Evelyn: 1228 books

Thomas Berry had a gentle yet mesmerizing and luminescent presence that was evident to anyone who spent time with him. His intellectual scope and erudite manner were compelling, and the breadth, depth, clarity, and elegance of his vision was breathtaking. Berry was an intellectual giant and cultural...

The hellstrip—also known as a boulevard, meridian, and planting strip—is finally getting the attention it deserves! Gardeners everywhere are taking advantage of the space to add curb appeal to their homes, expand the size of their gardens, and conserve more resources. Hellstrip Gardening is...

This book Inspirational Thoughts with a Touch of Poetry and Short Stories consists of three sections: Section One gives you inspiring thoughts to motivate you daily. Section Two consists of poems to encourage, strengthen, and give you determination to overcome the obstacles in your life. Section Three...

Conflicts in Feminism proposes new strategies for negotiating and practicing conflict in feminism. Noted scholars and writers examine the most critically divisive issues within feminism today with sensitivity to all sides of the debates. By analyzing how the debates have worked for and against feminism,...

This book examines key issues surrounding ethnicity and human rights in our country. It asks: How do we account for the persistence of racism in the face of increasing legal protection for human rights? Kallen's classic study reveals the ways in which human rights violations, by way of discrimination...

Here is a unique text that examines the lives of middle-aged and old women. Women, Aging and Ageism, in response to the lack of literature that focuses on aging women, presents timely and definitive research that illustrates the implications of ageism and sexism. This landmark volume challenges powerful...

From slavery in the 1800s to freedom in the 1950s, Black America Series: Around Surry County traces the footsteps of African Americans through their transition from house servants and field hands to land owners, farmers, andsuccessful small business proprietors. This detailed pictorial history celebrates...

P.A.T.C.O. AND REAGAN: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY - The Air Traffic Controllers' Strike of 1981 - documents those ominous days leading up to, including, and after the fateful strike and consequent firing of over 11,000 federal employees by the President of the United States in August, 1981. Relying on primary...

Mysterious strangers, warnings at sword point, threats of bodily harm...all this effort to make me leave Egypt has made me more determined than ever to find the legendary Isis Cup and keep it out of the wrong hands. After all, I'm Maggi Sanger, full-time college professor, sometime grail hunter and...

Reporting a break-in, avoiding my overprotective ex-lover, dodging dangerous men out to kill me…not exactly a typical day for a comparative mythology professor. So how did I, Maggi Sanger, get mixed up in all this? It started with a family legend that connects me to a goddess and charges me with...

This is the story of Sophie, and her transformation from trainee solicitor to willing slave. Her journey starts when she accepts a room in Elspeth's London house, with extra housework in exchange for a reduction in rent. She settles happily, and is only moderately upset when she fails to meet Elspeth's...

Serena Hudson had just been dumped at the altar. And that's a really good piece of luck, because she's just escaped an arranged marriage to an idiot. And then she realizes she's about to consummate the moment anyway--with the chauffeur in the back seat of the limo!

It's supposed to be five weeks of bliss and work in the deep forest. One more film that might be the one, could be the one, to propel independent film maker Lisette Price from the small time to the big time. Until everything goes wrong. Until she finds herself plunged into a seething cauldron of mysterious...

When Tina Farrin finds a homeless man loitering in the doorway next door to her exclusive dress shop, apparently ready to make his home there, she's incensed. And when the police can or will do nothing about him, she takes matters into her own hands. Determined to "save" him, she sets him to work in...