Helena: 635 books

The world’s only award-winning travel guide with all three locations of 'Inferno' • All novel locations in three beautiful cities • Dante and his life in the Middle Ages • 180 colored photos and maps • Diary anecdotes from Helena’s thriller-tour This award-winning travel guide brings fans...

'You really must read… Ciao Bella.' Sunday Times 'Fascinating… comic… delightful' Sunday Times 'Humorous… rich and satisfying.' Daily Telegraph 'Beautifully written, it made me laugh and I wanted to follow in Helena's footsteps round Italy.' Kate Figes 'A travel book with a difference.' Coventry...

The town of St. Helena lies in the heart of Napa Valley, America�s celebrated wine-producing region located 63 miles north of San Francisco. In 1854, Henry Still and a Mr. Walters purchased 126 acres from the Mexican land grant of Dr. Edward Bale. They offered free lots to anyone who would start a...

Helena Tarnowicz-Barlicka was born in Warsaw in 1894, one of eight children in a large, traditional upper middle-class Polish family. With the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, the family found itself stranded in Moscow, and with the further outbreak of the October Revolution, they were not able...

Originally published in 1942 under the title Minha Vida de Menina—Portuguese meaning “My Life as a Little Girl or “Young Girl”—this book is a diary that was kept by the author, Helena Morley (pseudonym of Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant), when she was between the ages of twelve and fifteen...

"Ist es nicht verrückt? Ohne diese Krankheit hätte ich mir meinen größten Wunsch, Sängerin zu werden, nie erfüllt. Und gleichzeitig kann mir die Krankheit alles wieder nehmen." Helena Zumsande ist mit einundzwanzig Jahren an Magenkrebs gestorben. Ihre Heilungschancen waren gering. Trotzdem kämpfte...

Answer of a Distant Star By: Helena Petrus Tania, an African girl who has never ventured far outside her native village, has a rare opportunity to travel to distant stars in our galaxy. She discovers new friendships and loves that she never thought possible. Answer of a Distant Star...

Una Navidad con ACOSTA ars comprende una serie de seis cuentos cortos ambientados en esta época del año. Nacen de la pluma de Andrea y Helena Acosta como episodios independientes de obras de ambas, algunas de ellas inéditas. Si bien unas son historias intimistas y cercanas, otras, salvajes...

Helena Roerich was an unusually gifted woman, author of many books. Her collected Letters, in two volumes, are an example of the wisdom, spiritual insight, and simple advice she shared with a multitude of correspondents—friends, foes, and co-workers alike.

Helena Blavatsky is one of the most famous occultists of all time. Founder of The Theosophical Society, she has developed a polarising reputation; her supporters see her as a visionary and a spiritual genius, her detractors as a charlatan and a fraud. Here are collected two of her short stories concerning spiritualism and the occult.

“These previously unpublished diaries of an English woman surviving the war at home provide a fascinating insight into society and life” (Firetrench).   Helena Hall’s daily diary of the war years, from 1940 to 1945, is one of the most vivid, detailed and evocative personal records of the Second...

A comprehensive and multidisciplinary view of the emerging paradigm of user and open innovation, offering both theoretical and empirical perspectives. The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth of new models of managing and organizing the innovation process that emphasizes...

Finalist for the Chaucer Award for Historical Fiction 2014 and B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree Hollywood made him a blacksmith; Arab chronicles said he was "like a king." He served a leper, but defied Richard the Lionheart. He fought Saladin to a stand-still, yet retained his respect. Rather...

For centuries, the trickster has been used in various narratives, including mythological, literary and cinematic, to convey the idea of agency, rebellion and, often turbulent, progress. In The Trickster and the System: Identity and Agency in Contemporary Society,Helena Bassil-Morozow shows how the...