'Other Kinds of Dreams' provides an invaluable insight into the political activity of black and Asian women in the UK both inside and outside the black and Asian communities. The book breaks new ground by: * destroying the misconception that black and Asian women lack political involvement * integra..
Discusses the naming traditions in different African cultures, and includes an alphabetical listing of names complete with pronunciation, culture of origin, and meaning Author: Stewart, Julia Publisher: Citadel Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0806517379 ISBN-13: 9780806517377..
Text and photographs present the home life and day-to-day activities of the Calabays, who live in the mountains of Guatemala. Author: Waterlow, Julia Publisher: Heinemann/Raintree Binding: library Language: English ISBN-10: 0817249036 ISBN-13: 9780817249038..
From School Library JournalKindergarten-Grade 3-After the failure of her father's olive crop, MarĂa fears that her family will have to leave their farm in the New World. Then one night, inspiration comes when she dreams of planting the seeds from the oranges that came from her parents' homeland of V..
After their olive crop fails, Maria fears that her family will have to abandon their farm on the new island colony. Then, one night she dreams of a mysterious beautiful lady shrouded by trees with branches hung with hundreds of little suns. They are oranges like the ones Maria's parents once ate in ..
Bringing a unique perspective and a singular voice to contemporary fiction, A TORTOISE FOR THE QUEEN OF TONGA features lush, poignant stories about the natural world. Here are mammals, historical figures, everyday people who discover the liberating properties of memory and knowledge in the face of c..
A full-color photoessay captures life among members of the close-knit community on Monhegan Island, a small island off the coast of Maine, from the tranquil isolation of their winters to the huge influx of tourists during the summer season. Author: Dean, Julia Publisher: Ticknor and Fields Binding: ..
Delightfully unpredictable, ABZ is a wonderbook of typography, graphics, and symbols. Julian Rothenstein (creator of our Gift division s popular Redstone line of cards and calendars) turns his idiosyncratic eye towards eccentric alphabets, emblems, and logos discovered in avant-garde modernist publi..
Academic Listening Strategies offers additional listening comprehension practice and strategies for understanding lectures for students who are currently enrolled in a college or university. The exercises in this text will provide students with many opportunities to practice effective listening stra..
Academic Listening Strategies offers additional listening comprehension practice and strategies for understanding lectures for students who are currently enrolled in a college or university. The exercises in this text, together with the lectures and short talks on the accompanying DVDs, will provide..
Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne's first encounter with Clare Fergusson was in an emergency room on a freezing December night. A newborn had been left on the steps of the town's Episcopal church, where Clare just happened to be the new priest. That night in the hospital was the beginning of an attracti..
Book by Julian of Norwich Author: Julian of Norwich Publisher: Morehouse Pub Co Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0819216143 ISBN-13: 9780819216144..
Product DescriptionMates shows the musical stage in all its guises--from burlesque to musical comedy to grand opera--from its beginnings in pre-Revolutionary America to the present day. He deals sensitively with the recurrent aesthetic question of popular versus highbrow art and also looks at critic..
While walking in the park on a windy day, Amy and her mother see what the wind can do. Author: Hoban, Julia Publisher: Harper & Row Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0060224029 ISBN-13: 9780060224028..
This interpretive introduction provides unique insight into Plato's Republic. Stressing Plato's desire to stimulate philosophical thinking in his readers, Julia Annas here demonstrates the coherence of his main moral argument on the nature of justice, and expounds related concepts of education, huma..
Product Description"The art world is bound to the economy," writes Julian Stallabrass, "as tightly as Ahab to the white whale." In Art Incorporated, Stallabrass offers a provocative look at contemporary art and the dramatic changes that have taken place in the last twenty years, illuminating the con..
An inspirational collection of homes, from the one-room cubic Cycladic houses that inspired Le Corbusier to imposing Venetian towers and houses integrated into the surrounding rocks. Invaded over the centuries by Romans, Venetians, and Turks and now tourists Greece has always managed to retain its d..
#1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn presents the first novel of the delightful Bridgerton Prequel series in a stunning new package.There were Bridgertons before the eight alphabetically named siblings, and in this novel, we go back to where it all began. . .Sometimes you find love in th..
It's bathtime for Stan and Stella, but too many friends want to join them in the big, red bathtub.Stan and Stella are having lots of fun in the big, red bathtub. And soon all of the animals want to join them. First Dog, then Lion, and soon Kangaroo wants to come in, too. But when Hippopotamus tries ..
In Black Sun, Julia Kristeva addresses the subject of melancholia, examining this phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, as well as psychoanalysis. She describes the depressive as one who perceives the sense of self as a crucial pursuit and a n..
Looks at the psychological nature of depression and discusses its portrayal in literature and art Author: Kristeva, Julia Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0231067062 ISBN-13: 9780231067065..
Something other than a memoir of a life well lived, Body Story conveys Julia K. De Pree's troubling journey from adolescence to adulthood and from anorexia to health.For De Pree, between being a girl and being a woman, there was starvation. Body Story is her intimate account of girlhood, virginity, ..