Hubert: 924 books

Take charge of the fit and details of your crocheted garments, with guidance from needle art designer Margaret Hubert! Designers have to create crochet patterns in standard sizes, but very few people's bodies actually match up to those "average" measurements. Customize Your Crochet teaches...

Authentic novels are rare and “Breakfast with Kamuzu” is just one of those gems set in the small African country of Malawi in the 1980s.  The protagonist is a white-skinned rock-climbing American expatriate teaching computers to Malawians just as the technology was catching on.  In rotating...

The finest and most penetrating essayist this country has produced this century ... there is not a dull page in this civilized and witty book.' - The Irish Times A third volume of essays - autobiographical, polemical, political, exploratory - by the most distinctive Irish writer of the age, in the...

A l'âge de 40 ans, suite à une expérience de mort imminente au cours d'un accident de plongée, Florence Hubert se trouve confrontée à un choix difficile : accepter ou non les facultés de médiumnité dont elle dispose depuis l'enfance. Elle choisit de s'y consacrer à plein temps, afin d'aider...

The terms Savage and Civilized, as applied to races of men, are relative and not absolute terms. At best these words mark only broad shifting stages in human progress; the one near the point of departure, the other farther on toward the unattainable end. This progress is one and universal, though of...

In pursuance of a general plan involving the production of a series of works on the western half of North America, I present this delineation of its aboriginal inhabitants as the first. To the immense territory bordering on the western ocean from Alaska to Darien, and including the whole of Mexico and...

Preface During the year 1875 I published under title of The Native Races of the Pacific States what purports to be an exhaustive research into the character and customs of the aboriginal inhabitants of the western portion of North America at the time they were first seen by their subduers....

Hitherto we have beheld Man only in his material organism; as a wild though intellectual animal. We have watched the intercourse of uncultured mind with its environment. We have seen how, to clothe himself, the savage robs the beast; how, like animals, primitive man constructs his habitation, provides...

The present volume of the Native Races of the Pacific States treats of monumental archæology, and is intended to present a detailed description of all material relics of the past discovered within the territory under consideration. Two chapters, however, are devoted to a more general view of remains...

In the Shade of the Golden Palace explores the work of the prolific Bengali poet Alaol (fl. 1651-71), who translated five narrative poems and one versified treatise from medieval Hindi and Persian into Bengali. The book maps the genres, structures, and themes of Alaol's works, paying special attention...

Words from Psalm 122. Scored for eight-part Mixed Voices and Organ.

Les comptes à rebours s’égrènent : menaces écologiques, explosion démographique avec les migrations qui en découlent et paraîssent immaîtrisables ; révolution numérique qui bouleverse l’organisation des sociétés et l’économie mondiale. Dans un contexte de désordre géopolitique....

Die Milchstraße im Jahr 1290 Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung: Die Nachricht von Traversan, man habe geheimnisvolle Gebäude aus der Vergangenheit entdeckt, lässt dem unsterblichen Arkoniden keine Ruhe. Er startet sofort mit seinem Raumschiff und nimmt Kurs auf diese Welt. Kurz nach seiner Ankunft...

"Eine Menge origineller Ideen, großteils ansprechend bis fantastisch umgesetzt. So sollten Anthologien sein." (standard.at) Science Fiction und Phantastik in erlesener Auswahl: Tiefgründig, hintersinnig und nachdenklich, aber auch abenteuerlich und böse sind die erzählerischen Streifzüge,...