Miriam: 1115 books

ABOUT THE BOOK Around the World in Eighty Days impressed me most of all because of its happy and satisfying ending. Despite all his adventures and missteps, the book’s hero, Phileas Fogg, managed to meet his deadline, that of circling the globe in 80 days, thus winning a bet made at his club....

In Each Child Is My Only One: Lotte Carlebach-Preuss, the Portrait of a Mother and Rabbi’s Wife, Miriam Gillis-Carlebach, the daughter of Rabbi Dr. Joseph Zvi Carlebach (1883–1942), last Chief Rabbi of Hamburg and its surroundings, describes her childhood in the lively household of a rabbi’s...

*An NPR Best Book of 2013* The darkly comic musings of a deeply thoughtful rodent—the perfect gift for pet lovers and anguished existentialists of all ages. Edward is a hamster—yet he contains multitudes. Trapped in a cage with a wheel that taunts him with its meaninglessness, Edward...

In the late sixteenth century, English merchants and diplomats ventured into the eastern Mediterranean to trade directly with the Turks, the keepers of an important emerging empire in the Western Hemisphere, and these initial exchanges had a profound effect on English literature. While the theater...

Aromatherapy for Acne Treatment uses clear explanations, color pictures, and multiple recipes to teach you how to use aromatherapy oils like tea tree essential oil to treat acne naturally. It also teaches you how to prepare the acne treatment gel that was medically proven to be effective for the treatment...

What should professionalsjudges, lawyers, teachers, social workers, and Guardian ad Litem or CASA volunteers consider in pursuing the Best Interest of Children who have been abandoned, neglected or abused? How can Department of Children and Families improve their systems? Best Interests of...

Krishna Kanta's Will by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay TRANSLATED BY MIRIAM S. KNIGHT, WITH INTRODUCTION, GLOSSARY AND NOTES BY J. F. BLUMHARDT, M.A. Pages - 176 In presenting to the English public another of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's tales, I have only to express a hope that the spirit of the...

Three surreal tales by award-winning writer, Miriam Hastings.  In ‘The Doll’, a little girl in foster care is given a sinister doll that she wants to destroy; in ‘My Fall’, a high-wire artiste sees something she should not; the third story, ‘Horns’, is a darkly comic tale in which...

Under the microscope of recent scholarship the universality of Greek tragedy has started to fade, as particularities of Athenian culture have come into focus. Miriam Leonard contests the idea of the death of tragedy and argues powerfully for the continued vitality and viability of Greek tragic theater in the central debates of contemporary culture.

Il libro di Miriam Taylor rappresenta un contributo fondamentale alla terapia del trauma. Scritto dalla prospettiva della psicoterapia della Gestalt, il libro integra le più rilevanti ricerche e teorie contemporanee e i più recenti modelli di lavoro con il trauma. Una risorsa sia per gli psicoterapeuti che per gli allievi.

For years our hiking group scouted out the best trails in the best parks, plus discovered little-used entrances that don't charge parking fees. Now you, too, can enjoy the outdoor beauty surrounding Silicon Valley with little more effort than stepping into your shoes and heading out, whether on foot,...

«Credo che l’unica risposta al male del mondo sia il silenzio, accompagnato dal nostro impegno serio e costante nel servizio di chi soffre». Beppe Gaido, medico, appartenente alla congregazione del Cottolengo, è arrivato a Chaaria (Kenya) nel 1998, in un territorio assai lontano dal Kenya turistico,...

How is medical knowledge made? New methods for research and clinical care have reshaped the practices of medical knowledge production over the last forty years. Consensus conferences, evidence-based medicine, translational medicine, and narrative medicine are among the most prominent new methods....

Cancer uses plain and easy to understand English to teach you about the causes, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, prognosis and prevention of the following tumors: * Ampullary cancer * Bile duct cancer * Osteosarcoma * Throat cancer