Ruth: 3308 books

This first volume of Ruth Park’s autobiography is an account of her isolated childhood in the rainforests of New Zealand, her convent education which encouraged her love of words and writing, and the bitter years of the Depression. She then entered the rough-and-tumble world of journalism and began...

Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, Ruth Rogaski reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rogaski focuses on multiple manifestations across time of a single Chinese...

Born on the brink of the modern world, John Aubrey was witness to the great intellectual and political upheavals of the seventeenth century. He knew everyone of note in England—writers, philosophers, mathematicians, doctors, astrologers, lawyers, statesmen—and wrote about them all, leaving behind...

Blickt man anders auf das durchlebte Zeitalter, wenn der Tod näher rückt? Wird das, was früher wichtig war, unwichtig? Wo hat man geirrt? Was hat man bewirken können – und was ist geblieben? Seit vielen Jahren führt ZEIT-Feuilletonchefin Iris Radisch Gespräche mit Schriftstellern und Philosophen...

FOR RUTH, POETRY IS A WAY TO CELEBRATE THE EVERY DAY, SAVORING FAMILIAR MOMENTS WITH IMAGINATION AND WHIMSY. HER NINE DECADES OF LIFE EXPERIENCE LEAVE SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE TO RELATE TO. WITH THE HELP OF HER GRANDDAUGHTER’S ILLUSTRATIONS, HER POEMS ARE BROUGHT TO LIFE.

Parents often confuse love with overindulgence, afraid to subject their children to a moment of frustration or deprive them of anything they might desire. But in order to become resilient and responsible adults, children must learn that they can't always get their way. Since motherhood is now...

Collage Inspiration, Ideas and New Techniques! Inside Explore Mixed Media Collage, authors Kristen Robinson and Ruth Rae transform timeless and classic techniques into fresh, trendy artwork. You will learn not only which techniques to use and how to best combine them, but you'll also follow...

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Create unit plans that will empower your EL students Award-winning teacher Ruth Swinney and Harvard graduate Patricia Velasco focus on the careful planning needed to develop the academic language of all students. For English learners especially, it is critically important to integrate language...

According to Karen Ehman, popular author and speaker with Proverbs 31 Ministries, and Ruth Schwenk, of www.thebettermom.com, it’s time to stop the "Mommy Wars." Today's wives and mothers have been hoodwinked; convinced that serving their family is a subservient and antiquated role....

Surviving the Unimaginable By Ruth Janie Webb He beat me with a hammer. He beat me with a bat. He strangled me until all of my breath had gone and I was left for dead. He shoved the barrel of a 22 riffle in my mouth and told me hed blow my brains out and kill the children too. So when he spit on me,...

Cuando Isa recibe un mensaje en plena madrugada que dice «os necesito», comprende enseguida que el pasado ha vuelto para ajustar cuentas. Pese a que ha hecho lo indecible por olvidar aquel episodio oscuro que marcó su adolescencia, su fidelidad a Kate se antepone a todos sus temores. Así que no...

A “revelatory” (Wall Street Journal) romp through the intimate details of Victorian life, by an historian who has cheerfully endured them all. Lauded by critics, How to Be a Victorian is an enchanting manual for the insatiably curious, the “the cheapest time-travel machine you’ll find”...

About a man who goes out in the snow to find a Christmas tree. He becomes hurt. His sled dogs to find help. A woman comes to his aid. Takes him to his home to find his wife is having her baby