Author: Glenda Riley
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803289697
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
According to Glenda Riley, “the historical conflict between anti-divorce and pro-divorce factions has prevented the development of effective, beneficial divorce laws, procedures, and policies. Today we still lack processes that move spouses out of unworkable marriages in a constructive fashion and get them back into the mainstream of life in a stable, productive condition.” Her pioneering historical overview offers proposals for dealing with a subject that now pertains to nearly half of all marriages.
Divorce
Author: Glenda Riley
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803289697
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
According to Glenda Riley, “the historical conflict between anti-divorce and pro-divorce factions has prevented the development of effective, beneficial divorce laws, procedures, and policies. Today we still lack processes that move spouses out of unworkable marriages in a constructive fashion and get them back into the mainstream of life in a stable, productive condition.” Her pioneering historical overview offers proposals for dealing with a subject that now pertains to nearly half of all marriages.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803289697
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
According to Glenda Riley, “the historical conflict between anti-divorce and pro-divorce factions has prevented the development of effective, beneficial divorce laws, procedures, and policies. Today we still lack processes that move spouses out of unworkable marriages in a constructive fashion and get them back into the mainstream of life in a stable, productive condition.” Her pioneering historical overview offers proposals for dealing with a subject that now pertains to nearly half of all marriages.
Clea and Zeus Divorce
Author: Emily Prager
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780099747703
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780099747703
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Wuhu Diary
Author: Emily Prager
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307430324
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
In 1994 an American writer named Emily Prager met her new daughter LuLu. All she knew about her was that the baby had been born in Wuhu, a city in southern China, and left near a police station in her first three days of life. Her birth mother had left a note with Lulu's western and lunar birth dates. In 1999 Emily and her daughter–now a happy, fearless four-year-old--returned to China to find out more. That journey and its discoveries unfold in this lovely, touching and sensitively observed book. In Wuhu Diary, we follow Emily and LuLu through a country where children are doted on yet often summarily abandoned and where immense human friendliness can coexist with outbursts of state-orchestrated hostility–particularly after the U. S. accidentally bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. We see Emily unearthing precious details of her child’s past and LuLu coming to terms with who she is. The result is a book that will delight anyone interested in China, and that will move and instruct anyone who has ever adopted--or considered adopting--a child.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307430324
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
In 1994 an American writer named Emily Prager met her new daughter LuLu. All she knew about her was that the baby had been born in Wuhu, a city in southern China, and left near a police station in her first three days of life. Her birth mother had left a note with Lulu's western and lunar birth dates. In 1999 Emily and her daughter–now a happy, fearless four-year-old--returned to China to find out more. That journey and its discoveries unfold in this lovely, touching and sensitively observed book. In Wuhu Diary, we follow Emily and LuLu through a country where children are doted on yet often summarily abandoned and where immense human friendliness can coexist with outbursts of state-orchestrated hostility–particularly after the U. S. accidentally bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. We see Emily unearthing precious details of her child’s past and LuLu coming to terms with who she is. The result is a book that will delight anyone interested in China, and that will move and instruct anyone who has ever adopted--or considered adopting--a child.
You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again
Author: Julia Phillips
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0399590900
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
“The Hollywood memoir that tells all . . . Sex. Drugs. Greed. Why, it sounds just like a movie.”—The New York Times Every memoir claims to bare it all, but Julia Phillips’s actually does. This is an addictive, gloves-off exposé from the producer of the classic films The Sting, Taxi Driver, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind—and the first woman ever to win an Academy Award for Best Picture—who made her name in Hollywood during the halcyon seventies and the yuppie-infested eighties and lived to tell the tale. Wickedly funny and surprisingly moving, You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again takes you on a trip through the dream-manufacturing capital of the world and into the vortex of drug addiction and rehab on the arm of one who saw it all, did it all, and took her leave. Praise for You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again “One of the most honest books ever written about one of the most dishonest towns ever created.”—The Boston Globe “Gossip too hot for even the National Enquirer . . . Julia Phillips is not so much Hollywood’s Boswell as its Dante.”—Los Angeles Magazine “A blistering look at La La Land.”—USA Today “One of the nastiest, tastiest tell-alls in showbiz history.”—People
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0399590900
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
“The Hollywood memoir that tells all . . . Sex. Drugs. Greed. Why, it sounds just like a movie.”—The New York Times Every memoir claims to bare it all, but Julia Phillips’s actually does. This is an addictive, gloves-off exposé from the producer of the classic films The Sting, Taxi Driver, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind—and the first woman ever to win an Academy Award for Best Picture—who made her name in Hollywood during the halcyon seventies and the yuppie-infested eighties and lived to tell the tale. Wickedly funny and surprisingly moving, You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again takes you on a trip through the dream-manufacturing capital of the world and into the vortex of drug addiction and rehab on the arm of one who saw it all, did it all, and took her leave. Praise for You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again “One of the most honest books ever written about one of the most dishonest towns ever created.”—The Boston Globe “Gossip too hot for even the National Enquirer . . . Julia Phillips is not so much Hollywood’s Boswell as its Dante.”—Los Angeles Magazine “A blistering look at La La Land.”—USA Today “One of the nastiest, tastiest tell-alls in showbiz history.”—People
The Billionaire's Last-Minute Marriage
Author: Amanda Cinelli
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0369707656
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
He’s heir to an empire…if he can find a wife in time! Enjoy this dramatic marriage-of-convenience romance from Amanda Cinelli. From personal assistant… …to stand-in bride! To inherit his birthright, Greek CEO Xander Mytikas needs to marry before his half brothers. With his first bride stolen at the altar, he needs a replacement, fast! Only the woman he holds responsible for ruining his wedding day will do… Cautious Pandora agrees to transform herself from executive secretary to high-society wife—anything to make amends. A paper marriage for a year is the arrangement. Until on their honeymoon in Japan, Xander’s touch sparks a level of desire neither is prepared for! From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds. Read all The Greeks' Race to the Altar books: Book 1: Stolen in Her Wedding Gown Book 2: The Billionaire's Last-Minute Marriage
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0369707656
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
He’s heir to an empire…if he can find a wife in time! Enjoy this dramatic marriage-of-convenience romance from Amanda Cinelli. From personal assistant… …to stand-in bride! To inherit his birthright, Greek CEO Xander Mytikas needs to marry before his half brothers. With his first bride stolen at the altar, he needs a replacement, fast! Only the woman he holds responsible for ruining his wedding day will do… Cautious Pandora agrees to transform herself from executive secretary to high-society wife—anything to make amends. A paper marriage for a year is the arrangement. Until on their honeymoon in Japan, Xander’s touch sparks a level of desire neither is prepared for! From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds. Read all The Greeks' Race to the Altar books: Book 1: Stolen in Her Wedding Gown Book 2: The Billionaire's Last-Minute Marriage
The Literary Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Players
Author: Don DeLillo
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307817164
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
In Players DeLillo explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their "ideal" life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: their talk is mostly chatter, their sex life more a matter of obligatory "satisfaction" than pleasure. Then Lyle sees a man killed on the floor of the Stock Exchange and becomes involved with the terrorists responsible; Pammy leaves for Maine with a homosexual couple.... And still they remain untouched, "players" indifferent to the violence that surrounds them, and that they have helped to create. Originally published in 1977 (before his National Book Award-winning White Noise and the recent blockbuster Underworld), Players is a fast-moving yet starkly drawn socially critical drama that demonstrates the razor-sharp prose and thematic density for which DeLillo is renowned today. "The wit, elegance and economy of Don DeLillo's art are equal to the bitter clarity of his perceptions."--New York Times Book Review
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307817164
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
In Players DeLillo explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their "ideal" life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: their talk is mostly chatter, their sex life more a matter of obligatory "satisfaction" than pleasure. Then Lyle sees a man killed on the floor of the Stock Exchange and becomes involved with the terrorists responsible; Pammy leaves for Maine with a homosexual couple.... And still they remain untouched, "players" indifferent to the violence that surrounds them, and that they have helped to create. Originally published in 1977 (before his National Book Award-winning White Noise and the recent blockbuster Underworld), Players is a fast-moving yet starkly drawn socially critical drama that demonstrates the razor-sharp prose and thematic density for which DeLillo is renowned today. "The wit, elegance and economy of Don DeLillo's art are equal to the bitter clarity of his perceptions."--New York Times Book Review
Who Let the Gods Out? 2: Simply the Quest
Author: Maz Evans
Publisher: Chicken House
ISBN: 1911077570
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Elliot and Virgo's troubles are far from over: death-daemon Thanatos and his scary mum are at large and determined to destroy the world. As even more immortal allies and enemies emerge, Virgo and Elliot must learn how to be heroes ...
Publisher: Chicken House
ISBN: 1911077570
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Elliot and Virgo's troubles are far from over: death-daemon Thanatos and his scary mum are at large and determined to destroy the world. As even more immortal allies and enemies emerge, Virgo and Elliot must learn how to be heroes ...
Ratner's Star
Author: Don DeLillo
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307817156
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
"A whimsical, surrealistic excursion into the modern scientific mind." --The New Yorker One of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star follows Billy, the genius adolescent, who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to help a panel of estranged, demented, and yet lovable scientists communicate with beings from outer space. It is a mix of quirky humor, science, mathematical theories, as well as the complex emotional distance and sadness people feel. Ratner's Star demonstrates both the thematic and prosaic muscularity that typifies DeLillo's later and more recent works, like The Names (which is also available in Vintage Contemporaries). "His most spectacularly inventive novel." --The New York Times
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307817156
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
"A whimsical, surrealistic excursion into the modern scientific mind." --The New Yorker One of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star follows Billy, the genius adolescent, who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to help a panel of estranged, demented, and yet lovable scientists communicate with beings from outer space. It is a mix of quirky humor, science, mathematical theories, as well as the complex emotional distance and sadness people feel. Ratner's Star demonstrates both the thematic and prosaic muscularity that typifies DeLillo's later and more recent works, like The Names (which is also available in Vintage Contemporaries). "His most spectacularly inventive novel." --The New York Times
Marriage and Divorce of Astronomy and Astrology: A History of Astral Prediction from Antiquity to Newton
Author: Gordon Fisher
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411683269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This is a study of the union of astronomy and astrology, and relations to astral worship, from early Babylonian times, through medieval European times, up to and including the time of Isaac Newton, especially in relation to prediction, and with extensions into more recent times. There is also discussion of related matters in other cultures, such as Chinese, Indian, Native American and African.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411683269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This is a study of the union of astronomy and astrology, and relations to astral worship, from early Babylonian times, through medieval European times, up to and including the time of Isaac Newton, especially in relation to prediction, and with extensions into more recent times. There is also discussion of related matters in other cultures, such as Chinese, Indian, Native American and African.