Jane Turner: 17 books

In these brilliantly realized, linked tales, the real Venice is revealed – not the iconic tourist destination the city has become, but the mysterious society that resides behind its elegant doors and shuttered windows. With a sly and affectionate delicacy, Jane Turner Rylands, an American expatriate...

This impressively researched book tells the important but little-known story of elite southern white women's successful quest for a measure of self-reliance and independence between antebellum strictures and the restored patriarchy of Jim Crow. Profusely illustrated with the experiences of fascinating...

From the author of the acclaimed Venetian Stories, a captivating new collection about Venice from the perspective of its residents. A professor writes lectures on Venetian literature for American millionaires. A baroness falls in love with the architect restoring the ancient palazzo of her husband’s...

Learn how you, too, can root out and tear down this enemy's strongholds in your life and begin living the overcoming, overflowing life of abundance that Jesus Christ has promised you in His word. Learn how to use the weapons of your warfare to gain a lasting victory over this invisible enemy.Jesus...

Are you ready to fall in love with your body again? Are you sick of diets that don’t work? Do you want to feel vibrant, alive, and happy? Jane shares her story of recovery from binge eating disorder and the strategies she used to stabilise her weight and get her life back on track. This book...

Eugenio Barba is recognized as one of the most important theatre practitioners working today. Along with the company he founded over fifty years ago, the world-acclaimed Odin Teatret*,* he continues to produce extraordinary theatre performances that tour the world, and his International School of...

In The Battlefield and Beyond leading Civil War historians explore a tragic part of our nation's history though the lenses of race, gender, leadership, politics, and memory. The essays in this strong collection shed new light on the defining issues of the Civil War era. Orville Vernon Burton, Leonne...

"Riddles, Rhyme and Alliteration" is an activity-based resource that encourages children aged 4-7 years to concentrate, listen to and discriminate between different speech sounds. Teachers can use the material separately or as part of a phonics programme, as each activity has the flexibility...

In this powerful collection of short fiction from “down under” — by turns, beautiful, disturbing and funny — Goldsmith gives us resilient characters who push or are swept beyond the lines of acceptable or customary behavior; some of them live in barely sustainable emotional territory. A pregnant...

L'ouvrage offre un cadre théorique et pratique aux professionnels du coaching. Consacré à tous les aspects relationnels d'un métier où le sens du contact est primordial, il fait suite au Manuel de coaching publié par les deux auteurs et constitue le 2e volet de l'exposition de leur modèle....

La deuxiéme édition d'un manuel bien connu qui formalise une pratique de la relation d'aide au changement mise au point par les auteurs au cours de leurs nombreuses formations de coachs.

Image parlante de l'inscription d'une vie dans le temps, la Ligne du Temps est un outil/méthode qui fait prendre conscience de ses priorités et ses ressources. Il donne les moyens d'évaluer ses projets et ses rêves et de les réaliser. Le livre présente le modèle et montre comment l'appliquer...

As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...

Once merely a footnote in Restoration and eighteenth-century studies and rarely taught, Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688), by Aphra Behn, is now essential reading for scholars and a classroom favorite. It appears in general surveys and in courses on early modern British writers, postcolonial literature,...