Shaw: 2106 books

Practice and Research is an overview of Professor Ian Shaw's analysis of the complexity and challenges of the practice/research relationship in social work - a theme that has been the focus of much of his writing over his career. Introduced with a new essay that reflects on the 'serendipity, misfires...

Spirit is an explanation of how the world works. Many great teachers and philosophical traditions have disclosed truths concerning the great questions: What is this life? Why are we here? What is the proper way to live? This book explains it all, from the viewpoint of a young father who dies, and...

Liberating a city can be a very liberating experience, even if you're not a combat veteran. What really counts is what you've got to trade and how eager the local ladies are to sample the goodies. As Genghis Khan noted in his book: "Winning Wars for Fun and Profit", there's nothing like...

You cannot achieve the impossible without occasionally attempting the absurd. If you don’t know you can fail, or refuse to believe it, getting up every day with a positive attitude becomes easier. Getting up off the mat after a knockdown becomes easier. Starting off with another new idea after you’ve...

Do you believe it’s possible to own, purchase, communicate, and come to know a ghost? Ron Shaw does.  He bought and paid for his own ghost Mary, on a crisp fall day in 2013, never having sought such a find, as he bunked and junked his way through the flea markets and garage sales of...

A wealthy gentleman disguises himself as a vulgar workingman to hide from his wife. Not only is she too affectionate, but he needs the freedom to promote socialism. The second of Shaw’s five novels, written in 1883 and published in 1887, also involves comic antics at an all-girl’s school.

This pamphlet was written as a philosophical commentary on Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen. Shaw believed that most people could not understand the drama, and wanted to bring them the knowledge of the adepts who see in the operas the “whole tragedy of human history and the whole horror of the dilemmas from which the world is shrinking today.”

Newly updated, this everyday-free anthology of mature literary erotic fiction includes a complete short story 'Sleeping Dogs and Southern Comfort’ as well excerpts from the up-coming collection 'Stories Out of School', along with generous selections from the novels 'A Song for the Girl with the...

Ninian thinks of himself as an average 11 year old boy with normal interests. According to his Grandfather, he was named for the patron saint of Scotland. Summer vacation is here and he looks forward to the easy days of backyard, books and just hanging out. But he is invited to visit his estranged...

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. Great Catherine: Whom Glory Still Adores is a 1913 one-act...

Nora Roberts - Aşk SenfonisiSpence Kimball, artık üretemeyen ünlü bir besteci, piyanist ve yakışıklı, bekâr bir babadır. Natasha Stanislaski ise, artık dans edemeyen ve bir oyuncak dükkânının sahibi olan, sıra dışı güzelliğe sahip, eski bir balerindir. Spence, Natasha'nın hırçın...

Experimental College: My summer in Serendip” is a lighthearted comedy with tragic overtones, which asks some ominous questions. Aiming at your heart, it may unexpectedly grab at your crotch but hopes to offer something to your head. Dave Price is twenty, old enough to know what he wants to...

Jade is often thought of as something ancient and gathering dust in museums, but in China it is a vibrant part of modern life. More jade has been carved this century than in the rest of human history combined. For Chinese people, jade represents everything that is pure and noble, and Andrew Shaw gave...

Your face, and your life, has been radically altered. Accident, military injury, medical condition...the result is the same. You are now having to confront the world with a "different" face, and understandably this has wrecked your self-image and undermined your confidence, leaving you with...