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The Boyds

A Family Biography

By: Brenda Niall

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The Boyd family is Australia's most remarkable artistic dynasty. This work traces the emergence of an extraordinary artistic tradition. It places the Boyds in their historical and personal contexts, tells the interwoven stories of their brilliant careers, and analyses the shaping influences on their lives.

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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0522853846

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9780522853841

My Accidental Career

By: Brenda Niall

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My Accidental Career

By: Brenda Niall

Australia’s leading biographer Brenda Niall, now in her nineties, turns the spotlight on her own story in this fascinating memoir of a remarkable life and career

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1922459488

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9781922459480

Help! My Wonder Woman Cape Is Caught in the Vacuum!: A Woman's Guide to Living a Purpose Filled, Balanced Life

By: Mrs Ruth McCurdy,Mrs Brenda Harris Vicente

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Help! My Wonder Woman Cape Is Caught in the Vacuum!: A Woman's Guide to Living a Purpose Filled, Balanced Life

By: Mrs Ruth McCurdy,Mrs Brenda Harris Vicente

A woman's guide to living a Purpose Filled, Balanced Life. Wonder Woman is - TIRED. Being all things to all people will take it out of you! Ruth McCurdy and Brenda Harris Vicente take a hard, humorous, and useful look at what the Wonder Woman image does to DIS-empower us as women and offer some simple yet powerful tips on how to be the Wonderous Woman you were designed to be - and to let the vacuum have that darned Cape!! Want an autographed book plate? EMAIL a copy of your purchase receipt to Info@WonderousWomanEnterprises.com and we will send one to you immediately. BE SURE to tell us how to make it out - for you or as a gift!

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Lulu.com

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0976117932

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9780976117933

Friends and Rivals

Four Great Australian Writers: Barbara Baynton, Ethel Turner, Nettie Palmer, Henry Handel Richardson

By: Brenda Niall

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Friends and Rivals

Four Great Australian Writers: Barbara Baynton, Ethel Turner, Nettie Palmer, Henry Handel Richardson

By: Brenda Niall

The story of four remarkable women traversing the literary landscape of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Australia, from one of our nation's most eminent historians.

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Text Publishing

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1925923215

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9781925923216

The Riddle of Father Hackett

A Life in Ireland and Australia

By: Brenda Niall

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The Riddle of Father Hackett

A Life in Ireland and Australia

By: Brenda Niall

In 1922, at the height of Ireland's tragic civil war, Irish Jesuit William Hackett was transferred to Australia by his order Assigned to a minor teaching post, this seemingly unremarkable newcomer caused no stir. Yet Father Hackett had been close to the centre of the provisional Irish Republic's struggle for independence from Britain; part of the network of Irish nationalists who carried intelligence, ministered to republican troops, spoke on republican platforms, and helped to publicise British injustices and atrocities in Ireland. Now, he was effectively an exile. A major figure in the biography, Archbishop Daniel Mannix is seen for the first time in close-up, through Hackett's privileged insight into the private self of the famously aloof and powerful prelate.

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National Library Australia

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0642276854

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9780642276858

The Lure of the Edge

Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs, and the Pursuit of UFOs

By: Brenda Denzler

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The Lure of the Edge

Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs, and the Pursuit of UFOs

By: Brenda Denzler

UFO phenomena entered American consciousness at the beginning of the Cold War, when reports from astonished witnesses of encounters with unknown aerial objects captured the attention of the United States military and the imagination of the press and the public. But when UFOs appeared not to be hostile, and when some scientists pronounced the sightings to be of natural meteorological phenomena misidentified due to "Cold War jitters," military interest declined sharply and, with it, further overt scientific interest. Yet sighting reports didn't stop and UFOs entered the public imagination as a cultural myth of the twentieth century. Brenda Denzler's comprehensive, clearly written, and compelling narrative provides the first sustained overview and valuation of the UFO/alien abduction movement as a social phenomenon positioned between scientific and religious perspectives. Demonstrating the unique place ufology occupies in the twentieth-century nexus between science and religion, Denzler surveys the sociological contours of its community, assesses its persistent attempt to achieve scientific legitimacy, and concludes with an examination of the movement's metaphysical or spiritual outlook. Her book is a substantial contribution to our understanding of American popular culture and the boundaries of American religion and to the debate about the nature of science and religion. Denzler presents a thorough and fascinating history of the UFO/abduction movement and traces the tensions between those who are deeply ambivalent about abduction narratives that seemingly erode their quest for scientific credibility, and the growing cultural power of those who claim to have been abducted. She locates the phenomenon within the context of American religious history and, using data gathered in surveys, sheds new light on the social profile of these UFO communities. The Lure of the Edge succeeds brilliantly in repositioning a cultural phenomenon considered by many to be bizarre and marginal into a central debate about the nature of science, technology, and the production of a modern myth.

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Univ of California Press

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0520930274

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9780520930278

Chinese Migrants Abroad

Cultural, Educational, and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora

By: Michael W. Charney,Brenda S. A. Yeoh,Chee Kiong Tong

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Chinese Migrants Abroad

Cultural, Educational, and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora

By: Michael W. Charney,Brenda S. A. Yeoh,Chee Kiong Tong

The study of the overseas Chinese has by now become a global enterprise, raising new theoretical problems and empirical challenges. New case studies of overseas Chinese, such as those on communities in North America, Cuba, India and South Africa, continually unveil different perspectives. New kinds of transnational connectivities linking Chinese communities are also being identified. It is now possible to make broader generalizations of a Chinese diaspora, on a global basis. Further, the intensifying study of the overseas Chinese has stimulated renewed intellectual vigor in other areas of research. The transnational and transregional activities of overseas Chinese, for example, pose serious challenges to analytical concepts of regional divides such as that between East and Southeast Asia.

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World Scientific

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9812380418

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9789812380418

Acquired Tastes

Why Families Eat the Way They Do

By: Brenda L. Beagan,Gwen E. Chapman,Josée Johnston,Deborah McPhail,Elaine M. Power,Helen Vallianatos

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Acquired Tastes

Why Families Eat the Way They Do

By: Brenda L. Beagan,Gwen E. Chapman,Josée Johnston,Deborah McPhail,Elaine M. Power,Helen Vallianatos

Magazine articles, news items, and self-improvement books tell us that our daily food choices – whether we opt for steak or vegetarian, a TV dinner or a sit-down meal – serve as bold statements about who we are as individuals. Acquired Tastes makes the case that our food habits say more about where we come from and who we would like to be. This intimate portrait of eating habits and attitudes towards food in over one hundred Canadian families in both rural and urban settings reveals that our food choices never solely reflect personal tastes. Age, gender, social class, ethnicity, health concerns, food availability, and political and moral concerns shape the meanings that families attach to food and their self-identities. They also influence how its members respond to social discourses on health, beauty, and the environment, a finding that has profound implications for public health campaigns.

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UBC Press

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0774828609

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9780774828604

Can You Hear the Sea?

My Grandmother's Story

By: Brenda Niall

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Can You Hear the Sea?

My Grandmother's Story

By: Brenda Niall

‘An affectionate tribute to someone who quietly but firmly shaped her own place in the world.’ Books+Publishing Brenda Niall has turned her biographer’s eye to a personal subject—her grandmother, Aggie. She tells the story of a fiercely independent and intelligent woman who braved a new country as a single woman, teaching in a country school, before marrying a Riverina grazier, whose large powerful family was wary of the newcomer with ideas of her own. Aggie dealt with hardships and loneliness after the early and drawn-out death of her husband, and brought up her seven children to be happy—all with a calm determination. But it was the memory box and her longing for the sea that captured the imagination of her granddaughter. Brenda Niall is one of Australia’s foremost biographers. She is the author of five award-winning biographies, including her acclaimed accounts of the Boyd family. In 2016 she won the Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal and the National Biography Award for Mannix. Brenda has degrees from the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University and Monash University. In 2004 she was awarded the Order of Australia for ‘services to Australian literature, as an academic, biographer and literary critic’. She frequently reviews for the Age, Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Book Review. ‘Can You Hear the Sea? creates a portrait, from other kinds of evidence, of a woman whose silence sealed her most intimate moments. With a light touch, Niall looks at her grandmother’s life through the prism of the imaginative world in which she was immersed...Aggie’s is a story of independence and grit: understated, necessary, uncelebrated.’ Australian ‘Aggies gift of the shell and the empty box put two questions to Brenda Niall. They also addressed her craft and her desire. Could she recreate the sounds and feel of the past out of unpromising materials, and could she fill the empty box while recognising that it remained empty? This book answers both questions with assurance. One might hope that among the next generation of Aggie’s descendants another young person will hear in it the sea that flows into story telling.’ Eureka Street ‘Niall’s beautifully told tale will have echoes in thousands of other Australian families.’ SA Weekend ‘Gentle and engaging biography...Aggie was undoubtedly a remarkable and intelligent woman, and this book is a lovely testament to her life.’ Good Reading ‘Insightful.’ Yours ‘[Niall] is clear about her process, asking questions, noting gaps, offering her own memories with an easy blend of intimacy and distance, in an authoritative yet conversational voice...Niall writes with respect for a woman who built a dynasty across centuries, was adventurous and stable, traditional and ahead of her time, English and embodied the best of Australia.’ Australian Book Review ‘Agnes’s story charts the changing role of women in the colonies, the impact of the world wars and the rise and fall of family fortunes...Niall’s beautifully told tale will have echoes in thousands of other Australian families.’ SA Weekend ‘Niall's skill is to listen with a discerning ear, to acknowledge the views and to seek always the social, political and historical context and influences. Her craft as a skilled biographer gives her grandmother a fresh life, one that will resonate with many in families of similar background, but wider than that, provide another piece in the picture of the European settlement of Australasia.’ Otago Daily Times ‘A fascinating subject...Hopefully people still find ways to write biographies that so adeptly capture the particularity of lived experience.’ Saturday Paper

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1925410994

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9781925410990

Marblehead's First Harbor

The Rich History of a Small Fishing Port

By: Hugh Peabody Bishop,Brenda Bishop Booma

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Marblehead's First Harbor

The Rich History of a Small Fishing Port

By: Hugh Peabody Bishop,Brenda Bishop Booma

The true beauty and fury of the Atlantic Ocean are known only by the rugged individuals who have made their living from the sea. In the seventy-five years from the American Revolution to the middle of the nineteenth century, Marblehead, Massachusetts, experienced a golden age of fishing. For the next fifty years, the industry struggled, but from 1900 until the end of the twentieth century, one small anchorage made itself proud. From boat building to sail design, First Harbor produced creative men whose innovations helped shape marine history. Join Hugh Peabody Bishop and Brenda Bishop Booma as they reveal this story through the eyes of a Marblehead fisherman, drawn uncontrollably by his love for the sea.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625842260

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9781625842268

Build Me an Ark

A Life with Animals

By: Brenda Peterson

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Build Me an Ark

A Life with Animals

By: Brenda Peterson

Raised in the High Sierras, Brenda Peterson was influenced daily by wildlife. She now explores her deep connection with animals--from watching grizzlies in Montana's Rockies to her work for the restoration of wild wolves in the West--and includes intimate stories of wild dolphins, whales, and orcas she has studied for 20 years.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393323285

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9780393323283

True North

The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack

By: Brenda Niall

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True North

The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack

By: Brenda Niall

Through war, love affairs, children and old age, the Duracks' creative lives were always shaped by the enduring power of the Kimberley region. With unprecedented access to hundreds of private family letters, unpublished memoirs, diaries and papers, Brenda Niall gets to the heart of a uniquely Australian story.

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Text Publishing

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1921921420

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9781921921421

Muskoka Flavours

Guidebook and Cookbook

By: Matthews, Brenda

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Muskoka Flavours

Guidebook and Cookbook

By: Matthews, Brenda

Muskoka Flavours is a unique guide to the recipes, restaurants, inns and attractions of Ontario's cottage country.

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James Lorimer & Company

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1550286986

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9781550286984

Blood and War at My Doorstep

By: Brenda Chambers McKean

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Blood and War at My Doorstep

By: Brenda Chambers McKean

Between these pages the reader will learn that North Carolina citizens did not idly stand by as their soldiers marched off to war. The women worked themselves into “patriotic exhaustion” through Aid Societies. Civilians with different means of support from the lower class to the plantation mistress wrote the governor complaining of hoarding, speculation, the tithe, bushwhackers, unionism, conscription, and exemptions. Never before had so many died due to guerilla warfare. Unknown before starving women with weapons stormed the merchant or warehouses in search for food. Others turned to smuggling, spying, or nature’s oldest profession. Information from period newspapers, as well as mostly unpublished letters, tell their stories.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1456894722

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9781456894726

Parenting a Teen or Young Adult with Asperger Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder)

325 Ideas, Insights, Tips and Strategies

By: Brenda Boyd

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Parenting a Teen or Young Adult with Asperger Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder)

325 Ideas, Insights, Tips and Strategies

By: Brenda Boyd

325 astute and practical ideas, insights, tips and strategies address the complex issues parents face during this crucial period of transition for their child with Asperger Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder). The practical, bite-size suggestions focus on the vital importance of developing and nurturing an open and healthy relationship with your son or daughter. The easy-to-navigate format will suit busy parents wanting to locate advice to suit their particular needs. All the suggestions are designed to foster understanding and acceptance between family members and help the AS young person with common problem areas such as social vulnerability and peer relationships, self-esteem, anxiety and coping with change. This will be an invaluable companion for parents, carers and family members of an adolescent or young adult with AS.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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0857005871

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9780857005878

Generalist Social Work Practice

An Empowering Approach

By: Karla Krogsrud Miley,Michael O'Melia,Brenda DuBois

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Generalist Social Work Practice

An Empowering Approach

By: Karla Krogsrud Miley,Michael O'Melia,Brenda DuBois

These authors reconnect contemporary social work with its values, purpose, ethics, and practice roots by integrating the current themes of strength, empowerment, and the ecosystems perspective into a practice process that has applications across all levels of client systems and all fields of practice.This book uses a generalist approach to social work by offering practice processes that are appropriate to client systems of all sizes (individuals, families, groups, organizations), and emphasizes "client strengths" as an integral part of the process.

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Prentice Hall

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0205267408

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9780205267408

Appreciating Asperger Syndrome

Looking at the Upside, with 300 Positive Points

By: Brenda Boyd

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Appreciating Asperger Syndrome

Looking at the Upside, with 300 Positive Points

By: Brenda Boyd

En helt anderledes og positiv opfattelse af Aspergers Syndrom. Forfatteren påviser, at ved hvert negativt kendetegn kan der nævnes adskillige positive aspekter og udviklingsmuligheder.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1843106256

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9781843106258

Parenting a Child with Asperger Syndrome

200 Tips and Strategies

By: Brenda Boyd

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Parenting a Child with Asperger Syndrome

200 Tips and Strategies

By: Brenda Boyd

For parents of children with Asperger Syndrome ordinary parenting just doesn't always do it - AS kids need a different approach. Brenda is mother to thirteen-year-old Kenneth, author of Asperger Syndrome, the Universe and Everything, and since his diagnosis at the age of eight she has gathered together the parenting ideas and tips that have had a positive effect on Kenneth's life. Brenda discusses parents' reaction to their child's AS and gives advice on how better to understand 'Planet Asperger'. This book helps parents to respond positively to the challenge of AS and find the 'treasure' in their child's way of being.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1846424208

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9781846424205

Mid-Atlantic and Chesapeake Region

By: Brenda B. Chapin

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Mid-Atlantic and Chesapeake Region

By: Brenda B. Chapin

Nearly 200 profiles are given of the most beautiful country inns in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. 6 maps. 195 illustrations.

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0762700009

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9780762700004

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