Mitchell: 2472 books

Too little self-confidence may lead to depression and anxiety disorders, but too much may also lead to clinical narcissism. Hence, having a healthy level of confidence is of utmost importance in order to keep your mental and emotional health balanced. Being mentally and emotionally healthy also means...

On 5 July 1899 Hilda Blake, a 21-year-old maidservant in Brandon, Manitoba, who had come to Canada from England ten years earlier as an orphan immigrant, shot and killed her mistress. Two days after Christmas she was hanged, one of the few women in Canadian history to die for her crime. Blake...

The Impact of Stress On Your Life: Feeling irritable, fatigued and overwhelmed lately? Is juggling the dual roles of work and homemaker or caregiver causing mood swings that drain your strength? Make you impatient, angry and short tempered? These are signs of your body under stress. Research...

An empowering guide to recovering from the damage of childhood sexual abuse and living with confidence. This is a zesty self-help book without therapy jargon, but also without simplistic answers to a very complex and deep wound. It will help readers find the strength to come to terms with what happened...

This book offers the first comprehensive overview of jazz in the 21st Century, with nearly 60 conversational profiles of major jazz artists, from living masters such as Wayne Shorter to rising stars such as Esperanza Spalding. The artists discuss their lives, their music, and the state of the art form....

Author John Hanson Mitchell recounts a marathon bicycle trek from Andalusia to the Outer Hebrides, tracing solar myths, sun cults, birds, and flowering plants all along the way.

Marshal Clay Best was sick of being a low-paid, over-worked lawman. He wanted a small spread somewhere where he could raise a few head of cattle. Instead, he found himself saddled with a pretty widow and trying to rescue a beautiful hostage. "Non-stop action in a Texas setting described...

They were asleep for 572 years...Shard Mountain is an epic science-fiction fantasy novel set in a distant post-apocalypse future America.Three young men involved in a highway accident are surprised to wake up not in a hospital, but in a dark underground tomb, five-hundred years in the...

Ambivalent Europeans examines the implications of living on the fringes of Europe. In Malta, public debate is dominated by the question of Europe, both at a policy level - whether or not to join the EU - and at the level of national identity - whether or not the Maltese are 'European'. Jon Mitchell...

Dramatherapy is being increasingly practised in a range of therapeutic settings and is of growing interest to theatre practitioners and teachers. The Handbook of Dramatherapy brings together five authors who have considerable experience of clinical, artistic and educational work to provide an easy-to-read...

Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse develops a narrative theory of the pervasive use of disability as a device of characterization in literature and film. It argues that, while other marginalized identities have suffered cultural exclusion due to a dearth of images reflecting...

Part 1:A young man investigating the disappearance of a child suddenly becomes the focus of mysterious messages and strange meetings. Will they help him find the boy, or simply serve to distract him?

In Constitutional Deliberation in Congress J. Mitchell Pickerill analyzes the impact of the Supreme Court’s constitutional decisions on Congressional debates and statutory language. Based on a thorough examination of how Congress responds to key Court rulings and strategizes in anticipation of them,...

This book is a compilation of poems written by Mitchell while studying nature during walks in his woods, or fishing in some of Michigan's many lakes."