnout
Six Strategies for Improving Your Relationship with Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
In this book Michael P. Leiter and Christina Maslach, the leading experts on job burnout prevention and authors of the landmark book The Truth About Burnout, outline their revolutionary new program for helping everyone in the workplace overcome everyday stress and pressures and achieve their career...
Cue Cards for Life
Thoughtful Tips for Better Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
With almost 7 billion people on the planet, we're bound to run into communication problems sometime. And though we know healthy relationships and a sense of community are essential for a healthy, happy, and successful life, some of us are not equipped or quite prepared to deal with the situations...
The Latina Advantage
Gender, Race, and Political Success
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
During the past decade, racial/ethnic minority women have made significant strides in U.S. politics, comprising large portions of their respective minority delegations both in Congress and in state legislatures. This trend has been particularly evident in the growing political presence of Latinas, yet...
Sky and Earth Cielo Y Tierra
Poems~Poemas
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Published poet Christina Watkins’s new book released through Xlibris, SKY AND EARTH CIELO Y TIERRA, is a collection of lyrical poems written in both English and Spanish. The languages face each other, one on one side of the page, the other across from it. The spiritual and reflective nature of the...
Vocal Power
How to Develop Your Voice (Revised Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
As an author, professional speaker and certified hypnotist, Christina Kaya is in high demand across the United States and Canada, with experience in virtually every business sector. Drawing from her background in business, psychology, the performing arts and neuro-linguistics, she has unique insights...
Derrida
Deconstruction from Phenomenology to Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
This book is an unusually readable and lucid account of the development of Derrida's work, from his early writings on phenomenology and structuralism to his most recent interventions in debates on psychoanalysis, ethics and politics.
Christina Howells gives a clear explanation of many of the...
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All
A New Zealand Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
A beautifully written, fiercely intelligent and boldly conceived book that puts the author's unlikely marriage to a Maori man into the context of the history of Western colonization of New Zealand and the South Pacific.
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All is the story of the cultural...
by Christina Howells
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
This wide ranging and challenging book explores the relationship between subjectivity and mortality as it is understood by a number of twentieth-century French philosophers including Sartre, Lacan, Levinas and Derrida. Making intricate and sometimes unexpected connections, Christina Howells draws...
Working Your Mojo
Entrepreneurial Thinking for Musicians
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
“Christina showed us how to work with what we had but also how to invent the tools we needed in an environment where innovation is so important.” The Twoks ARE YOU APPLYING FOR GIG AFTER GIG, FESTIVAL AFTER FESTIVAL AND FEEL LIKE YOU ARE NOT GETTING ANYWHERE? HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MUSICAL DIRECTION...
Counting Women's Ballots
Female Voters from Suffrage through the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
How did the first female voters cast their ballots? For almost 100 years, answers to this question have eluded scholars. Counting Women's Ballots employs new data and novel methods to provide insights into whether, how, and with what consequences women voted in the elections after suffrage. The analysis...
Alternatives to Cognition
A New Look at Explaining Human Social Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In this provocative book, Christina Lee takes a consciously critical approach to the apparently unchallenged principle that conscious thought is the cause of all human behavior. Without becoming polemical or destructive, she reconsiders a wide range of issues in mainstream American and European social...