Ellen: 2931 books

Poëzie mag de naam hebben verheven, zwaarwichtig en complex te zijn, volgens Ellen Deckwitz is dat allemaal van geen belang als je zelf gedichten gaat schrijven. ‘Als je poëzie gaat schrijven probeer je een moment te vangen in woorden, met behulp van beelden en ingedikte taal. Die woorden moeten...

Fado, Portugal's most celebrated genre of popular music, can be heard in Lisbon clubs, concert halls, tourist sites, and neighborhood bars. Fado sounds traverse the globe, on internationally marketed recordings, as the "soul" of Lisbon. A fadista might sing until her throat hurts, the voice...

**Life is good when you're Ethan Kensley. I sleep with any woman I want, buy anything I want, and I'm dripping hot to boot. There's just one problem. I do it all to escape the pain that's eating me up inside. ** My billionaire lifestyle has women falling into my lap like candy. But they're...

I've never believed in true love. Early in my life I sworn to never open up and live only by myself. But being an elite Hollywood agent doesn´t make that easy. I am constantly fancied by beautiful women. And everyhing changed when I met someone who has it all. Alice...

When Dr. Ellen Einterz first arrives in the town of Kolofata in Cameroon, the situation is dire: patients are exploited by healthcare workers, unsterilized needles are reused, and only the wealthy can afford care. In Life and Death in Kolofata: An American Doctor in Africa, Einterz tells her remarkable...

Grounded in a deep understanding of what makes intimate relationships succeed, this book provides concrete guidelines for addressing the complexities of real-world clinical practice with couples. Leading couple therapist Ellen Wachtel describes the principles of therapeutic interventions that motivate...

Selfless Love shows how meditation can help us realize that we don’t love—we are love. Gentle, elegant, and radically inspiring, Selfless Love presents a holistic, experiential meditative path that enables us to see beyond our preconceived notions of identity, spirituality, and humanity....

Across the River presents the lovingly detailed memoir of author Ellen Johnsons mother, Ann Reynalds. Johnson chronicles the trials and tribulations that her mother had to face as the child of a biracial union. Ultimately, Reynalds had to flee her country of birth, Grenada, in shame and start a humble...

Is it possible to raise well-adjusted children without losing your mind?Parenting . . . A Work in Progress offers insightful strategies and humorous stories to guide seasoned, as well as new parents of children, newborn to adolescent.Parenting has always been a trying job. Crypts found from the 11th...

From Al Jolson in blackface to Song of the South, there is a long history of racism in Hollywood film. Yet as early as the 1930s, movie studios carefully vetted their releases, removing racially offensive language like the “N-word.” This censorship did not stem from purely humanitarian concerns,...

This is the story of Audrey the Christmas Elephant who one day sneaks out of the zoo to have an amazing adventure on her trip to the North Pole. This story is great for kids of all ages. It is based on the Character Audrey the Elephant in the song written by Billy and Steven Clanton. You and your family...

Less than a half century ago, China experienced a cataclysmic famine, which was particularly devastating in the countryside. As a result, older people in rural areas have experienced in their lifetimes both extreme deprivation and relative abundance of food. Young people, on the other hand, have a...

‘BV Treatments That Work’ is all about finding a remedy for bacterial vaginosis that works well and that you are also happy with. It explores the problems that go with this often miss diagnosed and bewildering condition and provides information about the best ways to take care of it. It begins...

We are told modernity's end will destabilize familiar ways of knowing, doing, and being, but are these changes we should dread—or celebrate? Four significant events (and the iconic images that represent them) catalyze this question: the consecration of openly gay Episcopalian bishop Gene Robinson,...