Tania: 352 books
The Dancing Bees
Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
We think of bees as being among the busiest workers in the garden, admiring them for their productivity. But amid their buzzing, they are also great communicators—and unusual dancers. As Karl von Frisch (1886–1982) discovered during World War II, bees communicate the location of food sources to...
Breathe, Stretch & Move
Get Rid of Workplace Stress
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Break the cycle of tension and exhaustion in the workplace and learn how to have greater energy through correct breathing.Workers today are becoming more sedentary. We are thinking more and using our bodies less - we communicate all day with a computer screen, becoming so absorbed that our shoulders...
The Tusk That Did the Damage
A novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
From the critically acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns and Aerogrammes, a tour de force set in South India that plumbs the moral complexities of the ivory trade through the eyes of a poacher, a documentary filmmaker, and, in a feat of audacious imagination, an infamous elephant known as the Gravedigger.
Orphaned...
by Luis Eduardo Yee, Ana Lucía Ramírez, Isabel Quiroz
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Una pelea de box imposible ("Mandíbula"), la historia de un vendedor de fe ("Rafa el predicador: Hombre rasgado con vista al mar"), una comedia de mafiosos ("Serie gris: El asesinato de la familia Marcelli"), una joven y su almohada de Tijuana al DF ("La idea no era quedarse") y un relato esquizofrénico...
Cage of Bones
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
An abandoned building. A dank cellar. And inside it, a cage of bones. A shocking thriller for fans of Karin Slaughter.
Into the house. Down the stairs. Through the dripping dark of the cellar. Someone is there. Someone that shouldn’t be there. As a building awaits demolition, a horrifying...
by Tania Cooper, Ricky Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
What comes to pass when good and evil collide, when the fate of two worlds hangs by a thread?
When the dust settles and the smoke finally clears, the victor will decide all. The fate of man. The fate of the heavens. The very universe will be shaped by their hand.
But through it all, a deeper struggle...
Louisiana Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, volume 2, highlights the significant historical contributions of some of Louisiana’s most noteworthy and also overlooked women from the eighteenth century to the present. This volume underscores the cultural, social, and political distinctiveness of the state...
Children of Nazis
The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others— Living with a Father's Monstrous Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
In 1940, the German sons and daughters of great Nazi dignitaries Himmler, Göring, Hess, Frank, Bormann, Speer, and Mengele were children of privilege at four, five, or ten years old, surrounded by affectionate, all-powerful parents. Although innocent and unaware of what was happening at the time,...
The Little Book of Perfumes
The Hundred Classics
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
The quintessential guide to the one hundred most glorious perfumes in the world.
When Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez published Perfumes: The Guide in 2008, it was hailed as "ravishingly entertaining" by John Lanchester in The New Yorker, "witty and knowledgeable" on Style.com,...
Storming the Old Boys' Citadel
Two Pioneer Women Architects of Nineteenth Century North America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
“Women” and “architecture” were once mutually exclusive terms. In an 1891 address, Louise Blanchard Bethune declared, “it is hardly safe to assert” that a connection even exists between the two words. Some women didn’t agree. Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart (1823-1902) is credited...
A History of Courtship
800 Years of Seduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Tania O’Donnell takes the reader on a journey from medieval Courtly Love, through to the sexual license of the Restoration, and Victorian propriety. Pick up historical ‘dating tips,’ from how to court (or be courted), write romantic love letters, give and receive gifts, propose and pose as a...
Land's End
Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tania Murray Li offers an intimate account of the emergence of capitalist relations among indigenous highlanders who privatized their common land to plant a boom crop, cacao. Spurred by the hope of ending their poverty and isolation,...
Young, Brave and Beautiful
The Missions of Special Operations Executive Agent Lieutenant Violette Szabô, George Cross, Croix de Guerre avec Étoile de Bronze
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
SOE agent Violette Szabo was the daughter of an English father and French mother, and widow of a French army officer killed in action in North Africa in 1942. On her second mission she was captured by the Germans, interrogated and tortured, and deported to Germany, where she was eventually executed...
by Tania Bianchi
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 30, 2016
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