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Moral Boundaries

A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care

By: Joan Tronto

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Moral Boundaries

A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care

By: Joan Tronto

In Moral Boundaries Joan C. Tronto provides one of the most original responses to the controversial questions surrounding women and caring. Tronto demonstrates that feminist thinkers have failed to realise the political context which has shaped their debates about care. It is her belief that care cannot be a useful moral and political concept until its traditional and ideological associations as a "women's morality" are challenged. Moral Boundaries contests the association of care with women as empirically and historically inaccurate, as well as politically unwise. In our society, members of unprivileged groups such as the working classes and people of color also do disproportionate amounts of caring. Tronto presents care as one of the central activites of human life and illustrates the ways in which society degrades the importance of caring in order to maintain the power of those who are privileged.

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Routledge

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1000159086

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Pragmatism and American Experience

An Introduction

By: Joan Richardson

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Pragmatism and American Experience

An Introduction

By: Joan Richardson

Pragmatism and American Experience provides a lucid and elegant introduction to America's defining philosophy. Joan Richardson charts the nineteenth-century origins of pragmatist thought and its development through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on the major first- and second-generation figures and how their contributions continue to influence philosophical discourse today. At the same time, Richardson casts pragmatism as the method it was designed to be: a way of making ideas clear, examining beliefs, and breaking old habits and reinforcing new and useful ones in the interest of maintaining healthy communities through ongoing conversation. Through this practice we come to perceive, as William James did, that thinking is as natural as breathing, and that the essential work of pragmatism is to open channels essential to all experience.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521765331

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Science of the People

Understanding and using science in everyday contexts

By: Joan Solomon

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Science of the People

Understanding and using science in everyday contexts

By: Joan Solomon

How do people understand science? How do they feel about science, how do they relate to it, what do they hope from it and what do they fear about it? Science of the People: Understanding and using science in everyday contexts helps answer these questions as the result of painstaking interviewing by Professor Joan Solomon of all and sundry in a fairly typical small town. The result is a unique overview of how a very wide range of adults, united only by local geography, relate to science. Many of the findings run contrary to what is widely believed about how science is learnt and about how people view it. Chapters include: An Approach to Awareness Publics for Science? Ethics and Action Interpretation and Change Joan Solomon, who sadly died before this book could be published, enjoyed an international reputation in science education. After a long career teaching science in secondary schools she moved into the university sector and ending up holding chairs of science education at the Open University, King’s College London and the University of Plymouth. She was a world leader in her subject and inspired classroom teachers and wrote a number of very influential papers with some of them. She produced many important books, booklets and other resources to help science teachers and science educators get to grips with the history and philosophy of science and the teaching of energy, amongst other topics. This book is essential reading for those involved in Science education and educational policy.

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1136158812

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Oh Miranda!

By: Joan Smith

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Oh Miranda!

By: Joan Smith

Miranda has been widowed for two years when she accompanies her neighbors to London. Her intent is not to find a husband—nor is it to find a less virtuous arrangement! Lord Bolton’s reputation precedes him and though he is rich and charming, the daughter of a clergyman knows enough to beware of such insidious wiles. Regency Romance by Joan Smith; originally published by Belgrave House/Regency Reads

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Belgrave House

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0966064348

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A History of Food in Literature

From the Fourteenth Century to the Present

By: Charlotte Boyce,Joan Fitzpatrick

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A History of Food in Literature

From the Fourteenth Century to the Present

By: Charlotte Boyce,Joan Fitzpatrick

When novels, plays and poems refer to food, they are often doing much more than we might think. Recent critical thinking suggests that depictions of food in literary works can help to explain the complex relationship between the body, subjectivity and social structures. A History of Food in Literature provides a clear and comprehensive overview of significant episodes of food and its consumption in major canonical literary works from the medieval period to the twenty-first century. This volume contextualises these works with reference to pertinent historical and cultural materials such as cookery books, diaries and guides to good health, in order to engage with the critical debate on food and literature and how ideas of food have developed over the centuries. Organised chronologically and examining certain key writers from every period, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens, this book's enlightening critical analysis makes it relevant for anyone interested in the study of food and literature.

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Routledge

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1135022062

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Lives in Education

A Narrative of People and Ideas

By: Joan K. Smith

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Lives in Education

A Narrative of People and Ideas

By: Joan K. Smith

This volume presents the history of Western education through the biographies of some 70 individuals, past and present, who exemplify the education of their times or have made important contributions to the development of educational theory or practice. In so doing, it links major issues and ideas in education to key historical personalities. Each chapter includes substantive background information, a summary, and chapter notes.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000948641

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9781000948646

Checklist of Toronto cabinet and chair makers, 1800-1865

By: Joan MacKinnon

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Checklist of Toronto cabinet and chair makers, 1800-1865

By: Joan MacKinnon

This checklist of Toronto cabinet and chairmakers is published as an aid to and encouragement of further studies in the field of material history. It illustrates the variety and wealth of archival sources available for research, as well as the shortcomings of such material.

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University of Ottawa Press

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1772823872

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Dangerous Dalliance

By: Joan Smith

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Dangerous Dalliance

By: Joan Smith

Heather Hume discovered that her recently dead father had been murdered. Her investigation led to Brighton where she learned that her father had been a spy for England. The most likely one to have betrayed him was his assistant Snoad, who dressed as a servant and spoke like a gentleman. Heather was determined to battle her attraction to this intriguing young man—if he was a traitor. Regency Romance by Joan Smith; originally published by Fawcett Crest

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Belgrave House

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1610840852

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A Life with Poetry

The development of poetic literacy

By: Joan Peskin,David I. Hanauer

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A Life with Poetry

The development of poetic literacy

By: Joan Peskin,David I. Hanauer

This volume examines the development of poetic literacy including the specific processes used by expert poetry readers and professional poets. In doing so it provides a much needed synthesis of research findings across diverse domains such as human development, the scientific study of literature, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, psycholinguistics and education. An important feature of the book is its exploration of the new and relatively unexplored area of research on the development of poetic writing. Both theoretical and practical, the volume will be of interest to researchers as well as educators. The detailed explication of expert knowledge and the trajectory through which relative novices become relative experts should allow educators to make evidence-based decisions. Valuable guidelines for developmentally-appropriate practice in pedagogical settings are provided to better optimize learning and inspire students from preschool to graduate school and beyond.

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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902725446X

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Faustian Bargains

Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace in the Robber Baron Culture of Texas

By: Joan Mellen

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Faustian Bargains

Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace in the Robber Baron Culture of Texas

By: Joan Mellen

Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace crossed paths only briefly; but Wallace’s life, especially one violent episode and its intricate aftermath, illuminates the dark side of our 36th president. Perhaps no president has a more ambiguous reputation than LBJ. A brilliant tactician, he maneuvered colleagues and turned bills into law better than anyone. But he was trailed by a legacy of underhanded dealings, from his “stolen” Senate election in 1948 to kickbacks he artfully concealed from deals engineered with Texas wheeler-dealer Billie Sol Estes and defense contractors like his longtime supporter Brown & Root. On the verge of investigation, Johnson was reprieved when he became president upon JFK’s assassination. Among the remaining mysteries has been LBJ’s relationship to Mac Wallace who, in 1951, shot a Texas man having an affair with LBJ’s loose-cannon sister Josefa, also Wallace’s lover. When arrested, Wallace cooly said "I work for Johnson . . . I need to get back to Washington." Charged with murder, he was overnight defended by LBJ’s powerful lawyer John Cofer, and though convicted, amazingly received a suspended sentence. He then got high-security clearance from LBJ friend and defense contractor D.H. Byrd, which the Office of Naval Intelligence tried to revoke for 11 years without success. Using crucial Life magazine and Naval Intelligence files and the unredacted FBI files on Mac Wallace, never before utilized by others, investigative writer Joan Mellen skillfully connects these two disparate Texas lives and lends stark credence to the dark side of Lyndon Johnson that has largely gone unsubstantiated.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1620408066

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War Stuff

The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War

By: Joan E. Cashin

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War Stuff

The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War

By: Joan E. Cashin

Focuses on the intense struggle over human and material resources between armies and civilians in the Civil War South.

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1108420168

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Contemporary Thought

By: Joan A. Price

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Contemporary Thought

By: Joan A. Price

Examines the central ideas considered by such modern philosphers as Heidegger, Sartre, Nietzsche, James, and Camus.

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Infobase Publishing

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0791087921

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From Foundations to Philosophy of Mathematics

An Historical Account of their Development in the XX Century and Beyond

By: Joan Roselló

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From Foundations to Philosophy of Mathematics

An Historical Account of their Development in the XX Century and Beyond

By: Joan Roselló

From Foundations to Philosophy of Mathematics provides an historical introduction to the most exciting period in the foundations of mathematics, starting with the discovery of the paradoxes of logic and set theory at the beginning of the twentieth century and continuing with the great foundational debate that took place in the 1920s. As a result of the efforts of several mathematicians and philosophers during this period to ground mathematics and to clarify its nature from a certain philosophical standpoint, the four main schools in the philosophy of mathematics that have largely dominated the twentieth century arose, namely, logicism, intuitionism, formalism and predicativism. It was due precisely to the insufficiencies of the first three foundational programs and the objections raised against them, that interest in Platonism was renewed in the 1940s, mainly by Gödel. Not only does this book pay special attention to the foundational programs of these philosophies of mathematics, but also to some technical accomplishments that were developed in close connection with them and have largely shaped our understanding of the nature of mathematics, such as Russell’s type theory, Zermelo’s set theory and Gödel’s incompleteness theorems. Finally, it also examines some current research programs that have been pursued in the last decades and have tried, at least to some extent, to show the feasibility of the foundational programs developed in the schools mentioned above. This is the case of neologicism, constructivism, and predicativist and finitist reductionism, this last one developed closely with the research program of reverse mathematics.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443834793

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9781443834797

Getting To Know About Energy In School And Society

By: Joan Solomon

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Getting To Know About Energy In School And Society

By: Joan Solomon

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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1135723400

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Launceston From Old Photographs

By: Joan Rendell

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Launceston From Old Photographs

By: Joan Rendell

A unique and charming look at the history of Launceston and its inhabitants, through a fascinating collection of beautiful photographs.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445629151

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Unearthing Justice

How to Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry

By: Joan Kuyek

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Unearthing Justice

How to Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry

By: Joan Kuyek

The mining industry continues to be at the forefront of colonial dispossession around the world. It controls information about its intrinsic costs and benefits, propagates myths about its contribution to the economy, shapes government policy and regulation, and deals ruthlessly with its opponents. Brimming with case studies, anecdotes, resources, and illustrations, Unearthing Justice exposes the mining process and its externalized impacts on the environment, Indigenous Peoples, communities, workers, and governments. But, most importantly, the book shows how people are fighting back. Whether it is to stop a mine before it starts, to get an abandoned mine cleaned up, to change Laws and policy, or to mount a campaign to influence investors, Unearthing Justice is an essential handbook for anyone trying to protect the places and people they love.

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Between the Lines

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1771134526

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9781771134521

The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art

By: Joan M. Marter

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The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art

By: Joan M. Marter

Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195335791

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9780195335798

Rainelle

By: Joan C. Browning, Andrea J. Pendleton, and Autumn G. Shelton

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Rainelle

By: Joan C. Browning, Andrea J. Pendleton, and Autumn G. Shelton

Most of the lumber camps that harvested 8.5 million acres of West Virginia's virgin forest had faded into history when John Raine built Rainelle in the Meadow River basin in 1909. By recruiting workers of high morale and character, many of them highly skilled, Rainelle became noted as "the best hardwood sawmill town in the country" and "a town built to carry on." Through vintage photographs, Rainelle shares stories of the four generations who built and operated a prosperous Meadow River Lumber Company for 60 years, using the entire tree "from bark to bird's nest," and their descendants who continue building the town decades after the mill's closing. Rainelle captures founders and lumber workers, preachers and physicians, war heroes and athletes, businesses and churches, schools and recreation, as well as that spice of West Virginia life, politics and government.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467122009

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Home Front Girl

A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America

By: Joan Wehlen Morrison

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Home Front Girl

A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America

By: Joan Wehlen Morrison

Wednesday, December 10, 1941"Hitler speaks to Reichstag tomorrow. We just heard the first casualty lists over the radio. ... Lots of boys from Michigan and Illinois. Oh my God! ... Life goes on though. We read our books in the library and eat lunch, bridge, etc. Phy. Sci. and Calculus. Darn Descartes. Reading Walt Whitman now." This diary of a smart, astute, and funny teenager provides a fascinating record of what an everyday American girl felt and thought during the Depression and the lead-up to World War II. Young Chicagoan Joan Wehlen describes her daily life growing up in the city and

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Chicago Review Press

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1613744609

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The Polka Dot Nude

By: Joan Smith

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The Polka Dot Nude

By: Joan Smith

Audrey Dane rents a quiet cottage to write her biography of the Hollywood star, Rosalie Hart. But the portrait and diaries given her by the actress are stolen—along with Audrey’s typewriter and manuscript. Audrey is suspicious of the handsome college professor who has taken the cottage next door—and whose income appears to far exceed that of his profession. Contemporary Romantic Suspense by Joan Smith; originally published by Jove

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Belgrave House

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1610843436

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To Mourn a Murder

By: Joan Smith

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To Mourn a Murder

By: Joan Smith

Regency ladies are being blackmailed for their most intimate secrets—and for just the amount of money they can be expected to raise quickly. The Berkeley Brigade—Lord Luten, his fiancé, Corinne deCoventry, Sir Reginald Prance and Coffen Pattle, assisted by Lord Byron—are time-after-time outwitted by this mysterious villain. But when a milliner in Brighton is murdered, the pieces start to fall into place… Sixth of the Berkeley Brigade mysteries. Regency Mystery/Romance by Joan Smith; originally published by Belgrave House/Regency Reads

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Belgrave House

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1610846931

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Luchino Visconti

Filmmaker and Philosopher

By: Joan Ramon Resina

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Luchino Visconti

Filmmaker and Philosopher

By: Joan Ramon Resina

Luchino Visconti (1906-1976) was one of Europe's most prestigious filmmakers, who rose to prominence as part of the Italian neo-realist movement, alongside contemporaries Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini. Famous for his elegant lifestyle, as friend of Jean Renoir and Coco Chanel amongst others, his vibrant technicolour dramas are also known for their decadence and stunning display of aesthetic mastery and sensory pleasure. Looking beyond this colourful façade, however, Resina explores the philosophical implications of decadence with a particular focus on three films from the late phase in Visconti's production, Damned (1969), Death in Venice (1971), and Ludwig (1972). From the incestuous relationship between decadence and power to decadence as an outcome of straining toward formal perfection, Resina uncovers the unity and philosophical cohesiveness of these films that deal with different subjects and historical periods. Reading these films and their decadence in light of the time of filming and Visconti's own sense of cultural doom, Resina further demonstrates the relevance of Visconti's philosophy today and how much they still have to say to our contemporary situation.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350185795

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9781350185791

The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion

By: Joan Symington,Neville Symington

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The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion

By: Joan Symington,Neville Symington

Winner of the 2013 Sigourney Award! Psychoanalysis seen through Bion's eyes is a radical departure from all conceptualizations which preceded him. In this major contribution to the series Makers of Modern Psychotherapy, Joan and Neville Symington concentrate on understanding Bion's concepts in relation to clinical practice, but their book is also accessible to the educated reader who wishes to understand the main contours of Bion's thinking. Rather than following the chronological development of Bion's ideas, each chapter looks in depth at an important theme in his thinking and describes how this contributes to his revolutionary model of the mind.

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Routledge

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1134870906

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9781134870905

The Remarkable Mrs. Ripley

The Life of Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley

By: Joan W. Goodwin

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The Remarkable Mrs. Ripley

The Life of Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley

By: Joan W. Goodwin

A biography as distinctive as the celebrated woman scholar it depicts.

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UPNE

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155553368X

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9781555533687

The Glass Industry in South Boston

By: Joan E. Kaiser

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The Glass Industry in South Boston

By: Joan E. Kaiser

A history of and collectors' guide to nineteenth-century glass manufacturing in South Boston

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1584658045

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Can You Say a Few Words?

How to Prepare and Deliver Award Presentations, Dedications, Eulogies and Prayers, Introductions, Retirements and Farewells, Acceptance Speeches, Wedding, Birthday, Anniversary Toasts, and More.

By: Joan Detz

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Can You Say a Few Words?

How to Prepare and Deliver Award Presentations, Dedications, Eulogies and Prayers, Introductions, Retirements and Farewells, Acceptance Speeches, Wedding, Birthday, Anniversary Toasts, and More.

By: Joan Detz

Tells how to prepare and give brief speeches for awards presentations, dedications, retirements, and weddings, explains how to overcome nervousness, and includes advice on style and delivery.

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Macmillan

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0312058306

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9780312058302

Hate Begins at Home

Three suspicious deaths . . . A gripping, claustrophobic gothic thriller

By: Joan Aiken

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Hate Begins at Home

Three suspicious deaths . . . A gripping, claustrophobic gothic thriller

By: Joan Aiken

Waiting for her, he was on edge with expectation. He had never planned a murder before ... Only sheer necessity was making him do it now ...' Coincidence couldn't explain the three accidental deaths. It had to be something more - something sinister? One old lady had fallen and broken her neck; the others had died in hit-and-run accidents. And now beautiful young Caroline Conroy, who has returned to her poisonous family after a mysterious tragedy abroad, must face the enemy: a smiling stranger who is calmly and ruthlessly planning her destruction. 'Terrifyingly enclosed spine-chiller' Sunday Telegraph

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Murder Room

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147191674X

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