Valerie: 1603 books
by Valerie Byron
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
This story is Part One of my mother's memoirs. "Don't Call Me Sadie" is a reflection of her early years, living with her parents and six siblings in the East End of London during World War I and later in World War II. Book in this series include: Part 1: Don't Call Me Sadie Part 2: My Adventures...
Scottish Presbyterianism and Settler Colonial Politics
Empire of Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This book* *offers a new interpretation of political reform in the settler colonies of Britain’s empire in the early nineteenth century. It examines the influence of Scottish Presbyterian dissenting churches and their political values. It re-evaluates five notorious Scottish reformers and unpacks...
by Valerie Parv
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
SHE WAS A VIRGIN
Kirsten Bond was a mother by virtue of adopting her late sister's child. No one knew Jeffrey wasn't really hers and she vowed never to reveal that his father was actually Rowe Sevrin, Viscount Aragon. But then she was assigned to work with the handsome viscount and she found...
Corruption in Nigeria
The Fight and Movement to Cure the Malady
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Corruption in Nigeria addresses the effects of corruption in Nigeria and provides a concise overview for a lasting solution. Offering insight from the authors' original thinking and experiences, the book traces corruption from colonial rule through nearly fifty years of successive civilian and military...
Advances in Biological Solid-State NMR
Proteins and Membrane-Active Peptides
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
The complexity and heterogeneity of biological systems has posed an immense challenge in recent years. An increasingly important tool for obtaining molecular and atomic scale information on a range of large biological molecules and cellular components is solid-state NMR. This technique can address...
by Liz S. Alexander, Rose Mary Amenga-Etego, Rabiatu Ammah
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
In this collection, continental and diasporan African women interrogate the concept “sacred text” and analyze ways oral and written religious “texts” intersect with violence against African-descended women and girls. While the sanctioned idea of a sacred text is written literature, this project...
Autoimmune Disease Diet
Natural Way to Cure Autoimmune Disorder, Recovery of Immune System and Chronic Pain Relief
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Full of wonder is one description that fits the nature of the human body. How a newborn, who had never been hungry, instinctively knows that feeding from his or her mother's breasts will satisfy his or her need, is one proof of the amazing design of the human body. Among other astounding pieces of...
by Stephan Lanz, Stefano Allievi, Tina Gudrun Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
European Multiculturalism Revisited analyses the alleged crises of the main ‘models’ of multicultural societies experienced by Europe since the end of World War II, based on research conducted by local scholars in the UK, Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy, France and Germany. Each chapter provides...
by Valerie Swanson Grant
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Have you ever experienced pain near your heart or unexplained pressure in your head? Like something was definitely interfering with your circulation yet neither doctor nor test revealed anything wrong so you were often diagnosed with psychosomatic illness and prescribed valium or pain pills to end...
Courting Gender Justice
Russia, Turkey, and the European Court of Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Women and the LGBT community in Russia and Turkey face pervasive discrimination. Only a small percentage dare to challenge their mistreatment in court. Facing domestic police and judges who often refuse to recognize discrimination, a small minority of activists have exhausted their domestic appeals...
Passion Play
The Oberammergau tales
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
"I am indeed a part/ of all those I have met,/ and must learn who I am." A politician, a cooking contest winner, a troubled clergyman, a much-married socialite, a TV evangelist - what could they have in common? Why do they (and half a million others) travel to Oberammergau, the small German...
Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies
Conversations on Race and Racializations
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies is a unique collection of essays derived from a series of dialogues held in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Los Angeles on the issues of racializations, gender, communities, and the positionalities of scholars involved in Japanese American studies. The book brings together...
The Human Capacity for Transformational Change
Harnessing the collective mind
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Pressures for transformational change have become a regular feature of most fields of human endeavour. Master-thinkers and visionaries alike have reframed existing divisions as connecting relationships, bringing together as dynamic systems the supposed opposites of parts and wholes, stability and...
by Sheila Hollins, Valerie Sinason
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This is a story about what can happen to a girl when she starts her period. People do not need to be able to read in order to understand the story. Susan does not understand what is happening to her when she finds blood on her sheets and clothes. She does not tell her mother, but goes straight to...