This comprehensive guide provides an overview of excellently written, interest-holding books on as wide a range of topics as possible--books that embody the ideals of traditional values and a Christian world view. "Books Children Love" is intended to bring children and fine books together.
Paediatric nursing's foremost text, Whaley & Wong's "Nursing Care of Infants And Children", retains in its sixth edition the qualities that have contributed to its great success. As always, readers can count on "Nursing Care of Infants And Children" to be highly accurate, thoroughly updated, comprehensive, and remarkably readable. The current ...
The story of an unexpected friendship between two remarkable women- New Yorker editor Katharine White and southern garden writer Elizabeth Lawrence. On March 1, 1958, Katharine White published her first garden column in The New Yorker under the title "Onward and Upward in the Garden." Soon after, a reader from Charlotte, North Carolina, Elizabeth ...
Essential reading for women of all ages, this compassionate and impassioned book looks at the astonishing phenomenon wherein young girls, initially so much more individual and self-assured than their male peers, find themselves subtly silenced--boxed in by the social standard of "good girl" behavior.
An excellent educational approach which naturally integrates a Christian world view and scriptural principles, "Teaching Children" draws on noted English educator Charlotte Mason and the Child-Light approach to learning. Child-Light puts children in touch with fine literature and teaches them through the use of "living books". Introduction by ...
When renowned cellist Mstislav Rostropovich died less than a year ago at the age of eighty, the world lost not only an extraordinary musician but an accomplished conductor, an outsize personality, and a courageous human being. It is not an exaggeration to say that the history of the cello in the twentieth century would be unthinkable without the ...
Authored by the same team that created "Cranial Nerves", this book provides an easy-to-follow overview of autonomic nerves. The first part describes their structure and function. The second part addresses autonomic control of individual organ systems in a problem-based learning format. Throughout, "Autonomic Nerves" describes afferent pathways, ...
This second edition presents a thorough revision of cranial nerves. The format reflects the shift in teaching methods from didactic lectures to problem-based learning. It maintains the first edition's approach of blending the neuro and gross anatomy of the cranial nerves as seen through color-coded functional drawings of the pathways from the ...
For generations, women have unwittingly betrayed their daughters as they handed down self-negating skills to get along in patriarchal society. Connecting personal with political change, this book provides strategies to resist betrayal and empower our daughters, ourselves, and all women.
This album contains 150 images from some of the finest mountain photographers in the world. The photos are of the highest quality, but in the end it is the sublime beauty of the mountains themselves that makes them unforgettable. They are the reason over six million people visit the Canadian Rockies each year.
This study use fiction, essays, film and art, as well as history and sociology, to look at some of the world's greatest cities - London, Paris, Moscow, New York, Chicago, Lusaka and Sao Paulo - and presents a critique of utopian planning, anti-urbanism, postmodernism and traditional architecture. For women, the city offers freedom, including ...
London, 1947: it's freezing winter in the shabby, bomb-damaged city. Young socialite Dinah Wentworth, a bright, innocent newcomer to the Fitzrovia scene, becomes embroiled in a dark scandal when she discovers the corpse of surrealist artist Titus Mavor. Not wanting to explain her reasons for being at Mavor's flat that evening, she decides against ...
London in the aftermath of WW2 is a beaten down, hungry place, so it's no wonder that Regine Milner's Sunday house parties in her Hampstead home are so popular. Everyone comes to Reggie's on a Sunday: ballet dancers and cabinet ministers, left-over Mosleyites alongside flamboyant homosexuals like Freddie Buckingham. And when Freddie turns up dead ...
Extracts from the secret newspaper published by the children of Terezin between 1942-1944. It contains essays, interviews, poems and artwork written behind the blackout shades of their cellblock.
Draws together recent feminist and deconstructive theories, early Freudian neurology and contemporary connectionist theories of cognition. Elizabeth A. Wilson explores the convergence between Derrida, Freud and recent cognitive theory to pursue two important issues: the nature of cognition and neurology, and the politics of feminist and critical ...
"Shostakovich: A Life Remembered" is a unique study of the great composer Dmitri Shostakovich, based on reminiscences from his contemporaries. Elizabeth Wilson covers the composer's life from his early successes to his struggles under the Stalinist regime, and his international recognition as one of the leading composers of the twentieth century. ...
When Adorned in Dreams was first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as "the best I have read on the subject, bar none." From haute couture to haberdashery, "deviant" dress to Dior, Elizabeth Wilson traces the social and cultural history of fashion and its complex relationship to modernity. She also discusses fashion's vociferous ...
Bowen's stories are celebrated for their economical characterizations, their bold exploration of emotional states, and their analytical but deeply sympathetic treatment of alienated human beings in a world they struggle desperately to understand. This volume collects all 79 of her short works.
Since the early 19th century, the bohemian has been the protagonist of the story the West has wanted to hear about its artists - a story of genius, glamour, and doom. This book analyzes the many shifting meanings that constitute bohemia and the bohemian. With a huge cast of real-life characters, from Chatterton to Jackson Pollock to Augustus John, ...
This collection of essays goes beyond the history of fashion to reveal the underlying financial and political forces that shape it, showing how fashion relates to the economic realities and motivations of those who create what we buy and wear. The contributors address key issues in fashion theory and practice, including fashion photography and the ...
Bowen's stories are celebrated for their economical characterizations, their bold exploration of emotional states, and their analytical but deeply sympathetic treatment of alienated human beings in a world they struggle desperately to understand. This volume collects all 79 of her short works.
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