Sim: 182 books

“Here Comes Sim!” That sign adorned the front of an old, beat-up pickup truck belonging to Sim Fryson, Sr., a black man born in the Deep South of Reform, Alabama, in 1896. “There Goes Sim!” read the sign on the back of the truck that Sim used to haul manure, dirt, and coal to help support...

16 Obras de Simón Bolívar Militar y político venezolano (1783-1830) Este libro electrónico presenta una colección de 16 Obras de Simón Bolívar en texto completo. Un índice interactivo permite acceder directamente a la obra seleccionada....

“Bowden Simón captures Cuba’s enduring allure in her debut memoir . . . She uncovers the indomitable soul of the island and finds a balm for her own” (Denise DiFulco, former senior editor, Latina magazine). La Americana is the story of Melanie Bowden Simón, who, at the age of twenty-five,...

In her timely contribution to revisionist approaches in modernist studies, Lorraine Sim offers a reading of Virginia Woolf's conception of ordinary experience as revealed in her fiction and nonfiction. Contending that Woolf's representations of everyday life both acknowledge and provide a challenge...

'Punishment and Prisons is a scholarly, powerful and inspirational critique. With passion and humanity, Joe Sim strips neo-liberal penal policies of their reformist pretensions and demonstrates that prisons will continue to be brutal enforcers of gross economic inequalities until such time as the...

Isto é uma carta para ti, meu amor. Quem te escreve sou eu enquanto falas comigo sobre outra coisa que em nada tem a ver. Desculpa-me. Perdoa-me. Não sei se te amo. Não sei se o que sinto por ti é atração. É paixão. É amor ou ódio de te perder. É não saber o que fazer com tanto amor e...

"B.A.K. Sim's eloquent descriptive writing draws you into a thrilling yet unnerving and astonishing journey in Zimbabwe during the financial collapse, rampant hyper-inflation and the protagonists' dependence on the black market and a .38 calibre pistol for survival, ultimately ending with...

Hurling our financial markets through tempests of speculation, driving our businesses into practices of simultaneous austerity (for those on the bottom) and lavish expenditure (for those on the top), and flying high as a banner for outspoken bankers, brokers, and politicians alike has been a prevailing...

Despite an uncertain economy, the market for green building is exploding. The US green building market has expanded dramatically since 2008 and is projected to double in size by 2015 (from $42 billion in construction starts to $135 billion). But green-building pioneer Sim Van der Ryn says, “greening”...

""No comparéis vuestras fuerzas físicas con las enemigas, porque no es comparable el espíritu con la materia. Vosotros sois hombres, ellos son bestias, vosotros sois libres, ellos esclavos." Simón Bolívar Conocido en toda América Latina como El Libertador, el revolucionario venezolano...

Pain is experienced by everyone at some point in their life. Some people experience pain that hangs around far longer than it should. This books tells the stories of people who have experienced persistent pain and recovered from it. It also gives some practical, evidence based advice on how to embrace...

In the mid-nineteenth century the Irish question—the governance of the island of Ireland—demanded attention on both sides of the Atlantic. In A Union Forever, David Sim examines how Irish nationalists and their American sympathizers attempted to convince legislators and statesmen to use the burgeoning...

This title was first published in 2000.  Contemporary continental philosophy is a widely-used, but in many ways a highly problematic, term and its exact frame of reference is not always clear. In its more recent French manifestations in particular, it continues to arouse considerable controversy...

Uma edição definitiva Esta edição de Contos gauchescos e Lendas do Sul é uma oportunidade única de leitura de um grande clássico da literatura brasileira. A obra máxima de João Simões Lopes Neto (1865-1916) se baseia na experiência direta no mundo campeiro gaúcho, da fazenda de criação...