Joanna: 1376 books
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Joanna Moorhead
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
Pyotr and Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell. Their aim is to overthrow the Tsar, destroy society and seize power for themselves. Together they train terrorists who are willing to go to any lengths to achieve their goals – even if the mission means suicide. But when it seems...
From Churchill's War Rooms
Letters of a Secretary 1943–45
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
The period from 1943 to 1945 saw some of the most important events of World War II, and few were fully aware of the decisions that were to affect the outcome of this global conflict. Yet, a young wartime secretary, Olive Christopherson, spent this remarkable time working in Churchill's famous Cabinet...
Radical Social Change in the United States
Badiou's Apostle and the Post-Factual Moment
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
This book tackles the question of why the United States is so resistant to radical change towards economic justice and peace. Taking full stock of the despair that launched the popular support for Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, Swanger historicizes the political paralysis of post-1974 United States...
Warlords
An Extraordinary Re-creation of World War II through the Eyes and Minds of Hitler, Churchill, Roosev
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2007
With innovative style and thorough scholarship, Warlords tells the story of World War II through the eyes and minds of its four great leaders-Adolf Hitler, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin. While their nations battled in the field, these warlords of the twentieth century waged...
by Joanna D. FaJohn
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Join this exciting new adventure of dragonflies, butterflies, and fireflies. In Series 1, the little butterfly is lured away by the deceitful dragonfly, and she learns a valuable lesson about following God's plan for her life and obeying her parents.
by Virginia McKenna, Joanna Lumley
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Virginia McKenna starred in some of the most popular and enduring movies of our time, among them Carve Her Name With Pride, A Town Like Alice and Born Free, in which she played opposite her husband, Bill Travers. After Born Free both actors were at the peak of their careers, but the film and all it...
Peril at Somner House
A Mystery Featuring Daphne du Maurier
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
After her adventures in Murder on the Cliffs, young Daphne du Maurier travels to a remote island off the coast of Cornwall to visit the estate of Lord and Lady Trevalyan. Somner House, enchanting amidst lush exotic wilderness and only a moment's walk to the sea, beguiles Daphne, but just as looming...
Spirituelle Ökologie
Der Ruf der Erde
Language: German
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Diese brandaktuelle Sammlung von Essays, geschrieben von Leitfiguren der Spiritualität und des Umweltschutzes rund um die Welt, beleuchtet den grundlegenden Zusammenhang unserer gegenwärtigen ökologischen Krise mit unserem fehlenden Bewusstsein für die lebendige Erde. Die Beiträge zeigen, wie...
Rethinking Poles and Jews
Troubled Past, Brighter Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
Since Polish Catholics embraced some anti-Jewish notions and actions prior to WWII, many intertwined the Nazi death camps in Poland with Polish anti-Semitism. As a result, more so than local non-Jewish population in other Nazi-occupied countries, Polish Catholics were considered active collaborators...
by Joanna Cannon
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 19, 2016
SONO LE DECISIONI CHE SEMBRANO POCO IMPORTANTI QUELLE CHE CI CAMBIANO LA VITA.
«Un romanzo originale, commovente e ben scritto. Equivoci e bugie è una delizia dall'inizio alla fine.»
Paula Hawkins, autrice della Ragazza del treno
«Uno dei libri più belli, vitali e affascinanti degli...
Rebel Lands of Cuba
The Campesino Struggles of Oriente and Escambray, 1934–1974
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
The book is a comparative history of twentieth-century Cuban campesinos in two regions in Cuba marked by extreme differences in race, gender, and land tenure: Oriente and Escambray. It explores the ways these differences articulated with state formation from the pre-revolutionary period of 1934-1959...
by Joanna Waley-Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2000
This powerful work puts to rest the long-held myth that Chinese civilization is monolithic, unchanging, and perennially cut off from the rest of the world.
An inviting history of China from the days of the ancient Silk Road to the present, this book describes a civilization more open and engaged...
by Paul Barolsky, Professor Thomas Crow, Gloria Kury
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Fictions of Art History, the most recent addition to the Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, addresses art history’s complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, the volume examines art historians’ viewing practices and modes of writing....
by Mauri Valtonen, Joanna Anosova, Konstantin Kholshevnikov
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
This book, written for a general readership, reviews and explains the three-body problem in historical context reaching to latest developments in computational physics and gravitation theory. The three-body problem is one of the oldest problems in science and it is most relevant even in today’s...