Penelope: 837 books

Do you have a vision? As we are reaching the end of the millennium, there is undoubtedly a search for something that is missing in peoples lives. There are strange things going on in the world that point to a new awakening; personally, I feel that this is a spiritual awakening. When Diana, Princess...

This book is your ultimate Cathay Pacific resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Cathay Pacific's whole picture right away. Get countless...

Un homme et une femme que tout oppose. Une rencontre imprévue. Le début de la relation de Soraya et Graham est un peu chaotique : il ne lui a pas fait très bonne impression. Elle le trouve désagréable et arrogant, un homme d'affaires typique, tout ce qu'elle n'aime pas. Et quand elle va lui rapporter...

Justin et Amélia sont amis depuis l'enfance. Ils ont même été amoureux à l'adolescence. Ils ont passé toutes leurs vacances dans la maison de la grand-mère d'Amélia, leurs parents respectifs étant souvent absents. Quelques années plus tard, ils héritent de la maison. Amélia, qui...

In general, children love bugs; but somehow, on the way to becoming grownups, this changes. Some people even say that they hate bugs. My hope is that “Einstein in My Garden, Photos and Reflections on Bugs,” will remind people, of all ages, how interesting bugs can be when you look up-close, and that...

The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media—oral, aural, visual, and literary. Investigates the many ways in which the arts were...

Becoming a widow is one of the most traumatic life events that a woman can experience. Yet, as this remarkable new collection reveals, each woman responds to that trauma differently. Here, forty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words. Some were widowed young, while others were...

**Everyone has a story to tell. This tale is mine. I went from a sheltered childhood, growing up in middle-class America in the 1940s and 1950s, to traveling to Thailand and Laos, then falling in love with Laos and marrying a Lao man. **With no one to answer my questions or sources to guide me, I...

Daily Bread is the Bible reading guide that aims to help you hear from God as you read the Bible. If you've ever asked the question, 'What possible relevance can this verse have for me today?' or 'What difference does this passage make to my life?' then read on...

This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...

Jane is a perpetually single computer programmer who has fallen in love with the equally nerdy Matt, her office colleague. She wants to settle down with him until she finds him at bachelorette party...moonlighting as a stripper. Hurt, she retreats into a shell as she doesn't know the "real"...

Linguistic styles particularly variations in pronunciation, carry a wide range of meaning - from speakers' socio-economic class to their mood or stance in the moment. This book examines the development of the study of sociolinguistic variation, from early demographic studies to a focus on the construction...

This is the first full-scale study of the literary art of Anna Komnene's Alexiad. Her history of her father's reign is well-known and much used by Byzantinists and historians of the First Crusade, but the art with which it shapes its central character has not been fully examined or understood. This...

Forging Southeastern Identities: Social Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Mississippian to Early Historic South, a groundbreaking collection of ten essays, covers a broad expanse of time—from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries—and focuses on a common theme of identity. These essays represent...