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Feminism Unmodified: Discourses On Life And Law
Catharine A. MacKinnon, noted feminist and legal scholar, explores and develops her original theories and practical proposals on sexual politics and law. These discourses, originally delivered as speeches, have been brilliantly woven into a book that retains all the spontaneity and accessibility of ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1987 -
Challenges to Authority and the Recognition of Rights: From Magna Carta to Modernity
While challenges to authority are generally perceived as destructive to legal order, this original collection of essays, with Magna Carta at its heart, questions this assumption. In a series of chapters concerned with different forms of challenges to legal authority - over time, geographical place, ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol 1
by Stephen Greenblatt • Jahan Ramazani • M. H. Abrams • Jon Stallworthy • James Simpson • Catherine Robson • James Noggle • Jack Stillinger • Alfred David • Lawrence Lipking • Carol Christ • Deidre Lynch • Katharine Maus • George Logan • Barbara LewalskiThe Ninth Edition offers more complete works and more teachable groupings than ever before, the apparatus you trust, and a new, free Supplemental Ebook with more than 1,000 additional texts. Read by more than 8 million students, The Norton Anthology of English Literature sets the standard and remai... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Victorian Age
by Stephen Greenblatt • Jahan Ramazani • M. H. Abrams • Jon Stallworthy • James Simpson • Catherine Robson • James Noggle • Jack Stillinger • Alfred David • Lawrence Lipking • Carol Christ • Deidre Lynch • Katharine Maus • George Logan • Barbara LewalskiThe Ninth Edition offers more complete works and more teachable groupings than ever before, the apparatus you trust, and a new, free Supplemental Ebook with more than 1,000 additional texts. Read by more than 8 million students, The Norton Anthology of English Literature sets the standard and remai... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Uniquely Rhode Island (Heinemann State Studies)
What do the images on Rhode Island's state seal stand for? How is Rhode Island's state government organized? What can you find in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay? You can find the answers to these questions in Uniquely Rhode Island. This book contains all kinds of fun and fascinating facts and featu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
The Electricity of Every Living Thing: A Woman’s Walk in the Wild to Find Her Way Home
Perfect for fans of The Salt Path and The Outrun, this book is a life-affirming exploration of wild landscapes, what it means to be different and, above all, how we can all learn to make peace within our own unquiet minds.'A windswept tale, beautifully told' Raynor Winn - The Salt Path 'A manifesto ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
The Electricity of Every Living Thing: A Woman’s Walk In The Wild To Find Her Way Home
The New York Times bestselling author of Wintering writes a life-affirming exploration of wild landscapes, what it means to be different and, above all, how we can all learn to make peace with our own unquiet minds . . . In anticipation of her 38th birthday, Katherine May set out to walk the 630-mil... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
The Electricity of Every Living Thing: A Woman's Walk in the Wild to Find Her Way Home
Last summer, Katherine May was approaching 40, feeling overwhelmed by motherhood and lacking connection with others, lost in a world of inundation and expectation. She had always felt different but this feeling was new. She wanted to get out, get free and find herself again - and so set about walkin... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
&“Every bit as beautiful and healing as the season itself. . . . This is truly a beautiful book.&” —Elizabeth GilbertAn intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down. Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings of awe and wonder available to us all Many of us feel trapped in a grind of constant change: rolling news cycles, the chatter of social media, our families split along partisan lines. We feel fearful an... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
Second Rising: A Novel
People cannot readily be categorized, nor some books. Second Rising is one of them. In her publishing debut, Canadian fiction writer Catherine Wiebe is as refreshing as she is startling with this fictional memoir of birthing and memory, a chronicle of food prepared, bread baked, and human skin bring... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Energy, Risk and Governance
This book is about how energy, risk and governance are intertwined in the development of the nuclear industry in India and its relationship with the Indian public. It provides a rare insider-view of how the nuclear establishment thinks about risk, contrasted with public understandings of nuclear ri... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Anatomy of a Food Addiction
If you have struggled with compulsive eating, dieting, and the guilt and conflict they bring, your life will be changed by this important, life-affirming, and astonishingly wise book. Anne Katherine, a Certified Eating Disorders Therapist and former compulsive eater, explains the chemical reactions... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1991 -
Biography in Early Modern France, 1540-1630: Forms and Functions
"When the famous Royal Professor of Philosophy and Eloquence Petrus Ramus (1515-1572) gave a lecture, one of his most promising pupils stood by, ready to tug on his coat if he made a mistake. That pupil was Ramus's future biographer, the much less famous Nicolas de Nancel (1539-1610), who recounted ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
The Diploids
Through Katherine MacLean's artistry and imagination you'll soar through space, you'll touch the stars, you'll bask in the glow of other suns...and you will be one with- The long-legged lawyer who suspected that he was a Martian- The boy who became all he characters in his make-believe games- The se... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1962 -
The Trouble With You Earth People
Contents:The Trouble with You Earth People (1968)Unhuman Sacrifice (1958)The Gambling Hell and the Sinful Girl (1975)Syndrome Johnny (1951)Trouble with Treaties (1959) with Tom ConditThe Origin of the Species (1953)Collision Orbit (1954)The Fittest (1951)These Truths (1958)Contagion (1950)Brain Wipe... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1980 -
Missing Man (Gateway Essentials #504)
George Sanford has a gift for guessing right the first time and very little else going for him. When Ahmed and his other friends graduate school and got jobs in The City, George finds himself left behind. He never wanted to sign his name, let alone fill out applications and reports.Then George bumps... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1975 -
The Trouble With You Earth People
Contents:The Trouble with You Earth People (1968)Unhuman Sacrifice (1958)The Gambling Hell and the Sinful Girl (1975)Syndrome Johnny (1951)Trouble with Treaties (1959) with Tom ConditThe Origin of the Species (1953)Collision Orbit (1954)The Fittest (1951)These Truths (1958)Contagion (1950)Brain Wipe... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1980 -
Discourse, Identity and the Question of Turkish Accession to the EU: Through the Looking Glass
Discourse, Identity and the Question of Turkish Accession to the EU: Through the Looking Glass provides an invaluable analysis of the issues of Turkish accession to the EU. The focus on elite discourse provides a new and engaging approach to this contentious topic and offers a unique understanding ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
The Power of Ruby's Words
Ruby is a Shrew and Muriel is a Marsupial Mouse and they are very good friends. They caught the bus to the beach and Muriel brought her happiness. Ruby did not! Muriel knows the secret. Can Ruby find the secret too?... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
The Marketing Edge for Filmmakers: Developing A Marketing Mindset From Concept To Release (American Film Market Presents)
Written for working and aspiring filmmakers, directors, producers and screenwriters, The Marketing Edge for Filmmakers walks through every stage of the marketing process - from concept to post-production - and illustrates how creative decisions at each stage will impact the marketability of a film. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Singlewide: Chasing the American Dream in a Rural Trailer Park
In Singlewide, Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish explore the role of the trailer park as a source of affordable housing. America’s trailer parks, most in rural places, shelter an estimated 12 million people, and the authors show how these parks serve as a private solution to a pressing public ne... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Mary Slessor: Servant To The Slave (Trail Blazers)
Well known manual of doctrine for all those requiring an introduction to the Christian faith.This edition contains the addition of scripture proofs in full notes by Roderick Lawson. The Westminster Shorter Catechism has been an effective tool for teaching the Christian faith to young and old for ove... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Law, Tropical Forests and Carbon
by Rosemary Lyster Catherine MacKenzie • Constance Mcdermott • Rosemary Lyster • Catherine MackenzieEmerging from the scientific parameters underpinning REDD+ (including the measurement of carbon stocks, reporting and verification), Law, Tropical Forests and Carbon considers the crucial challenges for global and national governance and the legal rights and interests of indigenous people and local ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Aging with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa: Health and Psychosocial Perspectives
With the development of effective antiretroviral therapies (ART) in the mid-1990s, HIV became a treatable although serious condition, and people who are adherent to HIV medications can attain normal or near-normal life expectancies. Because of the success of ART, people 50 and older now make up a m... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022