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Eating Culture

An Anthropological Guide to Food, Second Edition

By: Gillian Crowther

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Eating Culture

An Anthropological Guide to Food, Second Edition

By: Gillian Crowther

From ingredients and recipes to meals and menus across time and space, this highly engaging overview illustrates the important roles that anthropology and anthropologists play in understanding food and its key place in the study of culture. The new edition, now in full colour, introduces discussions about nomadism, commercializing food, food security, and ethical consumption, including treatment of animals and the long-term environmental and health consequences of meat consumption. New feature boxes offer case studies and exercises to help highlight anthropological methods and approaches, and each chapter includes a further reading section. By considering the concept of cuisine and public discourse, Eating Culture brings order and insight to our changing relationship with food.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487593317

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Social Inclusion and Mental Health

By: Jed Boardman,Helen Killaspy,Gillian Mezey

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Social Inclusion and Mental Health

By: Jed Boardman,Helen Killaspy,Gillian Mezey

A comprehensive account of the multiple ways that people with mental health conditions are marginalised and disadvantaged in our society.

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Cambridge University Press

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1911623591

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The Amanda Pepper Mysteries, Bundle #3

The Mummer's Curse; The Bluest Blood; and Adam and Evil

By: Gillian Roberts

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The Amanda Pepper Mysteries, Bundle #3

The Mummer's Curse; The Bluest Blood; and Adam and Evil

By: Gillian Roberts

Three tales of murder in Philadelphia featuring the English teacher and amateur sleuth by the award-winning “Dorothy Parker of mystery writers” (Nancy Pickard, author of the Jenny Cain series). The Mummer’s Curse “Philadelphia’s New Year’s Day Mummers’ Parade, a splashy, fiercely competitive affair, turns murderous” when a parade clown is shot dead and one of Amanda’s Philly Prep colleagues is suspected “in yet another funny Philly puzzler for schoolteacher Amanda Pepper” (Publishers Weekly). The Bluest Blood Amanda looks forward to an ultra-elegant fundraiser in a fabled Main Line mansion to benefit Philly Prep’s library. But the fairytale evening takes a dark turn thanks to a protest group vehemently opposing any books that “pollute the mind.” When the conflict becomes deadly, Amanda takes “another swift and intriguing spin through the sometimes murderous precincts of Philadelphia” (Publishers Weekly). Adam & Evil When a high school senior shows signs of mental illness, Amanda attempts to get him help, but she’s rebuffed by his parents. Then, when the same boy becomes the prime suspect in a murder at the Philadelphia Main Library—and runs away—Amanda has no choice but to run after him. Even if it means running headlong into a killer’s path. Adam & Evil includes a new introduction from author Gillian Roberts and an exclusive interview with Amanda Pepper herself!

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Untreed Reads, LLC

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1611879124

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Bruce Springsteen at 75

By: Gillian G. Gaar

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Bruce Springsteen at 75

By: Gillian G. Gaar

Experience the extraordinary career of “The Boss” with this richly illustrated package featuring two gatefolds, exclusive pullout poster, 8" × 10" glossy, and a sturdy slipcase. Twenty-time Grammy winner, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and best-selling author…Bruce Springsteen is, of course, also one of rock’s most revered songwriters and performers. In Bruce Springsteen at 75, veteran rock journalist Gillian G. Gaar reveals this rock icon through 75 career releases, performances, and accolades. This exquisite volume features: Slipcased hardcover format Stunning concert and candid offstage photography Images of memorabilia, including gig posters, vinyl record sleeves, ticket stubs, period ads, and more Gatefold Bruce Springsteen timeline Unpublished 8" × 10" photo An exclusive pullout poster Through seven-and-a-half decades, Gaar covers it all: Bruce’s childhood in New Jersey and early garage bands, The Castiles and Steel Mill All 20 studio albums, including those with the E Street Band and as a solo artist A selection of his greatest singles, like the rock standards “Born to Run,” “Hungry Heart,” and “Born in the U.S.A.” Relationships with notable bandmates Steven Van Zandt and the late Clarence Clemons Legendary gigs, from his early residency at New York’s The Bottom Line to his longest ever concert to his more recent Broadway show His relationship with wife and bandmate, Patti Scialfa Awards like his Rock Hall induction and the Presidential Medal of Freedom ...and much more Beginning with his 1973 debut LP Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. and continuing through his latest release and tour, Bruce Springsteen is one of the most beloved performers and musicians in rock ’n’ roll history, influencing countless acts for decades. This book is your unprecedented retrospective of The Boss’s career, from teenage Jersey garage rocker to international star and celebrity.

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Motorbooks

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0760381119

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9780760381113

The Playbill and Its People

Australia's Earliest Printed Document

By: Gillian Russell

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The Playbill and Its People

Australia's Earliest Printed Document

By: Gillian Russell

In 2007 a librarian at the Library and Archives Canada Library came across a fragile sheet of paper inserted inside a book. It was the playbill advertising an evening of entertainment that had taken place halfway across the world, over two centuries before. The playbill is the earliest printed document in the history of Australia to be so far discovered and in 2011 it was included on the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register. As a piece of ephemera the playbill offers tantalizing glimpses of the social and cultural life of the early colony. What is the significance of the plays performed? Who were the players and their audiences? What kind of theatre did they play in? Gillian Russell answers all of these questions and more, in this fascinating account of the history and significance of the playbill.

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National Library Australia

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0642277389

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9780642277381

Nightingales

The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale

By: Gillian Gill

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Nightingales

The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale

By: Gillian Gill

Florence Nightingale was for a time the most famous woman in Britain–if not the world. We know her today primarily as a saintly character, perhaps as a heroic reformer of Britain’s health-care system. The reality is more involved and far more fascinating. In an utterly beguiling narrative that reads like the best Victorian fiction, acclaimed author Gillian Gill tells the story of this richly complex woman and her extraordinary family. Born to an adoring wealthy, cultivated father and a mother whose conventional facade concealed a surprisingly unfettered intelligence, Florence was connected by kinship or friendship to the cream of Victorian England’s intellectual aristocracy. Though moving in a world of ease and privilege, the Nightingales came from solidly middle-class stock with deep traditions of hard work, natural curiosity, and moral clarity. So it should have come as no surprise to William Edward and Fanny Nightingale when their younger daughter, Florence, showed an early passion for helping others combined with a precocious bent for power. Far more problematic was Florence’s inexplicable refusal to marry the well-connected Richard Monckton Milnes. As Gill so brilliantly shows, this matrimonial refusal was at once an act of religious dedication and a cry for her freedom–as a woman and as a leader. Florence’s later insistence on traveling to the Crimea at the height of war to tend to wounded soldiers was all but incendiary–especially for her older sister, Parthenope, whose frustration at being in the shade of her more charismatic sibling often led to illness. Florence succeeded beyond her wildest dreams. But at the height of her celebrity, at the age of thirty-seven, she retired to her bedroom and remained there for most of the rest of her life, allowing visitors only by appointment. Combining biography, politics, social history, and consummate storytelling, Nightingales is a dazzling portrait of an amazing woman, her difficult but loving family, and the high Victorian era they so perfectly epitomized. Beautifully written, witty, and irresistible, Nightingales is truly a tour de force.

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Random House

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0307431533

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Disabling Policies?

A Comparative Approach to Education Policy and Disability

By: Gillian Fulcher

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Disabling Policies?

A Comparative Approach to Education Policy and Disability

By: Gillian Fulcher

First published in 1989, this book is about integrating or mainstreaming policies, looking specifically at how to improve circumstances for schoolchildren with disabilities or handicaps, and their teachers. The author draws on her experiences, both within and outside the academic institution, to conceptualise and theorise policy, so as to place this policy in a political framework and locate it in a wider model of social life. This model is then used to disentangle the nature and effects of policy practices surrounding integration and mainstreaming, looking at practice in various parts of Europe, the US and Australia, at that time. Although written at the end of the 1980s, this book discusses topics that are still relevant today.

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Routledge

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1317360567

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Obligation and Commitment in Family Law

By: Gillian Douglas

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Obligation and Commitment in Family Law

By: Gillian Douglas

A tension lies at the heart of family law. Expressed in the language of rights and duties, it seeks to impose enforceable obligations on individuals linked to each other by ties that are usually regarded as based on love or blood. Taking a contextual approach that draws on history, sociology and social policy as well as law and legal theory, this book examines the concept of obligation as it has been developed in family law and the difficulties the law has had in translating it from a theoretical and ideological concept into the basis of enforceable actions and duties. Increasingly, the idea of commitment has been offered as the key organising principle for the recognition of family relationships, often as a means of rebutting claims that family ties are becoming attenuated, but the meaning and scope of this concept have not been explored. The book traces how the notion of commitment is understood and how far it has come to be used as a rationale for imposing the core legal obligations which underpin care and caring within families.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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178225854X

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Pastures of Change

Contemporary Adaptations and Transformations among Nomadic Pastoralists of Eastern Tibet

By: Gillian G. Tan

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Pastures of Change

Contemporary Adaptations and Transformations among Nomadic Pastoralists of Eastern Tibet

By: Gillian G. Tan

This book offers a novel examination of socio-environmental change in a nomadic pastoralist area of the eastern Tibetan plateau. Drawing on long-term fieldwork that underscores an ethnography of local nomadic pastoralists, international development organisations, and Chinese government policies, the book argues that careful analysis and comparison of the different epistemologies and norms about "change" are vital to any critical appraisal of developments - often contested - on the grasslands of Eastern Tibet. Tibetan nomads have developed a way of life that is dependent in multiple ways on their animals and shaped by the phenomenological experience of mobility. These pastoralists have adapted to many changes in their social, political and environmental contexts over time. From the earliest historically recorded systems of segmentary lineage to the incorporation first into local fiefdoms and then into the Chinese state (of both Nationalist and Communist governments), Tibetan pastoralists have maintained their way of life, complemented by interactions with "the outside world". Rapid changes brought about by an intensification of interactions with the outside world call into question the sustained viability of a nomadic way of life, particularly as pastoralists themselves sell their herds and settle into towns. This book probes how we can more clearly understand these changes by looking specifically at one particular area of high-altitude grasslands in the Tibetan Plateau.

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Springer

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3319765531

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Social Policy

A New Feminist Analysis

By: Gillian Pascall

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Social Policy

A New Feminist Analysis

By: Gillian Pascall

The second edition of this highly successful text is structured along the lines of the first and has been revised and updated to take into account the effects of new legislation and changes to policy.

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Psychology Press

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0415099277

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9780415099271

Juana I

Legitimacy and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Castile

By: Gillian B. Fleming

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Juana I

Legitimacy and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Castile

By: Gillian B. Fleming

This book examines the deep and lengthy crisis of legitimacy triggered by the death of Prince Juan of Castile and Aragon in 1497 and the subsequent ascent of Juana I to the throne in 1504. Confined by historiography and myth to the madwoman’s attic, Juana emerges here as a key figure at the heart of a period of tremendous upheaval, reaching its peak in the war of the Comunidades, or comunero uprising of 1520–1522. Gillian Fleming traces the conflicts generated by the ambitions of Juana’s father, husband and son, and the controversial marginalisation and imprisonment of Isabel of Castile’s legitimate heir. Analysing Juana’s problems and strategies, failures and successes, Fleming argues that the period cannot be properly understood without taking into account the long shadow that Juana I cast over her kingdoms and over a crucial period of transition for Spain and Europe.

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Springer

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3319743473

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Social Work with Children

By: Liz Trinder,Marian Brandon,Gillian Schofield

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Social Work with Children

By: Liz Trinder,Marian Brandon,Gillian Schofield

How can social workers enable vulnerable children to have a voice in the complex systems designed to protect them and promote their welfare? How can children be helped to make sense of complicated and disrupted lives? This core text addresses these and other challenging questions, setting out the principles and practice of social work with children and demonstrating the diversity of the work through carefully chosen case material. It will be essential reading for all social workers in training and practice involved with children.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1349140430

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9781349140435

The Lived Body

Sociological Themes, Embodied Issues

By: Gillian A. Bendelow,Simon J. Williams

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The Lived Body

Sociological Themes, Embodied Issues

By: Gillian A. Bendelow,Simon J. Williams

The Lived Body takes a fresh look at the notion of human embodiment and provides an ideal textbook for undergraduates on the growing number of courses on the sociology of the body. The authors propose a new approach - an 'Embodied Sociology' - one which makes embodiment central rather than peripheral. They critically examine the dualist legacies of the past, assessing the ideas of a range of key thinkers, from Marx to Freud, Foucault to Giddens, Deleuze to Guattari and Irigary to Grosz, in terms of the bodily themes and issues they address. They also explore new areas of research, including the 'fate' of embodiment in late modernity, sex, gender, medical technology and the body, the sociology of emotions, pain, sleep and artistic representations of the body. The Lived Body will provide students and researchers in medical sociology, health sciences, cultural studies and philosophy with clear, accessible coverage of the major theories and debates in the sociology of the body and a challenging new way of thinking.

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Routledge

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1134649509

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The North American Folk Music Revival: Nation and Identity in the United States and Canada, 1945–1980

By: Gillian Mitchell

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The North American Folk Music Revival: Nation and Identity in the United States and Canada, 1945–1980

By: Gillian Mitchell

This work represents the first comparative study of the folk revival movement in Anglophone Canada and the United States and combines this with discussion of the way folk music intersected with, and was structured by, conceptions of national affinity and national identity. Based on original archival research carried out principally in Toronto, Washington and Ottawa, it is a thematic, rather than general, study of the movement which has been influenced by various academic disciplines, including history, musicology and folklore. Dr Gillian Mitchell begins with an introduction that provides vital context for the subject by tracing the development of the idea of 'the folk', folklore and folk music since the nineteenth century, and how that idea has been applied in the North American context, before going on to examine links forged by folksong collectors, artists and musicians between folk music and national identity during the early twentieth century. With the 'boom' of the revival in the early sixties came the ways in which the movement in both countries proudly promoted a vision of nation that was inclusive, pluralistic and eclectic. It was a vision which proved compatible with both Canada and America, enabling both countries to explore a diversity of music without exclusiveness or narrowness of focus. It was also closely linked to the idealism of the grassroots political movements of the early 1960s, such as integrationist civil rights, and the early student movement. After 1965 this inclusive vision of nation in folk music began to wane. While the celebrations of the Centennial in Canada led to a re-emphasis on the 'Canadianness' of Canadian folk music, the turbulent events in the United States led many ex-revivalists to turn away from politics and embrace new identities as introspective singer-songwriters. Many of those who remained interested in traditional folk music styles, such as Celtic or Klezmer music, tended to be very insular and conservative in their approach, rather than linking their chosen genre to a wider world of folk music; however, more recent attempts at 'fusion' or 'world' music suggest a return to the eclectic spirit of the 1960s folk revival. Thus, from 1945 to 1980, folk music in Canada and America experienced an evolving and complex relationship with the concepts of nation and national identity. Students will find the book useful as an introduction, not only to key themes in the folk revival, but also to concepts in the study of national identity and to topics in American and Canadian cultural history. Academic specialists will encounter an alternative perspective from the more general, broad approach offered by earlier histories of the folk revival movement.

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1317022505

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Bromley's Family Law

By: Nigel Lowe,Gillian Douglas,Emma Hitchings,Rachel Taylor

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Bromley's Family Law

By: Nigel Lowe,Gillian Douglas,Emma Hitchings,Rachel Taylor

Bromley's Family Law' is a well-established and popular textbook with students and practitioners alike. This edition has been updated to take into account recent developments in family law.

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Oxford University Press

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0198806698

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9780198806691

Visual Methodologies

An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials

By: Gillian Rose

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Visual Methodologies

An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials

By: Gillian Rose

Now in its Fourth Edition, Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials is a bestselling critical guide to the study and analysis of visual culture. Existing chapters have been fully updated to offer a rigorous examination and demonstration of an individual methodology in a clear and structured style. Reflecting changes in the way society consumes and creates its visual content, new features include: Brand new chapters dealing with social media platforms, the development of digital methods and the modern circulation and audiencing of research images More ′Focus′ features covering interactive documentaries, digital story-telling and participant mapping A Companion Website featuring links to useful further resources relating to each chapter. A now classic text, Visual Methodologies appeals to undergraduates, graduates, researchers and academics across the social sciences and humanities who are looking to get to grips with the complex debates and ideas in visual analysis and interpretation.

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SAGE

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1473967929

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9781473967922

Troubled Waters

An Alice Rice Mystery

By: Gillian Galbraith

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Troubled Waters

An Alice Rice Mystery

By: Gillian Galbraith

A young, disabled girl is lost on a winter's night in Leith, unable to help herself or find her way home. Someone is combing the streets, frantically searching for her. Within hours of her disappearance, a body is washed up on Beamer Rock, a tiny island in the Forth being used as part of the foundations for the new Queensferry Bridge. No sooner has Detective Inspector Alice Rice managed to discover the identity of that body than another one is washed up on the edge of the estuary, in Belhaven Bay. What is the connection between the two bodies? Has the killer any other victims in their sights and if so, can Alice solve the puzzle before another life is taken? In this novel, the sixth in the series, appearances belie reality, and truths and falsehoods gradually merge, becoming indistinguishable.

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Birlinn

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0857908189

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9780857908186

Language, Sign, and Gender in Beowulf

By: Gillian R. Overing

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Language, Sign, and Gender in Beowulf

By: Gillian R. Overing

This is not a book about what Beowulf means but how it means and how the reader participates in the process of meaning construction; to this end, it is a bringing together of contemporary critical theory and Old English poetry. Overing's primary aim is to address the poem on its own terms, to trace and develop an interpretive strategy consonant with the terms of its difference from all other poems. Beowulf's arcane structure describes cyclical repetitions and patterned intersections of themes that baffle a linear perspective; the structure suggests instead the irresolution and dynamism of deconstructionist freeplay of textual elements.

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SIU Press

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0809315637

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9780809315635

Bagage: An anthology of Australian Speculative Fiction

By: Gillian Polack,Jack Dann

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Bagage: An anthology of Australian Speculative Fiction

By: Gillian Polack,Jack Dann

An anthology of Australian Speculative Fiction, BAGGAGE presents some of the finest new work by Aussie writers, including Jack Dann, Monica Carroll, K. J. Bishop, Kaaron Warren, and many more. Included: VISION SPLENDID, by K. J. Bishop TELESCOPE, by Jack Dann HIVE OF GLASS, by Kaaron Warren KUNMANARA--SOMEBODY SOMEBODY, by Yaritji Green MANIFEST DESTINY, by Janeen Webb ALBERT & VICTORIA/SLOW DREAMS, by Lucy Sussex MACREADIE V. THE LOVE MACHINE, by Jennifer Fallon A PEARLING TALE, by Maxine McArthur ACCEPTION, by Tessa Kum AN EAR FOR HOME, by Laura E. Goodin HOME TURF, by Deborah Biancotti ARCHIVES, SPACE, SHAME, LOVE, by Monica Carroll WELCOME, FAREWELL, by Simon Brown

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479405140

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9781479405145

A Foreign Field

By: Gillian Chan

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A Foreign Field

By: Gillian Chan

This compelling historical novel set during the Second World War shows that sometimes falling apart is only steps away from falling in love.

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Kids Can Press Ltd

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1553373502

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9781553373506

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

An Amanda Pepper Mystery

By: Gillian Roberts

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How I Spent My Summer Vacation

An Amanda Pepper Mystery

By: Gillian Roberts

While holidaying in Atlantic City, Amanda Pepper is offered a bed by a woman friend staying in a hotel. She accepts, only to spend the rest of her holiday chasing a killer who put a body in her friend's bed. But at least she has good company, her detective boyfriend.

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Untreed Reads

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1611873215

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9781611873214

Because of Sex

One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work

By: Gillian Thomas

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Because of Sex

One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work

By: Gillian Thomas

A compelling look at ten of the most important Supreme Court cases defining women’s rights on the job, as told by the brave women who brought the cases to court

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1250138086

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The Amanda Pepper Mysteries, Bundle #2

With Friends Like These, How I Spent My Summer Vacation, In the Dead of Summer

By: Gillian Roberts

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The Amanda Pepper Mysteries, Bundle #2

With Friends Like These, How I Spent My Summer Vacation, In the Dead of Summer

By: Gillian Roberts

Books four through six in the award-winning Amanda Pepper mystery series are now available in one volume! This collection includes: WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE Well-known Broadway playwright and TV producer Lyle Zacharias is throwing himself a lavish birthday party in his hometown of Philadelphia. Guests include his current wife, ex-wives, friends, former partners—not to mention Amanda Pepper and her own irrepressible mother, Bea. Yet when Lyle drops dead in the middle of a speech, it appears the likely perpetrator is none other than Bea, whose gift was fifty delicious, but apparently poisoned, tarts! It's up to Amanda to clear her mother's name and find the real murderer…before he or she strikes again! But Amanda herself may be the next target! Who says teaching isn't exciting? With any more excitement, Amanda will have to retire before she hits thirty-one…if she lives that long! HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION Amanda Pepper's friend Sasha has a photography assignment in Atlantic City, and she invites her broke schoolteacher friend to come along for a free mini-vacation. But the two quickly discover there's more to lose than money at the shore when Sasha finds a stranger bludgeoned to death in her bed. When a witness identifies Sasha as having been at the scene, she Goes Directly To Jail and does not pass "Go." Under the boardwalk and between the slot machines, and sometimes with the help of a motley crew of gamblers, Amanda works to unearth the truth and free her friend. IN THE DEAD OF SUMMER Mellow old Philadelphia, where life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have flourished for centuries, now has a new claim to fame. The City of Brotherly Love has been proclaimed number one in the nation...for hostility. English teacher Amanda Pepper, crabbily gearing up for summer school at exclusive Philly Prep, feels she fits right in with the hostility mode. And it's going to get worse. Amanda gets her first prickling of unease in her own classroom, where a reading of Romeo and Juliet activates some very strange chemistry. Then the computer science teacher begins receiving anonymous "go-back-to-Africa" phone calls. A young Vietnamese boy dies in a drive-by shooting. And late one night, outside a Chinatown massage parlor, student April Tuong is kidnapped. Random violence? Perhaps. But Amanda refuses to let gentle April vanish without at least asking a few questions, starting in her own classroom. Gillian Roberts's Philadelphia is the real thing. So, too, are her wit and humor, and her gripping story of Amanda's tenacious search for the missing girl--along the brick streets of historic Philadelphia, in exotic Chinatown, and through the shady, sinister back alleys of the impoverished. The truth, when she finds it, is appalling, deadly, and much too close to home.

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1611879116

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9781611879117

Adam and Evil

An Amanda Pepper Mystery

By: Gillian Roberts

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Adam and Evil

An Amanda Pepper Mystery

By: Gillian Roberts

Available for the first time in ebook format, this special edition includes a new introduction from author Gillian Roberts and an exclusive interview with Amanda Pepper herself! When a high school senior shows signs of mental illness, Amanda attempts to get him help, but she's rebuffed by his parents. When the same boy then becomes the prime suspect in a murder at the Philadelphia Main Library, and runs away, Amanda, who knows he's confused and in need of help-whether or not he committed the crime-has no choice but to run after him. And to run into the possibility of becoming the next victim herself.

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1611875099

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9781611875096

Adult Responses to Popular Music and Intergenerational Relations in Britain, c. 19551975

By: Gillian A. M. Mitchell

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Adult Responses to Popular Music and Intergenerational Relations in Britain, c. 19551975

By: Gillian A. M. Mitchell

‘Adult Reactions to Popular Music and Inter-generational Relations in Britain, 1955–1975’ challenges stereotypes concerning a post-war ‘generation gap’, exacerbated by rebellion-inducing popular music styles, by demonstrating the considerable variety which frequently characterized adult responses to the music, whilst also highlighting that the impact of the music on inter-generational relations was more complex than is often assumed. [NP] Utilizing extensive primary evidence, from first-person accounts to newspapers, television programmes, surveys and archive collections, the book adopts a thematic approach, identifying three key arenas of British society in which adult responses to popular music, and the impact of such reactions upon relations between generations, seem particularly revealing and significant. The book examines in detail the place of popular music within family life and Christian churches and their engagement with popular music, particularly within youth clubs. It also explores ‘encounters’ between the worlds of traditional Variety entertainment and popular music while providing broader perspectives on this most dynamic and turbulent of periods.

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A Bibliography of Industrial Relations

By: G. S. Bain,Gillian B. Woolven,G. B. Woolven

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A Bibliography of Industrial Relations

By: G. S. Bain,Gillian B. Woolven,G. B. Woolven

Reference book comprising a bibliography aiming to bring together secondary source interdisciplinary material on labour relations in the UK between the years 1880 and 1970 - covers employees attitudes, trade unions and employees associations, employers organizations, the labour market and working conditions, etc.

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CUP Archive

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0521215471

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Grandfather's Footsteps

A Novel

By: Gillian White

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Grandfather's Footsteps

A Novel

By: Gillian White

DIVJessica’s scheme was supposed to get her a new baby—but she didn’t count on getting an entire family/divDIV Jessica was living the perfect London life, with a great job at an auction house and a striking Italian boyfriend, Rudi. Only one thing was missing: a baby. Despite numerous visits to the doctor and repeated efforts to conceive, the couple was having no luck. That is, until Brenda, Jessica’s secretary, became pregnant./divDIV /divDIVJessica’s plan is as dishonest as it is effective. She will have Rudi sleep with the barely pregnant Brenda, and trick him into believing that the secretary is carrying his child. Then Jessica and Rudi can adopt the baby. But a twist of fate upsets Jessica’s scheme when Brenda’s brassy, working-class family becomes a fixture in her life, giving her endless headaches as they invite themselves over for visits and hospital trips. After one underhanded ploy, Jessica must deal with a family she never wanted and one that is almost impossible to avoid./div

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1480402168

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The Tricycle

Collected Tribunal Plays 1994-2012

By: Richard Norton-Taylor,Nicolas Kent,Victoria Brittain,Gillian Slovo

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The Tricycle

Collected Tribunal Plays 1994-2012

By: Richard Norton-Taylor,Nicolas Kent,Victoria Brittain,Gillian Slovo

From 1994-2012 Kilburn’s Tricycle Theatre produced an extraordinary body of work that sought to engage, inform,and critique British and International Politics using verbatim testimony to respond to contemporary issues. Collected here for the first time are the complete ‘Tribunal Plays’. 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the Tricycle’ sfirst Tribunal Play – Half the Picture. This collection celebrates a remarkable and enduring body of work. Contains the plays Half the Picture, Nuremberg, Srebrenica, The Colour of Justice, Justifying War, Guantanamo, Bloody Sunday, Called to Account, Tactical Questioning and The Riots. Also included is a brand-new round table discussion with Nicolas Kent, Richard Norton-Taylor, Gillian Slovo and the playwright David Edgar, charting the history and development of each show and the contribution the Tribunal Plays have made to political theatre in the last two decades, and a foreword by Guardian journalist and chief theatre critic Michael Billington.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1783195673

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Home Alone

Combating Isolation with Older Housebound People

By: Helen McCarthy,Gillian Thomas

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Home Alone

Combating Isolation with Older Housebound People

By: Helen McCarthy,Gillian Thomas

We are more likely to be lonely tomorrow as a result of the freedoms we enjoy today. The risk of loneliness in old age is on the rise due to changing ways of life in Britain. Our families are more fragmented, more people are childless and we are living longer, which all increase our chances of being socially isolated in later life. A growing number of older people can be expected to be housebound with minimum social contact. Many of these risk factors are associated with social progress and independence, particularly for younger people. But they make it harder for us to sustain the social networks on which we may have to rely for support as we grow older. Policy-makers have tried to protect older people against isolation through efforts to integrate health and social care services, and to involve older users more actively in making decisions about their own care. Yet more must be done to improve the quality of life of those living housebound lives. Over 30 people die alone and unnoticed in their own homes each year, and one in six older people living alone rate themselves as ‘often or always lonely’.Unless significant changes occur, by 2021 nearly 2.2 million over-65s will be socially isolated. The benefits of promoting independent living for older people are enormous, for individuals, our public services and wider society. Extending years of active life will allow older people to play a full role in family life and in their local communities. Home Alone argues that users need to become ‘co-producers’ of personalised services. Policy-makers must learn from the voluntary and community sectors to help older housebound people develop their own networks of support.

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1841801283

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Pioneering Women

Riddel Hall and Queen's University Belfast

By: Gillian McClelland,Diana Hadden

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Pioneering Women

Riddel Hall and Queen's University Belfast

By: Gillian McClelland,Diana Hadden

Few topics have produced more heroines than the struggle of women for their right to education. Amongst the pioneers of third-level education for women in the north of Ireland were Eliza and Isabella Riddel. Never themselves having had the opportunity of university education, in 1913 they founded Riddel Hall for women students.

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Ulster Historical Foundation

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1903688574

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Sense and Nonsense

Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour

By: Gillian R. Brown,Kevin N. Lala

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Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour

By: Gillian R. Brown,Kevin N. Lala

Evolutionary theory is one of the most wide-ranging and inspiring scientific ideas, and it offers a battery of methods that can be used to interpret human behaviour. However, researchers disagree about the best ways to use evolution to explore humanity, and a number of schools of thought have emerged. Sense and Nonsense, third edition, provides an introduction to the ideas, methods and findings of five such schools, namely sociobiology, human behavioural ecology, evolutionary psychology, cultural evolution and gene-culture coevolution. In this revised and updated edition of their successful monograph, Brown and Lala provide a balanced and rigorous analysis that scrutinises both the evolutionary arguments and the allegations of the critics, carefully guiding the reader through the mire of confusing terminology, claim, and counter-claim, and polemical statements. This readable and informative introductory book will be of use to undergraduate and postgraduate students (for example in psychology, anthropology and zoology), as well as experts on one approach who would like to know more about the other perspectives and lay-persons interested in evolutionary explanations of human behaviour. Having completed the book, the reader will feel better placed to assess the legitimacy of claims made about human behaviour under the name of evolution and to make judgements as to what is sense and what is nonsense.

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Oxford University Press

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0198908229

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Just One of the Boys

Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing on the American Variety Stage

By: Gillian M Rodger

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Just One of the Boys

Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing on the American Variety Stage

By: Gillian M Rodger

Female-to-male crossdressing became all the rage in the variety shows of nineteenth-century America and began as the domain of mature actresses who desired to extend their careers. These women engaged in the kinds of raucous comedy acts usually reserved for men. Over time, as younger women entered the specialty, the comedy became less pointed and more centered on the celebration of male leisure and fashion. Gillian M. Rodger uses the development of male impersonation from the early nineteenth century to the early twentieth century to illuminate the history of the variety show. Exploding notions of high- and lowbrow entertainment, Rodger looks at how both performers and forms consistently expanded upward toward respectable—and richer—audiences. At the same time, she illuminates a lost theatrical world where women made fun of middle-class restrictions even as they bumped up against rules imposed in part by audiences. Onstage, the actresses' changing performance styles reflected gender construction in the working class and shifts in class affiliation by parts of the audiences. Rodger observes how restrictive standards of femininity increasingly bound male impersonators as new gender constructions allowed women greater access to public space while tolerating less independent behavior from them.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252050169

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Managing Globalization

Lessons from China and India : Inaugural Conference of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

By: David A. Kelly,Ramkishen S. Rajan,Gillian H. L. Goh

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Managing Globalization

Lessons from China and India : Inaugural Conference of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

By: David A. Kelly,Ramkishen S. Rajan,Gillian H. L. Goh

Difference Makers: Stories of Those Who Dared" is a different sort of book. It features many big names from corporate titans to ministers to social entrepreneurs. But it is not just a compilation of feel-good success stories and minting millions. It is a celebration of the human spirit, of daring, drive and doggedness to make a difference. The endeavors within will make you tear, chortle, sigh, reflect and renew your faith that all things are possible. It is guaranteed to make a difference to your life.

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World Scientific

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9812564942

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Bodies

Sex, Violence, Disease, and Death in Contemporary Legend

By: Gillian Bennett

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Sex, Violence, Disease, and Death in Contemporary Legend

By: Gillian Bennett

Because they are so often told as news, contemporary legends force us to reevaluate life as we know it. They confront us with macabre, fantastic, horrific, or hilarious characters and events that seem to come straight out of myths and folktales, but are presented as present day events. The difficulty is that it is not at all easy to decide whether these often disturbing stories should be treated as reliable or dismissed as fantasy. The legends explored in this book are some of the most bizarre, gruesome, and politically sensitive stories in the contemporary legend canon. At any moment a body may be invaded by noxious creatures, deliberately infected with deadly disease, or raided to provide donor organs for sick foreigners. These are "winter's tales," the stuff of nightmares. In this book Gillian Bennett traces the cultural history of six legends, well-known in Europe and America from medieval times to the present day. Appearing in broadsides, ballads, myths, ancient and modern legends, novels, plays, films, television shows, and stories told in the oral tradition, these legends are not just silly tales which can be dismissed as trivial and untrue. They reveal much about the concerns and fears of everyday life and demonstrate the limits of knowledge and power in the modern world.

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1628467657

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Refugees in Britain

Practices of Hospitality and Labelling

By: Gillian McFadyen

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Refugees in Britain

Practices of Hospitality and Labelling

By: Gillian McFadyen

This book provides a multi-faceted way of assessing the British approach to refuge on local, state and regional levels, by intertwining the theories of hospitality and labelling before applying them to the study of refugees.

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Edinburgh University Press

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147444718X

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Rediasporization

African-Guyanese Kweh-Kweh

By: Gillian Richards-Greaves

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Rediasporization

African-Guyanese Kweh-Kweh

By: Gillian Richards-Greaves

Rediasporization: African-Guyanese Kweh-Kweh examines how African-Guyanese in New York City participate in the Come to My Kwe-Kwe ritual to facilitate rediasporization, that is, the creation of a newer diaspora from an existing one. Since the fall of 2005, African-Guyanese in New York City have celebrated Come to My Kwe-Kwe (more recently called Kwe-Kwe Night) on the Friday evening before Labor Day. Come to My Kwe-Kwe is a reenactment of a uniquely African-Guyanese pre-wedding ritual called kweh-kweh, and sometimes referred to as karkalay, mayan, kweh-keh, and pele. A typical traditional (wedding-based) kweh-kweh has approximately ten ritual segments, which include the pouring of libation to welcome or appease the ancestors; a procession from the groom’s residence to the bride’s residence or central kweh-kweh venue; the hiding of the bride; and the negotiation of bride price. Each ritual segment is executed with music and dance, which allow for commentary on conjugal matters, such as sex, domestication, submissiveness, and hard work. Come to My Kwe-Kwe replicates the overarching segments of the traditional kweh-kweh, but a couple (male and female) from the audience acts as the bride and groom, and props simulate the boundaries of the traditional performance space, such as the gate and the bride’s home. This book draws on more than a decade of ethnographic research data and demonstrates how Come to My Kwe-Kwe allows African-Guyanese-Americans to negotiate complex, overlapping identities in their new homeland, by combining elements from the past and present and reinterpreting them to facilitate rediasporization and ensure group survival.

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1496831195

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Sense and Nonsense

Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour

By: Kevin N. Laland,Gillian R. Brown

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Sense and Nonsense

Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour

By: Kevin N. Laland,Gillian R. Brown

This book asks whether evolution can help us to understand human behaviour and explores diverse evolutionary methods and arguments. It provides a short, readable introduction to the science behind the works of Dawkins, Dennett, Wilson and Pinker. It is widely used in undergraduate courses around the world.

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