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Teethmarks on My Tongue

By: Eileen Battersby

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The gunning down of her mother in a Richmond street sets young Helen Stockton Defoe on a journey of self-discovery. A physical feature she had first noticed when she was nine years old has made her feel apart and she has quietly capitalized on the privilege, never mind the aura, which surrounds her. She lives in her head and fills her thoughts – and days – with science, horses and art. The more intently she begins to observe her remote, detached father, the more she learns about her place within the rarefied world she inhabits. Just when it appears she is at last becoming closer to him, it all falls apart as he coldly undermines her abiding passions, which causes her to question the identity she has created. Her rebellion leads her to Europe on a disturbing path dominated by chance and an evolving self-realization. As a result of these experiences she gains an ability to feel deeply, something from which she had always felt somehow excluded. This most unusual coming-of-age novel with its impressive characterization, humor and vivid sense of place takes its clever, if barely street-wise and increasingly obsessive, teenaged narrator on a physical as well as psychological journey towards an astute, hard fought, and deserved, maturity.

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Deep Vellum Publishing

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1628971908

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9781628971903

Ordinary Dogs

By: Eileen Battersby

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Ordinary Dogs

By: Eileen Battersby

Eileen Battersby is the chief literature critic of The Irish Times and is, in the words of John Banville, 'the finest fiction critic we have'. But her first full-length book is not about international literature or the state of the novel. It is about dogs. Two dogs in particular, with the unlikely names of Bilbo and Frodo. She adopted the first from a horrible dog pound, and the second decided he liked her and moved in to join the family. She was in her very early twenties, an intensely serious student and runner who had just moved to Ireland from California. The dogs became her most loyal companions for over twenty years, witnesses to an often difficult human life and more important to her than most other humans. This book is about two animals with personalities, emotions and prejudices. It is unlike any other book ever written about dogs. It is not sentimental or twee. Battersby became intimately involved in the lives of these intelligent, shrewd creatures, and brings them to life with rare passion and insight. She writes honestly and movingly about the reasons why, for certain people - especially women - there is more integrity in the mysterious relationship with a mammal who cannot speak than there is in most of the relationships that human society has to offer.

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Faber & Faber

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0571277853

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9780571277858

Teethmarks on My Tongue

By: Eileen Battersby

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An Introduction to Community and Primary Health Care in Australia

By: Diana Guzys,Eileen Petrie

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An Introduction to Community and Primary Health Care in Australia

By: Diana Guzys,Eileen Petrie

Offers an engaging introduction to the theory, skills and application of community and primary health care.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107633095

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9781107633094

An Introduction to Community and Primary Health Care

By: Diana Guzys,Eileen Petrie

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An Introduction to Community and Primary Health Care

By: Diana Guzys,Eileen Petrie

Community nursing is the fastest growing area of nursing practice in Australia. This book offers an engaging introduction to the theory, skills and application of community and primary health care. Based on the 'Social Model of Health', An Introduction to Community and Primary Health Care explores how social and environmental factors impact healthcare in Australian communities. It discusses the principles of health and mental health promotion, the importance of cultural competence and the practice of community needs assessment. The book is divided into three parts - theory, skills and health professionals in practice. This latter section is unique to this book and encourages students to consider how various nursing roles address issues of social justice, equality and access. Readable and highly practical, An Introduction to Community and Primary Health Care equips students with the theory, skills and understanding they will need as community and primary healthcare professionals working across Australia.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107513529

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9781107513525

The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth

Nationalism & Impartiality in American Historical Writing, 1784-1860

By: Eileen K. Cheng

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The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth

Nationalism & Impartiality in American Historical Writing, 1784-1860

By: Eileen K. Cheng

American historians of the early national period, argues Eileen Ka-May Cheng, grappled with objectivity, professionalism, and other “modern” issues to a greater degree than their successors in later generations acknowledge. Her extensive readings of antebellum historians show that by the 1820s, a small but influential group of practitioners had begun to develop many of the doctrines and concerns that undergird contemporary historical practice. The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth challenges the entrenched notion that America’s first generations of historians were romantics or propagandists for a struggling young nation. Cheng engages with the works of well-known early national historians like George Bancroft, William Prescott, and David Ramsay; such lesser-known figures as Jared Sparks and Lorenzo Sabine; and leading political and intellectual elites of the day, including Francis Bowen and Charles Francis Adams. She shows that their work, which focused on the American Revolution, was often nuanced and surprisingly sympathetic in its treatment of American Indians and loyalists. She also demonstrates how the rise of the novel contributed to the emergence of history as an autonomous discipline, arguing that paradoxically “early national historians at once described truth in opposition to the novel and were influenced by the novel in their understanding of truth.” Modern historians should recognize that the discipline of history is itself a product of history, says Cheng. By taking seriously a group of too-often-dismissed historians, she challenges contemporary historians to examine some ahistorical aspects of the way they understand their own discipline.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820330736

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9780820330730

South Tyneside Pubs

By: Eileen Burnett

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South Tyneside Pubs

By: Eileen Burnett

A fascinating tour of South Tyneside's pub scene, charting the area's taverns, alehouses and watering holes, from past centuries to more recent times.

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139

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445678020

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9781445678023

Ordinary Dogs

By: Eileen Battersby

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The Diary

By: Eileen Goudge

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The Diary

By: Eileen Goudge

An original and emotional novel, perfect for Mother's Day, from "New York Times" bestselling author Eileen Goudge

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1410418022

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9781410418029

Stranger in Paradise

By: Eileen Goudge

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Stranger in Paradise

By: Eileen Goudge

Forty-eight-year-old widow Samantha Delarosa Kelly's life is changed when she becomes pregnant with her much younger lover's child. Her younger daughter sees it as an insult to her late father, while her elder daughter is bitter that her mother is pregnant but she can't have a baby.

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0786234466

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Book's by Eileen Battersby

Teethmarks on My Tongue

Teethmarks on My Tongue

Ordinary Dogs

Ordinary Dogs

Teethmarks on My Tongue

Teethmarks on My Tongue

An Introduction to Community and Primary Health Care in Australia

An Introduction to Community and Primary Health Care in Australia

An Introduction to Community and Primary Health Care

An Introduction to Community and Primary Health Care

The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth

The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth

South Tyneside Pubs

South Tyneside Pubs

Ordinary Dogs

Ordinary Dogs

The Diary

The Diary

Stranger in Paradise

Stranger in Paradise

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