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The Garden Aviary

By: Gail Harland

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The Garden Aviary

By: Gail Harland

A profusely illustrated history of bird keeping, with examples of aviaries both grand and more humble.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1398113204

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9781398113206

Snowdrop

By: Gail Harland

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Now in paperback, a beautifully illustrated guide to the white and green sign of spring. Elegant flowers dressed in simple white and green, snowdrops look far too fragile to deal with wintry weather. But that’s just what they do, and they have become treasured by horticulturalists for their ability to flower in the earliest parts of the year. In this book, Gail Harland explores the role snowdrops have played in gardens and popular culture alike, as a treasured genus for enthusiast growers and an important symbol of hope and consolation. Harland explores a variety of cultural meanings for the deceptively petit flower. In Victorian England snowdrop bands encouraged chastity among young women. They have been favorite subjects in paintings in many different eras, and today they are the iconic symbols of several hope-giving charities. Poets and writers have written extensively about them, as have pharmacists, who have used their chemical, galantamine, in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. Today some of their rarer bulbs can fetch record-breaking sums, and annual festivals that celebrate them draw people from all over the world. Walking among their brilliant white beds, Harland offers an ideal companion for any plant-lover who has ever eagerly awaited this treasured sign of spring.

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218

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Reaktion Books

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178023628X

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9781780236285

Tomato

A Guide to the Pleasures of Choosing, Growing, and Cooking

By: Gail Harland,Sofia Larrinua Craxton

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Tomato

A Guide to the Pleasures of Choosing, Growing, and Cooking

By: Gail Harland,Sofia Larrinua Craxton

Everything you ever wanted to know about tomatoes Whether you have a penchant for Principe Borghese or yearn for a Yellow Butterfly, this is the true tomato lover's faithful companion. Delve into this little book, and you will find all the information you need on growing tomatoes. Discover the most reliable varieties, the highest yielding bushes, and those with the most intriguing shapes and colours. Find detailed advice on every aspect of growing tomatoes outdoors, under glass, and in the ground, in growbags, pots and even hanging baskets. Symptom charts will help you identify pests and diseases before they have a chance to destroy your tomato crop. And when you are ready to harvest, there are 35 recipes that let your lovingly nurtured tomatoes take centre stage, plus ideas for preserving them in ketchups, chutneys and relishes and notes on freezing and drying.

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196

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Penguin

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0756657202

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9780756657208

Foraging for Edible Wild Plants

How to identify, cook and enjoy them

By: Gail Harland

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Foraging for Edible Wild Plants

How to identify, cook and enjoy them

By: Gail Harland

A practical and attractive guide to the many edible varieties of wild plant that grow all around us. Whether you think of them as pretty wildflowers or troublesome weeds, wild plants are invaluable for wildlife. Not only are they an essential habitat and nectar source for insects, they are also beneficial for the soil, accumulating trace elements and acting as hosts for mycorrhizal fungi. Wild plants can be also be included in a variety of tasty recipes as unusual and flavoursome culinary ingredients. Written by qualified dietician and horticulturalist, Gail Garland, Foraging for Edible Wild Plants describes more than 50 edible species, from common species, such as nettle, dandelion, chickweed and ground elder, to the less well-known brooklime and wintercress. Gail also shares advice on how to identify wild plants that are harmful to eat, as well as tips on controlling invasive species such as knotweed . The guide is beautifully designed with illustrated notes on appearance and habitat, and attractive colour photographs throughout. It includes numerous recipe suggestions for jams, cordials, pesto, salads and soups, and nutritional information. There are also tips for non-culinary activities, such as making dyes from nettles and soap from soapwort, and fascinating historical facts about wild plants throughout. Foraging for Edible Wild Plants is a charming resource, perfect for gardeners, botanists, cooks and foragers.

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398

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857843826

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9780857843821

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part III, Volume 2

Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps and William Charles Macready by their Contemporaries

By: Gail Marshall,Tetsuo Kishi,Richard Foulkes,Julia Swindells,Robert Sawyer,David Francis Taylor

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Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part III, Volume 2

Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps and William Charles Macready by their Contemporaries

By: Gail Marshall,Tetsuo Kishi,Richard Foulkes,Julia Swindells,Robert Sawyer,David Francis Taylor

Features actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare. This title contains extracts from diaries, memoirs, private letters, and obituaries that present a contemporary account of their acting achievements and personal lives.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040129064

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9781040129067

Snowdrop

By: Gail Harland

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Snowdrop

By: Gail Harland

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Reaktion Books

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178023628X

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Sourdough Biscuits and Pioneer Pies

The Old West Baking Book

By: Gail L. Jenner

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Sourdough Biscuits and Pioneer Pies

The Old West Baking Book

By: Gail L. Jenner

Old Fashioned Advice for the Modern Baker How Pioneers in the Old West Do It? Living in the Old West required not only stamina, but innovation. Imagine putting a cake together without fresh supplies, measuring spoons, or a dedicated work area; imagine baking that cake without a thermometer, steady heat, or a timer. Sourdough Biscuits and Pioneer Pie shares the baking secrets of Native American ranch house cooks, chuck wagon chefs, and wagon train homemakers, with over a hundred Old West recipes—updated and kitchen tested. Laced among classic baked goods recipes such as Sourdough Biscuits, Spotted Pup Pudding, and Wild Grape-Apple Pie are dozens of anecdotes and fun facts on how our ancestors were so successful with so little.

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241

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Rowman & Littlefield

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ISBN 10

1493029711

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9781493029716

Revelation

By: Lynn R. Huber,Gail R. O'Day

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Revelation

By: Lynn R. Huber,Gail R. O'Day

While feminist interpretations of the Book of Revelation often focus on the book’s use of feminine archetypes—mother, bride, and prostitute, this commentary explores how gender, sexuality, and other feminist concerns permeate the book in its entirety. By calling audience members to become victors, Revelation’s author, John, commends to them an identity that flows between masculine and feminine and challenges ancient gender norms. This identity befits an audience who follow the Lamb, a genderqueer savior, wherever he goes. In this commentary, Lynn R. Huber situates Revelation and its earliest audiences in the overlapping worlds of ancient Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and first-century Judaism. She also examines how interpreters from different generations living within other worlds have found meaning in this image-rich and meaning-full book.

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520

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Liturgical Press

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0814682340

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9780814682340

Who Was E. B. White?

By: Gail Herman,Who HQ

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Who Was E. B. White?

By: Gail Herman,Who HQ

An entertaining biography of the man behind Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web, two of the best loved children's books of all time. Learn about E.B. White's exciting life in this new addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling series! Today, most people remember E. B. White as the beloved children's book author who gave us Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, but did you know that most of his career was spent writing for famous magazines like The New Yorker? His lifelong dream to write a children's book about a mouse would take years to get published before it became the classic book we know and love today. A few years later, White would publish yet another children's book inspired by a pig he had raised and a spider whose webs he loved to admire in his barn.

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113

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Penguin

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0593386728

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9780593386729

Word of God, Word of Life

Understanding the Three-Year Lectionaries

By: Gail Ramshaw

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Word of God, Word of Life

Understanding the Three-Year Lectionaries

By: Gail Ramshaw

Gail Ramshaw provides ten insights into the three-year lectionaries to guide all who are interested in exploring the meaning and importance of the Revised Common Lectionary and the Lectionary for Mass. Ramshaw combines deep historical, biblical, liturgical, and ecumenical knowledge with a keen perspective on the contemporary church to show us all the value and wisdom of these lectionaries.

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180

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Augsburg Fortress

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1506449166

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9781506449166

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pirates

Fascinating Facts About the World’s Most Infamous Pirates

By: Gail Selinger,W. Thomas Smith, Jr.

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pirates

Fascinating Facts About the World’s Most Infamous Pirates

By: Gail Selinger,W. Thomas Smith, Jr.

A view of pirate life—from the crow’s nest. Pirate lore has captured our fancy for centuries. Here is the first series book that gives readers a comprehensive yet entertaining history of those swashbuckling brigands. It offers portraits of such infamous men and women as Blackbeard, Captain Anne Bonny, Captain Kidd, and Jean LaFitte, with a full history of pirates through the ages, even modern day, high-tech scavengers of the South Seas. For mateys young and old.

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Penguin

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1440696500

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9781440696503

No Stopping Us Now

The Adventures of Older Women in American History

By: Gail Collins

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No Stopping Us Now

The Adventures of Older Women in American History

By: Gail Collins

The beloved New York Times columnist "inspires women to embrace aging and look at it with a new sense of hope" in this lively, fascinating, eye-opening look at women and aging in America (Parade Magazine). "You're not getting older, you're getting better," or so promised the famous 1970's ad -- for women's hair dye. Americans have always had a complicated relationship with aging: embrace it, deny it, defer it -- and women have been on the front lines of the battle, willingly or not. In her lively social history of American women and aging, acclaimed New York Times columnist Gail Collins illustrates the ways in which age is an arbitrary concept that has swung back and forth over the centuries. From Plymouth Rock (when a woman was considered marriageable if "civil and under fifty years of age"), to a few generations later, when they were quietly retired to elderdom once they had passed the optimum age for reproduction, to recent decades when freedom from striving in the workplace and caretaking at home is often celebrated, to the first female nominee for president, American attitudes towards age have been a moving target. Gail Collins gives women reason to expect the best of their golden years.

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Little, Brown

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0316286494

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9780316286497

The Color of the Law

Race, Violence, and Justice in the Post-World War II South

By: Gail Williams O'Brien

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The Color of the Law

Race, Violence, and Justice in the Post-World War II South

By: Gail Williams O'Brien

On February 25, 1946, African Americans in Columbia, Tennessee, averted the lynching of James Stephenson, a nineteen-year-old, black Navy veteran accused of attacking a white radio repairman at a local department store. That night, after Stephenson was safely out of town, four of Columbia's police officers were shot and wounded when they tried to enter the town's black business district. The next morning, the Tennessee Highway Patrol invaded the district, wrecking establishments and beating men as they arrested them. By day's end, more than one hundred African Americans had been jailed. Two days later, highway patrolmen killed two of the arrestees while they were awaiting release from jail. Drawing on oral interviews and a rich array of written sources, Gail Williams O'Brien tells the dramatic story of the Columbia "race riot," the national attention it drew, and its surprising legal aftermath. In the process, she illuminates the effects of World War II on race relations and the criminal justice system in the United States. O'Brien argues that the Columbia events are emblematic of a nationwide shift during the 1940s from mob violence against African Americans to increased confrontations between blacks and the police and courts. As such, they reveal the history behind such contemporary conflicts as the Rodney King and O. J. Simpson cases.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807882305

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9780807882306

Cancer Chemotherapy

A Nursing Process Approach

By: Margaret Barton-Burke,Gail M. Wilkes,Karen Ingwersen

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Cancer Chemotherapy

A Nursing Process Approach

By: Margaret Barton-Burke,Gail M. Wilkes,Karen Ingwersen

This text for beginning and advanced oncology nurses integrates the nursing process, including nursing diagnosis, with the administration of cancer chemotherapeutic agents. Chapters in the first section review the history of chemotherapy and the role of the oncology nurse in chemotherapy research. T

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812

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0763714720

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9780763714727

Invariant Differential Operators for Quantum Symmetric Spaces

By: Gail Letzter

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Invariant Differential Operators for Quantum Symmetric Spaces

By: Gail Letzter

This paper studies quantum invariant differential operators for quantum symmetric spaces in the maximally split case. The main results are quantum versions of theorems of Harish-Chandra and Helgason: There is a Harish-Chandra map which induces an isomorphism between the ring of quantum invariant differential operators and the ring of invariants of a certain Laurent polynomial ring under an action of the restricted Weyl group. Moreover, the image of the center under this map is the entire invariant ring if and only if the underlying irreducible symmetric pair is not of four exceptional types. In the process, the author finds a particularly nice basis for the quantum invariant differential operators that provides a new interpretation of difference operators associated to Macdonald polynomials.

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104

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821841319

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9780821841310

International Feminist Perspectives on Educational Reform

The Work of Gail Paradise Kelly

By: Gail Paradise Kelly

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International Feminist Perspectives on Educational Reform

The Work of Gail Paradise Kelly

By: Gail Paradise Kelly

Originally published in 1996. This volume brings together articles by Gail Paradise Kelly spanning a twenty-year period. It represents an aspect of the history of the feminist movement as related to education. Early articles from 1970 onwards consider experiences of the students' campus feminist movement of the late '60s and then move on to focus on education of women in the Third World. Some co-authored articles are included which looked at school process and directions for research. As a whole the articles input to the discussion on how to study education and its meaning in society, with particular reference to feminist thinking.

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Taylor & Francis

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0815320051

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9780815320050

Actresses on the Victorian Stage

Feminine Performance and the Galatea Myth

By: Gail Marshall

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Actresses on the Victorian Stage

Feminine Performance and the Galatea Myth

By: Gail Marshall

Gail Marshall argues that the professional and personal history of the Victorian actress was largely defined by her negotiation with the sculptural metaphor, and that this was authorized and determined by the Ovidian myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. Drawing on evidence of theatrical fictions, visual representations and popular culture's assimilation of the sculptural image, as well as theatrical productions, she examines some of the manifestations of the sculptural metaphor on the legitimate English stage, and its implications for the actress in the later nineteenth century. Within the legitimate theatre, the 'Galatea-aesthetic' positioned actresses as predominantly visual and sexual commodities whose opportunities for interpretative engagement with their plays were minimal. This dominant aesthetic was effectively challenged only at the end of the century, with the advent of the 'New' drama, and the emergence of a body of autobiographical writings by actresses.

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268

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Cambridge University Press

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0521620163

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9780521620161

Community Nutrition

Applying Epidemiology to Contemporary Practice

By: Gail C. Frank

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Community Nutrition

Applying Epidemiology to Contemporary Practice

By: Gail C. Frank

This graduate-level community nutrition textbook presents a conceptual framework for understanding the course of health and disease and matching community nutrition or applied nutrition epidemiology to the model.

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982

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0763730629

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9780763730628

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part IV, Volume 3

Helen Faucit, Lucia Elizabeth Vestris and Fanny Kemble by Their Contemporaries

By: Gail Marshall,Tetsuo Kishi,Christy Desmet,Janice Norwood

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Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part IV, Volume 3

Helen Faucit, Lucia Elizabeth Vestris and Fanny Kemble by Their Contemporaries

By: Gail Marshall,Tetsuo Kishi,Christy Desmet,Janice Norwood

Features three female actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare.

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391

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Taylor & Francis

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1040129102

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9781040129104

Bubbas & Beaus

From Good Old Boys to Southern Gentlemen, a Close Look at the Customs, Cuisine, and Culture of Southern Men

By: Gail Gilchriest

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Bubbas & Beaus

From Good Old Boys to Southern Gentlemen, a Close Look at the Customs, Cuisine, and Culture of Southern Men

By: Gail Gilchriest

What do Hank Williams, Jr., John Grisham, Bill Clinton, and Junior Samples have in common According to Gilchriest, it's "Southern je ne sais quoi." This witty and affectionate narrative contains tributes, profiles, and anecdotes covering religion, politics, foods, love, and the truth about Southern hospitality. Photos & illustrations.

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