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The Medicine of Art

Disease and the Aesthetic Object in Gilded Age America

By: Elizabeth L. Lee

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The Medicine of Art

Disease and the Aesthetic Object in Gilded Age America

By: Elizabeth L. Lee

In 1901, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens proclaimed in a letter to Will Low, “Health-is the thing!” Though recently diagnosed with intestinal cancer, Saint-Gaudens was revitalized by recreational sports, having realized midcareer “there is something else in life besides the four walls of an ill-ventilated studio.” The Medicine of Art puts such moments center stage in order to consider the role of health and illness in the way art was produced and consumed. Not merely beautiful or entertaining objects, works by Gilded-Age artists such as John Singer Sargent, Abbott Thayer, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens are shown to function as balm for the ill, providing relief from physical suffering and pain. Art did so by blunting the edges of contagious disease through a process of visual translation. In painting, for instance, hacking coughs, bloody sputum, and bodily enervation were recast as signs of spiritual elevation and refinement for the tuberculous, who were shown with a pale, chalky pallor that signalled rarefied beauty rather than an alarming indication of death. Works of art thus redirected the experience of illness in an era prior to the life-saving discoveries that would soon become hallmarks of modern medical science to offer an alternate therapy. The first study to address the place of organic disease-cancer, tuberculosis, syphilis-in the life and work of Gilded-Age artists, this book looks at how well-known works of art were marked by disease and argues that art itself functioned in medicinal terms for artists and viewers in the late 19th century.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501346881

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Past Lives

An Investigation into Reincarnation Memories

By: Peter Fenwick,Elizabeth Fenwick

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Past Lives

An Investigation into Reincarnation Memories

By: Peter Fenwick,Elizabeth Fenwick

For centuries, the existence of reincarnation has been a firmly held belief of millions that crosses races, religions, and cultures. In Past Lives, Dr. Peter Fenwick and Elizabeth Fenwick examine this extraordinary phenomenon by attempting to determine whether people are experiencing actual memories, or thoughts and ideas based on imagination. Featuring more than 100 firsthand accounts from those who believe they can recall their previous existences, this insightful exploration of reincarnation may change the way you think—and challenge your views of life itself. • A World War II veteran relives the moment of his death—in the cockpit of a bi-plane during the first World War. • A hypnotized woman starts speaking with an Irish brogue about her life in Ireland although she’s never visited there. • While vacationing in Egypt, a woman correctly describes a temple she was once worshipped in—without ever having been inside.

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Penguin

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1101203900

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Bay Area Ridge Trail

The Official Guide for Hikers, Mountain Bikers, and Equestrians

By: Elizabeth Byers

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Bay Area Ridge Trail

The Official Guide for Hikers, Mountain Bikers, and Equestrians

By: Elizabeth Byers

Find Solitude and Dramatic Views Around San Francisco Bay Everyone needs a break from their daily life. Escape to the oak-studded grasslands and tranquil forests of the Bay Area Ridge Trail. Hike, bike, or ride through nine counties with the official guide endorsed by the Bay Area Ridge Trail Council. Discover dramatic coastlines, a range of ecosystems, former Mexican ranchos, vistas that inspired Spanish explorers, and more. Join author Elizabeth Byers—a founding board member of the council—and Jean Rusmore, and choose from 75 trail segments on a network of paths that ring San Francisco Bay. Make your way through parks and public lands like Mount Tamalpais State Park and Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve. Trips range from a 2.5-mile excursion over the Benicia-Martinez Bridge to a 12.5-mile traverse of Bolinas Ridge. You can also link several trips together to create a continuous trek that is 20, 40, or even 80 miles long. Each trip includes summary information, like distance, accessibility, regulations, and facilities, as well as an easy-to-read map. Comprehensive trail directions help to ensure that you always know where to go, while details on the region’s history and culture entertain you along the way. Grab the updated, full-color edition of Bay Area Ridge Trail and start planning your next adventure. The perfect outing is closer than you think.

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Wilderness Press

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0899979068

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American Pharaoh

Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation

By: Elizabeth Taylor,Adam Cohen

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American Pharaoh

Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation

By: Elizabeth Taylor,Adam Cohen

This is a biography of mayor Richard J. Daley. It is the story of his rise from the working-class Irish neighbourhood of his childhood to his role as one of the most important figures in 20th century American politics.

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0759524270

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Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion

By: Elizabeth Carolyn Miller

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Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion

By: Elizabeth Carolyn Miller

How literature of the British imperial world contended with the social and environmental consequences of industrial mining The 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. Elizabeth Carolyn Miller examines how literature of this era reckoned with a new vision of civilization where humans are dependent on finite, nonrenewable stores of earthly resources, and traces how the threatening horizon of resource exhaustion worked its way into narrative form. Britain was the first nation to transition to industry based on fossil fuels, which put its novelists and other writers in the remarkable position of mediating the emergence of extraction-based life. Miller looks at works like Hard Times, The Mill on the Floss, and Sons and Lovers, showing how the provincial realist novel’s longstanding reliance on marriage and inheritance plots transforms against the backdrop of exhaustion to withhold the promise of reproductive futurity. She explores how adventure stories like Treasure Island and Heart of Darkness reorient fictional space toward the resource frontier. And she shows how utopian and fantasy works like “Sultana’s Dream,” The Time Machine, and The Hobbit offer imaginative ways of envisioning energy beyond extractivism. This illuminating book reveals how an era marked by violent mineral resource rushes gave rise to literary forms and genres that extend extractivism as a mode of environmental understanding.

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Princeton University Press

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0691205531

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Rapt in Plaid

Canadian Literature and Scottish Tradition

By: Elizabeth Waterston

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Rapt in Plaid

Canadian Literature and Scottish Tradition

By: Elizabeth Waterston

Illustrate a long-lasting connection between Scottish and Canadian literary traditions and illuminates the way Scottish ideas and values still wield surprising power in Canadian politics, education, theology, economics and social mores.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802086853

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Mothercoin

The Stories of Immigrant Nannies

By: Elizabeth Cummins Muñoz

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Mothercoin

The Stories of Immigrant Nannies

By: Elizabeth Cummins Muñoz

A historical and cultural exploration of the devastating consequences of undervaluing those who conduct the “women’s work” of childcare and housekeeping In taking up the mothercoin—the work of mothering, divorced from family and exchanged in a global market—immigrant nannies embody a grave contradiction: while “women’s work” of childcare and housekeeping is relegated to the private sphere and remains largely invisible to the public world, the love and labor required to mother are fundamental to the functioning of that world. Listening to the stories of these workers reveals the devastating consequences of undervaluing this work. As cleaners and caregivers are exported from poor regions into rich ones, they leave behind a material and emotional absence that is keenly felt by their families. On the other side of these borders, children of wealthier regions are bathed and diapered and cared for in clean homes with folded laundry and sopa de arroz simmering on the stove, while their parents work ever longer hours, and often struggle themselves with these daily separations. In the US, many of these women’s voices are silenced by language or fear or the habit of powerlessness. But even in the shadows, immigrant nannies live full and complicated lives moved by desire and loss and anger and passion. Mothercoin sets out to tell these stories, recounting the experience of Mexican and Central American women living and working in the private homes of Houston, Texas, while also telling a larger story about global immigration, working motherhood, and the private experience of the public world we have all created.

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Beacon Press

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0807051187

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A Canterbury Pilgrimage

An Italian Pilgrimage

By: Elizabeth Robins Pennell,Joseph Pennell

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A Canterbury Pilgrimage

An Italian Pilgrimage

By: Elizabeth Robins Pennell,Joseph Pennell

Journey across Europe aboard a tandem tricycle in these two Victorian-era travelogues that take readers to England and Italy. A peasant in peaked hat and blue shirt, with trousers rolled up high above his bare knees, crossed the road and silently examined the tricycle. “You have a good horse,” he then said; “it eats nothing.” —from An Italian Pilgrimage The 1880s was an exhilarating time for cycling pioneers like Elizabeth and her husband Joseph. As boneshakers and high-wheelers evolved into tandem tricycles and the safety bike, cycling grew from child’s play and extreme sport into a leisurely and, importantly, literary mode of transportation. The illustrated travel memoirs of “those Pennells” were—and still are—highly entertaining. They helped usher in the new age of leisure touring, while playfully hearkening back to famous literary journeys. In this new edition, Dave Buchanan provides rich cultural contexts surrounding the Pennells’ first two adventures. These long out-of-print travel memoirs will delight avid cyclists as well as scholars of travel literature, cycling history, women’s writing, Victorian literature, and illustration. “In the airy, self deprecating style of Robert Louis Stevenson, an American couple captured the imaginations of UK and US readers through the five illustrated cycle-travel books they created beginning in the 1880s. . . . Elizabeth and Joseph Pennell succeeded in bringing the leisure touring idea to the forefront through their jaunts aboard a tandem tricycle outfitted with luggage racks. . . . Cycling historian Dave Buchanan contributes an enlightening introduction which grounds the couple in the literary/art world of the late nineteenth century and gives a gearhead sense of bicycling history. But Elizabeth’s delightful prose steals the show.” —Foreword Reviews

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University of Alberta

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1772120928

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RUTH

Victorian Romance Classic, With Author's Biography

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

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RUTH

Victorian Romance Classic, With Author's Biography

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

Ruth is a young orphan girl working in a respectable sweatshop for the overworked Mrs. Mason. She is selected to go to a ball to repair torn dresses. At the ball she meets the aristocratic Henry Bellingham, a rake figure who is instantly attracted to her. They meet again by chance and form a secret friendship which is frowned upon by Mrs. Mason who dismisses Ruth. Henry and Ruth go on holiday to Wales together where Henry falls sick with fever. When Henry's mother finds out about their relationship, she forces him to abandon Ruth, leaving her some money. But they don't know that Ruth is pregnant. Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was an English novelist and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Some of Gaskell's best known novels are Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.

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8026855159

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The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland

A Regional Survey

By: Elizabeth Crawford

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The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland

A Regional Survey

By: Elizabeth Crawford

In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Crawford provides the first survey of women’s suffrage campaigns across the British Isles and Ireland, focusing on local campaigns and activists. Divided into thirteen sections covering the regions of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, this book gives a unique geographical dimension to debates on the suffrage campaign of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Through a study of the grass-roots activists involved in the movement, Crawford provides a counter to studies that have focused on the politics and personalities that dominated at a national level, and reveals that, far from providing merely passive backing to the cause, women in the regions were engaged in the movement as active participants Including a thorough inventory of archival sources and extensive bibliographical and biographical references for each region, including the addresses of campaigners, this guide is essential for researchers, scholars, local historians and students alike.

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Routledge

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1136010548

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One More Moment in Time

By: Elizabeth Anne Ryan

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One More Moment in Time

By: Elizabeth Anne Ryan

The handsome Dr. Mark Sanders finds love again with his childhood sweetheart. But when Mark discovers an abandoned child might hold the key to saving his life, he wonders if the three of them can become a family. Or will the illness threatening his life steal him away from everything he loves? Will Mark go against his doctor's advice, risking his life to play in the AFC Championship game in order to advance his team to the Super Bowl? Mark must choose: the family of his dreams or the dreams of his teammates. Doctor, NFL quarterback, husband, father, can Mark have it all? One More Moment in Time is all he needs to become everything he knows God wants him to be. This amazing, heartwarming story, of a young couple walking in faith and trusting in love, unfolds as they learn to depend on God's promises - and on each other. An epic love story to read in front of a crackling fire. Elizabeth A. Ryan is a Christian Romance Author. Elizabeth and her four children and three grandchildren make their home in Georgia. She is an active member of Believer's Church. She enjoys bringing God's Love into the hearts of those she meets through her books. Her first book in this series is Endless Love. Book 2 of the Endless Love Series

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Xulon Press

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1606479261

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Learning and Literacy in Female Hands, 1520-1698

By: Elizabeth Mazzola

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Learning and Literacy in Female Hands, 1520-1698

By: Elizabeth Mazzola

Focusing on the unusual learning and schooling of women in early modern England, this study explores how and why women wrote, the myriad forms their alphabets could assume, and the shape which vernacular literacy acquired in their hands. Elizabeth Mazzola argues that early modern women's writings often challenged the lessons of their male teachers, since they were designed to conceal rather than reveal women's learning and schooling. Employed by early modern women with great learning and much art, such difficult or ’resistant’ literacy organized households and administrative offices alike, and transformed the broader history of literacy in the West. Chapters treat writers like Jane Sharp, Anne Southwell, Jane Seager, Martha Moulsworth, Elizabeth Tudor, and Katherine Parr alongside images of women writers presented by Shakespeare and Sidney. Managing women's literacy also concerned early modern statesmen and secretaries, writing masters and grammarians, and Mazzola analyzes how both the emerging vernacular and a developing bureaucratic state were informed by these contests over women's hands.

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1317106717

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Quakers in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

The Dilemmas of NGO Humanitarian Activism

By: Nancy Elizabeth Gallagher

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Quakers in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

The Dilemmas of NGO Humanitarian Activism

By: Nancy Elizabeth Gallagher

Early efforts by peacemakers in the worlds longest refugee crisis

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977416105X

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Books Children Love (Revised Edition)

A Guide to the Best Children's Literature

By: Elizabeth Laraway Wilson

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Books Children Love (Revised Edition)

A Guide to the Best Children's Literature

By: Elizabeth Laraway Wilson

A love for reading is one of the most precious gifts that we can give children. It nurtures their imagination and creativity, lets them explore other worlds, and opens their minds to new truths and knowledge in appealing, inspiring ways. But how can we sort through thousands of children's books to discover the really worthwhile ones? Elizabeth Wilson offers us a newly revised, comprehensive guide to the very best in children's literature. Just as in the original volume, she comments on the tone and content of excellently written, captivating books in over two dozen subject areas. Hundreds of new titles have been added while retaining timeless classics and modern favorites-all of which respect traditional values. So that no matter what the children's ages are or whether they love fact or fiction, you can trust these books to share things that you can believe in and kids will delight in.

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Crossway

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1433516349

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The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker

The Life Cycle of an Eighteenth-Century Woman

By: Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker

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The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker

The Life Cycle of an Eighteenth-Century Woman

By: Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker

Focusing on different stages of Drinker's personal development within the domestic context, this abridged edition highlights four critical phases of her life cycle: youth and courtship, wife and mother, middle age in years of crisis, and grandmother and family elder.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812220773

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Changing Urban Education

By: Simon Pratt-Adams,Elizabeth Burn,Meg Maguire

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Changing Urban Education

By: Simon Pratt-Adams,Elizabeth Burn,Meg Maguire

Changing Urban Education considers the way we approach teaching and learning in the urban context and examines the debates concerning developments in wider social, cultural, political and economic contexts. Grounded in a strong conceptual, theoretical framework, this accessible text will guide the reader through this evolving area. Reflective exercises, interviews, chapter summaries and useful websites will encourage and support student learning and the application of new concepts. Recent debates and developments are considered, including: * The city as a social, cultural and economic resource * Virtual communities * The impact of the forces of globalisation on urban education * Challenging schools and urban policy * Mobile urban learning Changing Urban Education is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students on education studies and related courses.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441147918

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The Highland Lady In Ireland

Journals 1840-50

By: Elizabeth Grant

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The Highland Lady In Ireland

Journals 1840-50

By: Elizabeth Grant

Edited and Introduced by Patricia Pelly and Andrew Tod. ‘They have made an Irishwoman of you now, and may they know the value of the daughter they adopted into their country.’ Elizabeth Grant’s sister The early life of Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus, so memorably recorded in her Memoirs of a Highland Lady has had an avid readership since the book’s first publication in 1898. This volume takes up the story after she arrives in Ireland, following her marriage to Colonel Smith of Baltiboys. This journal, begun in 1840, will be recognisable to her many followers by the charm, vigour and intelligence that fill every page. They vividly depict the day to day life of her family, her immense efforts to improve the Baltiboys estate and how she coped with the terrible ravages of famine. Her sharp observations of all classes of society however, from corrupt landowners to the poor and often dissolute farm-workers, make this book a memorable and important chronicle of her times and a unique contribution to the social history of Ireland.

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Canongate Books

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1847675395

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Felicità e matrimonio

By: Elizabeth Towne

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Felicità e matrimonio

By: Elizabeth Towne

Uno dei miti sul matrimonio è che vi renderà felici. Non è sempre vero. Un matrimonio felice dipende dalla felicità che si ha dentro e sposarsi non è necessariamente la chiave per raggiungere la beatitudine eterna. La maggior parte delle persone non è più soddisfatta della propria vita dopo il matrimonio di quanto non fosse prima del matrimonio. Perché un uomo sposato sia significativamente soddisfatto della sua vita è necessario che sua moglie diventi più soddisfatta di se stessa, e viceversa. Avere un coniuge felice può compensare grandi problemi. ‘‘Felicità e matrimonio’’ è un interessante libro di auto-aiuto al mantenimento di un sano rapporto coniugale. Vi aiuta a riflettere sui vostri errori e debolezze, e anche su quei falsi miti che spesso costituiscono la base dei vostri atteggiamenti. Riconoscere tali atteggiamenti vi renderà capaci di cambiare le carte in tavola e ritrovare il rispetto per la vostra persona. L’autrice fornisce un valido strumento per prendere maggiore coscienza del rapporto che ognuno ha con se stesso e con il proprio coniuge, sottolineando, senza retorica, l’importanza del ‘dare amore’, ancor prima del ‘ricevere amore’, osservando la realtà con gli occhi dell’altro, in uno spirito di profondo rispetto e uguaglianza. Il libro rappresenta anche una guida per tutte le aree della vita. Dai problemi di relazione con il proprio compagno, a quelli con i parenti, all’educazione dei bambini. È una lettura che fornisce risposte a molte situazioni difficili. Mostra come migliorare anzitutto il vostro stato d’animo e, quindi, il vostro matrimonio.

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Gingko edizioni

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8895288297

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When You're the New Teacher: 28 Strategies to Align Your Good Intentions with Your Teaching Practices ebook

28 Strategies to Align Your Good Intentions with Your Teaching Practices

By: Elizabeth Soslau

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When You're the New Teacher: 28 Strategies to Align Your Good Intentions with Your Teaching Practices ebook

28 Strategies to Align Your Good Intentions with Your Teaching Practices

By: Elizabeth Soslau

Self-directed, self-paced professional learning teachers can use to build agency and improve their practice, with easy-to-digest ideas that can be implemented in the classroom the next day. Teachers start their professional journey with a clear aim: to teach well so students thrive socially, emotionally, and academically. All too often, though, the hard realities of teaching (mandated curricula, scripted lesson plans, overloaded schedules, students' personal struggles) hamper the best of intentions. Navigating these challenges and avoiding burnout calls for teachers to build strong relationships among colleagues, students, families, and communities. Those relationships in turn help teachers create contexts for deep learning, reflection, and student-centered instruction. This book provides strategies and tools for doing all this. This must-have resource: Provides student teachers and new teachers with a clear set of actions to move into their position and teach well right from the start. Offers practical, step-by-step guidance for building relationships with colleagues and administrators, affirming students' identities, navigating challenges with other professionals, and putting love and care at the heart of teaching. Helps educators build a foundation and philosophy for teaching and collaborating and includes stories from educators and sample dialogues. Dr. Elizabeth Soslau wrote this book to be a resource for self-directed, self-paced professional learning that teachers could use to develop and improve their practice, with easy-to-digest ideas that can be implemented in the classroom the next day. It's a guide that every student teacher, in-service teacher, host teacher, and student teaching field instructor needs.

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The Letters of Mrs. Gaskell

By: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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The Letters of Mrs. Gaskell

By: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

These letters, covering such subjects as scarlet fever, the Lancashire cotton famine and the American Civil War, bring history alive. They also throw light on Gaskell's own writings, especially her biography of Charlotte Brontèe.

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1901341038

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Sylvia's Lovers

Tale of Love and Betrayal in the Napoleonic Wars (With Author's Biography)

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

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Tale of Love and Betrayal in the Napoleonic Wars (With Author's Biography)

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

Sylvia's Lovers is a Victorian romance novel described by the author as "the saddest story I ever wrote". The story begins in the 1790s in the fictional coastal town of Monkshaven against the background of the practice of impressments during the early phases of the Napoleonic Wars. Sylvia Robson lives happily with her parents on a farm, and is passionately loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She, however, meets and falls in love with Charlie Kinraid, a dashing sailor on a whaling vessel, and they become secretly engaged. When Kinraid goes back to his ship, he is forcibly enlisted in the Royal Navy by a press gang, a scene witnessed by Philip. Philip does not tell Sylvia of the incident nor relay to her Charlie's parting message and, believing her lover is dead, Sylvia eventually marries her cousin and they get a daughter. Inevitably, Kinraid returns to claim Sylvia and she discovers that Philip knew all the time that he was still alive. Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was an English novelist and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Some of Gaskell's best known novels are Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.

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8026856716

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ELIZABETH GASKELL Ultimate Collection: 10 Novels & 40+ Short Stories (Including Poetry, Essays & Biographies)

Illustrated Edition: Cranford, Wives and Daughters, North and South, Sylvia's Lovers, Mary Barton, Ruth, My Lady Ludlow, Round the Sofa, Right at Last, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, French Life…

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

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ELIZABETH GASKELL Ultimate Collection: 10 Novels & 40+ Short Stories (Including Poetry, Essays & Biographies)

Illustrated Edition: Cranford, Wives and Daughters, North and South, Sylvia's Lovers, Mary Barton, Ruth, My Lady Ludlow, Round the Sofa, Right at Last, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, French Life…

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

This collection contains the complete works of the great Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell, including novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and a biography of Charlotte Bronte. Introduction: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Novels: Mary Barton The Moorland Cottage Cranford Ruth North and South Sylvia's Lovers Wives and Daughters A Dark Night's Work Short Stories & Novellas: Round the Sofa My Lady Ludlow An Accursed Race The Doom of the Griffiths Half a Life-Time Ago The Poor Clare The Half-Brothers Cousin Phillis Company Manners Mr. Harrison's Confessions The Sexton's Hero The Grey Woman Curious if True Six Weeks at Heppenheim Libbie Marsh's Three Eras Christmas Storms and Sunshine Hand and Heart Bessy's Troubles at Home Disappearances Lizzie Leigh The Well of Pen-Mortha The Heart of John Middleton Traits and Stories of the Huguenots Morton Hall My French Master The Squire's Story Right at Last The Manchester Marriage Lois the Witch The Crooked Branch The Old Nurse's Story Clopton House Crowley Castle Two Fragments of Ghost Stories The Shah's English Gardener Martha Preston The Deserted Mansion Uncle Peter A Visit to Eton The Cage at Cranford Some Passages from the History of the Chomley Family The Ghost in the Garden Room Poetry: Sketches Among the Poor Bran The Scholar's Story Other Works: The Life of Charlotte Brontë The Last Generation in England Cumberland Sheep-Shearers Traits and Stories of The Hugenots Modern Greek Songs French Life An Italian Institution Shams A Fear for the Future Biography: Mrs. Gaskell and Knutsford by George A. Payne Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was an English novelist and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Some of Gaskell's best known novels are Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.

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Greener Pastures

Decentralizing the Regulation of Agricultural Pollution

By: Elizabeth Brubaker

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Decentralizing the Regulation of Agricultural Pollution

By: Elizabeth Brubaker

As farms increase in size and become increasingly industrialized, the problem of agricultural pollution is gaining urgency across Canada. The response from most environmentalists and provincial governments is to push for more centralized regulation. In Greener Pastures, Elizabeth Brubaker exposes the detrimental effects of such regulatory changes, which tend to exacerbate, rather than curb, pollution. For centuries, Brubaker explains, conflicts about farming were resolved by the parties directly involved, aided by common-law courts. The rule, 'use your own property so as not to harm another's,' fairly and effectively resolved disputes between farmers and their neighbours and curbed environmental damage. Beginning in the 1970s, however, concerns about restraints on agriculture's growth prompted governments to replace the common law with more permissive provincial statutes. Greener Pastures chronicles the centralization of agricultural regulation and the resulting environmental harm. Brubaker focuses, specifically, on the right-to-farm laws (passed by every province in recent decades) that have freed farmers from common-law liability for the nuisances they create. She shows how these laws have made possible an unsustainable intensification of agriculture, and argues for a decentralized, rights-based decision-making regime. This thoroughly researched and impressively thought-out study challenges many common assumptions about environmental regulation, and proposes fresh answers to grave environmental and political questions.

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North and South

Victorian Romance Classic (Including Biography of the Author)

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

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North and South

Victorian Romance Classic (Including Biography of the Author)

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

This eBook edition of "North and South" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil, rural south, Margaret Hale settles with her parents in Milton. She witnesses the brutal world wrought by the Industrial Revolution, seeing employers and workers clashing in the first strikes. Sympathetic to the poor (whose courage and tenacity she admires and among whom she makes friends), she clashes with John Thornton: a nouveau riche cotton-mill owner who is contemptuous of his workers. The story traces her growing understanding of the complexity of labor relations and their impact on well-meaning mill owners and her conflicted relationship with John Thornton. Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was an English novelist and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Some of Gaskell's best known novels are Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.

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