Patricia: 6176 books
by Patricia Vigderman
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Ownership battles over the marbles removed from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin have been rumbling into invective, pleading, and counterclaims for two centuries. The emotional temperature around them is high, and steering across the vast past to safe anchor in a brilliant heritage is tricky. The stories...
by Patricia Potts
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
'My Journey from Darkness to Light' is a book about recovering from depression and bi-polar illness.
It offers solid ideas that have made a real difference in my life and the lives of others. 'My Journey From Darkness to Light' is for those who have or are dealing with feelings of daily discouragement or dysfunctional depression. This is one journey you'll be glad you went on.
by Patricia Hampl
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
This New York Times Notable memoir of a middle-class, middle-America family is a “beautiful bouquet of a book” (Entertainment Weekly).
They say “a daughter is a daughter all her life,” and no statement could be truer for Patricia Hampl. Born to a Czech father—an artistic florist—and...
Another World
Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Print Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
The remarkable story of the stylistic, cultural, and technical innovations that drove the surge of comics, caricature, and other print media in 19th-century Europe Taking its title from the 1844 visionary graphic novel by J. J. Grandville, this groundbreaking book explores the invention of print media—including...
Women of Color Pray
Voices of Strength, Faith, Healing, Hope and Courage
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
A celebration of the voices of women of color in prayer
Women of color pray and have prayed out of necessity for survival, out of love for the Divine and because we believe in the power of prayer. Prayer has been the prevailing force behind the education of our children, protection and courage...
Falando de grana
Um guia para pais
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Patricia Broggi é especialista quando o assunto é gastos com filhos. Neste livro, a autora dá dicas de como administrar o valor da mesada, os custos com educação, festinhas e presentes, como lidar com o consumismo adolescente, como se programar financeiramente para ter filhos, os gastos com enxoval,...
Twice Colombia
Adventure, Friendship, and Adoption in the Andes Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Patricia Woodard had always wanted to live and work in a foreign country, but the dream seemed to be elusive. Then in the summer of 1975 while she was teaching summer school in her hometown of Whiteville, North Carolina, she received a telegram offering her a teaching position in Bogot, Colombia....
by Patricia Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by Edward Sanders.
“What power. Smith’s poetry is all poetry. And visceral. Her poems get under the skin of their subjects. Their passion and empathy, their real worldliness, are blockbuster.”—Marvin Bell
“I was weeping for the beauty...
The Firebrand and the First Lady
Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Longlisted for the National Book Award
A groundbreaking book—two decades in the works—that tells the story of how a brilliant writer-turned-activist, granddaughter of a mulatto slave, and the first lady of the United States, whose ancestry gave her membership in the Daughters of the American...
Carfree Living
Happy in the Not So Fast Lane
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Carfree Living is for anyone who has thought about going carless but hasn’t taken any concrete action yet. Inspiring and motivating, this story is one woman’s adventures in going carless in Minneapolis. Packed with practical tips, Patricia Blakely’s account reveals some surprising advantages to...
View from City Hall
Reflections on governing Cape Town
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The 21st century belongs to cities, especially those of a rapidly urbanising Africa. South Africa experienced a historic change in city government in 2016, when three major metros changed political leadership. The realities that city governments must confront range from dynamic population growth to...
Haiku Mind
108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Haiku, the Japanese form of poetry written in just three lines, can be miraculous in its power to articulate the profundity of the simplest moment—and for that reason haiku can be a useful tool for bringing us to a heightened awareness of our lives. Here, the poet Patricia Donegan shares her experience...
Japanese Design
Art, Aesthetics & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
**Winner, Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title 2015**
This Japanese design book presents the arts, aesthetics and culture of Japan with over 160 stunning color photos and extensive historical and cultural commentary .
The Japanese sensibility often possesses an intuitive, emotional...
Motherlines
Love, Longing, and Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
When she was twenty, Patricia Reis’s mother asked, “What about your spiritual life?” Years later, this question drives her midlife quest to reconcile the desires of her body with the mandates of her spirit. Motherlines is a candid and compelling story of sex with men and with women, of celibacy,...