Jan: 4507 books

Arthritis, psoriasis and related rheumatic diseases are an enormous and growing problem throughout the world, with as many as 80 million people suffering from one or another of these conditions. Patients seeking help or relief from their own doctors or hospitals are often informed that they will simply...

Dutch voyagers from 1599 through the middle 1700s discovered many of the major island groups in the Pacific, including Australia, Easter Island, Fiji, Hawai`i, New Zealand, Samoa and Tonga. Three of those expeditions went east to west around Cape Horn and were led by independent adventurers who challenged...

This book offers a much-needed consideration of Melusine within medieval and contemporary theories of space, memory, and gender. The Middle English Melusine offers a particularly rich source for such a study, as it presents the story of a powerful fairy/human woman who desires a full human life—and...

Hafız'ın Yolculuğu: Gizemli, çekici, düşsel, şiirsel, çarpıcı ve renkli bir Doğu öyküsü!Jan Potocki'nin koluna girip Hafız'ın yolculuğuna çıktığınızda bu öykünün içinde size de yer olduğunu göreceksiniz. Çok çok uzun yıllar öncesinde geçen, zekice kurgulanmış bu küçücük...

What are parents to do when their prolific singer/songwriter son, healthy at age nineteen, writes a song titled “Dance at My Funeral”—and they find themselves six years later doing just that?  Dance at My Funeral, the book, details the tales of Dan Steven, a troubadour who wandered the...

In The Slow Philosophy of J.M. Coetzee Jan Wilm analyses Coetzee's singular aesthetic style which, he argues, provokes the reader to read his works slowly. The effected 'slow reading' is developed into a method specifically geared to analyzing Coetzee's singular oeuvre, and it is shown that his works...

THIS is a second volume of 15 Czech, Slovak and Moravian folk tales, fairy tales and children’s stories retold in English by Parker Fillmore, with excellent illustrations and decorations by Jan Matulka. Herein you will find stories like “LONGSHANKS, GIRTH, AND KEEN”, “THE THREE GOLDEN HAIRS“,...

Jan Grevstads second collection of nine short stories has, above all, the ambition to amuse its reader. Amid a dash of satire, his stories reflect British type of humour at its best. Mostly stories of fiction, they have strong roots in real life with compassion for the human condition and human fate....

Het is een warme zomermiddag wanneer Frank en zijn zoon de dorpsstraat binnenrijden. Die straat is meestal uitgestorven, maar nu staat er een opvallend klein en broos persoon. Een Japanse heer, een exotische verschijning. Hij komt met het bericht dat Rochat overleden is; de man die dertig jaar geleden...

The limiting of violence through state powers is one of the central projects of the modern age. Why then have recent centuries been so bloody? In Trust and Violence, acclaimed German intellectual and public figure Jan Philipp Reemtsma demonstrates that the aim of decreasing and deterring violence...

This unique volume brings together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars as well as Czech and Slovak decisionmakers who were personally involved in the events leading up to the separation of Czechoslovakia. Asking whether the dissolution was inevitable, the contributors bring a range of different...

Young skateboarder Billy Tsosie is quick to take on kids who tease him about his Native American heritage, and equally quick to jump into a fight with the kid who kicks his little cousin, Shawna. When he interacts with his "rellies" on the Navajo reservation for the first time in...

Forty-two light, sweet, delicious, G-rated short stories. Those who enjoy short romance fiction in mainstream women's magazines will love these stories, where boy meets girl, and the future is full of unlimited possibilities.

"The Indigo Children? Oh yeah . . . I know about them! Wasn’t there a movie about that? They’re those special kids who do psychic things and who have dark blue auras, right?" If that’s your take on the Indigos, then you really need to read this book. The Indigo Children are not super-psychic...