Vanessa: 2154 books

The British enthusiasm for gardening has fascinating roots. The Empire and trade across the globe created an obsession with exotic new plants, and showed the power and reach of Britain in the early eighteenth century. At that time, national influence wasn’t measured by sporting success, musical...

Most observers and historians rarely acknowledge the history of civil rights predating the twentieth-century. The book Black Rights in the Reconstruction Era pays significant scholarly attention to the intellectual ferment—legal and political—of the nineteenth-century by tracing the history of...

An illuminating picture book biography of an artist and former slave whose patchwork quilts bring the stories of her family to life. Harriet Powers learned to sew and quilt as a young slave girl on a Georgia plantation. She lived through the Civil War and Reconstruction, and eventually owned...

This commemorative edition of Newman's Birds of Southern Africa at once updates a classic and pays tribute to one of the region's best-loved birding authors, the late Kenneth Newman. With the support of bird expert Faansie Peacock, the author's daughter, Vanessa Newman, has thoroughly revised, updated...

This book is the creation of four young Canadian doctors who each attended Ross University School of Medicine on the island of Dominica in the Caribbean. It was there beneath the scorching sun, near banana plantations and mango groves, under the tropic of cancer, that they toiled away in an...

An English court in 1736 described rape as an accusation “easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent. ”To prove the crime, the law required a woman to physically resist, to put up a “hue and cry,” as evidence of her unwillingness....

Pastor Jerome Tyler (JT) Thomas is back! But this time JT is committed to God and his family in ways he never considered possible. After losing everything because of past indiscretions, JT realizes that he doesn’t want to live without God or his family and begins to turn his life around. But his wife...

Memoir of the internationally acclaimed heart surgeon Victor Chang (1936-1991), written by his daughter Vanessa. Inspired by letters she received from the general public after her father's death, the author recounts her father's life and work, from his birth in China, his move to Australia when he...

Broken engagement. Infant loss. Divorce. Parenting mistakes. Pain. Lost friendships. Surgery. Failed Adoption. Fear. Backstabbing. Picking sides. Bitter accusations. Lying. Cheating. Any of these ring a bell? Unfortunately, I've lived through them all. I know I have a purpose. But sometimes the realities...

Have A Little Faith is filled with against all odds stories. No matter what the doctor says, no matter what the economy is doing, the people of God must Have A Little Faith and believe that God has not forgotten. The writers of this anthology have beaten the odds against cancer, multiple sclerosis,...

A surprising and revealing look at what Americans really believe about taxes Conventional wisdom holds that Americans hate taxes. But the conventional wisdom is wrong. Bringing together national survey data with in-depth interviews, Read My Lips presents a surprising picture of tax attitudes...

Life can be discouraging. But taking charge can be empowering! By pinpointing what it is you're unhappy with -- and making goals to turn things around -- you can create a life you want. This ebook provides you with tips, ideas, and suggestions to help you take charge of your life, regardless of what...

Members of Congress from racial minority groups often find themselves in a unique predicament. For one thing, they tend to represent constituencies that are more economically disadvantaged than those of their white colleagues. Moreover, they themselves experience marginalization during the process...

Life can be discouraging. But taking charge can be empowering! By pinpointing what it is you're unhappy with -- and making goals to turn things around -- you can create a life you want. This short e-book focuses on the changes you may want to make when it comes to your impact on the world, and offers...