Christina: 2525 books
Obsession Falls
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
In Christina Dodd's Obsession Falls, Taylor Summers witnesses the death threat to a young boy, and does the only thing she can do—she sacrifices herself to distract the killers. Her reward is a life in ruins, on the run in the wilderness, barely surviving a bitter winter and the even more bitter...
Virtue Falls
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Twenty-three years ago, Misty Banner was brutally slashed to death in her home in Virtue Falls, Washington. Her husband was convicted of the murder. Their four year old daughter Elizabeth witnessed the crime, but has no memory of the killing. Now, two decades later, Elizabeth is back in Virtue Falls....
by Christina Andre
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Christine is a single mom afraid of repeating the past. Her best friend Jemma is intent on setting her up with Mr. Right. Billy is a combat medic who spends more time at war than at home. He prefers a no-strings-attached kind of relationship. One amazing night changes the course of their lives forever....
by Christina Rossetti
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
An important and often-quoted literary figure, the English poet Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) wrote some of the most beautiful and voluptuous poetry in the English language. Like Emily Dickinson, she lived in self-imposed isolation, writing of God and lost love with a sensuality and passion that...
The Seven Whispers
A Spiritual Practice for Times Like These
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005
In The Seven Whispers journal writing pioneer Christina Baldwin teaches us to listen to the inner voice that originates from each of our souls the voice of spirit. Though we may call this voice by whatever name has meaning for us spirit intuition or God hearing it is a universal human experience....
Optical Impersonality
Science, Images, and Literary Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Western accounts of human vision before the nineteenth century tended to separate the bodily eye from the rational mind. This model gave way in the mid–nineteenth century to one in which the thinking subject, perceiving body, perceptual object, and material world could not be so easily separated....
Transgression as a Mode of Resistance
Rethinking Social Movement in an Era of Corporate Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Since industrialization, two major theoretical perspectives have accompanied the vibrant practice of social change. The first, hegemony, emerged as a less deterministic route to revolution from Marxist theory, and forms the common sense of social movement today. Within hegemonic resistance, rhetoric...
by Christina Rossetti
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
This lovely gift edition of Christina Rossetti's most famous poem will enchant readers of all ages. For children, the story offers a captivating adventure into a land of fantasy. For adults, it's a lyric and sensual allegory of temptation, sacrifice, and salvation. Arthur Rackham, a peerless illustrator...
Legacies of Stalingrad
Remembering the Eastern Front in Germany since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Christina Morina's book examines the history of the Eastern Front war and its impact on German politics and society throughout the postwar period. She argues that the memory of the Eastern Front war was one of the most crucial and contested themes in each part of the divided Germany. Although the...
Globalized Nostalgia
Tourism, Heritage, and the Politics of Place
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
In Globalized Nostalgia, Christina Ceisel shows how national identity is being remade for the global marketplace. Through media, cultural events, foodways, and personal narratives, we see how notions of the past are mobilized towards varied political, economic, and cultural ends.
In Galicia,...
Sea People
The Puzzle of Polynesia
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.
For more than...
by Dr Christina J. Hodge
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
This interdisciplinary study presents compelling evidence for a revolutionary idea: that to understand the historical entrenchment of gentility in America, we must understand its creation among non-elite people: colonial middling sorts who laid the groundwork for the later American middle class. Focusing...
Living Silence in Burma
Surviving under Military Rule
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Eight years after the first edition of this insightful and highly regarded book, Burma remains one of the most troubled nations in Southeast Asia. While other countries have democratized and prospered, Burma is governed by a repressive military dictatorship and is the second largest producer of heroin...
Freedom Feminism
Its Surprising History and Why It Matters Today
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Women’s equality is one of the great achievements of Western civilization. Yet most American women today do not consider themselves “feminists.” Why is the term that describes one of the great chapters in the history of freedom in such disrepute?
In Freedom Feminism: Its Surprising History...