Patricia Holland: 15 books

Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death’s relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that black subjectivity in particular is connected intimately to death. For Holland, travelling through “the...

A major intervention in the fields of critical race theory, black feminism, and queer theory, The Erotic Life of Racism contends that theoretical and political analyses of race have largely failed to understand and describe the profound ordinariness of racism and the ways that it operates as a quotidian...

Patricia Holland offers a fascinating study of the ways in which changes to public services, and shifts in the concept of 'the public' under Margaret Thatcher's three Conservative governments, were mediated by radio and television in the 1980s.

Expand your practice and attract new clients with chair massage! A practical, visual guide to this rapidly growing field, Chair Massage helps you develop a basic routine and adapt to different clients and situations. Expert authors Patricia M. Holland, MC, LMT, and Sandra K. Anderson, BA, LMT, NCTMB,...

While over the past decade a number of scholars have done significant work on questions of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered identities, this volume is the first to collect this groundbreaking work and make black queer studies visible as a developing field of study in the United States....

This book shows that the current focus on high stakes tests has narrowed the definition of a successful school. It demonstrates that, in addition to focusing on standardized measures, educators also need to look at other matters, such as what actually goes on in their classrooms, teachers’ professional...

The New Television Handbook　provides an exploration of the theory and practice of television at a time when the medium is undergoing radical changes. The book looks at television from the perspective of someone new to the industry, and explores the place of the medium within a　constantly changing...

Sophie can’t walk or talk, but behind her disability hides a keen intelligence. Living on The Styx River cattle station with her father and a nanny, Sophie is acutely aware that she is a non-person. She feels as voiceless and isolated as the wallabies of The Wall, an eerie wilderness of basalt lava...

Im 3. Band der tödlichen Anleitungen werden wieder die Tücken des Alltags mithilfe von Pflanzengift gelöst. Ein Ehemann, der sich zu intensiv der Mittelalterszene verschrieben hat, ein missgünstiger Kritiker, der das Geschäft zerstört, ein Psychopath, der die Liebe zur Nachbarsfamilie für sich...

Kerzenschein, weihnachtlich dekorierte Häuser, Lebkuchenduft, die Vorfreude auf Geschenke sowie wunderbare Stunden im Kreis der Familie - alles könnte so schön sein, gäbe es nicht Konsumstress, Einsamkeit, Neid, Gier und Eifersucht. All diese Dinge haben die kriminelle Fantasie von Krimiautorinnen...

Edna lebt zurückgezogen in einem alten Landhaus im Süden von Paris und teilt die Einsamkeit mit ihrem Nachbarn, einem geheimnisvollen, kauzigen Mann namens Thierry. Eines Tages steht Paul, ein zwölfjähriger Junge unvermittelt in ihrem Garten und lässt nicht mehr von ihr ab. Er behauptet, in Edna...

"In this great, eternal work, mothers have carried the torch of faith and family from the beginning. The need for that torch to burn brightly and dispel darkness has never been greater," writes Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. In this thoughtful book for mothers,...

Introducing a major new doctrinal work written by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland who shares his apostolic witness of the central figure of the Book of Mormon — the Lord Jesus Christ. For most of a decade, Elder Holland has read the Book of Mormon repeatedly and thoroughly, focusing on all references to the...

Over half of all people working on behalf of any given organization are typically not their own employees. Some are freelance contractors working in their own right. A significant proportion is employed to provide these services by another firm, under agency or outsourcing service agreements. The...