Ashton: 495 books

Book cover of The Flowers of Tumaini

The Flowers of Tumaini

A Story of Hope in a Season of Despair

by Martha Jones Ashton
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010

The Flowers of Tumaini is a fictional story that describes the challenging journey of a young girl who is seeking a better way of life. The setting is east Africa, where Felicity has been living in a temporary camp for displaced persons after her parents both died. She decides to strike out on her...
Book cover of Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
by Gail Ashton
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998

Detailed textual analysis of the tales by the Miller, Nun's Priest, the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner, as well as the General Prologue invites you to sharpen your critical faculties, extend your knowledge and engage with the text itself in order to fully appreciate the work of this fascinating, complex...
Book cover of Queen of the Cookbooks
by Ashton Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016

In the quirky Southern town of Cherico, Mississippi, a new library means an exciting new chapter for librarian Maura Beth McShay—and for the friends and book lovers known as the Cherry Cola Book Club… The construction of Cherico’s cutting-edge library has been an epic struggle worthy...
Book cover of Book Club Babies
by Ashton Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017

In the colorful small town of Cherico, Mississippi, librarian Maura Beth McShay is preparing for an exciting new installment in her own life story—with some help from the Cherry Cola Book Club. Overseeing the opening of Cherico’s new library has been a labor of love for Maura Beth McShay,...
Book cover of Curious Creatures in Zoology
by John Ashton
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

“Travellers see strange things,” more especially when their writing about, or delineation of, them is not put under the microscope of modern scientific examination. Our ancestors were content with what was given them, and being, as a rule, a stay-at-home race, they could not confute the stories...
Book cover of English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon (Complete)
by John Ashton
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

Curiously enough, it has never been practically settled whence the ancestors of Napoleon Bonaparte came. He, himself, cared little for the pride of birth, and when, during his Consulate, they manufactured for him a genealogy descending from a line of kings, he laughed at it, and said that his patent...
Book cover of Curious Creatures in Zoology

Curious Creatures in Zoology

Illustrated Legends and Myths from Around the World

by John Ashton
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018

Rather than a work of science, this richly illustrated volume offers fare for the imagination with its fascinatingly odd menagerie. Historical accounts of centaurs, unicorns, and lesser-known fantastical creatures provide abundant amusement.
Book cover of Prisoners of Passion
by Kaitlyn Ashton
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014

While bondage is often thought to be the special interest of the male partner in such relationships, the gratifications for the female should not be overlooked. This full-length erotic novel is full of hot, steamy, erotic action. Fans of bondage and sensual erotic should not miss out!  
Book cover of Watergate: The Hoax
by Ashton Gray
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016

"Forensic tour de force" • "Monumental achievement" • "Couldn't put it down" • "Magisterial" There was no "first break-in" at Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate over Memorial Day weekend 1972. There were no electronic...
Book cover of Humor--Jamaican Style

Humor--Jamaican Style

Dis, Dat, and the Other

by Ashton Lascelles Walters
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012

Most of the anecdotes presented here are centered around actual events that took place in the island of Jamaica, West Indies. Hence, the humor may be more apparent to fellow Jamaicans. However, the book is full of laughs for just about everyone.
Book cover of The Methodology of Political Economy

The Methodology of Political Economy

Studying the Global Rural–Urban Matrix

by William Ashton, J.I. Bakker, Kenneth Bessant
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015

The importance of the global rural-urban matrix is often overlooked due to urban-normativity. But sometimes agrarian populism and a pastoral rural imaginary result in the equally fallacy of a rural-normativity, as in Jeffersonian nostalgia for a lost way of life that never existed. The nature of rurality...
Book cover of Das Glück wohnt in der Ivy Lane
by Juliet Ashton
Language: German
Release Date: April 22, 2017

Notting Hill: ein Ort für Liebe, Familie, Freundschaft – und herzerwärmende Schicksale Eigentlich wohnt Sarah gerne in der Ivy Lane im Westen Londons. Die Hausgemeinschaft ist bunt, man hilft sich aus. Doch seit kurzem ist die Idylle zerbrochen, denn Sarahs Exmann wohnt jetzt ein Stockwerk tiefer...
Book cover of Education and Training for Development in East Asia

Education and Training for Development in East Asia

The Political Economy of Skill Formation in Newly Industrialised Economies

by David Ashton, Francis Green, Donna James
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005

The East Asian miracle, or its supposed demise, is always news. The Four Tiger economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea have experienced some of the fastest rates of economic growth ever achieved. This book provides the first detailed analysis of the development of education and training systems in Asia, and the relationship with the process of economic growth.
Book cover of A Righte Merrie Christmasse; The Story of Christ-Tide
by John Ashton
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018

Christmas is the most famous holiday of the year, and the word itself evokes images of Santa Claus, reindeer, snow, Christmas trees, egg nog and more. At the same time, it represents Christianity's most important event, the birth of the baby Jesus. Instantly, well known Christmas carols ring in your...
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