Margaret: 4917 books
Death Talk, Second Edition
The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Death Talk asks why, when our society has rejected euthanasia for over two thousand years, are we now considering legalizing it? Has euthanasia been promoted by deliberately confusing it with other ethically acceptable acts? What is the relation between pain relief treatments that could shorten life...
The Sociology of Health and Healing
A Textbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
"...It is well-written and well-referenced...this is an important, innovative, enjoyable textbook which can be highly recommended for use in undergraduate and postgraduate sociology courses on health related subjects, and which will be of value in courses on women's studies and gender. It will...
Book of Infinite Love
The Needs of Our Time: a Little Treatise of Infinite Love
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1992
Shortly before her death, Mother Louise Margaret Claret de la Touche (1868-1915) was commissioned by her bishop to write THE BOOK OF INFINITE LOVE. Aimed at all Catholics, it is an effort to expound upon the nature and bounties of God s love for men, but more particularly, it shows how God s love...
Tea
60 teas to revitalize & restore
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Tea is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world, second only to water. It can be drunk hot or cold, and can be made from the traditional tea plant or any number of herbs and spices, many of which have remarkable healing properties. In this beautifully designed book, herb expert Margaret...
Sarah Orne Jewett
Reconstructing Gender
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
In her book Sarah Orne Jewett: Reconstructing Gender, Margaret Roman argues that one theme colors almost every short story and novel by the turn-of-the-century American author: each person, regardless of sex, must break free of the restrictive, polar-opposite norms of behavior traditionally assigned...
by Margaret Silf
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
"You must become the change you long for.Fine words, a great vision, but where to begin?We caterpillars know. From the moment we are conceived in our parents’ mating dance, we already contain the cells that hold our future butterfly.We become, literally, the change we carry within us, as our...
by Margaret Rogers Van Coops
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
This is not Albert Einstein For Dummies, but The Genius would be proud of the spirit of this book on the Theory of Quantum Entanglement, which is an enlightening example of complicated information presented in simple, easy to understand terms. Through a range of anecdotes and statistical evidence,...
Saint Kateri
Lily of the Mohawks
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
This authoritative account of the first Native American woman to be declared a saint by the Church is sure to inspire you. Discover an extraordinary young woman who was called by Pope Blessed John Paul II, God's "bountiful gift" to His Church and a "sweet, frail yet strong figure of a young woman...
by Margaret Doody, David Fairer, Sophie Gee
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered beginswith the brute fact that poetry jostledup alongside novels in the bookstallsof eighteenth-century England. Indeed,by exploringunexpected collisions and collusionsbetween poetry and novels, this volumeof exciting, new essays offers...
American Denominational History
Perspectives on the Past, Prospects for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
This work brings various important topics and groups in American religious history the rigor of scholarly assessment of the current literature. The fruitful questions that are posed by the positions and experiences of the various groups are carefully examined. American Denominational History points...
by Margaret Minchin
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
A woman's story about living in the country in and looking after sheep on a small New Zealand 20 hectares farm in recent times. The care of the sheep during and the uncovering of their personalities over a year and their needs during that time. See sheep from a different light. It's all included in this book.
Growing Up in New Guinea
A Comparative Study of Primitive Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Following the sensational success of her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa, Margaret Mead continued her brilliant work in Growing Up in New Guinea, detailing her study of the Manus, a New Guinea people still untouched by the outside world when she visited them in 1928. She lived in their noisy fishing...
by Margaret Silf
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Wisdom stories with a spiritual message have a special place on many people's bookshelves, providing Christian insight into the various issues that we face day by day. This new collection of stories from master storyteller, Margaret Silf, will provide a rich source of illumination to those who turn...
A Way to Garden
A Hands-On Primer for Every Season
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
"Those with dirt already under their fingernails will treasure Roach’s in-depth knowledge, wry humor, and reflective look at how seasons in gardening mirror the passage of time." —Publishers Weekly
For Margaret Roach, gardening is more than a hobby, it’s a calling. Her unique approach,...