Mary Beth: 184 books
Vegan Quickstart Guide
The 4-week Transition Plan
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
The Vegan Quickstart Guide helps people transition to a low-fat, plant-based diet in 4 weeks. It includes self-talk recommendations, meal substitutions and recipes that help ensure a successful transition. The Guide helps reduce risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. America is facing an...
by Mary Beth Dunhaupt Figgins
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
This is a history of the ancestors of my mother's parents, W. M. Richards of Kansas and A. Elizabeth Gwinner of Missouri. It covers several generations and several different families. Sources, an index and some photos are included. I have been researching my family history since 1970 and this is my...
Mining Memory
Reimagining Self and Nation through Narratives of Childhood in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Every major Peruvian author of the twentieth century has written a narrative focused on childhood or coming of age. Mining Memory argues that Peruvian narratives of the twentieth century re-imagine childhood not only to document personal pasts, but also to focus on national identity as a dynamic and...
Person-Centred Teams
A Practical Guide to Delivering Personalisation Through Effective Team-work
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Person-Centred Teams provides much-needed guidance on person-centred working following the roll out of personalisation and personal budgets across health and social care.
In order to deliver personalisation you need to work with staff in person-centred ways. Straightforward and easy-to-read,...
Digital Connectivity and Music Culture
Artists and Accomplices
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This book explores how the rise of widely available digital technology impacts the way music is produced, distributed, promoted, and consumed, with a specific focus on the changing relationship between artists and audiences. Through in-depth interviewing, focus group interviewing, and discourse analysis,...
Haunted U.S. Battlefields
Ghosts, Hauntings, and Eerie Events from America's Fields of Honor
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
Do places where violent deaths occur somehow absorb the horror, only to conjure up images that haunt the living for generations to come? Many people believe that this can indeed happen; above all, in the context of that manmade phenomenon that reaps so great a toll in so short a time: War. Haunted...
Haunted Christmas
Yuletide Ghosts and Other Spooky Holiday Happenings
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
In plenty of time for the holidays, here is a gathering of thirty tales of ghosts, hauntings, and other paranormal happenings purported to have taken place on or around Christmas, or that are otherwise related to this holiday. By a long-time believer in the paranormal who in the introduction tells...
Haunted Pet Stories
Tales Of Ghostly Cats, Spooky Dogs, And Demonic Bunnies
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Since ancient times, stories have abounded concerning the existence of ghost animals. From the Native American animal spirits, to the menacing demon dogs of medieval England, to present day encounters with animal apparitions, there can be little doubt that animals, like people, live after death and...
Caddo Connections
Cultural Interactions within and beyond the Caddo World
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Drawing on the latest archaeological fieldwork, Caddo Connections looks at the highly dynamic cultural landscape of the Caddo Area and its complex interconnections and exchanges with surrounding regions.
The authors employ a multiscalar approach to examine cultural diversity through time and...
For the Love of Petey!
For the Love of Petey
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
11 year old Bella never knew how complicated, but wonderfu,l life would become when she first discovered Petey next to death in an old white boarded garage on her way home from school. Rescuing this amazing Dalmatian, she learns the value of persistence in doing what she believes is right, and gains...
by Alberto Anelli, Rocco Gangle, Sjoerd van Tuinen
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Deleuze remains indifferent to the ambient pathos related to the end of metaphysics and compares the undertakings of destruction, overcoming and deconstruction of metaphysics with the gestures of murderers. He considers himself “a pure metaphysician,” which is rather unique in the contemporary...
by Ethel Pochocki, Mary Beth Owens
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014
A Penny for a Hundred is beloved children's book author Ethel Pockocki's timeless tale of culture shock in rural Maine during the Second World War. It is 1944 and nine-year-old Clare will finally be able to help with the potato harvest—up until now, she was only able to earn the "penny a hundred"...
Rejoicing in the Works of the Lord
Beauty in the Franciscan Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The special focus of this study is the appreciation of beauty in the writing of two great theorists of the tradition, Bonaventure of Bagnoregio and John Duns Scotus.
The City and Sex
Private Vice and Public Scandal in the American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
The City and Sex examines American political sex scandals at the national level. Studying these events over time with an emphasis on the evolving responses of both statesmen and citizens reveals the republic’s deteriorating moral health and illuminates the country’s dangerous tendency toward servitude....