Beatrice: 338 books

"IN the year of our Lord's Incarnation 849 light rose out of darkness. Alfred, King of the English, was born in the royal 'vill' [villa regia] which is called Wanetinge [Wantage]." To later historians, as to the early chronicler who wrote these words, King Alfred has appeared as a phenomenon...

Frequently I have to ask myself in the street for the name of the man I bowed to just now, and then, before I can answer, the wind of the first corner blows him from my memory. I have a theory, however, that those puzzling faces, which pass before I can see who cut the coat, all belong to club waiters.

Many contemporary environmental risks and global environmental changes occurring today are unprecedented in the history of human life on earth. However, the images and narratives through which humans relate to these phenomena are built on existing cultural tropes and narrative models. Cultural, social,...

The 9 Types of Leadership demonstrates how to solve people problems on the job in a quick, efficient and satisfying way through understanding personality patterns and motivations.  In the past few years, mindfulness and other approaches to self-awareness have begun to transform the American...

Evocar el continente africano desde una perspectiva novedosa y emocionante es el principal propósito de Los deseos afines, antología ganadora del Lambda Literary Award en 2015. Buscando dar respuesta al tradicional rechazo que en buena parte de África se ha mostrado a las historias que abordan...

Scarcely anything remains to-day to remind us of the vast size and the magnificence of the Palace of Westminster, the royal residence of the English Kings from the time of Edward the Confessor until the reign of Henry VIII. For five centuries the monarchs of England kept their Court on the island...

The Hidden Half is a collection of papers which are concerned with research and analyses on Plains Indian women. Covering a wide range of topics, this volume presents case studies which focus on particular aspects of the female condition in Plains Indian societies, mostly concentrated on tribal groups...

Until August, in the year of strife nineteen hundred and fourteen, you could find no pleasanter country house than Ruvno, Poland. It stood a little way back from the high road between Warsaw and Kutno, slightly on a hill, surrounded by pines and hardy hornbeams which guarded it, like sentinels, from...

At age ninety-two, Ivadoile Spears is in the grip of early dementia. Alone except for a cat named Rose and an old cedar box filled with photographs, Ivadoile is stubbornly set on living out her remaining years in the now-vacant Tides Inn on Cape Breton Island. The only child of cold and withdrawn...

At the end of a day already fraught with trouble nine years old Rhys is devastated by the news of his missing brother. Firstly he has school problems. With his best friend Giddy, he chases grasshoppers and gets his clothes very dirty. He experiments with kissing a girl, April who does not react like...

Rhys and Giddy have to raise money to afford going to London to watch Wales play Rugby at Twickenham. Will they do it? And how do they save April from having to move to Swansea?

Maisie está paseando por las calles de Florencia cuando va a parar al pasado: no más aglomeraciones de turistas, sino amplios espacios verdes y, a su lado, Leonardo da Vinci, ¡que tiene su edad! Leo llevará a Maisie al taller de un gran pintor y, en un carro a toda velocidad, a una villa en el campo, donde tomará parte en una mágica fiesta nocturna.

Rhys and his friend Giddy, allow their girl friends, April and Ruth, to join their Society – sometimes. Between them they decide on certain rules. The rules prove to be very useful. When Rhys’s mother is injured in a kitchen fire he resolves never to leave her side again. With his birthday coming...

How do you cope with girl friends, weddings, Christmas and chickenpox ? In his third book of adventures, Rhys gets advice from granddad, gran and Uncle George who is visiting from Australia