‘A most magnificent, beautifully written memoir’ - Nina Stibbe'Deft, witty and profound . . . had me turning the pages all night' - Jessie BurtonJean Hannah Edelstein was looking for love on OKCupid the night she lost her father. She had recently moved back to America to be closer to her parents, leaving behind the good friends, bad dates and questionable career moves that defined her twenties. But six weeks after she arrived in New York, h...

'Has the power to knock the breath out of you'THE TIMES'A must-read'JESSIE BURTON'One of the most brilliant writers of her generation, as witty, wry and unsentimental as Nora Ephron'OLIVIA LAING'I LOVED this book'NINA STIBBEIn this short, striking memoir, Jean Hannah Edelstein ch...

From Singapore to Scotland, Canada to the Channel Islands, Namibia to New Zealand and beyond, International English takes you on a fascinating journey through the varieties of English spoken around the world. Comparisons across the varieties provide a comprehensive guide to differences in phonetics, phonology, grammar and vocabulary, making this a useful resource for teachers of English as a foreign language and linguistics students alike. This sixth edition has been thoroughly up...

As we tumble headlong into the second decade of the third millennium, we are in an era of unprecedented freedom to be whatever we want to be, in defiance of fusty old gender stereotypes. But while the women revel in ruling the boardroom, the men make magic in the kitchen, and everyone does rather unusual things in the bedroom, all of this freedom does have its downside: without understanding the fundamental differences between the genders, we're in for an era of dire confusion when it come...

'Has the power to knock the breath out of you'THE TIMES'A must-read'JESSIE BURTON'One of the most brilliant writers of her generation, as witty, wry and unsentimental as Nora Ephron'OLIVIA LAING'I LOVED this book'NINA STIBBEIn this short, striking memoir, Jean Hannah Edelstein ch...

In 2014 I moved back to the United States after living abroad for fourteen years, my whole adult life, because my father was dying from cancer.Six weeks after I arrived in New York City, my father died.Six months after that I learned that I had inherited the gene that would cause me cancer too.When Jean Hannah Edelstein's world overturned she was forced to confront some of the big questions ...

This book provides an applied, interdisciplinary approach to an understanding of the key social determinants of health, essential at a time of increasing inequalities and reductions in existing NHS services and local authority budgets.A person's health and wellbeing is influenced by a spectrum of socioeconomic, cultural, living and working conditions, social and community networks and lifestyle choices. Based on the 'rainbow model' of the social determinants of health, chapters fro...

國際林格倫大獎作者必讀經典．法文直譯；14項大獎肯定──純真文學獎、法國康城書蟲獎、讀者票選獎……等｛雙書封設計｝一本書，兩個入口，我們的相遇，是開端或結尾？托梅克：當時我立刻就知道，我會一輩子愛這個人……漢娜：我有其他成千上萬的禮物能送你……但沒有一樣比得上我即將告訴你的故事──他的出走．她的追尋，是擦肩而過，也是命定交錯，用一生寫成的情書────故事發生在現代化設備還沒出現的時代，總之，就是在那個從前從前……有家小雜貨店，什麼都有；有個女孩造訪了小店，卻尋不到她想要的；小店老闆因女孩展開了人生大出走；追尋寶物的女孩則說起了最美的故事……托梅克──傳說中，有條「逆流河」，源起海洋，流向陸地，攀上高山，河的盡頭是不死之水。年輕的雜貨店老闆托梅克...

Judy and Me is a collection of vignettes that recounts Allie Jean Hodder's adventures with her best friend Judy during the fabulous 50s in North Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. The listener of this audiobook is transported to a simpler time when teens listened in on party lines, jived to the jukebox at the soda shop and watched Elvis movies at the drive-in. The author, Allie Jean Hodder (a.k.a. Alice Jean Hodder Hoyt Garland) printed the first edition in 2004, leaving a legacy to...

Les citations philosophiques capturent en un instant la profondeur de la pensée humaine, invitant à réfléchir et à élargir notre vision du monde ! Découvrez les citations des plus grands penseurs : Aristote, Epicure, Platon, Thales de Millet, Socrate, Protagoras, Anaximandre, Epictète, Héraclite, Marc Aurèle, Descartes, Michel de Montaigne, Pacal, Alexis de Tocqueville, Voltaire, Charles de Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emmanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, Leibniz, Hegel, Nietzsche, Schopen...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

Social Work in Mental Health Settings brings together leading academics and practitioners to explore how mental health social work is shaped and practised around the world. In so doing, it responds to a striking lack of comparative literature in the field and offers readers a timely, global perspective on this important area of practice.Combining macro-level analyses with in-depth country case studies – from Brazil and Bosnia and Herzegovina to China and Trinidad and Tobago – the b...