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The Reminiscences of Doctor John Sebastian Helmcken

By: Dorothy Blakey-Smith

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The Reminiscences of Doctor John Sebastian Helmcken

By: Dorothy Blakey-Smith

Born and brought up in Whitechapel, John Sebastian Helmcken worked his way through apprenticeships as a chemist and a medical pupil before gaining admission to Guy's Hospital to complete his training. The accounts he gives of working class family life and of the great economic and social disadvantages he had to confront in order to become a doctor make this volume of memoirs not only a valuable historical document, but also an autobiography with considerable human interest.

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UBC Press

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0774841613

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9780774841610

Life At Grasmere

By: Dorothy Wordsworth

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Life At Grasmere

By: Dorothy Wordsworth

The beautiful and peaceful heart of the Lake District, Grasmere was an inspiration to both Dorothy and William Wordsworth. Hills, lakes and orchards, letter writing, walks and welcome visitors (including fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge) provoked in Dorothy's journal great, lyrical prose, which in turn influenced her brother's unsurpassed poetry. The two - journal entries and poems - are here set side by side, a glorious celebration of life and nature around Dove Cottage, over the first year they called it home. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside - but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land - as well as those who are travelling through it.English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man's relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).

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Penguin UK

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0141932813

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9780141932811

The Golden Locket

By: Dorothy Kathleen Kirby

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The Golden Locket

By: Dorothy Kathleen Kirby

The Golden Locket is a true romance ... a love story between a girl, her life and those who populated it. Through two world wars, recession, proud poverty and days of boundless joy she told her tales. Story telling was a passion. But one story - the best she knew - she kept till last. You are holding it in your hands. Dorothy Kathleen Kirby made a promise to herself, her family and generations unborn that she would complete this book before she died. She kept her promise and quietly passed away on the very day she was told by her daughter, Margi: "It's being prepared for print now." Those who were lucky enough to have known Dorothy will see her brought back to life in these pages. Those who will get to know her only by reading her words will be enriched and delighted to have made a rare new friend. You see, Dorothy's book is a bequest and the simple significance of the little golden locket she treasured all her long, long life is her legacy to each of us.

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254

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Lulu.com

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0244494258

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9780244494254

Daily Life During the American Revolution

By: Dorothy Volo,James M. Volo

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Daily Life During the American Revolution

By: Dorothy Volo,James M. Volo

How did the patriot army dress themselves? What was the British soldier's food ration and what were women's roles during the revolution? What types of weapons did the combatants use and how large were the naval vessels of the day? This engaging and informative resource on the social and material history of the Revolutionary War period answers these and many other questions. Covering more than just political ideologies and the outcomes of battles, Daily Life During the Revolutionary War looks at the real stuff of history—people's lives and how they lived them. Looking at the war and society from many angles, the book's 20 chapters cover such important topics as radicals, Tories, taxation, the French, the Hessians, prisoner-of-war conditions, fashion, leisure time activities, and war on the frontier, among others. Also included are more than 35 photographs and illustrations, and over a dozen charts. This behind-the-scenes look at history presents a fascinating picture of everyday life deeply affected by the spirit of '76.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313052735

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9780313052736

The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals

By: Dorothy Wordsworth

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The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals

By: Dorothy Wordsworth

These two journals provide a unique picture of daily life with Wordsworth, his friendship with Coleridge, and the composition of his poems. They also offer wonderfully vivid descriptions of the landscape and people of Grasmere and Alfoxden in Somerset, which inspired Wordsworth and have enchanted generations of readers. This edition includes full explanatory notes on the people and places Dorothy writes about.

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365

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Oxford University Press

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0199536872

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9780199536870

Gemini

The Eighth Book of The House of Niccolo

By: Dorothy Dunnett

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Gemini

The Eighth Book of The House of Niccolo

By: Dorothy Dunnett

Scotland, 1477: Nicholas de Fleury, former banker and merchant, has re-appeared in the land that, four years earlier, he had brought very close to ruin in the course of an intense commercial and personal war with secret enemies—and, indeed, with his clever wife Gelis. Now the opportunity for redemption is at hand, but Nicholas soon finds himself pursuing his objectives amid a complex, corrosive power struggle centering on the Scottish royal family but closely involving the powerful merchants of Edinburgh, the gentry, the clergy, the English (ever seeking an excuse to pounce on their neighbor to the north), the French, the Burgundians. His presence soon draws Gelis and their son Jodi to Scotland, as well as Nicholas's companions and subordinates in many a past endeavor—Dr. Tobias and his wife Clémence, Mick Crackbene, John le Grant, and Andro Wodman among them. Here, too, Nicholas meets again with others who have had an influence, for good or evil, in his life: King James III of Scotland and his rebellious siblings; the St. Pols: Jordan, Simon, and young Henry; Mistress Bel of Cuthilgurdy and David de Salmeton; Anselm Adorne and Kathi his niece. Caught up in, and sometimes molding, the course of great events, Nicholas exhibits by turns the fierce silence with which he masks his secrets, and the explosive, willful gaiety that binds men, women, and children to him. And as the secrets of his birth and heritage come to light, Nicholas has to decide whether he desires to establish a future in Scotland for himself and his family, and a home for his descendants. Gemini brings to a dazzling conclusion Dorothy Dunnett's House of Niccolò series (synopsized in this volume), in which this peerless novelist has vividly re-created the dramatic, flamboyant world of the early Renaissance in historical writing of scrupulous authenticity and in the entrancing portrait of her visionary hero. Now, in a book infused with wit and poetry, emotion and humor, action and mystery, she brings Nicholas de Fleury at last to choose his heart's home, where he can exercise all his skills as an advisor to kings and statesmen, as a husband, a father, and a leader of men—and where, perhaps, we will discern a connection between him and that other remarkable personality, Francis Crawford, whose exploits Lady Dunnett recorded so memorably in The Lymond Chronicles.

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Vintage

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0307762335

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9780307762337

Educational Reform and Environmental Concern

A History of School Nature Study in Australia

By: Dorothy Kass

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Educational Reform and Environmental Concern

A History of School Nature Study in Australia

By: Dorothy Kass

A crucial component of the New Education reform movement, nature study was introduced to elementary schools throughout the English-speaking world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Despite the undoubted enthusiasm with which educators regarded nature study, and the ambitious aims envisioned for teaching it, little scholarly attention has been paid to the subject and the legacy that nature study bequeathed to later curricular developments. Educational Reform and Environmental Concern explores the theories that supported nature study, as well as its definitions, aims, how it was introduced to curricula and its practice in the classroom, by focusing upon educational reform in the Australian state of New South Wales. This book explores nature study within the context of broader educational reform movements in a period characterised by a transnational exchange of ideas. It is the only book on nature study available to date that focuses on the history of the movement outside the USA, providing a much-needed alternative perspective. Kass considers nature study as it adapted and changed throughout the twentieth century, addressing the extent to which the nature study idea represented, responded to and even influenced concern about the natural environment. Educational Reform and Environmental Concern will appeal to researchers, academics and postgraduate students engaged in the study of educational and environmental history. Researchers with an interest in a transnational or imperial approach to the history of education will also benefit from the wealth of comparative material that Kass presents.

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396

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Routledge

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1317231449

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9781317231448

The Descendants of John Hinson (1844-1931) and Wife Sarah Jane Rummage (1850-1915)

By: Dorothy Dobbin Craiglow

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The Descendants of John Hinson (1844-1931) and Wife Sarah Jane Rummage (1850-1915)

By: Dorothy Dobbin Craiglow

Traces the descendants of John Hinson and Sarah Jane Rummage of Stanly County, North Carolina. (Second edition)

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Dorothy Dobbin Craiglow

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0578350785

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9780578350783

Daily Life in the Age of Sail

By: Dorothy Volo,James M. Volo

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Daily Life in the Age of Sail

By: Dorothy Volo,James M. Volo

From the Thirteenth century through the Nineteenth, the waterways of the world provided the major means of transportation for exploration, trade, the military, and even criminals. Find out what life was like for those who chose to sail the high seas, as well as for those who didn't choose to be on board, like wives brought to sea by husbands and slaves en route to the auction block. What were their quarters like? What did they eat? How did they pass their long days at sea? These and other questions are answered in animated prose that brings the lives of ordinary people who oftentimes engaged in extraordinary activities, into sharp focus. First-hand accounts from such sources as personal journals and magazine articles are provided to help bring the time period alive. Students will also learn what life was like in the seaport towns and what the sailors did when they visited these towns, as well as the physical parts of the ships and the different roles different members of the crew played. This engaging history helps to separate fact from fiction while exploring the reasons the sea and sea life have held such prominent roles in popular fiction, and will help students understand what life was truly like for these people.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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157356687X

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9781573566872

They Came for Sandalwood

A Study of the Sandalwood Trade in the South-West Pacific 1830–1865

By: Dorothy Shineberg

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They Came for Sandalwood

A Study of the Sandalwood Trade in the South-West Pacific 1830–1865

By: Dorothy Shineberg

Few Pacific history books have stood the test of time as well as They Came for Sandalwood, but Dorothy Shineberg's book, first published in 1967, has never been bettered. This fascinating account of the sandalwood trade describes the first regular contact between Europeans and the Melanesians of New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands, and the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu). Shineberg studied the relationships and rivalries between European traders and European missionaries, between trader and trader, and between tribe and tribe among the indigenous peoples. Her book documents the details and color of these interactions. Unseaworthy ships, bloody battles, the hazards of sea and reef, and the firepower and inadequacies of European weapons all provide a gripping picture of the 1830s to 1860s. Valuable appendices list the ships involved, their cargoes and the location of the sandalwood stations. They Came for Sandalwood remains the only detailed account of the sandalwood trade, its routes, marketing problems and profits, and of the ships, merchants and seamen involved. It is a sharp, perceptive analysis of the confrontation of the two cultures, approached from the standpoint of Pacific history rather than a mere extension of European history into the PacificIslands.

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University of Queensland Press

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1921902299

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9781921902291

The Law and Miss Mary & Hannah's Beau

A 2-in-1 Collection

By: Dorothy Clark,Renee Ryan

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The Law and Miss Mary & Hannah's Beau

A 2-in-1 Collection

By: Dorothy Clark,Renee Ryan

Enjoy two stories of strength and hope in days gone by from Love Inspired Historical The Law and Miss Mary by Dorothy Clark Mary Randolph is determined to help St. Louis’s orphans, even if she has to battle with by-the-book police captain Samuel Benton. Sam is merely following through with the city father’s plans. But Miss Randolph’s feisty perseverance gives him second thoughts, reigniting his faith—and showing him how true love can fulfill all their dreams… Hannah’s Beau by Renee Ryan When a foolish elopement threatens her sister’s reputation, actress Hannah Southerland will risk everything to bring her home. Reverend Beau O’Toole agrees to help Hannah find the missing couple, but after that they must separate. Beau’s looking for a traditional wife—which Hannah is not. But could this unconventional woman be his perfect partner—in life and in faith?

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Harlequin

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1488035962

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9781488035968

Racialization, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Canada

By: Wendy Chan,Dorothy Chunn

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Racialization, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Canada

By: Wendy Chan,Dorothy Chunn

Race still matters in Canada, and in the context of crime and criminal justice, it matters a lot. In this book, the authors focus on the ways in which racial minority groups are criminalized, as well as the ways in which the Canadian criminal justice system is racialized. Employing an intersectional analysis, Chan and Chunn explore how the connection between race and crime is further affected by class, gender, and other social relations.The text covers not only conventional topics such as policing, sentencing, and the media, but also neglected areas such as the criminalization of immigration, poverty, and mental illness.

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University of Toronto Press

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144260574X

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The Law and Miss Mary

By: Dorothy Clark

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The Law and Miss Mary

By: Dorothy Clark

It's disgraceful how St. Louis's orphans are treated. And Mary Randolph plans to do something about it. She's lost her faith, but she still has compassion and a drive to help innocents in need. If she has to battle with by-the-book police captain Samuel Benton to protect them…well, she'll give him a challenge he'll never forget. A poverty-stricken childhood left Sam hungry for the social acceptance now within his reach. All he has to do is follow through with the city fathers' plans. But Miss Randolph's feisty perseverance gives him second thoughts, reigniting his faith—and showing him how true love can fulfill all their dreams….

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Steeple Hill

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1426838514

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9781426838514

The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers

1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

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The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers

1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

C.S. Lewis said that Dorothy L. Sayers would be acclaimed as one of the great letter-writers of the twentieth century. His opinion is triumphantly confirmed in this collection of letters spanning Sayers's childhood and career as a detective novelist.

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St. Martin's Press

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1466883510

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9781466883512

Doomed to Die

By: Dorothy Simpson

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Doomed to Die

By: Dorothy Simpson

When Inspector Luke Thanet digs into the cloudy past of a murdered artist, he discovers a secret life revealed in her art . . . and a host of family and friends who could have delivered the coup de grace. Part of the Murder Most British series, from the Silver Dagger Award-winning author of Dead by Morning.

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Crimeline

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0553296949

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9780553296945

Audrey of the Mountains

The Story of a Twentieth Century Pioneer Woman

By: Dorothy Audrey Simpson

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Audrey of the Mountains

The Story of a Twentieth Century Pioneer Woman

By: Dorothy Audrey Simpson

Simpson offers a biography of her mother, one of the first female journalists in New Mexico who was known for her informative, influential, and inspiring writing.

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Sunstone Press

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0865346887

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9780865346888

Once Too Often

An Inspector Luke Thanet Novel

By: Dorothy Simpson

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Once Too Often

An Inspector Luke Thanet Novel

By: Dorothy Simpson

In the fourteenth novel in the British mystery series from the Silver Dagger award-winning author Dorothy Simpson, “a modern-day version of Agatha Christie” (Booklist), Inspector Luke Thanet has a both murder and a wedding on his hands. Newspaper reporter Jessica Manifest’s questionable death takes Inspector Luke Thanet away from his daughter’s wedding preparations to investigate the victim’s supposedly accidental death. As he delves into her secretive past, he realizes that there are many people with motives for murdering her. “Thanet's investigation proceeds with satisfying depth…Simpson tailors her plot with skill and care, nicely dovetailing all the clues and reserving a special twist for the end” (Library Journal).

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Simon and Schuster

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1501165585

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9781501165580

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