Helen: 3878 books

Recent years have seen the development of a growing international literature on restorative justice, community justice and reintegrative alternatives to formal criminal justice processes. This literature is stronger on theory and advocacy than on detailed evaluative studies. It often relies for its...

After completing several book-length investigations into the lives of working women, home economist and activist Helen Campbell set her sights on working conditions overseas. The series of essays presented in Prisoners of Poverty Abroad focuses on blue-collar workers in England and France, and proposes, among other potential solutions, low-cost technical and vocational training for workers.

Das vorliegende Tagebuch entstand während der Arbeit an einem Bildband über den Yangtze. Auf drei Reisen, die sich insgesamt über sechseinhalb Monate erstreckten, folgten Ann Helen und Walter Unger Chinas Grossem Strom vom Quellgebiet auf dem Tibetischen Hochplateau bis zur Mündung im Gelben Meer....

Discussing the merits of tough love, the selfish co-dependency of the enabler, what scripture tells us about spiritual warfare and invasion, and generational sin, make this book a must read.

Alys Symons’ beloved father seems too weak to shield her from her cruel mother’s plan to marry her off to the odious Alexander Huston – and in Elizabethan England, a young woman is expected to do as she is told in such matters! Then brothers Tom and Nicholas Merson pay them a visit, and Alys...

Newly qualified as a horticulturalist, young Cathy Murdoch is spending the summer in her mother’s childhood home, the ancient French town of Chinon, on the banks of a sleepy tributary of the River Loire. When she receives an offer to restore part of the local chateau garden to its former glory,...

The year is 1903, and young Mary Flynn has voyaged from her native Ireland to America to find her fortune in New York. But the aunt who promised to meet her on her arrival fails to appear, and she is stranded on Ellis Island … One of Mary’s fellow passengers, the handsome Sean Mullen, offered...

Lucy Page flies into the Yemen, ready to risk everything to save her brother, who is being held hostage by terrorists. She is met at the airport by handsome Conor Kendall, the enigmatic leader of the rescue attempt, and together they set out into the desert on their perilous mission. Lucy’s instincts...

The place is France, the year 1719. Sylvie is grateful to her cousin, the architect Jean Aubade, who took her in as an orphan. Now grown into a talented sculptor, she aims to help Jean win the competition to design Le Duc’s stables at Chantilly. But she is threatened by her sworn enemy, Guy de Barre,...

The Gynaeciorum libri, the 'Books on [the diseases of] women,' a compendium of ancient and contemporary texts on gynaecology, is the inspiration for this intensive exploration of the origins of a subfield of medicine. This collection was first published in 1566, with a second edition in 1586/8 and...

La vida transcurre apaciblemente en el idílico pueblecito inglés de Edgecombe St. Mary, cuyos habitantes son defensores de la tradición y las viejas costumbres, como las partidas de caza o las fiestas temáticas en el club de campo. Sin embargo, para el mayor Pettigrew, militar retirado, viudo,...

The first book of the Why God Why series is written to provide answers to questions about why we are here and what we need to learn. It is written in an easy to read and easy to understand manner and a book you will want to share with others.

‘A good death is better than a bad conscience,’ said Sophie. 1983 - Georgie, Theo, Sophie and Helena, four disparate young Cambridge undergraduates, set out to scale Ausangate, one of the highest and most sacred peaks in the Andes. Seduced into employing the handsome and enigmatic...

For more than a decade, Helen has been fielding letters from anxious readers, and this is a new compilation of the myriad queries she has received and answered over that time. Her weekly 'Thorny Problems' column is light-hearted but essentially practical, and it has earned her a devoted audience who...