Nancy: 4645 books
by Nancy Shields Kollmann
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Modern Russian identity and historical experience has been largely shaped by Russia's imperial past: an empire that was founded in the early modern era and endures in large part today. The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys how the areas that made up the empire were conquered and how they were governed....
Diet Myths That Keep Us Fat
And the 101 Truths That Will Save Your Waistline--and Maybe Even Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Get the real skinny on fat.
When it comes to losing weight, the false beliefs most of us cling to could fill a book–this one! As a medical doctor, medical journalist, and veteran of the diet wars, Nancy L. Snyderman knows better than almost anyone what really works and what sabotages your...
Learn to Paper Piece
A Visual Guide to Piecing with Precision
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Resolve the mystery of precisely constructing quilt blocks with paper piecing. Nancy Mahoney guides you step by step through the basics and shows you how fun paper piecing can be. You'll be amazed when you discover how easy it is to master this empowering technique. Welcome to the definitive guide...
Individualizing Gender and Sexuality
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Nancy Chodorow, in her groundbreaking book The Reproduction of Mothering, quite simply changed the conversation in at least three areas of study: psychoanalysis, women's studies, and sociology. In her latest book, Individualizing Gender and Sexuality, she examines the complexity and uniqueness of...
Work with Passion in Midlife & Beyond
Reach Your Full Potential and Make the Money You Need
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
If you are looking for a way to make your final working years better than all that have come before this book is for you. Bestselling author and innovative career and life consultant Nancy Anderson understands the uncertainty and anxiety that crop up in midlife. She knows firsthand that family pressures...
Pilgrim Stories
On and Off the Road to Santiago, Journeys Along an Ancient Way in Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 1998
Each year thousands of men and women from more than sixty countries journey by foot and bicycle across northern Spain, following the medieval pilgrimage road known as the Camino de Santiago. Their destination is Santiago de Compostela, where the remains of the apostle James are said to be buried....
Guiding Missal
Fifty Years. Three Generations of Military Men. One Spirited Prayer Book.
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
If this little book could only talk!
Guiding Missal is based on a true story about a lively prayerbook that accompanies three military men as they live through momentous events in our nation’s history.
In 1942, George Panko is drafted into the U.S. Army and volunteers to be a forward...
Habeas for the Twenty-First Century
Uses, Abuses, and the Future of the Great Writ
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
For centuries, the writ of habeas corpus has served as an important safeguard against miscarriages of justice, and today it remains at the center of some of the most contentious issues of our time—among them terrorism, immigration, crime, and the death penalty. Yet, in recent decades, habeas has...
The Jumanos
Hunters and Traders of the South Plains
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
In the late sixteenth century, Spanish explorers described encounters with North American people they called "Jumanos." Although widespread contact with Jumanos is evident in accounts of exploration and colonization in New Mexico, Texas, and adjacent regions, their scattered distribution and scant documentation...
A Nervous State
Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
In A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King Leopold’s Congo Free State. Discarding catastrophe as narrative form, she instead brings alive a history of colonial nervousness. This mood suffused medical investigations, security operations, and vernacular...
A Colonial Lexicon
Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1999
A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the “colonial encounter” paradigm pervasive in current studies, Nancy Rose Hunt elegantly weaves together stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation,...
Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge
A Journey to My Daughter's Birthplace in China
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Even before Nancy McCabe and her daughter, Sophie, left for China, it was clear that, as the mother of an adopted child from China, McCabe would be seeing the country as a tourist while her daughter, who was seeing the place for the first time in her memory, was “going home.” Part travelogue,...
by Nancy Monson
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Craft to Heal is a self-help book that describes how creative hobbies and crafts can be transformed into healing arts. Mind-body research now shows that crafts and hobbies are good for our mental, physical, and spiritual health. This unique book gives readers tips and techniques for getting the most...
by Nancy Easterlin
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Combining cognitive and evolutionary research with traditional humanist methods, Nancy Easterlin demonstrates how a biocultural perspective in theory and criticism opens up new possibilities for literary interpretation.
Easterlin maintains that the practice of literary interpretation is still...