Ellis: 2610 books

Rebecca’s older sisters took the ton by storm while she herself has failed to attract a suitor in four Seasons. Miles is pondering his urgent need for a wife when Rebecca lands in his lap in the nave of Bath Abbey. A match between them seems ordained by the heavens… except for the little matter...

Focusing on the role that automorphisms and equivalence relations play in the algebraic theory of minimal sets provides an original treatment of some key aspects of abstract topological dynamics. Such an approach is presented in this lucid and self-contained book, leading to simpler proofs of classical...

Disillusionment can be a great motivator, and when the only way out is up Jet learns that friends can be found in the most unlikely of places: that a courier service is much more than delivering parcels and that diamonds are everyone's best friends. In the Company Wars Chronicles I have a character...

Im one of the most popular girls in my class. I was born on October 15, 2003, in Charleston, South Carolina. This book is written to help young writers like myself in the twenty-first century. Therere many reasons to write this book; primarily, I used it as a tool to pass the time while waiting for...

Dam Foolishness is a narrative that incorporates a series of short stories into a cohesive tale about life growing up in small town America. Anyone whose origins are rooted in small town America will likely recognize, or be reminded of, characters resembling those written about in this book.The author's...

This comprehensive text is the first to introduce evocative autoethnography as a methodology and a way of life in the human sciences. Using numerous examples from their work and others, world-renowned scholars Arthur Bochner and Carolyn Ellis, originators of the method, emphasize how to connect intellectually...

This book offers the first in-depth study of the masculine self-fashioning of scientific practitioners in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Focusing on the British Association for the Advancement of Science, founded in 1831, it explores the complex and dynamic shifts in the public image...

Rubén Darío (1867-1916) of Nicaragua was the leader of the important Latin American literary movement known as Modernism. He is considered by many to be the greatest poet in Latin American literature, and the volume of writings devoted to his work since 1884 is perhaps greater than that on any other...

Preparing for the Best is a non-fiction survival guide, a source for prediction and prophecy and an inspiration for new frontiers for a world in transition. This is a book on the changing times, the evolving planet, and the transforming people.

While much work has been done on goddesses of the ancient world and the male gods of pre-Christian Scandinavia, the northern goddesses have been largely neglected. Roles of the Northern Goddess presents a highly readable study of the worship of these goddesses by men and women. With its use of evidence...

This book considers the literary construction of what E. M. Forster calls 'the 1939 State', namely the anticipation of the Second World War between the Munich crisis of 1938 and the end of the Phoney War in the spring of 1940. Steve Ellis investigates not only myriad responses to the imminent war...

A chance event leads the British security services to the discovery of information of a dangerous nature. The storyline begins in the UK and takes the principle characters along an international race against time.One night, in the dark back streets of East London, an MI6 agent is taken captive by...

"...an incredible feat of literature: a genuine page-turner..." "...an amazing book...the underlying narrative voice and tone is very consistent all the way through...a very good yarn." "...outrageous and bawdy verse novel...shocking, hilarious and sometimes unsettling..." "I...

Ethnicity and racial relations are almost universally seen as a prime motivating force behind social conflict and change. Often volatile and complex, racial interaction resonates through all aspects of contemporary society. Social issues which appear to have little connection to race often become...