Marcia: 774 books

Het lieflijke landschap van Devon, de rust van het platteland, verpletterende geheimen uit het verleden: opkrullen op de bank en lezen maar! Een heerlijke feelgoodroman voor de lezers van Maeve Binchy Mungo, een gepensioneerd acteur, trekt zich terug in een klein dorpje in Devon. De...

The world around a three-year-old girl, abandoned in the heart of Mumbai, churns with the consequences of abject poverty. With little awareness of life beyond survival, the child and her pack-mates focus on the present moment as they dig in garbage for food, drink water with the cows and sleep on...

Like many clergy, Marcia Barnes Bailey began her work as an ordained leader with a vision of the pastor as leader extraordinaire, empowered by education, authority, position, and resources. She soon found herself thinking: "There has to be another way." In this book, Bailey invites pastors...

Early modern Japan was a military-bureaucratic state governed by patriarchal and patrilineal principles and laws. During this time, however, women had considerable power to directly affect social structure, political practice, and economic production. This apparent contradiction between official norms...

All her life, the female struggled against being born and living as a male. Gender was both prison and the prism through which her life was defined. Lacking an understanding of her condition, and being restricted by finance and circumstance, the protagonist grew up to be a confused and embittered...

La historia y evolución de las ideas y conceptos que dieron lugar al fenómeno físico que conocemos como agujeros negros La noción, por demás extraña, de que existen abismos en el espacio-tiempo de los que no escapa ni la luz, parece ir contra toda lógica. Y es que es difícil concebirlos....

Samuel Kohanim, Oberhaupt einer der ältesten jüdischen Familien im westpreußischen Osche, ist durchschnittliches Unglück gewöhnt. Seine Frau Mindel, schroff und wortkarg von Natur, gebar ihm sieben Mädchen. Die "sieben biblischen Plagen", wie die Kohanim-Töchter genannt werden, strapazieren...

Bestselling author and renowned educator Marcia L. Tate brings her trademark practicality to teachers seeking the latest brain-compatible tools for engaging students and bringing science to life in the classroom. Coauthored with award-winning science teacher Warren G. Phillips, this must-have resource...

Coming to London aged thirteen from desperate poverty in Jamaica; pregnant at fifteen; fifteen years later singing in Boney M, one of the biggest international groups of the late-1970s; a messy group split during the 1980s; a 1990s solo career interrupted by six bouts of cancer - ovarian, breast,...

Mita Gwenn meets Karen Dailey when Karen starts work at Mita’s place of employ. At 35, Mita has never had a friend until now. Karen gladly pulls Mita into her loving family circle. Frank Dailey thinks of Mita as a younger sister. Joshua and Christina Dailey love Mita to pieces. Then tragedy strikes...

Baseada na história "Conto de Natal", de Charles Dickens, Marcia Kupstas escreveu "A Última Chance", peça teatral em cinco atos em que buscou manter a mensagem central do texto do autor inglês, discutindo temas como o egoísmo e a avareza. O velho Scrooge, depois de visitar o passado e ver...

Coleção Rosa-Choque. Diversão e confusões no cotidiano das meninas. Em reuniões secretas mensais, sete amigas se reúnem para falar sobre beijos, encontros, paixões e amassos comuns às adolescentes. O passaporte para fazer parte do clube é já ter beijado antes. E, no regulamento, duas regras...

Primera entrega de la serie «Los hijos del monstruo». Travis Duncan se verá en la tesitura de elegir entre el amor que siente por una joven que aparece en su vida por casualidad o ponerla en el punto de mira de un asesino. Travis Duncan es un detective de la policía de Miami que...

In their desperate quest for conception, thousands of infertile couples from around the world travel to the global in vitro fertilization (IVF) hub of Dubai. In Cosmopolitan Conceptions Marcia C. Inhorn highlights the stories of 220 "reprotravelers" from fifty countries who sought treatment...