Lina: 259 books

This edition features a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS Preface CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. CHAPTER II. CONVENTS AMONG THE FRANKS, A.D. 550-650. CHAPTER III. CONVENTS AMONG THE ANGLO-SAXONS, A.D. 630-730. CHAPTER IV. ANGLO-SAXON NUNS IN CONNECTION WITH BONIFACE. CHAPTER...

Digitization has transformed the way we interact with our social, political and economic environments. While it has enhanced the potential for citizen agency, it has also enabled the collection and analysis of unprecedented amounts of personal data. This requires us to fundamentally rethink our understanding...

With developments in media technologies creating new opportunities and challenges for social movements to emerge and mobilize, this book is a timely and necessary examination of how organized labour and workers movements are engaging with this shifting environment. Based on extensive empirical research...

In a lovely English village of flowers, Tudor cottages and cobbled streets, Joan Brook works as companion to Lady d'Arcy, living in at the huge mansion with its surrounding park. And the village is not too small for Joan to have found a man whom she can love. Suddenly the peaceful surface of...

The Wheel Spins will make you think well. The plot revolves around Iris Carr, which takes the train to the Balkans. She managed to make friends with Miss Froy. Carr falls asleep. After she wakes up, she no longer notices Miss Froy. She starts asking the train passengers about her. However, passengers deny that she ever existed at all.

Oldtown is a picturesque, historic place, with a square of characterful houses nestling at its centre, and is home to retired colonial masters and friendly locals. A wealthy, reclusive sisterhood lives there too, in a large mansion, Cloisters; a group known locally as the 'Black Nuns', who are said...

The story „Midnight House” about the mysterious house. The owners, who went abroad. However, neighbors claim that they saw them in the city. This house is associated with ill-fated love and early death. For a long time, it was closed, but soon reopened...

Charlie Baxter, whose sudden death in the prime of his life surprises everyone in Starminster, faces a lot of problems. The preparations for his funeral have to be done, people keep sending flowers or calling to see the mourning widow. And he learns, that it can be quite difficult to be dead, when you are still alive ...

Caroline Watts has accepted a post as games mistress at the prestigious Abbey School in the west of England. She is delighted with the appointment: it's an excellent private girls' school. No matter that she was introduced to the post through a tenuous network of family contacts. And that the previous...

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Law - Criminal process, Criminology, Law Enforcement, grade: 1, University of Hull, language: English, abstract: This writing argues that punishment should be interpreted in wide social, political, and economic contexts. The cultural prism is seen...

WHEN but a little while ago we undertook to write a “guide book” to one of the better known towns of Central Italy, we realised perhaps imperfectly how wide and full was the field of work which lay before us. The “story” of Perugia is, like the story of nearly all Italian towns, as full and varied...

Hizbullah is not only a leading political actor in Lebanon and a dynamic force in the Middle East, but it is also distinguished by a sophisticated communication strategy. From relatively humble beginnings in the 1980s, Hizbullah's political clout and its public perception have followed an upward trajectory,...

Esta investigación pertenece a la historia social, específicamente a la línea interesada en el estudio de las familias de las élites locales del Antiguo Régimen, cuyas herramientas conceptuales y metodológicas nos permiten comprender las actitudes y los comportamientos de las sociedades rurales...

In the wake of independence, Spanish American leaders perceived the colonial past as looming over their present. Crafting a Republic for the World examines how the vibrant postcolonial public sphere in Colombia invented narratives of the Spanish “colonial legacy.” Those supposed legacies included...