Hannah: 1490 books

Author Hannah N. Walsh was a twenty-one-year-old college student when she experienced her first manic episode. It may have been her first, but it wasnt the last. At age fifty-four, a successful high school English teacher with two children, she had another breakdown. In Having Manic Depression, she...

" Voici une nouvelle voix originale, qui tient son histoire avec une remarquable maîtrise de la langue. Le premier roman d'Hannah Kent, A la grâce des hommes, est un pur bijou, sa prose aussi froide et étincelante que le paysage nordique qu'elle dépeint. " Geraldine Brooks, auteur de...

It is 1948 and three year old Brenda Wilson and her parents have been rehoused on a desolate, sprawling council estate in Northern England. Cissie, Brenda's mother hates her new environment, feeling that she and her family have slipped well down the social scale. it is impressed upon brenda from the...

From the milk we drink in the morning, to the leather shoes we slip on for the day, to the steak we savor at dinner, our daily lives are thoroughly bound up with cows. Yet there is a far more complex story behind this seemingly benign creature, which Hannah Velten explores here, plumbing the rich...

The first book length study of the motif of impotency in poetry from early antiquity through to the late Restoration, this book explores the impotency poem as a recognisable form of poetry in the longer tradition of erotic elegy. Hannah Lavery’s central claim is that the impotency motif is adopted...

The ritual murder accusation is one of a series of myths that fall under the label blood libel, and describes the medieval legend that Jews require Christian blood for obscure religious purposes and are capable of committing murder to obtain it. This malicious myth continues to have an explosive afterlife...

Few if any people think the Clean Air Act is the optimal legislative solution to climate change; but it is a powerful tool that is being used sometimes despite the prevailing political will. To address this reality, this volume calls on the best writing from the most often-cited environmental law journal...

Bob Hannah has always enjoyed writing prose and poetry. He has written stories and poems to celebrate birthdays and special occasions over the years. While living in a condominium community in Avon, Connecticut, he wrote a monthly column called Valley Adventures for the community's publication, In...

Le texte intégral de l'œuvre philosophique et un dossier pédagogique complet ! Le produit d'une pensée active, ancrée dans l'histoire de l'humanité, visant à améliorer la vie humaine. Contexte Née en 1906, Hannah Arendt a connu les deux guerres mondiales ; sa pensée a été marquée...

Cancer? Dont only old people and little kids get cancer? How on earth did I get cancer? Thats what Hannah McGinnis thought when she found out she had Hodgkins lymphoma as a twenty-one-year-old college senior. She didnt qualify for aid, wigs, or wish-fulfillment programs like children under...

This collection of essays examines an important and under-studied topic in early modern Jewish social history”—the family life of Sephardi Jewish families in the Ottoman Empire as well as in communities in Western Europe. At the height of its power in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the...

Justicia, razón, responsabilidad, virtud, gloria. Son palabras que han perdido vigencia en el moderno discurso político. A través de ocho ejercicios sobre la reflexión política Hannah Arendt muestra cómo podemos volver a destilar la esencia vital de esos conceptos tradicionales y emplearlos...

"Hannah Arendt falleció repentinamente el día 4 de diciembre de 1975; era un jueves al atardecer y estaba departiendo con unos amigos. El sábado precedente había acabado “La voluntad”, la segunda sección de La vida del espíritu. Al igual que su obra anterior, La condición humana, el...

“When two roads diverge...take the one that leads to the beach! Hannah McKinnon delivers a charming gem of a novel in Mystic Summer. I adored this book.” —Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Rumor A chance run-in with a college boyfriend puts a young woman’s...