Esther: 1033 books

Infibulation is the most extreme form of female circumci- sion. It plays an important role in the Islamic societies of northeastern Africa. Until now, the social significance and function of this practice has been poorly understood. In this volume, Hicks analyzes female circumcision as a cultural...

After 22 years of searching and researching, I am compelled to share the truth of Gods warnings found in the Holy Bible. Everything revealed in this book has been hidden since the foundation of the first earth age, when we were in our spirit bodies, before we became flesh bodies. Although some may...

Human Behavior in the Social Environment: Interweaving the Inner and Outer Worlds is an essential human behavior textbook for social work students. The third edition emphasizes the biopsychosocial framework within a psychodynamic, developmental and life-course perspective and includes a brand new...

From Thomas Piketty to David Harvey, scholars are increasingly questioning whether we are entering into a post-capitalist era. If so, does this new epoch signal the failure of capitalism and emergence of alternative systems? Or does it mark the ultimate triumph of capitalism as it evolves into an...

Birth tourism is very popular in the USA because it is one of the strongest countries in the world, and it grants US citizenship to babies who are born on their land. There are of course many terms and conditions that apply to this citizenship rule that becomes applicable to babies who’re born in...

On a manhunt for a serial killer, FBI Special Agent Ileana Harper falls through a break in time, ripping her from the present and everything she knows. After forming an uneasy alliance with the man who comes to her rescue, she unearths long-buried family secrets. Spiraling out of control, she clings...

The 11th century, A.D., is a bad time for fairies. With the humans' mastery over iron, few refuges remain to the fair folk. Fengrahf the Troll has been tasked with guarding the Hall of the Mountain King, the last bastion of the fey in Western Europe. But when Queen Mab is defeated at Battle of Hastings,...

Egon Schiele’s work is so distinctive that it resists categorisation. Admitted to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts at just sixteen, he was an extraordinarily precocious artist, whose consummate skill in the manipulation of line, above all, lent a taut expressivity to all his work. Profoundly convinced...

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,3, University of Paderborn, course: The Cultural Heritage: The Nineteen Nineties, 8 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The subject matter of this...

Learn how to deal with stress the fun, simple way, with hilarious pictures and simple wisdoms from a pet's perspective. What do our pets know that we forgot? Pee On It and Walk Away will give your spirits a boost and your stress a break when you hate the world and feel everyone is against you. This book...

First published in 1964, this book examines the Tour of Britain. It focuses, neither on foreign tourists coming to Britain, nor on British tourists travelling abroad, but on British people exploring their native land in the three centuries from 1540 to 1840. During this period, it became a popular...

There are few literary authors in whose work animals and other creatures play as prominent a role as they do in Franz Kafka's. Exploring multiple dimensions of Kafka's incorporation of nonhuman creatures into his writing, this volume is the first collection in English of essays devoted to illuminating...

Een meeslepende roman over de verstrekkende gevolgen van een ontregelde jeugd. Vera Zagt heeft het niet gemakkelijk gehad als kind. Haar moeder zat vaker in een psychiatrische inrichting dan dat ze thuis was, haar autoritaire vader behandelde haar alsof ze een van zijn rekruten was en gepest worden...

De tweeëndertigjarige Margot Heijne heeft een nare scheiding achter de rug. Ze probeert haar leven op orde te krijgen en haar zelfvertrouwen terug te winnen. Haar nieuwe leven komt in een gevaarlijke stroomversnelling terecht als ze Leon Wagner ontmoet, een mysterieuze, dominante man met een bijzondere vriendenkring, die wel erg veel invloed op haar krijgt...