Fish: 278 books

How do men imagine women? In the poetry of Petrarch and his English successors—Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell—the male poet persistently imagines pursuing a woman, Laura, whom he pursues even as she continues to deny his affections. Critics have long held that, in objectifying Laura, these male-authored...

Crime Scene Investigation offers an innovative approach to learning about crime scene investigation, taking the reader from the first response on the crime scene to documenting crime scene evidence and preparing evidence for courtroom presentation. It includes topics not normally covered in other...

This new book examines whether television can be used as a tool not just for capitalism, but for democracy. Throughout television’s history, activists have attempted to access it for that very reason. New technologies—cable, satellite, and the internet—provided brief openings for amateur and...

Gender in a Transitional Era addresses a range of issues relevant in current gender and sexuality studies scholarship which span many disciplines. The contributors prioritize the critical thinking that continues to support the notion that we, as a society, still have a ways to go toward full gender...

War heroes. The London Season. First loves. Second chances. Welcome to sweet Regency world of the family of the Earl of Bridgethorpe. Love at First Sight is a sampler of the first chapters in the first seven books of the Bridgethorpe Brides series. His Impassioned Proposal: War hero...

The Duke of Killiekrankie extends an invitation to Senorita Jimena Abreu-Cuevas to sing for his pleasure. A reward of £200 will be given to the man who discovers her whereabouts and escorts her to Killiekrankie. When Malcolm Lennox, part time magistrate and amateur sleuth, sees the duke’s...

Masquerading as a Miss Tossed upon a beach after a storm at sea, Colin Wentworth, Viscount Spalding, awakens next to a mysterious young lady on the sandy shore. She’s unable to tell him anything more than her name, Cassandra Franklin. As Spalding strives to help her find her family, he loses...

When she tossed her bottle into the ocean with her book club friends, Hope Reynolds had no desire to find a man. She’d set aside her personal desires to focus on her son, who took her break ups personally. Jayden had felt deserted too many times, and was now acting out in school. In a few years,...

New Authors and collections. Following the great success of 2015's Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror and Science Fiction, this latest in the series is packed with detectives, mystery and murder. Whodunnits and mysteries from classic authors are cast with previously...

All down through history mankind has been living life in a state of greed, control, selfishness, and chaos. It is now time for the earth to be cleansed and raised to a higher state of existence. Some refer to that new state of existence as the Millennial Era. Others just call it a new golden age. Whatever...

During the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, the transpacific treasure galleons sailed annually from Manila to Acapulco. In Manila, the vessel was loaded with the scented spices of the East, luxurious silks from China, exquisite hand crafted lacquerware from Japan and a multitude of Oriental...

In 1836, Henry Lester moved his family from the Vermont hills to better land on the valley floor north of Rutland, beginning a saga six generations on a farm, which this book portrays and explores with an affectionate but critical eye. What gives the book its distinctive charm is its vivid evocation...

Découvrez les aventures quotidiennes, désopilantes et parfaitement véridiques, d'une quinqua qui déteste autant son âge qu'elle aime les chaussures... C'est dire. Mais, parce qu'elle a la faculté de toujours voir le verre "à moitié plein", elle supporte dignement les avatars de SA vie et nous...

What if you awoke one morning and everything was different? What if your path collided with that of a man you had known for lifetimes, a man you had loved for lifetimesa forever love? What if reincarnation and past life traumas ran like a movie before your open eyes, and what if all this happened...