Eleanor: 826 books

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The Embodied Mind

Cognitive Science and Human Experience

by Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017

A new edition of a classic work that originated the “embodied cognition” movement and was one of the first to link science and Buddhist practices. This classic book, first published in 1991, was one of the first to propose the “embodied cognition” approach in cognitive science. It pioneered...
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Walking with the King

Through the Reality of God's Love

by Eleanor Stockert
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016

Walking with the Kingthrough the Reality of Gods Love is a book for anyone desiring a deeper, more intimate relationship with their Father God. It is a book that points to His limitless love for His children and His never-ending desire to see them blessed and protected. It encourages believers to...
Book cover of Latin Expansion in the Medieval Western Mediterranean
by Eleanor A. Congdon
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016

While Latin expansion stalled in the Eastern Mediterranean in the late Middle Ages, Islam lost ground to Christendom in the west - in the Spanish Levant, the islands of the Western Mediterranean, and even on the Maghribi coast, where conquerors and colonists from the northern shore of the sea established...
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Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion

Two Thousand Years of Christian Missions in the Middle East

by Reeva Spector Simon, Eleanor Tejirian
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012

Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion surveys two thousand years of the Christian missionary enterprise in the Middle East within the context of the region's political evolution. Its broad, rich narrative follows Christian missions as they interacted with imperial powers and as the momentum of religious...
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by Eleanor Farjeon
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013

This is the story of the twenty-six children of Zeal Monachorum who did not know their ABC, until one day Perkin the Pedlar came by. He told them a story and a verse for each letter of the alphabet, starting with Appledore and ending with their own Zeal Monarchorum. Eleanor Farjeon's unique...
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The Glass Half Full

Moving Beyond Scottish Miserablism

by David Manderson, Eleanor Yule
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014

In The Glass Half Full, filmmaker Eleanor Yule and academic David Manderson identify cultural miserablism as an important aspect of Scottish life. Yule and Manderson explore where this bleak take on Scottish life came from, its literary and cultural expressions, and in particular, identify this phenomenon...
Book cover of Windy City Dying
by Eleanor Taylor Bland
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003

Marti MacAlister, Eleanor Taylor Bland's popular African-American heroine, is forced to confront some extremely personal demons from long ago-her husband Johnny MacAlister is long-buried, but now someone from Johnny's past is back, looking for him, and Marti fears she knows who it might be. In...
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by Eleanor Cook
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009

Wallace Stevens is one of the major poets of the twentieth century, and also among the most challenging. His poems can be dazzling in their verbal brilliance. They are often shot through with lavish imagery and wit, informed by a lawyer's logic, and disarmingly unexpected: a singing jackrabbit, the...
Book cover of The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives
by Eleanor Ty
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2004

Examining nine Asian Canadian and Asian American narratives, Eleanor Ty explores how authors empower themselves, represent differences, and re-script their identities as 'visible minorities' within the ideological, imaginative, and discursive space given to them by dominant culture. In various ways,...
Book cover of Surama e Fathma – Racconti Erotici d’Oriente
by Eleanor LeJune
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 25, 2015

Come donna ho sempre amato i romanzi di Salgari perchè in essi ritrovavo personaggi femminili, affascinanti, audaci e potenti, delle originali eroine letterarie che, accanto ai loro equivalenti maschili, mi permettevano di sognare. E supplivo alla fantasia di Salgari, con una mia personale...
Book cover of La Notte del Piacere
by Adelaide Byrne e Eleanor LeJune
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 29, 2015

Terza avventura del Principe De Angelis e Eleonora Danieli della serie Otto rintocchi di sesso. Rielaborazione in chiave altamente erotica del romanzo La Notte del Mistero. A Castiglion della Pescaia, in Toscana, Eleonora Danieli incontra una sua antica fiamma, Adriana Aldrovandi, che le chiede...
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Asianfail

Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority

by Eleanor Ty
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017

Eleanor Ty's bold exploration of literature, plays, and film reveals how young Asian Americans and Asian Canadians have struggled with the ethos of self-sacrifice preached by their parents. This new generation's narratives focus on protagonists disenchanted with their daily lives. Many are depressed....
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Before the Rapture

The Four Stages We Must Live Through

by Eleanor Schultz
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011

Author Eleanor Schultz removes the mystery of scenes described by Bible prophets. Logical and clear explanation, with a touch of humor, calms fears about the times that we are destined to experience before the Rapture. The rise of the Antichrist and his crusade to conquer the world is unsettling at...
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Understanding Families

Supportive Approaches to Diversity, Disability, and Risk, Second Edition

by Marci Hanson Ph.D., Eleanor Lynch Ph.D., Marie Poulsen
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014

Today’s American families are more complex and diverse than ever before—and today’s child and family professionals must be fully prepared to meet their needs. Interventionists educators, health care professionals, therapists, and social workers will get the strong foundation they need...
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