Anne: 9570 books
by Anne Summers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This provocative examination by a media-savvy writer who remains at the forefront of the political debate surrounding gender equality explores why equality between men and women has failed to be achieved in Australia. In 2012, Anne Summers gave two landmark speeches about women in Australia, attracting...
Mothers Need Time-Outs, Too
It’s Good to be a Little Selfish--It Actually Makes You a Better Mother
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2008
Whether you’re the mother of toddlers or teens, work inside the home or out— if you’re exhausted from trying to be perfect, this book can help you. Mothers Need Time-Outs, Too uses hundreds of real-life stories and mom-tested tips to demonstrate how taking time-outs will transform your life....
Across God's Frontiers
Catholic Sisters in the American West, 1850-1920
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Roman Catholic sisters first traveled to the American West as providers of social services, education, and medical assistance. In Across God's Frontiers, Anne M. Butler traces the ways in which sisters challenged and reconfigured contemporary ideas about women, work, religion, and the West; moreover,...
by Robert M. Galford, Anne Seibold Drapeau
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2003
As today's headlines remind us, trust is the hot-button issue in business today, especially for investors, managers, workers, and consumers. More than ever before, the success of an organization depends on leadership that fosters strong connections across teams and among bosses, colleagues, and subordinates....
Breaking the Chain
Life and Times of a Convict Through the Eyes of His Daughters
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
To outsiders, Larry Owen Azlin was a drug-addicted criminal who defied societal rules and norms. But to authors Shirley Anne McMurray and Melinda Leigh Alkire, he was the man they called Daddy. In this memoir, these sisters paint a picture of their life with their father and mothera life marked by...
The Songs of Joni Mitchell
Gender, Performance and Agency
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
An unorthodox musician from the start, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's style of composing, performing, and of playing (and tuning) the guitar is unique. In the framework of sexual difference and the gendered discourses of rock this immediately begs the questions: are Mitchell's songs specifically...
The Performance of 16th-Century Music
Learning from the Theorists
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Most modern performers, trained on the performance practices of the Classical and Romantic periods, come to the music of the Renaissance with well-honed but anachronistic ideas. Fundamental differences between 16th-century repertoire and that of later epochs thus tend to be overlooked-yet it is just...
What Are You Like?
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
From a Man Booker Prize–winning author, a “hauntingly eloquent” novel of love, loss, family, and what a woman finds while in search of herself (The Seattle Times).
Born in Dublin in 1965, Maria Delahunty was raised by her grieving father after her mother died during childbirth. Two decades...
by Anne FULDA
Language: French
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Anne Fulda brosse un portrait intime et inédit de ce don Juan atypique pour lequel l'esprit de conquête s'apparente à un besoin de plaire et de convaincre, quitte à rêver sa vie.
Depuis qu'il est enfant, Emmanuel Macron – ce candidat aux allures de Petit Prince virtuel – a toujours été...
by Anne Wilson Schaef
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Anne Wilson Schaef's bestselling Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much invited women to do less and live more. In this wise and graceful sequel to that beloved book, which is also a collection of daily meditations, Schaef encourages us to give up the worries that trouble so many of our lives.
Schaef...
by Anne Scott
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Anne Scott has never housed her books in order of theme or author yet she knows where each of them is and the kind of life it has led. Some have been gifts but most have been chosen in bookshops unique in their style and possibilities. Gradually some of the shops become partners with her as her life...
Suffering Scholars
Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
As early as Aristotle's Problem XXX, intellectual superiority has been linked to melancholy. The association between sickness and genius continued to be a topic for discussion in the work of early modern writers, most recognizably in Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. But it was not until...
Unforgettable Journey
Tips to Survive Your Parent's Alzheimer's Disease Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
"There are many books written about Alzheimer's disease. The concise nature and easy readability of this book will make it an effective tool for family members with a parent who has dementia. The upbeat nature and 'Tips' section at the end of each chapter helps the book read in much the same...
by Tanya Anne Crosby
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Zoe Rutherford wasn't sure what she was expecting when she returned to Sullivan's Island. The house on Sullivan's hadn't represented home to her in decades. It was the place where she endured her father's cruelty. It was the place where her mother closed herself off from the world. It was the place...