Blum: 336 books
by Ralph H. Blum
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The publication of The Book of Runes (over two million in print) marked the return of an ancient Oracle last used in the Middle Ages by Viking navigators to set their courses under cloudy skies. In our time, the Runes Oracle serves as a compass for conduct, a means of determining the "true north" of...
Fashions and Costumes from Godey's Lady's Book
Including 8 Plates in Full Color
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
A unique fashion image developed in mid nineteenth-century America reflecting the influences of Queen Victoria, the court of Napoleon III and American adaptions of European designs, many of the stylish silhouettes that emerged from this spirited era are still admired today.
This book presents a fashion...
The Gold of Exodus
The Discovery of the True Mount Sinai
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1999
Mount Sinai. For many, it is the most sacred place on Earth-the site where God descended to give Moses the Ten Commandments. Yet for centuries, mankind has not known its exact location. In this heart-pounding true story, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Howard Blum tells the enthralling...
Sex on the Brain
The Biological Differences Between Men and Women
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Go beyond the headlines and the hype to get the newest findings in the burgeoning field of gender studies. Drawing on disciplines that include evolutionary science, anthropology, animal behavior, neuroscience, psychology, and endocrinology, Deborah Blum explores matters ranging from the link between...
Cavewomen Don't Get Fat
The Paleo Chic Diet for Rapid Results
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
From “a woman who is about to become as famous in the diet and fitness industries as Martha Stewart is in the world of home decoration” (Liz Jones, The Daily Mail), this back-to-basics approach helps you keep a protein-rich, hormone-balancing, and detoxifying diet to build muscle, catalyze fat...
The Social Process of Globalization
Return Migration and Cultural Change in Kazakhstan
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
It is often argued that globalization fosters 'hybridity', as some cultural imports are accepted, while others are 'localized', and others still are rejected outright. Yet we know relatively little about the social processes and mechanisms involved in cultural globalization. This book offers an empirically...
Kafka's Social Discourse
An Aesthetic Search for Community
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Franz Kafka is among the most significant 20th century voices to examine the absurdity and terror posed for the individual by what his contemporary Max Weber termed 'the iron cage' of society. Ferdinand Tsnnies had defined the problem of finding community within society for Kafka and his peers in...
De verloren familie
Hij overleefde de Tweede Wereldoorlog, maar de herinneringen aan zijn verloren familie laten zich niet verdringen...
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 7, 2017
De langverwachte nieuwe roman van de auteur van Het familieportret
Een ontroerend, indrukwekkend verhaal over de gevolgen van de Tweede Wereldoorlog voor een overlever
De Duits-Joodse Peter Rashkin heeft de concentratiekampen van de Tweede Wereldoorlog overleefd, maar verloor er zijn...
by George Blum
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
It should be a blissful evening for Ben Stanton. Tonight he proposes to Kinsley, the special woman in his life. He has the ring, dinner reservations at the best restaurant in the village, a box of chocolates. But things are suddenly going wrong: anonymous phone calls to Kinsley, the shrill bark of...
by Faith Blum
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Heaven's Jubilee
Followers of The Way were being rounded up, but I never expected to be one of them. I wanted to ask God, "Why Me" but would it do any good? Instead, I prayed for strength and endurance, little knowing how much I would need it.
Zane's Consequences
I'd always done things...
by Judith Sugg, Alisa Blum
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Written by Judith Sugg, Ph.D. and Alisa Blum, MSW. How do you handle the conflict in your life? Do you overreact? Run and hide? Just give in? When conflict isn’t handled well, our goals are at risk. We damage relationships. We find ourselves in cycles of anger, worry, resentment, doubt, and avoidance.This...
The Grey Zone of Health and Illness
Culture, Disease, and Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
With The Grey Zone of Health and Illness, Alan Blum offers a new perspective, outlining a highly nuanced theoretical approach to health, illness, suffering and disease and the ethical and aesthetic implications of medical practice. Drawing on a range of thinkers from Plato to Lacan, the book identifies...
by E. Blum
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2017
Best new beach read this year. Two playboys. One new-in-town woman. One scandal. And one laugh-at-loud road to small town justice.
Daisy Greenwood was an ambitious Manhattan executive struggling with a stressed out life until she quits her job, eBays her Manolos and starts life over in a quiet...
Eighteenth-Century French Fashion Plates in Full Color
64 Engravings from the "Galerie des Modes," 1778-1787
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
The Galerie des Modes has been called the "most beautiful collection in existence on the fashions of the 18th century." Published over a 10-year period, its plates were elegantly drawn, accurately engraved, and exquisitely hand colored. Here are 64 of the finest plates, reproduced faithfully from the originals and selected by costume historian Stella Blum.