Alison: 1980 books
by Alison Knight
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Stuck at her gran's house all summer with nothing to do, fifteen-year-old Rosie goes searching through some old junk and comes across a mysterious suitcase. It's full of vintage-style clothes, but when Rosie tries them on she finds herself suddenly flung back into the same house in war-torn London....
by Alison Bowyer
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2003
From 'That Dress' to the very public wrangle over the paternity of her baby son, Elizabeth Hurley is an international star and modern day icon, whose glamorous lifestyle is a source of endless fascination to the public. A skilled self-publicist, she has risen from being seen as arm candy to being a hot...
by Rabbi Rebecca Alpert, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Jewish art has always been with us, but so has a broader canvas of Jewish imaginings: in thought, in emotion, in text, and in ritual practice. Imagining the Jewish God was there in the beginning, as it were, engraved and embedded in the ways Jews lived and responded to their God.This book attempts...
by Professor Mike Wallace, Professor Alison Wray
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
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Reading critically, and writing using critical techniques, are crucial skills you need to apply to your academic work. Practical and engaging, Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates is bursting with tools for analysing texts...
Viewing Pleasure and Being a Showgirl
How Do I Look?
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Drawing on interviews with a breadth of different showgirls, from shows in Paris, Las Vegas, Berlin, and Los Angeles, as well as her own artworks and those by other contemporary and historical artists, this book examines the experiences of showgirls and those who watch them, to challenge the narrowness...
The Center Must Not Hold
White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy functions as a textual site where white women philosophers engage boldly in critical acts of exploring ways of naming and disrupting whiteness in terms of how it has defined the conceptual field of philosophy. Within...
Possible Lives
Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2005
Possible Lives uses the saints'lives written by humanists of the Italian Renaissance to explore the intertwining of classical and religious cultures on the eve of the European Reformation. The lives of saints were among the most reproduced and widely distributed literatures of medieval and early modern...
by Alison Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
This book visits the fact that, in the pre-modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder with the word "patron" used to designate both types of elite sponsor. Chapman argues that this elision of...
The Lesbian History Sourcebook
Love and Sex Between Women in Britain from 1780–1970
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This groundbreaking critical anthology gathers together a wide range of primary source material on lesbian lives in the past. The material here is drawn from a diverse range of sources, including court records, newspaper reports, literary sources, writings on lesbianism from psychologists, doctors,...
Just Methods
An Interdisciplinary Feminist Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
The supplemented edition of this important reader includes a substantive new introduction by the author on the changing nature of feminist methodology. It takes into account the implications of a major new study included for this first time in this book on poverty and gender (in)equality, and it includes...
by Alison Fendley
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Follows the rise and fall of Iraqi-born Jewish brothers from London, Charles and Maurice Saatchi, who created some of the most memorable ad campaigns of the 1970s and 1980s, and then in 1994 were ousted from their firm by an American shareholder revolt.
Success 365
365 great ideas for personal development and achieving greater success
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
How can I increase my effectiveness at work? How can I enhance my productivity? How can I improve my time management? How can I make better decisions? How can I become better at networking? How can I boost my memory? How can I become a better negotiator? How can I learn great interview skills? You’ll...
Regional Development and Settlement Policy
Premises and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Originally published in 1986. This book focusses on a critical analysis of regional development strategy in South Africa, and shifts over time in that strategy. Regional development theory and thinking about settlement policy have developed largely independently of each other. This book clarifies...
Love at Home: The Single Girl's Guide to Feng Shui and Life Design
Create a Home that Will Help you Find and Maintain a Loving Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
In Love at Home: The Single Girl’s Guide to Feng Shui and Life Design we offer tips and suggestions to help you create a home and lifestyle that will put you in the best possible place to find and maintain a healthy, romantic relationship. We believe that our homes are the foundation on which we build...