Marjorie: 555 books
How to Make Love to a Lobster
An Eclectic Guide to the Buying, Cooking, Eating and Folklore of Shellfish
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Devotees will tell you that eating these wonderful beasts is not only healthy but also very sexy. They insist there has to be some truth to the many myths that expound their aphrodisiac qualities and more than one reason why so many of them have been immortalized in numerous stories, poems and songs....
Divorce in Maryland
The Legal Process, Your Rights, and What to Expect
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Providing accurate and objective information to help make the right decisions during a divorce in Maryland, this guide provides answers to 350 queries such as What is the mediation process in Maine and is it required? How quickly can one get a divorce? Who decides who gets the cars, the pets, and...
The Aerie
Air Strip on Weeks Mountain
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Flying over the flat, tree-covered top of Weeks Mountain in the foothills of the High Sierras on Sunday afternoon in the fall of 1983, Pat and Leslie Halston spot the perfect place to build a landing strip of their own. After persuading old Mr. Weeks to sell the land to him, Pat clears the mountaintop...
by Marjorie Baron Russell
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
When the War was still raging in Europe, and black-out came down soon after sunset, there was really very little to talk about that gave one real satisfaction but Food and especially "What I Should Like to Eat Now". In the middle of an entrancing conversation with an old friend about what we had most...
Expanding American Anthropology, 1945-1980
A Generation Reflects
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Expanding American Anthropology, 1945–1980: A Generation Reflects takes an inside look at American anthropology’s participation in the enormous expansion of the social sciences after World War II. During this time the discipline of anthropology itself came of age, expanding into diverse subfields,...
North China and Japanese Expansion 1933-1937
Regional Power and the National Interest
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This work draws on a wide range of Chinese and Japanese sources to analyse the uncertain loyalties and complex internal pressures that drove Sino-Japanese interaction in prewar north China. It examines the shifting understandings of the North China problem in its practical, political and moral aspects,...
The European Union and the South
Relations with Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2002
At the end of the current millenium the best description of Europe's relations with the developing countries of the South is: all change. Since 1957 the European Community has operated special policies for developing countries, many of which were formerly European colonies. However, neither the policies...
by E. F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...
Correcting the Landscape
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
The editor of a small weekly newspaper in Fairbanks, Alaska, Gus Traynor is an independent spirit whose idealism has survived numerous tests. When big business interests threaten the breathtaking wilderness he cherishes, he joins forces with his best friend—an often self-serving developer—to take...
Shadow Women (Routledge Revivals)
Homeless Women's Survival Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
First published in 1990, this book emerged from the author’s experiences talking to homeless women and her desire to bring these problems to light along with the social injustice that often underlies them. The book also describes being "at risk": a paycheck, widowhood, or unfair divorce...
Schema Therapy
A Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2006
Designed to meet the formidable challenges of treating personality disorders and other complex difficulties, schema therapy combines proven cognitive-behavioral techniques with elements of other widely practiced therapies. This book--written by the model's developer and two of its leading practitioners--is...
Shamanic Worlds
Rituals and Lore of Siberia and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The ancient heartland of shamanism is no longer forbidden territory - to travelers or to the spirits. But the spirits never left the vastnesses of Siberia and Central Asia, as these writings reveal. Russian and native experts, and an American cultural anthropologist who has done fieldwork in the region,...
by Alex Bates, Koichi Haga, Ursula Heise
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
What can ecocriticism do when engaging with Japanese literature and culture? This edited volume Ecocriticism in Japan attempts to answer this question. The contributors place themselves inside the domestic fields of production of works of art and express their concerns and ideas for the English-speaking...