Elisabeth: 1340 books

The mid-1960s through the mid-1970s was a heady, turbulent time. There was a lot going on back then, and author Elisabeth Amaral was in the middle of it all: the fights for womens rights, racial equality, a music revolution, be-ins, love-ins, riots in the streets, the rage against the Vietnam War,...

"Hoch über den schneegekrönten Häuptern der Berge stand ein leuchtender Regenbogen. Das Gewitter war vorübergezogen; noch grollte es fern und dumpf in den Schluchten und an den Bergwänden lagerten dichte Wolkenmassen, aber der Himmel war bereits wieder klar, die Hochgipfel hatten sich entschleiert,...

"Der Herbstmorgen war grau und trübe. Der Nebel lagerte noch feucht und dicht auf der Erde, er hing in schweren Tropfen an den dunklen Tannenzweigen und deckte als leichter weißer Reif den Boden der kleinen Waldlichtung, die inmitten der umfangreichen S.'schen Forsten lag. Am Rande der Lichtung...

Diese Ausgabe von "Um hohen Preis" wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Aus dem Buch: "...Er lächelte, aber nicht mit dem gewohnten Sarkasmus – diesmal flog es wie Sonnenschein über seine Züge, als er die dargebotene Hand ergriff und zugleich...

The great, influential cultural critic, Elisabeth Bronfen, sets out in this book a conversation between literature, cinema and visual culture. The crossmappings facilitated in and between these essays address the cultural survival of image formulas involving portraiture and the uncanny relation between...

Professing a policy of cultural and social integration, the American settlement house movement made early progress in helping immigrants adjust to life in American cities. However, when African Americans migrating from the rural South in the early twentieth century began to replace white immigrants...

This book clarifies some key ideas and practices underlying peacebuilding; understood broadly as formal and informal peace processes that occur during pre-conflict, conflict and post-conflict transformation. Applicable to all peacebuilders, Elisabeth Porter highlights positive examples of women’s...

Broad perspective on collectivity in the life sciences, from microorganisms to human consensus, and the theoretical and empirical opportunities and challenges. Many researchers and scholars in the life sciences have become increasingly critical of the traditional methodological focus on the...

Base Encounters explores the social friction that US bases have caused in South Korea, where the entertainment districts next to American military installations have come under much scrutiny.*BR**BR*The Korean peninsula is one of the most heavily militarised regions in the world and the conflict between...

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (4 October 1835 – 4 February 1915) was an English popular novelist of the Victorian era. She is best known for her 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret. Born in London, Mary Elizabeth Braddon was privately educated. Her mother Fanny separated from her father Henry in...

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza describes the theoretical and liberative theological commitments that orient her pioneering biblical scholarship, including the use of critical theory, analysis of interacting social, political, economic, and religious oppressions, and promotion of a genuinely emancipatory and democratic community of equals—in academy, church, and wider society alike.

Matthew Weiner’s Emmy-winning series Mad Men has earned wide critical acclaim in its seven seasons. What is it about these impeccably dressed men and women of midcentury Madison Avenue that fascinates us? Decades later, when Weiner’s iconic characters seem as much a thing of the past as the workday...

'Een razend spannende roman over het huwelijk, moederschap en de betekenis van geluk.'- Marja Pruis Een vrouw bestudeert haar mouches volantes, de bewegende, troebele sliertjes die je ziet als je je ogen dichtknijpt. De plek waar ze zich bevindt lijkt in niets op de conferentie in Helsinki waar ze...

Tijdens een vakantie twintig jaar geleden verdween Alice, de dochter van psychotherapeute Stella Widstrand, maar haar lichaam is nooit gevonden. Als op een dag een nieuwe cliënte zich bij haar praktijk meldt, weet Stella zeker dat deze Isabelle haar verdwenen dochter Alice is. Ze doet er alles aan...