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Secrets and Lies – Tales of an Employment Lawyer

By: Gillian Howard

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Secrets and Lies – Tales of an Employment Lawyer

By: Gillian Howard

If you want to know how real-life lawyers behave, using deceit, lies, and other dastardly methods to try to beat the individual litigant then read on... Gillian lays bare some of the tricks that she has discovered that some solicitors and employers have used, details how she found them out, and how she won.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1398497606

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9781398497603

The Role of Translators in Children’s Literature

Invisible Storytellers

By: Gillian Lathey

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The Role of Translators in Children’s Literature

Invisible Storytellers

By: Gillian Lathey

This book offers a historical analysis of key classical translated works for children, such as writings by Hans Christian Andersen and Grimms’ tales. Translations dominate the earliest history of texts written for children in English, and stories translated from other languages have continued to shape its course to the present day. Lathey traces the role of the translator and the impact of translations on the history of English-language children’s literature from the ninth century onwards. Discussions of popular texts in each era reveal fluctuations in the reception of translated children’s texts, as well as instances of cultural mediation by translators and editors. Abridgement, adaptation, and alteration by translators have often been viewed in a negative light, yet a closer examination of historical translators’ prefaces reveals a far more varied picture than that of faceless conduits or wilful censors. From William Caxton’s dedication of his translated History of Jason to young Prince Edward in 1477 (‘to thentent/he may begynne to lerne read Englissh’), to Edgar Taylor’s justification of the first translation into English of Grimms’ tales as a means of promoting children’s imaginations in an age of reason, translators have recorded in prefaces and other writings their didactic, religious, aesthetic, financial, and even political purposes for translating children’s texts.

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519

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Routledge

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1136925740

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9781136925740

Pregnancy and Childbirth

A Cochrane Pocketbook

By: G. Justus Hofmeyr,James P. Neilson,Zarko Alfirevic,Caroline A. Crowther,Lelia Duley,Metin Gulmezoglu,Gillian M. L. Gyte,Ellen D. Hodnett

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Pregnancy and Childbirth

A Cochrane Pocketbook

By: G. Justus Hofmeyr,James P. Neilson,Zarko Alfirevic,Caroline A. Crowther,Lelia Duley,Metin Gulmezoglu,Gillian M. L. Gyte,Ellen D. Hodnett

Pregnancy and Childbirth presents the best evidence for the care of pregnant women to doctors, midwives, students and parents. The logical sequence of chapters and the index give quick access to the abstracts of over four hundred Cochrane systematic reviews. The book serves both as a stand-alone reference, and as a companion to locating full reviews on the Cochrane Library. The Cochrane Library is published by John Wiley on behalf of The Cochrane Collaboration. www.thecochranelibrary.com

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263

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119964857

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9781119964858

European Clocks in the J. Paul Getty Museum

By: Gillian Wilson,David Harris Cohen,Jean Nérée Ronfort,Jean-Dominique Augarde,Peter Friess

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European Clocks in the J. Paul Getty Museum

By: Gillian Wilson,David Harris Cohen,Jean Nérée Ronfort,Jean-Dominique Augarde,Peter Friess

Among the finest examples of European craftsmanship are the clocks produced for the luxury trade in the eighteenth century. The J. Paul Getty Museum is fortunate to have in its decorative arts collection twenty clocks dating from around 1680 to 1798: eighteen produced in France and two in Germany. They demonstrate the extraordinary workmanship that went into both the design and execution of the cases and the intricate movements by which the clocks operated. In this handsome volume, each clock is pictured and discussed in detail, and each movement diagrammed and described. In addition, biographies of the clockmakers and enamelers are included, as are indexes of the names of the makers, previous owners, and locations.

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225

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Getty Publications

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0892362545

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9780892362547

Becoming Native in a Foreign Land

Sport, Visual Culture, and Identity in Montreal, 1840-85

By: Gillian Poulter

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Becoming Native in a Foreign Land

Sport, Visual Culture, and Identity in Montreal, 1840-85

By: Gillian Poulter

How did British colonists in Victorian Montreal come to think of themselves as “native Canadian”? This richly illustrated work reveals that colonists adopted, then appropriated, Aboriginal and French Canadian activities such as hunting, lacrosse, snowshoeing, and tobogganing. In the process, they constructed visual icons that were recognized at home and abroad as distinctly “Canadian.” This new Canadian nationality mimicked indigenous characteristics but ultimately rejected indigenous players, and championed the interests of white, middle-class, Protestant males who used their newly acquired identity to dominate the political realm. English Canadian identity was not formed solely by emulating what was British; this book shows that it gained ground by usurping what was indigenous in a foreign land.

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UBC Press

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0774816422

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9780774816427

Book's by Gillian S. Howard

Secrets and Lies – Tales of an Employment Lawyer

Secrets and Lies – Tales of an Employment Lawyer

The Role of Translators in Children’s Literature

The Role of Translators in Children’s Literature

Pregnancy and Childbirth

Pregnancy and Childbirth

European Clocks in the J. Paul Getty Museum

European Clocks in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Becoming Native in a Foreign Land

Becoming Native in a Foreign Land

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