Tanya: 890 books

Unexpectedly Back on the Market tells how a 54 year old Deputy Headmistress strives to restore her lost confidence and to find love again.

Anyone going through a transformation in life experiences deep feelings of loss, confusion, regret, and fear. However, the human spirit is resilient and capable of moving past challenges by letting the fear manifest itself to love. Poetry is the perfect outlet to illustrate the strength of human spirit....

Females with large muscles evoke strong reactions from men and women, often involving disgust, discomfort, anger and threat. The controversial nature of female bodybuilding has caused a significant rupture on feminist ground. Whilst proponents claim that female bodybuilding is a way of empowering...

Mixing rigorous social theory with concrete analysis, Reading and Writing Disability Differently unpacks the marginality of disabled people by addressing how the meaning of our bodily existence is configured in everyday literate society. Tanya Titchkosky begins by illustrating how news media...

Keeping time with the river for which it was named, Canadian County courses with haunted history. The heritage of persecuted tribes, outlawed fugitives and struggling pioneers runs through the region with the strength of desperation. Apparitions walk the shore of Lake Overholser, and disembodied voices...

Recently, literary critics and some historians have argued that to use the language of separate spheres is to "mistake fiction for reality." However, the tendency in this criticism is to ignore the work of feminist political theorists who argue that a range of ideologies of the public and...

This rich and darkly funny novel is about family history and the risk and power of knowledge.'I want to tell you a story about my mother, although of course it is also mine - inherited, along with dangly earlobes and a horror of deep water.' Janine's mother had an obsession: her ancestry. But what...

When American sociologist and wellness expert Tanya Pergola first visited Tanzania and Maasailand, she became startlingly aware that she was in a place and with people who could teach her something profound. She sensed that lodged within the colorful and beautiful rituals and ceremonies of the indigenous...

Winner, American Sociological Association Latino/a Section Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award The United States currently is deporting more people than ever before: 4 million people have been deported since 1997 –twice as many as all people deported prior to 1996. There is...

A Favorita do Rei é um livro inédito, o primeiro da nova séria de Tanya Anne Crosby, autora bestseller do New York Times. Às vezes, o amor é a única magia necessária... Temendo que seus "dons" fossem usados para derrotar sua irmã Matilde, Elspeth Pendragon escapa do...

Sophia Vanderwahl, herdeira de uma família de Boston, chegou à conclusão que seu noivo é um namorador da pior espécie. Em busca de vingança, ela se prepara para encontrar o vagabundo a fim de lhe devolver seu anel de noivado, e ela contrata um velho rival dele, para levá-la...

Annie Franklin é levada por instinto a Folly Beach, na Carolina do Sul, para dar adeus a sua avó. Como último presente para a avó querida, decide também que é hora de viver a vida mais livremente e de coração mais aberto. Graças a uma cadela muito intuitiva e a um estranho completo, descobre...

Drawing upon a rich array of sources from archives in Leipzig, Dresden and Halle, Tanya Kevorkian illuminates culture in Leipzig before and during J.S. Bach's time in the city. Working with these sources, she has been able to reconstruct the contexts of Baroque and Pietist cultures at key periods...

A systematic exposition of Reinhart's Theta System, with extensive annotations and essays that capture subsequent developments. One of Tanya Reinhart's major contributions to linguistic theory is the development of the Theta System (TS), a theory of the interface between the system of concepts...