Renata: 196 books
Dance on the Volcano: My Fears and Challenges
A Young Anti-Nazi German Woman in Hitler's Germany
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Renata Zerner's Dance on the Volcano is a memoir written for readers who are interested in what it was like living in Germany during the Third Reich and World War II. She writes about her life when she was a young woman in an anti-Nazi German family living in Berlin. Her story focuses on the last...
by The New Yorker Magazine, Renata Adler, Hannah Arendt
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
This fascinating anthology collects notable New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years of the twentieth century—including work by James Baldwin, Pauline Kael, Sylvia Plath, Roger Angell, and Muriel Spark—alongside new assessments of the 1960s by some of today’s finest writers.
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by Renata Liwska
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
All Lucy wants to do is play with her brand-new, bright red wagon. But her mother has other plans for her-and the wagon. Lucy must go to the market and buy vegetables for dinner. Lucy doesn't want to do chores! But she sets off for the market nonetheless, hauling her red wagon with her. Before long,...
by Renata F. Barcelos
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Cassandra Connelly looks like a normal twenty-four-year-old girl. She seems sweet and shy. She works hard in two jobs and still finds time to do volunteer work. Nonetheless, there's something wrong within her. She has a lot of anger boiling inside, and a very problematic past, making her a dark, twisted...
The Spoils of Freedom
Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Ideology after the Fall of Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
The rise of nationalist, racist and anti-feminist ideologies is one of the most frightening repercussions of the collapse of socialism. Using psychoanalytic theories of fantasy to investigate why such extremist ideologies have taken hold, Renata Salecl argues that the major social and political changes...
Gardening Lab for Kids
52 Fun Experiments to Learn, Grow, Harvest, Make, Play, and Enjoy Your Garden
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
A refreshing source of ideas to help your children learn to grow their own patch of earth, Gardening Lab for Kids encourages children to get outside and enjoy nature. This fun and creative book features 52 plant-related activities set into weekly lessons, beginning with learning to read maps to...
The Bounty of Illusionist
The inspirational story of a champion racehorse and her foals
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Illusionist, a champion Standardbred racehorse, made headlines in the Toronto Star and Trot magazine in retirement. During her six-year, 140-race career, “Lusi” earned over a million dollars and set numerous track records. In that time, her indomitable spirit also earned her the love and admiration...
Gusto for Things
A History of Objects in Seventeenth-Century Rome
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
We live in a material world—our homes are filled with things, from electronics to curios and hand-me-downs, that disclose as much about us and our aspirations as they do about current trends. But we are not the first: the early modern period was a time of expanding consumption, when objects began...
by Renata Sonia Corossi
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Cosa c’è al di là? Cosa ci sarà dopo?
Colette ha un dono; può stare nel luogo dove è nata e diventata giovane donna ma può anche passare in una dimensione parallela dove gusterà l’essenza dell’essere e, attraverso rinunce, raggiungere il meglio della sua spiritualità.
Colette ha una...
by Renata Sonia Corossi
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Questa nuova storia della collana “Una vita da amare” si svolge tra la pianura lombarda e le colline liguri.
Protagonista
Armida: vedova con due figli, accetta di sposare Luigi, insegnante di ginnastica dei suoi figli. Le inseparabili amiche:
Rachele, convive con Vittorio più anziano di...
by Renata Rowland
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
The debut book of poetry by Renata Rowland. Take a trip inside my strange mind. All events and people described are purely fictional.
Borbonia felix
Il Regno delle Due Sicilie alla vigilia del crollo
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Le polemiche che hanno caratterizzato la celebrazione dei centocinquanta anni dell’Unità d’Italia si sono spesso focalizzate sul crollo del Regno delle Due Sicilie e sulla fine dei Borboni. Un fronte antirisorgimentale giustizialista, alla ricerca di colpevoli e di complotti, ha oggi la presunzione...
Peixe-elétrico #08
Guerra
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: September 26, 2018
Marxismo e Guerra Étienne Balibar Fascismo comum, sonho e história Tales Ab'Sáber Cartas De Gilles Deleuze para Félix Guattari Que horas são? Zuca Sardan e Francisco Alvim Nós não vamos pagar nada Pedro Meira Monteiro Deslocamentos e instabilidades na ficção de Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza Adriano...
Exotic Nations
Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830–1930
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In this highly original and critically informed book, Renata R. Mautner Wasserman looks at how, during the first decades following political independence, writers in the United States and Brazil assimilated and subverted European images of an "exotic" New World to create new literatures that asserted...