Virginia: 1900 books
by Virginia Vallejo
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Now a major motion picture!
Pablo Escobar was one of the most terrifying criminal minds of the last century. In the decade before his death in 1993, he reigned as the head of a multinational cocaine industry and brought the Colombian state to its knees, killing thousands of politicians, media...
A Short History Of Malaysia:Linking East And West
Linking East and West
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
New in the Short History of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a readable, well-informed and comprehensive history of Malaysia from ancient past to hyper-modern present day. One of the last British colonies to achieve independence, Malaysia has been developed by its leaders as a model...
by Virginia Blackburn
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
'A COUNTRY THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE – NOT JUST THE PRIVILEGED FEW'
In these historically turbulent times, the United Kingdom will need a leader for the ages, and with those words the nation's new Prime Minister underlined her commitment to creating a better Britain.
Only the second...
by Virginia Clay-Clopton
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
She knew everyone and everyone knew her. A wealthy belle, married to prominent legislator, Clement Clay, she became one of Washington, D.C.'s great hostesses. This is as witty, gossipy, fashionable, and gritty a tale of antebellum Washington as you'll ever read. As her biographical researcher...
The Future and Its Enemies
The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Today we have greater wealth, health, opportunity, and choice than at any time in history. Yet a chorus of intellectuals and politicians laments our current condition -- as slaves to technology, coarsened by popular culture, and insecure in the face of economic change. The future, they tell us, is...
Ancestral Passions
The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
This biography of the "First Family" of anthropology reveals how their discoveries, collaborations, and rivalries contributed to our own knowledge of the origins of humankind.
In this fascinating and authoritative work, acclaimed science writer Virginia Morell brings to vivid life the famous...
Creatures of Empire
How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2004
When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine. But as Virginia DeJohn Anderson reveals in this brilliantly original account of colonists in New England and the Chesapeake region, livestock played...
Stone Child’S Mother
A Jungian Narrative Reflection on the Mother Archetype
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
At the time of Creation, Sky Father united with Earth Mother and from their union was born Stone Child. At birth, Stone Child knew instinctively that it would be her task to transform herself. To this end she stepped onto the Spirit Path.
Stone Child's Mother is a shared quest for wholeness....
The Underminer
The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Successful, gorgeous, and beloved by everyone you know, the Underminer remembers your every foolish ambition and humiliating mistake-and never fails to remind you. The Underminer makes you feel suicidal. But the Underminer is your friend. Mike Albo and Virginia Heffernan do us all a public service...
by Virginia Morris
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2004
Even in this candidly confessional age, we've been conditioned to avoid discussions of death. Our youth-worshipping culture does everything to deny death, which is why, when the end nears, most of us are inadequately prepared to deal with it.
And the cost of that is great: many are haunted...
Protestantism in Guatemala
Living in the New Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Guatemala has undergone an unprecedented conversion to Protestantism since the 1970s, so that thirty percent of its people now belong to Protestant churches, more than in any other Latin American nation. To illuminate some of the causes of this phenomenon, Virginia Garrard-Burnett here offers the first...
Saving Shame
Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Virginia Burrus explores one of the strongest and most disturbing aspects of the Christian tradition, its excessive preoccupation with shame. While Christianity has frequently been implicated in the conversion of ancient Mediterranean cultures from shame- to guilt-based and, thus, in the emergence...
The Sex Lives of Saints
An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Has a repressive morality been the primary contribution of Christianity to the history of sexuality? The ascetic concerns that pervade ancient Christian texts would seem to support such a common assumption. Focusing on hagiographical literature, Virginia Burrus pursues a fresh path of interpretation,...
The Burning Time
Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, and the Protestant Martyrs of London
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Smithfield, settled on the fringes of Roman London, was once a place of revelry. Jesters and crowds flocked for the medieval St Bartholomew's Day celebrations, tournaments were plentiful and it became the location of London's most famous meat market. Yet in Tudor England, Smithfield had another, more...