Fiona: 1484 books
by Fiona McArthur
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
First-day baby bombshell!
Discovering she's pregnant-with twins!-is not how midwife Lucy Palmer imagined her first day in her new job. Worse is that it took her gorgeous new colleague Nikolai Kefes to suggest a pregnancy test and scan. As they watch those tiny heartbeats on the monitor, Lucy...
Cinema at the Shore
The Beach in French Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
From Brigitte Bardot in her bikini at the Cannes Film Festival, to François Ozon’s intimate portrayals of grief and loss, some of the most iconic and challenging moments in French cinema are associated with the beach. Cinema at the Shore argues that the Parisian cityscape is not the only significant...
by Miss Fiona Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The story of tweed is tied to a series of social, economic and cultural shifts that have molded its development. This book considers the historical factors that helped to shape the design characteristics and social meanings of the group of fabrics that we call tweed, from their emergence in the 1820s...
Baal's Priests
The Loyalist Clergy and the English Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The English Civil War was a time of disruption, suffering and persecution for many people, not least the clergy of the established church, who found themselves ejected from their livings in increasing numbers as Parliamentarian forces extended their control across the country. Yet, historians have...
by Fiona Harper
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A little finger isn't properly dressed without a man wrapped round it
Clothing connoisseur Coreen Fraser's film-star style never leaves her wanting for male attention. But sourcing costumes for a 1930s murder-mystery weekend stops being fun when she discovers she has to wear a tweed suit and...
Liberation
The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Blake's 7
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
This definitive guide book to the classic 1970s BBC science-fiction series Includes comprehensive facts, figures and analysis, examination of key episodes from their genesis to the final version, excerpts from the original drafts of scripts and interviews with people involved in the production. This...
by Fiona McArthur
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Midwives play a vital role in supporting women through some of the most challenging and rewarding moments of their lives. These remarkable professionals watch over births across Australia and this inspiring collection features stories from the remote outback to busy urban hospitals. From homebirth...
Screening the Nonhuman
Representations of Animal Others in the Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Screening the Nonhuman draws connections between how animals represented on screen translate into reality. In doing so, the book demonstrates that consuming media is not a neutral act but rather a political one. The images humans consume have real world consequences for how animals are treated as...
The Collector's Voice
Critical Readings in the Practice of Collecting: Volume 2: Early Voices
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The Collector’s Voice is a major four-volume project which brings together in accessible form material relevant to the history and practice of collecting in the European tradition from c. 1500 BC to the present day. The series demonstrates how attitudes to objects, the collecting of objects, and...
Concepts and Reality in the History of Philosophy
Tracing a Philosophical Error from Locke to Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2005
This book traces a deep misunderstanding about the relation of concepts and reality in the history of philosophy. It exposes the influence of the mistake in the thought of Locke, Berkeley, Kant, Nietzche and Bradley, and suggests that the solution can be found in Hegelian thought. Ellis argues that...
by Silvia Tiberio, Fiona MacKenzie
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents:Glenn Miller, the leader of the most famous big band in the USAPérez Prado, the Cuban musician who was known as ‘the King of Mambo’Ella Fitzgerald, the most popular female jazz singer in the USALuciano Pavarotti, one of the world’s...
Gentlemen Rogues & Wicked Ladies
A Guide to British Highwaymen and Highwaywomen
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Everyone loves a romantic rogue whose exciting exploits feature a cheeky disregard for the law, narrow escapes, and lots of love interest. Even at the height of highway robbery activity, it was thought that the death penalty was too harsh for these wayward scoundrels. There was the ever-courteous...
by Katerina Mestheneou, Fiona MacKenzie
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents:Gaius Julius Caesar, the powerful Roman leaderQueen Elizabeth I who ruled England for 45 yearsGeorge Washington, the first president of the USAKing Louis XVI, the last king of FranceWinston Churchill who led Britain in the Second World...
by Jane Rollason, Fiona MacKenzie
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents:Alfred Nobel, creator of the Nobel PrizeAndrew Carnegie, the businessman who built libraries for poor peopleJohn D. Rockefeller who made money from oil and gave it all awayThomas Barnardo who created homes for poor childrenHenry Wellcome...