Monica: 1341 books
When Silence Speaks
Elevating Worship Through Expression
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Monica Julita Burton, an educator with a theological background, is an activist and a Spirit-filled and Spirit- led woman of God. Her prolific and prophetic expressions of praise, gratitude and faith compel us to look for meaning and value in the ordinary activities that make up most of our lives....
by Paul La Monica
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
How the world's most powerful media mogul really thinks
The third book in Portfolio's new series looks at Rupert Murdoch, the controversial chairman and CEO of News Corp. He is the subject of endless gossip, speculation, and criticism, but what really drives his bold (and usually successful)...
by Monica Hofer
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
A mother's heartrending loss of her precious child and how she survived the insanity. Her story provides a path to comfort and healing for bereaved parents and their loved ones.“Few things are worse . . . than losing a child. Your story, your experience, is a gift to others.” - Gerald...
Conceptualizing Cruelty to Children in Nineteenth-Century England
Literature, Representation, and the NSPCC
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Moving nimbly between literary and historical texts, Monica Flegel provides a much-needed interpretive framework for understanding the specific formulation of child cruelty popularized by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in the late nineteenth century. Flegel...
Against a Peacock Sky
Two years in the life of a Nepalese village
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
For two years in the early 1980s, Monica Connell lived as a paying guest of Kalchu and Chola in the Nepalese village of Talphi. Gradually she was accepted as a member of the family, sharing its joys and sorrows as well as taking part in its various tasks, from mud plastering the house to rice planting...
Injured Parties
Solving the Murder of Dr Helen Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
On November 9, 1966, popular physician Helen Davidson was battered to death in dense woodland while bird watching and walking her dog a few miles from her Buckinghamshire home. Her body was found the next day, her eyes having been pushed into her skull. The basic facts were published in the Times and...
Inspired from Beyond
The Essence of a Past Love
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
After an experience of a former boyfriends death, Monica writes of her remorse and pain and how she journeyed through the deep grief that overwhelmed her in the following years. This is her memoir of a relationship that she thought had been given up years ago. Through her writing, she processes her...
Strange but True
A Historical Background to Popular Beliefs and Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Why do we:
• Christen ships and sailing vessels or refer to them as ‘she’?
• Avoid the number thirteen, breaking mirrors or walking under ladders?
• Use...
My Life, My Faith, My Journey
Faith Still Moves Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
As a young girl growing up in southeast Georgia, she couldnt wait to graduate high school, if not for anything but, to no longer have to go to church. Monica was eager to experience a world that she had only heard of but, was forbidden to take part in because of her mothers Christian values. She became...
Clown Girl
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Clown Girl lives in Baloneytown, a seedy neighborhood where drugs, balloon animals, and even rubber chickens contribute to the local currency. Against a backdrop of petty crime, she struggles to live her dreams, calling on cultural masters Charlie Chaplin, Kafka, and da Vinci for inspiration. In an effort...
Becoming Centaur
Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
In this study of the relationship between men and their horses in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Monica Mattfeld explores the experience of horsemanship and how it defined one’s gendered and political positions within society.
Men of the period used horses to transform themselves,...
The United States and Brazil
A Long Road of Unmet Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
This book is a succinct overview of the history of US-Brazilian relations over the past two decades.
Monica Hirst considers economic relations between the two countries, presenting pertinent statistical information and detailing key economic policy disputes between the two governments (as well...
A Copyright Masquerade
How Corporate Lobbying Threatens Online Freedoms
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
When thousands marched through ice and snow against a copyright treaty, their cries for free speech on the Internet shot to the heart of the European Union and forced a political U-turn. The mighty entertainment industries could only stare in dismay, their back-room plans in tatters. This highly original...
Being Ugly
Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
In the South, one notion of “being ugly” implies inappropriate or coarse behavior that transgresses social norms of courtesy. While popular stereotypes of the region often highlight southern belles as the epitome of feminine power, women writers from the South frequently stray from this convention...