Disposable Passions

Reducere. DescriptionWe cannot solve the problem of plastics simply by recycling more. The plastic in the oceans, the soil, and our bodies is a symptom of th...

Reducere. This book deals with something that you may have never even heard of, the doctrine of divine impassibility. Impassibility is not a word often used ...

What Would You Focus On If You Were No Longer Weighed Down By Your Unwanted Responsibilities?If you want to add something meaningful to your life, ...

Reducere. When a local quarry yields up a garroted body with bad dental work and toes tattooed in Cyrillic, Joe Gunther figures it for a Russian mafia killin...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. In the spring of 1793, eighteen-year-old Nancy Randolph, the fetching daughter of one of the greatest of the great Virginia tobacco planters, was a...

Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions...

A deeply-reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist into the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City-a watery har...

Studies popular tropes in the United States for Mexican immigrants, tracing the history and usage of terms that were shaped by race, class, and nat...

Marino Marini: Visual Passions places the postwar Italian sculptor (1901-80) and his famed equestrian figures in their art-historical context for t...

Reducere. Passions Between Women looks at stories of lesbian desires, acts and identities from the Restoration to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Fa...

This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in 'autonomous' poetry's redistribution of affect. No slave of Whig ...

DescriptionThis book is for you if . . .You have tried and failedYou've ever asked yourself, "Do I even matter?"You've been discouraged in the purs...

Reducere. "This magnificent work has all the beauty of a late career book written by a master who speaks about his area of expertise simply and wisely. This ...

Are you feeling stuck? Unsure of what dreams God has for your life? Or maybe you know the dreams He's given you but are fearful of moving toward th...

Reducere. DescriptionOur passions exert a powerful influence over us. The Tempter entices us to use these good gifts in ways that God never intended. Yet the...

Examining eighteenth century 'moral sense' philosophy as a neglected but important intellectual area for film theory, 'Improving Passions' is an in...

Reducere. The Sheik--E. M. Hull's best-selling novel that became a wildly popular film starring Rudolph Valentino--kindled "sheik fever" across the Western w...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tanya Maria Golash-BozaWinner, American Sociological Association Latino/a Section Distinguished Contribution to Research Bo...

Reducere. DescriptionPhysicians in ancient Greece believed four humours flowed within the human body--blood, phlegm, black bile, and choler--determining a pe...

DescriptionFor centuries Italy has been many things to many people. In this brilliant anthology and traveler's companion, twenty-eight first-rate w...

In her excellent new novel, Wendy Louise Bardsley takes the reader on a journey from Yorkshire to London, Wales, and Paris, as she explores the rem...

A sympathetic yet honest and nonjudgmental account that goes behind the palace doors and into the private lives of these iconic public figures Thei...

Reducere. Some people call me the father of mixed martial arts. Others see me as a movie star. But what some might not know is that I struggled to get there....

Reducere. Since 1972, the Foxfire books have preserved and celebrated the culture of Southern Appalachia for hundreds of thousands of readers. In Travels wit...

Alone Together reinterprets the explosion of sentimental poetry and prose in fifteenth-century Iberia.Publisher: University of Toronto PressAuthor(...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The life and loves of Prince Charles are illuminated in a major new biography from the New York Times bestselling autho...

'Those most capable of being moved by passion are those capable of tasting the most sweetness in this life.'Descartes is most often thought of as i...

Reducere. Scot Sellers shares his 10 essential lessons gleaned from a life devoted to better understanding relationships and sources of real satisfaction. Re...

Pursuing the dream of a musical vocation--particularly in rock music--is typically regarded as an adolescent pipedream. Music is marked as an appro...

Published to coincide withthe bi-centenary of Ruskin's birth, John Ruskin: An IdiosyncraticDictionary Encompassing his Passions, his Delusions and ...

In this groundbreaking study, Maram Epstein identifies filial piety as the dominant expression of love in Qing dynasty texts. By decentering romant...

Reducere. Poet, romantic, lover and carouser.Robert Burns blazed into Edinburgh in 1786 like a comet. The seat of the Scottish Enlightenment was electrified ...

Examines the manners in which modern artists use boredom as a form of aesthetic resistance that, at its most positive, is the will to boredom.