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Ann Powers
Celebrated music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of the legendary Joni Mitchell
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Inc National Public Radio, Alison Fensterstock
Drawn from NPR Music's acclaimed, groundbreaking series Turning the Tables, the definitive book on the vital role of Women in Music-from Beyonce to Odetta, Taylor Swift to Joan Baez, Joan…
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Anne Power
Social housing continues to decline as existing tenanted homes are sold to their occupiers and run-down council estates are demolished. Demonstrating the value of the 'Housing Plus' approach investment beyond…
An Independent Best Non-Fiction Book 2024
A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Best Book 2024 "A vibrant, multifaceted portrait of a music enigma" Guardian
"A powerful portrait" Irish Independent
"Displays a…
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An Observer Best New Biographies of 2024
Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as…
Ann Muno
An invaluable guide to cultivating powerful, compassionate young women by nurturing confidence, identity, and a passion for justice.
Girls and young women today need strong role models, mentors, and care…
Carol Anne Hilton
The Indigenous economy is surging, but full Indigenous economic participation is still lacking, thwarted by the colonial and racist policies of Canada's Indian Act. The Rise of Indigenous Economic Power…
Teresa Anne Power
A great mouse shows his greatness by the way he treats others
Meet Little Mouse, a yoga-loving city mouse who moves to the country with his family. Though he is…
Ann M Garrido
Catholic theologian Ann M. Garrido--author of the bestselling and award-winning book Redeeming Administration--continues her work on Christian leadership by examining power not as a manipulative force in short supply but…
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Anne Jirsch, Monica Cafferky
A much-needed guide to creating the life you deserve with the power of manifesting
Ned Mamula, Ann Bridges
America has stumbled in maintaining its global leadership position.
This book exposes the core reason: staggering over-reliance on other countries to provide the foundational mineral resources which underpin modern energy…
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Professor Anne O'Donnell
A history that reframes the Bolsheviks' unprecedented attempts to abolish private property after the revolutions of 1917
The revolutions of 1917 swept away not only Russia's governing authority but also…
Sandra Anne Taylor
A New York Times-bestselling author takes us on a riveting journey through karmic energy, reincarnation, and consciousness. Learn how your past lives affect you now and gain the tools to…
A New York Times-bestselling author takes us on a riveting journey through karmic energy, reincarnation, and consciousness.
Learn how your past lives affect you now and gain the tools to…
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Anne de Graaf, Klaas Kunst
Largely inspired by the work of the American social psychologist Dr. Claude Steiner and the theory of transactional analysis, this book explores alternatives to power, and how we can use…
Why do states compete for an elected term in the UN Security Council? This book provides novel knowledge about state candidatures for access to world politics at the highest level…
The breadth and depth of the scholarship of Marise Cremona is honoured in this collection of essays written by her colleagues and friends.
Taking Cremona's field-defining research as a point…
This takes the historical, political and social changes relating to housing in five European countries, and considers the housing history and traditions which have lead to growing tensions within their…
With today’s busy lifestyles, we all find it difficult to put together meals that are both nutritious and tasty. Who wouldn’t want to literally add some spice to everyday meals…
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Anne Powers
It’s the 1950s. Picture Blackshale, Tennessee, with its home fires, small town ways, and postwar innocence - the perfect place for a girl to grow up. From her earliest days…
Coaching is the hottest trend in leadership today, a billion-dollar industry worldwide, and there are hundreds of coaching books on the market to prove it. But Internal Coaching: Stories of…
Originally published in 1987 this book examines attempts by successive individuals and governments to overcome slum conditions and homelessness, to reform landlord-tenant relations and to provide sound modern dwellings with…
Originally published in 1993, this book traces how governments in France, Germany, Britain, Denmark and Ireland became involved in replacing industrial revolution urban slums with mass high-rise, high-density concrete estates.
Outsold only by the Bible and the works of Shakespeare, the works of Agatha Christie stand as some of the most celebrated crime fiction of our era. This book takes…
Ann Power
This account of the Brigidines, formally known as the Sisters of St Brigid, expands the current knowledge of the congregation and its mission to the rural communities of Ireland, America…
In this … history of popular music in the United States, NPR’s … music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult…
What is the secret of a long and contented marriage? Anne Power sits down with eighteen contented couples to discuss how they found each other and what made it work…
Through varied case studies this original book compares changes between Northern and Southern European countries, bigger and smaller cities over 10 years, to present a compelling framework showing how Europe’s…
Medieval Work, Worship, and Power: Persuasive and Silenced Voices celebrates Sharon Farmer's significant contributions to the fields of medieval European social, religious, gender, environmental, labor, and interfaith history.
Anne Chow
Drawing from over three decades of corporate experience, leadership mogul Anne Chow presents a step-by-step guide on how to embrace the idea of leading bigger by creating a culture of…
Anne Corlett
For fans of The Miniaturist and The Doll Factory, The Theatre of Glass and Shadows is a place where nothing is all it seems . . .
Marva Ann Jones
This book speaks to the changing family dynamic, the staggering divorce rate in our nation, the number of children born into single parent households or because of a divorce end…
Ann Lamb (formerly Hobbs)
When we are older we begin to see how we have lived our lives by what we 'should' be doing but now in this new chapter of your life you…
Bethel Ann Powers
Providing an examination of the ethical issues that arise in long-term care, this book explores the pre-nursing home experiences of families living with dementia and how family members experience life…
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Yoga is a non-competitive form of exercise, suitable for children (and adults) of all ages and athletic abilities. This title uses the alphabet, rhyming vignettes, and colourful illustrations to introduce…
The ABCs of Law School is an essential read for any person thinking about going to law school – Barry P. McDonald, Professor of Law, Pepperdine University School of Law…
Jo-Ann Power
For Gwen Spencer, fighting battles is nothing new. An orphan sent to live with a vengeful aunt, Gwen picked coal and scrubbed floors to earn her keep. But when she…
Jo-ann Power
The Dragon is coming for Clare, countess of Trent. For years Clare– secretly The Nightingale, writer of heroic adventures–has fought being wed to The Dragon’s nephew. But in one glorious…
News of her sister’s accidental death draws Cerise Lindsay from her promising career as a sculptress in Italy to England, where she discovers that the death was anything but an…
When Jessica Leighton-Curtis, the headmistress at the Farrell School for Young Ladies, asks Randall Templeton, marquess of Ashford, to help a despondent student, it is Jessica who becomes nearer and…
When his ex-wife, Colleen, abducts his only child and much-loved heir, three-year-old Ford, Bryce Falconer, the twelfth earl of Aldersworth, recruits Colleen’s sister Augusta to aid in his search–a search…
Three years after Spencer Lyonns left her at the altar, Catherine is ready to reenter society–although she is being blackmailed for a treasure that her deceased father may have stolen…
