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The Ghost Brush

By: Katherine Govier

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Oei is the daughter of the great Japanese printmaker Hokusai. Long consigned to a minor role as gloomy sidekick, she is barely a footnote in the historical record. Here, Oei recounts her life with one of the great eccentrics of the 19th century. Dodging the Shogun's spies, she and Hokusai live amongst actors, novelists, tattoo artists and prostitutes, making the exquisite pictures that define their time. Disguised, they escape the city gates to view waves and Mount Fuji. But they return to enchanting, dangerous Edo (Tokyo), the largest city in the world. Wielding her brush, Oei defies all expectations of womanhood-- all but one. She is dutiful until death to the exasperating father who created her and, ultimately, steals her future. A breathtaking work of imagination, The Ghost Brush illuminates the most tender and ambiguous love of all--that between father and daughter.

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HarperPerennial

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155468644X

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9781554686445

Creation

A Novel

By: Katherine Govier

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Creation

A Novel

By: Katherine Govier

A New York Times Notable book about Audubon’s voyage to capture Birds of America is a “brilliantly insightful and ravishingly sensuous tale of adventure.” (Booklist) In this atmospheric and enthralling novel, Katherine Govier tells the story of the world's greatest living bird artist as he finally understands the paradox embedded in his art: that the act of creation is also an act of destruction. Running two steps ahead of the bailiff, alternately praised and reviled, John James Audubon set himself the audacious task of drawing, from nature, every bird in North America. The result was his masterpiece, The Birds of America. In June 1833, partway through his mission, he enlisted his son, Captain Bayfield of the Royal Navy, and a party of young gentlemen to set sail for nesting grounds no ornithologist had ever seen, in the treacherous passage between Newfoundland and Labrador. Creation explores the short, stormy summer throughout which the captain became the artist's foil, measuring stick, and the recipient of his long-held secrets. It is an exploration of that fateful expedition, a probing and imaginative narrative that fills in a gap in the visionary naturalist's well-documented life. “Carefully crafted and deeply thoughtful.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Abrams

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1468303937

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9781468303933

Creation

By: Katherine Govier

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Creation

By: Katherine Govier

“In a life so well-documented, these next few months form a rare gap. It is as if the dark cloud and fog Audubon sails into transcends mere weather, and becomes a state of mind. As if Labrador itself (or its weather) swallows the story.” His need to capture the fugitive colours of birds pushed John James Audubon into impossible places, none more dangerous than the fog-ridden coast of Labrador in the summer of 1833. In mesmerizing prose, novelist Katherine Govier explores this fateful summer in the life of a man as untamed as his subjects. Running two steps ahead of the bailiff, alternately praised and reviled by critics, John James Audubon set himself the audacious task of drawing, from nature, every bird in North America. The result was his masterpiece, The Birds of America, which he and his family published and sold to subscribers on both sides of the Atlantic. In June 1833, he enlisted his son and a party of young gentlemen to set sail for nesting grounds no ornithologist had ever seen, in the treacherous passage between Newfoundland and Labrador. Fogbound at Little Natashquan, he encounters Captain Henry Wolsey Bayfield of the Royal Navy, whose mission is to chart the labyrinthine coast to make it safe for sea traffic. Bayfield is an exacting and duty-bound aristocrat; the charismatic Audubon spins tales to disguise his dubious parentage and lack of training. Bayfield is a confirmed bachelor; Audubon is a married man in love with his young assistant. But the captain becomes the artist’s foil and his measuring stick, his judge and, oddly, the recipient of his long-held secrets. In this atmospheric and enthralling novel, Katherine Govier recreates the summer in which “the world’s greatest living bird artist” finally understood the paradox embedded in his art: that the act of creation was also an act of destruction.

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Vintage Canada

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0307369315

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9780307369314

A New Westminster Album

Glimpses of the City As It Was

By: Gavin Hainsworth,Katherine Freund-Hainsworth

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A New Westminster Album

Glimpses of the City As It Was

By: Gavin Hainsworth,Katherine Freund-Hainsworth

From prospectors to politicians, promoters to profiteers, New Westminster’s known them all. It is Western Canada’s oldest city, aptly named by Queen Victoria as the first capital of the new colony of British Columbia. On the mighty Fraser River, it has survived gold rushes, loss of capital status, fire, flood, the Depression, and two world wars. This collection of illuminating black and white photographs, artwork, and text shows how its tenacious citizens have thrived. It follows the city’s festivals, traditions, organizations, people, and neighbourhoods. The city has both witnessed and been the centre of the fascinating events that shaped B.C. This multifaceted photographic history album depicts almost 150 years of the City of New Westminster.

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Dundurn

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155002955X

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9781550029550

Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil: Challenging Historical & Modern Stereotypes

By: Katherine Bullock

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Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil: Challenging Historical & Modern Stereotypes

By: Katherine Bullock

Until now the bulk of the literature about the veil has been written by outsiders who do not themselves veil. This literature often assumes a condescending tone about veiled women, assuming that they are making uninformed decisions choices about veiling makes them subservient to a patriarchal culture and religion. “Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil” offers an alternative viewpoint, based on the thoughts and experiences of Muslim women themselves. This is the first time a clear and concise book-length argument has been made for the compatibility between veiling and modernity. Katherine Bullock uncovers positive aspects of the veil that are frequently not perceived by outsiders. “Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil” looks at the colonial roots of the negative Western stereotype of the veil. It presents interviews with Muslim women to discover their thoughts and experiences with the veil in Canada. The book also offers a positive theory of veiling. The author argues that in consumer capitalist cultures, women can find wearing the veil a liberation from the stifling beauty game that promotes unsafe and unhealthy ideal body images for women. This book also includes an extensive bibliography on topics related to Muslim women and the veil.

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IIIT

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1565648765

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9781565648760

Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society® Core Curriculum: Continence Management

By: WOUND, OSTOMY AND CONTINENCE NURSES SOCIETY®,Dorothy Doughty,Katherine Moore

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Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society® Core Curriculum: Continence Management

By: WOUND, OSTOMY AND CONTINENCE NURSES SOCIETY®,Dorothy Doughty,Katherine Moore

Continence Management, First Edition, is one of three volumes in the series that follows the Curriculum Blueprint designed by the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN). It is the ideal reference for anyone seeking certification as a wound, ostomy, or continence nurse, as well as anyone who manages patients with urinary or fecal incontinence, as well as bowel dysfunction.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496323203

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9781496323200

How To Be Trustworthy

By: Katherine Hawley

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How To Be Trustworthy

By: Katherine Hawley

We become untrustworthy when we break our promises, miss our deadlines, or offer up unreliable information. If we aim to be a trustworthy person, we need to act in line with our existing commitments and we must also take care not to bite off more than we can chew when new opportunities come along. But often it is not clear what we will be able to manage, what obstacles may prevent us from keeping our promises, or what changes may make our information unreliable. In the face of such uncertainties, trustworthiness typically directs us towards caution and hesitancy, and away from generosity, spontaneity, or shouldering burdens for others. In How To Be Trustworthy, Katherine Hawley explores what trustworthiness means in our lives and the dilemmas which arise if we value trustworthiness in an uncertain world. She argues there is no way of guaranteeing a clean conscience. We can become untrustworthy by taking on too many commitments, no matter how well-meaning we are, yet we can become bad friends, colleagues, parents, or citizens if we take on too few commitments. Hawley shows that we can all benefit by being more sensitive to obstacles to trustworthiness, and recognising that those who live in challenging personal circumstances face greater obstacles than other members of society--whether visibly or invisibly disadvantaged through material poverty, poor health, social exclusion, or power imbalances.

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171

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Oxford University Press

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0192582135

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9780192582133

Critical Thinking for Strategic Intelligence

By: Katherine Hibbs Pherson,Randolph H. Pherson

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Critical Thinking for Strategic Intelligence

By: Katherine Hibbs Pherson,Randolph H. Pherson

With Critical Thinking for Strategic Intelligence, Katherine Hibbs Pherson and Randolph H. Pherson have updated their highly regarded, easy-to-use handbook for developing core critical thinking skills and analytic techniques. This indispensable text is framed around 20 key questions that all analysts must ask themselves as they prepare to conduct research, generate hypotheses, evaluate sources of information, draft papers, and ultimately present analysis, including: How do I get started? Where is the information I need? What is my argument? How do I convey my message effectively? The Third Edition includes suggested best practices for dealing with digital disinformation, politicization, and AI. Drawing upon their years of teaching and analytic experience, Pherson and Pherson provide a useful introduction to skills that are essential within the intelligence community.

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CQ Press

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1544374291

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9781544374291

Principles of Horticulture

By: Charles R. Adams,Michael P. Early,Katherine M. Bamford

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Principles of Horticulture

By: Charles R. Adams,Michael P. Early,Katherine M. Bamford

Principles of Horticulture' has been the leading introduction to commercial and leisure horticulture for fourteen years. The content has been structured to meet the needs of a wide range of courses.

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Routledge

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0750686944

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9780750686945

Coming of Age in Ancient Greece

Images of Childhood from the Classical Past

By: Stephen John Morewitz,Jenifer Neils,John Howard Oakley,Katherine Hart,Lesley A. Beaumont

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Coming of Age in Ancient Greece

Images of Childhood from the Classical Past

By: Stephen John Morewitz,Jenifer Neils,John Howard Oakley,Katherine Hart,Lesley A. Beaumont

What was childhood like in ancient Greece? What activities and games did Greek children embrace? How were they schooled and what religious and ceremonial rites of passage were key to their development? These fascinating questions and many more are answered in this groundbreaking book--the first English-language study to feature and discuss imagery and artifacts relating to childhood in ancient Greece.Coming of Age in Ancient Greece shows that the Greeks were the first culture to represent children and their activities naturalistically in their art. Here we learn about depictions of children in myth as well as life, from infancy to adolescence. This beautifully illustrated book features such archaeological artifacts as toys and gaming pieces alongside images of them in use by children on ancient vases, coins, terracotta figurines, bronze and stone sculpture, and marble grave monuments. Essays by eminent scholars in the fields of Greek social history, literature, archaeology, anthropology, and art history discuss a wide range of topics, including the burgeoning role of childhood studies in interdisciplinary studies; the status of children in Greek culture; the evolution of attitudes toward children from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period as documented by literature and art; the relationships of fathers and sons and mothers and daughters; and the roles of cult practice and death in a child's existence.This delightful book illuminates what is most universal and specific about childhood in ancient Greece and examines childhood's effects on Greek life and culture, the foundation on which Western civilization has been based.

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Yale University Press

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0300099606

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9780300099607

The Immaculate Conception Photography Gallery

By: Katherine Govier

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The Immaculate Conception Photography Gallery

By: Katherine Govier

In this eclectic and intriguing collection of short stories, Govier blurs the boundaries between seemingly disparate worlds and highlights the human desire to rationalize life experiences. Two cottagers mistake the brilliance of a search party's flares for an alien invasion. A photographer rewrites the past to suit the present by altering his client's photographs. The Immaculate Conception Photography Gallery is extraordinary and absorbing fiction, with ideas that resonate in the mind.

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Vintage Canada

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0679310347

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9780679310341

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The Ghost Brush

The Ghost Brush

Creation

Creation

Creation

Creation

A New Westminster Album

A New Westminster Album

Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil: Challenging Historical & Modern Stereotypes

Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil: Challenging Historical & Modern Stereotypes

Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society® Core Curriculum: Continence Management

Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society® Core Curriculum: Continence Management

How To Be Trustworthy

How To Be Trustworthy

Critical Thinking for Strategic Intelligence

Critical Thinking for Strategic Intelligence

Principles of Horticulture

Principles of Horticulture

Coming of Age in Ancient Greece

Coming of Age in Ancient Greece

The Immaculate Conception Photography Gallery

The Immaculate Conception Photography Gallery

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