Ziegler: 273 books
Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women
Crime, Transportation, and the Servitude of Female Convicts, 1718-1783
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
In Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women, Edith M. Ziegler recounts the history of British convict women involuntarily transported to Maryland in the eighteenth century.
Great Britain’s forced transportation of convicts to colonial Australia is well known. Less widely known is Britain’s...
Rio Grande Sand in Your Shoes
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Told through the eyes of Isabel Ziegler, this book provides an important contribution to the historical literature of Espanola, New Mexico and the surrounding communities through its portraits of local people and events. Isabel and her husband, Dr. Samuel Ziegler, and their two young sons moved to...
by Anna Ziegler
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
The first collection of plays from a major American playwright, Plays One includes: Photograph 51, A Delicate Ship, Boy and The Last Match.
Photograph 51: Does Rosalind Franklin know how precious her photograph is? In the race to unlock the secret of life it could be the one to hold the key....
Discours sur la Dette
Discours d'Addis-Abeba, de Thomas Sankara présenté par Jean Ziegler
Language: French
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Le discours visionnaire de Thomas Sankara trois mois avant son assassinatFigure révolutionnaire messianique, Thomas Sankara fut le premier président du Burkina Faso, de 1983 à 1987. Il fit baisser la mortalité infantile, promut l’instruction, améliora la condition féminine et rendit son pays...
Kenzie's Rules for Life
How to Be Happy, Healthy, and Dance to Your Own Beat
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
The bestselling inspirational, upbeat collection of relatable lessons from the teen sensation, Mackenzie Ziegler—an award-winning dancer, singer/songwriter, and actress.
Growing up is hard, but growing up in the spotlight is even harder. However, Mackenzie Ziegler is taking it all in stride,...
Melbourne
A Biography of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
'I agree with Lord David [Cecil] that Melbourne as a friend or relative must have been one of the most delightful, wise and entertaining of men, but in public life I believe him also to have been ambitious, cynical and almost wholly without political principle. He was, in short, much less of a carefree...
Black Dragon River
A Journey Down the Amur River Between Russia and China
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Black Dragon River is a personal journey down one of Asia’s great rivers that reveals the region’s essential history and culture. The world’s ninth largest river, the Amur serves as a large part of the border between Russia and China. As a crossroads for the great empires of Asia, this area...
Betting on Famine
Why the World Still Goes Hungry
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
“The seminal book on global poverty and hunger . . . How rapacious speculators and complicit bureaucrats are starving a billion people” (Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Watch and author of Foodopoly).
Few people know that world hunger was very nearly eradicated in...
Beyond Abortion
Roe v. Wade and the Battle for Privacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
For most Americans today, Roe v. Wade concerns just one thing: the right to choose abortion. But the Supreme Court’s decision once meant much more. The justices ruled that the right to privacy encompassed the abortion decision. Grassroots activists and politicians used Roe—and popular interpretations...
by Maggie Ziegler
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Part memoir, part biography, infused with imaginative story-telling, The Road to Keringet is a compelling tale of a mother’s life and a tender exploration of a mother-daughter relationship.
Maggie Ziegler’s mother had spent much of her life in love with words. When her mind begins...
Favored Flowers
Culture and Economy in a Global System
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Billions of fresh-cut flowers are flown into the United States every year, allowing Americans to choose from a broad array of blooms regardless of the season. Favored Flowers is a lively investigation of the worldwide production and distribution of fresh-cut flowers and their consumption in the New...
Tödlicher Verrat
Roman
Language: German
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Ein hochspannender Krimi in traumhafter Umgebung: 'Tödlicher Verrat' von Silke Ziegler jetzt als eBook bei dotbooks. Isabell Bergmann reist nach Südfrankreich, um herauszufinden, was mit ihrem Mann geschah, der im Urlaub vor fünf Jahren unter mysteriösen Umständen verschwunden ist. Bei der örtlichen...
Les Nouveaux maîtres du monde
Et ceux qui leur résistent
Language: French
Release Date: October 2, 2002
Aujourd'hui dans le monde, toutes les sept secondes, un enfant de moins de 10 ans meurt de faim. Le plus souvent victime d'un impératif et d'un seul, celui des maîtres du monde : le profit sans borne.
Ces nouveaux maîtres du monde, ce sont les seigneurs du capital financier mondialisé. Qui sont-ils...
Wie herrlich, Schweizer zu sein
Erfahrungen mit einem schwierigen Land
Language: German
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Jean Ziegler ist ein Mensch, der sich nicht mit den Dingen abfinden will, die er für falsch erachtet. Ein Unbequemer, der in seinem leidenschaftlichem Engagement für die gerechte Sache nicht davor zurückschreckt, sich einflußreiche Feinde zu machen.
Hier schreibt Jean Ziegler über Jean...