Claudia: 2015 books
by Claudia Rosett
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
The United Nations is failing abysmally, and dangerously, in its mission. Founded in 1945 as a vehicle to avert war and promote human dignity and freedom, the U.N. has instead become a self-serving and ever-expanding haven of privilege for the world’s worst regimes, rife with bigotry, fraud, abuse,...
James Dean Transfigured
The Many Faces of Rebel Iconography
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
After the death of James Dean in 1955, the figure of the teen rebel permeated the globe, and its presence is still felt in the twenty-first century. Rebel iconography—which does not have to resemble James Dean himself, but merely incorporates his disaffected attitude—has become an advertising...
Helen Clark
Inside Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
New Zealand's first elected woman prime minister; nine years in power through Afghanistan and Iraq, the "Corngate" and "Paintergate" affairs, the foreshore and seabed turmoil; head of the UN Development Program and ranked among the most powerful women in the world. Helen Clark's...
White Women in Fiji, 18351930
The Ruin of Empire?
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
First published in 1986, White Women in Fiji 1835–1930: The Ruin of Empire? challenges assumptions and assertions about the role of European women in multiracial colonial societies. Author Claudia Knapman uses a combination of interviews, newspaper, and other sources to picture the lives of European...
The Four Qualities of Effective Physicians
Practical Ayurvedic Wisdom for Modern Physicians
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Does the art of medicine matter? Does it really help us become better doctors and improve results? Dr. Claudia Welch explores how the effectiveness of a physician extends far beyond the ability to prescribe correct treatments, and how mastering the art of doctoring can make the medicine more effective.
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by Claudia Nita Donca
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
If we are able to realize earlier in life that our most important purpose is to grow inside, to polish the diamond which is our soul, we could avoid many sufferings by learning lessons with anticipation!
Wealth, fame, material values come to us as “accessories”, only when they do not represent any danger for our growth and only if our anterior deeds generate these rights…
Passez au salon
150 anecdotes de salons du livre
Language: French
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Solitude des premiers salons du livre, erreurs sur la personne, séances de dédicaces interminables, cadeaux des lecteurs, témoignages émouvants, insultes et humiliations, séjours à l’étranger, fêtes et durs lendemains de veille, moments décisifs et consécrations, péripéties de tout acabit…...
by Claudia Fox
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
The book consists of short stories about average and not-so-average people who have struggled to become successful without a college degree. If you graduated from high school and went right to the real business world, you know how daunting it can be to become a success. Claudia Foxs book offers inspiring stories and secrets to become successful without a college degree.
by Claudia Orange
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This book builds on Claudia Orange’s award-winning Treaty of Waitangi, using a wonderful range of photographs, maps and paintings to bring the Treaty’s history to life.Depictions of key players and moments sit alongside a clear and informative text that helps explain the history of this key document....
Curiosities of the California Desert
Historic, Offbeat & Forgotten Attractions
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
One might not expect to find much in the middle of California's hot, dry deserts. But to the curious explorer, they're scattered with strange and extraordinary sights. On old Route 66, the desert traveler can find quirky roadside art and mementos left by motorists. In the El Paso Mountains of the...
I Live in a Dog’S World
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Easy on the Eye Snoot to Snoot Moments in Time: A Models Book Where You All From: A Cookbook Style of Dress that Rocks Honor Caviar and Dreams to Montrovane The Sock Monkey and the Teddy Bear Love Letters By Mary-Oriental Guerino AKA Claudia Rhoes AKA Mary-Louise Sacks
Smart Pop Preview 2012
Standalone Essays on the Hunger Games, Robert B. Parker's Spenser, George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, Ender's Game, and More
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Get a sneak peak at Smart Pop's 2012 titles with this preview volume of standalone essays.Volume includes:Songs Spenser Taught Me” Ace AtkinsFrom In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero, edited by Otto PenzlerThe Palace of Love, The Palace...
Late Wife
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
In Late Wife, a woman explores her disappearance from one life and reappearance in another as she addresses her former husband, herself, and her new husband in a series of epistolary poems. Though not satisfied in her first marriage, she laments vanishing from the life she and her husband shared for...
Juárez Girls Rising
Transformative Education in Times of Dystopia
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Working-class girls in Ciudad Juárez grow up in a context marked by violence against women, the devastating effects of drug cartel wars, unresponsive and abusive authorities, and predatory U.S. capitalism: under constantly precarious conditions, these girls are often struggling to shape their lives...