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From Burleigh to Boschink

A Community Called Stony Lake

By: Christie Bentham,Katharine Hooke

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From Burleigh to Boschink

A Community Called Stony Lake

By: Christie Bentham,Katharine Hooke

From Burleigh to Boschink: A Community Called Stony Lake covers over a hundred years of human history, encompassing the Aboriginal Peoples, their presence and influence, early settlement and cottaging activity up to the present time. Family stories, local lore, boats and steamers, recreational opportunities, personalities and environmental concerns are all presented through the writings, the voices and the memories of those who were there and, in some cases, still are. Richly supported by rare photographs and other visuals of Stony Lake, this publication will bring delight to many.

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174

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Dundurn

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1554881722

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9781554881727

Christian Slavery

Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World

By: Katharine Gerbner

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Christian Slavery

Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World

By: Katharine Gerbner

Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? Christian Slavery shows how debates about slavery transformed the practice of Protestantism and the language of race in the early modern Atlantic world.

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296

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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081225001X

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9780812250015

The Alchemist's Daughter

A Novel

By: Katharine McMahon

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The Alchemist's Daughter

A Novel

By: Katharine McMahon

Secrets abound in this gripping tale of a young woman cloistered since birth who discovers that knowledge is no subsitute for experience when she choses to follow her heart over science. Raised by her father in near isolation in the English countryside, Emilie Selden is trained as a brilliant natural philosopher and alchemist. In the spring of 1725, during the English Age of Reason, father and daughter embark upon their most daring alchemical experiment to date—attempting to breathe life into dead matter. But when Emilie—against her father’s wishes—experiences the passion of first love, she decides to listen to her heart over her head. Banished to London and plunged headlong into a society that is both glamorous and ruthless, Emilie discovers that for all her extraordinary education she has no insight into the workings of the human heart. When she tries to return to the world of books and study, she instead unravels a shocking secret that sets her on her true journey to enlightenment.

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311

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Crown

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030734536X

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9780307345363

Predicting the Weather

Victorians and the Science of Meteorology

By: Katharine Anderson

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Predicting the Weather

Victorians and the Science of Meteorology

By: Katharine Anderson

Victorian Britain, with its maritime economy and strong links between government and scientific enterprises, founded an office to collect meteorological statistics in 1854 in an effort to foster a modern science of the weather. But as the office turned to prediction rather than data collection, the fragile science became a public spectacle, with its forecasts open to daily scrutiny in the newspapers. And meteorology came to assume a pivotal role in debates about the responsibility of scientists and the authority of science. Studying meteorology as a means to examine the historical identity of prediction, Katharine Anderson offers here an engrossing account of forecasting that analyzes scientific practice and ideas about evidence, the organization of science in public life, and the articulation of scientific values in Victorian culture. In Predicting the Weather, Anderson grapples with fundamental questions about the function, intelligibility, and boundaries of scientific work while exposing the public expectations that shaped the practice of science during this period. A cogent analysis of the remarkable history of weather forecasting in Victorian Britain, Predicting the Weather will be essential reading for scholars interested in the public dimensions of science.

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342

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University of Chicago Press

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0226019705

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9780226019703

The Little Locksmith

A Memoir

By: Katharine Butler Hathaway

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The Little Locksmith

A Memoir

By: Katharine Butler Hathaway

This early 20th century memoir of a woman’s faith in the face of debilitating disease is a “remarkably un-self-pitying book remains poignant and truthful” (Publishers Weekly). “You must not miss it . . . It is the kind of book that cannot come into being without great living and great suffering and a rare spirit behind it.” —The New York Times In 1895, a specialist straps five-year-old Katharine Hathaway, then suffering from spinal tuberculosis, to a board with halters and pulleys in a failed attempt to prevent her from becoming a “hunchback” like the “little locksmith” who does odd jobs at her family’s home. Forced to endure her confinement for ten years, Katharine remains immobile until age fifteen, only to find that none of it has prevented her from developing a deformity of her own. The Little Locksmith charts Katharine’s struggle to transcend physical limitations and embrace her life, her body, and herself. Her spirit and courage prevail as she expands her world far beyond the boundaries prescribed by her family and society: she attends Radcliffe College, forms deep friendships, begins to write, and in 1921, purchases a house of her own that she fashions into a space for guests, lovers, and artists. Revealing and inspirational, The Little Locksmith stands as a testimony to Katharine’s aspirations and desires—for independence, love, and the pursuit of her art. “A powerful revelation of spiritual truth” —The Boston Globe “Katharine Butler Hathaway . . . was the kind of heroine whose deeds are rarely chronicled . . . [She took] a life which fate had cast in the mold of a frightful tragedy and redesign[ed] it into a quiet, modest work of art.” —The New Yorker

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166

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The Feminist Press at CUNY

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1558617108

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9781558617100

Opening the Old Testament

By: Katharine Dell

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Opening the Old Testament

By: Katharine Dell

This succinct and innovative book shows readers how to read and appreciate the Old Testament: as history, as literature or as theology. Offering an ideal ‘taster’ of Old Testament themes and issues, the book encourages students to explore various forms of interpretation and develop a lively interaction with the texts. Ideal for those with little experience and knowledge of the Old Testament who need an introduction to how to read it, and why it is still relevant to our world today Integrates key themes and approaches in Old Testament scholarship, including theological, literary, and historical interpretations Written from a predominantly Christian perspective, covering issues relating to the nature of the Old Testament, its authority, and contemporary relevance.

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241

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John Wiley & Sons

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1405125004

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9781405125000

Scapegoat

Why We Are Failing Disabled People

By: Katharine Quarmby

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Scapegoat

Why We Are Failing Disabled People

By: Katharine Quarmby

Every few months there's a shocking news story about the sustained, and often fatal, abuse of a disabled person. It's easy to write off such cases as bullying that got out of hand, terrible criminal anomalies or regrettable failures of the care system, but in fact they point to a more uncomfortable and fundamental truth about how our society treats its most unequal citizens. In Scapegoat, Katharine Quarmby looks behind the headlines to question and understand our discomfort with disabled people. Combining fascinating examples from history with tenacious investigation and powerful first person interviews, Scapegoat will change the way we think about disability - and about the changes we must make as a society to ensure that disabled people are seen as equal citizens, worthy of respect, not targets for taunting, torture and attack.

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189

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Granta Books

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1846273463

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9781846273469

The Book of Proverbs in Social and Theological Context

By: Katharine J. Dell

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The Book of Proverbs in Social and Theological Context

By: Katharine J. Dell

The book of Proverbs is the starting point of the biblical wisdom tradition. But how did individual proverbs, instructions and poems come together to form the various collections we have today? Katharine Dell explores the possible social contexts for this varied material in the royal court, wisdom schools and popular culture. She draws shrewdly on materials from the wisdom traditions of the ancient Near East, in particular Egypt, in order to bolster and enhance her theories. She argues that Proverbs had a theological purpose from its conception, with God's creativity being an integral theme of the text rather than one added in later redactions. Dell also shows that echoes of other Old Testament genres such as prophecy, law and cult can be found in Proverbs, notably in chapters 1-9, and that its social and theological context is much broader than scholars have recognised in the past.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139455419

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9781139455411

The Book of Job as Sceptical Literature

By: Katharine J. Dell

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The Book of Job as Sceptical Literature

By: Katharine J. Dell

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

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272

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110858738

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9783110858730

From Burleigh to Boschink

A Community Called Stony Lake

By: Christie Bentham,Katharine Hooke

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A Community Called Stony Lake

By: Christie Bentham,Katharine Hooke

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Dundurn

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1459713044

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9781459713048

Book's by Katharine Hooke

From Burleigh to Boschink

From Burleigh to Boschink

Christian Slavery

Christian Slavery

The Alchemist's Daughter

The Alchemist's Daughter

Predicting the Weather

Predicting the Weather

The Little Locksmith

The Little Locksmith

Opening the Old Testament

Opening the Old Testament

Scapegoat

Scapegoat

The Book of Proverbs in Social and Theological Context

The Book of Proverbs in Social and Theological Context

The Book of Job as Sceptical Literature

The Book of Job as Sceptical Literature

From Burleigh to Boschink

From Burleigh to Boschink

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