Marina: 920 books

Ros Farleigh needs to find her half-brother. Tim Preston, nineteen and on his own for the first time as he works his way round the Mediterranean, playing the drums in hotel bands, vanished three months earlier leaving his precious drums behind. Always a regular correspondent, his last letter was full...

In 1774 Mexico City leaders created the Mexico City Poor House—the centerpiece of a bold experiment intended to eliminate poverty and impose a new work ethic on former beggars by establishing a forcible internment policy for some and putting others to work. In Containing the Poor Silvia Marina Arrom...

Marina Slayton and her husband, Gregory, best-selling author of Be a Better Dad Today, reveal the secrets to finding true joy in the sacred role of motherhood. Using story, humor, empathy, common sense, and straight talk—grounded in reality and personal experience—Be the Best Mom You...

«Oggi è festa. Nella chiesetta del borgo battezzano il mio bambino. Io non ci potrò essere, ufficialmente: devo stare nascosta.» Comincia così il racconto di una donna che la Storia ha a lungo dimenticato: Caterina, la madre di Leonardo da Vinci. Giovane popolana, sedotta dal notaio ser Pietro...

Un albero parlante, cuccioli d’uomo e di animali, fate, folletti e altri personaggi, tutti da scoprire, animano questi racconti cittadini. Un modo nuovo per avvicinare i bambini all’osservazione della Natura in città e all’’Ecologia Urbana

Living Without the Screen provides an in-depth study of those American families and individuals who opt not to watch television, exploring the reasons behind their choices, discussing their beliefs about television, and examining the current role of television in the American family. Author Marina...

The #1 Amazon best seller TURN YOURSELF ON is for you to get your fabulous back! After upset with him, with her, or with life - because your happiness is everything! It's your best friend and handbook for life. You know how it is...you feel like you're going through the motions - you're not...

No es necesario ser mujer para ser víctima del machismo, ni hombre para ser machista. El machismo sigue vivo y se ha vuelto aún más urgente desenmascararlo, comprenderlo y combatirlo bajo todas sus formas, debido a sus enormes costos psicológicos, sociales y económicos en las sociedades...

L'agricoltura sinergica è una forma di coltivazione naturale che mira a ristabilire, anche nel campo coltivato, l'equilibrio e la sinergia tra il suolo, le piante, la fauna, la microfauna, e perfino gli individui che vi intervengono. In questo libro Marina Ferrara ci introduce alla realizzazione...

While a foolish mistake sends a 3000 pound vehicle barreling down a hill in a quiet neighborhood, God shows up and proves He's into instant messaging as far as prayer requests go. Just a short story that proves God is ready to answer prayers, no matter how quick, no matter how desperate.

Nel 1482 Leonardo da Vinci entra per la prima volta a Milano. Ha trent’anni, poca esperienza del mondo e tra le mani solamente una spavalda lettera di presentazione per il signore della città, l’ambizioso Ludovico il Moro, in cui si descrive capace ed esperto in ogni campo, dall’arte della...

Flamboyant, wealthy, middle aged and several-times married Dodie Fanshaw is in Madeira to help make a film about her early life as a chorus girl and Hollywood starlet, and her husbands. She is not amused when her son Jake, indifferent actor, appeals to her for money. Instead of going back to England...

Marina Jenkyns conveys the excitement of working therapeutically with dramatic text though a personal and highly readable analysis of plays from a variety of periods and cultures. Influenced by the theories of Winnicott and Klein she lays bare the dynamics of relationships and plots to show how they...

He clicks a pen and hovers over a paper that he has spread out over the coffee table—completely unaware of the heat that is coursing through my veins. “So, Kate,” he says with a straight-lined face, “how has your week been treating you?” He is my parole officer, and he is making...