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Researching Learning in Higher Education

An Introduction to Contemporary Methods and Approaches

By: Glynis Cousin

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Researching Learning in Higher Education

An Introduction to Contemporary Methods and Approaches

By: Glynis Cousin

Across the world, universities are transforming their teaching and learning practices to meet the challenges facing Higher Education in the 21st century. Research into teaching and learning in Higher Education has never been a more important issue. Growing numbers of academics across disciplines are conducting research in their teaching. This book presents contemporary approaches to researching university teaching and learning to address this rising demand. The author provides a much needed comprehensive yet basic approach for conducting this type of research. A perfect resource for new lecturers, professional developers, researchers and graduate students; this book provides useful and effective guidance for conducting teaching and learning research in Higher Education. Filling a clear gap in the market, this book covers all the essential methodological and theoretical bases needed to engage in Higher Education research. This book offers a refreshingly light yet serious approach to research which has proved to yield significant advances in the field, allowing new academics from any discipline to effectively conduct higher education research. Each chapter covers the following: FRAMING HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH Generating an ETHICAL FRAMEWORK QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS FOCUS GROUP RESEARCH SEMI-STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS NARRATIVE INQUIRY ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACHES CASE STUDY RESEARCH ACTION RESEARCH APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY PHENOMENOGRAPHY RESEARCHING THRESHOLD CONCEPTS VISUAL RESEARCH EVALUATION APPROACHES This book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in up to date theories and methods for conducting teaching and learning research in Higher Education.

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Researching Learning in Higher Education

An Introduction to Contemporary Methods and Approaches

By: Glynis Cousin

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The Between

By: Glynis Rankin

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The Between

By: Glynis Rankin

“We all wander in from time to time.” Michele Smith feels like an outcast in her family. Dispite that, she’s a smart, successful woman who has made her own family circle. She had it all until one day when her world turned upside down with the unexpected death of her only child. Now that her husband of eight years is leaving her, Michele finds herself struggling with despondence as it sends her wheeling down the dark path of grief. Forced to attend the yearly family reunion by her overbearing mother only exacerbates Michele's feelings of loneliness as those same old feelings of being an outcast resurface, allowing her to wallow deeper inside her despair. But it’s actually here among kinfolk that Michele will have her eyes opened to what family truly means. In her search for solitude, what Michele finds instead is something she never thought she would receive, forgiveness.

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Who Will Play With Molly-May?

By: Glynis Bloomfield

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Who Will Play With Molly-May?

By: Glynis Bloomfield

In this fun little picture story book set in Australia, young Molly-May can’t find anyone to play with. Each day she gets up early and asks someone to play, but always ends up playing by herself. She asks her cousin and then various animals. She approaches a koala, a cassowary, a possum, and a lorikeet, but no one wants to play. On Saturday, everyone agrees to play and they have a lot of fun together. But on Sunday, when the others want to play, Molly-May is tired and she sleeps in and doesn’t want to get out of bed!

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Success with Inclusion

1001 Teaching Strategies and Activities that Really Work

By: Glynis Hannell

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Success with Inclusion

1001 Teaching Strategies and Activities that Really Work

By: Glynis Hannell

Today's classroom welcomes diversity, where many levels, speeds and styles of learning coexist. Success with Inclusion provides over 1000 specific strategies to help identified areas of difficulty or advanced development. Using this book, teachers will be able to: quickly and easily identify and record their pupils’ individual learning patterns using the observation charts provided structure a well planned inclusive environment implement creative and thoughtful learning interventions. create an atmosphere of flexibility and compassion. Author and experienced teacher Glynis Hannell gets down to the nitty gritty with chapters full of practical and creative ideas that will help accommodate not only pupils with difficulties but also those who are advanced. Learning strategies here will help you to: be an effective inclusive teacher address a variety of reading difficulties support pupils' writing skills make maths comprehensible, fun and relevant enhance pupils' concentration encourage habits of organisation foster teamwork between yourself, colleagues, parents and pupils. The 42 photocopiable worksheets, checklists, charts, games and planners are provided in the appendix to give teachers a headstart. Also here are observation charts, literacy and maths resources, as well as support materials for teachers, pupils and parents.

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1134065485

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Glossop in the Great War

By: Glynis Cooper

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Glossop in the Great War

By: Glynis Cooper

A new book on Glossop during World War I focuses on the economic and social conditions, problems and hardships of those left at home in England played out against a background of military action on the Western Front, in Turkey, Egypt and Palestine. It chronicles the difficulties, hardships and restrictions of daily life for civilians; the morale of the town year by year as the War dragged on; the growing lists of casualties and the stoical determination of the townsfolk to contribute as much as they could towards the defeat of the Kaiser. Part mill town, part farming community, Glossop's real strength turned out to be its rural parochialism. When the call came to 'dig for victory' the townsfolk did so with enthusiasm and the women proved themselves just as capable as the men. 1914 and 1915 saw some optimism but this changed after the Battle of the Somme in 1916, which destroyed the glorification of war. 1917 was a bad depressive year but despair finally mellowed in 1918. 1919 saw the impact of the influenza epidemic, the erection of War memorials, and, to Glossop's horror, the award of a tank in recognition of the town's War efforts.

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1473821711

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City of Manchester in the Great War

By: Glynis Cooper

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City of Manchester in the Great War

By: Glynis Cooper

The war touched almost every aspect of life on the Home Front, and those who were left behind suffered terribly. This book meticulously explores the problems, hardships and grief faced by Manchesters people and takes a detailed look the unfortunate areas that were hit the hardest.Throughout Britain, industry declined and wages suffered; prices of food and fuel rose sharply; essential foodstuffs and coal were hoarded for the black market; soldiers families doubled up with others, which caused severe overcrowding; housing and sanitation improvements ceased; there were epidemics of measles, chicken pox, influenza and TB; German U-boats tried to prevent supplies reaching Britain; and Zeppelin airships attempted to destroy British trade and industry.Manchester City suffered greatly because of its cotton trade, its industrial output, and its proximity to Liverpool, but its citizens were determined not to let the Kaiser win. This book documents how they fought back by living in a twilight world of black outs so that enemy airships would miss their targets; how they accepted emergency rationing of food and coal, and restrictions; and how they worked tirelessly in the nearby cotton mills and munitions factories, and dug for victory on their allotments. Overall, the people of Manchester were united in their grief over the sad loss of life on the fronts. This grief broke across class barriers and saw debutantes and mill girls, alike, take comfort in each other.City of Manchester in the Great War tells the remarkable story of the spirit of a city whose citizens refused to give in, who strived to fight the odds that were stacked against them.

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Cambridge in the Great War

By: Glynis Cooper

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Cambridge in the Great War

By: Glynis Cooper

Cambridge is one of the most famous universities in the world and its library is one of only five copyright libraries in the UK. At the start of the twentieth century it was a privileged life for some, but many in Cambridge knew that war was becoming truly inevitable. What the proverbial gown feared communicated itself to the surrounding town. Terrible rumours were rife, that the Germans would burn the university library and raise Kings College chapel to the ground, before firing shells along the tranquil Backs of the River Cam until the weeping willows were just blackened stumps. Frightened but determined, age-old town and gown rivalries were put aside as the city united against the common enemy. This book tells Cambridges fascinating story in the grim years of the Great War. Thousands of university students, graduates and lecturers alike enlisted, along with the patriotic townsfolk. The First Eastern General Military Hospital was subsequently established in Trinity College and treated more than 80,000 casualties from the Western Front. Though the university had been the longtime hub of life and employment in the town, many people suffered great losses and were parted from loved ones, decimating traditional breadwinners and livelihoods, from the rationing of food, drink and fuel, to hundreds of restrictions imposed by DORA. As a result, feelings ran high and eventually led to riots beneath the raiding zeppelins and ever-present threat of death.The poet, Rupert Brooke, a graduate of Kings College, died on his way to the Dardanelles in 1915, but his most famous poem The Soldier became a preemptive memorial and the epitaph of millions.If I should dieThink only this of me That theres some corner of a foreign field That is forever England.

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1473864755

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Ashton-Under-Lyne in the Great War

By: Glynis Cooper

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Ashton-Under-Lyne in the Great War

By: Glynis Cooper

A new book on Ashton-under-Lyne during World War I is being published as part of a series on Towns and Cities in the Great War to commemorate the centenary of the beginning of the War. It focuses on the economic and social conditions, problems and hardships of those left at home in England played out against a background of military action on the Western Front, in Turkey, Egypt and Palestine. Ashton was both a garrison town and a mill town. There were three Battalions based locally and over 1500 local men lost their lives. Sir Max Aitken, later Lord Beaverbrook, was Liberal Unionist MP for Ashton. In the summer of 1917 five tons of TNT exploded at an Ashton munitions factory destroying mills and houses, setting gasometers on fire and hurling acid drums into the river. Fifty people died and five hundred were injured. The book chronicles the difficulties, hardships, restrictions and morale of the town year by year as the War dragged on; the constant fear of Zeppelin raids; and the determined spirit of the folk of Ashton that the Kaiser would not beat them.

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1473831997

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The Red Cross Orphans (The Red Cross Orphans, Book 1)

By: Glynis Peters

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The Red Cross Orphans (The Red Cross Orphans, Book 1)

By: Glynis Peters

From the internationally bestselling author of The Secret Orphan comes her brand new unputdownable historical fiction novel!

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0008492379

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The Teacher's Guide to Intervention and Inclusive Education

1000+ Strategies to Help ALL Students Succeed!

By: Glynis Hannell

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The Teacher's Guide to Intervention and Inclusive Education

1000+ Strategies to Help ALL Students Succeed!

By: Glynis Hannell

Enables educators to quickly identify individual student’s difficulties and strengths and then target intervention directly where it is needed

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Simon and Schuster

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1510701257

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Spotlight on Writing

A Teacher's Toolkit of Instant Writing Activities

By: Glynis Hannell

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Spotlight on Writing

A Teacher's Toolkit of Instant Writing Activities

By: Glynis Hannell

Spotlight on Writing offers teachers a wide variety of topics and activities to stimulate, engage, challenge, entertain and extend all pupils’ writing skills. This extremely practical resource provides busy teachers and teaching assistants with a collection of worksheets that can be used as instant, educationally appropriate learning activities written specifically with the inclusive classroom in mind. The wide variety of exercises encourages pupils to think about writing and to develop skills in writing facts and information, creative writing and editing, whilst building confidence and motivation. Teachers can use this book to develop a flexible inclusive approach, comprising individualised materials and opportunities for extended practice. All the books in this series: Promote effective intervention and inclusion strategies for teachers and teaching assistants Provide materials that are solidly grounded in an understanding of how children learn and the particular difficulties of children with special needs. Stimulate discussion and interaction Can be used as part of an individual or small group learning programme for a child with special needs Provide 'whole class' materials that can also engage older children or those with a higher level of achievement Offer teachers quick, fun activities that never require additional resources, special materials or preparation. Spotlight on Writing is an essential tool for any teacher striving to offer every pupil opportunities to maximise their own potential and develop strong writing skills.

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Routledge

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1136031022

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Girl' to Boys' School Swap Tales 2

By: Glynis Dunnit

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Girl' to Boys' School Swap Tales 2

By: Glynis Dunnit

Boy bully seeking order, discipline sent to co-ed liberal school, finds a unit within it where rules are rigidly enforced, commits to join them, finds her place; as a well-disciplined schoolgirl! Much fun is had by the 'boys', at 'her' expense! Grown-up girls subvert a boys school, take it over, force hated boy cousin into a the girlie role mapped out for the ringleader, recreate the school games of their youth. Ineffectual patronising young Schoolmaster puts down a young girl's acting; she has her revenge through hypnosis to first feminise the class bully, then takes his place, and has him take her's, and then puts both of them through some very salutary humiliation and punishments to make the change permanent. Headmistress forced to employ a schoolmaster by the Chairwoman of the Governors, when she'd have preferred all her teachers to be women; the 'gels' oblige and feminise, then cane him, leading to some very interesting and penetrating liaisons amongst the pupils and staff!

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Lulu.com

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1326128604

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Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Bolton

By: Glynis Cooper

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Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Bolton

By: Glynis Cooper

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Bolton takes the reader on a sinister journey through centuries of local crime, meeting villains of all sorts along the way. There is no shortage of harrowing incidents of evil to recount from the town's early industrial beginnings to its murderous heyday in the nineteenth century. Glynis Cooper's fascinating research has uncovered grisly events and sad or unsavoury individuals whose conduct throws a harsh light on the history of a city that was once known as the Geneva of the North. These extraordinary stories, rediscovered in the Bolton Evening News, in council archives and in police and court records, shed light on a bloody past that Bolton would prefer to forget.

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Wharncliffe

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1783035528

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Who Stole the Secret to the Industrial Revolution?

The Real Story Behind Richard Arkwright & the Water Frame

By: Glynis Cooper

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Who Stole the Secret to the Industrial Revolution?

The Real Story Behind Richard Arkwright & the Water Frame

By: Glynis Cooper

English schoolchildren are taught that Sir Richard Arkwright ‘invented the water-frame and was the father of the Industrial Revolution and the factory system.’ That is simply not true. The water-powered spinning frame and the ‘modern factory system’ were pioneered in Italy over 300 years before Richard Arkwright was born. This book tells the story of how the Industrial Revolution in textile manufacture really began. Not in England with Richard Arkwright and the English cotton industry, but in Italy, with Italian Renaissance engineers and the Italian silk industry. Proof lies in the achievements of medieval Italian engineering, English archives and English legal case records. Italy was the leading technological power in Europe from the 13th to the 17th centuries. The Italian Renaissance and the devastation caused by the Black Death (1347-49) brought forth a wealth of technological innovation and invention and the Italians automated much of the production of silk fabrics, using water as their power source, because there were no longer enough people left alive to carry out the work. English organzine was inferior to Italian organzine. In the first recorded case of industrial espionage a young Derby engineer resolved to steal Italian silk manufacturing secrets. Water powered silk throwing machinery, reconstructed by John Lombe from his stolen plans and drawings, provided the blueprint for water powered cotton spinning machinery (water frame), and Cromford Mill, (built 1771), was modelled on Derby Silk Mill (built 1719). This book marks the 300th anniversary of John Lombe’s premature death. Part of the mystery surrounding his actions is why has the truth been concealed for so long and why has the Italian connection remained unacknowledged? It is time to place this episode of history in a proper context, to set the record straight, and to fully acknowledge the part played by Italy in the English Industrial Revolution.

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Pen and Sword History

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1473875935

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Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Guernsey

By: Glynis Cooper

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Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Guernsey

By: Glynis Cooper

The twin fascinations of death and villainy will always hold us in their grim but thrilling grip. In Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Guernsey the chill is brought close to home as each chapter investigates the darker side of humanity in cases of murder, deceit and pure malice. From crimes of passion to opportunistic killings and coldly premeditated acts of murder, the full spectrum of criminality is recounted here, bringing to life the sinister history of Guernsey from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. For this journey into Guernsey's bloody, neglected past, Glynis Cooper has selected over 20 notorious episodes that give a fascinating insight into criminal acts and the criminal mind. Recalled here are the witch trials of medieval and much more recent times; murderous monks, smugglers and pirates; ecclesiastical executions; disappearances; murders attributed to magic and more mundane but nonetheless extraordinary cases like that of the girl who collapsed and died of shock after her fiance was murdered by a suicidal rival. The human dramas she describes are often played out in the mostcommonplace of circumstances, but others are so odd as to be stranger than fiction. Her grisly chronicle of Guernsey's hidden history will be compelling reading for anyone who is interested in the dark side of human nature.

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Casemate Publishers

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178340826X

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Ghosts of War

Meeting Spirits of the Fallen

By: Glynis Amy Allen,Graham Adrian

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Ghosts of War

Meeting Spirits of the Fallen

By: Glynis Amy Allen,Graham Adrian

Many brave men and women have given their lives in armed conflicts so that we may live in freedom today. A great debt is owed to these soldiers, sailors and flyers, both men and women, and they must never be forgotten. Glynis Amy Allen has met quite a few of their spirits, while walking the battlefields of World War I, during her nursing career and when giving personal readings as a medium. This book is a tribute to them. Inspired by her experiences, Glynis has researched others’ similar spiritual and ghostly accounts throughout history and across other cultures. These eye-opening stories - more than two hundred of them - told by ordinary people, of honesty and integrity, are a huge contribution to our understanding of human consciousness and the far-reaching power of our minds.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1910027618

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9781910027615

The Angels Beside Us

Winner of the 2020 Spiritual Writing Competition

By: Glynis Amy Allen

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The Angels Beside Us

Winner of the 2020 Spiritual Writing Competition

By: Glynis Amy Allen

A born medium, the author has seen, heard and communicated with the spirit world all her life, communicating with the deceased and with angelic higher beings. As a child she was guided by her grandmother, a seer herself, and learned to develop her gifts carefully so that she might help others with life’s challenges and with the grief of their loved ones’ passing. Working as a senior hospital nurse for decades, she would see patients’ souls depart escorted by relatives and work alongside spirit doctors. In this book she describes her frequent interactions with beautiful, compassionate angelic beings and sets out what she has learned about them. This is a fascinating, page-turning collection of true stories told in refreshingly down-to-earth language and with humour.

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1910027448

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Stockport in the Great War

By: Glynis Cooper

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Stockport in the Great War

By: Glynis Cooper

Interest in the theft of cucumbers initially took precedence over news that war had been declared, but Stockport rallied quickly. Wakes week was cancelled, the local 6th Battalion of the Cheshires went to the Front and the town transformed half of its schools into much-needed military hospitals. Admirably, the remaining schools coped with double the number of children but education suffered little. At the time, Stockport was two towns; the millscapes around the Mersey and the Goyt and the wealthier genteel suburbs bordering the Cheshire countryside. Economy and efficiency in the use of food and fuel was preached in the local paper alongside advertisements for silks, satins, velvets, furs and evening gowns. The cotton and hatting trades, transport and agriculture, suffered badly from loss of resources and manpower but resisted the use of female labour with great hostility. Food, fuel and lighting restrictions caused problems and there were accusations of profiteering and hoarding.Always in competition with Manchester, Stockport folk did things their way. Following Zeppelin attacks on the east coast, street lights were ordered to be partially shaded. Manchester shaded its lights from the top, while Stockport shaded its lights from the bottom, causing confusion in the darkened streets below and prompting one wit to write that while Manchester was expecting attacks from Zeppelins, Stockport was clearly expecting attacks from submarines. However, despite much political and material disaffection, the townsfolk united firmly against the kaiser. This book is is a timely reminder of how the local community worked together to provide munitions for the war, food parcels and comforts for the troops while keeping the home fires burning.

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1473864690

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The Discovery of Jeanne Baret

A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe

By: Glynis Ridley

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The Discovery of Jeanne Baret

A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe

By: Glynis Ridley

The year was 1765. Eminent botanist Philibert Commerson had just been appointed to a grand new expedition: the first French circumnavigation of the world. As the ships’ official naturalist, Commerson would seek out resources—medicines, spices, timber, food—that could give the French an edge in the ever-accelerating race for empire. Jeanne Baret, Commerson’s young mistress and collaborator, was desperate not to be left behind. She disguised herself as a teenage boy and signed on as his assistant. The journey made the twenty-six-year-old, known to her shipmates as “Jean” rather than “Jeanne,” the first woman to ever sail around the globe. Yet so little is known about this extraordinary woman, whose accomplishments were considered to be subversive, even impossible for someone of her sex and class. When the ships made landfall and the secret lovers disembarked to explore, Baret carried heavy wooden field presses and bulky optical instruments over beaches and hills, impressing observers on the ships’ decks with her obvious strength and stamina. Less obvious were the strips of linen wound tight around her upper body and the months she had spent perfecting her masculine disguise in the streets and marketplaces of Paris. Expedition commander Louis-Antoine de Bougainville recorded in his journal that curious Tahitian natives exposed Baret as a woman, eighteen months into the voyage. But the true story, it turns out, is more complicated. In The Discovery of Jeanne Baret, Glynis Ridley unravels the conflicting accounts recorded by Baret’s crewmates to piece together the real story: how Baret’s identity was in fact widely suspected within just a couple of weeks of embarking, and the painful consequences of those suspicions; the newly discovered notebook, written in Baret’s own hand, that proves her scientific acumen; and the thousands of specimens she collected, most famously the showy vine bougainvillea. Ridley also richly explores Baret’s awkward, sometimes dangerous interactions with the men on the ship, including Baret’s lover, the obsessive and sometimes prickly naturalist; a fashion-plate prince who, with his elaborate wigs and velvet garments, was often mistaken for a woman himself; the sour ship’s surgeon, who despised Baret and Commerson; even a Tahitian islander who joined the expedition and asked Baret to show him how to behave like a Frenchman. But the central character of this true story is Jeanne Baret herself, a working-class woman whose scientific contributions were quietly dismissed and written out of history—until now. Anchored in impeccable original research and bursting with unforgettable characters and exotic settings, The Discovery of Jeanne Baret offers this forgotten heroine a chance to bloom at long last.

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Crown

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0307463532

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9780307463531

Daughter of Camelot

Empire of Shadows book 1

By: Glynis Cooney

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Daughter of Camelot

Empire of Shadows book 1

By: Glynis Cooney

Born a twin, soon to be fourteen-year-old Deirdre is besieged by brutal superstitions of the medieval age in which she lives. As much as she pretends to take no notice of fearful village gossips, Deirdre knows she is different than other young women. Contrary to a life as a wife and mother envisioned for her by her father, she believes in a future in which she, although female, will one day have glorious adventures like those shared by the noble men in her life. To prepare, she has her twin brother Rhys secretly teach her the combat lessons he receives as he trains for knighthood. Unexpectedly, Deirdre's ambitions shatter. She is ordered to accompany her older sister Nia to learn the manners and feminine wiles of court life. Then crisis hits Camelot. Allegiances are challenged. Perceptions change. A prophecy foretelling the fall of King Arthur threatens to become reality. As danger threatens everywhere Deirdre learns castle life is more than sewing and gossip. She quickly discovers the pitfalls of entertaining amorous knights. She becomes embroiled in ruthless plot that takes her far from all she knows and tests her once thwarted ambitions to confront life bravely.

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Junto Publications

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0989135004

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9780989135009

The Rock Where We Stand

An Ethnography of Women's Activism in Newfoundland

By: Glynis George

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The Rock Where We Stand

An Ethnography of Women's Activism in Newfoundland

By: Glynis George

Bay St. George in western Newfoundland is a region characterized by a boom and bust economy and shaped by the establishment of the Earnest Harmon American Airforce Base. This ethnography explores how women at the Bay St. George Women's Council deal specifically with the issues of single motherhood, child sexual abuse, and domestic violence, and examines the interplay of feminist and Newfoundland identification among these individuals. Drawing on 14 months of participant observation and interviews with women at the Council, George provides a much needed, specifically Canadian contribution to ethno-cultural studies, grass-roots activism, and feminist studies. The research successfully situates the particular concerns and political activism of these women in this rural region of Canada within the larger context of economic restructuring and neoliberal economic and social policies that continue to marginalize women in Canada and around the world. This important study continues the work of feminist ethnographies by such scholars as: Abu-Lughod, Behar, Cole, DiLeonardo, Ginsburg, and Lowenhaupt-Tsing. Avoiding the all too common pitfall of folkorization in rural studies, The Rock Where We Stand represents an innovative and experimental contribution to the field.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442638540

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9781442638549

Love in a Time of Mourning

By: Deborah Ewing,Glynis Clacherty

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Love in a Time of Mourning

By: Deborah Ewing,Glynis Clacherty

The JAWS HIV/AIDS readers aim to instil the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that will enable our children to conquer the pandemic that is sweeping through our world.

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Heinemann

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0435893688

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The Book of Newcastle

By: Jessica Andrews,Julia Darling,Crista Ermiya,Chrissie Glazebrook,J. A. Mensah,Sean O'Brien,Angela Readman,Glynis Reed,Degna Stone,Margaret Wilkinson

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The Book of Newcastle

By: Jessica Andrews,Julia Darling,Crista Ermiya,Chrissie Glazebrook,J. A. Mensah,Sean O'Brien,Angela Readman,Glynis Reed,Degna Stone,Margaret Wilkinson

The original Northern Powerhouse, Newcastle upon Tyne has witnessed countless transformations over the last century or so, from its industrial heyday, when Tyneside engineering and innovation led the world, through decades of post-industrial decline, and underinvestment, to its more recent reinvention as a cultural destination for the North. The ten short stories gathered here all feature characters in search of something, a new reality, a space, perhaps, in which to rediscover themselves: from the call-centre worker imagining herself far away from the claustrophobic realities of her day job, to the woman coming to terms with an ex-lover who’s moved on all too quickly, to the man trying to outrun his mother’s death on Town Moor. The Book of Newcastle brings together some of the city’s most renowned literary talents, along with exciting new voices, proving that while Newcastle continues to feel the effects of its lost industrial past, it is also a city striving for a future that brims with promise.

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Comma Press

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1912697343

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Spotlight on Language

A Teacher's Toolkit of Instant Language Activities

By: Glynis Hannell

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Spotlight on Language

A Teacher's Toolkit of Instant Language Activities

By: Glynis Hannell

Spotlight on Language offers teachers a wide variety of topics and activities to stimulate, engage, challenge, entertain and extend all pupils’ language skills. This extremely practical resource provides busy teachers and teaching assistants with a collection of worksheets that can be used as instant, educationally appropriate learning activities written specifically with the inclusive classroom in mind. All the books in this series: Promote effective intervention and inclusion strategies for teachers and teaching assistants Provide materials that are solidly grounded in an understanding of how children learn and the particular difficulties of children with special needs. Stimulate discussion and interaction Can be used as part of an individual or small group learning programme for a child with special needs Provide 'whole class' materials that can also engage older children or those with a higher level of achievement Offer teachers quick, fun activities that never require additional resources, special materials or preparation. Spotlight on Language is an essential tool for any teacher striving to offer every pupil opportunities to maximise their own potential and develop strong language skills.

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130

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Routledge

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1136031421

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9781136031427

The Prison and the Factory

Origins of the Penitentiary System

By: Dario Melossi,Massimo Pavarini,Glynis Cousin

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The Prison and the Factory

Origins of the Penitentiary System

By: Dario Melossi,Massimo Pavarini,Glynis Cousin

An examination and interpretation of the development of modern prisons in England and Europe from 1550 to 1850, a study of Italian prison development, and of American prisons from colonial times to 1930.

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256

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Rl Innactive Titles

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0389204463

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9780389204466

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