6553 Ergebnisse - Zeige 6501 von 6520.

A landmark book by the country's foremost authority on antique dollhouses and their furnishings. Written in delightful prose with wonderful anecdotes and valuable descriptions, this work will become a standard reference for collectors and novice enthusiasts alike.

Keine Beschreibung.

Myrtle, Fern, and Blossom have successfully found all three Aaronson siblings their own happily-ever-afters. But in doing that, they've stepped over the line. The Fairy Council has sentenced them to live as humans for the next six months. But not as their familiar, comfortable selves. Instead, they're to revert back to their true forms-gorgeous women guaranteed to make any man stand up and take notice. The godmothers have always functioned as ...

This outstanding collection brings together essays that reflect on the nature of narrative, literary criticism, and history from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, ranging from deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and trauma theory, to narratology, technology, economics, and aesthetics. "Acts of Narrative" includes responses from renowned scholars across a wide range of disciplines: philosopher Jacques Derrida, the literary cri...

A selection of 16 short stories by William Wymark Jacobs, best known for his sea stories. His knowledge of wharves and sailors gave him a background used in many of his most famous works, including such classics of horror and the macabre as "The Monkey's Paw.

The Know-It-All is an ingenious, mightily entertaining memoir of one man's intellect, neuroses, and obsessions and a soul-searching, ultimately touching struggle between the all-consuming quest for factual knowledge and the undeniable gift of hard-won wisdom.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

From wistful Charlie the Mole, a gnome-like vagabond who established a thriving hobo hotel beneath the criminal courts building, to hapless Enrique Alferez, whose attempts to induce a chimpanzee to commit suicide unexpectedly boomeranged, a bizarre cast of authentic New Orleans characters is presented in this fascinating collection of Runyonesque profiles.Their names are often as colorful as their antics: Broadway Jonny the Fox Cox, Lou the Pi...

Wayne's Trace: Fort Deposit to Fort Industry is the first pictorial history to document the culmination of General "Mad Anthony" Wayne's campaign against the Indian Confederacy in 1794. The retrospective draws on a wealth of archival material and popular culture-including unique vintage engravings, photographs, postcards, and philatelic souvenirs-in tracing the U.S. Legion's march down the Maumee River Valley to Maumee Bay. A highlight is Turk...

In VOYAGE OF DECEPTION, Jake Oliver and his family enter a darker world than anyone could have imagined involving, Chinese mobsters, a corrupt labor union boss and an international assassin. Jake masterfully juggles those making demands of him and unravels a mystery hidden within the historic Wilford Plaza Hotel in San Francisco and exposes the individual that has created a diabolical plan to disgrace those around him, all for personal gain fr...

In VOYAGE OF DECEPTION, Jake Oliver and his family enter a darker world than anyone could have imagined involving, Chinese mobsters, a corrupt labor union boss and an international assassin. Jake masterfully juggles those making demands of him and unravels a mystery hidden within the historic Wilford Plaza Hotel in San Francisco and exposes the individual that has created a diabolical plan to disgrace those around him, all for personal gain fr...

This widely used and respected book presents an active, multisensory approach to group leading, focusing heavily on group leadership skills. While written with the counselor in mind, GROUP COUNSELING: STRATEGIES AND SKILLS, 7th Edition also provides an outstanding discussion of group dynamics for professionals in group leadership positions. The authors discuss the many facets of group counseling and provide examples that show how each skill ca...

In 1983, while kayaking Mexico's Copper Canyon, Don Trent Jacobs was swept into a catacomb of underwater tunnels toward what he believed was certain death. But instead of panic, Jacobs found himself feeling at peace and invigorated. PRIMAL AWARENESS tells the story of Jacobs's remarkable vision of the human mind and heart. Photos.

The inspiring story of 21 women who pursued their dreams, emigrating from America to Israel, transforming themselves and the people and society around them in the process. Share their journey. Learn that it is not farfetched to dream -- and to achieve your dreams.

The inspiring story of 21 women who pursued their dreams, emigrating from America to Israel, transforming themselves and the people and society around them in the process. Share their journey. Learn that it is not farfetched to dream -- and to achieve your dreams.

In the 1930s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Tennessee Valley Authority began erecting dams on rivers throughout the Southeast to promote water conservation and to generate hydroelectric power. By the 1940s, fisheries managers began to realize that the cold waters released through the tailraces of these dams could support trout, and a new era of angling dawned in the southeastern U.S. Today the range of tailwater trout in the South h...

Keine Beschreibung.

Cuentos de hadas deliciosamente retorcidos, en los cuales es imposible saber que va a ocurrir en la siguiente fraccion de segundo y mucho menos, deducir con quien se casara el principe, si es que se casa.

In this provocative and engagingly written book, the authors argue that politicians seldom tailor their policy decisions to "pander" to public opinion. In fact, they say that when not facing election, contemporary presidents and members of Congress routinely ignore the public's preferences and follow their own political philosophies. 37 graphs.