Helen Francis's Books

Integrating Work Health and Safety into Construction Project Management

By: Helen Lingard,Ron Wakefield

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Integrating Work Health and Safety into Construction Project Management

By: Helen Lingard,Ron Wakefield

Provides insights into how health and safety can be more effectively integrated into the procurement, design, and management of construction projects This book aims to explore the ways in which technological, organizational, and cultural strategies can be combined and integrated into construction project management to produce sustained and significant health and safety (H&S) improvements. It looks at design and safety practices, work organization, workforce engagement and learning, and offers ideas for producing systemic change. Integrating Work Health and Safety into Construction Project Management addresses how best to achieve safety in design through the adoption of a stakeholder management approach. It instructs on how to drive H&S improvements through supply chain integration and responsible procurement and project management practices. It examines the components of a culture for health and safety and the development of a cultural maturity model. The book discusses the potential to improve H&S through the provision of conditions of work that afford workers a positive work-life balance. It also covers how advanced technologies and the application of techniques developed from health informatics can support real time analysis and improvement of H&S in construction. Lastly, it looks at the benefits associated with engaging workers and using their tacit H&S knowledge to inform work process improvements. This text also: Provides new and non-traditional ways of thinking about H&S Focuses on technological, organizational, and cultural integration Offers a multi-disciplinary perspective provided by an internationally recognized research team from the social sciences, engineering, construction/project management, and psychology Presents, in detail, the collective analysis from a broad-ranging ten year program of collaborative research Contains a rich range of industry case studies Integrating Work Health and Safety into Construction Project Management is an excellent resource for academics and researchers engaged in research in construction H&S, as well as for postgraduates taking construction project management and H&S courses. It will also be beneficial to consultants, policy advisors, construction project managers and H&S professionals.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111915992X

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Cary-Estes-Moore Genealogy

By: Helen Estes Seltzer

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Cary-Estes-Moore Genealogy

By: Helen Estes Seltzer

There are many American families with the names Cary or Carey, Estes, and Moore. Numerous genealogy books have been written on all three. This book focuses on one branch of each family and traces them from the earliest known ancestors to the present generation (1981). All three families came to America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. the Carys came from England; the Estes from Italy, by way of England; and the Moores from Scotland. This is a sequel to The Cary-Estes Genealogy by Patrick Mann and May Folk Web, published in 1939.

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B&R Samizdat Express

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1455448176

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Enthralled by Her Enemy's Kiss

By: Helen Dickson

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Enthralled by Her Enemy's Kiss

By: Helen Dickson

From feuding families …To an unlikely alliance? Jane Deighton’s sister has eloped with the son of her family’s sworn enemy! Determined to retrieve her at all costs, Jane is even willing to ask the man’s formidable older brother, Lord Francis Randolph, for help. On their journey to find the runaways, Jane and Francis reluctantly start gravitating toward one another—culminating in one sinful kiss! Their families have been feuding for years, yet Jane can’t help herself from being drawn to Francis’s forbidden touch… From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.

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0369711092

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9780369711090

La Bella Vita

Daily Inspiration from Italy

By: Helen Ruchti

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La Bella Vita

Daily Inspiration from Italy

By: Helen Ruchti

Ruchti, a missionary in Rome for 25 years, has captured Italy's bella vita, or beautiful life, in these daily writings. Each entry includes a short discussion of a different topic and a relevant passage from Scripture and prayer.

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Xyzzy Press

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1601480121

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9781601480125

A Cup of Comfort for Weddings

Something Old Something New

By: Helen Kay Polaski

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A Cup of Comfort for Weddings

Something Old Something New

By: Helen Kay Polaski

A celebration of that special day when people make their everlasting love for each other official. Now you can share in both the excitement of new love and the steadfastness of long-time love with heartwarming stories, including: *Judy Ann, the preacher’s daughter, who married under the loving eyes of her entire town *Ellen, who married her high school sweetheart after a forty-year separation caused by a misunderstanding *Linda, who at thirty-two was accused of being too picky and too jaded to marry—but proved them all wrong when she fell in love at first sight A Cup of Comfort for Weddings is a great gift for newlyweds and those celebrating golden anniversaries alike with more than fifty tender tales of commitment, adoration, and intimate bonds.

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Simon and Schuster

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1605504017

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9781605504018

Willful Ignorance

Overcoming the Limitations of (Christian) Love for Refugees Seeking Asylum

By: Helen T. Boursier

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Willful Ignorance

Overcoming the Limitations of (Christian) Love for Refugees Seeking Asylum

By: Helen T. Boursier

Using ethnographic research, Willful Ignorance: Overcoming the Limitations of (Christian) Love for Refugees Seeking Asylum examines the attitudes of clergy and lay leaders regarding their (in)attention to racism as it intersects with the harsh reality of U.S. immigration policies and practices. This multi-faceted work begins with a reality check on the scope of forced migration and its intersection with the historical legacy of racism in America, including testimonies from displaced migrants and immigration advocates who help to alleviate state-inflicted suffering at the U.S.-Mexico border. Helen T. Boursier examines the rationales Christian leaders use to justify the local church’s nominal response, including the discursive buffers and stall tactics they use to deflect their lack of preaching, teaching, leadership and/or ministry with displaced migrants who are their near neighbors. The Christian church’s firm foundation to embody love as social justice provides a historical rebuttal, while case studies of congregations that offer displaced migrants compassionate hospitality model exemplary contemporary response. Closing with practical suggestions for how to begin building bridges with migrants, Boursier argues for a philosophy of religion that embraces resistance to racism and exclusion from asylum, through a missiology of compassion that exemplifies an ecclesiology of love.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793628270

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9781793628275

A Mississippi Family

The Griffins of Magnolia Terrace, Griffin’S Refuge, and Greenville 1800-1950

By: Mary Helen Griffin Halloran

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A Mississippi Family

The Griffins of Magnolia Terrace, Griffin’S Refuge, and Greenville 1800-1950

By: Mary Helen Griffin Halloran

From a plantation ledger, an abandoned graveyard, a fragile manuscript, and old newspapers, author Mary Helen Griffin Halloran has raised the bones of her ancestors and made them come alive in this memoir that traces the history of five generations of her Mississippi family. In A Mississippi Family, Halloran has painted a backdrop to the life the family lived. The story begins with the life and times of three men: Jonas Griffin (17621815), his son Francis Griffin (1800-1865), and his son Judge John Bettis Griffin (18261903). It ends with portraits of two remarkable women, Judge Johns daughters, Mary Lane Griffin (18581942) and Helen Knight Griffin (18641949). The stories of these five people, whose fates and values shaped the lives of their children, capture the early history of the Mississippi Delta, Warren and Washington Counties, and the town of Greenville. Telling tales of river journeys and life on southern plantations, Hallorans meticulous research has provided a record of her fascinating family saga at a crucial period in the history of the county, state, and nation.

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1440142246

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Saint Anthony and the Christ Child

By: Helen Walker Homan

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Saint Anthony and the Christ Child

By: Helen Walker Homan

Helen Walker Homan contributes her third volume to hte Vision Books series of saints for youth in this story of the life of St. Anthony of Padua. Important details of Anthony's life covered by the author include his visit to Morocco, a shipwreck, his meeting with St. Francis in Assisi, his powerful preaching and the miracles he wrought as a follower of Francis.

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0898705983

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9780898705980

No Stone Unturned

By: Helen Watts

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No Stone Unturned

By: Helen Watts

Kelly, a Traveller girl, is isolated and unhappy at her new school. Until the hot summer day when she meets Ben. Ben offers to help Kelly with her history project. It's just schoolwork - except that the investigation quickly becomes compelling. Strange puzzles are revealed. A dark secret of the local quarry comes to life. Soon the mystery of the past is spilling into the present - and into Kelly's own life. Kelly must bring the long-buried truth to light. And she will leave no stone unturned... A tense, moving mystery with brilliant historical detail of Victorian life, by the author of the Carnegie-nominated One Day In Oradour.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472905423

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Amadis in English

A Study in the Reading of Romance

By: Helen Moore

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Amadis in English

A Study in the Reading of Romance

By: Helen Moore

This is a book about readers: readers reading, and readers writing. They are readers of all ages and from all ages: young and old, male and female, from Europe and the Americas. The book they are reading is the Spanish chivalric romance Amadís de Gaula, known in English as Amadis de Gaule. Famous throughout the sixteenth century as the pinnacle of its fictional genre, the cultural functions of Amadis were further elaborated by the publication of Cervantes's Don Quixote in 1605, in which Amadis features as Quixote's favourite book. Amadis thereby becomes, as the philosopher Ortega y Gasset terms it, 'enclosed' within the modern novel and part of the imaginative landscape of British reader-authors such Mary Shelley, Smollett, Keats, Southey, Scott, and Thackeray. Amadis in English ranges from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, demonstrating through this 'biography' of a book the deep cultural, intellectual, and political connections of English, French, and Spanish literature across five centuries. Simultaneously an ambitious work of transnational literary history and a new intervention in the history of reading, this study argues that romance is historically located, culturally responsive, and uniquely flexible in the re-creative possibilities it offers readers. By revealing this hitherto unexamined reading experience connecting readers of all backgrounds, Amadis in English also offers many new insights into the politicisation of literary history; the construction and misconstruction of literary relations between England, France, and Spain; the practice and pleasures of reading fiction; and the enduring power of imagination.

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Oxford University Press

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0192568558

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Harlequin Historical August 2021 - Box Set 1 of 2

By: Terri Brisbin,Laura Martin,Helen Dickson

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Harlequin Historical August 2021 - Box Set 1 of 2

By: Terri Brisbin,Laura Martin,Helen Dickson

Do you dream of wicked rakes, gorgeous Highlanders and muscled Viking warriors? Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! This box set includes: THE HIGHLANDER’S INCONVENIENT BRIDE A Highland Feuding by Terri Brisbin (Medieval) Future chieftain Robbie Cameron must marry his elusive enemy, Sheena MacLerie, to strengthen their clans’ alliance. Uncovering her secrets means earning her trust—but it also ignites a simmering passion! FALLING FOR HIS PRACTICAL WIFE The Ashburton Reunion by Laura Martin (Regency) Leo Ashburton needs a bride to claim his inheritance—one who accepts he cannot offer love. Reclusive Annabelle Hummingford is perfect…until she blossoms into a mesmerizing woman Leo must resist falling for! ENTHRALLED BY HER ENEMY’S KISS by Helen Dickson (Georgian) Their families have been feuding for years, yet Jane desperately needs Lord Francis Randolph’s help! As they reluctantly gravitate toward one another, Jane can’t help being drawn to Francis’s forbidden touch… Look for Harlequin® Historical’s August 2021 Box Set 2 of 2, filled with even more timeless love stories!

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0369711114

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Edge of Eden

By: Helen Benedict

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Edge of Eden

By: Helen Benedict

In 1960, when her husband, Rupert, a British diplomat, is posted to the remote Seychelle Islands in the Indian Ocean, Penelope is less than thrilled. But she never imagined the danger that awaited her family there. Her sun-kissed children run barefoot on the beach and become enraptured by the ancient magic, or grigri, in the tropical colonial outpost. Rupert, meanwhile, falls under the spell of a local beauty who won’t stop until she gets what she wants. Desperate to save her marriage, Penelope turns to black magic, exposing her family to the island’s sinister underbelly. Ultimately, Penny and her family suffer unimaginable casualties, rendering their lives profoundly and forever changed. Helen Benedict’s acerbic wit and lush descriptions serve up a page-turner brimming with jealousy, sex, and witchcraft in a darkly exotic Eden.

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Soho Press

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1569478589

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The Third Girl Detective MEGAPACK®

By: Margaret Sutton,Alice B. Emerson,Roy G. Snell,Helen Wells

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The Third Girl Detective MEGAPACK®

By: Margaret Sutton,Alice B. Emerson,Roy G. Snell,Helen Wells

I’m pleased to present our third collection of mystery stories written for girls. This time we include tales by many popular children’s authors of the early to mid 20th century -- more than 1,300 pages of classic kid sleuthing. Included are: THE PHANTOM TREASURE, by Harriet Pyne Grove THE HAUNTED FOUNTAIN, by Margaret Sutton THE YELLOW PHANTOM, by Margaret Sutton RUTH FIELDING AT BRIARWOOD HALL: SOLVING THE CAMPUS MYSTERY, by Alice B. Emerson PENNY ALLEN AND THE MYSTERY OF THE HIDDEN TREASURE, by Jean McKechnie THE SILVER RING MYSTERY, by Helen Wells THE SLIPPER POINT MYSTERY, by Augusta Huiell Seaman GYPSY FLIGHT, by Roy G. Snell THE S. P. MYSTERY, by Harriet Pyne Grove If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 280+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

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1479429945

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9781479429943

For Peace and For Good

By: Helen Stanton

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For Peace and For Good

By: Helen Stanton

An authorised history of the Anglican Franciscan order, celebrating the contribution the Community of St Francis has made to religious life and the mission and ministry of the church.

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Canterbury Press

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1848254970

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Caught in the Revolution

Witness to the Fall of Imperial Russia

By: Helen Rappaport

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Caught in the Revolution

Witness to the Fall of Imperial Russia

By: Helen Rappaport

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters, Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold. Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin’s Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former St Petersburg) was in turmoil – felt nowhere more keenly than on the fashionable Nevsky Prospekt. There, the foreign visitors who filled hotels, clubs, offices and embassies were acutely aware of the chaos breaking out on their doorsteps and beneath their windows. Among this disparate group were journalists, diplomats, businessmen, bankers, governesses, volunteer nurses and expatriate socialites. Many kept diaries and wrote letters home: from an English nurse who had already survived the sinking of the Titanic; to the black valet of the US Ambassador, far from his native Deep South; to suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst, who had come to Petrograd to inspect the indomitable Women’s Death Battalion led by Maria Bochkareva. Helen Rappaport draws upon this rich trove of material, much of it previously unpublished, to carry us right up to the action – to see, feel and hear the Revolution as it happened to an assortment of individuals who suddenly felt themselves trapped in a "red madhouse.

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1466860456

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Destitute On His Doorstep

By: Helen Dickson

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Destitute On His Doorstep

By: Helen Dickson

Destitute and desperate, Jane Lucas knows there is one place where she can find refuge—her childhood home. Landing on the doorstep, Jane is confronted with a new lord of the manor! Devilish Colonel Francis Russell is known for his fierce reputation in battle. The civil war may be ended but, by stepping over the threshold, Jane fears she's crossing enemy lines. She will use every weapon in her arsenal to claim the home that's rightfully hers, starting with her bewitching charm…but then she goes and falls under the colonel's spell!

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1426884958

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Approaches to Gender and Spoken Classroom Discourse

By: Helen Sauntson

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Approaches to Gender and Spoken Classroom Discourse

By: Helen Sauntson

Gender is a hotly debated topic in the field of education. The role that language plays in educational contexts especially in the classroom has long been acknowledged. Innovatively combining approaches in the analysis of classroom discourse this book offers rich empirical findings as well as being theoretically interesting and valuable.

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Springer

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0230343589

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Along Pond Creek Road

For Descendants of Alda Buckley Kennedy

By: Helen M. Kennedy

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Along Pond Creek Road

For Descendants of Alda Buckley Kennedy

By: Helen M. Kennedy

Along Pond Creek Road is a look at the families making up the ancestry of Alda Buckley Kennedy. The stories cover the whole of American history: emigration to Williamsburg, a Protestant Rebellion in Maryland, the Revolutionary War, flatboating on the Ohio River and pioneering in log cabins, conflicts with Indians, the War of 1812, the Civil War, Abraham Lincolns wedding, etc. We are blessed to be able to know so much about our ancestors.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1453536884

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Our Village Ancestors

A Genealogist's Guide to Understanding the English Rural Past

By: Helen Osborn

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Our Village Ancestors

A Genealogist's Guide to Understanding the English Rural Past

By: Helen Osborn

This book will be a source of help for anybody researching their farming and countryside ancestors in England. Looked at through the lens of rural life, and specifically the English village, it provides advice and inspiration on placing rural people into their geographic and historical context. It covers the time from the start of parish registers in the Tudor world, when most of our ancestors worked on the land, until the beginning of the twentieth century, when many had moved to the towns. Helen Osborn demonstrates how genealogical records are integral to their place of origin and can be illuminated using local newspaper reports, and the work of local historians. She explores the stories of people who lived in the countryside in the past, as told by the documents that record them, both rich and poor. The book will be particularly valuable to anyone who is looking for a deeper understanding of their family history, rather than simply collecting names on the tree.

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The Crowood Press

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0719831482

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Europa Triumphans

By: Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly

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Europa Triumphans

By: Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly

A landmark in the study of early modern Europe, this two-volume collection makes available for the first time a selection of the most important texts from court and civic festival books. Festival entertainments were presented to mark such occasions as royal and ducal entries to capital cities, dynastic marriages, the birth and christening of heirs, religious feasts and royal and ducal funerals. Europa Triumphans represents the chronological and trans-European range of the court and civic festival. These festivals are considered not simply as texts, but as events, and are introduced by groups of scholars, each with a specialist knowledge of the political, social and cultural significance of the festival and of the iconography, spectacle, music, dance, voice and gesture in which they were expressed. To demonstrate the geographic spread and political significance of festivals, and to illustrate the range of aesthetic languages they deploy, the festivals included in these two volumes are grouped in the following sections: Henri III; Genoa; Poland-Lithuania; The Netherlands; The Protestant Union; La Rochelle; Scandinavia; and The New World. These texts provide many valuable insights into the variety of political systems and historical circumstances that formed them. Beautifully produced with 148 black-and-white and 23 colour illustrations, Europa Triumphans represents an invaluable reference source for the study of early modern Europe. It presents texts both in transcription and translated into English, and is supplemented with introductory essays and commentaries. Europa Triumphans is co-published by Ashgate and the Modern Humanities Research Association, in conjunction with the AHRB Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick, UK.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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0754696383

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Register of Marriages and Baptisms Performed by Rev. John Cuthbertson, Covenanter Minister, 1751-1791

With Index to Locations and Persons Visited

By: S. Helen Fields

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Register of Marriages and Baptisms Performed by Rev. John Cuthbertson, Covenanter Minister, 1751-1791

With Index to Locations and Persons Visited

By: S. Helen Fields

This present work is an epitome of the diary of Scottish Covenanter minister James Cuthbertson, which he compiled during his missionary travels throughout the Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania. The work contains a complete list of marriages, giving the names of the bride and groom and date of marriage; a complete list of baptisms, giving the name of the child, the name of the parent, and the date of baptism; and a selection of quotations pertaining to the weddings and baptisms he performed during his long ministry.

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0806310472

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Out of the Cloister

A Study of Organizational Dilemmas

By: Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh

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Out of the Cloister

A Study of Organizational Dilemmas

By: Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh

Since Vatican Council II, convent walls have crumbled. and the structures that once separated nuns from the world are gone. Out of the Cloister is an organizational analysis of the structural and ideological changes that took place in Catholic religious orders of women in the United States. Many nuns today dress in street clothes, choose their own jobs, have a degree of financial independence from the larger order, and may not be recognized by their coworkers as nuns. What might once have been defined as a "total institution" has become, within the span of a few years, a type of voluntary organization where members join together loosely to achieve a common purpose. Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh approaches religious orders as utopian communities and examines how contact with the larger society has affected the distinctiveness and solidarity that hold such groups together. She analyzes the patterns occurring within orders with particular focus on the relationship between organizational change and membership loss. Since changes have been introduced into religious orders at different rates, and since orders vary in such characteristics as size and educational level of members, it is possible to analyze relationships between exit rates and other organizational variables. The complex interplay of education and membership loss is one of the organizational dilemmas the author examines. Although she is no longer a part of organized religious life, Ebaugh spent ten years as a nun and during that time collected much of the data presented in this book. As a nun she also helped conduct a number of self-studies and evaluations involved with the post-Vatican II reform and renewal efforts. She is therefore in the unique position of a researcher who collected data as an insider and analyzed it as an outsider. This book is one of the first systematic, empirical studies of religious orders in the United States and one of the few sociological investigations of convents and the changes occurring within them.

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University of Texas Press

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0292740824

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Crimson Confederates

Harvard Men who Fought for the South

By: Helen P. Trimpi

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Crimson Confederates

Harvard Men who Fought for the South

By: Helen P. Trimpi

Though located in the heart of Unionist New England, Harvard produced 357 alumni who fought for the South during the Civil War--men not just from the South but from the North as well. This encyclopedic work gathers their stories together for the first time, providing unprecedented biographical coverage of the Crimson Confederates. Included are alumni of Harvard College, Law School, Medical School, and Lawrence Scientific School. The emphasis of the entries is on the alumnus's military career, whether as an infantry private or as a signal scout, as a surgeon or as a teacher in the Confederate Naval Academy, as an aide-de-camp or as an artillery captain. The range of participation took these men into all the major battles from the Eastern Theater under Robert E. Lee to the Trans-Mississippi under Richard Taylor and Sterling Price. Their careers spanned firing a gun at Fort Sumter and the earliest battles in Virginia to the closing shots at Bentonville and Mobile. Harvard's general officers included two major generals-- W. H. F. "Rooney" Lee (one of Robert E. Lee's sons) and John Sappington Marmaduke--as well as thirteen brigadiers, among them James Rogers Cooke, Stephen Elliott, States Rights Gist, John Echols, Ben Hardin Helm, Albert Gallatin Jenkins, Bradley Tyler Johnson, and William Booth Taliaferro. Several engineers and scientists from Lawrence Scientific School constructed major fortifications at Vicksburg and in Charleston Harbor, while others worked in the Nitre and Mining Bureau. An appendix of civilian Harvard alumni who served the Confederacy as congressmen, diplomats, jurists, editors, and in other ways is also included. This comprehensive, remarkably detailed reference work will be valuable for researchers and browsers alike. Helen P. Trimpi has taught at Stanford, College of Notre Dame (Belmont, California), University of Alberta, and Michigan State University. She is the author of Melville's Confidence Men and American Politics in the 1850s, numerous essays on Melville and modern poetry, and five volumes of poetry. Trimpi is a member of the Company of Military Historians.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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157233682X

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When Heaven Sends Butterflies

By: Helen Mitchell

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When Heaven Sends Butterflies

By: Helen Mitchell

Camille Fontaine has always loved butterflies, and they in turn appear to mysteriously be attracted to her. A sheltered, naive, affluent young woman, she finds herself seeking a higher purpose for her life. As the daughter of the Deputy Ambassador to France, her parents wish to marry her to someone of French nobility, something she hopes to avoid. Against the backdrop of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair is the wonderment of new inventions, the thrill of meeting people from all over the world, and of course, an observation wheel, a carousel, and a charming, handsome man who brings out emotions Camille never knew she had. She will learn secrets about her family, including a cousin she never knew existed. From this setting, she will begin a journey that leads her to God and to the love of her life, amidst a whirlwind of danger and heartache. This pathway is filled with moments of happiness and tenderness, but also obstacles such as a political boss, rival street gangs, opposition from her own family, and some painful soul-searching. At the heart of all this, is Dr. Cameron Forrester, a dashing physician who has demons of his own which he must battle. Can faith conquer these barriers? Can love win against such odds as she will face? Are the butterflies God's message to her and are they leading her to her destiny? Only heaven holds the answers to these questions. Through all this, Camille will discover the true meaning of the phrase, "Butterflies are heaven-sent kisses of an angel.

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Women vs Hollywood

The Fall and Rise of Women in Film

By: Helen O'Hara

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Women vs Hollywood

The Fall and Rise of Women in Film

By: Helen O'Hara

A fascinating polemic' Sunday Times 'A powerful, sobering and vital work' The Mail on Sunday 'A page-turning read, peppered with humour' Sight & Sound 'A must read' Edgar Wright A call to arms from Empire magazine's 'geek queen', Helen O'Hara, that explores women's roles - both in front of and behind the camera - since the birth of Hollywood, how those roles are reflected within wider society and what we can do to level the playing field. Hollywood was born just over a century ago, at a time of huge forward motion for women's rights. With no rules in place to stop them, there were women who forged ahead in many areas of filmmaking. Yet, despite the work of early pioneers like Dorothy Arzner, Mabel Normand, Mary Pickford and Alice Guy-Blaché, it soon came to embody the same old sexist standards. Women found themselves fighting a system that fed on their talent, creativity and beauty but refused to pay them the same respect as their male contemporaries - until now . . . The tide has finally begun to turn. A new generation of women, both in front of and behind the camera, are making waves in the industry and are now shaping some of the biggest films to hit our screens. In Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film, film critic Helen O'Hara takes a closer look at the pioneering and talented women of Hollywood and their work in film since Hollywood began. And in understanding how women were largely written out of Hollywood's own origin story, and how the films we watch are put together, we can finally see how to put an end to a picture that is so deeply unequal - and discover a multitude of stories out there just waiting to be told.

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Robinson

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Antidote to the Antichrist

By: Helen M. Heathwood

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Antidote to the Antichrist

By: Helen M. Heathwood

Have you been a dedicated Christian for years but you're still wondering why you're not living in the victory you've been promised? Do you feel as though circumstances conspire against you? There could be a family curse passed down from your ancestors that is preventing you from gaining access to all of God's blessings. This book chronicles my journey to freedom - along the way, unlocking some of the darkest secrets of the past... the Establishment of America Is Freemasonry good for your family's health and what were its origins? Was Shakespeare really Shakespeare and why is there a battle between the Bible and Shakespeare in our schools? Was Queen Elizabeth 1, (after whom the state of Virginia was named), actually a virgin queen? the Grail Bloodline - Is it fact or fi ction? Who was Francis Bacon and why did he want to rule the world? If you have Freemasonry in your background then these compelling revelations will give you the keys to unlock the curses over your life.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1499002106

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