Irene: 1253 books
by Jerome Levine, Irene S. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Practical tools for leading a happy, productive life
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling mental disorder that afflicts one percent of the population, an estimated 2.5 million people in America alone. The firsthand advice in this reassuring guide will empower the families and caregivers...
Finalmente ho capito che Excel serve anche a me
Uno strumento fondamentale non solo per il lavoro, ma anche per la gestione della vita quotidiana
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Excel è il foglio di calcolo più utilizzato in ambito universitario, professionale e aziendale, dimostrando di essere uno strumento indispensabile per calcolare, analizzare, gestire e rielaborare dati. Con un percorso pensato per chi ha sempre «temuto» i fogli di calcolo e desidera un approccio...
by Irene Scobbie
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Once part of the Kalmar Union-along with Denmark and Norway-the Kingdom of Sweden broke free in order to govern itself in the early 1500s, and for more than a century afterwards it was a force to be reckoned with. At its peak, it was twice the size that it is today, but with the secession of Finland...
Literary Crossroads
An International Exploration of Women, Gender, and Otherhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
This book explores the different ways women have been liberating themselves from the shackles of patriarchy and cultural laws that inhibit their independence and freedom to show that women are also contributing meaningfully to society. Women have worked to attain freedom through speaking out, writing...
by Irene Baker
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...
by Linda C. Ehrlich, Irene González-López, Dolores P. Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Through provocative essays by specialists in different aspects of Japanese culture, this book provides an historical and analytical survey of the presence of Goddesses in Japanese audiovisual culture from its origins to the present day. It shows how these feminine myths are represented in Japan; not...
A Salute to Our Veterans
Vignettes of Those Who Served Side-By-Side for Our American Freedom - 1918 - 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
A Salute To Our Veterans is about war stories never told before, compiled and documented from 35 United States Military Veterans that served in the military during World War One, World War Two, the Koren War, the Vietnam War, and the Gulf War. They also served during the Cuban Crises, Grenada Crises,...
The Rhetoric of the Roman Fake
Latin Pseudepigrapha in Context
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Previous scholarship on classical pseudepigrapha has generally aimed at proving issues of attribution and dating of individual works, with little or no attention paid to the texts as literary artefacts. Instead, this book looks at Latin fakes as sophisticated products of a literary culture in which...
by Irene Gedalof
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
This book traces the narrative strategies framing austerity policies through an illuminating analysis of policy documents and political discourses, exposing the political consequences for women, racialized minorities and disabled people. While many have critiqued the ways in which austerity has...
The Circulation of Children
Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
In this vivid ethnography, Jessaca B. Leinaweaver explores “child circulation,” informal arrangements in which indigenous Andean children are sent by their parents to live in other households. At first glance, child circulation appears tantamount to child abandonment. When seen in that light,...
What’s Love Got to Do with It?
Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2004
In locations around the world, sex tourism is a booming business. What's Love Got to Do with It? is an in-depth examination of the motivations of workers, clients, and others connected to the sex tourism business in Sosúa, a town on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic. Denise Brennan considers...
Remembering Pinochet's Chile
On the Eve of London 1998
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2004
During the two years just before the 1998 arrest in London of General Augusto Pinochet, the historian Steve J. Stern had been in Chile collecting oral histories of life under Pinochet as part of an investigation into the form and meaning of memories of state-sponsored atrocities. In this compelling...
Callaloo Nation
Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2004
Mixing—whether referred to as mestizaje, callaloo, hybridity, creolization, or multiculturalism—is a foundational cultural trope in Caribbean and Latin American societies. Historically entwined with colonial, anticolonial, and democratic ideologies, ideas about mixing are powerful forces in the...
Muddied Waters
Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846–1948
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2003
Colombia’s western Coffee Region is renowned for the whiteness of its inhabitants, who are often described as respectable pioneer families who domesticated a wild frontier and planted coffee on the forested slopes of the Andes. Some local inhabitants, however, tell a different tale—of white migrants...