Stella: 864 books

"A bravura performance: a witty, moving, sexy book that bursts with as much color and excitement as the city of Constantinople itself." -Financial Times Roman historian Procopius publicly praised Theodora of Constantinople for her piety-while secretly detailing her salacious stage act and maligning...

Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore, Stella Duffy's chronicle of this amazing woman's early years, delighted readers with its exquisite blend of historical detail and vivid storytelling. Now, The Purple Shroud chronicles Theodora at the height of her power, bringing the ancient world alive in another...

Everything was going just fine for Saz Martin and her partner Molly. It is summer in London, they're having a baby and all looks right with the world. Saz has even stopped taking on any weird and wild cases. No more danger, just easy, steady work and tucked up in bed before midnight... Yeah, right....

Saz Martin is settled into new motherhood with her partner Molly and their nine-month-old daughter Matilda. Things have not been easy since the birth - late nights, early mornings, and a sudden death have all taken their toll - but with Molly's return to fulltime work and Saz happily taking on the...

Praise for The Elder Care Cliff 1.0 In my 39 years in the eldercare industry and a caregiver myself, I have picked up a lot of tips from this book. As caregivers, we want to do all that we can, not thinking of what it is doing to our own well-being. Your loved one needs your help, but he/she still...

Susan Mason, the child of an Irish convict and his wife, was uneducated but streetwise and canny. From colonial Adelaide to the barracks towns of the British Isles, she fought her way, sometimes literally, through life. One man called her a little whore. Her husband once accused her of being a drunkard....

In the Roman Republic of the XXVIIIth century from Rome foundation, a young girl named Silyen is growing. She’ll be soon an adult and, because of her impulsive nature, she will have to spend the last months of her childhood away from home in a rehabilitation college, in one of the Roman provinces. The...

In one of the only accounts of Latino legislative behavior, Stella M. Rouse examines how well the growing Latino population translates their increased presence into legislative influence. Latinos in the Legislative Process explores Latino representation by considering the role of ethnicity throughout...

Families in Asia provides a unique sociological analysis of family trends in Asia. Stella R. Quah uses demographic and survey data, personal interviews and case studies from China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam to provide...

There is no gainsaying the fact that the problem of religious intolerance has become a worldwide problem. In todays pluralistic society, the dialogical tension between openness and identity has become a major challenge for interreligious dialogue and peaceful co-existence. This tension is expressed...

Throughout the nineteenth century, practitioners of science, writers of fiction and journalists wrote about electricity in ways that defied epistemological and disciplinary boundaries. Revealing electricity as a site for intense and imaginative Victorian speculation, Stella Pratt-Smith traces the...

Een criminele politie-informant, integere rechercheurs die worden teruggefloten, dealende beveiligingsbeambten, gesjeesde hulpverleners, stervende daklozen en gesmokkelde Chinezen: een bont gezelschap kruist het pad van undercoverjournaliste Stella Braam. Waar anderen angstig terugdeinzen, onderzoekt...

The king had announced that all the animals would be competing and it is the animal that wins the competition that will win the prizes. In the two stories in book two, Tardy knew that he had to be wise if wants to succeed in the competition. Read these beautiful stories to find out how the tortoise...

Change Your Life Through Love is Stella Terrill Mann’s second book on inspirational living. Filled with concrete examples from life of how others have solved their problems by learning the spiritual laws and how to work them, this book will be welcomed by Unity and all New Thought students, but...