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Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers [2 volumes]

[2 volumes]

By: Helen Rappaport

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Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers [2 volumes]

[2 volumes]

By: Helen Rappaport

The first comprehensive guide to women activists from every part of the world, illuminating the broad range of women's struggles to reform society from the 18th century to the present. Despite being marginalized, disenfranchised, impoverished, and oppressed, women have always stepped forward in disproportionate numbers to lead movements for social change. This two-volume encyclopedia documents the visions, struggles, and lives of women who have changed the world. This encyclopedia celebrates the lives and achievements of nearly 300 women from around the globe—women who have bravely insisted that the way things are is not the way they have to be. Nadeshda Krupskaya, the wife of Lenin, spearheaded the drive against illiteracy in post-revolutionary Russia. American Dorothy Day founded the Catholic worker movement. Begum Rokeya Hossain organized a girls' school in Calcutta in 1911. Rachel Carson launched the modern environmental movement with her book Silent Spring. The stories of these women and the hundreds of others collected here will restore missing pages to our history and inspire a new generation of women to change the world.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1576075818

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9781576075814

Caught in the Revolution

Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - A World on the Edge

By: Helen Rappaport

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Caught in the Revolution

Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - A World on the Edge

By: Helen Rappaport

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes a gripping portrait of a St. Petersburg (then named Petrograd), at the outbreak of the Russian revolution.

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Macmillan

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1250056640

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9781250056641

Fictional Matter

Empiricism, Corpuscles, and the Novel

By: Helen Thompson

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Fictional Matter

Empiricism, Corpuscles, and the Novel

By: Helen Thompson

Fictional Matter argues that chemical definitions of particulate matter shaped eighteenth-century British science and literature. In this lucid, revisionary analysis of corpuscular science, Helen Thompson advances a new account of how the experimental production of empirical knowledge defined the emergent realist novel.

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368

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812248724

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9780812248722

The Edwardian House

The Middle-class Home in Britain, 1880-1914

By: Helen C. Long

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The Edwardian House

The Middle-class Home in Britain, 1880-1914

By: Helen C. Long

Illustrates how Edwardian houses were built, how they were used, and what they meant at the time.

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244

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Manchester University Press

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0719037298

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9780719037290

Why Women Read Fiction

The Stories of Our Lives

By: Helen Taylor

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Why Women Read Fiction

The Stories of Our Lives

By: Helen Taylor

Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary women readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Female readers are key to the future of fiction and—as parents, teachers, and librarians—the glue for a literate society. Women treasure the chance to read alone, but have also gregariously shared reading experiences and memories with mothers, daughters, grandchildren, and female friends. For so many, reading novels and short stories enables them to escape and to spread their wings intellectually and emotionally. This book, written by an experienced teacher, scholar of women's writing, and literature festival director, draws on over 500 interviews with and questionnaires from women readers and writers. It describes how, where, and when British women read fiction, and examines why stories and writers influence the way female readers understand and shape their own life stories. Taylor explores why women are the main buyers and readers of fiction, members of book clubs, attendees at literary festivals, and organisers of days out to fictional sites and writers' homes. The book analyses the special appeal and changing readership of the genres of romance, erotica, and crime. It also illuminates the reasons for British women's abiding love of two favourite novels, Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre. Taylor offers a cornucopia of witty and wise women's voices, of both readers themselves and also writers such as Hilary Mantel, Helen Dunmore, Katie Fforde, and Sarah Dunant. The book helps us understand why—in Jackie Kay's words—'our lives are mapped by books.

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299

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Oxford University Press

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0192562673

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9780192562678

The Life of a Smuggler

By: Helen Hollick

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The Life of a Smuggler

By: Helen Hollick

Perfect for maritime historians and fans of Poldark, a look at the true history behind the legends built around smugglers. “Brandy for the parson, baccy for the clerk . . .” We have an image, mostly from movies and novels, of a tall ship riding gently at anchor in a moonlit, secluded bay with the “Gentleman” cheerfully hauling kegs of brandy and tobacco ashore, then disappearing silently into the night shadows to hide their contraband from the excise men in a dark cave or a secret cellar. But how much of the popular idea is fact and how much is fiction? Smuggling was big business—it still is—but who were these derring-do rebels of the past who went against paying taxes on the importation of luxury goods? Who purchased the illicit contraband? How did smugglers operate? Where were the most notorious locations? Was it profitable, or just an inevitable path to arrest and the hangman’s noose? Author Helen Hollick attempts to answer these queries and more.

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Pen and Sword

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1526727145

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9781526727145

The Unassuming Sky

The Life and Poetry of Timothy Corsellis

By: Helen Goethals

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The Unassuming Sky

The Life and Poetry of Timothy Corsellis

By: Helen Goethals

As featured on the Antiques Roadshow, the work of Timothy Corsellis is made available here, for the first time, in a collected edition. One hundred poems have been chosen and arranged in such a way as to bring out the unique literary and historical interest of the short life and long work of this unusual war poet. They have been grouped in roughly chronological order in six chapters, each accompanied by a thematic introduction which places them in the social and intellectual contexts from which they sprung: the Munich crisis and the search for other ideas of a Christian society, the fall of France and the possibility of a Federal Union, days in the East End and nights in Chelsea during and after the Blitz, life and death in the air. The poems do not only tell a personal tale; they also tell a political one. Interwoven with the biography of a gifted poet whose life and work were cut tragically short by his wartime death, are two even more striking stories. The first is the historical account of an RAF-trained pilot who, in January 1941, at the height of the Blitz, refused to become a bomber-pilot because it would mean the bombing of civilians. The second is the literary story of the connections between Timothy Corsellis and Stephen Spender, their actual encounter in September 1941 and its enduring consequences.

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235

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443845175

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Research and Evaluation for Busy Students and Practitioners

A Survival Guide

By: Helen Kara

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Research and Evaluation for Busy Students and Practitioners

A Survival Guide

By: Helen Kara

Research co-exists with many other tasks and commitments, yet there is more need for people to save time than ever before. Brilliantly attuned to the demands placed on researchers, this 'tutor in a book' considers how students, academics and professionals can save time and stress without compromising the quality or outcomes of their research.

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Policy Press

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1447366271

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The Race to Save the Romanovs

The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family

By: Helen Rappaport

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The Race to Save the Romanovs

The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family

By: Helen Rappaport

In this international bestseller investigating the murder of the Russian Imperial Family, Helen Rappaport embarks on a quest to uncover the various plots and plans to save them, why they failed, and who was responsible. The murder of the Romanov family in July 1918 horrified the world, and its aftershocks still reverberate today. In Putin's autocratic Russia, the Revolution itself is considered a crime, and its anniversary was largely ignored. In stark contrast, the centenary of the massacre of the Imperial Family was commemorated in 2018 by a huge ceremony attended by the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. While the murders themselves have received major attention, what has never been investigated in detail are the various plots and plans behind the scenes to save the family—on the part of their royal relatives, other governments, and Russian monarchists loyal to the Tsar. Rappaport refutes the claim that the fault lies entirely with King George V, as has been the traditional view for the last century. The responsibility for failing the Romanovs must be equally shared. The question of asylum for the Tsar and his family was an extremely complicated issue that presented enormous political, logistical and geographical challenges at a time when Europe was still at war. Like a modern day detective, Helen Rappaport draws on new and never-before-seen sources from archives in the US, Russia, Spain and the UK, creating a powerful account of near misses and close calls with a heartbreaking conclusion. With its up-to-the-minute research, The Race to Save the Romanovs is sure to replace outdated classics as the final word on the fate of the Romanovs.

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401

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St. Martin's Press

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125015121X

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9781250151216

Mr Brown's War

A Diary from the Home Front

By: Helen D Millgate

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Mr Brown's War

A Diary from the Home Front

By: Helen D Millgate

Richard Brown kept a personal diary throughout the whole of the Second World War. He used it to record the course of the conflict as he perceived it, gleaned from the newspapers, the wireless and hearsay. As well as describing the development of the war, Brown captured a vivid image of life in wartime Britain, with rationing, blackout restrictions, interrupted sleep, the prospect of evacuation and the enormous burden placed on civilians coping with a full-time job as well as war work. Richard Brown was a well-informed man who made his own judgements. His attitude to the war is fascinating, as he never doubts ultimate victory, despite being impatient and critical of the conduct of the war. His observations range from the pithy to the humorous and scathing. Above all, his diaries reflect the moral and social attitudes of the period, and the desire to be fully involved in the war effort. They also totally refute the argument that the British public were kept in the dark.

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The History Press

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0752472321

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9780752472324

Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle

Vol. 2

By: Helen Taylor

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Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle

Vol. 2

By: Helen Taylor

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368167952

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9783368167950

Projecting Imperial Power

New Nineteenth Century Emperors and the Public Sphere

By: Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly

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Projecting Imperial Power

New Nineteenth Century Emperors and the Public Sphere

By: Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly

The nineteenth century is notable for its newly proclaimed emperors, from Franz I of Austria and Napoleon I in 1804, through Agustín of Mexico, Pedro I of Brazil, Napoleon III of France, Maximilian of Mexico, and Wilhelm I of Germany, to Victoria, empress of India, in 1876. These monarchs projected an imperial aura through coronations, courts, medals, costumes, portraits, monuments, international exhibitions, festivals, religion, architecture, and town planning. They relied on ancient history for legitimacy while partially espousing modernity. Projecting Imperial Power is the first book to consider together these newly proclaimed emperors in six territories on three continents across the whole of the long nineteenth century. The first emperors' successors—Pedro II of Brazil, Franz Joseph of Austria, and Wilhelm II of Germany—expanded their panoply of power, until Pedro was forced to abdicate in 1889 and the First World War brought the Austrian and German empires to an end. Britain invented an imperial myth for its Indian empire in the twentieth century, but George VI still had to relinquish the title of emperor in 1947. Using a wide range of sources, Projecting Imperial Power explains the imperial ambition behind the cities of Berlin, Paris, Vienna, and New Delhi. It discusses the contested place of the emperors and their empires in national cultural memory by examining how the statues that were erected in huge numbers in the second part of the period are treated today.

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Oxford University Press

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0192523376

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9780192523372

Heritage Weekends

52 breaks exploring Britain's past

By: Neil and Helen Matthews

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Heritage Weekends

52 breaks exploring Britain's past

By: Neil and Helen Matthews

History and heritage are among Britain’s greatest passions. Travel writers and historians Helen and Neil Matthews have selected 52 places that are wonderful examples of natural, architectural, industrial or cultural heritage. Some are neglected or under-rated and deserve more attention. Others are famous locations waiting to be enjoyed from new perspectives. Heritage Weekends is here to help you explore and indulge your passion for Britain’s past: from the Prehistoric era, through ancient, medieval, Tudor, Regency and Victorian times to the 20th century. With their inspirational guide you’ll meet some of our greatest creative geniuses, monarchs and heroes, eccentrics and legends, giants and saints. And you’ll find everything from the world’s most famous map to a vision of Hell! As well as detailed descriptions of the sites, Heritage Weekends includes suggested itineraries, directions and top tips for accommodation and eating out. England, Wales, Scotland, Jersey and the Isle of Man are all covered, with weekends divided into in-depth and shorter entries. All weekends include detailed information on how to get there, as well as suggestions for further places to visit if you have time to spare. From St Albans’ Roman remains at Verulamium to Avebury’s stone circle, Windsor Castle to York’s Jorvik Centre, Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon to the Neolithic sights of Orkney, there’s more than enough to entice, stimulate and entertain. Chester’s impressive city walls are also included, as is Portmeirion, the war tunnels and underground hospital on Jersey, and Margate’s mysterious Shell Grotto. Literary buffs can explore Jane Austen’s Bath or visit the home of Sir Walter Scott at romantic Abbotsford House in the Scottish Borders. Ideal for all the family, whatever your interest, Bradt’s Heritage Weekends lets you create your own magical tour of Britain.

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Bradt Travel Guides

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1804690791

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9781804690796

After the Glory

By: Helen Topping Miller

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After the Glory

By: Helen Topping Miller

A Tennessee family following the American Civil War experiences many setbacks but in the end resolve's to overcome their difficulties.

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272

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Wildside Press LLC

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1667624202

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9781667624204

Pocahontas's People

The Powhatan Indians of Virginia Through Four Centuries

By: Helen C. Rountree

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Pocahontas's People

The Powhatan Indians of Virginia Through Four Centuries

By: Helen C. Rountree

In this history, Helen C. Roundtree traces events that shaped the lives of the Powhatan Indians of Virginia, from their first encounter with English colonists, in 1607, to their present-day way of life and relationship to the state of Virginia and the federal government. Roundtree’s examination of those four hundred years misses not a beat in the pulse of Powhatan life. Combining meticulous scholarship and sensitivity, the author explores the diversity always found among Powhatan people, and those people’s relationships with the English, the government of the fledgling United States, the Union and the Confederacy, the U.S. Census Bureau, white supremacists, the U.S. Selective Service, and the civil rights movement.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806128496

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9780806128498

The Mistress Contract

A Billionaire Boss Romance

By: Helen Brooks

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The Mistress Contract

A Billionaire Boss Romance

By: Helen Brooks

Conrad Quentin was equally famed for his ruthless business deals and devastating good looks. Sephy encountered the full force of these charms from day one of her new job as Conrad’s secretary! Sephy didn’t want an office affair, but Conrad proposed a deal: if she agreed to date him, he’d be the perfect gentleman—until her temporary contract with him ended. Then he planned to make her his mistress, or more....

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Harlequin

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1459204573

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9781459204577

Perfect Silence (A DI Callanach Thriller, Book 4)

By: Helen Fields

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Perfect Silence (A DI Callanach Thriller, Book 4)

By: Helen Fields

Don’t miss the new, devastatingly good thriller from Helen Fields, One for Sorrow. Coming February 2022 and available to pre-order now! ‘Relentless pace, devilish cleverness and a laser-sharp focus on plot.’ Chris Brookmyre

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HarperCollins UK

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0008275181

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9780008275181

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