Alison: 1980 books
by Alison Holland
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
Simone de Beauvoir was among the 20th century's most influential thinkers. She was a philosopher at the forefront of existentialism, a pioneering thinker on women and feminism in ""The Second Sex"", the writer of prize-winning fiction, an autobiographical writer and a committed...
Montaigne and the Lives of the Philosophers
Life Writing and Transversality in the Essais
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
In his Essais, Montaigne stresses that his theoretical interest in philosophy goes hand in hand with its practicality. In fact, he makes it clear that there is little reason to live our lives according to doctrine without proof that others have successfully done so. Understanding Montaigne’s philosophical...
Food, Power, and Resistance in the Andes
Exploring Quechua Verbal and Visual Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Food, Power, and Resistance in the Andes is a dynamic, interdisciplinary study of how food's symbolic and pragmatic meanings influence access to power and the possibility of resistance in the Andes. In the Andes, cooking often provides Quechua women with a discursive space for achieving economic self-reliance,...
by Alison C. Simcox, Douglas L. Heath
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Lake Quannapowitt is named for James Quonopohit, a member of the Pawtucket tribe of Nipmuc Indians and signer of the 1686 deed selling land to European colonists. A town called Redding (now Wakefield) developed on the shore of the lake that provided colonists with a bounty of fish, including salmon and...
by Alison McKay, Bayside Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
In 1824, a wealthy shipping merchant by the name of Abraham Bell purchased 245 acres in the area now known as Bayside. He created an upper and lower farm, bisected them with a country lane now called Bell Boulevard, and with this Bayside began to develop. Over the generations, Bayside evolved from its...
by Alison Plowden
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Biography of the life and reign of Elizabeth I of England, who ruled for 45 years from 1558.
by Alison Stokes
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
A page-turner... a terrific read' Susan Sallis "A powerful tale of survival and hardship, very well crafted and with strong characters" - Publishing News Magda's Daughter - Book Nine of the Hearts of Gold series by Best-Selling author Catrin Collier Stateless and destitute after the Second World War,...
by Alison Pearn
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Charles Darwin's name is among the most recognised in the world, and more than 100 years after his death his books are still best-sellers; there are more than ten modern editions of the most famous, On the Origin of Species, currently available. His theories of descent with modification and of sexual...
The Healing Power Of Movement
How To Benefit From Physical Activity During Your Cancer Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007
Recent clinical studies show that exercise rather than rest may be the best therapy for someone undergoing cancer treatments. The Healing Power of Movement addresses this significant shift in care recommendations and clearly illustrates fifty specific exercises-from simply sitting up or moving in...
My Stroke of Luck
How I Lost My Mind and Found My Sense of Humor
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
This book chronicles four years of my ongoing journey from self-pity to laughing at predicaments from my inconvenient stroke. Humor found in everyday occurrences continues to this day. A stroke changes the life of the survivor forever, subtly or catastrophically. One determines if she will be the...
by Alison White
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
This is a memoir about hope - hope in others, hope in systems, and hope for the future.
I've never quite known where to begin when someone asks me what I've been up to. I've never quite known how to explain what our daily life is like. I wanted to write how it is in order to give others a greater...
Learning from the Student's Perspective
A Sourcebook for Effective Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Much has been written about how to engage students in their learning, but very little of it has issued from students themselves. Compiled by one of the leading scholars in the field of student voice, this sourcebook draws on the perspectives of secondary students in the United States, England, Canada,...
Are You Chasing Rainbows?
A personal and practical insight into emotional maturity and why adults sometimes behave like children
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2014
A personal and practical insight into emotional maturity and why adults sometimes behave like children. Have you ever looked at an adult and thought, Oh grow up ? Why do adults sometimes behave like children? What do they gain from doing so? What can they do about it? This book is a personal and practical...
by Alison Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
A love worth fighting for
Cardiologist Thomas Wolfe's specialty is mending broken hearts, but no one knows how much his own still hurts five years on
Torn apart by the sadness of losing their little girl, Tom and his ex-wife, transplant surgeon Rebecca Scott, are virtually strangers,...