Esther: 1033 books
Tough Men in Hard Places
A Photographic Collection
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The mines in southwestern Colorado were in trouble and needed cheap, reliable electric power to keep running. This is the story of innovative solutions to solve the problem using alternating current electricity and the incredible effort, tenacity, and toughness of the men who overcame formidable obstacles...
The Bible in Western Culture
The Student's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The influence of the Bible in Western culture is immeasurable, but these days few of us know much about it. Presenting concise and accessible introductions to the Bible's most important characters, stories and themes, this text encourages better understanding, study and analysis of the Christian element...
by Esther Kibunja
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
If you are going through a painful situation, you may feel trapped, helpless, and powerless. Having been there myself, and wishing I could have found somebody or something to explain the reasons I was going through my painful situation, I found very little help in what I was searching for.
This...
Russia's Impact on EU Policy Transfer to the Post-Soviet Space
The Contested Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Russia's impact on EU policy transfer to the post-Soviet space has not been as negative as often perceived. EU policies have traveled to countries and issue areas, in which the dependence on Russia is high and Russian foreign policy is increasingly assertive.
This book explores Russia's impact...
Avenues of Translation
The City in Iberian and Latin American Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed,...
Syncing the Americas
José Martí and the Shaping of National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
The essays in this collection reflect two of Martí’s key observations during his time in the United States: first, how did he, an exile living in New York, view and read his North American neighbors from a sociocultural, political and literary perspective? Second, how did his perception of the...
Power Play
Explorando y empujando fronteras en una escuela en Tejas through a multilingual play-based early learning curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Power Play tells the story of activist teachers and the very young together in a play-based curriculum in a public school in Texas. The authors narrate (with playful interruptions) a curriculum that is powered by the students’ lived encounters—the languages, landscapes, beliefs, histories, geographies,...
Learn Hebrew Alphabets & Numbers
Hebrew for Kids, #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Did you ever want to teach your kids the basics of Hebrew ?
Learning Hebrew can be fun with this book.
In this book you will find the following features:
Hebrew Alphabets
Hebrew Numbers
Hebrew Words with English Translation
Colorful Images to Connect all of the above points
Woman's Mysteries
Ancient & Modern
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Here is a classic study of the feminine principle in myths, dreams, and religious symbolism. In presenting the archetypal foundations of feminine psychology, the author shows how the ancient religious initiations of the moon goddess symbolized the development of the emotions. Understanding the psychological...
Breasts
The Women's Perspective on an American Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 1998
Breasts: The Women‘s Perspective on an American Obsession describes and explores our national breast fetish, which is defined as a culturally constructed obsession that is deeply interwoven with beauty standards, breastfeeding practices, and sexuality. By tracing the complex history of this erotic fascination and discovering how it affects men‘s an
by Esther Selsdon, Jeanette Zwingenberger
Language: German
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Language: German
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Pornografisch, unsittlich, amoralisch und letztendlich sogar „entartet“ wurde die Kunst des Egon Schiele genannt. Lange Zeit verkannt und verunglimpft, hat der geniale, von Selbstobsession getriebene Künstler dennoch unbeirrt seine künstlerische Suche nach der Essenz der weiblichen Sexualität...
by Jeanette Zwingenberger, Esther Selsdon, Ashley Bassie
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 7, 2014
La obra de Egon Schiele es tan particular que se resiste a la categorización. Admitido en la Academia Vienesa de las Bellas Artes cuando apenas contaba con dieciséis años, fue un artista de extraordinaria precocidad, cuya consumada habilidad en la manipulación de las líneas le dio a sus obras...
by Esther Wood
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The words were significant of that first stirring of weariness and discontent which precedes either a collapse or a revolution. It was impossible that the conventions of the eighteenth century, persisting in pictorial art long after they had been cast off by literature, should suffice for an age which...
Celebrating the Lives of Jewish Women
Patterns in a Feminist Sampler
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Jewish women of all ages and backgrounds come together in Celebrating the Lives of Jewish Women to explore and rejoice in what they have in common--their heritage. They reveal in striking personal stories how their Jewishness has shaped their identities and informed their experiences in innumerable,...