Helen Harcourt's Books

Author Day Adventures

Bringing Literacy to Life with an Author Visit

By: Helen Foster James

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Bringing Literacy to Life with an Author Visit

By: Helen Foster James

Guidelines for organizing a successful author day.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810843706

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9780810843707

Women and the Crusades

By: Helen J. Nicholson

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The crusade movement needed women: their money, their prayer support, their active participation, and their inspiration... This book surveys women's involvement in medieval crusading between the second half of the eleventh century, when Pope Gregory VII first proposed a penitential military expedition to help the Christians of the East, and 1570, when the last crusader state, Cyprus, was captured by the Ottoman Turks. It considers women's actions not only on crusade battlefields but also in recruiting crusaders, supporting crusades through patronage, propaganda, and prayer, and as both defenders and aggressors. It argues that medieval women were deeply involved in the crusades but the roles that they could play and how their contemporaries recorded their deeds were dictated by social convention and cultural expectations. Although its main focus is the women of Latin Christendom, it also looks at the impact of the crusades and crusaders on the Jews of western Europe and the Muslims of the Middle East, and compares relations between Latin Christians and Muslims with relations between Muslims and other Christian groups.

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Oxford University Press

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0198806728

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9780198806721

The Politics of Public Education

Reform Ideas and Issues

By: Gunter, Helen M.

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The Politics of Public Education

Reform Ideas and Issues

By: Gunter, Helen M.

At a time when public education and reform agendas are changing the way we approach education, this book critically examines the key issues facing the public with implications for education policy makers, professionals and researchers. Drawing on empirical evidence gathered over 20 years, Helen Gunter confronts current issues about social justice and segregation. She uses Arendtian ideas to help the reader to ‘think politically’ about education and how and why public services education can be reimagined for the future.

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Policy Press

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1447339606

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9781447339601

The Other

Feminist Reflections in Ethics

By: Helen Fielding,Gabrielle Hiltmann,Dorothea Olkowski,Anne Reichold

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The Other

Feminist Reflections in Ethics

By: Helen Fielding,Gabrielle Hiltmann,Dorothea Olkowski,Anne Reichold

The western philosophical tradition has only recently explored alterity, in particular the alterity of woman as the other of man. This volume reflects on the ethical implications of this, and on the need for a rethinking of the implicit structures of Western philosophy, which exclude women as subjects who conceptualize the world and society.

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Springer

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0230206433

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The Work of Whiteness

A Psychoanalytic Perspective

By: Helen Morgan

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The Work of Whiteness

A Psychoanalytic Perspective

By: Helen Morgan

‘Whiteness’ is a politically constructed category which needs to be understood and dismantled because the system of racism so embedded within our society harms us all. It has profound implications for human psychology, an understanding of which is essential for supporting the movement for change. This book explores these implications from a psychoanalytic and Jungian analytic perspective. The ‘fragility’ of whiteness, the colour-blind approach and the silencing process of disavowal as they develop in the childhood of white liberal families are considered as means of maintaining white privilege and racism. A critique of the colonial roots of psychoanalytic theories of Freud and Jung leads to questioning the de-linking of the individual from society in modern day analytic thinking. The concept of the cultural complex is suggested as a useful means of connecting the individual and the social. Examples from the author’s clinical practice as well as from public life are used to illustrate the argument. Relatively few black people join the psychoanalytic profession and those who do describe training and membership as a difficult and painful process. How racism operates in clinical work, supervision and our institutions is explored, and whilst it can seem an intractable problem, proposals are given for ways forward. This book will be of great importance to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, social workers and all those with an interest in the role of white privilege on mental health.

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Routledge

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1000389251

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9781000389258

And A Dog Called Fig

Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life

By: Helen Humphreys

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And A Dog Called Fig

Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life

By: Helen Humphreys

And A Dog called Fig is a study of how animals help writers deal with the challenges of the creative process, interspersing the authors own experience with stories of other famous writers and their dogs

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Aurum Press

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0711267146

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9780711267145

Holocaust Mosaic

By: Helen Weber

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Holocaust Mosaic

By: Helen Weber

Survivors, especially, will appreciate Weber's account of Hitler's war against the Jews; from killing Jews at the edge of the pit to Zyklon-B and the crematoria.

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iUniverse

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0595857884

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Ready for Reading

A Handbook for Parents of Preschoolers

By: Ashley Bishop,Ruth Helen Yopp,Hallie Kay Yopp

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Ready for Reading

A Handbook for Parents of Preschoolers

By: Ashley Bishop,Ruth Helen Yopp,Hallie Kay Yopp

An introduction to over 400 books and 400 poems arranged in 60 book-sharing activities. Each activity features one outstanding children's book and presents parents with strategies for guiding their children through the book in ways that promote enjoyment and learning. "Ready for Reading" is truly designed to give parents and their children success with formal reading instruction.

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Allyn & Bacon

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0205287913

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Can't Even

How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

By: Anne Helen Petersen

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Can't Even

How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

By: Anne Helen Petersen

A BEST BOOK OF THE FALL AS SEEN IN: Apartment Therapy • Book Riot • Business Insider • BuzzFeed • Daily Nebraskan • Entertainment Weekly • Esquire • Fortune • Harper’s Bazaar • HelloGiggles • LinkedIn • O Magazine • Time Magazine “[A] razor sharp book of cultural criticism . . . With blistering prose and all-too vivid reporting, Petersen lays bare the burnout and despair of millennials, while also charting a path to a world where members of her generation can feel as if the boot has been removed from their necks.”—Esquire “An analytically precise, deeply empathic book about the psychic toll modern capitalism has taken on those shaped by it. Can’t Even is essential to understanding our age, and ourselves.”—Ezra Klein, Vox co-founder and New York Times best-selling author of Why We’re Polarized An incendiary examination of burnout in millennials—the cultural shifts that got us here, the pressures that sustain it, and the need for drastic change Do you feel like your life is an endless to-do list? Do you find yourself mindlessly scrolling through Instagram because you’re too exhausted to pick up a book? Are you mired in debt, or feel like you work all the time, or feel pressure to take whatever gives you joy and turn it into a monetizable hustle? Welcome to burnout culture. While burnout may seem like the default setting for the modern era, in Can’t Even, BuzzFeed culture writer and former academic Anne Helen Petersen argues that burnout is a definitional condition for the millennial generation, born out of distrust in the institutions that have failed us, the unrealistic expectations of the modern workplace, and a sharp uptick in anxiety and hopelessness exacerbated by the constant pressure to “perform” our lives online. The genesis for the book is Petersen’s viral BuzzFeed article on the topic, which has amassed over seven million reads since its publication in January 2019. Can’t Even goes beyond the original article, as Petersen examines how millennials have arrived at this point of burnout (think: unchecked capitalism and changing labor laws) and examines the phenomenon through a variety of lenses—including how burnout affects the way we work, parent, and socialize—describing its resonance in alarming familiarity. Utilizing a combination of sociohistorical framework, original interviews, and detailed analysis, Can’t Even offers a galvanizing, intimate, and ultimately redemptive look at the lives of this much-maligned generation, and will be required reading for both millennials and the parents and employers trying to understand them.

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HarperCollins

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0358316596

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9780358316596

Wodney Wat's Wobot

By: Helen Lester

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Wodney Wat's Wobot

By: Helen Lester

When Wodney must face off against that big bully Camilla Capybara for a second time, a talking robot becomes his secret weapon. The meek wodent . . . er, rodent . . . hero with a speech impediment and a heart of gold is back! So is Camilla Capybara—the BIG bully who makes poor Wodney and his classmates tremble. But this time, Wodney has a secret weapon: a robot that helps him pronounce his r’s and seems to be just the thing to scare Camilla away for good. With the second empowering tale about Wodney, Lester and Munsinger use their signature dose of humor to remind us that the little guy can finish first, and it’s often brains—not brawn—that save the day.

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0547752105

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Textiles Technology

By: Julie Messenger,Helen Wilson

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Textiles Technology

By: Julie Messenger,Helen Wilson

Create!" is a Design and Technology course for Key Stage 3. It provides all the material needed to deliver the demands of the new Key Stage 3 strategy. The course follows the QCA scheme and the materials support ICT requirements.

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Heinemann

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0435412604

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9780435412609

Leonard and Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism

By: Helen Southworth

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Leonard and Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism

By: Helen Southworth

This multi-authored volume focuses on Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press (1917-1941). Scholars from the UK and the US use previously unpublished archival materials and new methodological frameworks to explore the relationships forged by the Woolfs

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748669213

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9780748669219

Developing a Philosophy of Nursing

By: June F. Kikuchi,Helen Simmons

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Developing a Philosophy of Nursing

By: June F. Kikuchi,Helen Simmons

What is a philosophy of nursing? What is required for its development? How is it related to contemporary conceptualizations of nursing? Answers to these and other questions are pursued by leading nursing scholars in this important new book. It will help the researcher gain a better grasp of what it will take to establish a sound philosophical basis for the development of nursing practice, education, research and administration.

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SAGE

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0803954239

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9780803954236

Success in Reading and Writing

Kindergarten

By: Barbara J. Blackford,Helen Cappleman,Betty Cramer

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Success in Reading and Writing

Kindergarten

By: Barbara J. Blackford,Helen Cappleman,Betty Cramer

Educational resource for teachers, parents and kids!

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Good Year Books

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0673360008

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9780673360007

The Road to Somewhere

A Creative Writing Companion

By: Robert Graham,Helen Newall,Heather Leach

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The Road to Somewhere

A Creative Writing Companion

By: Robert Graham,Helen Newall,Heather Leach

This revised, updated and expanded new edition of The Road to Somewhere will help you to acquire the craft and disciplines needed to develop as a writer in today's world. It is ideal for anyone - student writers, writing teachers and seasoned authors - seeking practical guidance, new ideas and creative inspiration. The Road to Somewhere: A Creative Writing Companion, second edition offers: - New chapters on writing for digital media, flash fiction, memoir, style and taking your writing out into the world - updated chapters on fiction, scripts, poetry, and experimental forms - An examination of creative processes and advice on how to read as a writer - Many practical exercises and useable course materials - Extensive references and suggestions for further reading - Information on how to get work published or produced, in real and virtual worlds - Tips on how to set up and run writing workshops and groups - A complete Agony Aunt section to help with blocks and barriers - Guidance on the more technical aspects of writing such as layout and grammar And, to lighten your writing journey a little, we've tried to make this second edition even wittier and smarter than the first. So whether you see yourself as a published professional or a dedicated dabbler, this is the book to take along for the ride.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350309257

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9781350309258

River of Fire

On Becoming an Activist

By: Helen Prejean

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River of Fire

On Becoming an Activist

By: Helen Prejean

“River of Fire is Sister Helen’s story leading up to her acclaimed book Dead Man Walking—it is thought-provoking, informative, and inspiring. Read it and it will set your heart ablaze!”—Mark Shriver, author of Pilgrimage: My Search for the Real Pope Francis The nation’s foremost leader in efforts to abolish the death penalty shares the story of her growth as a spiritual leader, speaks out about the challenges of the Catholic Church, and shows that joy and religion are not mutually exclusive. Sister Helen Prejean’s work as an activist nun, campaigning to educate Americans about the inhumanity of the death penalty, is known to millions worldwide. Less widely known is the evolution of her spiritual journey from praying for God to solve the world’s problems to engaging full-tilt in working to transform societal injustices. Sister Helen grew up in a well-off Baton Rouge family that still employed black servants. She joined the Sisters of St. Joseph at the age of eighteen and was in her forties when she had an awakening that her life’s work was to immerse herself in the struggle of poor people forced to live on the margins of society. Sister Helen writes about the relationships with friends, fellow nuns, and mentors who have shaped her over the years. In this honest and fiercely open account, she writes about her close friendship with a priest, intent on marrying her, that challenged her vocation in the “new territory of the heart.” The final page of River of Fire ends with the opening page of Dead Man Walking, when she was first invited to correspond with a man on Louisiana’s death row. River of Fire is a book for anyone interested in journeys of faith and spirituality, doubt and belief, and “catching on fire” to purpose and passion. It is a book, written in accessible, luminous prose, about how to live a spiritual life that is wide awake to the sufferings and creative opportunities of our world. “Prejean chronicles the compelling, sometimes-difficult journey to the heart of her soul and faith with wit, honesty, and intelligence. A refreshingly intimate memoir of a life in faith.”—Kirkus Reviews

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Vintage

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1984855417

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9781984855411

Fantasies of music in nostalgic medievalism

By: Helen Dell

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Fantasies of music in nostalgic medievalism

By: Helen Dell

In the period between the Second World War and the present, there has been an extraordinary rise in the production of medievalist fantasy literature and film. This has been accompanied by the revival, performance and invention of medieval music. In this enterprise modern fantasies of the Middle Ages have exercised great influence. Fantasies of music in nostalgic medievalism shows how music, medievalism and nostalgia have been woven together in the fantasies of writers and readers, musicians, musicologists, directors and listeners, film-makers and film-goers. This book studies the ways in which three fields of creative activity inspired by the medieval – musical performance, literature, cinema and their reception – have worked together to produce and sustain, for some, the fantasy of a long-lost, long-mourned paradisal home.

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Manchester University Press

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1526173948

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Researching Special and Inclusive Education

By: Kerry Vincent,Helen Benstead

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Researching Special and Inclusive Education

By: Kerry Vincent,Helen Benstead

Researching in special and inclusive education can be challenging due to the frequent difficulties in eliciting the views of individuals identified with SEND. This book will give students the confidence to be creative, flexible, and innovative when it comes to planning research, particularly with children and young people within special and inclusive education. Students will be guided through each step of the research process, from the development of a research question to ethical considerations, methodologies and data analysis, before being led through the many practical issues that need to be considered when planning, executing and writing up research in this field, including good research practices, solutions to possible dilemmas and adapting methods appropriately. Kerry Vincent is a Senior Lecturer in Inclusive Education at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Helen Benstead is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, and Programme Leader of the MA Special Educational Needs, Disability and Inclusion at the University of Sunderland.

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SAGE

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1529787092

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9781529787092

Mishap Marriage

By: Helen Dickson

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Mishap Marriage

By: Helen Dickson

A sea captain’s marriage ploy leads to unexpected adventure with a Caribbean heiress in this sexy historical romance. Caribbean Islands, 1800. When Captain Zack Fitzgerald sails into the island of Santamaria, the arrival of his ship causes a stir among the inhabitants. For Shona McKenzie, whose father rules the island—and her life—with an iron fist, the ruggedly handsome captain offers an appealing ticket to freedom. But her sister-in-law’s scheming places them in a highly compromising situation. Although Zack is mesmerized by Shona, marriage would destroy his plans to obtain guardianship over his child, so he devises a plan to make sure the forced wedding stays a sham. But weeks later Shona shows up on his London doorstep, and Zack must learn to deal with a very unexpected, very defiant wife. . . .

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Harlequin

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1460327616

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9781460327616

The First Atlantic Liner

Brunel’s Great Western Steamship

By: Helen Doe

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The First Atlantic Liner

Brunel’s Great Western Steamship

By: Helen Doe

The first ever history of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s forgotten first ship, the SS Great Western, the fastest and largest Atlantic Steamship of its day.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445667215

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9781445667218

Their Other Side

Six American Women and the Lure of Italy

By: Helen Barolini

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Their Other Side

Six American Women and the Lure of Italy

By: Helen Barolini

“Our lives are Swiss,” Emily Dickinson wrote in 1859, “So still—so cool.” But over the Alps, “Italy stands the other side.” For Dickinson, as for many other writers and artists, Italy has been the land of light, a seductive source of invention, enchantment, and freedom. So it was for Helen Barolini, who, as a student in Rome after World War II, wrote her first poetry and gave birth to her own creative life, reinvigorating her mother tongue. In this book, Barolini celebrates the lives of other women whose imaginations succumbed to the lure of Italy. Here Barolini profiles six gifted women transformed by Italy’s mythic appeal. Unlike Barolini herself, they were not daughters of the great Italian diaspora. Rather, they were drawn to an idea of “Italy” and its gifts—in whose welcome a new self could be created. Or discovered. Emily Dickinson traveled to Italy only in the imaginative genius of her verse. Margaret Fuller struggled alongside her Italian lover in the political revolutions that gave birth to the Italian Republic, while the novelist and short-story writer Constance Fennimore Woolson found her home in Venice and Florence. Here, too, is the flamboyant artist Mabel Dodge Luhan, entertaining at her villa near Florence; and Marguerite Chapin of Connecticut, who married an Italian prince and in Rome founded the premier literary review of the mid-century, Botteghe Oscure. Finally, here is Iris Cutting Origo, the Anglo-American heiress who, with her Italian nobleman husband, built a Tuscan estate, where she wrote acclaimed biographies—and created a refuge from Mussolini’s fascism. Linking these lives, Barolini shows, is the transforming catalyst of change in a new land. Their Other Side is a wise, warm, and deeply felt literary journey that brilliantly captures the enduring effects of Italy as a place, a culture, and an experience.

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Fordham Univ Press

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082322631X

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9780823226313

England in the Eighteen-Eighties

Toward a Social Basis for Freedom

By: Helen Merrell Lynd

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England in the Eighteen-Eighties

Toward a Social Basis for Freedom

By: Helen Merrell Lynd

Amid the current political disputes regarding the character of the Victorian period in England whether economic individualism or social responsibility were the major characteristics of the time this fine, scholarly study, first published in 1945, is again available to provide a benchmark by which to assess the political claims. The scholarly and political value of the work is clear; it is deeply researched, clearly written, and establishes guidelines for contemporary social action and thought. In his perceptive introduction to this edition, Pomper points to lessons the book provides for contemporary politics: the values of careful documentation and research that characterized the work and enhanced the results of Fabianism; the need for a skeptical optimism in social thought; and an understanding of the contrasting fate of socialism in Great Britain and the United States.

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Transaction Publishers

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1412822610

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Aristotle's Physics and Its Medieval Varieties

By: Helen S. Lang

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Aristotle's Physics and Its Medieval Varieties

By: Helen S. Lang

This book considers the concepts that lay at the heart of natural philosophy and physics from the time of Aristotle until the fourteenth century. The first part presents Aristotelian ideas and the second part presents the interpretation of these ideas by Philoponus, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, John Buridan, and Duns Scotus. Across the eight chapters, the problems and texts from Aristotle that set the stage for European natural philosophy as it was practiced from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries are considered first as they appear in Aristotle and then as they are reconsidered in the context of later interests. The study concludes with an anticipation of Newton and the sense in which Aristotle's physics had been transformed.

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State University of New York Press

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1438410042

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The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Zen Buddhism

By: Helen J. Baroni, Ph.D.

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The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Zen Buddhism

By: Helen J. Baroni, Ph.D.

Over 1,700 alphabetically-arranged entries cover the beliefs, practices, significant movements, organizations, and personalities associated with Zen Buddhism.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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0823922405

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SS Great Britain

Brunel's Ship, Her Voyages, Passengers and Crew

By: Helen Doe

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SS Great Britain

Brunel's Ship, Her Voyages, Passengers and Crew

By: Helen Doe

The story of Brunel's most famous ship and the people who knew her, using new archive sources

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445684527

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Shaping History

The Role of Newspapers in Hawaii

By: Helen Geracimos Chapin

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Shaping History

The Role of Newspapers in Hawaii

By: Helen Geracimos Chapin

Just a decade after the first printing press arrived in Honolulu in 1820, American Protestant missionaries produced the first newspaper in the islands. More than a thousand daily, weekly, or monthly papers in nine different languages have appeared since then. Today they are often considered a secondary source of information, but in their heyday Hawai‘i’s newspapers formed one of the most diversified, vigorous, and influential presses in the world. In this original and timely work, Helen Geracimos Chapin charts the role Hawai‘i’s newspapers played in shaping major historic events in the islands and how the rise of the newspaper abetted the rise of American influence in Hawai‘i. Shaping History is based on a wide selection of written and oral sources, including extensive interviews with journalists and others working in the newspaper industry. Students of journalism and Hawaiian history will find this comprehensive history of Hawai‘i’s newspapers especially valuable.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824817184

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Irish Women Writers Speak Out

Voices from the Field

By: Caitriona Moloney,Helen Thompson

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Irish Women Writers Speak Out

Voices from the Field

By: Caitriona Moloney,Helen Thompson

Bringing together the diverse and marvelously articulate voices of women of Irish and Irish-American descent, editors Caitriona Moloney and Helen Thompson examine the complicated maps of experience that the women's public, private, and literary lives represent—particularly as they engage in both feminism and postcolonialism. Acknowledging Mary Robinson's revised view of Irish identity—now global rather than local—this work recognizes the importance of identity as a site of mobility. The pieces reveal how complex the terms "feminism" and "postcolonialism" are; they examine how the individual writers see their identities constructed and/or mediated by sexuality. In addition, the book traces common themes of female agency, violence, generational conflicts, migration, emigration, religion, and politics to name a few. As it represents the next wave of Irish women writers, this book offers fresh insight into the work of emerging and established authors and will appeal to a new generation of readers.

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