Lesley: 835 books
by Lesley Ann Crossingham
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The Mystery Schools have existed in every corner of the world, and whilst their teachings align with various cultural concerns, there are some fundamental and universal wisdom teachings that are common to them all. In this book the author gathers the corn wisdom from the Asian, European, African and...
by Lesley Caldwell
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This volume in the Winnicott Studies series is dedicated to the life and work of Marion Milner and reflects, in varying ways, her unique use of Winnicott's work to shape her own thinking about art and creativity. Among the papers here are contemporary reviews of Milner's books by both Winnicott and...
by Professor Lesley Brill
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Stephen Frears has a career approaching over half-a-century, directing films of astonishing variety, beauty, and daring, and yet many often have trouble remembering his name. The Ironic Filmmaking of Stephen Frears celebrates this great filmmaker, beginning with a short biography of Frears, general...
A Century of Violence in a Red City
Popular Struggle, Counterinsurgency, and Human Rights in Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
In A Century of Violence in a Red City Lesley Gill provides insights into broad trends of global capitalist development, class disenfranchisement and dispossession, and the decline of progressive politics. Gill traces the rise and fall of the strong labor unions, neighborhood organizations, and working...
A Broken Regiment
The 16th Connecticut's Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
A Broken Regiment recounts the tragic history of one of the Civil War's most ill-fated Union military units. Organized in the late summer of 1862, the 16th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry was unprepared for battle a month later, when it entered the fight at Antietam. The results were catastrophic:...
by Lesley J. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The man who gave his name to the greatest failed frontal attack in American military history, George E. Pickett is among the most famous Confederate generals of the Civil War. But even today he remains imperfectly understood, a figure shrouded in Lost Cause mythology. In this carefully researched...
Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies
Death, Mourning, and Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
In the United States today, the human body defines a lucrative site of reusable parts, ranging from whole organs to minuscule and even microscopic tissues. Although the medical practices that enable the transfer of parts from one body to another most certainly relieve suffering and extend lives, they...
The Transplant Imaginary
Mechanical Hearts, Animal Parts, and Moral Thinking in Highly Experimental Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2013
In The Transplant Imaginary, author Lesley Sharp explores the extraordinarily surgically successful realm of organ transplantation, which is plagued worldwide by the scarcity of donated human parts, a quandary that generates ongoing debates over the marketing of organs as patients die waiting for...
Direct Action, Deliberation, and Diffusion
Collective Action after the WTO Protests in Seattle
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
What are the micro-level interactions and conversations that underlie successful and failed diffusion? By comparing the spread of direct action tactics from the 1999 Global Justice Movement protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle to grassroots activists in Toronto and New York, Lesley...
by Lesley Arrowsmith
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Bran has a Power, and he is driven out of his tribe because of it. The Ice is melting - the world is changing, and babies are being born with new Powers that nobody understands - but there are some in this new world who want to make use of the new Powers, and the people who wield them, for their own purposes.
by Lesley Cookman
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
The sixteenth in the acclaimed Libby Sarjeant murder mystery series by Lesley Cookman. Max Tobin brings his all-male dance company to Steeple Martin, with his new ballet Pendle, based on the infamous Pendle Witch Trials, due to be performed at the Oast Theatre. There have been unpleasant incidents...
Authority in Language
Investigating Standard English
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Authority in Language explores the perennially topical and controversial notion of correct and incorrect language.
James and Lesley Milroy cover the long-running debate over the teaching of Standard English in Britain and compare the language ideologies in Britain and the USA, involving a discussion...
Behavioral Addiction
Screening, Assessment, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Written in scientific prose that can also be understood by the layperson, this comprehensive volume is a must-read for those working in the addiction field and anyone interested in learning more about this devastating disease.
An-Pyng Sun, PhD, is a professor at the University of Nevada, Las...
by Lesley Pearse
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Na primavera de 1935, em Londres, duas jovens observam enquanto a polícia retira o cadáver de um homem de um lago. Elas vêm de mundos completamente diferentes. Ruby é filha de uma prostituta alcoólica e só conhece a pobreza e o abandono. Verity, de boas famílias, vive com todo o conforto que...