Heather: 3162 books
Mining and Communities in Northern Canada
History, Politics, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
For indigenous communities throughout the globe, mining has been a historical forerunner of colonialism, introducing new, and often disruptive, settlement patterns and economic arrangements. Although indigenous communities may benefit from and adapt to the wage labour and training opportunities provided...
by Heather Hydrick
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Ever since I was a little girl, I have always dreamed of going to the University of South Carolina for college.
Seated with Christ
Living Freely in a Culture of Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
As Christians find themselves trapped in the rhetoric of platform, influence, retweets, and fame, they need a ladder out of the fray.
Many of us live in a prison of self-absorption. Shackled with pride and despair, we compare ourselves to others constantly in our frantic, unending pursuit...
by Heather Bayer
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Renting Your Recreational Property for Profit contains everything you need to know to rent out your cottage/condo/holiday home professionally and profitably, with minimum stress. Author Heather Bayer guides you from the first tentative step of deciding to open up your vacation home guests, to what you will need to have in place before they arrive--and everything in between.
Hornblower's Historical Shipmates
The Young Gentlemen of Pellew's Indefatigable
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
This book sets out the lives of seventeen 'young gentlemen' who were midshipmen under the famous Captain Sir Edward Pellew. Together, aboard the frigate HMS Indefatigable, they fought a celebrated action in 1797 against the French ship of the line Les Droits de l'Homme. C. S. Forester, the historical...
Labor of Love
Gestational Surrogacy and the Work of Making Babies
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
While the practice of surrogacy has existed for millennia, new fertility technologies have allowed women to act as gestational surrogates, carrying children that are not genetically their own. While some women volunteer to act as gestational surrogates for friends or family members, others get paid...
Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans
Performing Jewish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
While battling negative stereotypes, American Jews carved out new roles for themselves within the first theatrical entertainments in America. Jewish citizens were active as performers, playwrights, critics, managers, and theatrical shareholders, and often tied their involvement in these endeavors...
by Paul Adams, Natasha Affolder, Andrea C. Akelaitis
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Canadian environmental law is a dynamic and exciting area that is playing an increasingly important role in furthering sustainable development policy. Environmental law has distinctive relevant principles, operating procedures, implications, and importance in comparison with other areas of law, and...
Stalinist City Planning
Professionals, Performance, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Based on research in previously closed Soviet archives, this book sheds light on the formative years of Soviet city planning and on state efforts to consolidate power through cityscape design. Stepping away from Moscow's central corridors of power, Heather D. DeHaan focuses her study on 1930s Nizhnii...
Talk to Me
Conversation Strategies for Parents of Children on the Autism Spectrum or with Speech and Language Impairments
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
If your child finds talking to people a struggle, this is the book to get the conversation started.
In this hands-on guide, Heather Jones offers practical advice, born of experience with her own son, which will help you teach your child the principles of communication. Full of strategies and...
by Heather Parkinson Webb
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
Don’t just LEAD a small group, DIRECT it. Members of your small group look to you for answers. They bring their raw questions and intimate needs to you, looking for wisdom and understanding. How can you encourage your group to consider the Holy Spirit’s voice?“Spiritual direction is an ancient...
The Challenges of Orpheus
Lyric Poetry and Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
As a literary mode "lyric" is difficult to define precisely. While the term has conventionally been applied to brief, songlike poems expressing the speaker's interior thoughts critics have questioned many of the assumptions underlying this definition, calling into doubt the very possibility...
Saving Face
Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Winner, Body and Embodiment Award presented by the American Sociological Association
Imagine yourself without a face—the task
seems impossible. The face is a core feature of our physical identity. Our face
is how others identify us and how we think of our ‘self’. Yet, human faces are
also...
Reforming Sodom
Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
With a focus on mainline Protestants and gay rights activists in the twentieth century, Heather R. White challenges the usual picture of perennial adversaries with a new narrative about America's religious and sexual past. White argues that today's antigay Christian traditions originated in the 1920s...