Somerville: 281 books
by Ethan Somerville
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
It is 1895 and the Circus Infinitus has finally returned to London after a seven year absence. However not long after their arrival the membrane between reality and the Immaterium rips open, and scores of demons charge out to wreak havoc. But before any real damage is done the incursion is aborted...
Beat
The True Story of a Suicide Bomb and a Heart
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
'Rowan Somerville has written an amazing book. Beat is a riveting, intelligent and scrupulously honest journey through the torment of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It runs the gamut of human behaviour, from blood-curdling barbarity to extraordinary generosity; a tour de force.'
– Lara...
Bird on an Ethics Wire
Battles about Values in the Culture Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Our physical ecosystem is not indestructible and we have obligations to hold it in trust for future generations. The same is true of our metaphysical ecosystem - the values, principles, attitudes, beliefs, and shared stories on which we have founded our society. In Bird on an Ethics Wire, Margaret...
by Peter Somerville-Large
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Ireland's history has long been illuminated, and enlivened, by bizarre, colourful, extravagant, unfettered individuals: ripe country-house eccentrics, saints, scholars, bucks and hell-rakes, duellists, abductors, rhymers and miracle-makers. These factual and fascinating biographical sketches make...
Queering the Color Line
Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2000
Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was “invented” as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, Siobhan...
Death Talk, Second Edition
The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Death Talk asks why, when our society has rejected euthanasia for over two thousand years, are we now considering legalizing it? Has euthanasia been promoted by deliberately confusing it with other ethically acceptable acts? What is the relation between pain relief treatments that could shorten life...
by Ann Somerville
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
A collection of gay themed short stories ranging from the sad to the whimsical, serving as a wonderful introduction to Ann Somerville's writing. Erotic, naughty, or sweet, there will be something here to delight and amuse almost any reader who loves Somerville's work, or who enjoys good prose, strong...
A Journey Of Life On PURPOSE
Creativity, Love, Womanhood, Community, Race, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2015
Our life purpose is often found at the intersection of who we are, our most compelling convictions, and the roles that we serve. In this book, A Journey of Life On PURPOSE, author Avril Somerville tackles, through poetry and essays, the intersectionality of creativity, womanhood, sisterhood,...
Grassroots Philanthropy
Field Notes of a Maverick Grantmaker
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Set aside the mountains of paper that characterize conventional philanthropy and focus instead on forging enduring partnerships with outstanding individuals. Dare to change the world in imaginative ways that prove deeply satisfying, exciting, and (dare we say it?) fun. Based on four decades of experience...
by Mary Fairfax Somerville
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
In the year 1813, Professor Morichini of Rome discovered that steel, exposed to the violet rays of the solar spectrum, becomes magnetic. His experiments were repeated by Professor Configliachi at Pavia, and also by Mons. Berard, at Montpellier, without success. I am not aware of any one having attempted...
by Mary Fairfax Somerville
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The life of a woman entirely devoted to her family duties and to scientific pursuits affords little scope for a biography. There are in it neither stirring events nor brilliant deeds to record; and as my Mother was strongly averse to gossip, and to revelations of private life or of intimate correspondence,...
All You Need Is Less
The Eco-friendly Guide to Guilt-Free Green Living and Stress-Free Simplicity
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Most eco-friendly books start with terror-inducing lists of the carcinogenic chemicals you are liberally slathering all over every single surface in your house, painting most people as as unwitting eco-villains, happily Lysol-ing your way straight to hell. Well, readers can just relax and unpack the...
by Edith Somerville, Martin Ross
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 1999
This novel, according to Somerville, "concerns the history of one of those minor dynasties that, in Ireland, have risen, and rules, and rioted, and crashed in ruins." "Somerville and Ross know their world as well as Jane Austen knew hers."—John Bayley.
The January Man
A Year of Walking Britain
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
'Evocatively written and charming' - Countryfile
The January Man is the story of a year of walks that was inspired by a song, Dave Goulder’s ‘The January Man’. Month by month, season by season and region by region, Christopher Somerville walks the British Isles, following routes that...