22 Ergebnisse - Zeige 1 von 20.

Ireland's foremost female writers of the nineteenth century, Edith Somerville and Martin Ross, advocated the 'High Art of Comedy' during the period of transition and turbulence in the Irish countryside. This critical biography of their collaboration, from 1890 to Martin Ross's death in 1915, studies the self-conscious artistry of the creators of the finest novel of the nineteenth century The Real Charlotte (1894). It considers the influence of...

Als Lotti Pfeifer krank vor Liebeskummer auf Nortrum strandet, sind ein eigener Friseursalon und Stammkundschaft, die es gern bunt treibt, das Letzte, womit sie rechnet. Schließlich ist ihre Heimat doch Berlin und nicht eine verschlafene Nordseeinsel! Doch die Bewohner schließen sie rasch ins Herz. Mit einer Ausnahme: Fischer Fiete bleibt wortkarg, raubeinig und ihr gegenüber abweisend. Ausgerechnet Lotti soll nun aber als Stylistin tätig werd...

Keine Beschreibung.

The best advice for authors, "Write what you know, " is counsel Grace Anne Stevens embraces in her weekly blog, "My Transgender Life, " for The Huffington Post. She is not only vulnerable sharing about herself but also touches on a wide range of topics that go beyond the transgender experience. She inspires everyone, in and out of the LGBT community, to follow their own truth and live their authentic lives. Musings on Living Authentically, sha...

Provides an accessible overview of major figures and movements in literary theory and criticism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. An introductory chapter provides an overview of some of the major issues within literary theory and criticism.

The first major synthesis of African archaeobotany in decades, this book significantly advances our knowledge of relationship between agriculture and social complexity.

Tea was introduced to Britain in the 1650s. Its popularity burgeoned over the following two-and-a-half centuries, until it became a defining feature of British culture. Drawing inspiration from China, British craftsmen worked to display their skills on numerous tea-related objects, which ritualised the process of drinking tea and imbued it with luxury status. Calling on an array of different materials and techniques, they developed a huge vari...

Natalie is very excited. She's going to the Funfair.But then her Dad calls out "We can't go today. It's raining."Natalie can't believe it. She runs to the window, sees the storm, and her eyes fill with tears. Suddenly, a voice from her picture says, "It's not raining here, Natalie."Come to our Animal Funfair, it's always sunny here."There's just one problem. The Animal Funfair is hidden.However, if Natalie helps everyone in her picture, they w...

Natalie is very excited. She's going to the Funfair.But then her Dad calls out "We can't go today. It's raining."Natalie can't believe it. She runs to the window, sees the storm, and her eyes fill with tears. Suddenly, a voice from her picture says, "It's not raining here, Natalie."Come to our Animal Funfair, it's always sunny here."There's just one problem. The Animal Funfair is hidden.However, if Natalie helps everyone in her picture, they w...

Es gibt nur einen Platz, an dem du zu Hause sein kannst. Dort, wo dein Herz schneller schlägt!Thies Thomsens tiefe Stimme beschert Alice Lanski eine Gänsehaut - die Nachricht, die der hinreißend attraktive Anwalt überbringt, leider auch.Ihre Mutter ist gestorben und hinterlässt Alice einen heruntergekommenen Hof an der Ostsee. Eine skurrile Rentner-WG, ein verwaister Welpe, ein Haufen Probleme und ihr verschollen geglaubter Bruder inklusive. A...

In the traditions of Life's Little Instruction Book, Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, and the Messiah's Handbook, Handbooks for Humans will provide you guidelines to help make you a better person, and learn to manage our attitudes in our relationships with ourselves and others.You probably wish you were given instructions for living at birth. Because, the truth is, being human isn't easy. Now, by putting in the effort, work...

It's hard to live authentically when you're trying to meet the expectations of everyone around you and denying the inner voices that know your truth. Grace Anne Stevens spent over sixty years hiding and denying her inner truth. In No! Maybe? Yes! Living My Truth, she shares not only her voice but many of her internal voices, as she journeyed from denying, to questioning, and finally accepting her truth, which led to transitioning her gender at...

Microgenres: A Quick Survey presents a previously untreated point of cultural curiosity, revealing the profound truth that humanity's desire to classify is often only matched by the unsustainability of the obscure and hyper-specific."--

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Ireland's foremost female writers of the nineteenth century, Edith Somerville and Martin Ross, advocated the 'High Art of Comedy' during the period of transition and turbulence in the Irish countryside. This critical biography of their collaboration, from 1890 to Martin Ross's death in 1915, studies the self-conscious artistry of the creators of the finest novel of the nineteenth century The Real Charlotte (1894). It considers the influence of...

Keine Beschreibung.

This companion to literary theory includes an introductory chapter providing an overview of some of the major issues within literary theory and criticism. From there, it includes separate chapters surveying theory and criticism in antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the nineteenth century, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century.

Geeky vampire Ginger Davenport is just an ordinary college student with a small group of friends and a mundane life that offers little in surprises. Prone to internal tangents and over-analyzing situations, she likes her habitual routine, as it doesn't disrupt her reclusive and book-wormish ways. What Ginger doesn't expect is to be thrown into a whirlwind adventure helping Dracula on a personal mission. However, circumstances thrust her into t...

The first major synthesis of African archaeobotany in decades, this book significantly advances our knowledge of relationship between agriculture and social complexity.