Victoria Harrison: 10 books
Happy by Design
How to create a home that boosts your health & happiness
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Happy by Design teaches us how we can actively improve our health and wellbeing through the way we design our living spaces. From the paint colour that's been named the happiest, to the science of getting a good night's sleep, Happy by Design offers bite-sized and affordable design ideas that are...
The Oneness Hypothesis
Beyond the Boundary of Self
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The idea that the self is inextricably intertwined with the rest of the world—the “oneness hypothesis”—can be found in many of the world’s philosophical and religious traditions. Oneness provides ways to imagine and achieve a more expansive conception of the self as fundamentally connected...
The Lost Spirit
The Man in the Mirror
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Lucy Benjamin had been living an ordinary life until now but now faced with the tragic loss of her husband (who has just been killed in a freak, car accident). She is forced into identifying her husbands body and arranging his funeral which is unbearable but by putting one foot in front of the other...
Fight Like a Tiger
Conway Barbour and the Challenges of the Black Middle Class in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Focusing on the life of ambitious former slave Conway Barbour, Victoria L. Harrison argues that the idea of a black middle class traced its origins to the free black population of the mid-nineteenth century and developed alongside the idea of a white middle class. Although slavery and racism meant...
Dread Naught but Time
Scribes Divided Anthology, Vol 2: Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
The unshakable specter of Time hovers over each of the 26 tales in Scribes Divided’s second anthology. Brought to you by a collective of accomplished authors from nearly every time zone across the world, these timeless stories inspire, terrify, delight, and explore that most human of shared experiences:...
The Family Emotional System
An Integrative Concept for Theory, Science, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The Family Emotional System: An Integrative Concept for Theory, Science, and Practice presents an ongoing dialogue among scientists, family investigators, and clinicians related to a natural systems view of the family and human behavior that has been occurring over several decades. The concept of...
Military Spouses with Graduate Degrees
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Thriving amidst Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
With contributors in the fields of communication, psychology, English, law, and others, Navigating Life with a Graduate Degree as a Military Spouse: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Challenges, Lessons Learned, and Thriving amidst Uncertainty utilizes interdisciplinary theories, methods, and approaches...
The Apologetic Value of Human Holiness
Von Balthasar’s Christocentric Philosophical Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Apologetic Value of Human Holiness begins by providing the first comprehensive account of the model of human holiness developed by the leading theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. In so doing, the book also provides the first detailed explication of his Christocentric philosophical anthropology.
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by Victoria S. Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Eastern Philosophy: The Basics is an essential introduction to major Indian and Chinese philosophies, both past and present. Exploring familiar metaphysical and ethical questions from the perspectives offered by a range of eastern philosophies, including Confucianism, Daoism, the main Buddhist and...
The History of Evil in the Early Twentieth Century
1900–1950 CE
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
The fifth volume of The History of Evil covers the twentieth century from 1900 through 1950. The period saw the maturation of intellectual movements such as Pragmatism and Phenomenology, and the full emergence of several new academic disciplines; all these provided novel intellectual tools that were...