Julia: 3709 books

Elle a passé la moitié de sa vie à attendre ce moment. À s'y préparer. Aujourd'hui, elle est certaine que l'homme assis côté passager est l'assassin de sa soeur. Depuis des années, elle ne pense qu'à ça. Elle avait douze ans lorsque sa grande soeur a disparu. Pour elle, ça ne fait pas de...

Les demoiselles de Beckington Tome 3 Une rencontre suffit pour changer le cours d’une vie. Prudence est belle, jeune, riche… et vouée à demeurer vieille fille, depuis que les frasques de ses sœurs ont déshonoré son nom. Pourtant, c’est à un autre avenir qu’elle aspire,...

Les mariés écossais TOME 2 À la mort de son époux, Daisy préfère fuir l’Angleterre et son cortège de prétendants uniquement intéressés par sa fortune. Si elle ne veut pas que son jeune fils perde son héritage, elle devra se remarier dans l’année. Mais, à présent qu’elle...

The book offers a critical evaluation of Qatar’s path from oil- and gas-based industries to a knowledge-based economy. This book gives basic information about the region and the country, including the geographic and demographic data, the culture, the politics and the economy, the health care conditions...

Fruitcake is served for special days, such as Christmas day or at weddings and also for Feast.This book consists of 25 fruit cake recipes that are guaranteed to be delicious and easy to make.It also includes old favorites such as Classic Fruitcake and shares new and unique recipes such as Wonderful Fruitcake that will perfect for your feast ..

What’s it like to wake up in a fifty-mile room and tortured by giants about 7,896 times your size? These revenge-hungry giants are kidnapping all of the kids of California, and Haley is one of them. Why are these giants so revenge-hungry? Why are the kids here? Follow Haley as she dives into the history of giants and tries to get free from them.

This is not a book for those who like to fly by the seat of their pants. This book will give you candid practical advice on what you need to do from a business perspective, to the art documents you require to manouevre around the art world, pricing your artwork, who are your cheerleaders, and...

We’ve all seen the images from Abu Ghraib: stress positions, US soldiers kneeling on the heads of prisoners, and dehumanizing pyramids formed from black-hooded bodies. We have watched officials elected to our highest offices defend enhanced interrogation in terms of efficacy and justify drone strikes...

Rabbinic tales of drought, disaster, and charismatic holy men illuminate critical questions about power, ethics, and ecology in Jewish late antiquity. Through a sustained reading of the Babylonian Talmud's tractate on fasts in response to drought, this book shows how Bavli Taʿanit challenges Deuteronomy's...

Analysis and case studies explore the concept of vulnerability, offering a novel and broader approach to understanding the risks and benefits of science and technology. Novel technologies and scientific advancements offer not only opportunities but risks. Technological systems are vulnerable...

The Dene, a traditionally nomadic people, have no word for homelessness, a rare condition in the Canadian North prior to the 1990s. Julia Christensen documents the rise of Indigenous homelessness and proposes solutions by interweaving analysis of the region’s unique history with personal narratives...

In Living Buddhism, Julia Cassaniti explores Buddhist ideas of impermanence, nonattachment, and intention as they are translated into everyday practice in contemporary Thailand. Although most lay people find these philosophical concepts difficult to grasp, Cassaniti shows that people do in fact make...

How can people in the spotlight control their self-representations when the whole world seems to be watching? The question is familiar, but not new. Julia Fawcett examines the stages, pages, and streets of eighteenth-century London as England's first modern celebrities performed their own strange...

Being homeless in one’s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands. The legacy of that dispossession and related...