Nina: 1774 books

Can't fall asleep? Or is your sleep constantly interrupted? One of the biggest challenges people over 40 have is getting enough refreshing sleep. In midlife we find ourselves trying to live the way we always have, without the same results. In fact at midlife we all need to make some kind of change in our lives. If sleep is a frustration, this is the book for you to read!

Women need estrogen, but estrogen levels diminish with age. In the short term, estrogen's departure leaves most women in a frequently overheated, uncomfortable state. In the long term, its exodus places their hearts, bones, and brains in harm's way. And conventional hormone replacement therapy, with...

This is an innovative, scholarly and original study of the ethics of modern Japanese aesthetics from the 1930s, through the Second World War and into the post-war period. Nina Cornyetz embarks on new and unprecedented readings of some of the most significant literary and film texts of the Japanese...

Food for Thought offers fresh psychoanalytic insights into treating clients with eating disorders. In lively and jargon-free language, Nina Savelle-Rocklin breaks down the psychoanalytic approach to give practitioners and general readers alike a deeper understanding of the theory and effective treatment...

“Offal” has the same pronunciation as “awful”—an appropriate homophone, given that offal comprises the whole spectrum of an animal’s glands, essential organs, skin, muscle, guts, and every unmentionable in between. Yet as Nina Edwards shows in this intriguing history, offal has been consumed...

Darkness divides and enlivens opinion. Some are afraid of the dark, or at least prefer to avoid it, and there are many who dislike what it appears to stand for. Others are drawn to this strange domain, delighting in its uncertainties, lured by all the associations of folklore and legend, by the call...

Alicia Giménez Bartlett’s popular crime series, written in Spanish and organized around the exploits of Police Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy Inspector Fermin Garzon, is arguably the most successful detective series published in Spain during the previous three decades. Nina L. Molinaro examines...

More than half a century ago, in a remote Corsican village, the beautiful Margot loses her new born daughter to a tragedy that reaches beyond the disputed island. Sixty years later, Emily, an erudite and tenured professor of literature at the University of Berkeley discovers a novel that destroys...

Jason's young and beautiful boss Joanna Roth has always taken a special interest in him, ever since he first came to work for her at the age of sixteen. After Jason loses the order form of a very important client, she punishes him as she often has before: with a sound spanking. But on this occasion,...

This book describes and characterizes responses of American readers to fiction in the generation before the Civil War. It is based on close examination of the reviews of all novels—both American and European—that appeared in major American periodicals during the years 1840–1860, a period in...

A PLAY ABOUT VIOLENCE, A SOCIETY LIVING IN FEAR AND THE MOMENT JUST - BEFORE At this point, at this exact moment, a man enters the stage. A man enters the stage and the man has a gun. . BIG GUNS is the prickling at the back of your neck, the faint taste of...

A collection of short stories and essays revolving around the darkness of love, viewed from many angles: the self-love of a prostitute, a middle-aged woman who returns to an unhappy marriage after twenty years to nurse her dying husband, disillusion and gender betrayal under the elms of a prestigious...

Transitions: Legal Change, Legal Meanings illustrates the various intersections, crises, and shifts that continually occur within the law, and how these moments of change interact with and comment on contemporary society. Together the essays in this volume investigate the transformation of...

When Maria, a rich middle-aged housewife, finds herself home alone and horny as hell she begins fantasizing about her handsome college-aged pool boy. Her husband will be home soon, but having a hot young stud service her needs is far more enticing. Warning: This sizzling hot 4000 word short story is for ADULTS ONLY. Contains graphic M/F sex scenes.