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Interactions Between Short-Term and Long-Term Memory in the Verbal Domain

By: Annabel Thorn,Mike Page

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Interactions Between Short-Term and Long-Term Memory in the Verbal Domain

By: Annabel Thorn,Mike Page

The relationship between short-term and long-term memory systems is an issue of central concern to memory theorists. The association between temporary memory mechanisms and established knowledge bases is now regarded as critical to the development of theoretical and computational accounts of verbal short-term memory functioning. However, to date there is no single publication that provides dedicated and full coverage of current understanding of the association between short-term and long-term memory systems. Interactions between Short-Term and Long-Term Memory in the Verbal Domain is the first volume to comprehensively address this key issue. The book, focusing specifically on memory for verbal information, comprises chapters covering current theoretical approaches, together with the very latest experimental work, from leading researchers in the field. Chapters contributed to the book draw on both cognitive and neuropsychological research and reflect both conceptual and computational approaches to theorising. The contributing authors represent current research perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic. By addressing this important topic head-on, Interactions between Short-Term and Long-Term Memory in the Verbal Domain represents an invaluable resource for academics and students alike.

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Psychology Press

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1135419949

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Spiritual Journey

By: Tembi Annabel Ningiza

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Spiritual Journey

By: Tembi Annabel Ningiza

This book is about a spiritual journey that God takes us through in life. Nobody is here by chance; we are all here to serve Gods purpose through our various ministries. Each and every one is being tested according to the needs of his or her ministry that is why we go through different kinds of trials and tribulations in order to strengthen and to refine our ministries. If we call ourselves servants of the most High God then we need to allow to be tested in order for God to be able to use us because God will and has never used an untested product. Through this journey we learn to discover who God really is instead of what other people or the bible tells us; we get to know Him intimately and personally. We learn not to depend on our own intelligence but on His wisdom as we grow mature spiritually. God will never let go of our hand He will always hold us tight, protects us and strengthen us all the time. We have been given power from above to withstand anything including temptations and sin which we are here to overcome and overpower with the power vested in us by God himself. God enjoys stepping up at times when all eyes at on you and when everybody expects you to fail or to drawn; He shows up his splendour and majesty and claim his glory though our situations, trials and tribulations. God is bigger than any obstacle that the devil might be throwing at you right now all you need to do is to trust him that He will not let go of you and to trust in his power the same power that resurrected our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1483693031

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Pastoral and Ideology

Virgil to Valéry

By: Annabel Patterson

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Pastoral and Ideology

Virgil to Valéry

By: Annabel Patterson

Patterson follows the fortunes of Virgil’s Eclogues from the Middle Ages to our own century. She argues that Virgilian pastoral spoke to the intellectuals of each place and time of their own condition. The study reinspects our standard system of periodization in literary and art history and challenges some of the current premises of modernism. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

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0520337409

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9780520337404

Health Psychology

Processes and Applications

By: Annabel Broome

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Health Psychology

Processes and Applications

By: Annabel Broome

ANNABEL K. BROOME The importance of psychological processes in the experience of health and sickness is being increasingly recognized. There is mounting evidence for the role of personal behaviour in current trends of morbidity and mortality, which is reflected in rapid and significant developments in psychological research. Patterns of illness and death have changed in recent years, with concurrent changes in demands on health services, the skills of carers and the adjustments of the sick person. It is within this changing scene that clinical and health psychologists are becoming increasingly involved in applied research into the prevention or alleviation of current health problems. These changes are also influencing the training of health professionals, with behavioural sciences now forming a substantial component of basic curricula in medical schools and other areas of professional training. This book has arisen from this chan ging clinical scene and the need to convey useful psychological principles to care givers. Part One con centrates on the general psychological processes that have relevance in many health settings, in the prevention, alleviation and management of illness, as weIl as current practices in health care delivery. As these developments have been patchy, Part Two focuses on selected specialties that have received attention. This book is not a comprehensive review of work done in all medical specialties, although the structure has been chosen to reflect the prevalent sub divisions of medical teamwork.

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Springer

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1489932283

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Theatre Near the Equator

The Donovan Maule Story

By: Annabel Maule

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Theatre Near the Equator

The Donovan Maule Story

By: Annabel Maule

A personal recollection of the lives and works of Donovan Maule, a former Army Major, and his wife, Mollie, who emigrated from England to Mombasa during the inter-war period, and built a repertory, colonial theatre in Kenya. The story tells in considerable detail of the pre-independence and Second World War periods, of what happened to the theatre during independence and how it finally receded in 1984.

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East African Publishers

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9966252266

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Wyf-King

By: Annabel Mahoney

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Wyf-King

By: Annabel Mahoney

Written in modern English, Middle English and Anglo-Saxon, Wyf-King chronicles the queens consort of pre-and-post-Conquest England and their relationships with grief, motherhood and power. Through the use of poetry, textual notes and glosses, it seeks to build a picture, a portrait or an idea of these forgotten women and they lives they led. Each poem contains a translation, a biography and a linguistic gloss.

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Lapwing Publications

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1910855944

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The International Killer Thriller

Daniel Silva’s Reinvention of Spy and Noir Fiction

By: Annabel Patterson

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The International Killer Thriller

Daniel Silva’s Reinvention of Spy and Noir Fiction

By: Annabel Patterson

The International Killer Thriller focuses on the extremely successful novels of Daniel Silva, who has pulled off the daunting task of writing, in short order, a series of novels with the same protagonist—Gabriel Allon, a world-famous assassin whom we are to regard as our hero. Originally hired by Israel on the order of Golda Meir to avenge the assassination of the Jewish athletic team at the Munich Olympics, Gabriel has been called upon subsequently by his government and then by those of Britain, Italy, France, and the United States either to mastermind or to assist in the operations against the assassins or master criminals of other countries. What makes him more interesting than most top guns is his other career—restoring masterpieces of painting from either old age or criminal damage. Taken as a series, the fifteen Allon novels take the reader all over the world, including Putin’s Russia. The series requires us to evaluate the role of violence and especially revenge in the world we and our political leaders are forced to engage in. They all take place in almost real time and are up-to-date or even prescient about the dangers we face.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1543417817

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9781543417814

Cacaphonies

The Excremental Canon of French Literature

By: Annabel L. Kim

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Cacaphonies

The Excremental Canon of French Literature

By: Annabel L. Kim

Exploring why there is so much fecal matter in literary works that matter Cacaphonies takes fecal matter and its place in literature seriously. Readers and critics have too long overlooked excrement’s vital role in the twentieth- and twenty-first-century French canon. In a stark challenge to the tendency to view this literature through sanitizing abstractions, Annabel L. Kim undertakes close readings of key authors to argue for feces as a figure of radical equality, both a literary object and a reflection on literature itself, without which literary studies is impoverished and sterile. Following the fecal through line in works by Céline, Beckett, Genet, Sartre, Duras, and Gary and the contemporary authors Anne Garréta and Daniel Pennac, Kim shows that shit, far from vanishing from the canon after the early modern period, remains present in the modern and contemporary French literature that follows. She argues that all the shit in the canon expresses a call to democratize literature, making literature for all, just as shit is for (or of) all. She attends to its presence in this prized element of French identity, treating it as a continually uttered desire to manifest the universality France aspires to—as encapsulated by the slogan Liberté, égalité, fraternité—but fails to realize. In shit there is a concrete universalism that traverses bodies with disregard for embodied differences. Cacaphonies reminds us that literature, and the ideas to be found therein, cannot be separated from the corporeal envelopes that create and receive them. In so doing, it reveals the aesthetic, political, and ethical potential of shit and its capacity to transform literature and life.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452965404

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52 Ways to Walk

The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time

By: Annabel Abbs-Streets

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52 Ways to Walk

The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time

By: Annabel Abbs-Streets

52 Ways to Walk is a short, user-friendly guide to attaining the full range of benefits that walking has to offer--physical, spiritual, and emotional--backed by the latest scientific research to inspire readers to develop a fulfilling walking lifestyle. We think we know how to walk. After all, walking is one of the very first skills we learn. But many of us are stuck in our walking routines, forever walking in the same place, in the same way, for the same time, with the same people. With its thought-provoking and evidence-backed weekly walk routine, 52 Ways to Walk will encourage everyone to improve how they walk, while also encouraging them to seek out new locations (many on their own doorsteps), new walking companions (our brains age better when we mix up our fellow walkers), new times of the day and night, and new skills to acquire while walking. Inspirational, backed by science, illuminated with human anecdote, and bolstered with how-to tips, 52 Ways to Walk will inspire, challenge, support, and encourage everyone to become more ambitious with their walking practice, revealing how walking may be the best-kept secret of the supremely healthy and happy, the creative and well-slept--those with the best posture and sharpest memories. Just about everything, it appears, can be improved and enhanced by clever and judicious walking. It turns out you actually can get more from life, one step at a time.

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Penguin

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0593419952

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9780593419953

A Victorian Childhood

By: Annabel Huth Jackson

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A Victorian Childhood

By: Annabel Huth Jackson

First published in 1932. This title is a first-person account of growing up in Victorian England. The book examines many aspects of the British Empire, and the family life and education of the poet, writer and high society hostess Claire Annabel Caroline Grant Duff. A Victorian Childhood will be of interest to students of history.

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Routledge

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1317246632

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The Spiritual Protection Prayer

By: AnnaBel Silvers

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The Spiritual Protection Prayer

By: AnnaBel Silvers

The Spiritual Protection Prayer In the name and through the power of the blood of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, Holy Spirit take control of our circumstances,situations, and conversations, through faith as we surrender our wills to You for this day. All praises, honor, glory are given to our Father, God, whose love and presence,we have entered for He is worthy, mighty, and awesome to be praised. First Stage, by surrendering your will to Jesus, who is Lord and seated at the right side of our Heavenly Father, you will relinquish control of any situation or circumstance for an entire day. The Holy Spirit who lives inside of you because you believe that Jesus Christ is your Savior has been given permission to control your life. You will no longer be in charge because the Holy Spirit searches all things, yes, the epitome of the Heavenly Father, God, Himself. Second Stage,now that your life is prioritized, you may think all of Hell has been released on you. Why is this? Satan knows that you will begin to learn to have power over him, as well as his minions. It is God's responsibility as our Heavenly Father to help you..now! He has been waiting for such a time as this. Satan is angry with you and will now indefinitely try to destroy you. However, you must remember, greater is He Father (God) in you than he (Satan) is in the world. You will learn how to live and deal through the power and the guidance of the Holy Spirit with your adversaries. Third Stage,each and every day, you must commit and submit yourself to our Heavenly Father in the name and through the blood of Jesus Christ- through His Word. God only promises protection one day at a time. God knows the beginning and ending of your life- You Do Not! Jesus came to seek, save and protect us one day at a time from being eliminated by the adversary. You will learn what God's Holy Spirit has to say to you on a daily basis. Once you start reading God's Word, it will increase your desire to want to study to find out what God's will is and what He is all about. You will learn to trust Him. Your life with His Word will speak to each and every one of your situations, regardless of what circumstances you are under. Aren't you glad about that? Praise God! Fourth Stage, if you do not know how to believe that the prayer will work or somehow feel inadequate that your faith isn't strong enough, pray to our Heavenly Father in the name and through the blood of His Son,Jesus Christ, to increase your faith and belief. Difficult situations and circumstances will occur anyway. You will experience anxiety and despair because you are making non-spiritual choices in human flesh. The Holy Spirit will not and cannot coerce your will. Why not surrender your will to an Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent Heavenly Father? He already knows all about you. You will be delighted to make Him your Lord. He is faithful to the end. He loves you. You will learn how to become obedient and renew your mind daily. Praise God! Now through placing your trust in God, through the power of the blood of JESUS CHRIST, and the guidance of the Holy Spirit, your life will blossom with spiritual and physical delights. His promises of what is best for you will materialize. It is beyond your imagination and scope of vision of what His will for your life will become over what you believe it should be. You will delight to be obedient and a servant to God's will. Remember, if you have never been through anything, how can you teach others? We are our brother's keepers. That is why Jesus came to save and give us life more abundantly.You will have grace for the pressures of the world, mercy for your failures as a human being and to keep both your heart and mind from pride, God's Peace. Hallelujah You Are The Righteousness Of God In Christ Jesus

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1543431593

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Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

By: Aleksandr Petrovich Kazhdan,Ann Wharton Epstein,Annabel Jane Wharton

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Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

By: Aleksandr Petrovich Kazhdan,Ann Wharton Epstein,Annabel Jane Wharton

Byzantium, that dark sphere on the periphery of medieval Europe, is commonly regarded as the immutable residue of Rome's decline. In this highly original and provocative work, Alexander Kazhdan and Ann Wharton Epstein revise this traditional image by documenting the dynamic social changes that occurred during the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

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Univ of California Press

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0520051297

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The Great North Road

By: Annabel Dore

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The Great North Road

By: Annabel Dore

Newcastle, 1953. Two new mothers make a pact that will resonate for generations to come. Together Greta and Sylvia decide to flee their old lives, and abandon their newborn babies. Eventually, though, teenager Sylvia is drawn back to her estranged family – to her daughter and the boy she still loves. But then her baby vanishes, and a whole cast of characters, including Greta, comes under suspicion. The Great North Road is an epic literary voyage through the storied landscapes of northern England, through tragedy and comedy, to the darker reaches of human behaviour. Compassionate and unfailingly dramatic, it is a searing and addictive debut novel. ‘A gothic, surreal melodrama . . . perceptive and affectionate’ Ann Cleeves 'An absolute treat to read. I haven’t been so captivated by a writer’s voice since I read Kate Atkinson’s Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Annabel Doré’s going straight onto my list of favourite authors’ Kate Long, author of The Bad Mother’s Handbook

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Pan Macmillan

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0230756689

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9780230756687

The Guilty Gardener

A memoir of love, waxwings and rewilding

By: Annabel Christie

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The Guilty Gardener

A memoir of love, waxwings and rewilding

By: Annabel Christie

Annabel Christie is wracked by guilt. It was rediscovering her late father’s letter after thirty years, which finally did it. A thunderbolt to Annabel’s conscience, the letter was a reminder of her idyllic childhood spent in a wonderful, wild garden, her lost love for nature, and the broken bond between father and daughter.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1803133953

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My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

By: Annabel Pitcher

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My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

By: Annabel Pitcher

Winner of the 2012 Branford Boase Award, this is Annabel Pitcher's stunning debut about ten-year-old Jamie, and the way his life and his family are shaped by the sister in an urn on the mantelpiece. Five years ago, Jamie's sister, Rose, was blown up by a terrorist bomb. His family is torn apart by their grief. His mum runs away. His dad turns to drink and hate. Rose's surviving twin sister Jasmine stops eating, gets piercings and dyes her hair pink - anything to look different to her twin. But Jamie hasn't cried in all that time. To him, Rose is just a distant memory. Jamie is far more interested in his cat, Roger, his Spiderman T-shirt, and his deep longing and unshakeable belief that his Mum will come back to the family she walked out on months ago. But moving away for a Fresh New Start introduces Jamie to something else very interesting - a girl named Sunya. Sunya is bright, exciting and fun, and the one person at school he can call a friend. But how far can this new friendship grow when Jamie is desperate that his dad doesn't find out?

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Orion Children's Books

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1444003372

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9781444003376

Untamed Sanctuary

By: Annabel Murray

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Untamed Sanctuary

By: Annabel Murray

Georgie was thrilled to be offered a job as Assistant Vet to a private African wildlife sanctuary. She'd be working with Niklaas van der Walt, but he'd been expecting a male assistant! She knew she could do the job -- but could she prove it to Niklaas?

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