Elisabeth: 1340 books

A companion for people who want to free themselves from unhealthy habits and behaviors. Physical and emotional stress can make us vulnerable to addictions of all kinds, as we use mood altering substances like drugs and alcohol—or unhealthy habits like overeating, gambling, and compulsive...

The Yellow Method No lessons to play the songs you love ! Approved by the Europe's House in Paris Play Jazz, Blues...  

This second edition of TIPS: The Child Voice was prepared in response to demand for an updated and expanded version of the highly successful 1997 edition. This edition takes into account the broadening base of information regarding the nature of the singing voice. Now with strategies for the voice...

Set in the ghettos of wartime Warsaw, this is a sweeping, poignant and heartbreaking tale, based on the true story of one man who was determined to protect 200 Jewish orphans from extermination - Dr Janusz Korczak.'You do not leave a sick child alone to face the dark and you do not leave a child at...

Two old school friends reconnect unexpectedly after thirty-five years and discover that they both love travelling - and the more exotic and far-flung the location, the better! Not having a clue whether they will get along, the eccentric pair embark on a trial journey to Morocco. That tentative beginning...

A girl has disappeared...but did she go of her own accord? In turn-of-the-century Colorado, in the little town of Sour Springs, a young woman has disappeared from the boarding-house where she lives. Her distraught fiancé believes she must have been kidnapped. The case takes a new turn...

The extraordinary women who served in World War I, from the U.S., UK, and CanadaThrough their diaries, letters, and memoirs, this book tells the story of brave women at the front line of WWI. Readers will meet the women who defied convention and followed their convictions to defend the less fortunate...

**Following her acclaimed memoirs Against the Stream and Out of Passau, Anna Rosmus revisits the crimes perpetrated in her German hometown during the Second World War Passau, a small Bavarian city situated along the border with Austria, had gone decades without acknowledging the roles—however...

The number of intervention options available for children with autism can be overwhelming for parents. This book provides brief, user-friendly descriptions of the most commonly publicized treatments for autism, summarizing the available information in an objective and accessible way. Each short...

Kord and Krimmer investigate the most common male types - cops, killers, fathers, cowboys, superheroes, spies, soldiers, rogues, lovers, and losers - by tracing changing concepts of masculinity in popular Hollywood blockbusters from 1992 to 2008 - the Clinton and Bush eras - against a backdrop of...

What does it mean to be Jewish? What is an anti-Semite? Why does the enigmatic identity of the men who founded the first monotheistic religion arouse such passions? We need to return to the Jewish question. We need, first, to distinguish between the anti-Judaism of medieval times, which persecuted...

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, British theatre saw a shift from what critics call 'Restoration' to 'sentimental' comedy. Focusing on the career of the Irish dramatist George Farquhar (1678-1707), this book argues that experimentation was the basis for this change.

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1, University of Innsbruck, course: Dictionaries and their users , language: English, abstract: In the 1960s the idea of a worldwide communication-platform was born, which later came to be...

In this dialogue, Alain Badiou shares the clearest, most detailed account to date of his profound indebtedness to Lacanian psychoanalysis. He explains in depth the tools Lacan gave him to navigate the extremes of his other two philosophical "masters," Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser....