Elaine: 1438 books
Audiences of Empire
Lope De Vega, the Spanish History Play, and Me
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
LOPE DE VEGA (1562-1635), poet/playwright of unrivaled popularity during Spains Golden Age of literature (including Miguel de Cervantes and Caldern de la Barca), rescued theater from ineffective conventions and claimed authorship of some 1800 titles. Many of the almost 500 existing plays are stagings...
by Elaine M. Kuzmeskus
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
In the aftermath of the Civil War, distraught Connecticut residents turned to Spiritualism as a means of connecting with their lost loved ones. Daniel Dunglas Home of New London held his first public séance as a teenager in 1851, and he reportedly levitated and handled hot coals without injury. Famous...
How the Sun Lost Its Shine
A Newsroom Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
How the Sun Lost Its Shine: A Newsroom Memoir is award-winning journalist Elaine Tassy's no-holds-barred account of her four years working as a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. As one of few black female staff writers, she noticed and spoke out about the vast differences she saw in how editors, mostly...
by Elaine S. Dalton
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Speaking to women of all ages and walks of life, Sister Elaine S. Dalton writes, "As daughters of God, we are each unique and different in our circumstances and experiences, and our part matters because we matter. We are no ordinary women. We are elect, and each of us has a unique, divine mission...
Naming Thy Name
Cross Talk in Shakespeare's Sonnets
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
A fascinating case for the identity of Shakespeare’s beautiful young man
SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS ARE indisputably the most enigmatic and enduring love poems written in English. They also may be the most often argued-over sequence of love poems in any language. But what is it that continues...
How Students Understand the Past
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2005
History and archaeology education is highly valued among modern societies that seek to educate their youth about the past. Yet these areas have been_for the most part_slow to employ the latest advances in education theory and practice. Former classroom teacher and science education specialist M. Elaine...
by Elaine Holt MD
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
**Dr. Elaine Holt is not your average doctor. **Her medical practice is small, while her heart for her patients is huge. The Doctor Next Door is a collection of extraordinary stories about ordinary people. The stories spotlight the physician as a down-to-earth person, sometimes flawed and unnervingly...
by Elaine L. Orr
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Bad enough that Jolie ends up in the emergency room because she tried to avoid hitting a deer. Worse to find a dead woman in the hospital restroom after Jolie gets patched up. As the chief budget cutter at the hospital, Tanya Weiss was unpopular, especially in the Radiology Department, where Scoobie...
Women, Love, and Power
Literary and Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1991
Elaine Baruch is not only among the most quiet-voiced and fair-minded of feminist writers. She is also among the most far-ranging in her scholarship, equally at ease with the writers of the Renaissance and Freud, the medieval troubadours, and our contemporary polemicists. . . instructive, absorbing,...
Working with Families of African Caribbean Origin
Understanding Issues around Immigration and Attachment
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Many of those who emigrated from the Caribbean to the UK after World War II left behind partners and children, causing the break-up of families who were often not reunited for several years.
In this book, Elaine Arnold examines the psychological impact that immigration had on these families,...
Differently Literate
Boys, Girls and the Schooling of Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Presents research into the differences in boy's and girl's experiences of the reading and writing curriculum at home and in school. The book is presented in three sections: an outline of the theoretical debates on gender difference and academic achievement; a description of the research into these...
by Elaine Waldron
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Arizona Skies is an extraordinary paranormal romance, touched by some hardships, but also filled with charm and the unexpected. It will take you to places you never dreamed possible – A delightful and heartwarming love story.
The Writings of Hesba Stretton
Reclaiming the Outcast
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Highly respected as a writer by critics and commentators, Hesba Stretton (1832-1911) was a vigorous campaigner for the rights of oppressed minorities and a founding member of the London Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Though she is known today primarily as a writer of evangelical...
When Children Love to Learn: A Practical Application of Charlotte Mason's Philosophy for Today
A Practical Application of Charlotte Mason's Philosophy for Today
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2004
They're hallmarks of childhood. The endless "why" questions. The desire to touch and taste everything. The curiosity and the observations.
It can't be denied-children have an inherent desire to know. Teachers and parents can either encourage this natural inquisitiveness or squelch it. There...