Marianne: 1163 books
The Last Right
Craig Schonegevel's Struggle to Live and Die with Dignity
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
"The Last Right" is the true story of Craig Schonegevel who suffered from the extremely variable condition known as Neurofibromatosis Type 1. In Craig’s case his life was mostly one of operations, pain and suffering and his brave attempts to slay the NF 1 dragon that kept on gnawing at...
Scientific Visualisation
Epistemic Weight and Surpluses
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Much of the recent confidence in the future of science and technology stems from advances in scientific visualisation. But is it right to assume that visual – and especially pictorial – measures carry special epistemic weight in the context of scientific reasoning? Do pictorial approaches have...
by Ms Marianne Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Seabirds are the living links between land, air and sea. They enjoy a freedom that even humans, with all our technological assistance, can barely imagine. Many species travel mind-boggling distances across the length and breadth of our planet before returning to land to breed in large, deafening and...
by Rachel Warren Chadd, Ms Marianne Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Why are owls regarded either as wise or as harbingers of doom? What gave rise to the fanciful belief that storks bring babies? Why is the eagle associated with victory or the hummingbird with paradise?
The answers are here in this new and engaging book. By re-telling the many legends, beliefs, proverbs...
Trade in Strangers
The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 1999
American historians have long been fascinated by the "peopling" of North America in the seventeenth century. Who were the immigrants, and how and why did they make their way across the ocean? Most of the attention, however, has been devoted to British immigrants who came as free people or...
by Ton van Naerssen, Lothar Smith, Marianne H. Marchand
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This book endeavours to take the conceptualisation of the relationship between transnational remittance exchanges and gender to a new level. Thus, inevitably, it provides a number of case studies of relationships between gender and remittances from around the world, highlighting different processes...
by Marianne Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
On the other Side, is a story about a young German girl, her family, and friends. The events take place in a quaint, old city in the foothills of the Taunus Mountain region near the Rhine. The story begins with the mysterious disappearance of her father suspected due to political provocation. The...
The Neuroaffective Picture Book
An Illustrated Introduction to Developmental Neuropsychology
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
An illustrated introduction to the evolution and early development of the brain, emotions, and personality
Designed for psychologists, psychotherapists, and childcare professionals, this book is an accessible primer on developmental neuropsychology, combining easy-to-understand text with light-hearted...
Inclusion, Play and Empathy
Neuroaffective Development in Children's Groups
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Contributions from early childhood educators, teachers, psychologists, music therapists, occupational therapists, and psychotherapists highlight the crucial role that early relationships and interactions in group settings play in the development of children's personal, emotional and social skills.
The...
Paul Ricoeur in the Age of Hermeneutical Reason
Poetics, Praxis, and Critique
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Poetics, Praxis and Critique: Paul Ricoeur in the Age of Hermeneutical Reason addresses contemporary problems of justice, the recognition of disabled persons, the role of imagination in political judgment, the need for religious hospitality and carnal hermeneutics. The essays in this volume are a...
Dress for Success
An Instant Diary for Christian Women
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Dress for Success is a Bible study for women in the form of an instant diary.
It contains three months of guided learning intended for use in a group or by an individual. It covers topics such as surrender, prayer, laughter, temptation, friendship, covenant, and imagination.
Written...
by Afitap Boz, Charles Francis, Marianne Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Writing has been part of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at San Francisco State University since its beginning; people expressing the lives theyve led or might have led; or saving fragments of history in danger of vanishing forever if they dont get it written down. The dream was a community...
Translation
The Interpretive Model
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This book, the English version of La traduction aujourd'hui (Hachette 1994), describes the interpretive theory of translation developed at the Paris Ecole Supérieure d'Interprètes et de Traducteurs (ESIT) over the last 35 years.
The theory identifies the mental and cognitive processes...
A Death at Crooked Creek
The Case of the Cowboy, the Cigarmaker, and the Love Letter
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
"This is an extraordinary and ground-breaking book, a wonderfully creative mix of fact and theory, imagination and drama…The startling origin of the complex 'intention exception' to the hearsay evidence rule becomes canvas on which a grand and marvelously detailed tale is told. This is modern narrative...