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The Blackbird Diaries

A Year with Wildlife

By: Karen Lloyd

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Lakeland Book of the Year 2018, Bookends Prize for Art and Literature, WINNER. With its enchanting song, striking orange bill and endearing willingness to share our living space, the blackbird is one of our best-loved birds. But robins, swifts, goldfinches and blue tits captivate us equally and, in The Blackbird Diaries, Karen Lloyd shares her deep-rooted affection for British wildlife and issues a clarion call for the conservation of endangered habitats and species – most notably the curlew, Europe's largest wading bird. Over the four seasons, Karen intimately chronicles the drama and the joy, the perils and the pleasures of the natural world as it all unfolds in her garden and on her daily walks in the limestone hills and valleys of Cumbria's South Lakeland. What emerges is a celebration of landscapes that rarely feature in the existing canon of nature writing, and rare insights into the lives of the species that may be common but are remarkable creatures all. "Sure to delight readers and fans of British wildlife... Like all good nature writing books, Lloyd's prose is to be savoured. Not raced through and devoured like the latest crime thriller, but to be absorbed, enjoyed and reflected upon." Megan Shersby, BBC Countryfile magazine "A writer of rare talent... Lloyd quietly and unassumingly shares her observations of nature, drawing you into a world made rich with the company of birds. Nothing is beyond her eye – from wavering flocks of lapwing, or the mad arcs of swifts to the majesty of sea eagles, the evening sunlight caught crystalline in their eyes." Miriam Darlington, BBC Wildlife "A charming and informative account... [Lloyd] has a keen eye and a quiet, understated way of describing her neighbourhood that I found captivating. It brought to mind the writing of ... Kathleen Jamie ... Keenly observed." Katharine Norbury, Caught by the River

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Saraband

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1915089328

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Springwatch: The 2019 Almanac

By: Michael Bright,Karen Farrington

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Springwatch: The 2019 Almanac

By: Michael Bright,Karen Farrington

‘Beautiful, fun, a great book... the best book ever written!’ - Chris Evans ‘It is a brilliant book, a toolkit, packed full of information – even I learnt a few new things!’ - Chris Packham Explore the world outside your window. For 13 years the BBC's Springwatch and its sister programmes, Autumnwatch and Winterwatch, have been bringing the best of Britain’s wildlife into our homes. Now Springwatch: The 2019 Almanac offers the perfect guide for anyone looking to get out and explore the wonders of nature just outside their back door. Taking you month by month through the coming year, the almanac combines compelling stories with practical guidance that will inspire anyone to start exploring. It has all the information you need to discover the natural wonders around you, from how to identify animal tracks and bird nests to the best time to witness starling murmurations and mayflies hatching. Complete with monthly daylight and rainfall charts and beautifully illustrated with black and white line drawings, The Springwatch Almanac is the ideal companion for every nature lover.

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Random House

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1473531659

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Demonic Prince

A Monster Fantasy Romance

By: Karen Kincy

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Demonic Prince

A Monster Fantasy Romance

By: Karen Kincy

Only a monster can claim me. I’m too monstrous to love, a dragon shifter who’s never been courted by a male. Dragonslayers hunt me relentlessly and I kill every last man. Until Rook invades my cave. Tall, dark, and demonic, Rook alone has the strength to defeat me. He chains me and collars me with magic, forcing me to shift into a woman. I’m vulnerable and at his mercy. Worse, he’s an incubus who feeds upon lust, and I’m smoldering with barely restrained desire for my enemy. I refuse to confess the truth: I’m in heat, and soon the urge to find a mate will become irresistible. I’m playing with fire. But I’m a dragon. I like fire. I want him. He needs me. How dangerous could one night with an incubus be?

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Karen Kincy

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1737925176

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As the Crow Flies

By: Karen F. Williams

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As the Crow Flies

By: Karen F. Williams

Samantha Weller, a forensic scientist turned paranormal novelist, owes her life and writing career to a crow that saved her from certain death. When she buys an old bookend that looks like her avian muse, her world begins to resemble the plots of her novels. Determined to find the mate to her bookend, Samantha and her antiquarian sidekick, Liz, go on a search leading them to the beautiful and wealthy Gwen Laraway. Samantha is instantly smitten, but the age difference has Gwen second-guessing Samantha’s interest. Meanwhile, Liz is crushing on Gwen’s niece, Isabel. As clueless as she is sensuous, Isabel hasn’t had a date since her high school prom ten years ago, and she’s petrified to act on her sudden attraction to Liz. Romance seems to be blooming all around, but problems arise when a restless ghost emerges from the ether to roam the dark corners of this haunting tale that explores the quantum mechanics of immortality.

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Bold Strokes Books Inc

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1635552842

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Halo: Evolutions

Essential Tales of the Halo Universe

By: Karen Traviss

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Halo: Evolutions

Essential Tales of the Halo Universe

By: Karen Traviss

This collection dives into the Halo universe from the perspective of those who fought and died to save humanity—and those who vowed to wipe it out.

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Macmillan

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0765323990

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Who's Afraid of James Joyce?

By: Karen R. Lawrence

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Who's Afraid of James Joyce?

By: Karen R. Lawrence

The development of Joycean studies into a respected and very large subdiscipline of modernist studies can be traced to the work of several important scholars. Among those who did the most to document Joyce's work, Karen Lawrence can easily be considered one of that elite cadre. A retrospective of decades of work on Joyce, this collection includes published journal articles, book chapters, and selections from her best known work (all updated and revised), along with one new essay. Featuring engaging close readings of such Joyce works as Dubliners and Ulysses, it will be a welcome addition to any serious Joycean's library and will prove extremely useful to new generations of Joyce critics looking to build on Lawrence's expansive scholarship. Both readable and lively, this work may inspire a lifetime of reading, re-reading, and teaching Joyce.

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University Press of Florida

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0813043220

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Living Canvas

Your Total Guide to Tattoos, Piercings, and Body Modification

By: Karen Hudson

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Living Canvas

Your Total Guide to Tattoos, Piercings, and Body Modification

By: Karen Hudson

As a tattoo specialist and writer for About.com, Hudson has talked to far too many people who regret their tattoos. Now she pens a resource for body art enthusiasts who are thinking about getting their first or fifth tattoo, planning for their next bod-mod, or regretting a negative experience.

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Seal Press

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1580052886

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Victorian Bestseller

The Life of Dinah Craik

By: Karen Bourrier

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Victorian Bestseller

The Life of Dinah Craik

By: Karen Bourrier

When novelist Dinah Craik (1826–87) died, expressions of grief came from Lord Alfred Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, T.H. Huxley, and James Russell Lowell, among others, and even Queen Victoria picked up her pen to offer her consolation to the widower. Despite Craik’s enormous popularity throughout a literary career that spanned forty years, she is now all but forgotten. Yet, in an otherwise respectable life bookended by scandal, this was precisely the way that she wanted it. Victorian Bestseller is the first book to relate the story of Dinah Craik’s remarkable life. Combining extensive archival work with theoretical work in disability studies and the professionalization of women’s authorship, Karen Bourrier engagingly traces the contours of this author’s life. Craik, who wrote extensively about disability in her work, was no stranger to it in her personal and professional life, marked by experiences of mental and physical disability, and the ebb and flow of health. Following scholarship in the ethics of care and disability studies, the book posits Craik as an interdependent subject, placing her within a network of writers, publishers, editors and artists, friends, and family members. Victorian Bestseller also traces the conditions in the material history of the book that allowed Victorian women writers’ careers to flourish. In doing so, the biography connects corporeality, gender, and the material history of the book to the professionalization of Victorian women’s authorship.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472125265

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A Field Guide to the Birds of China

By: John Ramsay MacKinnon,Karen Phillipps

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A Field Guide to the Birds of China

By: John Ramsay MacKinnon,Karen Phillipps

China is one of the largest countries in the world, covering 7% of the earth's land surface, and encompassing a hugely diverse range of habitats. As a result it boasts a rich and diverse avifauna, including some of the most spectacular and fascinating birds to be found anywhere in the world. This is the first truly comprehensive, taxonomically modern, and fully illustrated field guide to the Chinese birds. Over 1300 species are illustrated in 128 colour paintings, and fully described in the text. Colour distribution maps are provided for all illustrated species. The authors have both lived and worked in the region for many years, and have extensive experience of writing and illustrating bird guides. This important book will be a landmark in field guide publishing.

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Oxford University Press

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0198549407

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Growing Together

Personal Relationships across the Life Span

By: Frieder R. Lang,Karen L. Fingerman

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Growing Together

Personal Relationships across the Life Span

By: Frieder R. Lang,Karen L. Fingerman

Understanding personal relationships throughout the life course is one of the most crucial issues in the behavioral and social sciences. This book brings together perspectives from different disciplines on individual development and personal relationships across the life span. The book addresses two pertinent dimensions of personal relationships: 1) structures of relationship networks (e.g. kin vs non-kin, peripheral vs intimate, short-term vs long-term) and 2) processes (i.e. change or stability) and outcomes of personal relationships across the life span. The book stimulates discussion of personal relationships as resources for and outcomes of individual development throughout the life course. Different qualities of personal relationships serve as catalysts for individual development. At the same time, relationship qualities reflect changes of developing individuals. The book does not give exclusive priority to one phase of the human life span. Rather, each chapter addresses social development across the entire life span from childhood to later adulthood.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139451596

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Coping with Climate Variability

By: Colleen Vogel,Karen o'Brien

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Coping with Climate Variability

By: Colleen Vogel,Karen o'Brien

This title was first published in 2003. Recent food shortages in Southern Africa, induced by rainfall variability but compounded by problems of governance and rising food prices, have resulted in massive relief efforts. A recent scientific innovation - supplying farmers with seasonal climate forecasts - has been touted as a way to increase preparedness for such situations. This book examines how climate forecasts are used by the agricultural community in Southern Africa. Based on a workshop funded by the World Bank, it covers a broad set of issues related to the use of seasonal forecasts, including factors that constrain users' capacities to respond. Case studies presented in the book explore how forecasts can potentially increase production and food security among a population highly dependent on agriculture and vulnerable to climate variability. The book reflects on how the production, delivery and uptake of seasonal forecasts might be improved, as well as the limitations to their usefulness, and it should catalyse future thinking and research in this field.

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Routledge

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1351777572

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The Odyssey of Style in Ulysses

By: Karen Lawrence

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The Odyssey of Style in Ulysses

By: Karen Lawrence

In this study Karen Lawrence presents Joyce's Ulysses as it evolves through radical changes of style. She traces the abandonment of a narrative norm for a series of rhetorical masks, regarded as conscious aesthetic experiments, and considers the theoretical implication of this process, for both the writing and reading of novels. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400855772

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Halo: Evolutions

Essential Tales of the Halo Universe

By: Tobias S. Buckell,Brian Evenson,Kevin Grace,Jonathan Goff,Tessa Kum,Robt McLees,Frank O'Connor,Eric Raab,Karen Traviss,Jeff VanderMeer,Eric Nylund,Fred Van Lente

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Halo: Evolutions

Essential Tales of the Halo Universe

By: Tobias S. Buckell,Brian Evenson,Kevin Grace,Jonathan Goff,Tessa Kum,Robt McLees,Frank O'Connor,Eric Raab,Karen Traviss,Jeff VanderMeer,Eric Nylund,Fred Van Lente

When humanity expanded beyond the safety of Earth to new stars and horizons, they never dreamed what dangers they would encounter there. When the alien juggernaut known as the Covenant declared holy war upon the fragile human empire, millions of lives were lost—but, millions of heroes rose to the challenge. In such a far-reaching conflict, not many of the stories of these heroes, both human and alien, have a chance to become legend. This collection holds eleven stories that dive into the depths of the vast Halo universe, not only from the perspective of those who fought and died to save humanity, but also those who vowed to wipe humanity out of existence. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Macmillan

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1429941685

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Mothers and Their Adult Daughters

Mixed Emotions, Enduring Bonds

By: Karen L. Fingerman, Ph.D

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Mothers and Their Adult Daughters

Mixed Emotions, Enduring Bonds

By: Karen L. Fingerman, Ph.D

The mother-daughter tie takes on unique characteristics as daughters enter midlife and mothers enter old age. Incorporating vivid descriptions by mothers and daughters about their relationships, this book addresses both the rewards and the difficulties mothers and daughters experience in maintaining their relationships into old age. Based on interviews with 48 mothers over age 70 and their adult daughters, Dr. Fingerman begins with an overview of this relationship, which, she points out, can be distinguished from other social ties by the strength of the mother-daughter bond. Next she discusses the positive features of this bond and various theories about its social and psychological nature. This discussion is followed by an examination of problems encountered between mothers and daughters. The last section looks at reactions of mothers and daughters to tensions, conflicts, communication problems, and other difficulties. This excellent study will be of interest not only to researchers in women''s and family studies, but any mother and daughter.

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Prometheus Books

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1615922229

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Kiss of the Highlander

By: Karen Marie Moning

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Kiss of the Highlander

By: Karen Marie Moning

A laird trapped between centuries... Enchanted by a powerful spell, Highland laird Drustan MacKeltar slumbered for nearly five centuries hidden deep in a cave, until an unlikely savior awakened him. The enticing lass who dressed and spoke like no woman he’d ever known was from his distant future, where crumbled ruins were all that remained of his vanished world. Drustan knew he had to return to his own century if he was to save his people from a terrible fate. And he needed the bewitching woman by his side.... A woman changed forever in his arms... Gwen Cassidy had come to Scotland to shake up her humdrum life and, just maybe, meet a man. How could she have known that a tumble down a Highland ravine would send her plunging into an underground cavern — to land atop the most devastatingly seductive man she’d ever seen? Or that once he’d kissed her, he wouldn’t let her go? Bound to Drustan by a passion stronger than time, Gwen is swept back to sixteenth-century Scotland, where a treacherous enemy plots against them ... and where a warrior with the power to change history will defy time itself for the woman he loves....

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Dell

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0440337844

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9780440337843

The Memory of Water

By: Karen White

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The Memory of Water

By: Karen White

The New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels returns to the South Carolina Lowcountry with a gripping tale of two sisters haunted by one tragic night... On the night their mother drowns, sisters Marnie and Diana Maitland discover there is more than one kind of death. There is the death of innocence, of love, and of hope. Each sister harbors a secret about that night-secrets that will erode their lives as they grow into adulthood. After ten years of silence between the sisters, Marnie is called back to the South Carolina Lowcountry by Diana's ex-husband, Quinn. His young son has returned from a sailing trip with his emotionally unstable mother, and he is refusing to speak. In order to help the traumatized boy, Marnie must reopen old wounds and bring the darkest memories of their past to the surface. And she must confront Diana, before they all go under.

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Penguin

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1101211512

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Consequential Strangers: The Power of People Who Don't Seem to Matter. . . But Really Do

By: Melinda Blau,Karen L. Fingerman

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Consequential Strangers: The Power of People Who Don't Seem to Matter. . . But Really Do

By: Melinda Blau,Karen L. Fingerman

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393338452

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9780393338454

Iceland Imagined

Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic

By: Karen Oslund

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Iceland Imagined

Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic

By: Karen Oslund

Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and exotic - its nature harsh, its people reclusive. Since the middle of the eighteenth century, however, this marginalized region has gradually become part of modern Europe, a transformation that is narrated in Karen Oslund’s Iceland Imagined. This cultural and environmental history sweeps across the dramatic North Atlantic landscape, exploring its unusual geography, saga narratives, language, culture, and politics, and analyzing its emergence as a distinctive and symbolic part of Europe. The earliest visions of a wild frontier, filled with dangerous and unpredictable inhabitants, eventually gave way to images of beautiful, well-managed lands, inhabited by simple but virtuous people living close to nature. This transformation was accomplished by state-sponsored natural histories of Iceland which explained that the monsters described in medieval and Renaissance travel accounts did not really exist, and by artists who painted the Icelandic landscapes to reflect their fertile and regulated qualities. Literary scholars and linguists who came to Iceland and Greenland in the nineteenth century related the stories and the languages of the “wild North” to those of their home countries.

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University of Washington Press

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0295802995

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9780295802992

Community Resources for Older Adults

Programs and Services in an Era of Change

By: Robbyn R. Wacker,Karen A. Roberto

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Community Resources for Older Adults

Programs and Services in an Era of Change

By: Robbyn R. Wacker,Karen A. Roberto

Community Resources for Older Adults provides comprehensive, up-to-date information on programs, services, and policies pertaining to older adults. Authors Robbyn R. Wacker and Karen A. Roberto build reader awareness of programs and discuss how to better understand help-seeking behavior, as well as explain ways to take advantage of the resources available to older adults. The substantially revised Fifth Edition includes new topics and updated research, tables, and figures to help answer key questions about the evolution and utilization of programs for older adults and the challenges that service providers face.

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SAGE Publications

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1506383955

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9781506383958

Shakespeare and Animals

A Dictionary

By: Karen Raber,Karen Edwards

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Shakespeare and Animals

A Dictionary

By: Karen Raber,Karen Edwards

This encyclopaedic account of animals in Shakespeare's plays and poems, provides readers with a much-needed resource by which to navigate the recent outpouring of critical and historical work on the topic. This dictionary extends its coverage to include insects, fish and mythic creatures, as well as the places, practices and lore pertaining to all animal-oriented experiences of early modern life. It emphasizes the role of animality in defining character, and is attentive to the instabilities of the human-animal boundary as they were theatrically represented, exploited and interrogated, but it is also concerned with the material presence of animals on stage and in everyday life in Shakespeare's world. The volume is a new tool for instructors, but is also a resource for critics and scholars in the many disciplines engaged with animal studies, posthumanist theory, ecostudies and cultural studies.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350002526

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9781350002524

Bloodfever

Fever Series Book 2

By: Karen Marie Moning

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Bloodfever

Fever Series Book 2

By: Karen Marie Moning

In the second book of the Fever series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning, MacKayla Lane plunges into a world of deadly sorcery and ancient secrets. “Delectably dark and sexy.”—Chicago Tribune In her fight to stay alive, Mac must find the Sinsar Dubh—a million-year-old book of the blackest magic imaginable that holds the key to power over both the worlds of the Fae and of Man. Pursued by Fae assassins and surrounded by mysterious figures she knows she cannot trust, Mac finds herself torn between two deadly and irresistible men: V’lane, the insatiable Fae who can turn sensual arousal into an obsession for any woman, and ever-inscrutable Jericho Barrons, a man as alluring as he is mysterious. For centuries the world of the Fae has existed with in the shadows of that of humans. Now the walls between the two are coming down, and Mac is the only thing that stands between them. Karen Marie Moning’s explosive Fever series continues DARKFEVER • BLOODFEVER • FAEFEVER • DREAMFEVER • SHADOWFEVER • ICED • BURNED • FEVERBORN • FEVERSONG • HIGH VOLTAGE • KINGDOM OF SHADOW AND LIGHT

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Delacorte Press

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0440337224

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9780440337225

Signs, Wonders & Miracles

By: Linda Chance,Karen Kaufman

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Signs, Wonders & Miracles

By: Linda Chance,Karen Kaufman

This book contains practical ideas for removing those things that stand between the reader and the breakthrough he or she longs for. The volume delves into topics such as breaking generational curses, dismantling fears grip, and conquering attitudes that prevent miracles. (Practical Life)

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Xulon Press

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1602668019

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Pomp and Circumstantial Evidence

By: Karen Mauck

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Pomp and Circumstantial Evidence

By: Karen Mauck

From the author of Scraps comes a tale of murder and intrigue. Carrie Reilly’s past comes back to haunt her when she attends her high school reunion. Old grudges harbored for 10 years result in the death of the school’s former star quarterback, and Carrie and her friends are the prime suspects. As her class rapidly gets smaller, she must face her demons and rush to find the identity of the killer before she becomes the next victim.

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iUniverse

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059524226X

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The Strangers on Montagu Street

By: Karen White

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The Strangers on Montagu Street

By: Karen White

Charleston psychic Melanie Middleton discovers the past isn't finished revealing unsettling secrets in the third novel in the New York Times bestselling Tradd Street series. With her relationship with writer Jack Treholm as shaky as the foundation of her family home, Melanie’s juggling a number of problems. Like restoring her Tradd Street house...and resisting her mother’s pressure to ‘go public’ with her talent—a sixth sense that unites them to the lost souls of the dead. But Melanie never anticipated her new problem. Her name is Nola, Jack’s estranged young daughter who appears on their doorstep, damaged, lonely and defiantly immune to her father’s attempts to reconnect. Melanie understands the emotional chasm all too well. As a special, bonding gift Jack’s mother buys Nola an antique dollhouse—a precious tableaux of a perfect Victorian family. Melanie hopes the gift will help thaw Nola’s reserve and draw her into the family she’s never known. At first, Nola is charmed, and Melanie is delighted—until night falls, and the most unnerving shadows are cast within its miniature rooms. By the time Melanie senses a malevolent presence she fears it may already be too late. A new family has accepted her unwitting invitation to move in—with their own secrets, their own personal demons, and a past that’s drawing Nola into their own inescapable darkness...

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Penguin

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0451235266

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9780451235268

Babies without Borders

Adoption and Migration across the Americas

By: Karen Dubinsky

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Babies without Borders

Adoption and Migration across the Americas

By: Karen Dubinsky

While international adoptions have risen in the public eye and recent scholarship has covered transnational adoption from Asia to the U.S., adoptions between North America and Latin America have been overshadowed and, in some cases, forgotten. In this nuanced study of adoption, Karen Dubinsky expands the historical record while she considers the political symbolism of children caught up in adoption and migration controversies in Canada, the United States, Cuba, and Guatemala. Babies without Borders tells the interrelated stories of Cuban children caught in Operation Peter Pan, adopted Black and Native American children who became icons in the Sixties, and Guatemalan children whose “disappearance” today in transnational adoption networks echoes their fate during the country’s brutal civil war. Drawing from archival research as well as from her critical observations as an adoptive parent, Dubinsky moves debates around transnational adoption beyond the current dichotomy—the good of “humanitarian rescue,” against the evil of “imperialist kidnap.” Integrating the personal with the scholarly, Babies without Borders exposes what happens when children bear the weight of adult political conflicts.

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NYU Press

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0814720935

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A Blight of Mages

By: Karen Miller

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A Blight of Mages

By: Karen Miller

Hundreds of years before the great Mage War, a land lies, unknowing, on the edge of catastrophe. . . Barl is young and impulsive, but she has a power within that calls to her. In her city, however, only those of noble blood and with the right connections learn the ways of the arcane. Barl is desperate to learn-but her eagerness to use her power leads her astray and she is banned from ever learning the mystic arts. Morgan holds the key to her education. A member of the Council of Mages, he lives to maintain the status quo, preserve the mage bloodlines, and pursue his scholarly experiments. But Barl's power intrigues him-in spite of her low status. Together, he realizes they can create extraordinary new incantations. Morgan's ambition and Barl's power make a potent combination. What she does not see is the darkness in him that won't be denied. A Blight of Mages is the new novel set in the world of Karen Miller's bestselling debut The Innocent Mage.

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Hachette+ORM

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0316133892

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9780316133890

Fast Facts: Skin Cancer

By: Karen L. Agnew,Christopher B. Bunker,Sarah T. Arron

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Fast Facts: Skin Cancer

By: Karen L. Agnew,Christopher B. Bunker,Sarah T. Arron

Skin cancer is both preventable and treatable, yet it is becoming alarmingly common. The key to successful treatment (other than education and prevention) is early recognition and swift referral. 'Fast Facts: Skin Cancer' has been written by three international experts to equip healthcare professionals with the necessary skills to save lives. Highlights include: • Expert presentation of the basic facts on epidemiology, causation, presentation and management • Over 100 color illustrations to assist with the identification of at-risk individuals and early lesions • Pull-out tables of cancer staging for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma • Advice to give patients on self-examination • A thorough overview of all treatment options: topical therapies, cryotherapy, curettage and electrosurgery, photodynamic therapy and lasers, radiotherapy, surgical excision and Mohs micrographic surgery • Discussion of preventive measures This fully updated second edition is a practical evidence-based resource, written from an international perspective to reflect national and international guidelines. It will assist clinical practice, education, training, audit and research, and is essential reading for generalists and specialists alike. Contents: • Epidemiology • Pathogenesis • Clinical features and diagnosis • Management • Prognosis • Prevention; Future trends

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118

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Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers

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1908541393

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9781908541390

Midnight in the Snow

Lose Yourself in an Alpine Love Story to Thaw the Coldest Heart

By: Karen Swan

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Midnight in the Snow

Lose Yourself in an Alpine Love Story to Thaw the Coldest Heart

By: Karen Swan

Set amongst the snow-covered mountains of the Austrian Alps, Midnight in the Snow is the story of a forbidden attraction that will reveal long-buried secrets, from Sunday Times bestselling author of Christmas at Tiffany's, Karen Swan. Award-winning director Clover Phillips is riding high when she encounters Kit Foley; a surfer and snowboarder as well-known for controversy as he is for winning championships. Involved in an accident that had devastating consequences for a bitter rival, Kit has never spoken about what really happened that day. Determined to find out the truth, Clover heads to the snowy wilderness of the Austrian Alps, sharing a romantic winter wonderland with a man who can’t stand her. But as she delves deeper, Clover finds herself both drawn to Kit, and even more convinced he’s hiding something. Is Kit Foley really as cold as he seems? *** What readers are saying about Midnight in the Snow: ‘Heartwarming, romantic, uplifting. Great writing that wraps you like a blanket’ ‘Real and wonderfully, subtly painted so that, yet again, her novel makes you stay up until silly o’clock’ ‘An amazing gift for taking you to fabulous locations & gradually unwrapping secrets about her characters’ ‘Glamorous, thrilling and unashamedly romantic’

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405

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Pan Macmillan

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1529006155

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9781529006155

Encyclopedia of Community

From the Village to the Virtual World

By: DAVID LEVINSON,KAREN CHRISTENSEN

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Encyclopedia of Community

From the Village to the Virtual World

By: DAVID LEVINSON,KAREN CHRISTENSEN

The Encyclopedia of Community is a major four volume reference work that seeks to define one of the most widely researched topics in the behavioural and social sciences. Community itself is a concept, an experience, and a central part of being human. This pioneering major reference work seeks to provide the necessary definitions of community far beyond the traditional views.

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SAGE

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0761925988

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9780761925989

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