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The Long Shadow of Little Rock

A Memoir

By: Daisy Bates

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The Long Shadow of Little Rock

A Memoir

By: Daisy Bates

At an event honoring Daisy Bates as 1990’s Distinguished Citizen then-governor Bill Clinton called her "the most distinguished Arkansas citizen of all time." Her classic account of the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis, The Long Shadow of Little Rock, couldn't be found on most bookstore shelves in 1962 and was banned throughout the South. In 1988, after the University of Arkansas Press reprinted it, it won an American Book Award. On September 3, 1957, Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to surround all-white Central High School and prevent the entry of nine black students, challenging the Supreme Court's 1954 order to integrate all public schools. On September 25, Daisy Bates, an official of the NAACP in Arkansas, led the nine children into the school with the help of federal troops sent by President Eisenhower–the first time in eighty-one years that a president had dispatched troops to the South to protect the constitutional rights of black Americans. This new edition of Bates's own story about these historic events is being issued to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Little Rock School crisis in 2007.

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University of Arkansas Press

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1557288631

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The Long Shadow of Little Rock

A Memoir

By: Daisy Bates

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A Memoir

By: Daisy Bates

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1610752473

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The Passing of the Aborigines: A Lifetime Spent Among the Natives of Australia

By: Daisy Bates

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The Passing of the Aborigines: A Lifetime Spent Among the Natives of Australia

By: Daisy Bates

Bates devoted more than 35 years of her life to studying Aboriginal life, history, culture, rites, beliefs and customs. Living in a tent in small settlements from Western Australia to the edges of the Nullarbor Plain. She researched and wrote millions of words on the subject. She also worked tirelessly for Aboriginal welfare, setting up camps to feed, clothe and nurse the transient population, drawing on her own income and inheritance to meet the needs of the aged. In spite of her fascination with their way of life, Bates was convinced that the Australian Aborigines were a dying race and that her mission was to record as much as she could about them before they disappeared.Her personal life was unconventional. She was said to have worn pistols even in her old age and to have been quite prepared to use them to threaten police when she caught them mistreating 'her' Aborigines. She was also famed for her strict lifelong adherence to Edwardian fashion, including boots, gloves and a veil.

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Lulu.com

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1409224686

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9781409224686

Hexy Bitch

Tales from My Life, the Afterlife, and Beyond

By: Daisy May Cooper

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Hexy Bitch

Tales from My Life, the Afterlife, and Beyond

By: Daisy May Cooper

From the hilarious Bafta Award Winning actor and bestselling author Daisy May Cooper, the new book delving into the unexplained and shares the spookiest stories from her life and the world at large For as long as Daisy May Cooper can remember, she's been fascinated with the unexplained. Ghosts, spirits, tea leaves, astrological charts, paranormal activity - you name it, she's been obsessed! In her hilarious new book, Daisy sets out to probe the otherworldly and investigate how her own experiences with forces we can't explain have influenced all parts of her life. Armed with an open mind and ghost-hunting equipment from the dark web, she explores haunted houses, interrogates experts who claim they can communicate with the other side, reveals a brush with paganism that turned out to be a front for swinging, and digs in to her own spooky side. It's like 'Scooby-Doo' meets 'Mystic Meg', via a portal to the afterlife in the back room of an Oxfordshire pub. Containing stories that will make your hair stand on end, and some that will make you do a bit of wee with laughter... it's time to embrace the eerie, welcome in the weird and celebrate the spiritual. Things are about to get HEXY, b*tch.

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263

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Radar

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1804192627

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Twins in Early Modern English Drama and Shakespeare

By: Daisy Murray

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Twins in Early Modern English Drama and Shakespeare

By: Daisy Murray

This volume investigates the early modern understanding of twinship through new readings of plays, informed by discussions of twins appearing in such literature as anatomy tracts, midwifery manuals, monstrous birth broadsides, and chapbooks. The book contextualizes such dramatic representations of twinship, investigating contemporary discussions about twins in medical and popular literature and how such dialogues resonate with the twin characters appearing on the early modern stage. Garofalo demonstrates that, in this period, twin births were viewed as biologically aberrant and, because of this classification, authors frequently attempt to explain the phenomenon in ways which call into question the moral and constitutional standing of both the parents and the twins themselves. In line with current critical studies on pregnancy and the female body, discussions of twin births reveal a distrust of the mother and the processes surrounding twin conception; however, a corresponding suspicion of twins also emerges, which monstrous birth pamphlets exemplify. This book analyzes the representation of twins in early modern drama in light of this information, moving from tragedies through to comedies. This progression demonstrates how the dramatic potential inherent in the early modern understanding of twinship is capitalized on by playwrights, as negative ideas about twins can be seen transitioning into tragic and tragicomic depictions of twinship. However, by building toward a positive, comic representation of twins, the work additionally suggests an alternate interpretation of twinship in this period, which appreciates and celebrates twins because of their difference. The volume will be of interest to those studying Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in relation to the History of Emotions, the Body, and the Medical Humanities.

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Routledge

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1317195701

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Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her

The No 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

By: Daisy May Cooper

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Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her

The No 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

By: Daisy May Cooper

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER Discover the hilarious memoir written by the most relatable woman in the world - Daisy May Cooper, creator and star of BBC's award-winning comedy This Country 'Thank goodness for gloriously silly Daisy May Cooper. Joyful, irreverent and totally uplifting' THE TIMES 'Hilarious. A riot from start to finish' DAILY EXPRESS 'Bloody brilliant, like the woman herself' HEAT ______ I've always had an over-active imagination and felt the urge to be a massive f**king show-off so acting seemed like the obvious choice of career. There was never anything else I wanted to do more. But fulfilling my ambition wasn't going to be easy . . . I grew up battling rural poverty which was a struggle enough but my family were completely insane to boot. Together with my brother Charlie, I staggered my way through adolescence from one drama to the next until finally, after years of trying, we had This Country commissioned by the BBC. By sharing tales of how I accidentally auditioned to be a pole-dancer to being catfished by a one-armed internet boyfriend, I answer all of life's great mysteries: Could I count wall plaster as one of my five-a-day? Would I find the afterlife in the back of a shitty pub? Who dropped the monster turd at the fake audition? And just how much of a humiliating, ridiculous, screw-up of a s**t-storm life did I need to lead before I could finally realise my dream?

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Penguin UK

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0241503604

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9780241503607

Human Rights in Deuteronomy

With Special Focus on Slave Laws

By: Daisy Yulin Tsai

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Human Rights in Deuteronomy

With Special Focus on Slave Laws

By: Daisy Yulin Tsai

The humanitarian concerns of the biblical slave laws and their rhetorical techniques rarely receive scholarly attention, especially the two slave laws in Deuteronomy. Previous studies that compared the biblical and the ANE laws focused primarily on their similarities and developed theories of direct borrowing. This ignored the fact that legal transplants were common in ancient societies. This study, in contrast, aims to identify similarities and dissimilarities in order to pursue an understanding of the underlying values promoted within these slave laws and the interests they protected. To do so, certain innovative methodologies were applied. The biblical laws examined present two diverse legal concepts that contrast to the ANE concepts: (1) all agents are regarded as persons and should be treated accordingly, and (2) all legal subjects are seen as free, dignified, and self-determining human beings. In addition, the biblical laws often distinguish an offender’s “criminal intent,” by which a criminal’s rights are also considered. Based on these features, the biblical laws are able to articulate YHWH’s humanitarian concerns and the basic concepts of human rights presented in Deuteronomy.

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260

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110364425

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9783110364422

Play time

Gender, anti-Semitism and temporality in medieval biblical drama

By: Daisy Black

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Gender, anti-Semitism and temporality in medieval biblical drama

By: Daisy Black

This book presents an important re-theorisation of gender and anti-Semitism in medieval biblical drama. It charts conflicts staged between dramatic personae in plays that represent theological transitions, including the Incarnation, Flood, Nativity and Bethlehem slaughter. Interrogating the Christian preoccupation with what it asserted was a superseded Jewish past, it asks how models of supersession and typology are subverted when placed in dramatic dialogue with characters who experience time differently. The book employs theories of gender, performance, anti-Semitism, queer theory and periodisation to complicate readings of early theatre’s biblical matriarchs and patriarchs. Dealing with frequently taught plays as well as less familiar material, the book is essential reading for specialist, undergraduate and postgraduate researchers working on medieval performance, gender and queer studies, Jewish-Christian studies and time.

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312

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Manchester University Press

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1526146851

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9781526146854

Applique Embroidery

By: Florence Daisy Collingwood

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Applique Embroidery

By: Florence Daisy Collingwood

Applique is the fascinating and versatile technique of applying one fabric to another. This beautiful book covers the principles within the technique, from the design stage through to padding, edgings and decorative stitches. It explains how to use a great collection of materials and threads, along with a rich array of stitches and textures to give dimension and contrast, thereby creating a unique piece of art. Written by a widely respected teacher, the book draws on her extensive examples to illustrate and introduce embroidery techniques, such as gold work, crewel work and silk shading, that can be used in a piece of applique; explain stitches that can embellish the piece further, such as the traditional buttonhole and blanket stitch, as well as couching, fly, feather, herringbone and knotted stitches; encourage experimentation and play with ideas, for example layering fabrics onto different backgrounds, trying different types of padding to create height, perspective and 3D effects, and using different edging stitches with a variety of threads around the fabrics. It is lavishly illustrated with 450 colour photographs supporting the detailed text and step-by-step instructions. It is a book to be kept close and treasured.

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The Crowood Press

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1785005405

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9781785005404

Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli

A Strange Romance

By: Daisy Hay

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Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli

A Strange Romance

By: Daisy Hay

Originally published: Great Britain: Chatto & Windus, 2015.

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Macmillan

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0374270635

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9780374270636

A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology

Religion and Justice

By: Daisy L. Machado

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A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology

Religion and Justice

By: Daisy L. Machado

Speaking for the growing community of Latina feminist theologians, the editors of this volume write, "With the emergence and growth of the feminist theologies of liberation, we no longer wait for others to define or validate our experience of life and faith.... We want to express in our own words our plural ways of experiencing God and our plural ways of living our faith. And these ways have a liberative tone." With twelve original essays by emerging and established Latina feminist theologians, this first-of-its-kind volume adds the perspectives, realities, struggles, and spiritualities of U.S. Latinas to the larger feminist theological discourse. The editors have gathered writings from both Roman Catholics and Protestants and from various Latino/a communities. The writers address a wide array of theological concerns: popular religion, denominational presence and attraction, methodology, lived experience, analysis of nationhood, and interpretations of life lived on a border that is not only geographic but also racial, gendered, linguistic, and religious.

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University of Texas Press

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0292705123

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9780292705128

Socialist republic

Remaking the British left in 1980s Sheffield

By: Daisy Payling

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Socialist republic

Remaking the British left in 1980s Sheffield

By: Daisy Payling

Socialist republic is a timely account of 1980s left-wing politics in South Yorkshire. It explores how Sheffield City Council set out to renew the British Left. Through careful analysis of the Council’s agenda and how it interacted with trade unions, women’s groups, lesbian and gay rights groups and acted on issues such as peace, environmentalism, anti-apartheid and anti-racism, the book draws out the complexities involved in building a broad-based politics which aimed unite class and identity politics. Running counter to 1980s narratives dominated by Thatcherism, the book examines the persistence of social democracy locally, demonstrating how grassroots local histories can enrich our understanding of political developments on a national and international level. The book is essential reading for students, scholars, and activists with an interest in left-wing politics and history.

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Manchester University Press

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1526150298

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9781526150295

Early Days with Daisy

By: Daisy Sifferman Cook,Harold V. Biellier

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Early Days with Daisy

By: Daisy Sifferman Cook,Harold V. Biellier

The paintings by Daisy Cook document activities of family and farm life in southwest Missouri at the turn of the century. Daisy painted subjects entirely from memories of her childhood.

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1412062780

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Early Days with Daisy

The Seasons Past

By: Harold V. Biellier

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Early Days with Daisy

The Seasons Past

By: Harold V. Biellier

The paintings by Daisy Cook document activities of family and farm life in southwest Missouri at the turn of the century. Daisy painted subjects entirely from memories of her childhood.

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Book's by Daisy Bates

The Long Shadow of Little Rock

The Long Shadow of Little Rock

The Long Shadow of Little Rock

The Long Shadow of Little Rock

The Passing of the Aborigines: A Lifetime Spent Among the Natives of Australia

The Passing of the Aborigines: A Lifetime Spent Among the Natives of Australia

Hexy Bitch

Hexy Bitch

Twins in Early Modern English Drama and Shakespeare

Twins in Early Modern English Drama and Shakespeare

Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her

Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her

Human Rights in Deuteronomy

Human Rights in Deuteronomy

Play time

Play time

Applique Embroidery

Applique Embroidery

Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli

Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli

A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology

A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology

Socialist republic

Socialist republic

Early Days with Daisy

Early Days with Daisy

Early Days with Daisy

Early Days with Daisy

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