Herman: 1212 books

What constitutes a family? Tracing the dramatic evolution of Americans’ answer to this question over the past century, Kinship by Design provides the fullest account to date of modern adoption’s history.             Beginning in the early 1900s, when children were still transferred...

Armed with the twin swords of guilt and anxiety, many baby boomers are marching toward retirement to a tune unlike any their own parents heard a generation ago. Just when they expected peace of mind and an empty nest, far too many boomers are discovering a different reality: • Adult children...

Have you been asked, "what nationality are you" or "what country are you from"?Have you been puzzled when forms tell you to "select only one ethnicity"?Have you been disturbed to hear that you’re the "face of a colorblind future"?If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, this book is for...

1942 is het kantelpunt van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Vanaf november lijden de nazi's zware nederlagen. Overal in het Westen, van Londen tot Washington, veranderen overheden en hun ambtenaren de politieke koers. Ook in Antwerpen. Herman Van Goethem wekt dit cruciale jaar weer tot leven. Hij schrijft...

The mechanisms of everpresent bacteria in the human body mimic much of our own human behavior, when we act. Pathogenicity, the call to arms for men at war, bacteria hungry for lunch, humans husbanding individual strength for collective undertaking,defines the tipping point or critical mass required...

Thoughtful, poignant, and hilarious personal essays collected by the editors of Creative Nonfiction explore the meanings of Italian-American identity. In the twenty-one nonfiction narratives collected in Our Roots Are Deep with Passion, established and emerging writers with family ties to Italy...

Bartleby, The Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street - (FREE Audiobook Included!) -Included TOC for Reader. -Included biography the author. -Free Audiobook link for download. Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a short story by the American writer Herman...

Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev (1871 – 1919) was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer. He is one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age period in Russian history. Andreyev's style combines elements of realist, naturalist and symbolist schools in literature....

Herman Melville was one of the greatest writers during the American Renaissance.  Melville’s unique style helped produce classics in many different genres.  This edition of Poor Man’s Pudding and Rich Man’s Crumbs includes a table of contents. 

Wie was de schrijver van de Ilias en de Odyssee? Wanneer was de Slag bij Salamis? Toe hoe ver reikte de veroveringstocht van Alexander de Grote? Wat was het principaat? Welke betekenis heeft de Romeinse keizer Constantijn gehad voor de verspreiding van het christendom? Het zijn maar enkele van de...

Despite the nuanced and often camoflauged manifestation of 'racial'behavior, it's presence is a naturally occuring phenomenon of evolution and the thesis presented explores not a way to eradicate a naturally occuring behavior, like 'fight or flight' but rather tries to understand its origin and evolution so to be able better to integrate the facts of its presence

It's true. It's all true for Moby-Dick. He's a killer, he's a fury, he's an angel of hell. Why if the white whale could talk he'd talk like Ahab.' Nantucket. 1851. Centre of a whaling industry that transformed blubber into the oils and candles that lit the world. It's there that a schoolmaster...

"Bartleby, el escribiente" ("Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street") es un cuento del escritor estadounidense Herman Melville. Ha sido considerado una de sus mejores obras.

Spiritual writers are drawn to the writing process by a powerful sense of mission a desire to develop and share their special revelation with the world. But that call to write is often at odds with the realities of publishing and the commercial needs of publishers. Many writers feel they lack the knowledge...