Christina: 2525 books
Studi sui Fontana
Una dinastia di architetti ticinesi a Roma tra Manierismo e Barocco
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 3, 2016
Il volume attraverso le vicende dei Fontana racconta da un punto di vista ravvicinato l'epopea della cultura architettonica tra Manierismo e Barocco. Si tratta di una sorta di storia enciclopedica dei Fontana, dove sono confluite le ricerche più recenti sulle opere di questi architetti, nel quadro...
Religion and Identity in the Post-9/11 Vampire
God Is (Un)Dead
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
This book offers a unique argument for the emergence of a post-9/11 vampire that showcases changing perspectives on identity and religion in American culture, offering a look at how cultural narratives can be used to work through trauma. Cultural narratives have long played a valuable role in mediating...
by Christina Sharp
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Get ready to ignite the spark of imagination as you engage in daily creative writing for a year using the Fresh Start Journal. This journal is designed to provide you with three key elements to every successful story: Protagonist, Antagonist, and Location.Suffering from writer's block?...
Zufriedenheit
Wie man sie erreicht und warum sie lohnender ist als das flüchtige Glück
Language: German
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Sind Sie noch glücklich oder schon zufrieden?
Selbstoptimierung ist in: Ständig plagen wir uns mit dem Gedanken, wie wir das Beste aus uns und dem Alltag herausholen können. Leider ist das Ergebnis oft gar nicht so gut wie erhofft. Der Wunsch nach immer mehr kann ganz schön unglücklich...
Mind, Materiality and History
Explorations in Fijian Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2005
How do we become who we are? How is it that people are so similar in the ways they differ from one another, and so different in the ways they are the same?
Christina Toren's theory of mind as not only a physical phenomenon, but an historical one, sets out to answer these questions by examining how...
Francis Bacon’s Hidden Hand in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
A Study of Law, Rhetoric, and Authorship
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Fans of Shakespeare have long been struck by Portia's impassioned plea for mercy and by the sophisticated lawyerly twists of the trial of Antonio v. Shylock in the Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice.
Christina Waldman, JD, shows how the scene shifts from a "law court" to "chancery...
by Alfred Döblin, Christina Althen
Language: German
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Alfred Döblins letzter großer Roman – erstmals in der ursprünglichen FassungDer englische Soldat Edward Allison kehrt traumatisiert aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg in sein Elternhaus zurück. Er fragt nach der Schuld am Krieg und löst damit einen Reigen von Erzählungen aus, die ganz unterschiedliche...
by Prof Christina M. Gschwandtner
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Jean-Luc Marion's early work on Descartes and his more recent writings in phenomenology have not only elicited huge interest in France and the US, but also created huge potential in the field of theology. This book is organised around central questions about the divine raised by Marion's work: how...
Break Free from the Divortex
Power Through Your Divorce and Launch Your New Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
With half of all marriages in America ending, more and more women are finding themselves in the midst of the messy, emotional divorce process. It’s easy to get sucked into the Divortex: a black hole of despair created by navigating legal issues, personal stresses, and the strain of putting lives...
by Christina Halpin
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2013
May leaves her old high school to avoid being known as the school slut. She has to deal with a new high school, her slowly evolving relationship with her stepmother, her father's occasional drunken binges, her own self-destructive sex binge, a boyfriend who expects her to be faithful, a class on Critical...
by Christina Lupton
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Books have always posed a problem of time for readers. Becoming widely available in the eighteenth century—when working hours increased and lighter and quicker forms of reading (newspapers, magazines, broadsheets) surged in popularity—the material form of the codex book invited readers to situate...
by Christina Brockett
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
They license people to drive, and require degrees for most professions, but require no formal training to become a parent. Parenting is one of those few occupations where one is constantly forced to learn “on the job.”
This book presents extraordinary wisdom from ordinary parents who have...
Und sie wunderten sich sehr
Weihnachten für Realisten
Language: German
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Weihnachten als Wunder wahrnehmen? Geht das heute noch? Christina-Maria Bammel zeigt, wie es gehen kann. Ihre Alltagsgeschichten für die Weihnachtsnächte wurzeln fest in unserer Zeit und sind doch durchlässig für das Lied der Engel. Sie erzählen vom Friede auf Erden und kommen ohne Kitsch aus:...
Das Jahrbuch
Texte, die durch das Jahr begleiten zum Aufschlagen und Rat einholen für jeden Tag.
Language: German
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Von der Liebe berührt! In diesem Jahrbuch geht es um Texte, die zu unserem Leben passen, die die Situation in der Welt und im ganz persönlichen Alltag erklären, die Fragen beantworten, die sich der Leser vielleicht gerade stellt. Der Leser schlägt mit der persönlichen Frage eine Seite auf und die...