Monika: 727 books
Double Stitch
Designs for the Crochet Fashionista
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Make a fashion statement with Double Stitch: Designs for the Crochet Fashionista, a collection of stylish, sexy, and modern crochet patterns for the fashion diva. Chicago-based crochet designers and twins Erika and Monika Simmons bring edge to the craft with twenty-five fashion-forward projects inspired...
by Monika Fludernik
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
In this ground breaking work of synthesis, Monika Fludernik combines insights from literary theory and linguistics to provide a challenging new theory of narrative.
This book is both an historical survey and theoretical study, with the author drawing on an enormous range of examples from the earliest...
Americans, Congress, and Democratic Responsiveness
Public Evaluations of Congress and Electoral Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
"Jones and McDermott restore meaning to democratic responsibility by finding that public evaluations affect Congress. In contrast to the popular depiction of the representatives controlling the represented
rampant in the political science literature, Jones and McDermott show that the people are...
by Zygmunt Bauman, Irena Bauman, Jerzy Kociatkiewicz
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Management has been one of the driving forces of the last century, indeed an idea and a language that colonized most other institutions, areas of human activity and walks of life, even those that had until recently been regarded as completely unmanageable, such as art, academia and creativity. Some...
Maldives Travel Guide - 2016 Edition
The most comprehensive Maldives travel guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
This fully comprehensive Travel Guide to Maldives is your one-stop shop to the most up-to-date and relevant information about the breathtaking Maldivian islands.
Find out how to chose the perfect island resort, how to pick the best accommodation for your needs and get all the fun...
Drawing on the Victorians
The Palimpsest of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Graphic Texts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images—illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera—to...
Polara und Bruno reisen nach Indien
Band 3 - Die Abenteuerreise des Braunbären und der Eisbärin. - Tiergeschichte empfohlen ab 6 Jahre
Language: German
Release Date: November 29, 2014
Die dritte Abenteuerreise des Braunbären Bruno mit dem Eisbärenmädchen. Polara und Bruno begaben sich im zweiten Band nach Afrika um den Tiger zu suchen. Sie erlebten dort spannende Abenteuer, doch die königliche Raubkatze fanden sie nicht. Im Osten Afrikas genießen sie die herzliche Gastfreundschaft...
Begraben liegt mein Herz
Der Psychothriller, der euch fesseln wird!
Language: German
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Wer bedrängt, beobachtet und bedroht Sabrinas Familie? Steht es auf ihrer Stirn geschrieben, dass sie ein potenzielles Opfer ist? Ihr Ehemann Thomas ist Polizist, hat das Stalking etwas mit seinem Beruf zu tun? Wer wütet mörderisch in ihrem Umfeld? Wie nah liegen Liebe, Hass und Wut beieinander?...
Antebellum and Civil War San Francisco
A Western Theater for Northern & Southern Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
When Americans migrated westward, they took their politics with them, making San Francisco a microcosm of the nation as the Civil War loomed.
Spurred by the promise of gold, hungry adventurers flocked to San Francisco in search of opportunity on the eve of the Civil War. The city flourished and...
Indians Playing Indian
Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North America
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Contemporary indigenous peoples in North America confront a unique predicament. While they are reclaiming their historic status as sovereign nations, mainstream popular culture continues to depict them as cultural minorities similar to other ethnic Americans. These depictions of indigenous peoples...
Ich hatte mich jünger in Erinnerung
Lesebotox für die Frau ab 40
Language: German
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Morgens im Badezimmerspiegel schaut uns eine Frau an, die man irgendwie jünger in Erinnerung hatte. Mittags huschen wir zum Optiker, um eine Lesebrille zu erstehen – die wir zuvor nur von unseren Omas kannten. Und auf dem Nachhauseweg pfeifen einem nicht einmal mehr die Bauarbeiter hinterher. Älterwerden...
Liberalism in Neoliberal Times
Dimensions, Contradictions, Limits
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
An exploration of the theories, histories, practices, and contradictions of liberalism today.
What does it mean to be a liberal in neoliberal times? This collection of short essays attempts to show how liberals and the wider concept of liberalism remain relevant in what many perceive to be...
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Vom Denken des Herzens Eine Biographie
Language: German
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Die maßgebliche Biografie auf aktuellstem Stand Nikolaus Harnoncourt zählt zu den letzten "Großmeistern" im Musikleben unserer Zeit und kann Publikum und Kritik polarisieren wie kein anderer. Mit seinen künstlerischen Ansprüchen und idealistischen Überzeugungen hat er traditionsgebundenen Ereignissen...
by Monika Mehta
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
India produces an impressive number of films each year in a variety of languages. Here, Monika Mehta breaks new ground by analyzing Hindi films and exploring the censorship of gender and heterosexuality in Bombay cinema. She studies how film censorship on various levels makes the female body and female...