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  • Bladesong

    The Martyrs of Compiègne

    by Ann Power ...
    So often one hears the question "What can we do?" More often than not, it remains a question without the effort of an answer. Yet in the turbulence and terror of the French Revolution, a time much like today, when the new sacrificed the old, when man insisted on replacing God, a community of Carmelites offered the oblation of their lives for peace, not without imagined horror, anxiety, and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Bricks and Mortar

    Building Homes, Communities, and Neighbourhoods

    by Anne Power ...
    Series series CASE Studies on Poverty, Place and Policy
    Social housing continues to decline as existing tenanted homes are sold to their occupiers and run-down council estates are demolished. Demonstrating the value of the ‘Housing Plus’ approach –investment beyond “bricks and mortar” – this book outlines the role social landlords can play in tackling community problems. By investing in estate renewal, helping to house the vulnerable, offering a wide ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

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    The Keening

    A Mystery of Gaelic Ireland

    by Anne Emery ...
    Narrated by Sean Power ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 17 min

    The murdered body of Sorcha the prophetess is discovered following a lavish banquet at the Maguire castle in 16th-century Ireland. In the present day, a dig commences on the land, and not only is a body discovered, but a sheaf of prophecies. Who killed Sorcha?There has been a guesthouse on the Tierney land in County Fermanagh for hundreds of years. Now Tierney’s Hotel is faced with a development ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Forced Endings in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

    Attachment and loss in retirement

    by Anne Power ...
    Forced Endings in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis:Attachment and Loss in Retirement explores the ambivalence the therapist may feel about letting go of a professional role which has sustained them. Anne Power explores the process of closing a private practice, from the first ethical decision-making, through to the last day when the door of the therapy room shuts. She draws on the personal ... Read more

    Was $62.99 USD Now $55.99 USD

  • Cities for a Small Continent

    International Handbook of City Recovery

    by Anne Power ...
    Series series CASE Studies on Poverty, Place and Policy
    This original book builds on the author’s research in Phoenix cities to present a vivid story of Europe’s post-industrial cities pre- and post- financial crisis. Using varied case studies the book explores how policy responses to the economic crisis have played out in different European cities, with their contrasting conditions, history and performance generating contrasting reactions. The book ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Hovels to High Rise

    State Housing in Europe Since 1850

    by Anne Power ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Housing Policy and Home Ownership
    Originally published in 1993, this book traces how governments in France, Germany, Britain, Denmark and Ireland became involved in replacing industrial revolution urban slums with mass high-rise, high-density concrete estates. As the book considers each country’s housing history and traditions, and analyses the contrasting structures and systems, it finds convergence of problems in the growing ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Property Before People

    The Management of Twentieth-Century Council Housing

    by Anne Power ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Housing Policy and Home Ownership
    Originally published in 1987 and now re-issued with a new preface, this book examines attempts by successive individuals and governments to overcome slum conditions and homelessness, to reform landlord-tenant relations and to provide sound modern dwellings with full amenities for those who need them. Its focus is on how those responsible for public housing concentrated their energies on buildings ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Family futures

    Childhood and poverty in urban neighbourhoods

    by Anne Power, Helen Willmot, Rosemary Davidson ...
    Family life in areas of concentrated poverty and social problems is undermined by surrounding conditions. This timely book, by acclaimed author Anne Power and her team, is based on a unique longitudinal study of over 200 families interviewed annually over the last decade. It examines the initiatives introduced to help such families and the impacts on them, their future prospects and the ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Good Booty

    Love and Sex, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music

    by Ann Powers ...
    NPR Best Books of 2017In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR's acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most notably sex and race.In Good Booty, Ann Powers explores how popular music became America's primary erotic art ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Smoke from Small Fires

    by Anne Powers ...
    It's the 1950s. Picture Blackshale, Tennessee, with its home fires, small town ways and postwar innocence - the perfect place for a girl to grow up. From her earliest days, an artistic spark has been smoldering in Anna Grace Tollett, and when the mountain turns dark and unnerving, creativity is all she has to weather the hard times. As an adult, she describes her art: "It is about the rituals of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reinterpreting the Eucharist

    Explorations in Feminist Theology and Ethics

    Edited by Anne F. Elvey, Carol Hogan, Kim Power, Claire Renkin ...
    Series series Gender, Theology and Spirituality
    The Eucharist continues to be central to contemporary Christian religious tradition and to be the focus for a wide range of assumptions and disputes. Chief amongst these disputes is the role of women in the theology and the ritual of the Eucharist.Reinterpreting the Eucharist brings together a diverse range of voices with each using their own marginalized experience to explore other ways – ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • True Crime Parallels to the Mysteries of Agatha Christie

    by Anne Powers ...
    Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, the works of Agatha Christie stand as some of the most celebrated crime fiction of our era. This book takes ten of her most famous works and shows their relationship to ten of crime history's most famous and sensational cases--cases whose notoriety still resounds to this day.Addressing both novels and short stories, the author illuminates the relationship ... Read more

    $16.39 USD