The Seven Sisters of Sleep

• Author : Mordecai Cooke,Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
• Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
• Release : 01 October 1997

This groundbreaking survey, written in 1860, is a radically open-minded look at the use of drugs across the world and throughout the ages. Early users of tobacco in Russia would have their noses cut off and repeat offenders their heads. Pope Innocent XII excommunicated any who used it in St. Peters. Marijuana users in 14th century Egypt would have their teeth extracted for the crime. Yet use of these and other forbidden substances continued to grow. If only as a record

• Author : Lucinda Riley
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 05 May 2015

Gathering at their Lake Geneva estate when their adoptive father passes away, six sisters receive tantalizing clues about their true heritage, prompting Maia to journey to Rio de Janeiro to learn the story of her parents' forbidden love. By the best-selling author of The Orchid House.

• Author : Margaret Drabble
• Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Release : 05 September 2013

Candida Wilton--a woman recently betrayed, rejected, divorced, and alienated from her three grown daughters--moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely Suffolk to a two-room walk-up flat in a run-down building in central London. Candida is not exactly destitute. So, is the move perversity, she wonders, a survival test, or is she punishing herself? How will she adjust to this shabby, menacing, but curiously appealing city? What can happen, at her age, to change her life? And yet, as she

• Author : Joan Marie Johnson
• Publisher : University of Georgia Press
• Release : 30 June 2022

From the end of Reconstruction and into the New South era, more than one thousand white southern women attended one of the Seven Sister colleges: Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Bryn Mawr, Radcliffe, and Barnard. Joan Marie Johnson looks at how such educations--in the North, at some of the country's best schools--influenced southern women to challenge their traditional gender roles and become active in woman suffrage and other social reforms of the Progressive Era South. Attending one of the Seven

• Author : Laine Cunningham
• Publisher : Sun Dogs Creations
• Release : 24 September 2010

WINNER, CAROLINA WOMAN INSPIRATION AWARD For readers of The Secret, The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down by Haemin Sunim, Eckhart Tolle, Louise Hay, and Paul Coelho. According to Australia's ancient cultures, all creatures and things emerged from the Dreamtime. The Dreaming is not just a collection of lore or a long-ago time; it is a living energy that flows constantly through the universe. It is then and now, divine and human, spirit and law. Because the

• Author : Carolyn Hart Bennett
• Publisher : iUniverse
• Release : 14 October 2014

It is July 19, 1863 when the "Amazon" arrives from London at the New York docks with eight hundred Mormons on board. Among the arriving Saints are seven young, unmarried, unrelated sisters in the gospel, who have been placed together as a family during their forty-four-day voyage. The Seven Sisters, as they have come to be called, have become close enough to vow to stay together all the way to their new home in Utah. The Sisters must now travel overland by

• Author : Dr Talam Har Neelam
• Publisher : BFC Publications
• Release : 10 September 2021

The Book will serve as documents for young generation, the author himself is in much interested to see the North Eastern State to live peacefully with touches of development at par with world class, was rigorously search for documents regarding solution between the federation state of India Union, later decided to bring out book on it by documenting from the reliable source. The area of authors research is in health care management and interested in indigenous justice system too.

• Author : Kesar Lall
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 30 June 2022

• Author : James M. Griffin
• Publisher : Yale University Press
• Release : 28 July 2009

While everyone wants energy that is clean, cheap and secure these goals often conflict: traditional fossil fuels tend to be cheaper than alternative fuels, but they are hardly clean or secure. This ia an accessible explanation of the issues as well as sensible proposals for a truly sustainable energy policy.

• Author : Rosenthal, Linda Linker
• Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
• Release : 01 June 2013

Every spiritual seeker knows that there are seven main chakras-also described as energy centers or wheels of light. Blocked energy in the chakras can often lead to physical illness as well as spiritual malaise. The trick is how to balance these systems in our lives, and in The Seven Chakra Sisters, spiritual psychotherapist and healer Linda Rosenthal shows us exactly that. Rosenthal takes readers on a metaphysical, metaphorical romp into the world of the 7 chakras. She offers a delightful teaching

• Author : Kesar Lall
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 30 June 1967

• Author : Paul P. Marthers
• Publisher : Peter Lang
• Release : 30 June 2022

When founded in 1911, Connecticut College for Women was a pioneering women's college that sought to prepare the progressive era's «new woman» to be self-sufficient. Despite a path-breaking emphasis on preparation for work in the new fields opening to women, Connecticut College and its peers have been overlooked by historians of women's higher education. This book makes the case for the significance of Connecticut College's birth and evolution, and contextualizes the college in the history of women's education. «Eighth Sister No

• Author : Lucinda Riley
• Publisher : Pan Macmillan
• Release : 05 November 2015

Following the bestselling The Seven Sisters, The Storm Sister is the second book in Lucinda Riley's spellbinding series of love and loss, based loosely on the mythology surrounding the famous star constellation. Ally D'Aplièse is about to compete in one of the world's most perilous yacht races, when she hears the news of her adoptive father's sudden, mysterious death. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home, she discovers that her father – an elusive billionaire affectionately

• Author : Lucinda Riley
• Publisher : Macmillan
• Release : 01 November 2014

Their future is written in the stars . . . Maia D'Aplièse and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, 'Atlantis' - a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva - having been told that their beloved father, the elusive billionaire they call Pa Salt, has died. Maia and her sisters were all adopted by him as babies and, discovering he has already been buried at sea, each of them is handed a tantalising clue to their

• Author : Kyuka Usman
• Publisher : African Books Collective
• Release : 29 September 2017

Though predominantly on oil and gas law, this is nonetheless a veritable Reference Book on the oil and gas industry in Nigeria. It places before anyone interested in the oil and gas industry basic and critical oil and gas issues not in common circulation in existing texts on the subject. The book is arranged in such a chronological order, like reference books and dictionaries tend to be,that a lay person in going through it would now know how oil