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The Age of Single is about the metamorphic journey intimate relationships have undergone. Much of the social revolutions of the sixties have evolved into the so-called new gender politics. A march that accelerated in the sixties became academic by the...

Y. Vonne Beck survives the abduction of her beloved child Jonathan by his long-lost father, and mother and son are reunited. But she now faces an excruciating breakup with the man she finally found love with, Asher Zilbeh. Vonne sets out to change her...

Times have changed since 1961 when Steffie Steinke, along with her husband and little daughter immigrated to Canada, and now she questions the changes Canada has made to its immigration laws to favor immigrants to the point where she is afraid it has...

This is the life account of my happy but interrupted childhood in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (feudal system, fascism, post-war struggles with Tito's Yugoslavian Communism), my journey from my homeland to Germany and, finally, my immigration to Canada...

Scientists, poets, writers, painters; take the common and let you see it in a different way. This is a dance. Dancing is organic or inorganic just conceptual prejudice. The floor, the movement (together), the human interaction, the tactile, the music,...

Come ride the wave with Ashley on a soap boat as she draws on her imagination to make bathtime more fun for herself in this humorous sing along adventure. Once Ashley steps inside the tub, her imagination starts to take over and she begins to enjoy one...

A selection of stories based on a variety of conversations and discussions set in various Montreal area Cafés. The wide-ranging conversations and discussions include tourists from Vermont inquiring about Montreal 'steamie' hot dogs, a...

Come join Ashley as she discovers a fun way to learn her colours through rhyming and playing with her Mama's lipsticks. Through her colourful adventures, Ashley imagines herself as a movie star, a model on the cover of a magazine and even a heroine...

What was your BEST CHRISTMAS EVER?For young Nathan, it was the year he followed his shelf elf, Zippy, back to the North Pole to surprise Santa.Together they had quite the adventure as they traveled to the South Pole to find Santa's Brother Nick.Part...

This is a beautifully illustrated book written by a massage therapist that incorporates the science of healthy touch into a magical bedtime story for tiny humans to enjoy. Jennifer Tansley is an artist, author and Registered Massage Therapist that...

YOU are the most important person in this amazing world. You deserve the best. If you were not here, nothing would be the same! Just think about that for a minute.You make the world what it is today.You already make such a huge difference just as you...

Have you ever looked at those beautiful Torten, cream and mousse cakes in the bakery and wished that you could make one yourself? Have you ever bought one, tasted it and realized that it didn't taste half as good as it looked? This is what this book...

Are you perhaps just a bit scared of snakes?Not a big fan of math? Hate screeching car brakes?One look at this book is all it will takeTo show you that maybe some snakes are okay.Maybe it won't, you won't know till you try!And I promise there...

An unruly Valkyrie on a flying tiger, a stern angel in love with the rules, and evil pounding at the gate... What could go wrong?Riddled with survivor's guilt after Ragnarök, Valka wanders the universe as a bounty hunter. But when hired by angels to...

Young archeology dig site supervisor Linda Tassel and assistant Tad Gist explore the artifacts of ancient people of Linda's Eastern Cherokee homeland. But soon the body of a team member is found, ritually murdered. A dam building mogul, Cherokee...

Born deep in the forest, far from the herd, Damien is kept a dark secret by his parents until his father, Samuel, decides the colt must join the other foals to be initiated. But the unicorns are horrified by Damien's birth defect. They see him as a freak...

Are you allergic to any of the Top 10 Priority Food Allergens? If yes, then this is the book for you.Every single recipe inside is free from all Top 10 Priority Food Allergens: wheat, dairy, egg, soy, tree nuts, peanuts, sesame, fish, shellfish and...

A core interest of social science is the study of stratification--inequalities in income, power, and prestige. Few persons would care about such inequalities if the poor, powerless, and despised were as happy and fulfilled as the wealthy, powerful, and...

While crime, law, and punishment are subjects that have everyday meanings not very far from their academic representations, "social control" is one of those terms that appear in the sociological discourse without any corresponding everyday usage. This...

The study of human reproductive ecology represents an important new development in human evolutionary biology. Its focus is on the physiology of human reproduction and evidence of adaptation, and hence the action of natural selection, in that domain. But...

Political corruption has traditionally been presented as a phenomenon characteristic of developing countries, authoritarian regimes, or societies in which the value system favored tacit patrimony and clientelism. Recently, however, the thesis of an...

Winner of the Cantemir Prize of the Berendel FoundationEugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon. Eugenics informed social and scientific policy across the...

Ninety-five percent of American kids have Internet access by age 11; the average number of texts a teenager sends each month is well over 3,000. More families report that technology makes life with children more challenging, not less, as parents today...

There have been five central crises in America's post World War II encounter with the Middle East, and the Obama administration now faces a sixth. Iran's progress toward a nuclear weapons capability, and the prospect of Israel launching air...

Sexual abuse scandals, declining attendance, a meltdown in the number of priests and nuns, the closing of many parishes and parochial schools--all have shaken American Catholicism. Yet conservatives have increasingly dominated the church hierarchy. In...

The story of how psychoanalysis was used in the war against Nazi Germany - in the crucial quest to understand the Nazi mind.Daniel Pick brings both the skills of the historian and the trained psychoanalyst to weave together the story of clinical...

This book presents a comprehensive, data-rich, theory-neutral description of English word formation, including inflection and derivation, compounding, conversion, and such minor processes as subtractive morphology. It also offers analyses of the...

Georg Luk�cs wrote that "there is autonomy and 'autonomy.' The one is a moment of life itself, the elevation of its richness and contradictory unity; the other is a rigidification, a barren self-seclusion, a self-imposed banishment from the...

According to the Oral History Association, the term oral history refers to "a method of recording and preserving oral testimony" which results in a verbal document that is "made available in different forms to other users, researchers, and the public."...

The study of strategic surprise has long concentrated on important failures that resulted in catastrophes such as Pearl Harbor and the September 11th attacks, and the majority of previously published research in the field determines that such large-scale...

This book provides the first comprehensive history of Afro-Eurasia during the first millennium BCE and the beginning of the first millennium CE. The history of these 1300 plus years can be summed up in one word: connectivity. The growth in connectivity...

Oral history gives history back to the people in their own words. And in giving a past, it also helps them towards a future of their own making. Oral history and life stories help to create a truer picture of the past and the changing present,...

Compositionality is a key concept in linguistics, the philosophy of mind and language, and throughout the cognitive sciences. Understanding how it works is a central element of syntactic and semantic analysis and a challenge for models of cognition. In...

These new essays on J. L. Austin's philosophy constitute the first major study of his thought in decades. Eight leading philosophers join together to present a fresh evaluation of his distinctive work, showing how it can be brought to bear on issues...

The formation of coalitions to achieve both collaborative and competitive goals is a phenomenon we see all around us. The list is long and varied: production cartels, political lobbies, customs unions, environmental coalitions, and ethnic alliances are...

This volume provides a comprehensive reference grammar of Gothic, the earliest attested language of the Germanic family (apart from runic inscriptions), dating to the fourth century. The bulk of the extant Gothic corpus is a translation of the Bible, of...