Francesca: 997 books
The Women of Quyi
Liminal Voices and Androgynous Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Why has the female voice—as the resonant incarnation of the female body—inspired both fascination and ambivalence? Why were women restricted from performing on the Chinese public stage? How have female roles and voices been appropriated by men throughout much of the history of Chinese theatre?...
Berlin Is My Paris
Stories From the Capital
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2016
Her thoughts actually revolved around Paris, stoking the fire of her imagination. Paris, the dream of a city that kept her going. Yet she decided on the incomplete city of Berlin, a city of change and aspiration: A mirror of her own development and symbolic for arrival in a new world. Romanian author...
by Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In studying one of the world's oldest and most enduring musical cultures, academics have consistently missed one of the richest forms of Chinese cultural expression: performed narratives. Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson explores the relationships between language and music in the performance of four narrative...
Reconsidering Roots
Race, Politics, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection—the first of its kind—invites us to reconsider the politics and scope of the Roots phenomenon of the 1970s. Alex Haley’s 1976 book was a publishing sensation, selling over a million copies in its first year and winning a National Book Award and...
Before Nature
Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
In the modern West, we take for granted that what we call the “natural world” confronts us all and always has—but Before Nature explores that almost unimaginable time when there was no such conception of “nature”—no word, reference, or sense for it.
Before the concept of nature formed...
The Wedding Officiant's Guide
How to Write and Conduct a Perfect Ceremony
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Last year, one in three American weddings were officiated by a friend or family member. With the officiating trend on the rise, novice officiants need a resource to guide them. In The Wedding Officiant's Guide, interfaith minister Lisa Francesca breaks down the entire officiating process, from becoming...
Un amor en Auschwitz
Una historia real
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 19, 2017
La historia de un prisionero polaco y una judía que se enamoraron en el campo de exterminio. Un hecho real, inexplicable e injustamente olvidado, que la periodista Francesca Paci reconstruye por primera vez a través de fuentes extraídas de los archivos del Museo Estatal de Auschwitz, documentos...
Serial Killers
Psychiatry, Criminology, Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Francesca Biagi-Chai’s book - a translation from the French of Le Cas Landru - tackles the issue of criminal responsibility in the case of serial killers, and other 'mad' people who are nonetheless deemed to be answerable before the law. The author, a Lacanian psychoanalyst and senior psychiatrist...
by Francesca Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
A darker collection of poetry containing poems written in the last four years. This collection contains some of my favourites, Desertion, West and Untitled. A few of these pieces were emotionally fueled and I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
On the Frontlines
Gender, War, and the Post-Conflict Process
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Gender oppression has been a feature of war and conflict throughout human history, yet until fairly recently, little attention was devoted to addressing the consequences of violence and discrimination experienced by women in post-conflict states. Thankfully, that is changing. Today, in a variety of...
The Cultural Practices of Modern Chinese Buddhism
Attuning the Dharma
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2005
Buddhism in China during the late Qing and Republican period remained a powerful cultural and religious force. Francesca Tarocco is a rising star in this field and offers an innovative high-quality piece of work that presents a new perspective on the influence of Buddhism on Chinese culture. Drawing...
Virtuous Imbalance
Political Philosophy between Desirability and Feasibility
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Which kind of methodology should political philosophy endorse to jointly meet its theoretical and practical commitments? Virtuous Imbalance: Political Philosophy between Desirability and Feasibility assesses three paradigmatic cases to explore and explain political philosophy's attempts to answer...
Ovid's Revisions
The Editor as Author
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
A striking feature of Ovid's literary career derives from the processes of revision to which he subjects the works and collections that make up his oeuvre. From the epigram prefacing the Amores, to the editorial notices built into the book-frames of the Epistulae Ex Ponto, Ovid repeatedly invites...
La cavigliera dalle pietre azzurre
Un insolito caso per Damster, l'investigatore più erotico in circolazione.
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Sveva, per conto della amica Barbara, chiede a Damster di investigare su Marco, il marito di Barbara. La moglie infatti ha scoperto che l'uomo frequenta un sito di annunci erotici. Ciò che sconvolge la moglie, facendola cadere in forte depressione, è il fatto che l'uomo si sia iscritto ad una sezione...