Alison: 1980 books
Council Housing and Culture
The History of a Social Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Named one of the Top 10 books about council housing - the Guardian online
Born of idealism, and once an icon of the Labour movement and pillar of the Welfare State, council housing is now nearing its end. But do its many failings outweigh its positive contributions to public health and wellbeing?
Alison...
Nurturing Intelligence
How to Encourage Learning and Develop Capacity
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The current generation of parents is under constant pressure to find ways to maximise the intelligence of their children as they prepare them for an unknown future. In Nurturing Intelligence: How to Encourage Learning and Develop Capacity, Alison Willis, PhD, presents the latest research from the...
The Foundations of Female Entrepreneurship
Enterprise, Home and Household in London, c. 1800-1870
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The Foundations of Female Entrepreneurship explores the relationship between home, household headship and enterprise in Victorian London. It examines the notions of duty, honor and suitability in how women’s ventures are represented by themselves and others and engages in a comparison of the interpretation...
by Alison Roberts, Natalie Anderson, Molly O'Keefe
Language: French
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Language: French
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Des jumeaux pour Noël, Alison Roberts
Cette nuit de Noël s’annonce comme toutes les autres pour Kate, de garde à l’hôpital. Mais voilà que débarque à l’accueil Rory McCullogh. Rory, disparu de sa vie sept ans plus tôt, au lendemain d’une merveilleuse nuit d’amour, la seule...
The Bushranger's Boys
Do You Dare
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Exciting, action-packed adventures in Australian history for boys aged 8 to 12.
From acclaimed author Alison Lloyd comes this gripping story of early colonial life.
Now the Chips Are Down
The BBC Micro
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
The story of a pioneering microcomputer: its beginnings as part of a national Computer Literary Project, its innovative hardware, and its creative uses.
In 1982, the British Broadcasting Corporation launched its Computer Literacy Project, intended “to introduce interested adults to the world...
My Name is Bridget
The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
In 1946, twenty-six-year-old Bridget Dolan walked up the path to the front door of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. Alone and pregnant, she was following in the footsteps of more than a century’s worth of lost souls. Shunned by society for her sins and offered no comfort for her pain, Bridget gave...
Engaging the Past
Mass Culture and the Production of Historical Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Reading films, television dramas, reality shows, and virtual exhibits, among other popular texts, Engaging the Past examines the making and meaning of history for everyday viewers. Contemporary media can encourage complex interactions with the past that have far-reaching consequences for history and...
The Financial Imaginary
Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
As the world has been reshaped since the 1970s by neoliberalism and globalization, increasing financial abstraction has presented a new political urgency for contemporary writers. Globalized finance, the return to Gilded Age levels of inequality, and the emergence of new technologies pose a similar challenge...
The Legal Epic
"Paradise Lost" and the Early Modern Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
The seventeenth century saw some of the most important jurisprudential changes in England’s history, yet the period has been largely overlooked in the rich field of literature and law. Helping to fill this gap, The Legal Epic is the first book to situate the great poet and polemicist John Milton...
Realism and Power (Routledge Revivals)
Postmodern British Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
First published in 1990, this study focuses on the subversive techniques of British postmodernist fiction and examines its challenge to Realist traditions, and the liberal humanist ideology behind it. Exploring the concept of literary postmodernism, and the strategies and philosophies to which it...
Twentieth-Century Caribbean Literature
Critical Moments in Anglophone Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
This bold study traces the processes by which a ‘history’ and canon of Caribbean literature and criticism have been constructed. It offers a supplement to that history by presenting new writers, texts and critical moments that help to reconfigure the Caribbean tradition.
Focusing on Anglophone...
The Persistence of Rivers
an essay on moving water
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Winner of the Jeanne Leiby Prize
Alison Townsend shapes the memories within this book like the meditative and meandering rivers that inspired them. The Persistence of Rivers evokes the naturalism of Thoreau and Dillard, yet Townsend’s prose remains masterfully singular in its subject, lyricism,...
Best of Asian Erotica
Vol 1
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The fifteen seductive sex stories in this steamy first volume of literary erotica from Asia are certain to entertain and arouse. Absolutely nothing is out of bounds, offering readers a glimpse into the erotic lives of Asia’s inhabitants. Bestselling authors Stephen Leather and John Burdett are joined...