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The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction

By: John Sutherland

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The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction

By: John Sutherland

With over 900 biographical entries, more than 600 novels synopsized, and a wealth of background material on the publishers, reviewers and readers of the age the Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction is the fullest account of the period's fiction ever published. Now in a second edition, the book has been revised and a generous selection of images have been chosen to illustrate various aspects of Victorian publishing, writing, and reading life. Organised alphabetically, the information provided will be a boon to students, researchers and all lovers of reading. The entries, though concise, meet the high standards demanded by modern scholarship. The writing - marked by Sutherland's characteristic combination of flair, clarity and erudition - is of such a high standard that the book is a joy to read, as well as a definitive work of reference.

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Routledge

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131786333X

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Diana Inquest: The French Cover-Up

By: John Morgan

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Diana Inquest: The French Cover-Up

By: John Morgan

Diana Inquest: The French Cover-Up is the gripping story of how a culture of corruption and cover-up was endemic throughout the investigation into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed. It tracks the French investigation right from the initial minutes after the crash inside the Alma Tunnel through to the conclusion by Judge Stéphan in September 1999. The culture of cover-up that surrounded the early investigations into the crash is revealed in striking detail - for example, the thorough cleansing of the crash scene within several hours of the crash. Using witness and documentary evidence - including what was heard during the 2008 inquest - this volume reveals that Henri Paul, the driver of the Mercedes, was not drunk. This book reveals the major difficulties faced by the inquest jury - substantial portions of the most critical evidence were withheld from them. This eventually resulted in a seriously flawed verdict in one of the most important jury inquests of our modern era.

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Lulu.com

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147170887X

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The Professionalization of Economics

Alfred Marshall and the Dominance of Orthodoxy

By: John Maloney

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The Professionalization of Economics

Alfred Marshall and the Dominance of Orthodoxy

By: John Maloney

This book sheds light on how and why, early in the twentieth century, one set of economic ideas came to exert a preeminence, which has persisted to this day.

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1000680002

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Scotland's Foreshore

Public Rights, Private Rights and the Crown 1840 - 2017

By: John MacAskill

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Scotland's Foreshore

Public Rights, Private Rights and the Crown 1840 - 2017

By: John MacAskill

Explores how internet use empowers Arab citizens

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474436935

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History of the Pancreas: Mysteries of a Hidden Organ

By: John M. Howard,Walter Hess

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History of the Pancreas: Mysteries of a Hidden Organ

By: John M. Howard,Walter Hess

Never before has a comprehensive history of the pancreas like History of the Pancreas been published. It not only is a historical review of the science of medicine, it is liberally interspersed with anecdotal vignettes of the researchers who have worked on this organ. Much of it, such as the discovery of the duct of Wirsüng, of the islets of Langerhans, of insulin, gastrin and their tumors, reads like the adverture, which it is. This book, divided into 14 chapters, is written in a narrative style and is easily readable, as glimpses of the investigators, those who failed as well as those who succeeded, adds both perspective and human interest. Each chapter is completely referenced, totaling over 1500 references. As a reference book for students, teachers, investigators, writers, its detailed hjistorical documentation is unique. From the pre-Christian era of Asia Minor, to Greece, Rome, Europe and America, to the explosive progress in Japan, the history is there. History of the Pancreas: Mysteries of a Hidden Organ fills a gap.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461505550

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Canna

The Story of a Hebridean Island

By: John Lorne Campbell

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Canna

The Story of a Hebridean Island

By: John Lorne Campbell

This is the definitive history of Canna, one of the most beautiful of all the Scottish islands. Fertile and with a sheltered harbour, Canna has played an important part in the story of the Hebrides. After the Reformation the island was of considerable importance to the Irish Franciscan mission of the 1620s and also the Jacobite risings before it was swept up in the tragedies of depopulation and clearances of the nineteenth century. Gifted to the National Trust in 1981, the island is currently undergoing something of a revival, with the creation of the St Edward Centre on Sanday, and the proposed developments of Canna House. Recent archaeological surveys and historical research has uncovered much new evidence about the island. Hugh Cheape of the Royal Museum of Scotland, who has been intimately involved in the Canna project, has fully edited the book. New contributions both update and fill out the account of the island.

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Birlinn Ltd

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Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing

An Historical and Ethnographic Perspective

By: John G. Gibson

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Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing

An Historical and Ethnographic Perspective

By: John G. Gibson

The step-dancing of the Scotch Gaels in Nova Scotia is the last living example of a form of dance that waned following the great emigrations to Canada that ended in 1845. The Scotch Gael has been reported as loving dance, but step-dancing in Scotland had all but disappeared by 1945. One must look to Gaelic Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and Antigonish County, to find this tradition. Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing, the first study of its kind, gives this art form and the people and culture associated with it the prominence they have long deserved. Gaelic Scotland’s cultural record is by and large pre-literate, and references to dance have had to be sought in Gaelic songs, many of which were transcribed on paper by those who knew their culture might be lost with the decline of their language. The improved Scottish culture depended proudly on the teaching of dancing and the literate learning and transmission of music in accompaniment. Relying on fieldwork in Nova Scotia, and on mentions of dance in Gaelic song and verse in Scotland and Nova Scotia, John Gibson traces the historical roots of step-dancing, particularly the older forms of dancing originating in the Gaelic–speaking Scottish Highlands. He also places the current tradition as a development and part of the much larger British and European percussive dance tradition. With insight collected through written sources, tales, songs, manuscripts, book references, interviews, and conversations, Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing brings an important aspect of Gaelic history to the forefront of cultural debate.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773550615

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9780773550612

Honoured in Places

Remembered Mounties Across Canada

By: William Joseph Hulgaard,John Wesley White

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Honoured in Places

Remembered Mounties Across Canada

By: William Joseph Hulgaard,John Wesley White

Ever since the Canadian prairies were first settled and the Mounties marched west to establish and maintain law and order, the names of individual officers have left their mark on the national landscape. Their long tradition has been honoured in many of the place names of Canada, especially in the West. In this collection, over 250 of the NWMP, RNWMP and RCMP members who died while on duty, or who enjoyed long or extraordinary careers, are remembered. Other place names are connected to a Mountie-related event or were named by a pioneering Mountie in honour of some significant occurrence. Authors William "Bill" Hulgaard and John "Jack" White, both retired Mounties, extended their research across Canada to compile the information for Honoured in Places.

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Heritage House Publishing Co

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1894384393

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Churchill's Generals

By: John Keegan

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Churchill's Generals

By: John Keegan

John Keegan has assembled a cast of seventeen generals whose reputations were made (and some of them broken) by Churchill and the Second World War. Churchill's reputation as prime minister during the Second World War fluctuated according to the successes and failures of his generals. Most of them were household names, and often heroes, during the war years. All of them were prey to the intolerance, interference, irascibility - and the inspiration - of the man who wanted to be both the general in the field and the presiding strategic genius. He sacked his warlords ruthlessly, yet in the end he came to be served by perhaps the greatest generals this country has ever produced. Includes chapters on Wavell, Ironside, Ritchie, Auchinleck, Montgomery, Alexander, Percival, Wingate, Slim and Carton de Wiart. Note: The Publisher regrets that the biographical note for Gary Sheffield is incorrect in the book. Please refer to the Orion website (www.orionbooks.co.uk) for the correct version.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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1780224982

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9781780224985

Old and New World Highland Bagpiping

By: John Graham Gibson

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Old and New World Highland Bagpiping

By: John Graham Gibson

Old and New World Highland Bagpiping provides a comprehensive biographical and genealogical account of pipers and piping in highland Scotland and Gaelic Cape Breton.The work is the result of over thirty years of oral fieldwork among the last Gaels in Cape Breton, for whom piping fitted unself-consciously into community life, as well as an exhaustive synthesis of Scottish archival and secondary sources. Reflecting the invaluable memories of now-deceased new world Gaelic lore-bearers, John Gibson shows that traditional community piping in both the old and new world Gàihealtachlan was, and for a long time remained, the same, exposing the distortions introduced by the tendency to interpret the written record from the perspective of modern, post-eighteenth-century bagpiping. Following up the argument in his previous book, Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945, Gibson traces the shift from tradition to modernism in the old world through detailed genealogies, focusing on how the social function of the Scottish piper changed and step-dance piping progressively disappeared. Old and New World Highland Bagpiping will stir controversy and debate in the piping world while providing reminders of the value of oral history and the importance of describing cultural phenomena with great care and detail.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773522913

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Cover-up of a Royal Murder

Hundreds of Errors in the Paget Report

By: John Morgan

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Cover-up of a Royal Murder

Hundreds of Errors in the Paget Report

By: John Morgan

Exposes one of the greatest cover-ups of our time. Provides credibility to the lingering doubts of a large section of the British and international public regarding the official line on the causes of the Paris crash. Deals with many of the troubling questions that have risen since the death of Diana. Lays down a huge challenge to those who believes the death of Diana, Princess of Wales was just a tragic accident (back cover).

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1847536557

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Australian Pharmacy Law and Practice

By: Laetitia Hattingh,John S. Low,Kim Forrester

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Australian Pharmacy Law and Practice

By: Laetitia Hattingh,John S. Low,Kim Forrester

A new edition of this excellent pharmacy law text, fully updated and unique to the Australian marketplace. Australian Pharmacy Law and Practice 2nd edition is the key law and ethics resource for pharmacists and students. Fully revised and updated, this new edition provides an introduction to contemporary pharmacy practice in Australia, looking at the various laws, policies and standards that govern the profession. Australian Pharmacy Law and Practice 2nd edition features excerpts of the relevant legislation, addressing all the pharmacy laws and regulations Australia's pharmacists need to know. This updated pharmacy law text also includes a wealth of new content, such as pharmacy-specific case scenarios. Plus, all chapters are clearly mapped to the National Competency Standards Framework for Pharmacists 2010, which cover aspects of medicine regulation and pharmacy practice. An essential resource in the ever-changing area of pharmacy practice, this new edition of Australian Pharmacy Law and Practice is ideal for both pharmacy students wanting to understand the legal and regulatory implications of pharmacy practice and practicing pharmacists seeking clarification of their position in relation to the state and national legislation and regulation under which they practice. - End-of-chapter questions and activities - Further reading lists in every chapter - State-specific and up-to-date legislation - Clear, easy-to-follow layout - Additional case study resources on Elsevier's Evolve portal - Case scenarios incorporated throughout chapters. - Listing of National Competency Standards Framework for Pharmacists 2010 covered in each chapter.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0729581438

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9780729581431

Preserving a Reformed Heritage

By: John W Keddie

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Preserving a Reformed Heritage

By: John W Keddie

This is the story of the Free Church of Scotland in the 20th Century. It outlines the life and witness of the Church throughout the century dealing with some of the issues which faced the Church in that period. A companion volume entitled 'A Divided Church', provides an account of the division which occurred in the Free Church of Scotland in 2000, a division that led to the emergence of the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing). This is not an exhaustive history, nor is it an 'official' one. It is in the nature of 'Aspects of the History of the Free Church of Scotland in the 20th Century.' The Free Church itself reflected a confessional evangelical and reformed position throughout the century, though not without testing times, not least right at the end of the century.

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1326865293

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A History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments. With an Account of the Gaelic Language, Literature, and Music

By: John Wilson,John Scott Keltie,Thomas Maclauchlan

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A History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments. With an Account of the Gaelic Language, Literature, and Music

By: John Wilson,John Scott Keltie,Thomas Maclauchlan

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

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3385533511

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Breakthrough!

Canada's Greatest Inventions and Innovations

By: John Melady

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Breakthrough!

Canada's Greatest Inventions and Innovations

By: John Melady

Canada's greatest medical breakthrough might well be insulin, but the telephone, the light bulb, the jetliner, the BlackBerry, and basketball also had Canadians behind them. Author John Melady showcases the praiseworthy products, fascinating ideas, and machines with global appeal that the planet owes to Canadians.

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Dundurn

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1459708539

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9781459708532

Blackbird Story

A Gripping Tale of Intrigue and Adventure in the South Seas and Torres Strait

By: John Singe

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Blackbird Story

A Gripping Tale of Intrigue and Adventure in the South Seas and Torres Strait

By: John Singe

It started with a letter from Queensland and abruptly Duncan Ross, a placid clerk, is plucked from his humdrum life on the Sydney wharves and dispatched on a secret mission to the South Seas where he encounters brutal blackbirders, fierce cannibals and, unexpectedly, a resurgent Ku Klux Klan fixed on recreating the cotton plantations of the Old South in the far reaches of the Pacific. From the crystalline lagoons of the Coral Sea to the pearling grounds of the Torres Strait Duncan charts an erratic course betwixt duty and self-preservation. Kidnapped, castaway and desperate he finally pitches up on the raw coast of unknown New Guinea where he is plunged headlong into the midst of unspeakable savagery and danger. This is a rollicking saga of adventure and intrigue set against the colonial rivalry of the great powers in the South Pacific.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1796009199

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9781796009194

Fabulous Science

Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery

By: John Waller

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Fabulous Science

Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery

By: John Waller

The great biologist Louis Pasteur suppressed 'awkward' data because it didn't support the case he was making. John Snow, the 'first epidemiologist' was doing nothing others had not done before. Gregor Mendel, the supposed 'founder of genetics' never grasped the fundamental principles of 'Mendelian' genetics. Joseph Lister's famously clean hospital wards were actually notorious dirty. And Einstein's general relativity was only 'confirmed' in 1919 because an eminent British scientist cooked his figures. These are just some of the revelations explored in this book. Drawing on current history of science scholarship, Fabulous Science shows that many of our greatest heroes of science were less than honest about their experimental data and not above using friends in high places to help get their ideas accepted. It also reveals that the alleged revolutionaries of the history of science were often nothing of the sort. Prodigiously able they may have been, but the epithet of the 'man before his time' usually obscures vital contributions made their unsung contemporaries and the intrinsic merits of ideas they overturned. These distortions of the historical record mostly arise from our tendency

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OUP Oxford

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0198609396

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Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945

By: John Graham Gibson

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Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945

By: John Graham Gibson

He argues that the dramatic depopulation of the Highlands in the nineteenth century was one of the main reasons for the decline of Gaelic piping. Gibson follows the emigration of the Highland Scots from the Old World to the New - to where an echo of traditional Gaelic music can still be heard.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773515410

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9780773515413

The Rebirthing of God

Christianity's Struggle for New Beginnings

By: John Philip Newell

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The Rebirthing of God

Christianity's Struggle for New Beginnings

By: John Philip Newell

Dare to imagine a new birth from deep within Christianity, a fresh stirring of the Spirit. “The walls of Western Christianity are collapsing. In many parts of the West that collapse can only be described as seismic.... There are three main responses or reactions to this collapse. The first is to deny that it is happening. The second is to frantically try to shore up the foundations of the old thing. The third, which I invite us into, is to ask what is trying to be born that requires a radical reorientation of our vision. What is the new thing that is trying to emerge from deep within us and from deep within the collective soul of Christianity?” —from the Introduction In the midst of dramatic changes in Western Christianity, internationally respected spiritual leader, peacemaker and scholar John Philip Newell offers the hope of a fresh stirring of the Spirit among us. He invites us to be part of a new holy birth of sacred living. Speaking directly to the heart of Christians—those within the well-defined bounds of Christian practice and those on the disenchanted edges—as well as to the faithful and seekers of other traditions, he explores eight major features of a new birthing of Christianity: Coming back into relationship with the Earth as sacred Reconnecting with compassion as the ground of true relationship Celebrating the Light that is at the heart of all life Reverencing the wisdom of other religious traditions Rediscovering spiritual practice as the basis for transformation Living the way of nonviolence among nations Looking to the unconscious as the wellspring of new vision Following love as the seed-force of new birth in our lives and world

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SkyLight Paths Publishing

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1594735425

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9781594735424

William Daniell's Isle of Skye and Raasay

An Artist's Journey in 1815

By: John Garvey

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William Daniell's Isle of Skye and Raasay

An Artist's Journey in 1815

By: John Garvey

William Daniell's Isle of Skye and Raasay brings together 17 aquatint prints and 10 pencil sketches from the Hebridean islands of Eigg, Rum, Skye and Raasay, and photographs showing these views as they are today.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1848761074

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