Vanessa: 2154 books
Regional Development and Settlement Policy
Premises and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Originally published in 1986. This book focusses on a critical analysis of regional development strategy in South Africa, and shifts over time in that strategy. Regional development theory and thinking about settlement policy have developed largely independently of each other. This book clarifies...
Southern Illinois University at 150 Years
Growth, Accomplishments, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Chartered in 1869, Southern Illinois University has been a stalwart presence on the southern Illinois landscape for a century and a half. This book celebrates the 150th anniversary of the university’s founding by exploring in depth its history since 1969, when the last book to celebrate a major...
Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century
Global Manifestations, Transdisciplinary Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century: Global Manifestations, Transdisciplinary Interventions is a tightly interconnected and richly collaborative book that will advance our understanding of why it is so difficult to re-form and reimagine whiteness in the twenty-first century. Composed after...
by Vanessa Carvo
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Two spoiled and formerly rich sisters from Canada end up in Oklahoma with two cowboys and lead very different lives with different goals. There’s a bit of gold digging going on at first, but then things start to sort themselves out.
My Beautiful Daughter
An Inspirational True Story About a Daughters Fight to Conquer Her Drug Addiction Through the Eyes of Her Mother.
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
My Beautiful Daughter is an inspirational true story about a daughters fight against drug addiction through the eyes of her mother. Louise goes from a happy contented child, to a self destructive drug addict. The impact that it would have on her family especially her parents is key to it all. The...
by Vanessa Carvo
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Mail Order Groom: Going To Meet Lee, is about a newspaper editor dissatisfied with his life in the Big Apple. He decides to head to Nebraska, where a family he barely remembers has offered to provide him with the ranch life, plus a daughter whose name he doesn’t know, to perhaps become his mail order bride. There are two hearts to be healed in this western romance.
by Vanessa Willoughby
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
College guides written by students for students.
Emerson College Students Tell It Like It Is
This insider guide to Emerson College in Boston, MA, features more than 160 pages of in-depth information, including student reviews, rankings across 20 campus life topics, and insider tips from...
Urban Planning in the Global South
Conflicting Rationalities in Contested Urban Space
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
This book addresses the on-going crisis of informality in rapidly growing cities of the global South. The authors offer a Southern perspective on planning theory, explaining how the concept of conflicting rationalities complements and expands upon a theoretical tradition which still primarily speaks...
by Vanessa Libertad Garcia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
"The Voting Booth After Dark: Despicable, Embarrassing, Repulsive" is a collection of short stories and poems interwoven into a gripping narrative that follows a group of gay & lesbian Latino club kids during the course of the 2008 presidential elections. As they plunge deep into the agonizing lows of...
by Vanessa Buth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,3, University of Bath (Modern Languages and European Studies), course: International Relations and International Security, 17 entries in the bibliography, language: English,...
The Selling of Civil Rights
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Use of Public Relations
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee formed in April 1960 to advance civil rights. With a tremendous human rights mission facing them, the founding SNCC members included communication and publicity as part of their initial purpose. This book provides a broad overview of these efforts from...
Cool Shades
The History and Meaning of Sunglasses
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Cool Shades provides the first in-depth exploration of the enduring appeal of sunglasses in visual culture, both historically and today.
Ubiquitous in fashion, advertising, film and graphic design, sunglasses are the ultimate signifier of 'cool' in mass culture; a powerful attribute pervading...
by David Stott, Vanessa Betts, Victoria McCulloch
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
India strikes its visitor with a sensory, intellectual, spiritual and philosophical assualt that's unmatched by any other place on earth: this subcontinent's sheer diversity is staggering. Footprint’s 19th edition India Handbook will guide you from tropical beach paradises and lush backwaters, to...
Make Love, not Music
Haida Gwaii, #3
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Pacific Waterfront Romances #6
This book has mature content.
Previously published as Stranded Heart.
After having one marriage go sour very publicly, Nicole is wary of getting involved again. She's made a life for herself and her fourteen-year-old son working as a charter pilot...