Annette: 987 books
Rethinking Financial Deepening
Stability and Growth in Emerging Markets
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
The global financial crisis experience shone a spotlight on the dangers of financial systems that have grown too big too fast. This note reexamines financial deepening, focusing on what emerging markets can learn from the advanced economy experience. It finds that gains for growth and stability from...
by Luis M. Mr. Cubeddu, Alexander Mr. Culiuc, Ghada Ms. Fayad
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
After a short-lived slowdown in the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis and a swift rebound, emerging markets (EM) are now entering a period of slower growth. In fact, growth is now lower than the post-crisis peak of 2010-11, as well as the rates seen in the decade before the crisis....
Cornbread and Dim Sum
Memoir of a Heart Glow Romance
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Cornbread and Dim Sum: Memoir of a Heart Glow Romance tells the story of the interracial courtship and marriage between an African-American woman and an American born Chinese man in San Francisco during the 1960s civil rights revolution.The book is about a love relationship that transcends the differences...
Healing Me, Healing You
A Healthier World, a Happier Place . . .
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
The poems within this book came to me through different experiences in my life, yet they seemed to come from the same placeplace of deep understanding, a place of knowing, a place I now know of as truth. It was through sharing these words with people that I found they too felt inspired, uplifted,...
Cultural Entrepreneurship
The Cultural Worker’s Experience of Entrepreneurship
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
This book explores the lived experience of cultural entrepreneurship examining the challenges associated with cultural labour including the insecurities of managing precarious working conditions. Drawing on interviews conducted with cultural workers, Cultural Entrepreneurship focuses on how individuals...
Leaving Legacies of Lawlessness
New Insights into Benghazi and Government Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Inside these covers are some of the recorded illegal, unlawful, and unconstitutional actions of Americas president and former Secretary of State. Some of the subjects researched are illegal immigration, bypassing Congress, illegal supply of weapons to other countries, Huma Abedin, the Clinton presidential...
Deutsches Haus
Roman
Language: German
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Ein Prozess, der Deutschland veränderte, und auch das Leben einer jungen Frau Der erste Auschwitz-Prozess findet von 1963 bis 1965 in Frankfurt a. M. statt. Fritz Bauer, Generalstaatsanwalt in Hessen, will die deutsche Öffentlichkeit aufrütteln, sie mit ihrer Vergangenheit konfrontieren, die Verantwortlichen...
by Annette Drake
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
Joni Harte knew her first job out of college would be tough, but she didn’t expect it to be murder.
With the ink mostly dry on her journalism degree, Joni accepts the position of news reporter and photographer for The Ogallala Gazette. She’s tasked with chronicling all of the goings-on of the...
Art Therapy and Postmodernism
Creative Healing Through a Prism
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
This comprehensive book brings together the voices of international art therapists with diverse backgrounds and experiences and asks them to consider the role of postmodernism in their understanding of art therapy. These practitioners share a common postmodern belief that art is a unique way of expressing...
Lines of Battle
Letters from American Servicemen, 1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Arranged in chronological order, this collection of some 100 letters from soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines offers a very personal view of World War II and a sense of immediacy that is remarkable. The correspondence ranges from a GI's final message, written from Bataan, to a private's advice to...
Boys in Children's Literature and Popular Culture
Masculinity, Abjection, and the Fictional Child
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Boys in Children’s Literature and Popular Culture proposes new theoretical frameworks for understanding the contradictory ways masculinity is represented in popular texts consumed by boys in the United States. The popular texts boys like are often ignored by educators and scholars, or are simply...
TV Living
Television, Culture and Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
TV Living presents the findings of the BFI Audience Tracking Study in which 500 participants completed detailed questionnaire-diaries on their lives, their television watching, and the relationship between the two over a five year period.
Gauntlett and Hill use this extensive data to explore some...
by Annette
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
The book is a fantasy about what would happen if I could time-travel and went back to early twentieth century to visit my mothers family after the prologue, Hattie, herself takes up the story and tales about her life, her family, and the mysterious woman in white who intermingles.
Reading the World's Stories
An Annotated Bibliography of International Youth Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Reading the World’s Stories is volume 5 in the Bridges to Understanding series of annotated international youth literature bibliographies sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People. USBBY is the United States chapter of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY),...