Kristin: 1189 books
by Kristin Gleeson
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2015
Belfast and Alaska 1889
A young woman haunted by her mother’s death embarks on an Alaskan adventure to escape an unwanted marriage. Cunning and determination get her there in the guise of teaching at the Tlingit Indian mission. But Alaska proves more difficult than she imagined, and...
by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
While the military use of drones has been the subject of much scrutiny, the use of drones for humanitarian purposes has so far received little attention. As the starting point for this study, it is argued that the prospect of using drones for humanitarian and other life-saving activities has produced...
Blogging
How Our Private Thoughts Went Public
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Public vs. private is an ongoing concern in communication. This book examines this phenomenon through self-representational writing and the philosophical lens of Hannah Arendt’s public vs. private theory, the Boundary Management theory, and the Parasocial Framework theory to examine the first social...
by Kristin Bair O'Keeffe
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
At a time when nothing seems real,
it takes something truly unusual to put your life into focus.
When her beloved husband Jackson disappeared without a trace, popular novelist Sia Dane stopped writing, closed down her house, stuffed her heart into a cage, and started floating. It wasn’t the...
Primary Stein
Returning to the Writing of Gertrude Stein
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Following Gertrude Stein’s efforts throughout her life to shift the focus from her personality to her writing, the essays in Primary Stein return the lens to her primary texts, including novels, plays, lectures, poetry, and more. Much textual scholarship remains to be done on Stein’s work, whether...
On Earth as It Is in Heaven
The Clock Struck 40...
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2004
Sibyl was the Great Mother of the Gods. Her oracular spirit inspired a succession of priestesses in various places in the ancient world, including the sacred cave at Cumae, famed as an entrance to the underworld. Sibyl called up the dead for interviews and relayed their prophecies to the world.
This...
by Kristin Jacques
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Prophecies don’t untangle themselves. Just ask Ikepela Ives, whose estranged mother left her with the power to unravel the binding threads of fate. Stuck with immortal power in a mortal body, Ives has turned her back on the duty she never wanted.
But it turns out she can’t run from her...
by Trinity Hanrahan, Lenore Cheairs, Wendy Cheairs
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
There are times when the forces unseen are far more wicked than what's in front of you...
The elements are a fundamental belief humans have relied on for thousands of years. In Japanese culture, there are five; Earth (Chi), Water (Mizu), Fire (Ka), Wind (Kaze), and Void (Gai). Each of these...
Play Therapy with Families
A Collaborative Approach to Healing
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Play Therapy and Families: A Collaborative Approach to Healing provides a thorough description of play from prominent academics, researchers, and relevant writers who review it historically. It contains a unique approach for helping families, outlining an in-depth review of play and its relevancy...
Global Memoryscapes
Contesting Remembrance in a Transnational Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
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Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4The transnational movement of people and ideas has led scholars throughout the humanities to reconsider many core concepts. Among them is the notion of public memory and...
The EU's Democracy Promotion and the Mediterranean Neighbours
Orientation, Ownership and Dialogue in Jordan and Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This book provides a systematic analysis of the EU’s extensive, but so far largely failed, efforts to promote democracy in the Mediterranean region, thoroughly assessing its democracy promotion in relation to two Mediterranean countries – Jordan and Turkey. By pinpointing essential prerequisites...
Alice, het wolvenmeisje
een eenzaam kind... Is het te laat om haar het leven te geven dat ze verdient?
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Dr. Julia Cates is een beroemde kinderpsychiater, tot een schandaal haar carrière ruïneert. In ongenade keert zij terug naar Rain Valley, het stadje in de buurt van Washington waar ze is opgegroeid. Daar komt Julia in aanraking met een bijzonder zesjarig meisje, dat helemaal alleen vanuit de donkere...
by Slavoj Žižek, Kristin Ross, Jacques Rancière
Language: French
Release Date: April 23, 2009
Language: French
Release Date: April 23, 2009
"Qu'est-ce qu'un démocrate, je vous prie ? C'est là un mot vague, banal, sans acception précise, un mot en caoutchouc." Cette question, ce jugement sans appel d'Auguste Blanqui datent d'un siècle et demi mais gardent une actualité dont ce livre est un signe. Il ne faut pas s'attendre...
by Kristin Andrychuk
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
With its starting point in the late 1940s, Cadillac Road is the story of red-haired and fierce narrator Sharon Desjardins: from her earliest childhood memories of leaving Northern Quebec and a violent father to adventures in Buffalo and Crystal Beach with her mother and younger sister, Gloria; from...