Elena: 1551 books
by Maria Elena Pontecorvo, Girolamo Calcara, Paolo Maragoni
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 16, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 16, 2013
Questa antologia di racconti gialli soft boiled è il risultato di oltre due anni di divertente appassionato lavoro in team. Un esperimento riuscito, e da studiare, di scrittura collettiva. Una sfida vinta. Un mistero irrisolto, un freezer e due piccioni, un cadavere in parrocchia, sullo sfondo della...
Market Aesthetics
The Purchase of the Past in Caribbean Diasporic Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
In Market Aesthetics, Elena Machado Sáez explores the popularity of Caribbean diasporic writing within an interdisciplinary, comparative, and pan-ethnic framework. She contests established readings of authors such as Junot Díaz, Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, and Robert Antoni while showcasing...
Art of Attention
A Yoga Practice Workbook for Movement as Meditation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Yoga begins with physical well-being—but it can also lead us into a lifelong exploration of presence, elegance, and possibility. With *Art of Attention, *Elena Brower and Erica Jago show us the way. Distilled from their acclaimed workshops and training programs, this multifaceted book can be used...
Alkaline Diet: Soup Recipes: Supercharge Your Health, Beat Inflammation, and Lose Weight!
Alkaline Diet, Clean Eating, #1
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Alkaline Soup Recipes- Beat Inflammation, Stimulate Healing and (if desired) Start Losing Weight without Feeling Deprived...
It’s all about*** healthy and nutritious alkaline recipes*** that are super easy to prepare and will give you the energy you deserve. They are perfect for all occasions,...
by Elena Pokalova
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
This authoritative account traces the emergence of terrorism in the volatile region of the North Caucasus from its origins in the early 1990s through the present day. It presents a detailed examination of local and global counterterrorism strategies—everything from military force, to diplomacy,...
Lewd Looks
American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
One of the most fascinating phenomena of 1960s film culture is the emergence of American sexploitation films—salacious indies made on the margins of Hollywood. Hundreds of such films were produced and shown on both urban and small-town screens over the course of the decade. Yet despite their vital...
by Elena Mihas
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The rich storytelling traditions of the Alto Perené Arawaks of eastern Peru are showcased in this bilingual collection of traditional narratives, ethnographic...
Pin-Up Grrrls
Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2006
Subverting stereotypical images of women, a new generation of feminist artists is remaking the pin-up, much as Annie Sprinkle, Cindy Sherman, and others did in the 1970s and 1980s. As shocking as contemporary feminist pin-ups are intended to be, perhaps more surprising is that the pin-up has been...
Nabokov's Women
The Silent Sisterhood of Textual Nomads
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Nabokov’s Women: The Silent Sisterhood of Textual Nomads is the first book-length study to focus on Nabokov’s relationship with his heroines. Essays by distinguished Nabokov scholars explore the multilayered and nomadic nature of Nabokov’s women: their voice and voicelessness, their absentness,...
Seen and Heard in Mexico
Children and Revolutionary Cultural Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
During the first two decades following the Mexican Revolution, children in the country gained unprecedented consideration as viable cultural critics, social actors, and subjects of reform. Not only did they become central to the reform agenda of the revolutionary nationalist government; they were...
by Elena Ferrante
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Leda is nog niet zo lang geleden gescheiden, maar in plaats van verdrietig voelt ze zich bevrijd. Nu haar twee dochters naar hun vader in Canada zijn verhuisd, huurt ze een vakantiehuisje aan zee. Van onder haar parasol op het strand kijkt ze bewonderend naar de idyllische relatie van een jonge moeder,...
Kronieken van de liefde
Kwellende liefde, Dagen van verlating, De verborgen dochter
Language: Dutch
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Na het ongekende succes van de Napolitaanse romans brengt uitgeverij Wereldbibliotheek nu een bundeling van de drie eerdere romans van Elena Ferrante.
In Kwellende liefde keert een vrouw na de dood van haar moeder terug naar Napels, de stad waar ze is opgegroeid. In een taal die doordringt...
Online Child Sexual Abuse
Grooming, Policing and Child Protection in a Multi-Media World
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Online Child Sexual Abuse: Grooming, Policing and Child Protection in a Multi-Media World addresses the complex, multi-faceted and, at times, counter-intuitive relationships between online grooming behaviours, risk assessment, police practices, and the actual danger of subsequent abuse in the physical...
Che's Travels
The Making of a Revolutionary in 1950s Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Ernesto “Che” Guevara twice traveled across Latin America in the early 1950s. Based on his accounts of those trips (published in English as The Motorcycle Diaries and Back on the Road), as well as other historical sources, Che’s Travels follows Guevara, country by country, from his native Argentina...