Yvonne: 1204 books
Community Health Psychology
Empowerment for Diverse Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
As the number of people of color rapidly grows within the US population, health providers in these communities have become increasingly aware of the need to address the concerns and problems particular to each group. It's also become clear that as the delivery of our health care systems evolve, a...
Education in the New China
Shaping Ideas at Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The effects of the de-regulation of the Chinese university system have been nothing short of spectacular. For the first time since 1949, students possessing neither gifted intellect nor political connections have been able to share in the benefits of higher education, while a flood of international...
Sugar Ride
Cycling from Hanoi to Kuala Lumpur
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Blomer takes you into Southeast Asia by bicycle with her husband Rupert, their two companion-like bikes and her experiences cycling over 4000km through 4 countries over three months with the little devil she takes everywhere, her type 1 diabetes. A travel memoir, Sugar Ride explores the love of cycling...
by Yvonne Lehman
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
After leaving the mountains of her childhood, widow Molly Pierpont returns to help raise the children of her dead sister. She longs to enrich their lives, but how can a citified woman learn to make do in the wilds of Kentucky? Jonas McLean lost his heart when he lost his wife. Now, her sister, Molly,...
by Yvonne Lehman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
At first, Olivia passes over the ad incredulously. What kind of man advertises for a wife? But as time goes by and she can't find work, the "job" sounds more interesting. What better way to earn money for acting school? She can be Juliet to this Romeo, can't she? Advertising was not how...
by Yvonne Trent
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
What happens when you need something but don’t know what it is? Why not look in a place you never heard of?
Out and proud elementary school teacher Cal Hamilton thought he was happy in Philadelphia, but after a breakup, he steps back to reassess his life and discovers something is missing....
La Mère de Louis XVI
Marie-Josèphe de Saxe, Dauphine de France
Language: French
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Il est fort intéressant de suivre, dans cette très belle étude, la figure centrale bien attrayante de Marie-Josèphe de Saxe dans sa vie de famille à la Cour du Roi Louis XV.
L'auteur, avec une connaissance approfondie de cette époque, nous montre toute une tranche de l'Histoire de ce...
by Réjean Roy, Yvonne Boudreau-Giachino, Thérèse Comeau-Haché
Language: French
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Douze auteurs publient dans ...mais amour. Ils osent parler, à coeurs ouverts, avec des mots simples, avec des musiques enivrante, avec des airs poétiques qui nous donnent des ailes et qui nous invitent à aimer éperdument l'autre.Les poèmes, les récits ou les lettres d’amour contenus dans...
The Bloomsbury Introduction to Adaptation Studies
Adapting the Canon in Film, TV, Novels and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
From David Lean's big screen Great Expectations to AlejandroAmenábar's reinvention of The Turn of the Screw as The Others, adaptations of literary classics are a constant feature of popular culture today. The Bloomsbury Introduction to Adaptation Studies helps students master the history, theory...
Working Girls
Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Working Girls investigates the thematic concerns of contemporary Hollywood cinema, and its ambivalent articulation of women as both active, and defined by sexual performance, asking whether new Hollywood cinema has responded to feminism and contemporary sexual identities.
Whether analysing the rise...
The Sky is Crazy
Tales from a trolley dolly
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Everyone has a plane story to share, but no one tells it better and funnier than the one who sings the “Chicken-or-beef, Sir” rhapsody. In this humorous collection of airplane anecdotes that shows you a wild kaleidoscope of tales trawled from a crazy sky. A narrow cabin aisle turns into a wrestling...
Women of Blaxploitation
How the Black Action Film Heroine Changed American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
With the Civil Rights movement of the sixties fresh in their perspective, movie producers of the early 1970s began to make films aimed toward the underserved African American audience. Over the next five years or so, a number of cheaply made, so-called blaxploitation movies featured African American...
by Yvonne Olson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The magic of bath bombs has been spreading around the globe at an astronomical rate. It has become one of the most popular pass times we can have where we can indulge in some of life’s little luxuries. Still, bath bombs on a regular basis can be quite expensive and you’re not always guaranteed...
Understanding Disorganized Attachment
Theory and Practice for Working with Children and Adults
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Disorganized attachment, the most extreme form of insecure attachment, can develop in a child when the person who is normally meant to protect them is a source of danger. This usually leads to 'fear without solution' and the effects can be lasting and damaging.
This book is a comprehensive...