Emily: 3337 books
The Translation Zone
A New Comparative Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Translation, before 9/11, was deemed primarily an instrument of international relations, business, education, and culture. Today it seems, more than ever, a matter of war and peace. In The Translation Zone, Emily Apter argues that the field of translation studies, habitually confined to a framework...
Gender, Power and Sexual Abuse in the Pacific
Rev. Simpson’s "Improper Liberties†?
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
In 1843 on the island of Tahiti the evangelical missionary Rev. Alexander Simpson was accused of sexually assaulting three of the female students under his care, and of taking 'improper liberties' with at least three more. The events did not come out in public for at least a decade, while Simpson's...
Spreading the American Dream
American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
In examining the economic and cultural trs that expressed America's expansionist impulse during the first half of the twentieth century, Emily S. Rosenberg shows how U.S. foreign relations evolved from a largely private system to an increasingly public one and how, soon, the American dream became global.
Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora
Queen of the Conversas
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
This book explores Queen Esther as an idealized woman in Iberia, as well as a Jewish heroine for conversos in the Sephardic Diaspora in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The biblical Esther --the Jewish woman who marries the King of Persia and saves her people -- was contested in the cultures...
by Emily Joy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
When your Dad can crash his airplane into two water buffalo, life is unlikely to go according to plan. Even so, Emily Joy puts on her rose-tinted glasses, leaves behind her comfortable life as a doctor in Britain, and heads off for two years to a remote hospital in Sierra Leone. There she finds...
Wounded
A New History of the Western Front in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The number of soldiers wounded in World War I is, in itself, devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. On the battlefield, the injuries were shocking, unlike anything those in the medical field had ever witnessed. The bullets hit fast and hard, went deep and took...
by HRH The Prince of Wales, Tony Juniper, Emily Shuckburgh
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Climate Change is a clear, simple and enlightening introduction to one of the most important issues facing our world today.
From HRH The Prince of Wales, environmentalist Tony Juniper and climate scientist Dr Emily Shuckburgh, it explains the history,...
Lonely
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
In a boldly honest and elegantly written memoir—the first on this topic—Emily White reveals the painful and sometimes debilitating experience of living with chronic loneliness. In the vein of popular favorites such as Girl, Interrupted and Manic, Lonely approaches loneliness in the way that Andrew...
by Emily Webb
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Think nothing ever happens where you live? Suburb an Nightmare is a collection of stories that are hard to believe, except they really happened – and all in the streets and homes of the Australia many of us know and live. The suburbs. These cases range from recent murders to some historical stories...
Amish Christmas at North Star
Four Stories of Love and Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
One night four lives entered the world by the hands of an Amish midwife, just outside North Star, Pennsylvania.
Rebekah’s Babies, as they are called, are now grown adults and in four heartwarming novellas each young person experiences a journey of discovery, a possibility of love, and the...
Is it Bedtime Yet?
Parenting ... the Hilarious, the Hair-raising, the Heart-breaking
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
The experience of parenthood is different for everyone. And every day can be different too. Read a hilarious and moving collection of perspectives from the well-loved Emily Writes and her friends. Some of them are experienced writers, others have put pen to paper for the first time. If it takes a...
Sleep is for the Weak
How to survive when your baby won't go the f**k to sleep
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Sleep Is For The Weak may cause Gina Ford to have contented kittens. It might even force Supernanny to throw herself off the naughty step, but it will certainly provide some welcome comfort and comical light relief to exhausted parents suffering from sleep-deprivation! It features humorous alternatives...
Love Me Again
The Flying Doctors, #1
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
When Dr Jack Montgomery arrives in remote South Australia and announces he is there to work with the Flying Doctors, flight nurse Lauren Harrison knows she's in trouble. She and Jack had a brief affair and she never expected to see him again, let alone have to work with him in the close confines of...
After the Cure
The Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
2009 Association of American University Presses Award for Jacket Design
Chemo brain. Fatigue. Chronic pain. Insomnia. Depression. These are just a few of the ongoing, debilitating symptoms that plague some breast-cancer survivors long after their treatments have...