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The Oxford Companion to the Brontës

Anniversary edition

By: Christine Alexander,Margaret Smith

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The Oxford Companion to the Brontës

Anniversary edition

By: Christine Alexander,Margaret Smith

This special edition of The Oxford Companion to the Brontës commemorates the bicentenary of Emily Brontë's birth in July 1818 and provides comprehensive and detailed information about the lives, works, and reputations of the Brontës - the three sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, their father, and their brother Branwell. Expanded entries surveying the Brontës' lives and works are supplemented by entries on friends and acquaintances, pets, literary and political heroes; on the places they knew and the places they imagined; on their letters, drawings and paintings; on historical events such as Chartism, the Peterloo Massacre, and the Ashantee Wars; on exploration, slavery, and religion. Selected entries on the characters and places in the Brontë juvenilia provide a glimpse into their early imaginative worlds, and entries on film, ballet, and musicals indicate the extent to which their works have inspired others. A new foreword to the text has been also penned by Claire Harman, award-winning writer and literary critic, and recent biographer of Charlotte Brontë. This is a unique and authoritative reference book for the research student and the general reader. The A-Z format, extensive cross-referencing, classified contents, chronologies, illustrations, and maps, both facilitate quick reference and encourage further exploration. This Companion is not only invaluable for quick searches, but a delight to browse, and an inspiration to further reading.

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Oxford University Press

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019255171X

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There Is No God of Lotteries

By: Christine Komodowski

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There Is No God of Lotteries

By: Christine Komodowski

Faye Sophia is a middle-aged, creatively impotent artist in limbo. As her 52nd birthday looms, Faye attempts to answer letters in the advice column she pens to keep food on her table, knowing all the while that her own path through life has not been the smoothest. Long-divorced, retired from her insurance company career, and living alone since her children moved away, Faye has come to the sad realization that this stage of her life is very different from what she had imagined. After many years as a successful artist, she cannot even summon the creative inspiration to complete the three sculptures that sit untouched in her basement workroom. As a single parent, Faye once managed family, job, and her art-until eight years ago, when a crisis forced her to make a choice that changed three lives forever. But when a phone call brings her news that her ex-husband is dying, she is transported back into her memories. She struggles to understand the consequences of that fateful decision: loss of faith in herself, her life, and in the future. There Is No God of Lotteries is the compelling tale of a woman's emotional quest to find peace of mind, an understanding of her place in the universe, and, most importantly, belief in herself.

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iUniverse

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1491715278

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9781491715277

Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bronte

Transatlantic Translations

By: Christine Doyle

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Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bronte

Transatlantic Translations

By: Christine Doyle

Through close examination of Louisa May Alcott's letters, journals, and published writings, this book argues that Alcott responds to Charlotte Bronte's woman's 'heart' but resists her British soul.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572332417

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Public Procurement Reforms in Africa

Challenges in Institutions and Governance

By: Christine Léon de Mariz,Claude Ménard,Bernard Abeillé

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Public Procurement Reforms in Africa

Challenges in Institutions and Governance

By: Christine Léon de Mariz,Claude Ménard,Bernard Abeillé

Institutional reforms and their contribution to development and growth have been a source of renewed interest as well as of many challenges over the last two decades. Identifying the forces that push towards reform and the conditions that determine the success or failure of reforms, building organizational arrangements needed to make modifications to the rules of the game sustainable, and understanding the limits to the transfer of reforms and to the help that international organizations and foreign institutions can provide to support change, raise intellectually difficult and politically highly sensitive issues. This book attempts to address these issues from an economic perspective. Combining knowledge and field experience, it develops an analysis of institutional changes and organizational transformations based on the experience of the public procurement reforms carried out in sub-Saharan Africa. This highlights the economic significance of procurement and the formidable obstacles that institutional changes face. Using an original dataset, it explores the gap between the expectations and what has been achieved. It develops a framework that intends to capture the complex interaction between the different components of reform and aims to provide useful insights for researchers and policy makers.

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OUP Oxford

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0191024309

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Faces of Fear, an Inspector Terry Mystery

By: Christine Spindler

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Faces of Fear, an Inspector Terry Mystery

By: Christine Spindler

You attract what you fear - or something far worse... Inspector Terry is drawn into a world of phobias and perversions as a highly intelligent, dangerously devious killer who calls himself Shadoe starts to single out the clients of renowned psychologist Dr. Joy Canova, torturing them to death with their own phobias. Patricia Miles, Joy's newest client, suffers from an intense fear of butterflies. Stranded in a pointless marriage and unaware of the dark secrets held by the people closest to her, she seeks the thrill of an affair and falls for Lionel Croft. What she doesn't know: he's one of Joy's former lovers and the main suspect in the case. Then Patricia's husband is found beaten to death - his mouth full of exotic butterflies. Is Patricia the next on Shadoe's list?

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Hard Shell Word Factory

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0759945349

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9780759945340

Normal at Any Cost

Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry's Quest toManipulate Height

By: Susan Cohen,Christine Cosgrove

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Normal at Any Cost

Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry's Quest toManipulate Height

By: Susan Cohen,Christine Cosgrove

A fascinating story of medical experimentation, parental love, and the extreme measures taken to make children fit within ?the norm.? Most people rarely think about their height beyond a little wishing and hoping. But for the parents of children who are ridiculed by their peers for being extraordinarily tall or extraordinarily short, height can cause great anguish. For decades, the medical establishment has responded to these worries by prescribing controversial treatments and therapies for children who fall outside of the ?normal? height range. While some have benefited, many have suffered from devastating side effects. In this riveting book, Susan Cohen and Christine Cosgrove provide a voice for the parents, doctors, scientists, and pharmaceutical companies involved in these experimental treatments. They also tell the story of the boys and girls themselves, many of them now grown, who were subjected to a wide range of non-FDA-approved medical procedures. These treatments? which consisted of extreme doses of estrogen, pituitary glands taken from both animals and human cadavers, and testosterone injections?often had disastrous side effects. Who is to say how tall is too tall, and how short is too short? For many of the individuals represented in this book, the answers have been clear?and they are grateful to the medical industry for improving upon nature. For others, left in the wake of this same science, the answers are fueled by tragic regret. The authors explore the dueling motives behind these procedures? with parents desperate to help their children ?fit in? and doctors and scientists hungry for scientific breakthroughs. Combining extensive research and in-depth interviews, Normal at Any Cost is the first book to place a human face on this complex and ethically charged medical history.

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Penguin

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1440686459

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Character Witness

How Our Lives Can Make a Difference in Evangelism

By: Christine Wood

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Character Witness

How Our Lives Can Make a Difference in Evangelism

By: Christine Wood

If necessary, use words.When you think about evangelism, you probably think about what you need to say to an unbeliever. You imagine memorizing a five-point outline or a three-point plan. Christine Wood acknowledges that it is important to be able to express the truth of Christ. But in Character Witness she emphasizes that it is just as important to live a life that expresses who Christ is. St. Francis of Assisi put it this way: "Preach the gospel at all times; if necessary, use words."Character Witness is about personal integrity in evangelism. It will help you develop qualities like graciousness, purity, wisdom and patience. And it will show you how to extend yourself to others in ways that express the fullness of the grace of Christ.Wood's message is simple, but revolutionary: Your character is your most valuable evangelism resource.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830823786

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9780830823789

Merseyside's Own

By: Christine Dawe

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Merseyside's Own

By: Christine Dawe

Merseyside has been the birthplace or home of literally hundreds of extraordinary men and women over the years. Modern-day noteworthy figures, such as Kim Cattrall, Daniel Craig, Beth Tweddle and Patricia Routledge rub shoulders with the historical great and good, including Sir Thomas Beecham, George Stevenson and Lady Emma Hamilton. Personalities from all eras and walks of life are featured, from politics, art and industry to music and entertainment. In this book Christine Dawe has penned a fascinating selection of mini-biographies of Merseyside's most famous sons and daughters to make a perfect souvenir for visitors to the area. This is also essential reading for Merseysiders everywhere, and is sure to appeal to those wanting to know more about these people's contributions to the Merseyside we know today.

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The History Press

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0752482475

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9780752482477

Where Angels Travel There's Laughter and Trouble

By: Christine Bruce

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Where Angels Travel There's Laughter and Trouble

By: Christine Bruce

Three middle aged sisters, Christine, Shirley and Ellen have an opportunity to take off on a trip of a lifetime to The United Arab Emirates and Egypt. This is the first time the three of us venture over to another country without our husbands or families. Ellen's Brother -in-law who is in the Australian army and stationed in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, asks her if she and his brother Mark want to visit, he declines, so Shirley and I decide to take the plunge and go with her. Before we leave home our Aunty Sylvia gives each of them an angel pin with our birthstone to wear, hoping this little token will keep us safe while away from Aussie land. Little did they realise the powers they held! There, we take a few days trip up to the north of the country for a dolphin cruise and mountain tour with Rodger and Louise and their two sons, then are dropped off in Dubai to spend a day and night exploring this great city. While here, we go to a water theme park where Ellen goes on one of the biggest slides outside of America, we visit a Gold Souk to buy some beautiful pieces of jewellery, Shirley and I get yelled at by a cranky taxi driver and are amazed at seeing The Burj, one of the most expensive motels in the world. Before we leave Dubai, our taxi driver, a friendly Indian guy this time, gives us a quick tour of the city before our drive back to Abu Dhabi showing us a man made island being built and their beautiful Marina. We were in ore at just how much construction was going on in this amazing city. Travelled back to Abu Dhabi and visited the famous Emirates Palace and have afternoon tea with the Australian Ambassador's wife at the Australian Embassy. My sister Shirley always wanted to see the Pyramids so decide to include this in our itinerary and the three of us travel by plane there with a few embarrassing moments on the way. When we arrive in Cairo, it wasn't how we expected it to be, but overcame some stressful moments when we visit the Pyramids and Sphinx. Thought a camel ride and a dinner cruise down the Nile River would be fun but got more then we bargained for. Had a strange encounter with some really nice Egyptian guys in The Papyrus Museum. Just the three of us took a road trip down the east coast of the country, passing through Muscat, Oman and Nizwa where we learnt to drive on the opposite side of the road, not to talk to strange men after a bad experience with an Arab guy when asking him for directions and manage to get lost in the hills for a couple of hours due to detour signs. Noticing a very low tyre on the car, manage to make matters worse trying to fix it while being helped by 10 young guys and somehow find ourselves stuck in a narrow lane while exiting a car park. Enjoyed looking around a number of souks (markets) buying great gifts and souvenirs. We certainly got used to flights being cancelled or delayed, but managed to keep it together after lots of group hugs, plenty of laughing, giggling and having a good cry. I believe the angel tokens we wore every day had some sort of power and did bring us home safe.

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1479741000

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Absent a Miracle

A Novel

By: Christine Lehner

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Absent a Miracle

A Novel

By: Christine Lehner

An ex–talk show host, her cheating husband, and a plot to canonize a friend’s Nicaraguan aunt make for “pure, unadulterated adulterous entertainment” (The New York Times). Lapsed Catholic Alice Fairweather is searching for meaning. Having lost her ideal job as a radio talk show host who interprets dreams, hopelessly in love with a husband who loves too many other women, and stuck in upstate New York with her sons and dogs, one of whom is ill, her life isn’t exactly what she envisioned as a young girl. So when Abelardo, her husband’s former roommate, comes to visit on a quest to make his aunt the first Nicaraguan saint, it feels like a sign. Suddenly, Alice finds herself on a madcap mission to canonize a woman she’s never met, becoming intimately acquainted with the history of female sainthood, striking up an odd friendship with the eccentric head of New York’s hagiography club, and traveling to Nicaragua on a last-minute flight. Equal parts moving and hilarious, Absent a Miracle is a quirky and sharp look at love, loss, identity, faith, marriage, and—of course—sainthood.

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HMH

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0547488610

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9780547488615

Stitch Your Own Silver Linings

A breakthrough guide to helping yourself to happiness - no matter what

By: Christine L. Conroy

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Stitch Your Own Silver Linings

A breakthrough guide to helping yourself to happiness - no matter what

By: Christine L. Conroy

Have you ever had the experience where one minute life is wonderful, and you are on top of the world, and the next minute that world shatters beneath your feet? No-one knows better than Christine what that feels like. Her world was shattered when her mother, sister and daughter were each diagnosed with cancer. However, it was thanks to that life-changing experience, which she calls ‘The Twilight Zone’, that she found her true purpose in life. She also found happiness from the inside out; a true, long-lasting happiness that will never be shaken. In a warm, sincere and thoroughly engaging way, Stitch Your Own Silver Linings shows how you can do that for yourself. In the pages of this book, readers will hear Christine’s story and understand why she is so passionate about their happiness. They will: understand what happiness is and what it isn’t, be introduced to a new concept of happiness and wellbeing that they can put to work in their own life, learn how to forgive, develop self-esteem and confidence, become an authentically positive person, discover previously hidden strengths and use them to increase resilience... and much more. The book also introduces the inspirational Conroy women, whose stories are woven throughout to demonstrate that by following the ‘Conroy Concept’ – 7 themes based on personal experience and backed up by scientific research – readers will be able stitch their own silver linings and help themselves to happiness. This book will appeal mostly to women. It will help those struggling with any form of adversity, but in particular those suffering with depression and those caring for cancer sufferers. A free companion workbook is available to download online.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1783063343

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9781783063345

How to Have the Wedding You Want (Updated)

(Not the One Everybody Else Wants You to Have)

By: Christine Egan

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How to Have the Wedding You Want (Updated)

(Not the One Everybody Else Wants You to Have)

By: Christine Egan

The updated edition of the only wedding guide that's on your side! Figure out what you want. Who to invite. Where to celebrate. What to wear. And those are just the big issues. You’ve got flowers, showers, music, and more…and you’re wondering if you can get it done by your first anniversary, let alone the wedding. Figure out how to do it. With smart planning and budgeting, you can have the wedding you want—whether it’s a white-lace extravaganza or a barefoot barbecue. And you don’t even have to quit your job. Figure out how to deal with the people criticizing the decisions you made in Steps One and Two. Mom. Aunt Diane. The caterer. The etiquette experts. The pushy saleslady at the bridal shop. They all claim to have your interests at heart. And they’re all driving you crazy… Finally! The book that understands what today’s bride-to-be really needs: realistic strategies and creative options from women who’ve been there, strong support, diplomatic skills, and a great sense of humor. And what she doesn’t need: more “expert advice.” Have the wedding you want: special, meaningful, lots of fun, and perfectly suited to you and the one you adore. Because theme colors come and go, but love is forever.

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042526968X

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Transition to retirement

A guide to inclusive practice

By: Roger J. Stancliffe,Nathan J. Wilson,Nicolette Gambin,Christine Bigby,Susan Balandin

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Transition to retirement

A guide to inclusive practice

By: Roger J. Stancliffe,Nathan J. Wilson,Nicolette Gambin,Christine Bigby,Susan Balandin

As much as everyone groans from time to time about the humdrum and stresses of work, retirement is an unsettling prospect for most people. It's a major transition in anyone's life and change of this magnitude often arouses anxiety. This is much more so for people with disability, particularly intellectual disability. But, as this manual shows, it doesn't have to be like that. The Transition to Retirement (TTR) program has been developed in response to a genuine problem: the need for an effective approach to supporting older employees to build an active, socially inclusive lifestyle after retirement. The approach mapped out in this manual may not be the solution for all workers with disability, but it will certainly assist quite a few. The TTR program emphasises social inclusion. It is consistent with the focus of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) on building community participation and independence. It is also consistent with the National Disability Strategy's emphasis on promoting social inclusion in mainstream community settings and service systems. The TTR program supports ageing people with disability to develop new interests, skills and social networks, and facilitates their participation in mainstream community groups. With the manual comes a series of video clips which makes the idea of inclusive activities in retirement easily understandable to people with disability, their families and community organisations.

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Sydney University Press

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1743323271

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9781743323274

Lost Restaurants of Central Ohio and Columbus

By: Christine Hayes,Doug Motz

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Lost Restaurants of Central Ohio and Columbus

By: Christine Hayes,Doug Motz

From remote diners to downtown political havens, the restaurants of central Ohio satisfied palates for generations. In the era of Sunday drives before interstates, fabulous family-owned restaurants were the highlight of the trip. Sample the epicurean empires established by Greek, Italian, German and Chinese families. Recall the secrets of Surly Girl's chandelier, the delicious recipes handed down by chefs and the location of Flippo the Clown's former jazz hideaway. Following their previous book, Lost Restaurants of Columbus, authors Christine Hayes and Doug Motz deliver a second helping of unforgettable establishments that cemented central Ohio's reputation for good food and fun. That includes eighteen destination eateries in fifteen surrounding towns.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439663513

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9781439663516

Locality and Polity

A Study of Warwickshire Landed Society, 1401-1499

By: Christine Carpenter

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Locality and Polity

A Study of Warwickshire Landed Society, 1401-1499

By: Christine Carpenter

The book is intended as a contribution to the history of England as a whole in the fifteenth century and to the study of the long-term development of the English landed classes and the English constitution.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521370167

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9780521370165

Secret Chambers within a Creative Mind

By: Christine Dianne Steinert

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Secret Chambers within a Creative Mind

By: Christine Dianne Steinert

I hope to inspire others to find strength and hope in recovering from trauma caused by physical, sexual, or emotional abuse. What I have endured in my lifetime has been an uphill battle in conquering my fears and dealing with the painful memories of my past to make a better life for myself. My hope for the readers is to show them that they are not alone. I was lost in my own mind for the majority of my life, but thankfully, I finally found my true self. I was fortunate enough to seek the help of a trustworthy therapist for guidance throughout my long painstaking journey toward wellness. By revealing the fearful secret chambers I had walled off in my brain one by one, I am proud to say that I am a survivor. I hope my readers can find some useful knowledge for surviving even the most hopeless of situations.

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Page Publishing Inc

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Sexuality Counseling

Theory, Research, and Practice

By: Christine Murray,Amber Pope,Ben Willis

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Sexuality Counseling

Theory, Research, and Practice

By: Christine Murray,Amber Pope,Ben Willis

Sexuality Counseling: Theory, Research, and Practice is an important resource for mental health practitioners. Sexuality is complex and rather than attempting to simplify, this book works within that complexity in a well-organized and comprehensive way." - Alexandra H. Solomon, Northwestern University Providing a comprehensive, research- and theory-based approach to sexuality counseling, this accessible and engaging book is grounded in an integrative, multi-level conceptual framework that addresses the various levels at which individuals experience sexuality. At each level (physiological, developmental, psychological, gender identity and sexual orientation, relational, cultural/contextual, and positive sexuality), the authors emphasize practical strategies for assessment and intervention. Interactive features, including case studies, application exercises, ethics discussions, and guided reflection questions, help readers apply and integrate the information as they develop the professional competency needed for effective practice.

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SAGE Publications

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1506350089

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9781506350080

A Cottage in Maine

When Winter came

By: Christine Brendle

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A Cottage in Maine

When Winter came

By: Christine Brendle

The winters in Maine are long and lonely. That's why it seems the perfect place for Karen to escape her golden cage in Boston. She moves into a secluded wooden cottage by the sea to write a book. There loneliness and diffuse doubts cause Karen to lose control of her novel. The events and characters of the story come alive. Karen feels observed and starts to hear voices. And there is that inexplicable knocking sound. Her fears invade her dreams. Suspense turns into a nightmare. Her story and her characters become more and more entangled with her own reality. Is the danger she perceives real or just a figment of her imagination? But then a very real crime occur.

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3942796333

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The Art of the Brontës

By: Christine Alexander,Jane Sellars

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The Art of the Brontës

By: Christine Alexander,Jane Sellars

The first full-scale study of the drawings and paintings of the Brontë sisters and their brother, Branwell.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521438411

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9780521438414

Oscar Pistorius

By: Christine Wilcox

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Oscar Pistorius

By: Christine Wilcox

This biography covers the life and career of South African sprinter and Olympian Oscar Pistorius. Born with a rare deformity, it details his life as an infant undergoing lower leg amputation and his upbringing and involvement in sports. The book also digs into the controversy surrounding the death of his girlfriend by Pistorius's own hand.

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Greenhaven Publishing LLC

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142051041X

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Coming Home

By: Christine S Feldman

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Coming Home

By: Christine S Feldman

No woman ever really forgets her first love. Callie Sorenson is no exception. Hers was tall, tanned, and - as her older brother’s best friend - completely off limits. Danny McCutcheon. It’s a name that Callie hasn’t spoken in years, even if the man to whom it belongs has never really been all that far from her thoughts. Or her heart. But now a twist of fate will bring her back to the childhood home she left behind years ago, and to the hometown boy for whom she secretly longed. When her mother takes a bad fall and breaks her hip, Callie leaves the bright lights of New York City to fly back west and help with the rehabilitation. It’s a tense homecoming due to a long time estrangement between mother and daughter, and it drives Callie to confront both a painful personal loss and her unanswered questions about the father who abandoned her when she was just a child. It also brings her face to face with Danny again, and Callie quickly realizes that old feelings die hard. But for Danny, it’s new feelings that are a problem. Callie is not the young girl he remembers but a woman now, and a very desirable one. They both have reasons to fight the growing attraction between them, but the temptation may just prove to be too much to resist, despite some very real risk to their hearts. The past casts a long shadow over the future, though, and Callie will have to overcome it or else face losing the one man who means the most to her. Sensuality Level: Behind Closed Doors

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Simon and Schuster

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1440565945

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Memories of the Quaker Past: Stories of Thirty-Seven Senior Quakers

By: Christine Ayoub

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Memories of the Quaker Past: Stories of Thirty-Seven Senior Quakers

By: Christine Ayoub

The book consists of excerpts from interviews of senior members of State College Friends Meeting. The narrators who lived through the Great Depression tell of their difficult childhood--and yet in most cases one they regarded as happy. Some of the conscientious objectors during WWII tell of life in CPS camps; others speak of using nonviolent methods with mental patients, while still others relate the story of the human guinea experiments some of them participated in. Of those who did relief work after the war overseas, probably the most exciting tales are told by the four who worked with the Friends Ambulance Unit in China. They happened to be located close to where the Nationalists and the Communists were fighting.

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1469162547

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El Sistema: Music For Social Change

By: Christine Witkowski

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El Sistema: Music For Social Change

By: Christine Witkowski

El Sistema – "the system" – is a music education phenomenon. Since its inception 40 years ago, over a million Venezuelan children from many different socio-economic backgrounds have participated in its mission of "social change through music". El Sistema: Music for Social Change offers practical information for those seeking knowledge, inspiration or guidance for adapting El Sistema to widely divergent socio-economic settings, particularly within the USA. Designed as a collection of essays, it explores the voices and experiences of teachers, leaders, parents, and experts from related fields with the hope of inspiring actions, both large and small, to advance social change through music.

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Omnibus Press

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1783237716

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Unsung

A History of Women in American Music

By: Christine Ammer

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A History of Women in American Music

By: Christine Ammer

Examines the contributions of women instrumentalists, composers, teachers, and conductors to American music, and suggests why they have gone unnoticed in the past.

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1574670611

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Just Another Blog in Paradise

By: Christine Arness

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Just Another Blog in Paradise

By: Christine Arness

From Burned Out to… Once a wild child, Susie’s now stuck in an ordinary life in Minnesota. To atone for past sins, she’s devoted her energies to volunteer work and empowering others. But in helping people find their hidden strengths, Susie’s exhausted her own emotional batteries. Her choices are to either keep treading water and risk drowning or dive into the deep end of life. Sunburned! Uprooting everything familiar, Susie moves to Florida, planning to recharge by repairing her fractured relationship with her sister, become part of her nieces’ lives and build friendships. As self-therapy, she also unleashes her inner snark by writing a blog describing the strangeness of life in Florida and her new community. Tropical depressions often become hurricanes… Susie’s loving life in paradise, especially when a hunky deputy sheriff moves into her apartment complex. But Florida’s not all blue skies and sunshine when an unpopular neighbor is found face down in the lake. Susie discovers that the people she thought she knew each possess a secret. Secrets worth killing to keep. Only discovering her own hidden strengths can save Susie from becoming the next victim…

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Crave

A Memoir of Food and Longing

By: Christine S. O'Brien

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Crave

A Memoir of Food and Longing

By: Christine S. O'Brien

“Do you mind that I’m going to be writing a book about the fact that I was hungry?” I asked my mother. “Just tell a good story,” she replied. Hunger comes in many forms. In her memoir, Crave, Christine S. O’Brien tells a story of family turmoil and incessant hunger hidden behind the luxury and privilege of New York’s famed Dakota apartment building. Her explosively angry father was ABC Executive Ed Scherick, the successful television and film producer who created shows and films like ABC’s Wide World of Sports and The Stepford Wives. Raised on farm in the Midwest, her calm, beautiful mother Carol narrowly survived a dramatic accident when she was child. There was no hint of instability in her life until one day she collapsed in the family’s apartment and spent the next year in bed. “Your mother’s illness is not physical,” Christine’s father tells her. Craving a cure for a malady that the doctors said had no physical basis, Carol resorted to increasingly bizarre nutritional diets—from raw liver to fresh yeast—before beginning a rigid dietary regime known as “The Program.” It consisted largely of celery juice and blended salads—a forerunner of today’s smoothie. Determined to preserve the health of her family, Carol insisted that they follow The Program. Despite their constant hunger, Christine and her three younger brothers loyally followed their mother’s eating plan, even as their father’s rage grew and grew. The more their father screamed, the more their mother’s very survival seemed to depend on their total adherence to The Program. This well-meant tyranny of the dinner table led Christine to her own cravings for family, for food, and for the words to tell the story of her hunger. Crave is the chronicle of Christine’s painful and ultimately satisfying awakening. And, just as her mother asked, it’s a good story.

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Teacher Quality, Professional Learning and Policy

Recognising, Rewarding and Developing Teacher Expertise

By: Christine Forde,Margery McMahon

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Teacher Quality, Professional Learning and Policy

Recognising, Rewarding and Developing Teacher Expertise

By: Christine Forde,Margery McMahon

This book examines the significance of teacher expertise in the drive to improve quality and effectiveness. Scrutinising both key conceptual issues and current policy developments and approaches, the authors analyse educational systems from around the world and question how different cultural contexts and systems can implement measures to improve teacher effectiveness. The book analyses factors such as policy change and teacher evaluation as well as the regulation of the teaching profession to determine how these aspects can influence the expertise of individual teachers. As numerous policy interventions have tried to define and enhance teacher quality to raise pupil achievement, this book calls for an interrogation of this stance and signals a need to consider an alternative approach. This book will appeal to students and scholars of teacher effectiveness and professional learning, as well as researchers and policymakers.

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Springer

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1137536543

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Encyclopedia of British Writers

19th and 20th Centuries

By: Christine L. Krueger

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Encyclopedia of British Writers

19th and 20th Centuries

By: Christine L. Krueger

This concise encyclopedic reference profiles more than 800 British poets

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Infobase Publishing

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1438108702

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Love in the Time of Self-Publishing

How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success

By: Christine M. Larson

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Love in the Time of Self-Publishing

How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success

By: Christine M. Larson

Lessons in creative labor, solidarity, and inclusion under precarious economic conditions As writers, musicians, online content creators, and other independent workers fight for better labor terms, romance authors offer a powerful example—and a cautionary tale—about self-organization and mutual aid in the digital economy. In Love in the Time of Self-Publishing, Christine Larson traces the forty-year history of Romancelandia, a sprawling network of romance authors, readers, editors, and others, who formed a unique community based on openness and collective support. Empowered by solidarity, American romance writers—once disparaged literary outcasts—became digital publishing’s most innovative and successful authors. Meanwhile, a new surge of social media activism called attention to Romancelandia’s historic exclusion of romance authors of color and LGBTQ+ writers, forcing a long-overdue cultural reckoning. Drawing on the largest-known survey of any literary genre as well as interviews and archival research, Larson shows how romance writers became the only authors in America to make money from the rise of ebooks—increasing their median income by 73 percent while other authors’ plunged by 40 percent. The success of romance writers, Larson argues, demonstrates the power of alternative forms of organizing influenced by gendered working patterns. It also shows how networks of relationships can amplify—or mute—certain voices. Romancelandia’s experience, Larson says, offers crucial lessons about solidarity for creators and other isolated workers in an increasingly risky employment world. Romancelandia’s rise and near-meltdown shows that gaining fair treatment from platforms depends on creator solidarity—but creator solidarity, in turn, depends on fair treatment of all members.

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Princeton University Press

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0691217408

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STOP Family Violence Now

A Book Promoting Mind Health

By: Christine Thompson-Wells

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STOP Family Violence Now

A Book Promoting Mind Health

By: Christine Thompson-Wells

Through education, attitudes can be changed to start to eradicate family and domestic violence. This book sets out the steps and guidelines that will support the individual and families to make positive behavioural changes.

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0987352326

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Becoming Ira Aldridge, a Black Shakespearean Actor in Nineteenth Century Ireland

By: Christine Kinealy

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Becoming Ira Aldridge, a Black Shakespearean Actor in Nineteenth Century Ireland

By: Christine Kinealy

This study throws light on a little-studied but emerging field within Irish studies: Black history. It focuses on an American-born Black Shakespearean actor, Ira Aldridge, who, to follow his vocation and escape prejudice in America, travelled to England in 1824, aged only 17. Despite some racial stereotyping, his rise to prominence in the theatrical world was meteoric. Until his premature death in 1867, he played to audiences throughout Europe—from Galway in Ireland to St Petersburg in Russia—winning plaudits and accolades, and recognition as the leading Shakespearean tragedian of the day. Aldridge was not just an actor; wherever he performed, he also delivered a message about the cruelty of enslavement and the need for Black equality. This publication focuses on Aldridge’s special relationship with Ireland and its theatrical traditions over a period of three decades.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527532437

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Mapping and Charting in Early Modern England and France

Power, Patronage, and Production

By: Christine Petto

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Mapping and Charting in Early Modern England and France

Power, Patronage, and Production

By: Christine Petto

Mapping and Charting for the Lion and the Lily: Map and Atlas Production in Early Modern England and France is a comparative study of the production and role of maps, charts, and atlases in early modern England and France, with a particular focus on Paris, the cartographic center of production from the late seventeenth century to the late eighteenth century, and London, which began to emerge (in the late eighteenth century) to eclipse the once favored Bourbon center. The themes that carry through the work address the role of government in map and chart making. In France, in particular, it is the importance of the centralized government and its support for geographic works and their makers through a broad and deep institutional infrastructure. Prior to the late eighteenth century in England, there was no central controlling agency or institution for map, chart, or atlas production, and any official power was imposed through the market rather than through the establishment of institutions. There was no centralized support for the cartographic enterprise and any effort by the crown was often challenged by the power of Parliament which saw little value in fostering or supporting scholar-geographers or a national survey. This book begins with an investigation of the imagery of power on map and atlas frontispieces from the late sixteenth century to the seventeenth century. In the succeeding chapters the focus moves from county and regional mapping efforts in England and France to the “paper wars” over encroachment in their respective colonial interests. The final study looks at charting efforts and highlights the role of government support and the commercial trade in the development of maritime charts not only for the home waters of the English Channel, but the distant and dangerous seas of the East Indies.

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Lexington Books

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0739175378

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Port Dalhousie: An Intimate History

By: Christine Aloian-Robertson,David Serafino

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Port Dalhousie: An Intimate History

By: Christine Aloian-Robertson,David Serafino

Port Dalhousie started out as a farming and fishing settlement at the mouth of Twelve Mile Creek at what would become the northern terminus of the First Welland Canal. Throughout the 19th century, it prospered and grew into a village and then a town, but fell into a gradual decline due to: the opening of the Fourth Welland Canal in Port Weller three miles to the east in 1932; the end of passenger ship service in 1950; and the closing of the popular Lakeside Park in 1971. In 1961 it was incorporated into the City of St. Catharines and, in 1974, woke up to a resurgence of pride in a community that discovered its incredible history. Many of those residents who had lived through the earliest of these times, were still alive when the interviews herein were first being recorded. Though the forty-some interviews contained within add personal colour, humour and passion to the story that is Port Dalhousie, the historical account would not be complete without a narrative that defines the eras that this settlement, village and town passed through on the way to becoming what it is today. This history begins at the close of the 18th century and carries on to the early 1960s when it ceased being a town and became a suburb of the City of St. Catharines. The many who remember the days prior to amalgamation, and even many newcomers, identify with living in Port Dalhousie; or as the old-timers would say “Pordaloozie”

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BookRix

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3748749422

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James II

By: Christine McGladdery

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James II

By: Christine McGladdery

In this study of the reign of James II of Scotland, the king is viewed in the context of the Stewart monarchy, from his struggles to overcome his early adversity and the legacy of his father's style of kingship, to the serious political crises of his reign. The relations between the king and his subjects, and the complex balance of power in medieval Scotland are examined, particularly the significant crisis precipitated by James II's attack on the Black Douglases, the greatest of all late medieval magnate families. The changing nature of political involvement among the nobility and the role of Parliament in influencing events are explored, as are the efforts of the king to recover and promote royal authority in the final years of his reign. The role of James II in the wider European context is also studied with a view to shedding light on contemporary perceptions of the Stewart monarchy both at home and abroad. The study is based on contemporary chronicle and official sources, and consideration is also given to later, highly coloured views of James II, which have influenced popular views of the king to the present day.

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1788853652

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Shooting to Kill

By: Christine Vachon

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Shooting to Kill

By: Christine Vachon

Complete with behind-the-scenes diary entries from the set of Vachon's best-known fillms, Shooting to Kill offers all the satisfaction of an intimate memoir from the frontlines of independent filmmakins, from one of its most successful agent provocateurs -- and survivors. Hailed by the New York Times as the "godmother to the politically committed film" and by Interview as a true "auteur producer," Christine Vachon has made her name with such bold, controversial, and commercially successful films as "Poison," "Swoon," Kids," "Safe," "I Shot Andy Warhol," and "Velvet Goldmine."Over the last decade, she has become a driving force behind the most daring and strikingly original independent filmmakers-from Todd Haynes to Tom Kalin and Mary Harron-and helped put them on the map. So what do producers do? "What don't they do?" she responds. In this savagely witty and straight-shooting guide, Vachon reveals trheguts of the filmmaking process--rom developing a script, nurturing a director's vision, getting financed, and drafting talent to holding hands, stoking egos, stretching every resource to the limit and pushing that limit. Along the way, she offers shrewd practical insights and troubleshooting tips on handling everything from hysterical actors and disgruntled teamsters to obtuse marketing executives. Complete with behind-the-scenes diary entries from the sets of Vachon's best-known films, Shooting To Kill offers all the satisfactions of an intimate memoir from the frontlines of independent filmmaking, from one of its most successful agent provocateurs-and survivors.

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0061873683

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