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Lisa Downing
Lisa Downing’s comprehensive study of the films of Patrice Leconte traces lines of continuity and revision through a body of apparently disparate films whose messages often appear both contradictory and…
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The Soft Signature is a place where multiple meanings are generated and evoked through the disruption of simple linear narrative and lyric sensibility. For Lise Downe, language is not simply…
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Drawing on figures from French, US, and UK contexts, including Rachilde, Ayn Rand, Margaret Thatcher, and Lionel Shriver, and discourses from psychiatry, media, and feminism, this book revisits the words…
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The articles in this volume take as their object the concept of freedom broadly and of freedom of expression in particular and view them through the lens of insights from…
The subject of murder has always held a particular fascination for us. In this title, the author explores the ways in which the figure of the murderer has been made…
Rather than offering either an introduction to Michel Foucault’s work, or a series of interventions aimed specifically at experts, After Foucault clarifies Foucault’s key concepts, explores his critical afterlives, and…
Lisa Downing (University of Exeter)
French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault is essential reading for students in departments of literature, history, sociology and cultural studies. This introductory book, written for students, offers in-depth critical and…
Lisa J. Downs
Offers ½ - day; full-day, and 2-day workshops that focus on helping facilitators define the elements of effective listening - self awareness, attentiveness, paraphrasing, and empathizing. This title includes several…
The inability to differentiate robs us of precious time and well-being. Master trainer Lisa Downs has developed a collection of complete workshops and tools you’ll need to conduct effective two-day…
Prof. Lisa Downing
Downing reads against the grain of traditional Freudian theories of sexuality, and feminist critiques of the ‘masculine’ morbid aesthetic, in order to bring to light a model of desire whose…
Angee Barcus
The spirit of this book involves stretching, growing and learning about your child and yourself. It is a lighthearted journey of short stories for anyone who has a child in…
Lisa Ryan
Harness the Power of Gratitude One of the downsides of life is that we rarely have to deal with an overabundance of gratitude. Most of us tend to focus on…
Lisa Muir
In Taking Down the Moon, Lisa Muir has gathered an eccentric cast of characters - animals, beauty queens and community college teachers just to name a few - and placed…
Lisa Harris
Spiritual Contours is a book which details my walk with God. As a former Administrator to my Pastor, it includes first hand experiences and observations of leadership and the issues…
Lisa Suzanne
A grumpy/sunshine, single mom, single dad, second chance romance from Amazon Top Ten Bestselling author Lisa Suzanne.
I never planned to give Austin Graham, the tight end for the Vegas…
Lisa Doggett
A memoir of triumph in the face of a terrifying diagnosis, Up the Down Escalator recounts Dr. Lisa Doggett's startling shift from doctor to patient, as she learns to live…
Lisa Bullard
Features art and simple text that capture young readers’ interest and take them on an amazing autumn journey.
Loving and Learning: Life With Lisa And Down Syndrome recounts experiences about raising a child with Down syndrome and how to cope when there are stumbling blocks along the way…
In this newest book, Mountains To Climb: Lisa And Down Syndrome Challenges, Angee Barcus shares many detailed experiences about Lisa. With encouragement from others, Angee has fulfilled a personal goal…
Lisa Kaniut Cobb
Josh waits anxiously while the Netah council decides his fate. Will he be accepted as a member of their Netah elk community even though he is a halfling? His ties…
Lisa J. Rivers
Follow a year in the ‘life’ of Samantha, a down-trodden forty-something woman trapped in a love-less marriage, who feels that she has only one way out, in this black comedy.
Lisa Haneberg
Coaching, Lisa Haneberg says, is agile, service-oriented persistence with a tolerance for the unexplainable and a willingness to go down a path that is not yours, does not interest you…
Lisa Vlasak
WHEN THE LIGHTS GO DOWN - How To Find Inner Healing When The People You Love Abandon You describes one mother's journey to healing while helping others. You have the…
Lisa Tucker
After her tumultuous childhood and a destructive teenage romance, Patty Taylor is struggling to build a new life for herself and her two-year-old son, supporting herself as a singer with…
Robert Gillett
Queer in Europe takes stock of the intellectual and social status and treatment of queer in the New Europe of the twenty-first century, addressing the ways in which the Anglo-American…
Leah Downing
The deadly actions set in motion by Collin St. Germain during the Gulf War created a catastrophic chain of events, resulting in an IED triggered homeland terrorist attack over a…
Queer in Europe takes stock of the intellectual and social status and treatment of queer in the New Europe of the twenty-first century. This title explores aspects of queer in…
Explores a series of unsung - and sometimes counterintuitive - resonances between second-wave feminism and queer theory in both Anglophone and Francophone contexts.
Lisa Hilliard
Overcoming adversity and obstacles in your life and coming out a stronger person at the other end.
Lisa Soto
Un matin d'aout 2003, Lucie a quitte definitivement la Savoie pour Bordeaux. Pour avancer et commencer une nouvelle vie sans Matth, elle a mis un masque et reste cachee derriere…
Lisa Bonavita
Lisa Fithian
For decades, Fithian’s work as an advocate for civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action has put her on the frontlines of change. She offers strategies and actions to promote justice…
Lisa Regan
A journey for young readers into the depths of the ocean to find amazing organisms that use the power of light, featuring glow-in-the-dark illustrations and a lenticular cover.
Library hardback edition of the journey for young readers into the depths of the ocean to find amazing organisms that use the power of light, featuring glow-in-the-dark illustrations and a…
Lisa Herbst-Friedmanr
Tommy is a happy kid. Yes, he has Down’s syndrome, and that makes him extra special. He has within him that extra star that makes him a happy kid all…
Lisa Pennington
Women have a pattern: fail, try to recover, repeat. Tightropes and Teeter-Totters offers a simple way to change this pattern and find a balanced life of joy and peace.
This bi-partite collection offers a series of perspectives on perversion by a range of psychoanalytic practitioners and theorists (edited by Dany Nobus), and a selection of papers by scholars who…
Spotlights the visual arts, vision, and blindness during the Enlightenment in France, Britain, and Germany. This volume includes essays that range from exploring the musical and cultural impact of an…
