While working a summer job in the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Park on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, fifteen-year-old Andrea learns a family secret as well as Canadian history.
When writer Claire Mowat introduced fourteen-year-old Andrea Baxter in The Girl From Away, she created a character with whom young readers could identify. She continued Andrea's adventures in The French Isles and Last Summer in Louisbourg. Now, for the first time, these three classic stories are brought together in one volume. Fans old and new will cherish this unique collection. Claire Mowat is the author of three highly successful books for young adults, The Girl From Away, The French Isles and Last Summer in Louisbourg. She and her husband, Farley Mowat, divide their time between Ontario and Nova Scotia.
Experience the next best thing to living the life of royalty! As lady-in-waiting to Lilly Schreyer, wife of the Governor General of Canada from 1979 to 1984, Mowat accompanied the Schreyers on a state visit to five AScandinavian countries, and got a first hand look at how the other half really lives.
A SUMMER OF ADVENTURE When her newly remarried mother gives Andrea Baxter the choice of spending six months in distant Sierra Leone or returning to Anderson's Arm, Newfoundland, for the summer, Andrea chooses Anderson's Arm. For it was there, the previous Christmas, that Andrea came to love her aunt, uncle and cousins down east. Unfortunately, once her choice is made it looks like a long, dull summer is stretching ahead of Andrea. That is, until a routine trip with her uncle and cousin to bring home a new scallop-dragging boat turns into more of an adventure than Andrea could ever have imagined. While lost in the heavy fog at sea, they are mistakenly arrested for illegal scallop dragging by the St. Pierre et Miquelon coast guard. Andrea always welcomed the chance to practice her French, but this was taking it a little too far! Mystery, adventure and romance fill the rest of the summer as Andrea makes new friends on St. Pierre et Miquelon and experiences a very different way of life.
Progresses from the mechanics of hearing and the physics of sound to the loss of hearing and the ways in which we acquire knowledge--or "hear"--through our other senses :: Progresses from the mechanics of hearing and the physics of sound to the loss of hearing and the ways in which we acquire knowledge--or hear--through our other senses
A glimpse into a beloved novelist’s inner world, shaped by family, art, and literature. In her fiction, Claire Messud "has specialized in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives" (Ruth Franklin, New York Times Magazine). Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens a window on Messud’s own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicated family; and, throughout it all, her devotion to art and literature. In twenty-six intimate, brilliant, and funny essays, Messud reflects on a childhood move from her Connecticut home to Australia; the complex relationship between her modern Canadian mother and a fiercely single French Catholic aunt; and a trip to Beirut, where her pied-noir father had once lived, while he was dying. She meditates on contemporary classics from Kazuo Ishiguro, Teju Cole, Rachel Cusk, and Valeria Luiselli; examines three facets of Albert Camus and The Stranger; and tours her favorite paintings at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. In the luminous title essay, she explores her drive to write, born of the magic of sharing language and the transformative powers of “a single successful sentence.” Together, these essays show the inner workings of a dazzling literary mind. Crafting a vivid portrait of a life in celebration of the power of literature, Messud proves once again "an absolute master storyteller" (Rebecca Carroll, Los Angeles Times).
Pediatric Dysphagia: Etiologies, Diagnosis, and Management is a comprehensive professional reference on the topic of pediatric feeding and swallowing disorders. Given that these disorders derive from abnormalities in the function and/or structure of the airway and digestive systems, multiple clinical specialists may be involved in the evaluation and management of affected children at any given point in time. Therefore, this text includes significant contributions from a wide range of experts in pediatric dysphagia, including all members of the Interdisciplinary Feeding Team at Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center. These experts present an in-depth description of their roles in the diagnosis and management of dysphagic children, providing the reader with an understanding of why a multidisciplinary model of care is key to the optimization of outcomes. Pediatric Dysphagia is divided into five parts. In Part I, readers are provided with an overview of the embryologic development of aerodigestive structures that relate to swallowing, an introduction to neural organization related to swallowing function and physiologic aspects of swallowing, a synopsis of oral motor development, a discussion of the various etiologic categories of feeding and swallowing disorders, and an overview of genetic disorders associated with feeding and swallowing issues. Part II covers the clinical and instrumental assessment of patients, including the interdisciplinary feeding team infrastructure and function, the roles of individual members of the feeding team, the specific diagnostic tests commonly used in the assessment of feeding and swallowing issues, the classification of neonatal intensive care units, and the assessment and management of feeding and swallowing issues encountered in the neonatal intensive care unit. Part III focuses on the management of pediatric dysphagia, covering a wide range of treatment strategies and interventions for children with various categories of feeding disorders. Part IV includes an introduction to the concept of evidence-based practice and the application of evidence-based strategies in the management of dysphagia. Part V presents a brief overview of the role of ethics in healthcare and ethical considerations in the treatment of dysphagic children. In summary, the overall aim of this comprehensive text is to provide all pediatric professionals involved in the care of dysphagic patients with a basic understanding of the complexity of this disorder, the anatomic, neurologic, and physiologic components involved in this disorder, an overview of the diverse population of children who suffer with this disorder, and with a wide range of management approaches based on patient needs and capabilities. The authors also address clinical problem solving and decision making, inspiring readers to develop multidisciplinary models of care at their own institutions.
A SUMMER OF ADVENTURE When her newly remarried mother gives Andrea Baxter the choice of spending six months in distant Sierra Leone or returning to Anderson's Arm, Newfoundland, for the summer, Andrea chooses Anderson's Arm. For it was there, the previous Christmas, that Andrea came to love her aunt, uncle and cousins down east. Unfortunately, once her choice is made it looks like a long, dull summer is stretching ahead of Andrea. That is, until a routine trip with her uncle and cousin to bring home a new scallop-dragging boat turns into more of an adventure than Andrea could ever have imagined. While lost in the heavy fog at sea, they are mistakenly arrested for illegal scallop dragging by the St. Pierre et Miquelon coast guard. Andrea always welcomed the chance to practice her French, but this was taking it a little too far! Mystery, adventure and romance fill the rest of the summer as Andrea makes new friends on St. Pierre et Miquelon and experiences a very different way of life.
The first book to look at the advanced skills and proficiency in field hockey from the athlete's perspective presents in-depth offensive and defensive strategies.
Elizabeth Chudleigh was one of the eighteenth century's most colourful characters. Born into impoverished gentility, her beauty, wit and vitality soon earned her a place at the centre of court life. When she married the Duke of Kingston in 1769 she had reached the highest rung of the social ladder. But Elizabeth was carrying a dark secret. In 1744 she had secretly married a naval lieutenant called Augustus Hervey, and after the Duke's death her first marriage was discovered. Bigamy fever swept London society and, in a very public trial, Elizabeth was found guilty. But her strength of character ensured that, even when her friends deserted her, her courage and zest for life did not. In an engaging history of this strong and wilful woman, Gervat shows there was far more to Elizabeth than the caricature villain her contemporaries made her out to be.
Experience the next best thing to living the life of royalty! As lady-in-waiting to Lilly Schreyer, wife of the Governor General of Canada from 1979 to 1984, Mowat accompanied the Schreyers on a state visit to five AScandinavian countries, and got a first hand look at how the other half really lives.
This book is a theoretical examination of the relationship between the face, identity, photography, and temporality, focusing on the temporal episteme of selfie practice. Claire Raymond investigates how the selfie’s involvement with time and self emerges from capitalist ideologies of identity and time. The book leverages theories from Katharina Pistor, Jacques Lacan, Rögnvaldur Ingthorsson, and Hans Belting to explore the ways in which the selfie imposes a dominant ideology on subjectivity by manipulating the affect of time. The selfie is understood in contrast to the self-portrait. Artists discussed include James Tylor, Shelley Niro, Ellen Carey, Graham MacIndoe, and LaToya Ruby Frazier. The book will be of interest to scholars working in visual culture, history of photography, and critical theory. It will also appeal to scholars of philosophy and, in particular, of the intersection of aesthetic theory and theories of ontology, epistemology, and temporality.
In this new monograph, Claire Hansen demonstrates how Shakespeare can be understood as a complex system, and how complexity theory can provide compelling and original readings of Shakespeare’s plays. The book utilises complexity theory to illuminate early modern theatrical practice, Shakespeare pedagogy, and the phenomenon of the Shakespeare ‘myth’. The monograph re-evaluates Shakespeare, his plays, early modern theatre, and modern classrooms as complex systems, illustrating how the lens of complexity offers an enlightening new perspective on diverse areas of Shakespeare scholarship. The book’s interdisciplinary approach enriches our understanding of Shakespeare and lays the foundation for complexity theory in Shakespeare studies and the humanities more broadly.
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