Sophie: 3012 books

Book cover of Privacy vs. Security
by Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon, Joshua Phillips, Mark D. Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014

Securing privacy in the current environment is one of the great challenges of today’s democracies. Privacy vs. Security explores the issues of privacy and security and their complicated interplay, from a legal and a technical point of view. Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon provides a thorough account of...
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Dear Raymond

The Story of Spirituality and the First World War

by Sophie Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017

When Raymond Lodge perished when fighting in France in 1915, his father, Sir Oliver Lodge, set out on a controversial quest to discover the truth about life after death. A renowned physicist and member of the Fabian society, he took a scientific approach to his journey into spirituality and published...
Book cover of America's First Cuisines
by Sophie D. Coe
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015

After long weeks of boring, perhaps spoiled sea rations, one of the first things Spaniards sought in the New World was undoubtedly fresh food. Probably they found the local cuisine strange at first, but soon they were sending American plants and animals around the world, eventually enriching the cuisine...
Book cover of Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered
by Margaret Doody, David Fairer, Sophie Gee
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013

Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered beginswith the brute fact that poetry jostledup alongside novels in the bookstallsof eighteenth-century England. Indeed,by exploringunexpected collisions and collusionsbetween poetry and novels, this volumeof exciting, new essays offers...
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Thanksgiving: Heart-Warming Stories for Children

An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner, The Queer Little Baker Man, The Genesis of the Doughnut Club, The Thanksgiving of the Wazir, A Turkey for the Stuffing...

by Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Eleanor H. Porter
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017

This carefully selected and edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery) The Genesis of the Doughnut Club (Lucy Maud Montgomery) An English...
Book cover of Magic in the Cloister

Magic in the Cloister

Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe

by Sophie Page
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013

During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries a group of monks with occult interests donated what became a remarkable collection of more than thirty magic texts to the library of the Benedictine abbey of St. Augustine's in Canterbury. The monks collected texts that provided positive justifications...
Book cover of Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siècle
by Sophie Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016

Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siècle illuminates the most iconoclastic performances of Shakespeare's heroines in late Victorian theatre, through the celebrity, commentary, and wider careers of the actresses who played them. By bringing together fin-de-siècle performances of Shakespeare and...
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Tajikistan on the Move

Statebuilding and Societal Transformations

by Michele Commercio, Hafiz Boboyorov, Jesse Driscoll
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018

The southernmost and poorest state of the Eurasian space, Tajikistan collapsed immediately upon the fall of the Soviet Union and plunged into a bloody five-year civil war (1992–1997) that left more than 50,000 people dead and more than half a million displaced. After the 1997 Peace Agreements, Tajikistan...
Book cover of La Route de Cormac McCarthy (Analyse de l'oeuvre)

La Route de Cormac McCarthy (Analyse de l'oeuvre)

Comprendre la littérature avec lePetitLittéraire.fr

by Julie Mestrot, Marie-Sophie Wauquez, lePetitLitteraire.fr
Language: French
Release Date: August 17, 2017

Décryptez La Route de Cormac McCarthy avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr ! Que faut-il retenir de La Route, le roman postapocalyptique qui retrace la quête d'un paradis perdu ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée. Vous trouverez notamment...
Book cover of The Theological Anthropology of Eustathius of Antioch
by Sophie Cartwright
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015

This authoritative study explores Eustathius of Antioch's theological anthropology, offering insight into one of the most important thinkers of the early Arian controversy. Sophie Cartwright situates Eustathius' thought in relation to the early 'Arian' controversy, the Constaninian Revolution, the...
Book cover of L'héritage des Chatsfield + 1 nouvelle inédite
by Abby Green, Sophie Pembroke
Language: French
Release Date: October 1, 2015

Série « L'héritage des Chatsfield », tome 6 Passez les portes des hôtels Chatsfield, installez-vous confortablement dans la luxueuse suite qui vous a été réservée et plongez au cœur d’un univers fait de scandale et de passion… Orla Kennedy ne décolère pas. Que lui a-t-il...
Book cover of Hume, Reason and Morality

Hume, Reason and Morality

A Legacy of Contradiction

by Sophie Botros
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006

Covering an important theme in Humean studies, this book focuses on Hume's hugely influential attempt in book three of his Treatise of Human Nature to derive the conclusion that morality is a matter of feeling, not reason, from its link with action. Claiming that Hume's argument contains a...
Book cover of Claire d’Albe
by Sophie Cottin
Language: French
Release Date: November 15, 2017

Claire d’Albe est un roman épistolaire de la femme de lettres française Sophie Cottin (1770 – 1807). Résumé :  Claire s’est mariée, à quinze ans, avec un homme de soixante ans. Humble autant que sage, vivant à la campagne dans une retraite absolue, occupée du soin de deux...
Book cover of The Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle
by Sophie Green
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019

It's 1982 in Australia. THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER is a box office hit and Paul Hogan is on the TV. In a seaside suburb, housewife Theresa takes up swimming. She wants to get fit; she also wants a few precious minutes to herself. So at sunrise each day she strikes out past the waves. From...
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