Nina: 1774 books
by Lorne Tepperman, Nina Gheihman
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
British social reformer Robert Owen once declared that "man is the creature of circumstances." A century and a half later, his famous words still ring true. While many adopt a fatalist approach, believing that their lot in life is inevitable, in fact a number of highly complex social factors determine...
Living Color
The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Living Color is the first book to investigate the social history of skin color from prehistory to the present, showing how our body’s most visible trait influences our social interactions in profound and complex ways. In a fascinating and wide-ranging discussion, Nina G. Jablonski begins with the...
by Nina Eliasoph
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Many of us may have participated in grassroots groups, changing the world in small and big ways, from building playgrounds and feeding the homeless, to protesting wars and ending legal segregation. Beyond the obvious fruits of these activities, what are the broader consequences of volunteering for...
Living Life as a Thank You
The Transformative Power of Daily Gratitude
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Whatever is given — even a difficult and challenging moment — is a gift. Living as if each day is a thank-you can help transform fear into courage, anger into forgiveness, isolation into belonging, and another’s pain into healing. Saying thank-you every day inspires feelings of love, compassion,...
Boundary Objects and Beyond
Working with Leigh Star
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The multifaceted work of the late Susan Leigh Star is explored through a selection of her writings and essays by friends and colleagues.
Susan Leigh Star (1954–2010) was one of the most influential science studies scholars of the last several decades. In her work, Star highlighted the messy...
Dressed for War
Uniform, Civilian Clothing and Trappings, 1914 to 1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Men in khaki and grey squatting in the trenches, women at work, gender bending in goggles, with overalls on over their trousers. What people wear matters. Well illustrated, this book tells the stories of what people on both sides wore on the front line and on the home front through the seismic years...
Helping Women Succeed In Business
Everything You Need to Know to Achieve Your Career Goals
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Are you tired of being overlooked? Are you ready to move up the ladder and impress the world? Then join Nina Baldwin as she reveals what you must know to succeed in the business world. As a COO in major restaurant franchises, she has worked with everyone from presidents to waiters; she's seen the good,...
The Translator
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
“Schuyler writes with piercing intelligence and real insight into the complex worlds of literary translation and human relationships.” —Ellen Sussman, author of the New York Times bestselling novel French Lessons
* *
When renowned translator Hanne Schubert falls down a flight...
by Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, Edited by Dean Wesley Smith, Kent Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The Cutting Edge of Modern Short Fiction
Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Back after over twenty years. A three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, Pulphouse returns with eighteen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction.
No genre limitations,...
by Nina Howes
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The Lower East Side is one of Manhattan's most vibrant neighborhoods. For centuries, it has been home to hundreds of enclaves of immigrants from every part of the world. As they became New Yorkers, the neighborhood has in turn become infused with their cultures, foods, traditions and personalities. In...
by Nina Navarre
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Lily lives in a world of darkness and light, love and possession, secrets and death. Her days are spent hunting with her animal companions but her nights are plagued by living nightmares of her abduction and dead lover.
Oliver- Hollywood’s latest ‘wild child’ is sent to Lily’s island...
Embodying Hebrew Culture
Aesthetics, Athletics, and Dance in the Jewish Community of Mandate Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
From their conquest of Palestine in 1917 during World War I, until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the British controlled the territory by mandate, representing a distinct cultural period in Middle Eastern history. In Embodying Hebrew Culture: Aesthetics, Athletics, and Dance in the...
Feminist Studies
A Guide to Intersectional Theory, Methodology and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
In this book, feminist scholar Nina Lykke highlights current issues in feminist theory, epistemology and methodology. Combining introductory overviews with cutting-edge reflections, Lykke focuses on analytical approaches to gendered power differentials intersecting with other processes of social in/exclusion...
The Wildside Book of Fantasy
20 Great Tales of Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The Wildside book of Fantasy presents 20 great fantasy tales by modern masters. Included are stories by Tanith Lee, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Gene Wolfe, Fritz Leiber, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Robert E. Howard, and many more. A choice selection of tales! THE DEAD MAN, by Gene Wolfe BRIGHT STREETS OF AIR, by...