Germs: A Memoir of Childhood, Paperback - Richard Wollheim

A brilliant, sinuous exploration of family and childhood memory by one of the most original British philosophers of the twentieth century. Germs is...

Reducere. Description"We wear Aran Sweaters and Lederhosen. We are forbidden from speaking English. We are trapped in a language war. We are the Speckled Peo...

Reducere. This is a story about a paradise lost. . . . About an African dream that began with a murder . . . In 1978, in the final, bloodiest phase of the Rh...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Qian Julie WangNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 196 x 25Cover type: Paperback / s...

Reducere. DescriptionOnce upon a simpler time, a child's fun included an intense interaction within its environment, whether on a bus to a beach, swimming le...

Reducere. What may happen now that so many more children are denied exposure to wilderness than at any other time in human history?About the Author: Gary Pau...

Tells the story of unadulterated childhood - sad and funny, macabre and delightful - that inspired Britain's favourite storyteller and also speaks ...

In this pioneering and important book, Philippe Aries surveys children and their place in family life from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighte...

Reducere. Patterns of Childhood, Paperback

Publisher: Methuen Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Wole SoyindaPublication date: 2014Dimensions: 199 x 132 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera...

Reducere. This is a groundbreaking book. Throughout his infancy and childhood, the author suffered severe physical and emotional abuse. He shares his persona...

DescriptionThese seven intimate, aphoristic talks were presented to a small group on Steiner's final visit to England. Because they were given to "...

This Sunday Times bestseller is a memoir about faith and doubt, with a strong meditative and philosophical heart

In Childhood Years, originally published serially in a literary magazine between 1955 and 1956, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965) takes a meandering ...

Written in alternating chapters, W or the Memory of Childhood, tells two parallel tales, in two parts. The other story is about two people called G...

The Sociology of Childhood discusses children and childhood from a sociological perspective-providing in-depth coverage of social theories of child...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Barrie (University of Leicester, UK) GunterNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 157 x 23...

Reducere. Weaving through African American music, folklore, and mores, A Newark Childhood is a coming-of-age story that journeys from the author's years in k...

Reducere. For Eileen Dowd, the journey with cancer was not only the fight for her life but the mental toll of becoming and being a childhood cancer survivor ...

A comprehensive overview of key areas relating to the development of eating and food intake and effects of nutrition on the psychological developme...

Presents Madhur Jaffrey's memoir of her childhood in India. With recipes drawn from memories of dinners, lunches, breakfasts, weddings, and picnics...

Reducere. As a child and adolescent, Scott D. Stenzel suffered from emotional abuse at the hands of his adoptive parents, primarily his adoptive father. Beli...

Reducere. "An absolutely breathless read. Nowhere Girl is a courageous, heart-breaking, and beautifully written story of a girl doing everything in her power...

A critical analysis of Centuries of Childhood, in which the French historian Philippe Aries offers a fundamentally fresh interpretation of what chi...

Reducere. War of Necessity, War of Choice--part history, part memoir--provides invaluable insight into some of the most important recent events in the world....

Reducere. - A Brother's Journey will appeal to the same audience that made #1 New York Times bestsellers of Dave Pelzer's popular novels: A Child Called "It"...

Reducere. A poignant, hilarious, and inspiring memoir from the first Latino and openly gay inaugural poet, which explores his coming-of-age as the child of C...

Publisher: Merrion PressAuthor(s): Seamus KeltersNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 140 x 213 x 23Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

Born near a dusty cement plant in the northeast Missouri village of Ilasco, close to Mark Twain Cave, Hannibal native Gregg Andrews draws on the vo...

Reducere. Bathed in the warm clarity of the summer sun in Provence, Marcel Pagnol's childhood memories celebrate a time of rare beauty and delight.Called by ...

More than 28, 000 innocent people murdered, homes reduced to rubble. Time to escape from bombed-out London to a land of greenery and opportunity, b...

Reducere. Communication is the key to peaceful, effective interactions between parents and children. When normal childhood behavior is viewed as normal inste...

Reducere. The enchanting autobiography of the seven-time James Beard Award-winning cookbook author and acclaimed actress who taught America how to cook India...

Reducere. This enthralling story of life on "The Rock", America's only Federal prison on an island in the middle of the scenic San Francisco Bay is a window ...

Reducere. An all-new guide from the mega-bestselling How To Talk series applies trusted and effective communication strategies to the toughest challenges of ...

Reducere. Eva Zimmermann is eight years old, and she has just discovered she is Jewish. Such is the life of an only child living in postwar Bucharest, a city...

From the author of The Arab Predicament and Dream Palace of the Arabs comes a beautiful and haunting memoir of growing up in Lebanon in the '50s an...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Ian McMillanNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 138 x 198 x 20Cover type: Hardback...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Qian Julie WangNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 146 x 225 x 33Cover type: HardbackRedes...

Publisher: Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonAuthor(s): Timothy C. BakerNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 134 x 211 x 20Cover type...

Reducere. Many thousands of readers were moved by Richard B. Pelzer's heart-wrenching memoir, A Brother's Journey, in which he detailed the horrifyingly abus...

The Sunday Times bestselling memoir by the beloved clergyman - a moving and beautifully written account of losing his partner of 12 years and copin...

Reducere. Thinking: A memoir is both an intellectual autobiography and a personal history. It describes how people reason and make inferences about the world...

Reducere. She is enveloped in a storming sea of light and sound. Navigating a world where she can hear everything yet nothing, and where faces are no more th...

Reducere. Domenica Calabrese Tedeschi's The Most Beautiful Rose is a delightful, yet heartbreaking memoir of an Italian girl growing up in a rural village in...

Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Richard RookerNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 138 x 209 x 27Cover type: Paperback / so...

Vow. A Memoir of Marriage - Elizabeth Gilbert

A survivor of a Japanese internment camp, the first person to cross the Atlantic in a kayak, and para-glider that jumped off of Mt. Everest in a ma...

The high-profile clergyman's account of losing his partner of 12 years and coping with 'the madness of grief' after his death

A humorous and insightful memoir by the Grammy Award-winning musician responsible for some of the 80s and 90s biggest hits.Publisher: Simon & Schus...