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Scotts Lawns

Your Guide to a Beautiful Yard

By: Nick Christians,Ashton Ritchie

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Scotts Lawns

Your Guide to a Beautiful Yard

By: Nick Christians,Ashton Ritchie

A guide to lawn care provides tips, techniques, and advice for an attractive yard, covering such topics as mowing, weeding, fertilizing, and getting rid of pests.

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Meredith Books

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0696212706

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9780696212703

Collaborators in Literary America, 1870-1920

By: S. Ashton

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Collaborators in Literary America, 1870-1920

By: S. Ashton

Much has been written recently about the important changes in understandings of authorship and literary labour in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries. Collaborators in Literary America, 1870-1920 argues that the collaborative novels of this period were instrumental to that reconstruction. More than just a gimmick, these novels (there were dozens published between The Gilded Age (1873) by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner and The Sturdy Oak (1917) by Mary Austin, Kathleen Norris, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Henry Kitchell Webster, et. al. ) were a serious attempt to work through the anxieties authors faced in an ever more competitive and business-like market. By examining the issues surrounding collaborative production of writers such as Henry James, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells, Ashton demonstrates that in union there was strength.

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234

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Springer

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1403982570

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9781403982575

Success as a Psychology Major

By: David E. Copeland,Jeremy Ashton Houska

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Success as a Psychology Major

By: David E. Copeland,Jeremy Ashton Houska

Success as a Psychology Major, First Edition by David E. Copeland and Jeremy A. Houska is an essential resource for any student interested in pursuing an undergraduate degree in psychology. Built from the ground up with input from hundreds of psychology students, this First Edition answers every question a trepidatious undergraduate may have. Success as a Psychology Major opens with practical tools on how to be a successful student, walks readers through the psychology curriculum, highlights key skills to develop, and presents the various academic and career paths to take after graduation. Unique chapters on joining a research lab, professional organizations and clubs, documenting students′ accomplishments, and practical tools for managing time and money provide students with resources they will use throughout their academic career. Presented in a modular format with a student-friendly narrative, this text is a step-by-step road map to a fulfilling and meaningful experience as a student of psychology.

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SAGE Publications

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1544334702

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9781544334707

Thomas And Jane Carlyle

Portrait of a Marriage

By: Rosemary Ashton

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Thomas And Jane Carlyle

Portrait of a Marriage

By: Rosemary Ashton

They were the most remarkable couple in London: the great sage Carlyle, with his vehement prophecies, and his witty, sardonic wife Jane. It was a strong, close, mutually admiring yet often mutually antagonistic partnership, fascinating to all who observed it. The Carlyles lived at the heart of English life in mid-Victorian London, but both were outsiders, a largely self-educated Scottish pair who took a sometimes caustic look at the society they so influenced - Carlyle through his copious writings, and both through their network of acquaintances and correspondents. Carlyle's fame was confirmed by his Sartor Resartus of 1843, The French Revolution, his lectures on heroes and hero-worship and by his radical account of contemporary industrial Britain in Past and Present, 1843. Both husband and wife were great letter-writers, Carlyle commenting on the matters of the day, dashing off pen portraits of those he met and Jane with her brilliant stories and her sharp, dry humour. Yet despite her brilliance, Jane suffered, especially from Carlyle's infatuation with the lion-hunting Lady Ashburton, and the tensions in their marriage grew. The letters they wrote, both to each other and to others, make theirs the most well-documented marriage of the nineteenth century and give us an unequalled portrait of a famously unhappy marriage. This moving and vivid biography describes their relationship with each other, from their first meeting in 1821 to Jane's death in 1866, and also their relationship with the world outside. Rosemary Ashton's inimitable blend of rigorous scholarship, warm sensitivity and lively wit makes this not only a portrait of a marriage but a picture of a whole age, elegant, erudite and entertaining.

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881

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Random House

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1448137047

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9781448137046

One Hot Summer

Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858

By: Rosemary Ashton

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One Hot Summer

Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858

By: Rosemary Ashton

A unique, in-depth view of Victorian London during the record-breaking summer of 1858, when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured “The Great Stink” together While 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the sewage-filled Thames River, the year is otherwise little remembered. And yet, historian Rosemary Ashton reveals in this compelling microhistory, 1858 was marked by significant, if unrecognized, turning points. For ordinary people, and also for the rich, famous, and powerful, the months from May to August turned out to be a summer of consequence. Ashton mines Victorian letters and gossip, diaries, court records, newspapers, and other contemporary sources to uncover historically crucial moments in the lives of three protagonists—Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Disraeli. She also introduces others who gained renown in the headlines of the day, among them George Eliot, Karl Marx, William Thackeray, and Edward Bulwer Lytton. Ashton reveals invisible threads of connection among Londoners at every social level in 1858, bringing the celebrated city and its citizens vibrantly to life.

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Yale University Press

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0300231199

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9780300231199

Victorian Bloomsbury

By: Rosemary Ashton

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Victorian Bloomsbury

By: Rosemary Ashton

While Bloomsbury is now associated with Virginia Woolf and her early-twentieth-century circle of writers and artists, the neighborhood was originally the undisputed intellectual quarter of nineteenth-century London. Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival resources, Rosemary Ashton brings to life the educational, medical, and social reformists who lived and worked in Victorian Bloomsbury and who led crusades for education, emancipation, and health for all. Ashton explores the secular impetus behind these reforms and the humanitarian and egalitarian character of nineteenth-century Bloomsbury. Thackeray and Dickens jostle with less famous characters like Henry Brougham and Mary Ward. Embracing the high life of the squares, the nonconformity of churches, the parades of shops, schools, hospitals and poor homes, this is a major contribution to the history of nineteenth-century London.

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395

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Yale University Press

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0300154488

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9780300154481

Ecological Genetics

Design, Analysis, and Application

By: Andrew Lowe,Stephen Harris,Paul Ashton

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Ecological Genetics

Design, Analysis, and Application

By: Andrew Lowe,Stephen Harris,Paul Ashton

Ecological Genetics addresses the fundamental problems of which of the many molecular markers should be used and how the resulting data should be analysed in clear, accessible language, suitable for upper-level undergraduates through to research-level professionals. A very accessible straightforward text to deal with this difficult topic - applying modern molecular techniques to ecological processes. Written by active researchers and teachers within the field. There will be an accompanying web site managed by the authors, comprising of worked examples, test data sets and hyperlinks to relevant web pages.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444311212

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9781444311211

Looking Back

A Journey Through the Pages of the Keowee Courier Featuring the Walhalla Centennial Special Edition of 1950 and Highlights from the Years 1956, 1966, 1986, 1996 and 2006

By: John Ashton Hester

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Looking Back

A Journey Through the Pages of the Keowee Courier Featuring the Walhalla Centennial Special Edition of 1950 and Highlights from the Years 1956, 1966, 1986, 1996 and 2006

By: John Ashton Hester

This is the ninth book in the Looking Back series. It consists of stories taken from the Keowee Courier’s special Walhalla centennial edition in 1950, other stories, and highlights for the years 1956, 1986, 1996, and 2006. It is the author’s hope that these books will bring back some nostalgic memories for longtime residents and provide some historical insight for younger people and newcomers to the area. The Keowee Courier was founded in 1849. Sadly, it was recently closed down, with the final issue coming out on March 27, 2019. Thus, it had been in continuous publication for 170 years except for two or three years during the Civil War.

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Xlibris Corporation

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179603729X

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9781796037296

Diverse Literacies in Early Childhood

A Social Justice Approach

By: Leonie Arthur,Jean Ashton,Bronwyn Beecher

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Diverse Literacies in Early Childhood

A Social Justice Approach

By: Leonie Arthur,Jean Ashton,Bronwyn Beecher

This important, research-based text explores the concept of literacy as social practice within diverse family, community and educational settings. Its theoretical premise that literacy learning and life chances are inextricably linked is underscored by practical example, teachers' stories and real-world vignettes.

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ACER Press

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174286340X

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9781742863405

Individual Differences and Personality

By: Michael C. Ashton

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Individual Differences and Personality

By: Michael C. Ashton

How do we come to be who we are? Why do we differ in our personalities? How do these differences matter in life? Individual Differences and Personality aims to describe how and why personality varies among people. Unlike books that focus on individual theorists, this book focuses on current research and theory on the nature of personality and related individual differences. The book begins by discussing how personality is measured, the concept of a personality trait, and the basic dimensions of personality. This leads to a discussion of the origins of personality, with descriptions of its developmental course, its biological causes, its genetic and environmental influences, and its evolutionary function. The concept of a personality disorder is then described, followed by a discussion of the influence of personality on life outcomes in relationships, work, and health. Finally, the book examines the important differences between individuals in the realms of mental abilities, of beliefs and attitudes, and of behavior. - Presents a scientific approach to personality and related individual differences, as well as theory and research on the fundamental questions about human psychological variation - New edition presents findings from dozens of new research studies of the past six years - Includes new chapter on vocational interests and a revised chapter on personality disorders reflecting DSM-5 formulation - Contains streamlined descriptions of measurement concepts and heritability research - Includes various boxes containing interesting asides that help to maintain the student's attention

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Academic Press

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0123914701

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9780123914705

Bipolar Force

By: Ashton Change

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Bipolar Force

By: Ashton Change

Bristol is a city where little happens to calm overzealous DI Alison Harts until she stumbles into a police informant-cum-drug dealer in a bloodbath. Evidence points to gangland turf, until the suspect gang is wiped out in a boat fire. Matters get out of hand when her fellow officers with earlier contact with the slain dealer join fatalities in a car blast that also claims two children. Alison questions the grieving husband of comatose WPC Elaine Morrison, but she is compromised when Ed Morrison himself becomes a moving target of police vendetta. As more officers and associate civilians join the casualties, and the wall of silence becomes even more complicated while separating victims from the culprits. In an elusive lull that follows, Alison is tipped of a child abuser. She knows that Ed is unhitched and dangerous after losing his family, yet she cannot deny the truth that there has been massive police cover up in an earlier rape of a minor. Then she witnesses two brutal deaths involving divided forces very close to her that might have caused her own demise. Her loyalty is again in question. As her troubled past comes under scrutiny by the man she has reluctantly woven her future with, she is torn between duty and love. Not long before the bitter truth comes out, and she has to rethink her new life, realising that all along she had known the truth but had chosen to turn a blind eye. But then, the race is on to avert an even worse bloodbath, and she too is seriously in mortal danger.

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AuthorHouse

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1491875062

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9781491875063

The New York School

A Cultural Reckoning

By: Dore Ashton

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The New York School

A Cultural Reckoning

By: Dore Ashton

With the emergence of Abstract Expressionism after World War II, the attention of the international art world turned from Paris to New York. Dore Ashton captures the vitality of the cultural milieu in which the New York School artists worked and argued and critiqued each other's work from the 1930s to the 1950s. Working from unsifted archives, from contemporary newspapers and books, and from extensive conversations with the men and women who participated in the rise of the New York School, Ashton provides a rich cultural and intellectual history of this period. In examining the complex sources of this important movement—from the WPA program of the 1930s and the influx of European ideas to the recognition in the 1950s of American painting on an international scale—she conveys the concerns of an extraordinary group of artists including Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, Philip Guston, Barnett Newman, Arshile Gorky, and many others. Rare documentary photographs illustrate Ashton's classic appraisal of the New York School scene.

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Univ of California Press

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0520081064

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9780520081062

Rebecca Gratz

Women and Judaism in Antebellum America

By: Dianne Ashton

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Rebecca Gratz

Women and Judaism in Antebellum America

By: Dianne Ashton

This is the first in-depth biography of Rebecca Gratz (1781-1869), the foremost American Jewish woman of the nineteenth century. This is the first in-depth biography of Rebecca Gratz (1781-1869), the foremost American Jewish woman of the nineteenth century. Perhaps the best-known member of the prominent Gratz family of Philadelphia, she was a fervent patriot, a profoundly religious woman, and a widely known activist for poor women. She devoted her life to confronting and resolving the personal challenges she faced as a Jew and as a female member of a prosperous family. In using hundreds of Gratz's own letters in her research, Dianne Ashton reveals Gratz's own blend of Jewish and American values and explores the significance of her work. Informed by her American and Jewish ideas, values, and attitudes, Gratz created and managed a variety of municipal and Jewish institutions for charity and education, including America's first independent Jewish women's charitable society, the first Jewish Sunday school, and the first American Jewish foster home. Through her commitment to establishing charitable resources for women, promoting Judaism in a Christian society, and advancing women's roles in Jewish life, Gratz shaped a Jewish arm of what has been called America's largely Protestant "benevolent empire." Influenced by the religious and political transformations taking place nationally and locally, Gratz matured into a social visionary whose dreams for American Jewish life far surpassed the realities she saw around her. She believed that Judaism was advanced by the founding of the Female Hebrew Benevolent Society and the Hebrew Sunday School because they offered religious education to thousands of children and leadership opportunities to Jewish women. Gratz's organizations worked with an inclusive definition of Jewishness that encompassed all Philadelphia Jews at a time when differences in national origin, worship style, and religious philosophy divided them. Legend has it that Gratz was the prototype for the heroine Rebecca of York in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, the Jewish woman who refused to wed the Christian hero of the tale out of loyalty to her faith and father. That legend has draped Gratz's life in sentimentality and has blurred our vision of her. Rebecca Gratzis the first book to examine Gratz's life, her legend, and our memory.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814341012

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9780814341018

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Scotts Lawns

Scotts Lawns

Collaborators in Literary America, 1870-1920

Collaborators in Literary America, 1870-1920

Success as a Psychology Major

Success as a Psychology Major

Thomas And Jane Carlyle

Thomas And Jane Carlyle

One Hot Summer

One Hot Summer

Victorian Bloomsbury

Victorian Bloomsbury

Ecological Genetics

Ecological Genetics

Looking Back

Looking Back

Diverse Literacies in Early Childhood

Diverse Literacies in Early Childhood

Individual Differences and Personality

Individual Differences and Personality

Bipolar Force

Bipolar Force

The New York School

The New York School

Rebecca Gratz

Rebecca Gratz

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