Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this charming edition of Daddy Long-Legs.A trustee of the John Grier orphanage has offered to send Judy Abbott to college. The only...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781394352425)
An insiders view exposing the most urgent issue in US philanthropy—and how to address it In Control: Why Big Giving Falls Short, social impact expert, nonprofit leader, and sitting Stupski Foundation CEO Glen Galaich delivers his...Loe edasi...
First published in 1968, the original blurb reads: Sir Halley Stewart’s last ambition was to reach his hundredth birthday, as the final distinction of a life full of achievement, starting from boyhood as one of the fourteen children of a poor Dis...Loe edasi...
Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this charming edition of Daddy Long-Legs.A trustee of the John Grier orphanage has offered to send Judy Abbott to college. The only...Loe edasi...
First published in 1968, the original blurb reads: Sir Halley Stewart’s last ambition was to reach his hundredth birthday, as the final distinction of a life full of achievement, starting from boyhood as one of the fourteen children of a poor Dis...Loe edasi...
Carnegie Medal-winning author Tanya Landman returns with a brilliantly realised and truly accessible retelling of the book described as Dickens’ “ most perfect” novel.My story is a long one with many strange even...Loe edasi...
After losing their child, a husband and wife construct a separate society, where everyone can feel loved and wanted, but when others hear about the place and want in, it doesn’t take long for problems to develop, for conflicts to surface, and for the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Nov-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691244266)
A new study of the early Renaissance portraitIn fourteenth-century Italy, ever more women and men—not only clergy but also laity—introduced their own portraits into sacred paintings. Images of modern supplicants, submissive and pray...Loe edasi...
Argues that donor portraits in Byzantine art should instead be considered as contact portraits. Contends that the most important feature of the scenes of supplication between mortals and holy, supernatural interlocutors consists in the active role th...Loe edasi...
Historians generally study elite public gift-giving in ancient Greek cities as a phenomenon that gained prominence only in the Hellenistic and Roman imperial periods. The contributors to this volume challenge this perspective by offering analyses of...Loe edasi...
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beastly, Alex Flinn, comes a new contemporary novel about one girl&;s journey to find her voice and let love in. &;A de...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Feb-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108842051)
Historians generally study elite public gift-giving in ancient Greek cities as a phenomenon that gained prominence only in the Hellenistic and Roman imperial periods. The contributors to this volume challenge this perspective by offering analyses of...Loe edasi...
In the first two centuries AD, the eastern Roman provinces experienced a proliferation of elite public generosity (gifts of buildings, festivals, distributions in exchange for public honours) unmatched in their previous or later history. This is a st...Loe edasi...
This is the first analysis of the origins of one of the most distinctive features of the ancient Greek city-state: the exchange of gifts and honours between benefactors and the community of citizens. It will be important not only for specialists in a...Loe edasi...
When a video of her singing goes viral, a foster teen is plucked out of obscurity and given a life of privilege at a private performing arts school, where she hides the truth about her mother’s imprisonment and struggles to identify her anonymous ben...Loe edasi...
In the first full-length study of Judith of Flanders (c. 1032-1094), Mary Dockray-Miller provides a narrative of Judith’s life through analysis of the books and art objects she commissioned and collected. Organizing her book chronologically by Judith...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Flame Tree Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781787557048)
The Flame Tree Collectable Classics are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossa...Loe edasi...
The Air and Space Museum is adding a new exhibit, and Amal Farah and her friends get to attend the grand opening! But before the new exhibit goes live, some of the items go missing. This wont be good-the exhibit is funded by a rich local businessman...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Nov-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108418591)
This book explores the range of images in Byzantine art known as donor portraits. It concentrates on the distinctive, supplicatory contact shown between ordinary, mortal figures and their holy, supernatural interlocutors. The topic is approached from...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jul-2016, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521515351)
This is a historical study that adopts the standpoint of historical anthropology. I do not mean by this that the book is partially based on the work of social and cultural anthropologists dealing with gift-exchange. Instead, I refer to the approach...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2016, Hardback, Kirjastus: Camden House Inc, ISBN-13: 9781571139214)
Largely unnoticed among English-speaking scholars of German history, a major shift in interpretation of German history has been underway during the past three decades among German historians of Germany. While American and British historians continue...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781394352425)
An insiders view exposing the most urgent issue in US philanthropy—and how to address it In Control: Why Big Giving Falls Short, social impact expert, nonprofit leader, and sitting Stupski Foundation CEO Glen Galaich delivers his...Loe edasi...
First published in 1968, the original blurb reads: Sir Halley Stewart’s last ambition was to reach his hundredth birthday, as the final distinction of a life full of achievement, starting from boyhood as one of the fourteen children of a poor Dis...Loe edasi...
Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this charming edition of Daddy Long-Legs.A trustee of the John Grier orphanage has offered to send Judy Abbott to college. The only...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Feb-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9781621909255)
In Contentious Unions: Black Baptist Schools and White Baptist Money in the Jim Crow South, Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews interweaves the stories of the founding and development of Richmond Theological Seminary (Virginia), Central City College (Macon, G...Loe edasi...
First published in 1968, the original blurb reads: Sir Halley Stewart’s last ambition was to reach his hundredth birthday, as the final distinction of a life full of achievement, starting from boyhood as one of the fourteen children of a poor Dis...Loe edasi...
Written in the last decade of Charles Dickens’s life, Great Expectations was widely praised and universally admired. This handsome hardcover edition from the Dover Bookshelf traces the journey of a young orphan named Pip from a hardscrabble ru...Loe edasi...
Carnegie Medal-winning author Tanya Landman returns with a brilliantly realised and truly accessible retelling of the book described as Dickens’ “ most perfect” novel.My story is a long one with many strange even...Loe edasi...
After losing their child, a husband and wife construct a separate society, where everyone can feel loved and wanted, but when others hear about the place and want in, it doesn’t take long for problems to develop, for conflicts to surface, and for the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Nov-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691244266)
A new study of the early Renaissance portraitIn fourteenth-century Italy, ever more women and men—not only clergy but also laity—introduced their own portraits into sacred paintings. Images of modern supplicants, submissive and pray...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jun-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Union Square & Co., ISBN-13: 9781435172616)
Pip is a poor orphan, a boy with “no expectations” being raised by his unkind sister and her husband in a small home on the marshes of Kent. But when Pip meets the bizarre Miss Havisham and her beautiful ward, Estella, he starts to yearn for a li...Loe edasi...
Responsive Fundraising: The Donor-Centric Framework Helping Today’s Leading Nonprofits Grow Giving provides a three-step solution for nonprofit fundraisers looking to overcome the growing generosity crisis.Since the 1950s, nonp...Loe edasi...
Argues that donor portraits in Byzantine art should instead be considered as contact portraits. Contends that the most important feature of the scenes of supplication between mortals and holy, supernatural interlocutors consists in the active role th...Loe edasi...
Young Philip Pirrip, nicknamed Pip, is meant to become an apprentice for his brother-in-law, a poor blacksmith. But his destiny changes upon meeting three unusual people: an escaped convict, a tragic woman, and a captivating young girl. Pips life i...Loe edasi...
Bernard Daly escaped the Irish Famine and with his family emigrated to America, where he became the town doctor in Lakeview, Oregon, and then a state legislator, Oregon Agricultural College regent, county judge, rancher, and banker. When he died in...Loe edasi...
Historians generally study elite public gift-giving in ancient Greek cities as a phenomenon that gained prominence only in the Hellenistic and Roman imperial periods. The contributors to this volume challenge this perspective by offering analyses of...Loe edasi...
This book provides a review of comprehensive campaigns in higher education and their role in institutional strategy and growth-- This book provides a review of comprehensive campaigns in higher education and their role in instituti...Loe edasi...
WINNER, 2021 Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year in Traditional Nonfiction! Chicago’s quirky patron saint This thrilling story of a daughter of America’s foremost industrialist, John D. Rockefeller,...Loe edasi...
