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The Guinea Pig Club

Archibald McIndoe and the RAF in World War II

By: Emily Mayhew

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The Guinea Pig Club

Archibald McIndoe and the RAF in World War II

By: Emily Mayhew

A truly inspiring tale about the history of the Guinea Pig Club. Plastic surgery was in its infancy before the Second World War — the most rudimentary techniques were known only to a few surgeons worldwide. The Allies were tremendously fortunate in having the maverick surgeon Archibald McIndoe operating at a small hospital in East Grinstead in the south of England. After arguing with his superiors, McIndoe set up a revolutionary new treatment regime and rightly secured his group of patients, dubbed the Guinea Pig Club, and honoured place in society. Based on extensive research into official records and moving first-person recollections, this extraordinary book brings home the heroism and triumphs of this courageous band of men and contains updated material on how their example is inspiring today’s wounded veterans.

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Dundurn

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1459743474

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9781459743472

Research Methods for Memory Studies

By: Emily Keightley

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Research Methods for Memory Studies

By: Emily Keightley

The first practical guide to research methods in memory studies. This book provides expert appraisals of a range of techniques and approaches in memory studies, and focuses on methods and methodology as a way to help bring unity and coherence to this new

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226

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748683488

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9780748683482

Rome's Patron

The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas

By: Emily Gowers

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Rome's Patron

The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas

By: Emily Gowers

The story of Maecenas and his role in the evolution and continuing legacy of ancient Roman poetry and culture An unelected statesman with exceptional powers, a patron of the arts and a luxury-loving friend of the emperor Augustus: Maecenas was one of the most prominent and distinctive personalities of ancient Rome. Yet the traces he left behind are unreliable and tantalizingly scarce. Rather than attempting a conventional biography, Emily Gowers shows in Rome’s Patron that it is possible to tell a different story, one about Maecenas’s influence, his changing identities and the many narratives attached to him across two millennia. Rome’s Patron explores Maecenas’s appearances in the central works of Augustan poetry written in his name—Virgil’s Georgics, Horace’s Odes and Propertius’s elegies—and in later works of Latin literature that reassess his influence. For the Roman poets he supported, Maecenas was a mascot of cultural flexibility and innovation, a pioneer of gender fluidity and a bearer of imperial demands who could be exposed as a secret sympathizer with their own values. For those excluded from his circle, he represented either favouritism and indulgence or the lost ideal of a patron in perfect collaboration with the authors he championed. As Gowers shows, Maecenas had and continues to have a unique cachet—in the fantasies that still surround the gardens, buildings and objects so tenuously associated with him; in literature, from Ariosto and Ben Johnson to Phillis Wheatley and W. B. Yeats; and in philanthropy, where his name has been surprisingly adaptable to more democratic forms of patronage.

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488

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Princeton University Press

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0691193142

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9780691193144

Manual of Obstetrics

By: Arthur T. Evans,Emily DeFranco

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Manual of Obstetrics

By: Arthur T. Evans,Emily DeFranco

Explore the indispensable OB reference, Manual of Obstetrics, 8th Edition, now completely revised and updated. Designed to support all levels of obstetric providers, the manual offers expert guidance on obstetric care, obstetric complications, maternal complications, fetal assessment, fetal complications, and neonatal care. Clinicians, nurses, midwives and med students will benefit from this content-rich, authoritative guide.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1469885522

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9781469885520

Coastlines

At the Water's Edge

By: Emily Nathan

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Coastlines

At the Water's Edge

By: Emily Nathan

A wanderlust-inspiring photography collection of the world’s most stunning waterways and coastlines from the premier online curator of travel photography, Tiny Atlas Quarterly. From tropical beaches in Hawai’i and icy fjords in Greenland to lush mangrove swamps in the Cuban Cayos and forested islands in Vietnam, coastlines and waterways are some of the world’s most beloved places and most precious habitats. With hundreds of awe-inspiring photos from locations far and wide, Coastlines is a visual tour of these magical watery places and a treasure trove of curated travel information. Water lovers, beach bums, and armchair travelers will enjoy this tranquil exploration of the world’s many vast and varied shores.

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289

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Ten Speed Press

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1984858343

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9781984858344

Portable Modernisms

The Art of Travelling Light

By: Emily Ridge

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Portable Modernisms

The Art of Travelling Light

By: Emily Ridge

Luggage is an overlooked detail in the stock sketch of the expatriated modernist writer from the valise-fashioned desks of both James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov to the lost manuscript-laden cases of Ernest Hemingway and Walter Benjamin. While the trope of modernist exile has long been spotlighted, little attention has been given to the material meaning of this condition. What things and objects do modernism's exiles and emigres carry with them and how does the act of carriage enter into the modernist picture more broadly? What are the implications and historical resonances of a portable outlook, particularly from the angles of gender, wartime conflict and character conception? Above all, how far does such an outlook impact upon artistic vision? Portability represents the simultaneous transportation and repudiation of domesticity and the home, those key frames of reference in the nineteenth-century novel. This book examines the multifarious ways in which the emergence of a modern culture of portability prompts a radical, if often problematic, departure from Victorian architectural conceptions of fiction towards more movable understandings of form and character.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474419615

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9781474419611

Medical Law

Text, Cases, and Materials

By: Emily Jackson

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Medical Law

Text, Cases, and Materials

By: Emily Jackson

Providing a clear and accessible guide to medical law, this work contains extracts from a wide variety of academic materials so that students can acquire a good understanding of a range of different perspectives.

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Oxford University Press

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0198743505

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The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764–1834

Slavery, Disease and Colonial Modernity

By: Emily Senior

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The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764–1834

Slavery, Disease and Colonial Modernity

By: Emily Senior

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Caribbean was known as the 'grave of Europeans'. At the apex of British colonialism in the region between 1764 and 1834, the rapid spread of disease amongst colonist, enslaved and indigenous populations made the Caribbean notorious as one of the deadliest places on earth. Drawing on historical accounts from physicians, surgeons and travellers alongside literary works, Emily Senior traces the cultural impact of such widespread disease and death during the Romantic age of exploration and medical and scientific discovery. Focusing on new fields of knowledge such as dermatology, medical geography and anatomy, Senior shows how literature was crucial to the development and circulation of new medical ideas, and that the Caribbean as the hub of empire played a significant role in the changing disciplines and literary forms associated with the transition to modernity.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108271553

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9781108271554

Ferns, Spikemosses, Clubmosses, and Quillworts of Eastern North America

By: Emily Sessa

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Ferns, Spikemosses, Clubmosses, and Quillworts of Eastern North America

By: Emily Sessa

A comprehensive, richly illustrated photographic field guide to the ferns and lycophytes of the eastern United States and Canada This is a comprehensive photographic field guide to the ferns, spikemosses, clubmosses, and quillworts of eastern North America. Accessible yet scientifically accurate, the book will appeal to beginners and experts alike and enhance the field experience of any user. Keys, range maps, detailed color photographs, and facing-page species descriptions aid exploration and allow reliable identification of all 305 species found in the area covered by the book—the United States east of the Mississippi and contiguous Canada, except for extreme northern and northeastern Canada. An introduction provides an easy-to-understand overview of identifying characteristics, life cycles, and evolutionary history. Checklists allow readers to record species they have seen, in four subregions. Indexes feature a complete list of common and scientific names, including synonyms, ensuring that users can find the plants they are looking for and keep track of changes in taxonomy. In addition, information about hybrids, polyploids, and reticulate relationships is provided, illuminating the fascinating processes that have led to such a rich diversity of species. Modern and innovative, this is the definitive guide to the ferns and lycophytes of eastern North America. Covers all 305 species, belonging to 96 genera and 30 families Features detailed color photos of all species—and facing-page species descriptions Provides checklists for keeping track of species seen Includes common and scientific names and notable synonyms

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Princeton University Press

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0691220441

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9780691220444

Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914

An Intellectual History

By: Emily Jones

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Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914

An Intellectual History

By: Emily Jones

Between 1830 and 1914 in Britain a dramatic modification of the reputation of Edmund Burke (1730-1797) occurred. Burke, an Irishman and Whig politician, is now most commonly known as the 'founder of modern conservatism' - an intellectual tradition which is also deeply connected to the identity of the British Conservative Party. The idea of 'Burkean conservatism' - a political philosophy which upholds 'the authority of tradition', the organic, historic conception of society, and the necessity of order, religion, and property - has been incredibly influential both in international academic analysis and in the wider political world. This is a highly significant intellectual construct, but its origins have not yet been understood. Emily Jones demonstrates, for the first time, that the transformation of Burke into the 'founder of conservatism' was in fact part of wider developments in British political, intellectual, and cultural history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing from a wide range of sources, including political texts, parliamentary speeches, histories, biographies, and educational curricula, Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism shows how and why Burke's reputation was transformed over a formative period of British history. In doing so, it bridges the significant gap between the history of political thought as conventionally understood and the history of the making of political traditions. The result is to demonstrate that, by 1914, Burke had been firmly established as a 'conservative' political philosopher and was admired and utilized by political Conservatives in Britain who identified themselves as his intellectual heirs. This was one essential component of a conscious re-working of C/conservatism which is still at work today.

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Oxford University Press

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0192520083

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9780192520081

Blue Stars

A Novel

By: Emily Gray Tedrowe

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Blue Stars

A Novel

By: Emily Gray Tedrowe

Emily Gray Tedrowe has written an extraordinary novel about ordinary people, a graceful and gritty portrayal of what it's like for the women whose husbands and sons are deployed in Iraq. BLUE STARS brings to life the realities of the modern day home front: how to get through the daily challenges of motherhood and holding down a job while bearing the stress and uncertainty of war, when everything can change in an instant. It tells the story of Ellen, a Midwestern literature professor, who is drawn into the war when her legal ward Michael enlists as a Marine; and of Lacey, a proud Army wife who struggles to pay the bills and keep things going for her son while her husband is deployed. Ellen and Lacey cope with the fear and stress of a loved one at war while trying to get by in a society that often ignores or misunderstands what war means to women today. When Michael and Eddie are injured in Iraq, Ellen and Lacey's lives become intertwined in Walter Reed Army Hospital, where each woman must live while caring for her wounded soldier. They form an alliance, and an unlikely friendship, while helping each other survive the dislocated world of the army hospital. Whether that means fighting for proper care for their men, sharing a six-pack, or coping with irrevocable loss, Ellen and Lacey pool their strengths to make it through. In the end, both women are changed, not only by the war and its fallout, but by each other.

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353

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Macmillan

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1250052483

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9781250052483

Wetlands in a Dry Land

More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin

By: Emily O'Gorman

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Wetlands in a Dry Land

More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin

By: Emily O'Gorman

In the name of agriculture, urban growth, and disease control, humans have drained, filled, or otherwise destroyed nearly 87 percent of the world’s wetlands over the past three centuries. Unintended consequences include biodiversity loss, poor water quality, and the erosion of cultural sites, and only in the past few decades have wetlands been widely recognized as worth preserving. Emily O’Gorman asks, What has counted as a wetland, for whom, and with what consequences? Using the Murray-Darling Basin—a massive river system in eastern Australia that includes over 30,000 wetland areas—as a case study and drawing on archival research and original interviews, O’Gorman examines how people and animals have shaped wetlands from the late nineteenth century to today. She illuminates deeper dynamics by relating how Aboriginal peoples acted then and now as custodians of the landscape, despite the policies of the Australian government; how the movements of water birds affected farmers; and how mosquitoes have defied efforts to fully understand, let alone control, them. Situating the region’s history within global environmental humanities conversations, O’Gorman argues that we need to understand wetlands as socioecological landscapes in order to create new kinds of relationships with and futures for these places.

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University of Washington Press

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0295749040

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9780295749044

Wuthering Heights - Ed. Heywood

By: Emily Brontë

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Wuthering Heights - Ed. Heywood

By: Emily Brontë

Critics often comment on the importance of landscape in Wuthering Heights, and in this edition, Christopher Heywood locates the text more precisely than previous editions amid Yorkshire’s limestone north and moorland south, drawing out the importance of the region’s slaveholding society. Heywood also makes an important contribution to scholarship arguing persuasively for a re-structuring of the chapter and section breaks. Finally, this edition includes a variety of appendices that help to illuminate the novel’s historical background.

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524

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Broadview Press

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1551112477

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9781551112473

The Iron Gates of Santo Tomas

A Firsthand Account of an American Couple Interned by the Japanese in Manila, 1942-1945

By: Emily Van Sickle

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The Iron Gates of Santo Tomas

A Firsthand Account of an American Couple Interned by the Japanese in Manila, 1942-1945

By: Emily Van Sickle

When Manila fell to the Japanese in January, 1942, the Van Sickles were among the enemy aliens taken by the victors to the campus of Manila's University of Santo Tomas, where they were to remain unwilling "guests" for more than three years. This is a fascinating, detailed and insightful account of life in a civilian concentration camp as gripping and readable as any tale of adventure.

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Chicago Review Press

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1613738110

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9781613738115

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The Guinea Pig Club

The Guinea Pig Club

Research Methods for Memory Studies

Research Methods for Memory Studies

Rome's Patron

Rome's Patron

Manual of Obstetrics

Manual of Obstetrics

Coastlines

Coastlines

Portable Modernisms

Portable Modernisms

Medical Law

Medical Law

The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764–1834

The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764–1834

Ferns, Spikemosses, Clubmosses, and Quillworts of Eastern North America

Ferns, Spikemosses, Clubmosses, and Quillworts of Eastern North America

Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914

Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914

Blue Stars

Blue Stars

Wetlands in a Dry Land

Wetlands in a Dry Land

Wuthering Heights - Ed. Heywood

Wuthering Heights - Ed. Heywood

The Iron Gates of Santo Tomas

The Iron Gates of Santo Tomas

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