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A Fragile Union
New and Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
A Fragile Union is Joan Nestle’s collection of intimate essays and narratives about lesbian sexuality, butch-femme relationships, sex writing, the importance of preserving lesbian and gay history, the love between lesbians and gay men, and the "often-shaky camaraderie among lesbians that as...
Second Chance for Mankind
Another Look at the Garden of Eden
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Why did God not want man to have the knowledge of good and evil? In a sense, Adam and Eve bit off more than they could chew. Their whole world changed. Were God's words to them judgment or prophecy? Could this in any way relate to our world today? God spoke of a curse upon the earth, and today we...
by Joan Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
'In Sweet Thames Run Softly Robert Gibbings describes how in 1939 he saw a window of Blackwell's Bookshop in Broad Street, Oxford full of books on the Thames. He was daunted by this as he was just engaged in writing and illustrating his own lovely book. There were histories of the river, and of the...
by Joan Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Many books have been written about the River Thames, some of them devoted to bridges, but not one has been specifically devoted to ferries on the river, until now. In her first of two volumes on the subject, Joan Tucker takes us on a journey down the Royal Thames from Staines to Yantlet Creek, near...
by Joan Praed Lyons
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Although William Zion never lived in Zionsville, it was his business acuity that led to the railway station being built on Elijah and Polly Cross�s plot of land�the beginnings of a burgeoning town. This strategic location brought development and prosperity to Zionsville as people traveling through...
A Community of Scholars
Impressions of the Institute for Advanced Study
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
This beautifully illustrated anthology celebrates eighty years of history and intellectual inquiry at the Institute for Advanced Study, one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research. Featuring essays by current and former faculty and members along with photographs by Serge J-F. Levy,...
Land Girls
Women's Voices from the Wartime Farm
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
The Women's Land Army was actually founded in 1917, but it was during the Second World War that it attracted the kind of attention which assured its place in the annals of the British war effort. The Services' demands on manpower created a gap which the alternative labour of female workers had to...
Nothing Natural Is Shameful
Sodomy and Science in Late Medieval Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
In his Problemata, Aristotle provided medieval thinkers with the occasion to inquire into the natural causes of the sexual desires of men to act upon or be acted upon by other men, thus bringing human sexuality into the purview of natural philosophers, whose aim it was to explain the causes of objects...
Two Dogs and a Parrot
What Our Animal Friends Can Teach Us About Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Joan Chittister, one of our leading inspirational writers, invites us to embrace and celebrate the deep bond between humans and animals. 'Two Dogs and a Parrot' offers both heart-warming stories and thought-provoking reflections about sharing life with an animal companion. The relationships we form with...
Liberalism in Neoliberal Times
Dimensions, Contradictions, Limits
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
An exploration of the theories, histories, practices, and contradictions of liberalism today.
What does it mean to be a liberal in neoliberal times? This collection of short essays attempts to show how liberals and the wider concept of liberalism remain relevant in what many perceive to be...
by Joan Didion
Language: German
Release Date: October 25, 2019
Language: German
Release Date: October 25, 2019
"Zugleich luzide und surreal… hinreißend." The New Yorker Eigentlich ist Elena McMahon von Kindesbeinen an gewohnt, lieber nicht so genau wissen zu wollen, was ihr Vater beruflich macht. Doch als dieser nicht mehr in der Lage ist, sich um seine Angelegenheiten zu kümmern, lässt sie...
by Dr. Joan McClelland
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Diverticulitis is very common, can be dangerous and there are rapidly increasing numbers of sufferers. Everyone has more than a 50 per cent chance of suffering from diverticulitis before the age of 60. Dr Joan McClelland describes, in her easily accessible style, the symptoms, the types of diverticulitis,...
Widows' Words
Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Becoming a widow is one of the most traumatic life events that a woman can experience. Yet, as this remarkable new collection reveals, each woman responds to that trauma differently. Here, forty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words.
Some were widowed young, while others were...
The Same but Different
How Twins Can Live, Love and Learn to Be Individuals
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Do you sometimes resent your twin and then feel guilty about it? Are you frustrated that no one understands what it’s like to be a twin? People think being a twin is mysterious, fun, and magical, but in reality, twin relationships can be difficult to navigate. The Same but Different offers insights...