Shelley: 1827 books

When a railroad engineer realizes his feelings for a commuter are changing, he must confront unresolved parts of his past.

Read real Japanese today.Four short stories in Japanese for beginners.Help is provided.Read four short stories in real, not textbook, Japanese.First, a few Japanese sentences are shown. Next, there is a short glossary of the Japanese and the English meanings. Finally, the...

Shelley Weinberg argues that the idea of consciousness as a form of non-evaluative self-awareness runs through and helps to solve some of the thorniest issues in Locke's philosophy: in his philosophical psychology and in his theories of knowledge, personal identity, and moral agency. Central to her...

From the introduction and conclusion of Austin Bound—I believe that November 1996 through May 2000 was undoubtedly the most difficult, darkest, and most challenging period of my life. This book was written to give its readers a glimpse of that time, to tell them about many events and people that...

Firenze nelle descrizioni degli intellettuali che più l'hanno amata / Florence described by the writers most fond of her. Nelle parole di / In the words of Andersen, Cooper, Dickens, Dumas, Eustace, Freud, Goncourt, Hazlitt, James, Le Corbusier, Mommsen, Morgan, Ruskin, Shelley, Stendhal, Trollope e Twain.

Europa, siglo XVIII. Durante el apogeo de la proliferación científica, el capitán de un barco que se encuentra navegando por las aguas del Polo Norte rescata al físico Victor Frankenstein. Al borde de la muerte, el doctor Frankenstein confiesa que se encuentra en plena persecución de lo que ha...

Aquel «verano húmedo y desapacible» de 1816 «me entretuve pensando una historia que consiguiera que el lector tuviera pavor a mirar a su alrededor, que le helara la sangre y que acelerara los latidos de su corazón», Mary Shelley en la introducción a la edición de 1831 sobre cómo se forjó Frankenstein.

According to the United Nations, the population of our planet reached 7 billion people in 2011. What areas of the world have the most people? What measures, if any, are in place to control the population? Why is Europe's population shrinking, while the rest of the world is growing? This eye-opening...

Finalist for the Believer Book Award for Fiction Named a Best Book of Fall by Vulture, New York Magazine, and more "A ravishing novel charged with the idea of the incommunicable." —The New Yorker Eleven-year-old Jane Grandison, tormented by her stutter, sits in the back seat of a car,...

New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble returns to the beach in her latest summer read about the family we create and the wishes we make that can shape us. Zoe Bascombe has never said no to her family. When she blew her Juilliard audition, she caved to their wishes and went to business...

In One Without the Other: Stories of Unity Through Diversity and Inclusion, Shelley Moore explores the changing landscape of inclusive education. Presented through real stories from her own classroom experience, this passionate and creative educator tackles such things as inclusion as a philosophy...

Mary Shelley was an English writer best known for the classic gothic novel Frankenstein which has been adapted into film many times.  This edition of The Mortal Immortal includes a table of contents. 

Understanding Everyday Incivility delves into the day-to-day annoying behaviors that color our interactions with other people, such as the use of crude language in public, family members who claim that they’re “just teasing” and we’re “too sensitive,” coworkers who constantly interrupt...

During the Bronze Age, the ancient societies that ringed the Mediterranean, once mostly separate and isolate, began to reach across the great expanse of sea to conduct trade, marking an age of immense cultural growth and technological development. These intersocietal lines of communication and paths...