Rebecca: 4598 books
by Rebecca West
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 28, 2019
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 28, 2019
È trascorso qualche anno da quando abbiamo salutato la famiglia Aubrey. Le bambine non sono più tali: i corsetti e gli abiti si sono fatti più attillati, le acconciature più sofisticate; l’ozio delle giornate estive è solo un ricordo. Oggi le Aubrey sono giovani donne, e ognuna ha preso la...
Forty Years Master
A Life in Sail and Steam
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Winner, 2016 the John Lyman Book Award, sponsored by the North American Society for Oceanic History.
During Daniel O. Killman’s more than fifty years at sea, he was shipwrecked off Coos Bay, discovered gold in Alaska, was dismasted in a hurricane near Fiji, lost a rudder en route to Adelaide,...
Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea
Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The first Europeans to arrive in North America’s various regions relied on Native women to help them navigate unfamiliar customs and places. This study of three well-known and legendary female cultural intermediaries, Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea, examines their initial contact with Euro-Americans,...
by Rebecca Livermore
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
India – the land of rickshaws, rajas, roti, and more. It’s both a wonderful, and in some cases, challenging and stressful country to visit. In spite of some harrowing experiences there, India occupies a place near to my heart.
I wrote this book to help foreign tourists to India have a safe...
by Rebecca Kohan
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
This organizing book (one of a series) will help you recognize the effects of clutter, and learn how to concur it within your home's PUBLIC SPACES (living room, family room, dining room, kitchen).Your home IS and should be your sanctuary – an empty space of possibilities where you start...
Stealing Cars
Technology and Society from the Model T to the Gran Torino
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
As early as 1910 Americans recognized that cars were easy to steal and, once stolen, hard to find, especially since cars looked much alike. Model styles and colors eventually changed, but so did the means of making a stolen car disappear. Though changing license plates and serial numbers remain basic...
Innocent Experiments
Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
From the 1950s to the digital age, Americans have pushed their children to live science-minded lives, cementing scientific discovery and youthful curiosity as inseparable ideals. In this multifaceted work, historian Rebecca Onion examines the rise of informal children's science education in the twentieth...
Arkansas Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Following in the tradition of the Southern Women series, Arkansas Women highlights prominent Arkansas women, exploring women’s experiences across time and space from the state’s earliest frontier years to the late twentieth century. In doing so, this collection of fifteen biographical essays productively...
Mainstreaming Torture
Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 reopened what many people in America had long assumed was a settled ethical question: Is torture ever morally permissible? Within days, some began to suggest that, in these new circumstances, the new answer was "yes." Rebecca Gordon argues that September...
by Rebecca Yarros
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Onverminderd van Rebecca Yarros is rauw, realistisch en romantisch. Dat rauwe begint al bij de openingsscène, waarin Ember het dramatische nieuws krijgt dat haar vader is gesneuveld in Afghanistan. In die toch al kwetsbare periode komt ze er ook nog achter dat haar vriendje Riley het doet met haar...
Harlequin Romance July 2017 Box Set
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Harlequin® Romance brings you a collection of four new titles, available now! Experience the rush of falling in love! This Harlequin® Romance box set includes:
#4575 THE MYSTERIOUS ITALIAN HOUSEGUEST
Summer at Villa Rosa
by Scarlet Wilson
Italian movie star Javier Russo needs to escape...
Beyond Bibliometrics
Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing ways we measure scholarly performance and research impact.
Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available...
by Rebecca Mugridge
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
The inspirational journey of a mum who turned her life around with one simple thing: her baby's pram!
Overweight and miserable after the birth of your baby? The Pram Diet offers inspiration, hope and realistic, practical tips from a mum who turned her life around with one simple thing: her...
by Rebecca Raymer
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
After surviving a horrific childhood, Lucy ends up on her own trying to find solid footing in her tumultuous life. Unfortunately, her early attempts at doing so leave her living in her car and knocked up by her drug dealer.
Being a teen-aged mother drastically changes Lucy’s life, but also...