Marianne: 1163 books
Out of Many, One People
The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
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As a source of colonial wealth and a crucible for global culture, Jamaica has had a profound impact on the formation of the modern world system. From the island's economic and military importance to the colonial empires it has...
Domestic Violence and Protecting Children
New Thinking and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
In this volume, the authors present an overview of the innovative work taking place in relation to domestic violence and child protection.
This book looks at new prevention initiatives and how interventions for children exposed to domestic violence have been developed. It shows how services...
Call of the Outback
The remarkable story of Ernestine Hill, nomad, adventurer and trailblazer
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Long before Robyn Davidson wrote Tracks, the extraordinary Ernestine Hill was renowned for her intrepid travels across Australia's vast outback.
After the birth of her illegitimate son, Ernestine Hill abandoned her comfortable urban life as a journalist for a nomadic one, writing about this...
Ritorno all'amore
Come creare Miracoli vivendo con Amore la vita di tutti i giorni. Riflessioni sui principi di “Un Corso in Miracoli”
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Una guida spirituale basata sulle riflessioni dell’autrice su Un corso in miracoli e sulle sue intuizioni relative all’applicazione dell’amore nella ricerca della pace interiore. Tutti noi possiamo trasformarci in creatori di miracoli accettando ed esprimendo amore nella vita di tutti i giorni....
To Catch a Cop
The Paul O'Sullivan Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
This book is an account of forensic consultant Paul O’Sullivan’s role in helping nail South Africa’s most powerful policeman: Jackie Selebi, former police chief and head of Interpol. Based on thousands of pages of e-mails, statements, affidavits, letters, press reports, court records, and transcripts...
200 Women
Who Will Change The Way You See The World
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Two hundred women from a variety of backgrounds are asked the same five questions. Their answers are inspiring human stories of success and courage, love and pain, redemption and generosity. From well-known activists, artists, and innovators to everyday women whose lives are no less exceptional for...
Missing in Action
Australia's World War I Grave Services, an astonishing true story of misconduct, fraud and hoaxing
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
By the end of World War I, 45,000 Australians had died on the Western Front. Some bodies had been hastily buried mid-battle in massed graves; others were mutilated beyond recognition. Often men were simply listed as 'Missing in Action' because nobody knew for sure.
Lieutenant Robert Burns was...
by Marianne Hoogstraaten, Theo Hoogstraaten
Language: Dutch
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: Dutch
Release Date: April 22, 2016
2015 Er zijn twee brieven van Michelangelo verdwenen uit het geheime Vaticaanse Archief. Nog geen dag later wordt de beheerder van het Geheime Archief op gruwelijke wijze vermoord. Emilia raakt op een bizarre manier bij de zaak betrokken en wordt gegijzeld. Gaat ze het overleven? 1509 Mirabella wordt...
by Athol Fugard, Marianne McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
“A rare playwright who could be a primary candidate for either the Nobel Prize in Literature or the Nobel Peace Prize.”—The New YorkerThis new play about life and art by renowned playwright Athol Fugard is based on his early friendship with actor Andrew Huegonit, considered the finest...
by Marianne Pelletier
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Tell her what you want! Open the door to a more intimate relationship with that special woman in your life, and express your desires to her. Romancing Me: A Guide for My Girl will walk you through how to tell her what’s important to you, what you want, and how you want to romance her. You don’t have...
Femininity, Self-harm and Eating Disorders in Japan
Navigating contradiction in narrative and visual culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
From the 1980s onwards, the incidence of eating disorders and self-harm has increased among Japanese women, who report receiving mixed messages about how to be women. Mirroring this, women’s self-directed violence has increasingly been thematised in diverse Japanese narrative and visual culture.
This...
by Marianne Koerfer
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
The Zodiac serial killer terrorized the San Francisco Bay area from December 1968 to October 1969 when the violent killings suddenly stopped. But the fear continued into another decade as the killer mailed a series of threatening letters and cards to several newspapers and police agencies. Considering...
Telling Lives
Exploring dimensions of narratives
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Both interest in and understanding of narrative analysis had developed rapidly in recent years and is now a mainstream element of research across many disciplines. In the groundbreaking Telling Lives: Exploring dimensions of narratives, the author illustrates as many facets as possible of the stories people tell about their lives. She demonstrates
by Jeanette Ives Erickson, DNP, RN
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
At the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), nurses have boldly dared to transform their nursing program into a place where patient care, science, research, and evidence combine for improved practice, responsible economics, enhanced mentoring, and a fertile place to allow extraordinary nurses to develop....