Daphne: 403 books

"The Glass-Blowers consistently entertains." --New York Times The world of the glass-blowers has its own traditions, it's own language - and its own rules. 'If you marry into glass' Pierre Labbe warns his daughter, 'you will say goodbye to everything familiar, and enter a closed world'....

Alex , a twenty-year-old American student, is spending the year in Nepal, backpacking and photographing. As a favor to Will – her American friend – she uses one of her Himalayan treks to seek out Maya, a young Nepali woman desperate to flee her traditional family to find work in Kathmandu. But...

Stay away from sushi! Cut out caffeine! Get rid of your cat! Step away from the microwave! Pregnant women are bombarded with "risk factors" they must avoid from the moment the stick turns pink. Heroic mothers-to-be sacrifice their favorite foods and activities for the sake of their...

The Secret Lives of Saints paints a troubling portrait of an extreme religious sect. These zealous believers impose severe and often violent restrictions on women, deprive children of education and opt instead to school them in the tenets of their faith, defy the law and move freely and secretly over...

“Anyone grappling with the bewilderment of midlife…will be at once provoked and comforted by this enormously wise book” (Dani Shapiro, New York Times bestselling author of Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage), from a psychologist who has worked for decades with people struggling to preserve and...

"The future of relationships is moving us toward the vaulting awareness of who we really are as human beings, something we have managed to avoid for a very long time by being so thoroughly committed to convention...This is the future of love--vast love, love beyond boundaries, love without preconceptions...

This practical resource book for Key Stage 2 explores a range of emotions using both original poetry and well-known artworks to stimulate discussion in the classroom. Based on the extensive teaching experience of Daphne Gutteridge and Vivien Smith as well as current educational initiatives...

The best teachers are not outside of us – they are inside. Collaborative reflection in supervision can transform our experiences into learning.This practical book details three stances of reflective supervision:1. noticing what's happening (the Mindful Stance),2. analysing it...

Following the remarkable success of the 50th year anniversary edition, we're pleased to present Playboy: Centerfolds, 60th Anniversary Edition. The content remains the same—every Centerfold from every issue. That's over 600 beauties with additional Centerfolds through the present to make this Playboy's...

When Janie Hamilton unexpectedly inherits Tolham Castle, there are mysteries to uncover in the dungeon, and the disappearance of a guest needs to be explained. A collection of four stories: The Tolham Castle Legacy, The Tolham Castle Mystery, The Tolham Castle Banquet, Tolham Castle: The Mystery of the Runes.

Feminists have often called Women's Studies the 'academic arm of the women's movement.' But Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge charge that the attempt to make Women's Studies serve a political agenda has led to deeply problematic results: dubious scholarship, pedagogical practices that resemble indoctrination...

A tale narrating the great transformation of love, the kind of love that gives to the most fragile part of our souls the power to face our nightmares and be victorious and triumphant.Travel with the crystal knight to the city of the moon and even further, where a siren dwells, a dragon lurks and the greatest courage shines more brightly than the stars.

Blabbermouth the gnome has the very bad habit to talk when it would have been wiser to keep his mouth shut and that will cost him his most prized possession, his well groomed, carefully combed, long beard.He will get into all sorts of trouble to get it back and finally… but what am I thinking? After...

AMY Somebody up there hates me. You’d think I’d be stoked to take on Troy Williams as a new client. He’s the dynamic middle linebacker for the Brooklyn Vipers—a scorching hot football god whose endorsement could save my struggling business. And he’s also the conceited...