Beatrice: 338 books

Concerns with how students are taught, and whether and how they learn, has become particularly salient in higher education. This is evident in growing awareness of increases in time-to-degree and declines in attainment rates for many students, including those who are underrepresented, in our nation’s...

Becoming a caregiver is increasingly an inevitable experience for many people and, therefore, a likely life transition. Drawing on research and personal experiences of working with family caregivers, this book examines a range of family caregiving situations from across the life course. It seeks to...

L’esigenza di salvaguardare il patrimonio artistico e culturale è propria di tutte le civiltà: ogni cultura riconosce ad alcune sue produzioni la funzione di preservare la propria memoria storica e le considera come tracce con cui è possibile ricostruire, talvolta in senso mitico, il percorso già compiuto fino al presente.

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For millennia Silverthorne Priory has guarded the sisters' secrets allowing them to live in peace. Fleeing Crozerat, the crazed warlock, the Silvers of Sharndock lead a life without magic. There are many things the Silvers fear; Crozerat finding them, using the gift, but most of all it is the...

Questi racconti vogliono essere la “simpatica”, a volte “fantasiosa”, selezione dei passi fatti prima inconsapevolmente, poi faticosamente e volutamente indirizzati alla ricerca del proprio “sé”.Di come fanciulli in una situazione non scelta, che non ci appartiene, prima la rifiutiamo...

Literary Allusion in Harry Potter builds on the world-wide enthusiasm for J. K. Rowling’s series in order to introduce its readers to some of the great works of literature on which Rowling draws. Harry Potter’s narrative techniques are rooted in the western literary tradition and its allusiveness...

It was about four in the afternoon when a young girl came into the salon of the little hotel at C— — in Switzerland, and drew her chair up to the fire.

When Mollie Delamere takes on a job as a pearl-broker for a London jeweller, she little anticipates the danger in which she is placing herself. But she soon finds that her new profession puts her directly in the sights of dangerous criminals, who will stop at nothing to secure the valuables under...

The Arthur of history was engaged in a life-long struggle with an enemy that threatened to rob his people of home, of country, and of freedom; in the stories, the king and his knights, like Richard Coeur-de-Lion, sought adventure for adventure's sake, or, as in the case of Sir Peredur, took fantastic...

"C'ero una volta..." è la storia vera di un uomo sulla quarantina, Paolo, vittima di un grave incidente stradale che lo costringe a passare la maggior parte del suo tempo seduto su una poltrona, luogo dal quale avrà inizio il suo racconto. Avvalendosi di numerosi flashback, la narrazione...

Nendela, an African princess of rare beauty lives by the rhythms and perfumes of Mother Africa, her home. One night the rhythms of Mother Africa changed. Her people were attacked by white men with guns. Beaten and bound by chains she is captured by slave traders and torn from the bosom of Mother Africa....

Il carteggio tra Cristina e sua figlia Caterina rappresenta un caso unico nel panorama epistolare conservato in casa Medici, per l’ampiezza, per la varietà dei temi trattati, per il tono intimo e confidenziale che traspare dalle lettere. Nei dieci anni trascorsi a Mantova da Caterina le due donne...

First published in 1910, this volume is a dispassionate analysis of the changes in and the various aspects of official policy towards pauperism from the ‘Revolution of 1834’ to the Majority and Minority Reports of 1909. In their preface to this volume the Webbs wrote: "What obscured...