Alix And Valerie
Download Alix And Valerie full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Alix And Valerie ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
| Author | : Owen K. Mason |
| Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2018-03-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0932839568 |
The Arctic rim of North America presents one of the most daunting environments for humans. Cold and austere, it is lacking in plants but rich in marine mammals-primarily the ringed seal, walrus, and bowhead whale. In this book in the SAA Press Current Perspectives Series, the authors track the history of cultural innovations in the Arctic and Subarctic for the past 12,000 years, including the development of sophisticated architecture, watercraft, fur clothing, hunting technology, and worldviews. Climate change is linked to many of the successes and failures of its inhabitants; warming or cooling periods led to periods of resource abundance or collapse, and in several instances to long-distance migrations. At its western and eastern margins, the Arctic also experienced the impact of Asian and European world systems, from that of the Norse in the East to the Russians in the Bering Strait.
| Author | : Christian Reid |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 1891 |
| Genre | : Amedrican fiction |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Kara Thomas |
| Publisher | : Pan Macmillan UK |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2024-10-08 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1761566369 |
It was the deaths of five cheerleaders that made the town of Sunnybrook High infamous. Eleven years later, Hadley moves to Sunnybrook, though, the locals are more interested in the Tigers, the high school's championship-winning football team. The Tigers are Sunnybrook's homegrown heroes--something positive in a town with so much darkness in its past. Hadley could care less about football, but shortly after she gets assigned to cover the team's latest championship bid for the school newspaper, one of the Tigers is poisoned at a party, and almost immediately after, Hadley starts getting strange emails warning her to stay far away from the football team. It's becoming clear Sunnybrook's golden boys have secrets, and after a second player is mysteriously killed, Hadley's beginning to suspect that someone wants the team to pay for their sins. Or does this new target on the football team have something to do with what happened to the cheerleaders all those years ago? As an outsider in Sunnybrook, Hadley feels like she's the only one who can see the present clearly, but it looks like she's going to have to dig up the darkness of the past to get to the bottom of what's happening now. Luckily, there are still some Sunnybrook High grads who never left--people who were around eleven years ago-and if she can just convince them to talk, she might be able stop a killer before another Tiger dies.
| Author | : Michael De-la-Noy |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 358 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
De-la-Noy's biography throws compelling light on the turbulent life of this highly creative man. As well as being heir to Knole and a peerage, Eddy was a novelist, New Statesman music critic and patron of the arts, on intimate terms with Virginia Woolf, Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh and Benjamin Britten.
| Author | : Libby Fischer Hellmann |
| Publisher | : The Red Herrings Press |
| Total Pages | : 430 |
| Release | : 2009-12-31 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1736452819 |
A woman discovers her parents were not the people she thought they were. Why is someone trying to kill her? FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME! Lila Hilliard returns home to Chicago for the holidays only to find someone is stalking her. Her father and brother are trapped in a fire, and she senses someone is following her. As she desperately tries to figure out who is after her and why, she uncovers information about her father’s past that ties him to the volatile movement of young activists during the late Sixties. Which means her parents were not the people she was told they were. "A tremendous book—sweeping but intimate, elegiac but urgent, subtle but intense. This story really does set the night on fire..." Lee Child Who were Lila's parents? And why was the secret kept from her? As Lila looks for answers, a man on a motorcycle slows, pulls out a a semi-automatic, and aims it at her. Suddenly a stranger darts out, pulls her to safety, then disappears. Who is this stranger? Is he Lila's stalker? The story then takes us back to the late Sixties in Chicago where 6 young people gathered during the Democratic Convention. Through their stories, the truth about Lila's family is gradually revealed, and the threat to Lila in the present becomes clear. A top-rate thriller that taps into the antiwar protests of the 1960s… A jazzy fusion of past and present, Hellman’s insightful, politically charged whodunit explores a fascinating period in American history. Publishers Weekly Part thriller, part historical novel, part love story, Set The Night on Fire reveals the resolution to Lila's family secrets. It also tells an extraordinary tale about the stormy Chicago 1968 Democratic convention, SDS, the Black Panthers, women's issues, and a group of idealists who were sure they would change the world. If you like the historical novels of Ken Follett, Kristin Hannah, and Kat Quinn, you'll love the Compulsively Readable Thrillers by Libby Hellmann.
| Author | : Sally Wentworth |
| Publisher | : Harlequin |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 2011-07-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1459276027 |
Wedlocked! A runaway wife Alix North had fallen in love with Rhys Stirling the first time she had met him. Now Alix's dream was about to come true—Rhys had asked her to marry him. Rhys Stirling was an ambitious man, and the only thing that stood between him and a directorship was his single status. Of course, that was easily remedied. He'd known Alix all his life—she was the perfect choice. Alix isn't going to accept anything less than his love. It's only after Alix leaves him that Rhys finds that he's fallen in love—with his own wife! "Ms. Wentworth's talented writing comes through…"—Romantic Times
| Author | : T. Max Friesen |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1001 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199766959 |
Despite its extreme climate, the North American Arctic holds a complex archaeological record of global significance. In this volume, leading researchers provide comprehensive coverage of the region's cultural history, addressing issues as diverse as climate change impacts on human societies, European colonial expansion, and hunter-gatherer adaptations and social organization.
| Author | : Valerie Steele |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 800 |
| Release | : 2015-08-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1474264700 |
- An essential reference for students, curators and scholars of fashion, cultural studies, and the expanding range of disciplines that see fashion as imbued with meaning far beyond the material. - Over 300 in-depth entries covering designers, articles of clothing, key concepts and styles. - Edited and introduced by Valerie Steele, a scholar who has revolutionized the study of fashion, and who has been described by The Washington Post as one of "fashion's brainiest women." Derided by some as frivolous, even dangerous, and celebrated by others as art, fashion is anything but a neutral topic. Behind the hype and the glamour is an industry that affects all cultures of the world. A potent force in the global economy, fashion is also highly influential in everyday lives, even amongst those who may feel impervious. This handy volume is a one-stop reference for anyone interested in fashion - its meaning, history and theory. From Avedon to Codpiece, Dandyism to the G-String, Japanese Fashion to Subcultures, Trickle down to Zoot Suit, The Berg Companion to Fashion provides a comprehensive overview of this most fascinating of topics and will serve as the benchmark guide to the subject for many years to come.
| Author | : Nino Strachey |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2022-12-06 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1982164786 |
An “illuminating” (Daily Mail, London) exploration of the second generation of the iconic Bloomsbury Group who inspired their elders to new heights of creativity and passion while also pushing the boundaries of sexual freedom and gender norms in 1920s England. In the years before the First World War, a collection of writers and artists—Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, and Lytton Strachey among them—began to make a name for themselves in England and America for their irreverent spirit and provocative works of literature, art, and criticism. They called themselves the Bloomsbury Group and by the 1920s, they were at the height of their influence. Then a new generation stepped forward—creative young people who tantalized their elders with their captivating looks, bold ideas, and subversive energy. Young Bloomsbury introduces us to this colorful cast of characters, including novelist Eddy Sackville-West, who wore elaborate make-up and dressed in satin and black velvet; artist Stephen Tomlin, who sculpted the heads of his male and female lovers; and author Julia Strachey, who wrote a searing tale of blighted love. Talented and productive, these larger-than-life figures had high-achieving professional lives and extremely complicated emotional lives. The group had always celebrated sexual equality and freedom in private, feeling that every person had the right to live and love in the way they chose. But as transgressive self-expression became more public, this younger generation gave Old Bloomsbury a new voice. Revealing an aspect of history not yet explored and with “effervescent detail” (Juliet Nicolson, author of Frostquake), Young Bloomsbury celebrates an open way of living and loving that would not be embraced for another hundred years.
| Author | : Helga Druxes |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9780814325346 |
Helga Druxes' study of the female protagonists in novels by German writer Monika Maron, British writers Margaret Drabble and Jean Rhys, and French writer Marguerite Duras brings together the work of four prominent contemporary women authors. In discussing the position of women in urban spaces from the point of view of feminist and cultural theory, Druxes combines anthropology and recent literary theory within the framework of cultural studies. She addresses such concerns as the objectification/commodification of women in late capitalist society, the possibilities for resistant or subversive female agency under these conditions, and the role of specifically urban arrangements of space in both effecting this objectification and creating the sites where it might be resisted or disrupted by women. Resisting Bodies is an important contribution to literary criticism and feminist theory.
