Jo: 4296 books
Daffodil
The remarkable story of the world's most popular spring flower
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
There is no harbinger of spring like a field or garden filled with bright yellow daffodils. But the world of the daffodil is much more than just its place in the march of the seasons. It’s a plant whose history starts with the tombs of the Pharaohs, through pre-Darwin evolutionary theory and Cornwall’s...
The First Class
Transits of Brazilian Literature Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
What does a professor Brazilian or otherwise think and do on the first day of class, standing before a group of “foreign” students to talk about Brazilian literature? This apparently simple question that gave rise to the essays gathered in this book opens a series of other questions: Who is...
Telling Stories
The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
In Telling Stories, Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett argue that personal narratives-autobiographies, oral histories, life history interviews, and memoirs-are an important research tool for understanding the relationship between people and their societies. Gathering examples...
by Jo Nesbo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 23, 2017
La esperada nueva novela de Harry Hole, un caso inquietante en el que Jo Nesbø profundiza en la oscuridad del ser humano.
Hay un nuevo criminal en la calle.
Cuando aparece el cadáver de una mujer, asesinada tras una cita concertada en internet, las más finas membranas de la ciudad...
by Jo Nesbo
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Roger Brown é um vilão sedutor, um homem que parece ter tudo: é o caçador de cabeças mais bem-sucedido da Noruega - procura e seleciona altos quadros para as maiores empresas - , casado com uma elegante galerista e proprietário de uma casa luxuosa. Mas, por detrás desta fachada de sucesso,...
Adoption Process
Discover Everything You Need To Know To Adopt A Child With This Prize-Winning Guide To adopting the hurt child, Adoption Drama, Adoption Made Easy, Adoption United States, Adoption Facts and Adoption Laws
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
In North America, more and more families are adding members through adoption. And there are more ways to adopt and kinds of adoption than ever. This quick start resource will help prospective parents consider key emotional and spiritual issues up front... before they plunge into the near overwhelming...
by Jo Guldi, David Armitage
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
How should historians speak truth to power – and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history – especially long-term history – so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which gave rise to our conflicted present?...
by Ms. Jo Tuckman
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
In 2000, Mexico's long invincible Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) lost the presidential election to Vicente Fox of the National Action Party (PAN). The ensuing changeover—after 71 years of PRI dominance—was hailed as the beginning of a new era of hope for Mexico. Yet the promises of the...
Sex Slaves and Discourse Masters
The Construction of Trafficking
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Why is the international community so concerned with the fate of prostitutes abroad? And why does the story of trafficking sound so familiar? In this pioneering new book, Jo Doezema argues that the current concern with trafficking in women is a modern manifestation of the myth of white slavery. Combining...
by Nancy Jo Sales
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Entre 2008 e 2009, as residências de Lindsay Lohan, Orlando Bloom, Paris Hilton e diversas outras celebridades foram invadidas e saqueadas. Os ladrões, um grupo de jovens de famílias abastadas, levaram o equivalente a 3 milhões de dólares em joias, dinheiro e artigos de grife, como relógios...
by Jo Ann Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
With vivid stories and an infectious delight in the garden, Jo Ann Gardner shares her wisdom and useful tips on planting, growing, and harvesting more than 90 different kinds of herbs.
Every gardener will benefit from the author’s intimate knowledge of herbs and their histories, growing needs,...
by Jo Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Her Heart Was Locked Away
Rhyne Abbot is fierce, brave, and used to a life of isolation on her father's spread on the outskirts of Reidsville, Colorado. But when, overcome with sickness, she collapses, she knows she must return to town if she is to have any hope of recovery. Only there is no...
Engraved In Stone
Timeless Epitaphs of Celebrities, Scoundrels and Everyday People
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
ENGRAVED IN STONE features the wit and wisdom of more than 150 epitaphs from film stars, outlaws, novelists, politicians, artists, gunfighters, explorers, musicians, plus a lot of other people you'll never meet; but maybe wish you had! "I wrote this book for four principal reasons. First and foremost,...
Michael Polanyi and His Generation
Origins of the Social Construction of Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
In Michael Polanyi and His Generation, Mary Jo Nye investigates the role that Michael Polanyi and several of his contemporaries played in the emergence of the social turn in the philosophy of science. This turn involved seeing science as a socially based enterprise that does not rely on empiricism...