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Kindred Nature

Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World

By: Barbara T. Gates

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Kindred Nature

Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World

By: Barbara T. Gates

Centers on what a number of British Victorian and Edwardian women said and did in the name of nature -- what part they played in the cultural reconstruction of nature that transpired in the years just proceeding the publication of Darwin's major work and in the wake of the Darwinian revolution"--Introduction.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226284433

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9780226284439

Kindred Nature

Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World

By: Barbara T. Gates

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Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World

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A Call to Be Whole

The Fundamentals of Health Care Reform

By: Barbara J. Sowada

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A Call to Be Whole

The Fundamentals of Health Care Reform

By: Barbara J. Sowada

Examines the complex interrelationships that inform the health care system. Health care, like all social systems, is a product of thought. Up to now, our collective thinking has been based on trying to manage parts, not the whole. This book inquires into four age-old questions that shape all health care systems: What is health? What is care? Who is responsible? How much is enough? Americans have the wealthiest health care system in the world, yet the health status of Americans ranks in the lowest quartile among the world's 25 industrialized nations and 45 million Americans are without health insurance. Today's cost, quality, and access problems are inter-related and can be traced to taken-for-granted assumptions and health care's outmoded organizing concepts: reductionism and materialism. Greater fragmentation of care, an over-dependence on technology, inattention to social and environmental determinants of health, and serious economic and moral dilemmas are some of the results of the last 40 years of piecemeal political and economic reform. This book has three purposes. The first is to help the reader see healthcare as a complex system—a part in a larger whole—and to show how answers to the questions, What is health? What is care? Who is responsible? How much is enough? implicitly define the purpose, effectiveness, efficiency, and fairness of a health care system. The second is to show that today's access, cost, and quality problems are interrelated, and arise from outmoded concepts, unquestioned assumptions, and a long trail of inconsistent and contradictory answers to the four questions. The third purpose is to acquaint readers with both the personal and societal challenges of finding coherent answers to the four questions raised above and to describe some of the budding experimental solutions that challenge traditional conventions and assumptions.

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241

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313072469

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9780313072468

Victorian Suicide

Mad Crimes and Sad Histories

By: Barbara Gates

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Victorian Suicide

Mad Crimes and Sad Histories

By: Barbara Gates

When Viscount Castlereagh, leader of the House of Commons and architect of the Grand Alliance, committed suicide in 1822, the coroner's inquest could consider only two legal verdicts: insanity or self-murder. Public outrage greeted his burial in Westminster Abbey; the tradition lingered that a suicide's burial place be at a crossroads, with a stake through the heart to keep the lost soul from wandering. Probing a remarkable variety of sources and individual cases, Barbara Gates shows how attitudes toward suicide changed between Castlereagh's death and the end of the century. By 1900 the Victorians' moral censure of suicide and the accompanying denial that it was a widespread problem had been replaced by a more compassionate response--and also by an unfounded belief in a "suicide epidemic," which Thomas Hardy described as a "coming universal wish not to live.". Exposing a rich area of interaction between history and literature, and utilizing the methodology of the new historicism, Gates discusses topics ranging from the plot for Wuthering Heights to Victorian shilling shockers. Among other findings she includes evidence that Victorian middle-class men, particularly, tended to make suicide the province of other selves--of men belonging to other times or places, of "monsters," or of women. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400859565

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9781400859566

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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Just Barbara

My Story

By: Barbara Woodhouse

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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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192

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Berkley

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0425106985

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9780425106983

The Life and Times of Barbara Wilson

By: Matthew Wilson

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The Life and Times of Barbara Wilson

By: Matthew Wilson

The author wishes it to be known that the content of this book is authentic and true - messages sent from the Spirit World by Matthew's wife Barbara. When she passed over into the spiritual realms, that could have been the end of the book but Barbara is s

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202

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Fastprint Publishing

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1780357249

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9781780357249

Book's by Barbara T. Gates

Kindred Nature

Kindred Nature

Kindred Nature

Kindred Nature

A Call to Be Whole

A Call to Be Whole

Victorian Suicide

Victorian Suicide

Just Barbara

Just Barbara

Just Barbara

Just Barbara

The Life and Times of Barbara Wilson

The Life and Times of Barbara Wilson

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