Oliver: 3228 books

Cemís are both portable artifacts and embodiments of persons or spirit, which the Taínos and other natives of the Greater Antilles (ca. AD 1000-1550) regarded as numinous beings with supernatural or magic powers. This volume takes a close look at the relationship between humans and other (non-human)...

Karen Lee Oliver was born in Poughkeepsie , New York on October 1,1959. She furthered a potential career in ballet by moving to N.Y.C. in 1973 where she studied on scholarship with American Ballet Th eater. Ms. Oliver graduated from the State University of New York at Albany with a B.A. degree in...

As a mother, are you comfortable in your skin? Want to know how best to be a stay-at-home or working mum? Babies have very simple needs, yet many parents are overwhelmed with elaborate advice on how to meet them. In How Not to F*** Them Up, leading child psychologist Oliver James argues that...

In these days of daunting headlines, here's some really good news: Your son was God's idea, and you can help him weather the often rocky transition from boyhood to a manhood shaped by God's character and purposes. Drawing from their extensive clinical and personal experience, Gary and Carrie Oliver...

A brand new regency romance from Marina Oliver, author of over 60 books. When Joanna finds herself destitute after her gambler father's suicide, unable to find work, and is offered instead a marriage of convenience, she sees no other option. Sir Kenelm needs a wife as a chaperone, since governesses...

New Regency from Marina Oliver. Brigid has no money, but her unknown family appear to come to her rescue. Is the offer of a home an escape or a trap? Brigid, orphaned, becomes companion and friend to Sophia. When Sophia's brother Matthew proposes, she cannot take him seriously. He must not be allowed...

A new Regency from Marina Oliver When his half-brother is injured, Silas determines to take his place and go back to England to claim John's inheritance. They are almost the same age and look alike. Silas's mother Jenny was John's wet-nurse, and still lives near the Priory. He sails on the...

Love on the luxurious high seas! A new novel by Marina Oliver. Can one find love a second time? Julie, still mourning her husband Andrew, who was killed in a car smash three years ago, doesn't expect to when she is bullied into taking a cruise by her sister Susan, who works in the gift shop...

Bella is forced, by her illegitimate half brother Henry, to marry the abusive Edward who is emigrating to the new settlement in Virginia. After a brutal wedding night she escapes, but Henry finds her and forces her to sail on the next ship. While caring for her sick baby brother Toby and his nurse...

When Mr Greenslade, owner of Green Valley Garden Centre, falls from his wheelchair one night and is rushed into hospital, his daughter Tansy, talented interior designer, gives up the chance of a prestigious commission to go home to the Cotswolds and take charge. Things have been going wrong at the...

YACHT CLUB SERIES by OLIVER OPTIC (WILLIAM TAYLOR ADAMS) This Series contains 3 existing novels: Little Bobtail The Yacht Club The Coming Wave About the Author: Oliver Optic (William Taylor Adams) (July 30, 1822 – March 27, 1897) was a noted academic,...

This early work by James Oliver Curwood was originally published in 1908 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Curwood's novel "The Courage of Captain Plum" is set in 1856 on an offshore island in Lake Michigan. An adventure filled story that sees a young man, Nathaniel...

First published in 1997, this volume responds to the Conservative intention of conducting economic policy along monetarist lines after winning the General Election in May 1979. Michael J. Oliver argues that the monetarist strategy was rejected for several reasons during the 1980s, including the recession...

In Fraud and Misconduct in Research, Nachman Ben-Yehuda and Amalya Oliver-Lumerman introduce the main characteristics of research misconduct, portray how the characteristics are distributed, and identify the elements of the organizational context and the practice of scientific research which enable...