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Blood and Salt

By: Barbara Sapergia

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The central character, Taras Kalyna, has run away from the Austrian army on the brink of World War I, to follow his love, Halya, to Canada. He can’t know how hard it will be to find her again or that his search will be interrupted by two years in what some have called “Canada’s Gulag.” Because Ukrainians come from Austrian-ruled territories, they will be classed as “enemy aliens” and confined behind barbed wire in internment camps. Not every single Ukrainian; the emphasis was on the unemployed, the political (such as union activists), and people who were in somebody’s way. The novel involves class relations. Halya’s ambitious father gets her a job as companion to a rich woman, Louisa Shawcross. Louisa is the mother of Ronnie Shawcross, Taras’s boss at the small-town brick plant, and he falls in love with Halya. Taras becomes a person in his way. Ronnie denounces him to the police. By the end of the story, Taras and Halya do come together again. Taras has come to love the southern Saskatchewan landscape and raises horses like the one he saw in a dream as a young man in the old country. Storytelling is an important element. To explain why he’ll never return to the old country, Taras begins a tale – about why he left – which lasts for most of the time in camp and helps to sustain the men’s spirits. Another character, Myro, a teacher, tells stories about the great 19th century Ukrainian poet and patriot, Taras Shevchenko. In these stories the narrative moves to the poet’s point of view. We see him in St. Petersburg and elsewhere and we learn of his own “internment” – his exile to eastern Russia.

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Coteau Books

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1550505351

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Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery

William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory

By: Barbara McCaskill

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Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery

William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory

By: Barbara McCaskill

The spectacular 1848 escape of William and Ellen Craft (1824-1900; 1826-1891) from slavery in Macon, Georgia, is a dramatic story in the annals of American history. Ellen, who could pass for white, disguised herself as a gentleman slaveholder; William accompanied her as his "master's" devoted slave valet; both traveled openly by train, steamship, and carriage to arrive in free Philadelphia on Christmas Day. In Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery, Barbara McCaskill revisits this dual escape and examines the collaborations and partnerships that characterized the Crafts' activism for the next thirty years: in Boston, where they were on the run again after the passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law; in England; and in Reconstruction-era Georgia. McCaskill also provides a close reading of the Crafts' only book, their memoir, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, published in 1860. Yet as this study of key moments in the Crafts' public lives argues, the early print archive--newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, legal documents--fills gaps in their story by providing insight into how they navigated the challenges of freedom as reformers and educators, and it discloses the transatlantic British and American audiences' changing reactions to them. By discussing such events as the 1878 court case that placed William's character and reputation on trial, this book also invites readers to reconsider the Crafts' triumphal story as one that is messy, unresolved, and bittersweet. An important episode in African American literature, history, and culture, this will be essential reading for teachers and students of the slave narrative genre and the transatlantic antislavery movement and for researchers investigating early American print culture.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820348325

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Ashes to Ashes (Francis Hancock Mystery 3)

A page-turning World War Two crime thriller

By: Barbara Nadel

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Ashes to Ashes (Francis Hancock Mystery 3)

A page-turning World War Two crime thriller

By: Barbara Nadel

As London burns, an unlikely hero unearths a series of brutal murders... Ashes to Ashes is the third novel in the acclaimed Francis Hancock World War Two crime series by Barbara Nadel. Perfect for fans of Martin Walker and Maureen Jennings. 'A great depiction of the period and a touchingly involuntary new sleuth' - Guardian As the German Luftwaffe bomb the capital, undertaker Francis Hancock suddenly finds himself caught up in the middle of a terrifying abduction plot. It's 29 December, 1940, the night that Hitler has chosen to destroy London under a barrage of flaming incendiary bombs. Their main target - St Paul's cathedral - is where Hancock is sheltering from the onslaught. But the First World War veteran doesn't just have bombs to contend with; a young girl, who was also sheltering in the cathedral, has vanished. Then some of those charged with protecting the building are brutally murdered. Hancock must face his own demons and fears in his struggle to catch those responsible and bring them to justice... What readers are saying about Ashes to Ashes: 'The details of people's ordinary lives adds so much depth to the story' 'The tale covers madness, loyalty, patriotism, priorities, faith - all the deep stuff Barbara Nadel tackles so well' 'Barbara Nadel is a seriously perceptive, interesting writer

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The King's Daughter

By: Barbara Kyle

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The King's Daughter

By: Barbara Kyle

Upon the death of her father, Henry VIII, Queen Mary assumes the throne after a long exile. Her first order of business is to wed the devout Prince Philip of Spain, creating a powerful alliance that will transform Mary's fanatical dream of ridding England of Protestantism into terrifying reality. And so begins the reign of Bloody Mary. . . Even as she plans for her own nuptials, Isabel Thornleigh is helping to lay the groundwork to overthrow Mary and bring Elizabeth to power. But none of the secrets Isabel has discovered compares to the truths hidden in her own family. With her beloved father imprisoned by Queen Mary, only Carlos Valverde--a Spanish soldier of fortune--can help Isabel. Now with England's future at stake, Isabel risks all to change the course of history. . . Praise for The Queen's Lady "Swiftly draws you into the tumult of Renaissance England. . .a big, fast-paced novel that won't let you down. I loved it!" --Diane Haeger "Weaves a fast-paced plot through some of the most harrowing years of English history." --Judith Merkle Riley "Excellent, exciting, compellingly readable." --Ellen Jones

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Kensington Books

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0758262566

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Prospect and Refuge in the Landscape of Jane Austen

By: Barbara Britton Wenner

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Prospect and Refuge in the Landscape of Jane Austen

By: Barbara Britton Wenner

How do Austen's heroines find a way to prevail in their environments? How do they make the landscape work for them? In what ways does Austen herself use landscape to convey meaning? These are among the questions Barbara Britton Wenner asks as she explores how Austen uses landscape to extend the range of reflection and activity for her female protagonists. Women, Wenner argues, create private spaces within the landscape that offer them the power of knowledge gained through silent and invisible observation. She traces the construction of these hidden refuges in Austen's six major novels, as well as in her juvenilia and her final, unfinished novel, Sanditon. Her book will be an important resource for Austen specialists and for those interested generally in the importance of landscape in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century women's fiction writing.

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Routledge

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1351908235

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Using Biographical Methods in Social Research

By: Barbara Merrill,Linden West

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Using Biographical Methods in Social Research

By: Barbara Merrill,Linden West

Using Biographical Methods in Social Research provides an informative, comprehensive, accessible and practical guide to the nature and use of biographical methods, combining a consideration of theoretical issues with practical guidance as well as reflections on the personal experience of doing research. Barbara Merrill and Linden West consider important questions about who and what research is for and what makes it valid, alongside the practical business of interviewing, transcribing, analyzing and writing up of biographical data. The authors draw on their sociological and psychological orientations to provide a truly interdisciplinary approach to the subject, and provide numerous examples of biographical research across the social sciences. This book will equip students with all the skills necessary to undertake biographical research as well as to fully understand what they are doing and the assumptions they make about the nature of truth, knowledge, story telling and being human. It will be useful for students and researchers using biographical methods in a range of disciplines, including sociology, social policy, social psychology, health care and education.

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SAGE Publications

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141292958X

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Hypersaline Environments

Microbiology and Biogeochemistry

By: Barbara J. Javor

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Hypersaline Environments

Microbiology and Biogeochemistry

By: Barbara J. Javor

Hypersaline environments are the principal habitats of petroleum deposition. They are also of intense evolutionary and ecological interest. This book presents a cross-disciplinary examination of the variety of halophilic microorganisms and their roles in modifying the ecology and geochemistry of hypersaline environments. The book also covers in detail the various inland and coastal habitats where halophilic microorganisms thrive. Geographically, hypersaline environments extend from the tropics to the poles, and from the terrestrial to the submarine. Organisms capable of living in such environments have faced unique evolutionary challenges.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642743706

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Wet Site Archaeology

By: Barbara A. Purdy

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Wet Site Archaeology

By: Barbara A. Purdy

This volume, the result of an International Conference on Wet Site Archaeology funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, explores the rewards and responsibilities of recovering unique assemblages from water-saturated deposits. Characteristics common to all archaeological wet sites are identified from Newfoundland to Chile, Polynesia to Florida, and from the Late Pleistocene to the Twentieth Century. Topics include innovative excavation and preservation methods; the need for adequate funding to preserve and analyze the abundant biological and cultural remains recovered only at archaeological wet sites; expanded knowledge of past environments, subsistence, technologies, artistic expressions, skeletal structure, and pathologies; the urgency to inform developers and governmental bodies about the invisible heritage entombed in wetlands that is often destroyed before it can be investigated; a formula for establishing priorities for excavating wet sites; and how to determine when enough of a wet site has been sampled.Many famous sites and discoveries are described in this volume, including Herculaneum, Hoko River, Hontoon Island, Key Marco, Monte Verde, Ozette, Somerset Levels, Windover, bog bodies of Northern Europe, and lake dwellers of Switzerland. Professional and amateur archaeologists, as well as anyone interested in archaeology or the significance of wet site archaeology will find this book fascinating.

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1351094653

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Diffusion of Democracy

The Past and Future of Global Democracy

By: Barbara Wejnert

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Diffusion of Democracy

The Past and Future of Global Democracy

By: Barbara Wejnert

This book explores the course and causes of the worldwide diffusion of democracy through an assessment of the political and economic development of individual countries from the year 1800 to 2005. Using this extended range of data and examining multiple variables, Barbara Wejnert creates a conceptual model for the diffusion of democracy and to measure national democratization. The author characterizes each nation's political system, its networking with other countries, level of development, and media advancement, in order to pinpoint what leads to national and regional progress to, or regress from, democratization. Her innovative findings challenge established thinking and reveal that the growth of literacy does not lead to democratization but is instead an outcome of democracy. She also finds that networks between non-democratic and democratic states are more important to a nation's democratization than financial aid given to non-democratic regimes or the level of national development.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107729742

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New American Teenagers

The Lost Generation of Youth in 1970s Film

By: Barbara Jane Brickman

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New American Teenagers

The Lost Generation of Youth in 1970s Film

By: Barbara Jane Brickman

The author challenges the neglect of the 1970s in studies on teen film and youth culture by locating a number of subversive and critical narratives.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1628922788

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Crop Circles Revealed

By: Judith Moore,Barbara Lamb

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Crop Circles Revealed

By: Judith Moore,Barbara Lamb

Unravel these intriguing crop circle mysteries for yourself, with help from two authorities on this baffling phenomenon: Unlock their secret, otherworldly messages Discover the technology behind their dynamic creation Read first-hand accounts by those who have actually witnessed the creation of these enigmas Learn how to differentiate a genuine crop circle from a hoax Research the ancient sacred geometries and mathematical wizardry used to formulate these remarkable patterns Explore the link between the crop circle, the Holy Grail and the esoteric bloodline of Christ, the House of David Receive insights directly from Tolktan, a galactic Mayan prophet, and White Buffalo Calf Pipe Woman, a powerful Native American spirit Special meditation section: The healing energies of powerful star glyphs and transmissions will help you transform your world into a new heaven on Earth.

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Light Technology Publishing

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1622335619

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Oliver Dibbs to the Rescue!

By: Barbara Steiner

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Oliver Dibbs to the Rescue!

By: Barbara Steiner

Oliver just wants to spread the word about wildlife conservation, but his plans go awry when the local prairie dog habitat is threatened Oliver Dibbs is passionate about animals, and he’s willing to do anything to help a good cause. The only problem is, Ollie doesn’t always think his plans through before acting on them, and this has gotten him into a lot of trouble. No matter what cause Ollie is fighting for—whether it’s tigers, wolves, or whales—something always goes wrong. It doesn’t help that his little brother, Bo, always wants to tag along. It’s hard to look out for a seven-year-old and save the world at the same time. But when Ollie finds out a local businessman is planning to build a shopping mall right over the town’s prairie dog habitat, he knows that he can’t fail. If he doesn’t step in and protect the prairie dogs’ home, they’ll all die. This time, Ollie has to make sure nothing stands in his way!

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1480426938

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Oliver Dibbs and the Dinosaur Cause

By: Barbara Steiner

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Oliver Dibbs and the Dinosaur Cause

By: Barbara Steiner

Oliver wants the stegosaurus to be named the state fossil of Colorado, but getting a new law passed is going to take a lot of work and a little bit of luck Oliver Dibbs already had his moment in the spotlight when he saved the local prairie dog habitat from destruction. When he convinces his class to try to get the stegosaurus declared the state fossil of Colorado, Ollie is ready to be famous again. He can just imagine his name splashed across the front page of the newspaper. But it turns out that convincing the government to name a new state symbol takes a little more work than he thought. Especially when the class bully, Lester Philpott, will do anything to sabotage Ollie’s plans. Ollie is determined to accomplish his goal. The stegosaurus deserves its day in the sun, and Ollie and his friends are going to help it get there—no matter what setbacks they encounter along the way!

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149762455X

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Cruise Into Darkness (Paperback)

By: Randy Washburn,Barbara Kreger Washburn

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Cruise Into Darkness (Paperback)

By: Randy Washburn,Barbara Kreger Washburn

As the Brentlees, a family of four from Yakima, Washington, settle into the shipboard routine of luxurious pampering and scrumptious dining, their once-in-a-lifetime dream cruise turns into a nightmare when Captain Misenheimer announces that the MS Emerald has been hijacked. Top government agencies work around the clock to come up with a rescue plan, but tropical storms brewing in the Atlantic force the US Coast Guard to abort search and rescue efforts. A new strategy must be implemented, but time is running out for the four thousand passengers and crewmembers being held at gunpoint.Frightened, hungry, and unaware that anyone is looking for them, many risk their lives for the good of others.Not everyone survives.This 318 page suspense thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat from the first page to the surprise ending.

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0557290821

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A Light To The Heart

By: Barbara Cartland

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A Light To The Heart

By: Barbara Cartland

Lovely Elita Garson knew she must escape. She must be freed from her golden chains to make her own life and her own friends. When she walks out of the luxurious London hotel she has been staying in, she takes nothing but a single suitcase - and her hopes of an independent life. She quickly finds work as an airhostess on a privately chartered plane, and then secures a better job working for the elderly passenger she met onboard. Excited by her new freedom, Elita soon discovers that life has turned very complicated, mysterious and at times dangerous. Complicated by falling head over heels in love with a hotel valet, of whom she knows little about – mysterious and often violent goings on with her new employer, and danger when she is drawn into a web of theft, lies and deception. In this exciting romantic tale set in beautiful Copenhagen, can Elita give up the luxuries she was born to and find the happiness she is searching for?

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1788678214

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Bringing Ben Home

A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

By: Barbara Bradley Hagerty

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Bringing Ben Home

A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

By: Barbara Bradley Hagerty

How states are making their legal systems more equitable, seen through the story of a Black man falsely imprisoned for thirty years for murder. In 1987, Ben Spencer, a twenty-two-year-old Black man from Dallas, was convicted of murdering white businessman Jeffrey Young—a crime he didn’t commit. From the day of his arrest, Spencer insisted that it was “an awful mistake.” The Texas legal system didn’t see it that way. It allowed shoddy police work, paid witnesses, and prosecutorial misconduct to convict Spencer of murder, and it ignored later efforts to correct this error. The state’s bureaucratic intransigence caused Spencer to spend more than half his life in prison. Eventually independent investigators, new witness testimony, the foreman of the jury that convicted him, and a new Dallas DA convinced a Texas judge that Spencer had nothing to do with the killing, and in 2021 he was released from prison. As Spencer’s fight to clear himself demonstrates, our legal systems are broken: expedience is more important than the truth. That is starting to change as states across the country implement new efforts to reduce wrongful convictions, and one of the states leading the way is Texas. Award-winning journalist Barbara Bradley Hagerty has spent years digging into this issue, and she has immersed herself in Spencer’s case. She has combed police files and court records, interviewed dozens of witnesses, and had extensive conversations with Spencer, and in Bringing Ben Home she threads together two narratives: how an innocent Black man got caught up in and couldn’t escape a legal system that refused to admit its mistakes; and what Texas and other states are doing to address wrongful convictions to make the legal process more equitable for everyone. By turns fascinating and enraging, personal and provocative, Bringing Ben Home is the powerful story of one innocent man who refused to admit that he was guilty of murder, and how his plight became part of a paradigm shift in how the legal system thinks about innocence as it institutes new methods to overturn wrongful convictions to better protect people like Ben Spencer.

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Penguin

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059342008X

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A Pinch of Dry Mustard

By: Roose Cramer Barbara Roose Cramer,Barbara Roose Cramer

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A Pinch of Dry Mustard

By: Roose Cramer Barbara Roose Cramer,Barbara Roose Cramer

Natalie Pickford Andrews gives birth to a baby girl at the young age of eighteen and her parents force her to give the baby up for adoption. After she attempts to commit suicide, she is no longer physically able to have a child of her own. Obsessed by what she can no longer have, Natalie becomes involved in a series of drug dealings, kidnapping, and an attempted murder to get a child which she so desperately wants even if it means seeking out and abducting her own daughter's child. Sarah Waverly Kestwick, Natalie's biological and musically talented daughter is aware of her adoption but has no idea who her birth parents are nor does she care to know. She has no idea that her biological mother is crafting an evil scheme to kidnap Sarah's unborn child and claim it as her own. Sarah's faith in God guides her through her difficult delivery and the pain she suffers when her husband, Ben, goes missing at sea. A Pinch of Dry Mustard takes place over a three-day period in a quaint fishing village along the coast of Maine. It is an intriguing mystery and a family's ultimate testament to faith, hope, and love. COMMENTS FROM THE READERS Grace MN Family is the essence of my life and Barbara depicted how important family is both through blood and through adoption. The positive character she created in Sarah showed her faith through God and the power of positive thinking...great book and I will recommend it. Phyllis - IL Barbara delivers a good story of suspense. Good Backgrounds on the characters and how they all intertwine. I loved the ending. If you are looking for a good, wholesome mystery, this is the book. Harriett - CO I enjoyed the book so much. It is a page-turner. I have visited many places in the book and that made it even more interesting to me. I had a hard time putting it down. I am ordering more books for my family in Maine. Jeanne - MI I loved the book, and could not put it down. I congratulate you on your first novel. I liked your style of writing, keeping the reader in suspense. You presented each case separately and then wove it all together beautifully, even a surprise twist at the end.

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New Jersey Politics and Government

Suburban Politics Comes of Age

By: Barbara G. Salmore,Stephen A. Salmore

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New Jersey Politics and Government

Suburban Politics Comes of Age

By: Barbara G. Salmore,Stephen A. Salmore

Discussing such issues as the development of a more activist posture within the state government and the response of the New Jersey polity to growing suburbanization, Barbara G. Salmore and Stephen A. Salmore present the only comprehensive overview of politics and government in New Jersey. This second edition includes a new chapter on the political changes in New Jersey since the book?s original publication in 1993.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803292562

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The Notorious Astrological Physician of London

Works and Days of Simon Forman

By: Barbara Howard Traister

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The Notorious Astrological Physician of London

Works and Days of Simon Forman

By: Barbara Howard Traister

Quack, conjurer, sex fiend, murderer—Simon Forman has been called all these things, and worse, ever since he was implicated (two years after his death) in the Overbury poisoning scandal that rocked the court of King James. But as Barbara Traister shows in this fascinating book, Forman's own unpublished manuscripts—considered here in their entirety for the first time—paint a quite different picture of the works and days of this notorious astrological physician of London. Although he received no formal medical education, Forman built a thriving practice. His success rankled the College of Physicians of London, who hounded Forman with fines and jail terms for nearly two decades. In addition to detailing case histories of his medical practice—the first such records known from London—as well as his run-ins with the College, Forman's manuscripts cover a wide variety of other matters, from astrology and alchemy to gardening and the theater. His autobiographical writings are among the earliest English examples of their genre and display an abiding passion for reworking his personal history in the best possible light, even though they show little evidence that Forman ever intended to publish them. Fantastic as many of Forman's manuscripts are, it is their more mundane aspects that make them such a priceless record of what daily life was like for ordinary inhabitants of Shakespeare's London. Forman's descriptions of the stench of a privy, the paralyzed limbs of a child, a lost bitch dog with a velvet collar all offer tantalizing glimpses of a world that seems at once very far away and intimately familiar. Anyone who wants to reclaim that world will enjoy this book.

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Detox Your Writing

Strategies for doctoral researchers

By: Pat Thomson,Barbara Kamler

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Detox Your Writing

Strategies for doctoral researchers

By: Pat Thomson,Barbara Kamler

There are a number of books which aim to help doctoral researchers write the PhD. This book offers something different - the scholarly detox. This is not a faddish alternative, it’s not extreme. It’s a moderate approach intended to gently interrupt old ways of doing things and establish new habits and orientations to writing the PhD. The book addresses the problems that most doctoral researchers experience at some time during their candidature – being unclear about their contribution, feeling lost in the literature, feeling like an imposter, not knowing how to write with authority, wanting to edit rather than revise. Each chapter addresses a problem, suggests an alternative framing, and then offers strategies designed to address the real issue. Detox Your Writing is intended to be a companionable work book – something doctoral researchers can use throughout their doctorate to ask questions about taken-for-granted ways of writing and reading, and to develop new and effective approaches. The authors’ distinctive approach to doctoral writing mobilises the rich traditions of linguistic scholarship, as well as the literatures on scholarly identity formation. Building on years of expertise they place their emphasis both on tools and techniques as well as the discursive practices of becoming a scholar. The authors provide a wide repertoire of strategies that doctoral researchers can select from, rather than a linear lock step progression through a set of exercises. The book is a toolkit but a far from prescriptive one. It shows that there are many routes to developing a personal academic voice and identity and a well-crafted text. With points for reflection alongside examples from a broad range of disciplines, the book offers thinking tools, writing tools, linguistic tools, and reading tools which are relevant to all stages of doctoral research. This practical text can be used in all university doctoral training and composition and writing courses. However, it is not a dry how-to-do–it manual that ignores debates or focuses solely on the mechanical at the expense of the lived experience of doctoral research. It provides a practical, theorised, real-world, guide to postgraduate writing.

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1317283511

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The Coach's Wife

By: Barbara Casey

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The Coach's Wife

By: Barbara Casey

The Cinderella Coyotes of State University are in the Final Four, poised to win the NCAA National Championship in basketball—the culmination of March Madness. For Marla Conners, she's proud of her husband Neal, and his achievement of coaching a collegiate team to the pinnacle of his career and the ultimate victory for his team. Yet, Marla's idyllic life is about to be viciously attacked and torn apart by a different madness—her husband's reputation ruined, a university disgraced, and she finds herself on trial accused of first-degree murder. The Coach’s Wife is rife with spine-tingling suspense, conspiracy, deceit, and murder, sizzling and seductive passion, right down to the last second buzzer-beating heroics. This is also a candid and vivid behind-the-scenes portrait of Division One college basketball, university politics, money and corruption, and all the lives that are blessed and ruined by it all. Be prepared to finish it in one sitting-you won't be able to put it down.

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Speaking Volumes

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164540434X

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Adventure Guide to New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island

By: Barbara Radcliffe Rogers

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Adventure Guide to New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island

By: Barbara Radcliffe Rogers

A multitude of land and sea adventures await in these two popular destinations, with their pristine rivers and forests and fascinating wildlife. This comprehensive guide takes in all kinds of activities here OCo hiking in Fundy National Park, sea kayaking, biking the Confederation Trail, sightseeing at Flowerpot Rocks. It covers all the basic too: accommodation, restaurants, travel tips, cultural events and more.

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1588433048

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Oscar Wilde

A Certain Genius

By: Barbara Belford

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Oscar Wilde

A Certain Genius

By: Barbara Belford

In this elegant and affectionate biography of one of the most controversial personalities of the nineteenth century, Barbara Belford breaks new ground in the evocation of Oscar Wilde's personal life and in our understanding of the choices he made for his art. Published for the centenary of Wilde's death, here is a fresh, full-scale examination of the author of The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray, a figure not only full of himself but enjoying life to the fullest. Based on extensive study of original sources and animated throughout by historical detail, anecdote, and insight, the narrative traces Wilde's progression from his childhood in an intellectual Irish household to his maturity as a London author to the years of his European exile. Here is Wilde the Oxford Aesthete becoming the talk of London, going off to tour America, lecturing on the craftsmanship of Cellini to the silver miners of Colorado, condemning the ugliness of cast-iron stoves to the ladies of Boston. Here is the domestic Wilde, building sandcastles with his sons, and the generous Wilde, underwriting the publication of poets, lending and spending with no thought of tomorrow. And here is the romantic Wilde, enthralled with Lord Alfred Douglas in an affair that thrived on laughter, smitten with Florence Balcombe, flirting with Violet Hunt, obsessed with Lillie Langtry, loving Constance, his wife. Vividly evoked are the theatres, clubs, restaurants, and haunts that Wilde made famous. More than previous accounts, Belford's biography evaluates Wilde's homosexuality as not just a private matter but one connected to the politics and culture of the 1890s. Wilde's timeless observations, which make him the most quoted playwright after Shakespeare, are seamlessly woven into the life, revealing a man of remarkable intellect, energy, and warmth. Too often portrayed as a tragic figure--persecuted, imprisoned, sent into exile, and shunned--Wilde emerges from this intuitive portrait as fully human and fallible, a man who, realizing that his creative years were behind him, committed himself to a life of sexual freedom, which he insisted was the privilege of every artist. Even now, we have yet to catch up with the man who exhibited some of the more distinguishing characteristics of the twentieth century's preoccupation with fame and zeal for self-advertisement. Wilde's personality shaped an era, and his popularity as a wit and a dramatist has never ebbed. NOTE: This edition does not include a photo insert.

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Days Gone By

Aiken, Texas and the Outskirts

By: Pamila Hooper Adkison,Barbara Williams Scates

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Days Gone By

Aiken, Texas and the Outskirts

By: Pamila Hooper Adkison,Barbara Williams Scates

Take a step back in time to a small community in Texas called Aiken. Learn about her citizens through the eyes of their neighbors and families. As the narratives come together and expand, nearby communities are included. A few historical figures are mentioned, but they take second place in our stories. The heroes in this collection are the men and women who lead quiet, dignified lives in a little corner of the USA.

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1977274269

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Henry IV, Part Two

By: Barbara Hodgdon

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Henry IV, Part Two

By: Barbara Hodgdon

This valuable introduction to Henry IV Part Two as a performance text draws on traditional methods of performance analysis as well as theatre semiotics, historical analysis, feminism and cultural materialism. Barbara Hodgdon demonstrates how each intersects with sociocultural circumstances, producing a dialogue between a transhistorical 'Merrie England' and the historically local circumstances of present-day theatrical and political cultures. The key stagings discussed include those of Michael Redgrave, Terry Hands, Trevor Nunn and Michael Bogdanov. Ranging beyond the bounds of the conventional theatre, Barbara Hodgdon also looks at Orson Welles' film adaptation, Chimes at Midnight, and at David Giles' production for the BBC/Time-Life Shakespeare series.

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0719027519

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Other Powers

The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull

By: Barbara Goldsmith

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Other Powers

The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull

By: Barbara Goldsmith

From the author of Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last, a stunning combination of history and biography that interweaves the stories of some of the most important social, political, and religious figures of America's Victorian era with the courageous and notorious life of Victoria Woodhull, to tell the story of her astonishing rise and fall and rise again. This is history at its most vivid, set amid the battle for woman suffrage, the Spiritualist movement that swept across the nation (10 million strong by midcentury) in the age of Radical Reconstruction following the Civil War, and the bitter fight that pitted black men against white women in the struggle to win the right to vote.

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0307800350

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The Moving Appeal

Mr. McClanahan, Mrs. Dill, and the Civil War's Great Newspaper Run

By: Barbara G. Ellis

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Mr. McClanahan, Mrs. Dill, and the Civil War's Great Newspaper Run

By: Barbara G. Ellis

Ellis relates the story of the Memphis Daily Appeal , the mobile newspaper that rallied Southern civilians and soldiers during the Civil War, and eluded capture by Yankee generals who chased the Appeal's portable printing operation across four states. The study also serves as a biography of the news

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0865547645

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Transcending the Legacies of Slavery

A Psychoanalytic View

By: Barbara Fletchman Smith

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Transcending the Legacies of Slavery

A Psychoanalytic View

By: Barbara Fletchman Smith

This book puts psychological trauma at its centre. Using psychoanalysis, it assesses what was lost, how it was lost and how the loss is compulsively repeated over generations. There is a conceptualization of this trauma as circular. Such a situation makes it stubbornly persistent. It is suggested that central to the system of slavery was the separating out of procreation from maternity and paternity. This was achieved through the particular cruelties of separating couples at the first sign of loving interest in each other; and separating infants from their mothers. Cruelty disturbed the natural flow of events in the mind and disturbed the approach to and the resolution of the Oedipus Complex conflict. This is traced through the way a new kind of family developed in the Caribbean and elsewhere where slavery remained for hundreds of years.

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Routledge

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0429908962

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The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut and his Wife Alice Tomes, Volume 1, 3rd Edition

By: Barbara Jean Mathews

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The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut and his Wife Alice Tomes, Volume 1, 3rd Edition

By: Barbara Jean Mathews

Thomas Welles (ca. 1590-1660), son of Robert and Alice Welles, was born in Stourton, Whichford, Warwickshire, England, and died in Wethersfield, Connecticut. He married (1) Alice Tomes (b. before 1593), daughter of John Tomes and Ellen (Gunne) Phelps, 1615 in Long Marston, Gloucestershire. She was born in Long Marston, and died before 1646 in Hartford, Connecticut. They had eight children. He married (2) Elizabeth (Deming) Foote (ca. 1595-1683) ca. 1646. She was the widow of Nathaniel Foote and the sister of John Deming. She had seven children from her previous marriage.

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1312874791

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Shoestring

An Adventure in the Florida Keys

By: Jon C. Hall,Barbara D. Hall

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Shoestring

An Adventure in the Florida Keys

By: Jon C. Hall,Barbara D. Hall

Steve Andrews had it made, a successful law practice in Miami, a young, beautiful wife and a sailboat to enjoy his leisure time. Then one day he woke up to find his world turned upside down. His law practice was failing and he was informed his wife was not legally his wife. To make matters worse, his wife had emptied all of his escrow and trust accounts, turned the money over to her real husband who had exchanged the funds for gold, and the authorities wanted to talk with him. In a desperate attempt to recover some money, Steve contracted to sell his sailboat to a buyer in Key West. The adventure begins when Steve decides to deliver the boat to Key West by sailing down the Intercoastal Waterway, passing through the protected area known as the backcountry on the Gulf side of the Florida Keys. Beginning his journey, Steve meets Shoestring, a common cormorant who stands as sentry on the bow of his sailboat. As he passes through natures country, Steve shares his desires and fears with Shoestring. Complicating his goal to reach Key West safely and transfer ownership of his cherished sailboat, he is informed that the missing gold is hidden on his sailboat and his wifes real husband is tracking him to recapture the missing gold.

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1468506544

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A Continuous Revolution

Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture

By: Barbara Mittler

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A Continuous Revolution

Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture

By: Barbara Mittler

Cultural Revolution Culture, often denigrated as nothing but propaganda, was liked not only in its heyday but continues to be enjoyed today. A Continuous Revolution sets out to explain its legacy. By considering Cultural Revolution propaganda art—music, stage works, prints and posters, comics, and literature—from the point of view of its longue durée, Barbara Mittler suggests it was able to build on a tradition of earlier art works, and this allowed for its sedimentation in cultural memory and its proliferation in contemporary China. Taking the aesthetic experience of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) as her base, Mittler juxtaposes close readings and analyses of cultural products from the period with impressions given in a series of personal interviews conducted in the early 2000s with Chinese from diverse class and generational backgrounds. By including much testimony from these original voices, Mittler illustrates the extremely multifaceted and contradictory nature of the Cultural Revolution, both in terms of artistic production and of its cultural experience.

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BRILL

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1684175186

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Reason's Neglect

Rationality and Organizing

By: Barbara Townley

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Reason's Neglect

Rationality and Organizing

By: Barbara Townley

Reason, and the need to Be Rational, are essential dimensions of society and the organizations we live and work in. Yet the 'rationalization' of working and administrative processes, or the 'rationality' studied in social sciences, is all too often, used, understood, and interpreted in an extremely narrow sense. Reason's Neglect does three things. Firstly, it argues that rationality is a leitmotif of organization studies, but one that has often been neglected. Secondly, it deploys Foucault's work to recover the neglected dimensions of rationality. In doing this, it allows for a revisionary exploration of key subjects in organization studies: organization theory, bureaucracy, technology, culture, practice, etc. Finally, the book presents the case of new rational management techniques being introduced in an organization, allowing individuals to 'speak for themselves', and examining how they respond to these innovations, and how they make sense of them. Arguing that rationality should be seen as disembedded, embedded, or embodied, each chapter goes on to explore a different aspect of reason, such as economic, bureaucratic, technocratic, institutional, or contextual. Clearly written and structured, yet an engaged and challenging approach to the study of organizations in society, Reason's Neglect is an iconoclastic book.

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0191559423

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The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut and his Wife Alice Tomes, Volume 2, Part A

By: Barbara Jean Mathews

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By: Barbara Jean Mathews

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The Evidence-Based Internship

A Field Manual

By: Barbara Thomlison,Kevin Corcoran

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The Evidence-Based Internship

A Field Manual

By: Barbara Thomlison,Kevin Corcoran

The Evidence-Based Internship is a unique teaching and learning tool that combines an internship manual with a text on evidence-based practice. Designed for students entering their field placements in social work and criminal justice-which often overlap-it is built on the premise that students, agencies, and field instructors should be able to provide clients with the best, evidenced-based practice methods currently available. Giving students the confidence to begin their field assignment, it is filled with useful strategies for successfully navigating the internship and honing the skills necessary to become accountable practitioners. Worksheets, checklists, and in-depth case scenarios illustrate legal and ethical issues, interview and assessment skills, techniques for gathering evidence for a variety of problems in mental health and corrections settings, and preparing an employment portfolio. This is one field manual that students will find useful long after they have completed their internship.

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019972606X

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