Lionel: 449 books
A New Deal for Bronzeville
Housing, Employment, and Civil Rights in Black Chicago, 1935-1955
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Illinois State Historical Society Certificate of Excellence 2016
During the Great Migration of the 1920s and 1930s, southern African Americans flocked to the South Side Chicago community of Bronzeville, the cultural, political, social, and economic hub of African American life in the city,...
Danger and Opportunity
Bridging Cultural Diversity for Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
The Chinese characters for "danger" and "opportunity" form the word "crisis". Ancient Chinese wisdom sees an opportunity in danger. While cultural diversity brings challenges to the workplace, how do we turn these challenges into opportunities? Drawing on their extensive...
by Alan Bennett, Ann Cleeves, Seth Godin
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan's Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they're important. Tom Holland writes about libraries in the ancient world, while Seth Godin describes what a library will look like in the future. Lionel Shriver...
Land and Social Change in East Nepal
A Study of Hindu-Tribal Relations
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book examines the relations between the Limbus, an indigenous tribal people in East Nepal, and the Hindus who have entered their region during the past two hundred years. Describing the divisions which have arisen between the two groups as a result of confrontation over land, the book nonetheless...
The Tar Baby Chronicles
Folktales of the Gullah Gullah Islands
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This is a collection of folktales told in the obscure dialect of the Gullah people, mingled with standard English for readability
The Unsolved Oak Island Mystery 3-Book Bundle
The Oak Island Mystery / Oak Island Family / Oak Island Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
This special three-book bundle tells the story of the mystery of Oak Island, Nova Scotia, where in 1795 three boys discovered the top of an ancient shaft. Two hundred years of courage, back-breaking effort, ingenuity, and engineering skills have failed to retrieve what is concealed there. Theories...
Lacan
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Jacques Lacan was one of the most important psychoanalysts ever to have lived. Building upon the work of Sigmund Freud, he sought to refine Freudian insights with the use of linguistics, arguing that the structure of unconscious is like a language”. Controversial throughout his lifetime both for...
So Much for That
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
“Shriver has a gift for creating real and complicated characters… A highly engrossing novel.” — San Francisco Chronicle
From New York Times bestselling author Lionel Shriver (The Post-Birthday World, We Need to Talk About Kevin), comes a searing, deeply humane novel about a crumbling...
Last Lead of Harlem
Selected and Newly Discovered Fiction by Dorothy West, author of The Wedding.
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Newly discovered and lost stories written by Harlem Renaissance Icon Dorothy West. Many of these stories were locked away in the archives of the Library of Congress
by Sarah Hall, Lucy Wood, Lionel Shriver
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Featuring:
Sarah Hall, Lucy Wood, Lisa Blower, Lavinia Greenlaw and Lionel Shriver.
Edgar Allan Poe once claimed the greatest literary works were those that could be read ’in one sitting’. ‘Brevity must be in direct ratio of the intensity of the intended effect,’ he argued, once...
by Lionel Lizee
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Lost in love with Olivier, Françoise seeks him in New France, 1669. King Louis XV pays the passage and the dowry for young women to come and marry. She employs this method to search for him. She searches in all the right places: Tadousac, Quebec City, Montreal. She seeks employment with Paul Chalifou,...
by Lionel Lizee
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Salt Spring Island lies close to the City of Victoria on Vancouver Island. Prior to 1870 no less than five murders occurred on this island. Only one murder resulted in a criminal accusation. The others were dealt with pre-emptorily by the authorities as committed by Indians, providing great difficulty...
by Lionel Lizee
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
For his time, 1730, Etienne is a devil out to entice people into hell. He hs corrupted his landlord-billet's wife and possibly teen age daughter. He has behaved immorally with his soldier, canoe partner. He has killed native warriors after having sex with their squaws. When his body is found...
by Stefano Lionel Pianetti
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Fueron muchas las razones por las que escribí este libro. La principal, fue demostrar que por más momentos de sufrimiento que puedan aparecer en la vida, no deja de ser bellísima.
Siempre quise escribir un libro que se especialice en la autoestima. Le di prioridad a los distintos problemas sociales...