Virginia: 1900 books

Take a suspense-filled, thought-provoking journey through time: A brilliant anthropology student enters a world where fear and superstition prevail. Will she come back as the same fanciful girl who disappeared, or will she be forever changed?

During the dangerous summer of 1937, a newly widowed American missionary finds herself and her teenage son caught up in the midst of a Japanese invasion of North China and the simultaneous rise of Communism. Meanwhile a charismatic Red Army officer requests her help and seems to have shared some surprising...

A mysterious parcel. An unsolved crime. A spell from beyond the grave. After returning from her last strange quest, Selkie Moon is more than ready to settle down. So when she receives a parcel from her great grandmother 35 years after her death, opening it seems like such a bad idea. But...

Downtown Madison, the largest contiguous National Historic Landmark in the United States, provides the perfect haunts for poltergeists and playful spirits. Beautifully preserved mid-nineteenth-century buildings grace the streets of Madison, Indiana, providing a concrete connection to the past....

It takes a long time to live ninety years, but it can be done with Gods grace and with the right partner in life. These are author Virginia Pentecosts recollections after losing that partner a few years ago, which have served to soften the grief of that loss. On some not-too-distant day, she will...

Life Begins at Eighty is a collection of the author Virginia Bathurst Becks columns about her life, from Depression days to the present. Beck loves to write and has written all her life, including skits for PTA and for her Tops clubs, letters to the editor, and political letters to get things done...

Episodes in the history of data, from early modern math problems to today's inescapable “dataveillance,” that demonstrate the dependence of data on culture. We live in the era of Big Data, with storage and transmission capacity measured not just in terabytes but in petabytes (where peta-...

A broad-based approach to preservation After completing an extensive survey of preservation programs throughout the United States, authors Virginia O. Benson and Richard Klein saw the need for this comprehensive approach to historic preservation, examining where it has been and where it is...

The engaging tale of a nineteenth-century black widow Intrigue, deception, bribery, poison, murder—all play a central role in the story of Minnie Walkup, a young woman from New Orleans who began her life of crime when she was only sixteen years old. Born in 1869 to Elizabeth and James...

What do parents do when the child they adore won't listen? They end up nagging, issuing orders, shouting, and sometimes even spanking. But there is a better way, and Virginia K. Stowe, a parent-child educator for more than twenty-five years, shows how to minimize friction and fighting within the household...

EDITORIALE Alberto Alberti *Sulla psicoterapia psicosintetica * PSICOPATOLOGIA E PSICOTERAPIA Alberto Alberti Psicosintesi e psicosi. Considerazioni eziopatogenetiche e nosografiche Fiorella Pasini Consapevolezza (mindfulness) e psicoterapia Donatella Nesti I disturbi...

Once a small settlement at the junction of the Tittabawassee and Chippewa Rivers, Midland began as a humble community and grew to become a testament to industrialization. Settlers populated the city and ambitiously founded a tiny lumbering village, which soon developed into a regional hub of the lumbering...

'Debating Law' is a new series that gives scholarly experts the opportunity to offer contrasting perspectives on significant topics of contemporary, general interest. In this second volume of the series, Conor Gearty argues that for rights to work effectively in the wider promotion of social...

First published in 1960, acclaimed American journalist and biographer Virginia Cowles provides rich background information on 18th century English politics and economic theories, as well as the story of a national speculation that became a national swindle. It is a “serious and scholarly study specifically...