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The Bronte Sisters and George Eliot

A Unity of Difference

By: Barbara Prentis

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The Bronte Sisters and George Eliot

A Unity of Difference

By: Barbara Prentis

An approach to the lives, thought and works of the Bronte sisters and George Eliot. Seen against the background of the dramatically changing world, their attitudes to such vital issues as religion, the child, the "woman question", love and sexuality, the self and death are examined.

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Springer

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1349085022

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9781349085026

This Time Its Love

By: Barbara Cartland

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This Time Its Love

By: Barbara Cartland

Wrestling with wartime life and the conceits of her father, a famous but profligate painter, and having to look after her younger siblings leaves the beautiful Fenella Prentis little time for love. It is difficult enough making ends meet and persuading her father to hand over the proceeds of his current portrait of the grasping and flirtatious model Elaine so that she can pay long overdue bills. But Fenella’s head is turned by the unexpected arrival of the dashing Major Rex Ransome, who needs their house to billet Army Officers and at the same time she is blind to the gentler attentions of injured war hero and her nearby neighbour, Sir Nicholas Coleby – until he offers to save her from scandal, notoriety and poverty by marrying her. Although Sir Nicholas is totally in love with her, still Fenella has eyes only for the womanising Major. Slowly, though, the husband she so cruelly shuns and humiliates reveals his true qualities – “a man cool and calm, used to authority, ready to give the right answer to a question, not assuming leadership, but being by instinct a leader among men”. And finally, like a flash of bright light and irrevocably, it suddenly dawns on Fenella that this time it’s love.

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162

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Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd

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1782138161

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9781782138167

Gardens and Gardening in the Chesapeake, 1700-1805

By: Barbara Wells Sarudy

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Gardens and Gardening in the Chesapeake, 1700-1805

By: Barbara Wells Sarudy

In Gardens and Gardening in the Chesapeake, Barbara Wells Sarudy recovers this lost world using a remarkable variety of sources - historic maps, travelers' accounts, diaries, paintings (some on the back of Baltimore painted chairs), account ledgers, catalogues, and newspaper advertisements. She offers an engaging account of the region's earliest gardens, introducing us to the people who designed and tended these often elaborate landscapes and explaining the forces and finances behind their creation. From the favorite books of early gardeners to the republican balance between table and ornamental gardens, Sarudy includes details that give us an understanding of Chesapeake gardening from settlement through the early national period.

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248

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JHU Press

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0801858232

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9780801858239

Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema

From Micheaux to Morrison

By: Barbara Tepa Lupack

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Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema

From Micheaux to Morrison

By: Barbara Tepa Lupack

By contrast, in the works of black writers from Oscar Micheaux to Toni Morrison, the black experience has been more fully, more accurately, and usually more sympathetically realized; and from the early days of film, select filmmakers have looked to that literature as the basis for their productions.".

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596

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University Rochester Press

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1580461034

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9781580461030

Wolfe Island

A Legacy in Stone

By: Barbara Wall La Rocque

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Wolfe Island

A Legacy in Stone

By: Barbara Wall La Rocque

Wolfe Island begins with the emergence of islands at the end of the last ice age and moves through the many centuries of First Nations habitation to the era of French exploration and the fur trading, the arrival of the earliest British settlers and the United Empire Loyalists, up to current time. The development and decline of industry, the evolution of facilities, land title frustrations, and the emergence of a strong sense of identity among the inhabitants are featured, along with a wealth of anecdotes based on colourful and eccentric personalities. This extensively researched history of Wolfe Island is a treasure trove for history buffs.

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315

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Dundurn

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1770706097

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9781770706095

Girton College 1869-1932

By: Barbara Stephen

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Girton College 1869-1932

By: Barbara Stephen

A history of the first women's college in Cambridge or Oxford, first published in 1933.

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Cambridge University Press

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110801531X

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9781108015318

A Mind For Numbers

How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)

By: Barbara Oakley, PhD

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A Mind For Numbers

How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)

By: Barbara Oakley, PhD

The companion book to COURSERA®'s wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn" Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating material. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand how it feels to struggle with math. She flunked her way through high school math and science courses, before enlisting in the army immediately after graduation. When she saw how her lack of mathematical and technical savvy severely limited her options—both to rise in the military and to explore other careers—she returned to school with a newfound determination to re-tool her brain to master the very subjects that had given her so much trouble throughout her entire life. In A Mind for Numbers, Dr. Oakley lets us in on the secrets to learning effectively—secrets that even dedicated and successful students wish they’d known earlier. Contrary to popular belief, math requires creative, as well as analytical, thinking. Most people think that there’s only one way to do a problem, when in actuality, there are often a number of different solutions—you just need the creativity to see them. For example, there are more than three hundred different known proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem. In short, studying a problem in a laser-focused way until you reach a solution is not an effective way to learn. Rather, it involves taking the time to step away from a problem and allow the more relaxed and creative part of the brain to take over. The learning strategies in this book apply not only to math and science, but to any subject in which we struggle. We all have what it takes to excel in areas that don't seem to come naturally to us at first, and learning them does not have to be as painful as we might think.

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337

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Penguin

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1101621613

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9781101621615

Invasive Plant Ecology in Natural and Agricultural Systems

By: Barbara Diane Booth,Stephen D. Murphy,Clarence J. Swanton

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Invasive Plant Ecology in Natural and Agricultural Systems

By: Barbara Diane Booth,Stephen D. Murphy,Clarence J. Swanton

`As an undergraduate text [the book] does a superb job of traversing the wide expanse of ecology. Several chapters should be key components of any course on understanding weed ecology.' Biological Invasions --

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220

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CABI

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1845936051

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9781845936051

If You Lived in Williamsburg in Colonial Days

By: Barbara Brenner

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If You Lived in Williamsburg in Colonial Days

By: Barbara Brenner

A different time... A different place... What if you were there? More than 200 years ago, two thousand people lived in the town of Williamsburg, Virginia. If you lived back then... What would your house look like? What games and sports would you play? Would you go to school? What happened when you were sick or hurt? This book tells you what it was like to grow up in colonial days, before there was a United States of America.

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Scholastic Inc.

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0545694418

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9780545694414

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses

A History of Women Healers

By: Barbara Ehrenreich

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Witches, Midwives, and Nurses

A History of Women Healers

By: Barbara Ehrenreich

As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of health care in the United States, we are reminded of the longevity of this crisis, and how firmly entrenched we are in a system that doesn't work. Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, first published by The Feminist Press in 1973, is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunters. In this new edition, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English have written an entirely new chapter that delves into the current fascination with and controversies about witches, exposing our fears and fantasies. They build on their classic expos on the demonization of women healers and the political and economic monopolization of medicine. This quick history brings us up-to-date, exploring today's changing attitudes toward childbirth, alternative medicine, and modern-day witches.

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106

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1458715310

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9781458715319

Mathematical Models and Methods for Smart Materials

Cortona, Italy, 25-29 June 2001

By: Mauro Fabrizio,Angelo Morro,Barbara Lazzari

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Mathematical Models and Methods for Smart Materials

Cortona, Italy, 25-29 June 2001

By: Mauro Fabrizio,Angelo Morro,Barbara Lazzari

This book contains the papers presented at the conference on "Mathematical Models and Methods for Smart Materials, " held in Italy in 2001. The papers are divided into four parts: "Methods in Materials Science" deals mainly with mathematical techniques fo the investigation of physical systems, such as liquid crystals, materials with internal variables, amorphous materials, and thermoelastic materials. Also, techniques are exhibited for the analysis of stability and controllability of classical models of continuum mechanics and of dynamical systems. "Modelling of Smart Materials" is devoted to models of superfluids, superconductors, materials with memory, nonlinear elastic solids, and damaged materials. In the elaboration of the models, thermodynamic aspects play a central role in the characterization of the constitutive properties. "Well-Posedness in Materials with Memory" deals with existence, uniqueness and stability for the solution of problems, most often expressed by integrodifferential equations, which involve materials with fading memory. Also, attention is given to exponential decay in viscoelasticity, inverse problems in heat conduction with memory, and automatic control for parabolic equations. "Analytic Problems in Phase Transitions" discusses nonlinear partial differential equations associated with phase transitions, and hysteresis, possibly involving fading memory effects. Particular applications are developed for the phase-field model with memory, the Stefan problem with a Cattaneo type equation, the hysteresis in thermo-visco plasticity, and the solid-solid phase transition. Contents: Automatic Control Problems for Integrodifferential Parabolic Equations (C Cavaterra);Phase Relaxation Problems with Memory and Their Optimal Control (P Colli); Unified Dynamics of Particles and Photons (G Ferrarese); Solid-Solid Phase Transition in a Mechanical System (G Gilardi); KAM Methods for Nonautonomous

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World Scientific

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9812382356

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9789812382351

Witches, Midwives, & Nurses (Second Edition)

A History of Women Healers

By: Barbara Ehrenreich,Deirdre English

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Witches, Midwives, & Nurses (Second Edition)

A History of Women Healers

By: Barbara Ehrenreich,Deirdre English

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses examines how women-led healing was delegitimized to make way for patriarchy, capitalism, and the emerging medical industry. As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of healthcare in the United States, we are reminded of the longevity of this crisis, and how firmly entrenched we are in a system that doesn't work. First published by the Feminist Press in 1973, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunters. In this new and updated edition, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English delve into the current fascination with and controversies about witches, exposing our fears and fantasies. They build on their classic exposé on the demonization of women healers and the political and economic monopolization of medicine. This quick history brings us up-to-date, exploring today's changing attitudes toward childbirth, alternative medicine, and modern-day witches.

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The Feminist Press at CUNY

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155861690X

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9781558616905

The Bronte Sisters and George Eliot

A Unity of Difference

By: Barbara Prentis

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A Unity of Difference

By: Barbara Prentis

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Springer

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1349085022

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Just Barbara

My Story

By: Barbara Woodhouse

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Just Barbara

My Story

By: Barbara Woodhouse

The animal trainer recounts her Dublin childhood, her travels, her marriage, and her experiences as a dog trainer, horse breaker, importer of polo ponies, author, and television personality

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0671462482

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Book's by Barbara Prentis

The Bronte Sisters and George Eliot

The Bronte Sisters and George Eliot

This Time Its Love

This Time Its Love

Gardens and Gardening in the Chesapeake, 1700-1805

Gardens and Gardening in the Chesapeake, 1700-1805

Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema

Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema

Wolfe Island

Wolfe Island

Girton College 1869-1932

Girton College 1869-1932

A Mind For Numbers

A Mind For Numbers

Invasive Plant Ecology in Natural and Agricultural Systems

Invasive Plant Ecology in Natural and Agricultural Systems

If You Lived in Williamsburg in Colonial Days

If You Lived in Williamsburg in Colonial Days

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses

Mathematical Models and Methods for Smart Materials

Mathematical Models and Methods for Smart Materials

Witches, Midwives, & Nurses (Second Edition)

Witches, Midwives, & Nurses (Second Edition)

The Bronte Sisters and George Eliot

The Bronte Sisters and George Eliot

Just Barbara

Just Barbara

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