April: 780 books
Riotous Flesh
Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Nineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against masturbation, which was said to cause illness, insanity, and even death. Riotous Flesh explores women’s leadership of those movements, with a specific focus on their rhetorical, social, and political effects, showing how a desire to transform...
by Georgia Christou, April De Angelis, Chloe Todd Fordham
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Eight short plays, commissioned and developed as part of the Women Centre Stage Festival, that together demonstrate the range, depth and richness of women’s writing for the stage.
Selected by Sue Parrish, Artistic Director of Sphinx Theatre, these plays offer a wide variety of rewarding roles...
Holy Misogyny
Why the Sex and Gender Conflicts in the Early Church Still Matter
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
In Holy Misogyny, bible scholar April DeConick wants real answers to the questions that are rarely whispered from the pulpits of the contemporary Christian churches. Why is God male? Why are women associated with sin? Why can't women be priests? Drawing on her extensive knowledge of the early Christian...
by April N. Royal
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2006
Like Pages of a Diary, consists of poems that speak on love, pain, inspiration, peace, issues we face everyday, and gaining understanding of life. This work is a collection of thoughts that the mind and heart thinks, but the mouth does not always speak. This book is the voice of the speechless and...
by April Marcom
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
"I should be happy, I tell myself. A commoner being taken to wife by the soon-to-be-king. The coming queen of an entire nation. But I cannot control the desires of my heart. And what my heart wants is the future king’s brother."-ArabellaARABELLA AND THE FORBIDDEN PRINCE is a beautifully dark...
Sugar and Civilization
American Empire and the Cultural Politics of Sweetness
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
In the weeks and months after the end of the Spanish-American War, Americans celebrated their nation's triumph by eating sugar. Each of the nation's new imperial possessions, from Puerto Rico to the Philippines, had the potential for vastly expanding sugar production. As victory parties and commemorations...
Righteous Indignation
A Jewish Call for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Can the teachings of Judaism provide a sacred framework for repairing the world?
In this groundbreaking volume, leading rabbis, intellectuals, and activists explore the relationship between Judaism and social justice, drawing on ancient and modern sources of wisdom. The contributors argue that...
Astrological Transits
The Beginner's Guide to Using Planetary Cycles to Plan and Predict Your Day, Week, Year (or Destiny)
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Your birth chart is a snapshot of the sky taken at the moment and place of your birth, one that reflects your character, personality, strengths, and challenges. But the moment after that picture was taken, the planets moved on--some quickly, some very slowly. Astrologers call the moving planets "transits,"...
Working with Adoptive Parents
Research, Theory, and Therapeutic Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Practical techniques for guiding parents through the stages of adoption and beyond
"This book makes a significant contribution to both a greater understanding of adoption and its complex dynamic constellations as well as to serving those who are or come across adoption families, many of whom...
Global Citizenship and the Legacy of Empire
Marketing Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This book investigates the parallels between mainstream development discourse and colonial discourse as theorized in the work of Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak and Edward Said. Aiming to repoliticize post-colonial theory by applying its understandings to contemporary political discourses, author April...
by April M. Beisaw
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Offering a field-tested analytic method for identifying faunal remains, along with helpful references, images, and examples of the most commonly encountered North American species, Identifying and Interpreting Animal Bones: A Manual provides an important new reference for students, avocational archaeologists,...
The Gnostic New Age
How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Gnosticism is a countercultural spirituality that forever changed the practice of Christianity. Before it emerged in the second century, passage to the afterlife required obedience to God and king. Gnosticism proposed that human beings were manifestations of the divine, unsettling the hierarchical...
by April Kung DVM
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
The On Being a Veterinarian Series gives pre-vet and veterinary students a glimpse into what it's really like to be a small animal veterinarian. Each book in the series provides insight on a different aspect of small animal veterinary medicine to help future veterinary doctors better prepare for the...
Stable
The Keys to Heaven on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
THIS SPIRITUAL GUIDE PROVIDES A PHILOSOPHY DESIGNED TO BOTH HEAL THE INDIVIDUAL AND ULTIMATELY CARRY THE WORLD INTO A NEW ERA OF UNITY. SUPPORTED BY SCRIPTURE AND SCIENCE.
STABLE: The Keys to Heaven on Earth offers a new and different message as religious barriers are broken down. STABLE is...