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Iris and the Friends

A Year of Memories

By: John Bayley

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The last month or so of the life of Iris Bayley, the wife of the author, provides the framework for this biography. But within this structure the author enters into extensive memories of the past. The book could almost be called The Use of Memory - in a Proustian sense. It continually harks back to the author's own childhood and to Iris's early years to explain how they came together and how they were 'right' for each other. So in this book the author explains much more about himself and describes in much more details how he managed to cope with the ordeal of seeing his wife become terminally ill and lose her faculties. In this he quotes a considerable amount from literature, which is his own field of study.

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Bloomsbury Academic

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0715629328

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9780715629321

Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire

By: John Bayley

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Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire

By: John Bayley

A timeless work that will bring healing to anyone dealing with the loss of a loved one. John Bayley began writing Iris and Her Friends, a companion to the New York Times bestseller Elegy for Iris, late at night while his wife, the beloved novelist Iris Murdoch, succumbed to Alzheimer's Disease. As Iris was losing her memory, Bayley was flooded with vivid recollections of his own. In lyrical reverie, Bayley recreates the unforgettable scenes of his youth, from his birth to a civil servant in colonial India to his long romance with Iris and its heartbreaking end. This is the transcendent work of a brilliant man, whose examination of the tragedies and joys of his own life will give readers great healing insight. John Bayley's Iris and Her Friends is nothing less than a classic of true love and sorrow. "Love makes every beautifully formed sentence, every generously shared moment, shimmer and sing."—Donna Seaman, Los Angeles Times Book Review

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290

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393244369

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9780393244366

Iris

A Memoir of Iris Murdoch

By: John Bayley

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Iris

A Memoir of Iris Murdoch

By: John Bayley

It is wonderfully peaceful to sit in bed with Iris reassuringly asleep and gently snoring. Half asleep again myself I have a feeling of floating down the river, and watching all the rubbish from the houses and from our lives - the good as well as the bad - sinking slowly down through the dark water until it is lost in the depths. Iris is floating or swimming quietly beside me. Weeds and larger leaves sway and stretch themselves beneath the surface. Blue dragonflies dart and hover to and fro by the river bank. And suddenly a kingfisher flashes past.

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294

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0349114293

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9780349114293

Elegy for Iris

By: John Bayley

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Elegy for Iris

By: John Bayley

I was living in a fairy story--the kind with sinister overtones and not always a happy ending--in which a young man loves a beautiful maiden who returns his love but is always disappearing into some unknown and mysterious world, about which she will reveal nothing." So John Bayley describes his life with his wife, Iris Murdoch, one of the greatest contemporary writers in the English-speaking world, revered for her works of philosophy and beloved for her incandescent novels. In Elegy for Iris, Bayley attempts to uncover the real Iris, whose mysterious world took on darker shades as she descended into Alzheimer's disease. Elegy for Iris is a luminous memoir about the beauty of youth and aging, and a celebration of a brilliant life and an undying love.

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225

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Macmillan + ORM

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1466854243

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9781466854246

The Red Hat

By: John Bayley

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The Red Hat

By: John Bayley

A romp starring three British art buffs who travel to The Hague for a Vermeer exhibition and become enmeshed in a terrorist plot full of sexual escapades and mistaken identities. A comedy of errors.

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193

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Macmillan

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0312186584

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9780312186586

Widower's House: A Study in Bereavement, Or How Margot and Mella Forced Me to Flee My Home

By: John Bayley

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Widower's House: A Study in Bereavement, Or How Margot and Mella Forced Me to Flee My Home

By: John Bayley

A hilarious comedy of errors and a delightful love story by England's most improbable sex symbol. Little did retired professor John Bayley realize when he lost Iris Murdoch, his beloved wife of forty-four years, that life would never be the same again. First came thousands of sympathy notes from lovers of Murdoch's novels and fans of Bayley's own poignant memoir, Elegy for Iris. But more alarming were the hundreds of calls from seemingly well-meaning women, many of whom rang Bayley's doorbell in Oxford, bearing cakes, casserole dishes, and delivering pep talks designed to cheer up the widower of their dreams. Here, in Widower's House: A Study in Bereavement or How Margot and Mella Forced Me to Flee My Home, Bayley tells the painful, inspirational, and ultimately uplifting story of how he had to grapple with his fate as a man by beginning life anew in his mid-seventies. Like millions of other widows and widowers, Bayley, as he relates it, found himself emotionally unprepared for the responsibilities and burdens that confront people who suddenly find themselves alone. He hadn't realized how differently you are treated when you are not part of a couple, and how you must learn to respond to friends, family members, and total strangers in completely different ways. With the reassuring, compassionate voice of Iris still a mournful obbligato in the background, Bayley describes the pitfalls a widower must face as he ventures out into the newly virgin world beyond his front door. Finding comfort in recording the day-to-day calamities that marked his reentry into the real world, Bayley uses surprising humor—reflected here in the vivid depictions of his new suitors, Margot and Mella—to get him through his darkest days. Melodic, irrepressible, and comically comforting, Widower's House, with its heartwarming and surprisingly romantic ending, will reveal yet a new side of the man who has become England's most unlikely symbol of masculine virility.

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260

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393341569

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9780393341560

Psychological Assessment and Testing

A Clinician's Guide

By: John Spores

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Psychological Assessment and Testing

A Clinician's Guide

By: John Spores

Expanding upon and updating the first edition, this comprehensive guide instructs readers on how to effectively conduct psychological assessment and testing in their practice, efficiently advancing a case from the initial referral and clinical interview, through the testing process, and leading to informed diagnosis and treatment recommendations. This second edition incorporates updated editions of all major tests, pertinent revisions from the DSM-5, more in-depth analysis of testing topics, and coverage of new constructs that are the targets of psychological testing relevant to outpatient mental health practice. Readers will learn about the fundamentals of assessment, testing, and psychological measurement, the complete process of psychological testing using a broad range of major tests, supplemented by interpretive flowcharts and case examples.. Downloadable practice and report forms, along with data tables with pre-drafted interpretive excerpts for all tests are also available for immediate use in clinical practice. Psychologists in both practice and training will come away with the tools and knowledge needed to successfully conduct psychological assessment and testing within the contemporary mental health field.

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653

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Taylor & Francis

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100059064X

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9781000590647

A Treatise on the Law of Evidence

Vol. I

By: John Taylor

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A Treatise on the Law of Evidence

Vol. I

By: John Taylor

Reprint of the original.

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974

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368152858

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9783368152857

Ebook: Child Development: An Introduction

By: John Santrock

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Ebook: Child Development: An Introduction

By: John Santrock

Accurate. Reliable. Engaging. These are just a few of the words used by adopters and reviewers of John Santrock's Child Development. The new topically-organised fourteenth edition continues with Santrock's highly contemporary tone and focus, featuring over 1,000 new citations. The popular Connections theme shows students the different aspects of children's development to help them better understand the concepts. Used by hundreds of thousands of students over thirteen editions, Santrock's proven learning goals system provides a clear roadmap to course mastery.

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658

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McGraw Hill

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0077171896

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9780077171896

Southern Belly

The Ultimate Food Lover's Companion to the South

By: John T. Edge

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Southern Belly

The Ultimate Food Lover's Companion to the South

By: John T. Edge

Reveals the finest food found in restaurants in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas, the Carolinas, Texas, Virginia, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Tennessee, in a volume that also includes recipes for the best in regional cuisine.

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351

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Algonquin Books

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1565125479

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9781565125476

Infant Cognition

Predicting Later Intellectual Functioning

By: John Colombo

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Infant Cognition

Predicting Later Intellectual Functioning

By: John Colombo

The historical and procedural contexts of four measures of infant attention and learning - measures that have proved the most promising in predicting later childhood intellectual performance - are explored in this volume. Incorporating the latest research literature on individual differences in the preverbal infant, the author examines the psychometric properties for the measures, their concurrent relations with other measures of early cognition and development, and evidence of their predictive ability.

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175

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SAGE Publications

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1452254168

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9781452254166

Citizen Bachelors

Manhood and the Creation of the United States

By: John Gilbert McCurdy

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Citizen Bachelors

Manhood and the Creation of the United States

By: John Gilbert McCurdy

In 1755 Benjamin Franklin observed "a man without a wife is but half a man" and since then historians have taken Franklin at his word. In Citizen Bachelors, John Gilbert McCurdy demonstrates that Franklin's comment was only one side of a much larger conversation. Early Americans vigorously debated the status of unmarried men and this debate was instrumental in the creation of American citizenship. In a sweeping examination of the bachelor in early America, McCurdy fleshes out a largely unexamined aspect of the history of gender. Single men were instrumental to the settlement of the United States and for most of the seventeenth century their presence was not particularly problematic. However, as the colonies matured, Americans began to worry about those who stood outside the family. Lawmakers began to limit the freedoms of single men with laws requiring bachelors to pay higher taxes and face harsher penalties for crimes than married men, while moralists began to decry the sexual immorality of unmarried men. But many resisted these new tactics, including single men who reveled in their hedonistic reputations by delighting in sexual horseplay without marital consequences. At the time of the Revolution, these conflicting views were confronted head-on. As the incipient American state needed men to stand at the forefront of the fight for independence, the bachelor came to be seen as possessing just the sort of political, social, and economic agency associated with citizenship in a democratic society. When the war was won, these men demanded an end to their unequal treatment, sometimes grudgingly, and the citizen bachelor was welcomed into American society. Drawing on sources as varied as laws, diaries, political manifestos, and newspapers, McCurdy shows that in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the bachelor was a simultaneously suspicious and desirable figure: suspicious because he was not tethered to family and household obligations yet desirable because he was free to study, devote himself to political office, and fight and die in battle. He suggests that this dichotomy remains with us to this day and thus it is in early America that we find the origins of the modern-day identity of the bachelor as a symbol of masculine independence. McCurdy also observes that by extending citizenship to bachelors, the founders affirmed their commitment to individual freedom, a commitment that has subsequently come to define the very essence of American citizenship.

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283

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Cornell University Press

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0801457807

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9780801457807

John Smibert

Colonial America's First Portrait Painter

By: Richard H. Saunders,Saunders,John Smibert

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John Smibert

Colonial America's First Portrait Painter

By: Richard H. Saunders,Saunders,John Smibert

Saunder's explores Smibert's early Scottish and London training as well as his travels in Italy; his portrait practice in London; his arrival in America and his stylistic development; the creation of "The Bermuda Group"; and the business of portrait painting in Boston.

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328

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Yale University Press

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0300042582

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9780300042580

H Jones VC

The Life & Death of an Unusual Hero

By: John Wilsey

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H Jones VC

The Life & Death of an Unusual Hero

By: John Wilsey

A remarkable book - a worthy tribute both to the man John Wilsey calls "an unusual hero" and to the ethos of the British Army in which he lived and died.' John Keegan in his ForewordThis is the biography of the Falklands War hero whose death in the battle for Darwin and Goose Green was one of the turning points in the whole campaign. It is written with the consent of H Jones's widow, Sara, and is published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of his death at the climax of the Falklands War. It is the story of an emblematic but complex war hero whose family history was unusual, whose army life included exposure to most of the military problems which Britain has encountered since the Second World War (including security in Northern Ireland, where H Jones was responsible for the search for Robert Nairac), and whose dramatic death and subsequent posthumous VC symbolised an extraordinary campaign which was truly the end of an era.

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352

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Random House

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1446457370

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9781446457375

Book's by John Bayley

Iris and the Friends

Iris and the Friends

Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire

Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire

Iris

Iris

Elegy for Iris

Elegy for Iris

The Red Hat

The Red Hat

Widower's House: A Study in Bereavement, Or How Margot and Mella Forced Me to Flee My Home

Widower's House: A Study in Bereavement, Or How Margot and Mella Forced Me to Flee My Home

Psychological Assessment and Testing

Psychological Assessment and Testing

A Treatise on the Law of Evidence

A Treatise on the Law of Evidence

Ebook: Child Development: An Introduction

Ebook: Child Development: An Introduction

Southern Belly

Southern Belly

Infant Cognition

Infant Cognition

Citizen Bachelors

Citizen Bachelors

John Smibert

John Smibert

H Jones VC

H Jones VC

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