Polly: 302 books
The Ethical Travel Guide
Your Passport to Exciting Alternative Holidays
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
If you're tired of Tourist Traps and Guilt Trips, or just want to have a positive impact on local people and their environment, this book is for you. Find hundreds of new ideas for your next holiday and visit amazing communities not listed in other guidebooks. The Ethical Travel Guide is a natural...
Transforming Memories
Spontaneous Writing Using Loaded Words
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
From different families and different childhoods, three women remember and speak out about the secrecy, silence, and shame of having an alcoholic parent. Through spontaneous writing with "loaded words" and person-to-person sharing, the women embarked on a transformative journey in which...
Beating the Bullies
Twenty Inspiring True-Life Stories of Triumph Over Violence, Intimidation and Bullying
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Bullying can ruin people's lives, and in some extreme cases, lead to self-harming, suicide, and even murder. This book brings together some of the most profoundly moving stories of people whose lives were on the brink of ruin but who fought back against all odds and beat their bullies. For some, the...
by Polly McCrillis
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Driving a motorcoach full of retirees is not how Rose Longworth wants to spend her holiday, but…sometimes what you don’t want is exactly what you need.Andy Delano desperately needs the holiday tour guide job. If only he can convince a certain stubborn woman to sign on as the driver.Working...
African Women and ICTs
Investigating Technology, Gender and Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The revolution in information and communication technologies (ICTs) has vast implications for the developing world, but what tangible benefits has it bought, when issues of social inclusion and exclusion, particularly in the developing world, remain at large? In addition, the gender digital divide...
Spirit of Americana
Life Lived in the American Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Spirit of Americana presents a sometimes humorous, sometimes serious, scenario of rural communities, especially "The Ridge" in middle Tennessee. This book explains how such a setting can promote freedom and democracy, especially in America, and possibly in other countries as well. Spectators...
Studies in Urbanormativity
Rural Community in Urban Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural...
Landscapes of Origin in the Americas
Creation Narratives Linking Ancient Places and Present Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Landscape is a powerful factor in the operation of memory because of the associations narrators make between the local landscape and the events of the stories they tell. Ancestors and mythological events often become fixed in a specific landscape and act as timeless reference points.
In conventional...
by John Hansen, Polly Saltonstall
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
For nearly thirty years, Maine's premier boating magazine Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors has published a regular column called Boatyard Dogs about dogs and the nautical life. This delightful book gathers the best of the column into a single volume that makes a wonderful gift for anyone who loves dogs--and boats.
by Polly Paice
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
This is a book of poems, which have been written over a large span of my life, starting over 40 years ago, to the present day.
As the title states, many of these poems are perspectives of my life or life around me
I have grouped them into sections, with a short preface on each section.
I hope you enjoy them
by Polly Guérin
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Peter Cooper believed that he owed a debt to the city that had made him a rich man. During the nineteenth century, he made his fortune in industry and his name in politics, and he always felt a strong compulsion to give back to New York. His greatest achievement was the establishment of The Cooper Union,...
Spring, A Journal of Archetype and Culture, Vol. 89, Spring 2013 Buddhism and Depth Psychology: Refining the Encounter
Buddhism and Depth Psychology: Refining the Encounter
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This volume introduces a new level of discourse between two contemplative practices—Buddhism and psychoanalysis—that are still coming to know one another and whose cross-fertilization promises a new paradigm of human healing. Spring Journal presents an extraordinary collection of papers that allows...
Understanding Sensory Dysfunction
Learning, Development and Sensory Dysfunction in Autism Spectrum Disorders, ADHD, Learning Disabilities and Bipolar Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2005
Understanding Sensory Dysfunction is a clear and comprehensive resource to identifying and addressing sensory dysfunction in children, using a range of practical strategies to help them reach their full potential at home, at school and in the community.
The authors explain the causes, contributing...
by John Stone, Polly Rizova
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Despite global shifts in world power, racial conflict remains one of the major problems of contemporary social life. This concise and engaging book demonstrates the interplay between identity, power and conflict in the creation, persistence and transformation of patterns of race and ethnic relations...