Michele: 1668 books
Mrs. Mark Twain
The Life of Olivia Langdon Clemens, 1845-1904
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
This is the first book-length biography of Olivia Langdon Clemens, Mark Twain’s wife. Livy was an intelligent, well-educated woman of Victorian values and sensibilities who lived a charmed and tragic life. Raised in the wealthiest family in Elmira, New York, she married the man destined to become...
Guardian of the Republic
An American Ronin's Journey to Faith, Family and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The inspiring life and uncensored views of a veteran, patriot, former Congressman, conservative icon, and warrior for personal liberty…
Over the course of the past few decades, Allen West has had many titles bestowed on him, among them Lt. Colonel, U.S. Representative, “Dad,” and Scourge...
by Patrick Barron, Marina Spunta, Monica Seger
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Italian writer and filmmaker Gianni Celati’s 1989 philosophical travelogue Towards the River’s Mouth explores perception, memory, place and space as it recounts a series of journeys across the Po River Valley in northern Italy. The book seeks to document the “new Italian landscape” where divisions...
La Petite
A Memoir of Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
In La Petite, the renowned French writer and film producer Michèle Halberstadt vividly recounts the painful events that surrounded the death of her beloved grandfather, which led to a suicide attempt when she was twelve years old. Michèle’s mother favored her older sister, her father was emotionally...
L'eterno viaggiare tra paura e coraggio. La bussola di don Abbondio e il cavallo di don Chisciotte
La bussola di don Abbondio e il cavallo di don Chisciotte
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Con questo saggio l’autore intende accompagnare il lettore nel suo viaggio attraverso il sentimento del coraggio e lo stato d’animo della paura. Un viaggio che non potrà che essere una sfida continua con se stesso e con gli altri.
I pronipoti di Adamo
Le radici dell'amore ambivalente dell'uomo per la donna
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Le radici più profonde del rapporto uomo-donna sono rinvenibili sin dall’alba narrativa dell’umanità occidentale, e il racconto biblico della Creazione di Adamo ed Eva fornisce il terreno ideale per sviluppare la tesi della profondità archetipica del complesso di inferiorità dell’uomo verso...
Forensic Mental Health
Framing Integrated Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Forensic Mental Health: Framing Integrated Solutions describes a criminal justice–mental health nexus that touches every population—juvenile and adult male and female offenders, probationers and parolees, the aging adult prison population, and victims of crime. In the United States today, the...
Women and Politics
Paths to Power and Political Influence
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Women and Politics: Paths to Power and Political Influence examines the role of women in politics from the early women’s movement to the female politicians in power today. Following the historic 2016 presidential election, this timely edition includes analysis of the challenges of navigating gender...
by John Gosney, Dawn McKay Rosenberg, Michele Lipson
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2006
Anyone with an interest in working for the US Post Office as a clerk or a mail carrier must take either the 473-C city carrier exam, the 473 retail clerk exam, or the 460 rural carrier exam (which has not changed). Those candidates who receive a 95% or higher score are interviewed first; those with scores...
Alan Turing
Un uomo solo, un grande scienziato
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Alan Turing è stato uno dei più grandi scienziati del XX secolo che giustamente è stato definito il padre dell’informatica, anche se, in realtà, il maggiore contributo lo ha fornito nel campo dell’intelligenza artificiale. Purtroppo la sua vita è stata caratterizzata...
Everyday Writing Center
A Community of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In a landmark collaboration, five co-authors develop a theme of ordinary disruptions ("the everyday") as a source of provocative learning moments that can liberate both student writers and writing center staff. At the same time, the authors parlay Etienne Wenger’s concept of "community...
Galileo Galilei
E la cultura scientifica nell'età della controriforma
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Il volume ripercorre l’itinerario biografico e intellettuale di Galileo, soffermandosi a illustrarne il pensiero cosí come consegnato alle diverse opere redatte nel corso della lunga carriera scientifica. Sono confrontati, con rigore scientifico e agevole leggibilità, i risultati conseguiti dal...
American Catholics, American Culture
Tradition and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004
Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators...
A Woman's Story
Living with the Shame of HIV
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Overcoming the shame of HIV This book originally published in early 2004 represents a gritty look at the lives of three amazing ladies. Though medical science has come quite a ways in the intervening years, there remains stigma and challenge associated with the HIV disease. In this hard hitting text,...