Christine: 4859 books

The story of the mother-and-daughter goddesses Demeter and Persephone has seized the imagination of people in every age, from ancient times to the present. Considered today by many to be the archetypal myth for women, it touches on timeless themes in every life, such as the male-female relationship,...

Doing Multicultural Education for Achievement and Equity, a hands-on, reader-friendly multicultural education textbook, actively engages education students in critical reflection and self-examination as they prepare to teach in increasingly diverse classrooms. In this engaging text, Carl A. Grant...

Her own marriage was so painful and troubled that author Dr. Christine Bacon actually prayed for her husband to die. During the four-year separation and her husband's pursuit of reconciliation, she realized that reunification would mean changing everything: ineffective communication styles,...

“We do not need care!” is a rallying cry for disability movements. It is informed by a recognition that a lack of choice over life decisions – from relationships and employment, to what to wear or eat – is a subtle yet pervasive form of violence endured by many people with disabilities as...

Snail Trails invites the reader on a pondering stroll through micro and short poetry; the collection offers nibbles of nature, introspection, and humour.

The surprising tale of the first American Protestant missionaries to proselytize in the Muslim world In American Apostles, the Bancroft Prize-winning historian Christine Leigh Heyrman brilliantly chronicles the first fateful collision between American missionaries and the diverse religious...

Where to begin and how to continue. . . Homeschooling 101 will help potential and current homeschooling parents caught between a proverbial rock (the expectations of the world when it comes to education) and a hard place (honoring God through the raising and teaching of their children). Veteran homeschool...

There is an invisible army of people deep inside the world’s biggest and best-known companies, pushing for safer and more responsible practices. They are trying to prevent the next Rana Plaza factory collapse, the next Deepwater Horizon explosion, the next Foxconn labor abuses. Obviously, they don’t...

In contemporary Western society, people are more often called upon to justify the choice not to have children than they are to supply reasons for having them. In this book, Christine Overall maintains that the burden of proof should be reversed: that the choice to have children calls for more careful...

An examination of how mainstream feminism has been mobilized in support of racist measures Feminist Christine Delphy co-founded the journal Nouvelles questions féministes with Simone de Beauvoir in the 1970s and became one of the most influential figures in French feminism. Today, Delphy remains...

« Le prochain Président sera RPR. » La prédiction vient d’un spécialiste : François Mitterrand. Seulement les gaullistes sont désormais plusieurs à pouvoir aspirer aux responsabilités suprêmes. Jacques Chirac et Édouard Balladur sont-ils vraiment des amis de trente ans ? Et quel jeu,...

Christine Clerc en avait assez d'entendre dénigrer les Français. Elle ne supportait plus que soit opposé le miracle allemand - ou japonais - au mal français. Alors, elle est allée sur le terrain voir ce qu'il en était vraiment. Son enquête l'a menée dans les usines de Pont-à-Mousson, à la...

À la fin de l’hiver de l’année 1898, l’Alsace a accueilli deux touristes très particuliers, en la personne de Sherlock Holmes et de son fidèle ami et biographe, le docteur Watson. Mais, dans ce périple tout voué à la détente et à la visite de cette belle région aux charmes pittoresques...

Most recent books about Chiapas, Mexico, focus on political conflicts and the indigenous movement for human rights at the macro level. None has explored those conflicts and struggles in-depth through an individual woman's life story. The Journey of a Tzotzil-Maya Woman of Chiapas, Mexico now offers...