Frances: 2004 books
by Janette Benaddi, Helen Butters, Niki Doeg
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
A TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 The incredible true story of four ordinary working mums from Yorkshire who took on an extraordinary challenge and broke a world record along the way. Janette, Frances,...
Daring Democracy
Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
An optimistic book for Americans who are asking, in the wake of Trump’s victory, What do we do now? The answer: We need to organize and fight to protect and expand our democracy.
Americans are distraught as tightly held economic and political power drowns out their voices and values. Legendary...
Thieving Three-Fingered Jack
Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017
The fugitive slave known as “Three-Fingered Jack” terrorized colonial Jamaica from 1780 until vanquished by Maroons, self-emancipated Afro-Jamaicans bound by treaty to police the island for runaways and rebels. A thief and a killer, Jack was also a freedom fighter who sabotaged the colonial...
by Frances Donaldson
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden is home of two of the most famous opera and ballet companies in the world. In this official history, Frances Donaldson discusses Covent Garden's many legendary achievements - Der Rosenkavalier with Lotte Lehmann, the unparalleled partnership of Fonteyn and Nureyev,...
Eating in Color
Delicious, Healthy Recipes for You and Your Family
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
A fun, accessible way to add a colorful array of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains to your diet—with more than 90 recipes and photos.
Registered dietician and bestselling cookbook author Frances Largeman-Roth shows home cooks how to use the color spectrum to bring more vividly-hued food...
Sound Unbound
Sampling Digital Music and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
The role of sound and digital media in an information-based society: artists—from Steve Reich and Pierre Boulez to Chuck D and Moby—describe their work.
If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remix—how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines...
Two Little Girls
A totally gripping psychological thriller with a twist
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
An innocent girl is taken. The killer confesses. But that’s not the whole story. That’s not even the beginning... It’s 1985 and the disappearance of twelve-year-old Lisa Cook shocks the nation. Her best friend, Kirsty, traumatised and fearful, gives evidence that helps to put the Cook family’s...
The Complete Novels of Fanny Burney (Illustrated)
Victorian Classics, Including Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla & The Wanderer, With Author's Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "The Complete Novels of Fanny Burney" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "Evelina" is the unacknowledged, but legitimate daughter of a dissipated English aristocrat, thus raised in rural seclusion...
by Frances Gies
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
A magisterial history of the origins, reality, and legend of the knight
Born out of the chaos of the early Middle Ages, the armored and highly mobile knight revolutionized warfare and quickly became a mythic figure in history. From the Knights Templars and English knighthood to the crusades...
The Forgotten Kindertransportees
The Scottish Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The Forgotten Kindertransportees offers a compelling new exploration of the Kindertransport episode in Britain. The Kindertransport brought close to 10,000 unaccompanied children and young people to Britain on a trans-migrant basis between 1938 and 1939, with an estimated 70% of these children being...
by Guan Hanquing, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Men in this town were born with mouths that can right wrongs with a few words. Why are you too timid to speak?
As she is about to be executed for a murder she didn't commit, young widow Dou Yi vows that, if she is innocent, snow will fall in midsummer and a catastrophic drought will strike.
Three...
You Have the Power
Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
Frances Moore Lappé-author of the million-selling Diet for a Small Planet-and Jeffrey Perkins offer the radical notion that our fears can be a source of energy to create the lives and the world we want.
Now more than ever, it seems, our lives and the lives of our loved ones are at risk. Our...
by Alastair Gunn, Eliza Lynn Linton, Catherine Crowe
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Twenty ghostly tales from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the sixth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 6 in the series spans the years 1854 to 1901 and includes stories...
Jung and Levinas
An ethics of mediation
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book brings C.G. Jung into conversation with the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, taking a radical view of post-modernist theory which, the author argues, is relentlessly introverted. Frances Gray presents completely new research which extends analytical psychology into the world of dispute...