Marianna: 97 books
Interpreting al-Tha'labi's Tales of the Prophets
Temptation, Responsibility and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Al-Tha’labi was a renowned Qur’anic scholar of the fifth/eleventh century, and his ‘Ara’is al-majalis is arguably the finest and most widely consulted example of the Islamic qisas al-anbiya’ genre.
Drawing on primary Arabic sources, Klar applies modern critical methods in order to...
Annie Chartres Vivanti
Transnational Politics, Identity, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This book explores the work of a writer, Annie Chartres Vivanti (1866–1942), who
brought a transnational dimension to the marked provincialism of the Italian novel by
addressing issues of gender, ethnicity, and sexuality on personal and international
levels, and by creating work that distanced itself...
by Marianna Torgovnick
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
We all want to know how novels end and to feel that they satisfy what we want in a good story. CLOSURE IN THE NOVEL will help you understand and appreciate why artists choose to conclude their novels as they do. It will give you a new appreciation for sequels, epilogues, back-stories, and the way that...
Primitive Passions
Men, Women, and the Quest for Ecstasy
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Beginning with early 20th-century figures--among them Carl Jung, Isak Dinesen, and Georgia O'Keeffe--who found in "the primitive" a medium for soul-searching and personal change, Torgovnivk probes how the return to the primitive has signaled a quest to transcend the limitations of the body...
by Marianna Albini, Leonardo Merlini, Nicola Lagioia
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Come si addice a un uomo, Franz Kafka, che, nonostante i dubbi riguardo alla propria corporatura gracile, era noto per la resistenza alle lunghe cavalcate e alle camminate in campagna. La sua palestra, i suoi campi d’allenamento, sono ovunque, nel quotidiano traffico della città moderna, come accade...
Il trauma dimenticato
L'interpretazione dei sogni nelle psicoterapie: storia, teoria, tecnica
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Il libro si rivolge anzitutto a chi intende esercitare la professione di psicoanalista e di psicoterapeuta e a chi cerca risposta alla crisi della psicoanalisi. Gli autori tentano di ripensare l’iter formativo degli psicoanalisti e degli psicoterapeuti, per dare alla psicoanalisi una nuova identità,...
The Kurds and US Foreign Policy
International Relations in the Middle East since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
This book provides a detailed survey and analysis of US–Kurdish relations and their interaction with domestic, regional and global politics. Using the Kurdish issue to explore the nature of the engagement between international powers and weaker non-state entities, the author analyses the existence...
The Cat, the Fish and the Waiter (Spanish Edition)
El Gato, El Pez Y El Camarero Le Chat, Le Poisson Et Le Serveur
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
When Peter, a humble waiter in Paris, volunteers to care for his friends pets, a cat and an exotic orange fish, things get complicated when the pets go missing! Now, Peter must search across Paris using whatever detective skills a waiter may have to find the missing pets before his friends get back...
by Marianna Csoti
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2003
Many children are challenged by anxiety at some time in their school career. Bringing together knowledge from her years of teaching and parenting, Márianna Csóti shows how parents and professionals can help children aged five to sixteen move away from the negative thoughts and behaviour that contribute...
by Marianna d'Ovidio
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Every city wants to become creative, perhaps even the most creative ever. But what does it mean to be a creative city? What images take shape as a consequence? What sort of city do we envisage? Which one are we actually building?In a journey that starts with Blade Runner and passes through English punk,...
by Marianna Perry, Lawrence J. Fennelly
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Investigations: 150 Things You Should Know, Second Edition, explores the essential tips and techniques for security investigations, providing a useful reference for those at any stage of their security career. This practical guide covers the legal guidelines that all investigators must follow. Through...
Communicating Climate Change in Russia
State and Propaganda
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
The attitude of Russia towards climate change is extremely important for the success of climate change control policies worldwide, as Russia, with its cold climate and vast resources of carbon fuels, is one of the world’s biggest polluters. Moreover, Russia frequently comes across as not being very...
by Marianna Hudcovicová
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
This book presents empirical research of grammatical collocations of the type: verb and the prepositions «of» and «to». It is based on comparisons of English and Czech sentences containing verbs and prepositions that are followed by the object. The author creates English–Czech verbal prepositional...
The Psychosocial and Organization Studies
Affect at Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Leading authors within organization studies and also from broader social science disciplines present the state of the art in the rapidly developing field of psychosocial approaches to organization studies and critical management studies.