Helen: 3878 books

German women writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have been the subject of feminist literary critical and historical studies for around thirty years. This volume, with contributions from an international group of scholars, takes stock of what feminist literary criticism has achieved...

This book explores the way in which singing can foster experiences of belonging through ritual performance. Based on more than two decades of ethnographic, pedagogical and musical research, it is set against the backdrop of "the new Ireland" of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Charting Ireland's...

You cannot choose your parents, but you can choose your future. For author Helen Woo, this phrase aptly explains the course of her life. In this memoir, Woo unveils her story, concentrating on her childhood and young adulthood as she describes being a victim of the tiger mother phenomenon. You Can...

New from Helen Palmer, a "leading teacher and practitioner of the Enneagram" (San Francisco Chronicle), the first Enneagram book to give practical advice, in fascinating detail, on how to have the best possible relationships in love and business.

In 2010 approximately 15 percent of all new marriages in the United States were between spouses of different racial, ethnic, or religious backgrounds, raising increasingly relevant questions regarding the multicultural identities of new spouses and their offspring. But while new census categories...

Rafe Perez’s greatest love is for the rainforests of his native Brazil, so when he is faced with acting as a guide for the headstrong Gina Matheson, whose father is the boss of the logging company that he despises, it seems unlikely they will get along. Rafe’s task is to ensure that Gina makes...

Person-centred practices are a key way to provide the best possible care and support for older people and help them to be active and valued members of the community. Drawing on a wealth of experience of working with older people, the authors present the 6 essential person-centred practices. Each...

Helen Vendler, widely regarded as our most accomplished interpreter of poetry, here serves as an incomparable guide to some of the best-loved poems in the English language. In detailed commentaries on Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, Vendler reveals previously unperceived imaginative and stylistic features...

What is keeping you from becoming the person you want to be? Do you blame it on a mountain in your path? Circumstances that seem to block you at every turn? This book holds a collection of stories about people who’ve struggled and overcome their mountains: life’s distressing inequities,...

Una de las novelas más memorables de los últimos años, destinada a convertirse en un clásico de culto. Ludo es un niño prodigio: a los seis años aprendió griego para poder leer La odisea y francés para entender Tintín. Su madre, Sibylla, también es una joven devastadoramente inteligente...

This is the perfect book for you if you are one of the many people who feel that gardening could be your ultimate pleasure if only you knew just that little bit more about it. The Daily Telegraph's much-loved columnist Helen Yemm manages to strike a happy balance between giving you enough information...

From the jacket:Helen McCloy has won wide acclaim as author of the Basil Willing mysteries. This time she has written an entirely different kind of mystery novel—one of escape and threat and terror that will chill the marrow of your bones.The sign read DO NOT DISTURB and at first Edith Talbot ignored...

Two-Thirds of a Ghost, a Dr. Basil Willing Mystery, by Helen McCloy"One of the most enjoyable whodunits of this or any season. Reason: Its gorgeous satire on the book publishing business and the people in it or on the fringes."—Columbus DispatchAmos Cottle was a valuable property—a...

A new moral, ethical, and legal framework is needed for international human rights law. Never in human history has there been such an elaborate international system for human rights, yet from massive disasters, such as the Darfur genocide, to everyday tragedies, such as female genital mutilation,...