Un libro 'zig-zag' (o 'a fisarmonica'), illustrato a colori, che racconta gli episodi evangelici della pesca miracolosa e della tempesta domata.

This book brings the study of gender to Chinese medicine and in so doing contextualizes Chinese medicine in history. It examines the rich but neglected tradition of fuke, or medicine for women, over the seven hundred years between the Song and the end of the Ming dynasty. Using medical classics, popular handbooks, case histories, and belles lettres, it explores evolving understandings of fertility and menstruation, gestation and childbirth, sexuality, and gynecological disorders.
Furth locates medical practice in the home, where knowledge was not the monopoly of the learned physician and male doctors had to negotiate the class and gender boundaries of everyday life. Women as healers and as patients both participated in the dominant medical culture and sheltered a female sphere of expertise centered on, but not limited to, gestation and birth. Ultimately, her analysis of the relationship of language, text, and practice reaches beyond her immediate subject to address theoretical problems that arise when we look at the epistemological foundations of our knowledge of the body and its history.

Charlotte Brontė's contemporary George Eliot wrote of Villette, 'There is something almost preternatural in its power.' The deceptive stillness and security of a girls’ school provide the setting for this 1853 novel, Brontė’s last. Modelled on Brontė’s own experiences as a student and teacher in Brussels, Villette is the sombre but engrossing story of Lucy Snowe, an unmarried Englishwoman making her way in a culture deeply foreign to her. The heroine’s relationships with the fiery professor M. Paul, the cool Englishman Dr. John, and the school’s powerful headmistress, Madame Beck, are described in her compelling and enigmatic first-person narration.This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction by Kate Lawson and Lynn Shakinovsky. The many contextual documents include contemporary writings on surveillance and espionage, anti-Catholicism, and working women, as well as letters describing Brontė’s own time in Brussels.

A little girl walking in the woods finds the house of the three bears and helps herself to their belongings.

A clever cat wins his master a fortune and the hand of a princess.

Throughout the 20th century, Madison progressed slowly from a rural economy to one based on seasonal residents and then to that of a largely residential community. The development along the shoreline that marked the first 50 years of the century eventually spread inland to the rest of Madison. From 1,500 residents in 1900, the population swelled to a suburban community of over 16,000. This book is a

photographic journey of this growing town, which

changed significantly following the completion of the Connecticut Turnpike. Images document commercial establishments, the 1938 hurricane, the Field Company, the Future Farmers Fair, and the construction of the Connecticut Turnpike.

From award–winning author Charlotte Hughes, a classic tale of romantic suspense finally available again.

Crime reporter Meg Gentry returns to her hometown where she lands a job at the local paper. But the town's tranquillity is shattered by the suicide of Meg's predecessor and the unearthed skeleton of an unidentified woman who, as the evidence indicates, was murdered.

Il libro propone una scelta dei racconti pił belli dell'Antico e del Nuovo Testamento, per una prima scoperta della Bibbia. Ogni storia viene raccontata con parole semplici, fedeli allo spirito del testo originale e facilmente comprensibili anche ai lettori pił piccoli. Le illustrazioni vivacissime rendono il racconto ancor pił interessante e coinvolgente e ne facilitano la comprensione. Etą di lettura: dai 4 anni

Bestselling US title, a Zen guide to the problems of everyday life and, more positively, how to live each moment to the full. Combines earthy wisdom with spiritual enlightenment.

Where does the wind go when it stops?

When a little boy asks this question at the end of a happy day, his mother explains that the wind does not stop-it blows away to make the trees dance somewhere else.

Reassuringly, she tells him that nothing ever ends, it simply begins in another place or in another way. Rain goes back into the clouds to create new storms, waves fold back upon the sea to become new waves, and the day moves on to make way for the night, bringing the darkness and stars for the little boy to dream in.

Charlotte Zolotow's lyrical prose and Stefano Vitale's rich illustrations make this a beautiful celebration of the cycle of life.

Psyche is the most beautiful woman in the world, yet the oracle at Delphi foresees she will fall in love with a creature feared even by the gods themselves.

Magically, Psyche finds herself in a magnificent castle fitted with sweet music, attentive servants, and a charming but invisible host. Soon she falls in love with this man she has never seen, but in a moment of doubt she betrays his trust. To win back his love, Psyche must show that she is as brave as she is beautiful by performing three impossible tasks.

Perhaps the greatest love story of all, Cupid and Psyche is unsurpassed in its richness and drama. Marie Craft's lively, suspenseful retelling of this classic Greek myth will appeal to young and old alike. And these legendary lovers have inspired forty lush luminous paintings by award-winning artist Kinuko Craft.

Lavishly illustrated and thrillingly told, here is a book to be treasured forever.