Wolff: 609 books
by Jetta S. Wolff
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
THE Louvre has existed on the selfsame site from the earliest days of the history of Paris and of France. It began as a rough hunting-lodge, erected in the time of the rois fainéants—the “do-nothing” kings: a primitive hut-like construction in the dark wolf-haunted forest to the north of the settlement...
Ghost Calls
6 klassische Gespenstergeschichten
Language: German
Release Date: January 1, 2010
"Sechs neu übersetzte Kurzgeschichten aus der klassischen Periode - sie umspannen in ihrer Entstehung etwa den Zeitraum zwischen 1835 und 1912 - stellen in dieser Sammlung den angloamerikanischen Beitrag zur literarischen Gattung der Gespenstergeschichte vor. Ziel der Anthologie ist die Präsentation...
A Life of Control
Stories of Living with Diabetes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Diabetes happens in a life that already has a story. This book, composed of nearly forty personal narratives, based on taped interviews, about the lives of actual patients with diabetes, draws upon the collective experience of an endocrinologist and two nurse practitioners who worked together for...
Praying Today's Psalms
Worshiping God from a Thankful Heart
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Our hearts yearn for an intimate connection with God, yet it seems we cannot quite reach Him. Although we try to capture those “Jesus Calling” moments, something in our spiritual walk is lacking.
Scripture tells us we don’t know how to pray. (Take a breath, the pressure's off. It’s...
by Wolff-Michael Roth
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Psychology, quantitative or qualitative, tends to conceive of the human person using metaphysical concepts and to separate the practical, affective, and intellectual aspects of participation in everyday life. Lev S. Vygotsky, however, was working towards a "concrete human psychology," a...
by Charlotte Wolff
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Originally published in 1942, this book was very different from anything else written about the psychology of hands. The author had worked amongst apes and monkeys at the zoo, patients in what at the time were called ‘mental hospitals’, and amongst all manner of men, women and children. The results...
The Singing Turk
Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions on the European Stage from the Siege of Vienna to the Age of Napoleon
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio. Rossini created a series of works,...
Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication
A South African perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
To date, there has been no published textbook which takes into account changing sociolinguistic dynamics that have influenced South African society. Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication breaks new ground in this arena. The scope of this book ranges from macro-sociolinguistic questions pertaining...
by John U. Wolff
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
The Cebuano language, also referred by most of its speakers as Bisaya or Binisaya (English: Visayan), is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines by about 20 million people, mostly in Central Visayas, eastern Negros Island Region, western parts of Eastern Visayas and major parts of Mindanao,...
Rediscovering Russia in Asia: Siberia and the Russian Far East
Siberia and the Russian Far East
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
This work presents a trans-Siberian expedition to rediscover the peoples, cultures and riches of Russia's eastern frontiers. It addresses such questions as: who are the people of the region?; have they a distinct culture?; and does the area have a future as part of the Pacific Rim?
Memory as Burden and Liberation
Germans and their Nazi Past (19452010)
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
This book examines both the obvious and less obvious ways in which Germans struggle with their Nazi past. It embraces only a small part of a complex problem, which is impossible for an individual author to grasp in its entirety and character. The main intention, which leads through a thick of actors,...
Discernment
The Art of Choosing Well, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2003
Making good decisions are among the most difficult challenges in life. In Discernment: The Art of Choosing Well, readers will find a comprehensive guide to making choices, either individually or in groups. It is based on the time-tested spiritual exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, the sixteenth-century...
Authentic School Science
Knowing and Learning in Open-Inquiry Science Laboratories
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
According to John Dewey, Seymour Papert, Donald Schon, and Allan Collins, school activities, to be authentic, need to share key features with those worlds about which they teach. This book documents learning and teaching in open-inquiry learning environments, designed with the precepts of these educational...
The One That She Was
The Lies Within Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Amber Swanson is your typical rebellious teen. After causing trouble at home, she is sent to Virginia to be "dealt with". Alone and dealing with the disappearance of her best friend, Madison, who everyone thinks just ran away, she finds herself curious. She doesn’t think Madison ran away. Determined...