Bell: 2306 books
by Odette C. Bell
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
Things have changed for Ebony, but they’re about to change more. Only months after defeating the Relator, she is plunged into a new conflict. This time the big forces are getting involved too; Nature itself has singled her out for an impossible task.
Soon Ebony is knee deep in a mysterious...
by Odette C. Bell
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Ebony has a little problem. She's dead. She's also under contract by a demon, a very powerful one. Unless she can find a way to break the deal, she'll end up in its pocket for Eternity.
With only Harry by her side, Ebony sets out on her most desperate adventure yet.
How to Do It
Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
How to Do It shows us sixteenth-century Italy from an entirely new perspective: through manuals which were staples in the households of middlebrow Italians merely trying to lead better lives. Addressing challenges such as how to conceive a boy, the manuals offered suggestions such as tying a tourniquet...
by Ms. Millicent Bell
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Readers of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies have long noted the absence of readily explainable motivations for some of Shakespeare’s greatest characters: why does Hamlet delay his revenge for so long? Why does King Lear choose to renounce his power? Why is Othello so vulnerable to Iago’s malice?...
Fighting King Coal
The Challenges to Micromobilization in Central Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
An examination of why so few people suffering from environmental hazards and pollution choose to participate in environmental justice movements.
In the coal-mining region of Central Appalachia, mountaintop-removal mining and coal-industry-related flooding, water contamination, and illness have...
by Robin Bell
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
Have you ever wondered what it is like to move to a country where you don't speak the language and where traditions are subtly different from the country you left behind? Join Robin Bell as he makes such a move. Robin moved to Sweden after living for thirty years in Australia. From a land of hot summers,...
Overseas American
Growing Up Gringo in the Tropics
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Born in 1941 of a Hawaiian mother and a white father, Gene H. Bell-Villada, grew up an overseas American citizen. An outsider wherever he landed, he never had a ready answer to the innocuous question "Where are you from?"
By the time Bell-Villada was a teenager, he had lived in Puerto...
by Kent Bell
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
When Kent Bell was born on Valentines Day in 1965, he was not expected to live even twenty-four hours. Now, forty-nine years later, he just keeps going and going. In Look Ma, No Hands, No Legs Either, he narrates his life story, beginning with being born without arms or legs. In this memoir, Bell...
Foundations of Futures Studies
Volume 2: Values, Objectivity, and the Good Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Futures studies is a new field of inquiry involving systematic and explicit thinking about alternative futures. Wendell Bell's two-volume work Foundations of Futures Studies is widely acknowledged as the fundamental work on the subject. In Volume 2, Bell goes beyond possible and probable futures to...
The Problem of Difference
Phenomenology and Poststructuralism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1998
Beginning with Plato and Aristotle, philosophers throughout history have built their theories around the problem of reconciling a fundamental distinction, as for example, Plato's distinction between knowledge (reality) and opinion (appearance), Descarte's mind/body distinction, and Kant's a priori/a...
Fate, Honor, Family and Village
Demographic and Cultural Change in Rural Italy Since 1800
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
The Italian peasantry has often been described as tragic, backward, hopeless, downtrodden, static, and passive. In Fate and Honor, Family and Village, Rudolph Bell argues against this characterization by reconstructing the complete demographic history of four country villages since 1800. He analyzes...
The Case for Polarized Politics
Why America Needs Social Conservatism
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
No movement resembling American social conservatism exists anywhere else in the world of affluent democracy encompassing western Europe and Japan. This simple, undeniable fact has led many commentators to treat social conservatism as a retro” movement soon to disappear in the U. S. as well, an...
Singing with the Sirens
Overcoming the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Sexual Exploitation
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Numerous women in our culture have experienced shame, degradation, and despair as a result of having been sexually traumatized early in life. Some of these women end up in unhappy marriages or abusive relationships; some fall prey to a variety of addictions, silently or publicly; and some find themselves...
SAFAR NAMEH
Persian Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
When Gertrude Bell’s uncle was appointed Minister in Tehran in 1891, she declared that the great ambition of her life was to visit Persia. Several months later, she did. And so began a lifetime of travel and a lifelong enchantment with what she saw as the romance of the East, which evolved into...