Alice Miller
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Originally published in 1984, Miller's book explodes Freud's notions of "infantile sexuality" and helps to bring to the world's attention the brutal reality of child abuse, changing forever our thoughts of "traditional" methods of child-rearing.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
Description
For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere, is one of the central works by Alice Miller, the celebrated Swiss psychoanalyst. With her typically lucid, strong, and poetic language, Miller investigates the personal stories and case histories of various self-destructive and/or violent individuals to expand on her theories about the long-term...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the eve of World War I, Georgie Hyde-Lees-on her own for the first time-is introduced to the acclaimed poet W. B. Yeats at a soirée in London. Although Yeats is famously eccentric and many years her senior, Georgie is drawn to him, and when he extends a cryptic invitation to a secret society, her life is forever changed. A shadow falls over London as zeppelins stalk overhead and bombs bloom against the skyline. Amidst the chaos, Georgie finds...
Author
Series
China strategic perspectives volume no. 6
Publisher
National Defense University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A football player inherits his aunt's fashion store in Paris ; a Navy sailor attempts to rekindle a romance while on liberty in San Francisco ; a bandleader falls in love with his friend's fiance ; true life story of a husband and wife dance team who rocketed to international fame before World War I.
16) Roberta
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Fun's in fashion when Fred and Ginger enter the world of Paris fashions. Marvelous Jerome Kern music graces standards like "Smoke gets in your eyes" and "I won't dance."
Author
Publisher
Pandora's Box
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens,...