Ingrid: 591 books
by Ingrid Betancourt
Language: French
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: February 9, 2012
" Enchaînée par le cou à un arbre, privée de toute liberté, celle de bouger, de s'asseoir, de se lever ; celle de parler ou de se taire ; celle de boire ou de manger ; et même la plus élémentaire, celle d'assouvir les besoins de son corps... J'ai pris conscience – après de longues années...
Freedom Sounds
Civil Rights Call out to Jazz and Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
An insightful examination of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, Freedom Sounds traces the complex relationships among music, politics, aesthetics, and activism through the lens of the hot button racial and economic issues of the time. Ingrid...
Aunties
Thirty-Five Writers Celebrate Their Other Mother
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
An aunt is not just another mother—and aunts defy any sort of archetypal image. Like humanity, they span the spectrum, from down-home Auntie Em to the uninhibited Auntie Mame. Some aunts are smart, others are crazy. Some act bravely, others downright foolish. Now in Ingrid Sturgis’s marvelous...
by Ingrid Renner
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
If you are looking for inspiration and “the secret” into being successful in life, this book is for you.
Through time, our team has searched high and low for some of the most inspirational and motivational quotes we could find.
Here, I have put them all together for you to browse and read...
Know Thyself
Western Identity from Classical Greece to the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
**A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018
A lively and timely introduction to the roots of self-understanding--who we are and how we should act--in the cultures of ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and Middle Ages and the Renaissance**
"Know thyself"--this fundamental imperative appeared...
Giordano Bruno
Philosopher/Heretic
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Giordano Bruno is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's pathbreaking life of Bruno establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo, a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours.
By the time...
Lost Maine Coastal Schooners
From Glory Days to Ghost Ships
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Dramatic true stories of New England maritime history, with photos.
Large, wooden-hulled schooners graced the seas of coastal Maine for more than a century as vessels of trade and commerce. With the advent of steam-powered craft, however, these elegant four-, five-, or six-masted wooden ships became...
Ons gaat het in ieder geval nog goed
Een Nederlandse familie in Oost-Pruisen 1920-1946
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 29, 2018
In 1922 kwam de Rotterdamse stoffenhandelaar Michiel Hoogendijk in het bezit van het landgoed Schakenhof in Oost-Pruisen. Daar beleefde hij met zijn vrouw en zeven kinderen de opkomst van het nationaalsocialisme, de oorlog, de komst van de Russen en de ondergang van het Derde Rijk. Ruim tien jaar...
Toleration and Identity
Foundations in Early Modern Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Recently, there has been a notable rise in interest in the idea of "toleration", a rise that Ingrid Creppell argues comes more from distressing political developments than positive ones, and almost all of them are related to issues of identity: rampant genocide in the 20th Century, the resurgence...
Letters to My Mother
A Message of Love, A Plea for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
On December 1, 2007, during the arrest of several guerillas in Bogotá, the Colombian police confiscated a short video clip of political hostage Ingrid Betancourt. Accompanying the video was a twelve-page letter, dated October 24, 2007, written by Betancourt to her mother and family.
Kidnapped...
by Ingrid A. Wijngaarde
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
On our life’s journey we need signs to help us remember where we came from and where we are going. The Sabbath as the day of rest, is a sign which God gave to humanity in the Garden of Eden, the place of our origin, and which points us to our destination—the New Heaven and the New Earth.A Sabbath...
Animal Illumination
The Essential Guide to Learning Intuitive Animal Communication
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Animal Illumination: The Essential Guide to Learning Intuitive Animal Communication takes the mystery out of animal communication and provides practical, easy-to-understand instructions on how to communicate telepathically with your pets. International animal communicator Ingrid M. Brammer guides...
Islands at the Crossroads
Migration, Seafaring, and Interaction in the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
A long sequence of social, cultural, and political processes characterizes an ever-dynamic Caribbean history. The Caribbean Basin is home to numerous linguistic and cultural traditions and fluid interactions that often map imperfectly onto former colonial and national traditions. Although much of...
The Franciscan Tradition
Franciscan Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Saint Francis of Assisi is one of the most beloved saints. His commitment to God's will, his yearning to embrace poverty, and his attentiveness to the Spirit's presence in his life continue to inspire Christians and non-Christians alike. The Franciscan Tradition highlights some of the most influential...