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A Handful of Heroes, Rorke's Drift

Facts, Myths and Legends

By: Katie Stossel

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A Handful of Heroes, Rorke's Drift

Facts, Myths and Legends

By: Katie Stossel

A compelling account of the courageous standoff between 150 British troops and more than 3,000 Zulu warriors during the Anglo-Zulu War. Thanks to newly discovered letters and documents, A Handful of Heroes, Rorke’s Drift updates the history of the Defense of Rorke’s Drift, which will forever be one of the most celebrated British feats of arms. Remarkably after such prolonged historical scrutiny, the author’s research proves that there is yet more to discover about this famous incident of the Zulu War in 1879, and her superbly researched book reveals a number of myths that have distorted what happened during the gallant defense of the small Mission Station. This fascinating and highly readable account goes on to examine in detail the famous Chard Report, which has long been relied on by historians and authors. Doubts emerge as to its accuracy, and evidence is provided which suggests the report’s author was coerced by a senior officer in order to protect the latter’s reputation. Likewise the letters of August Hammar, a young Swedish visitor to the Mission, put Reverend Otto Witt’s false account into perspective. These and other revelations make A Handful of Heroes, Rorke’s Drift a fresh and important addition to the bibliography of this legendary Zulu War engagement. “Though the book reviewed here should not be your first dip into the history of the Zulu War, it is an essential one. It provides readers with a wider understanding of the events and their aftermath . . . The author does the job here with style and grace.” —War History Online

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Pen and Sword

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1473864119

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9781473864115

Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

By: Ruth Elder,Katie Evans,Debra Nizette

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Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

By: Ruth Elder,Katie Evans,Debra Nizette

The new edition of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing focuses on practice in mental health and psychiatric care integrating theory and the realities of practice. Mental wellness is featured as a concept, and the consideration of a range of psychosocial factors helps students contextualise mental illness and psychiatric disorders. The holistic approach helps the student and the beginning practitioner understand the complex causation of mental illness, its diagnosis, effective interventions and treatments, and the client's experience of mental illness.

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Elsevier Australia

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0729540987

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Chivalry and Knighthood in Scotland, 1424-1513

By: Katie Stevenson

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Chivalry and Knighthood in Scotland, 1424-1513

By: Katie Stevenson

This work considers how chivalry was interpreted in 15th century Scotland and how it compared with European ideas of chivalry; the resposibilities of knighthood in this period and the impact on political life; the chivalric literature and the relevance of Christian components of chivalric culture.

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Boydell Press

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1843831929

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Making a Performance

Devising Histories and Contemporary Practices

By: Emma Govan,Helen Nicholson,Katie Normington

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Making a Performance

Devising Histories and Contemporary Practices

By: Emma Govan,Helen Nicholson,Katie Normington

Making a Performance traces innovations in devised performance from early theatrical experiments in the twentieth-century to the radical performances of the twenty-first century. This introduction to the theory, history and practice of devised performance explores how performance-makers have built on the experimental aesthetic traditions of the past. It looks to companies as diverse as Australia's Legs on the Wall, Britain's Forced Entertainment and the USA-based Goat Island to show how contemporary practitioners challenge orthodoxies to develop new theatrical languages. Designed to be accessible to both scholars and practitioners, this study offers clear, practical examples of concepts and ideas that have shaped some of the most vibrant and experimental practices in contemporary performance.

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Routledge

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1134447965

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Serving a Wired World

London's Telecommunications Workers and the Making of an Information Capital

By: Katie Hindmarch-Watson

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Serving a Wired World

London's Telecommunications Workers and the Making of an Information Capital

By: Katie Hindmarch-Watson

In the public imagination, Silicon Valley embodies the newest of the new—the cutting edge, the forefront of our social networks and our globally interconnected lives. But the pressures exerted on many of today’s communications tech workers mirror those of a much earlier generation of laborers in a very different space: the London workforce that helped launch and shape the massive telecommunications systems operating at the turn of the twentieth century. As the Victorian age ended, affluent Britons came to rely on information exchanged along telegraph and telephone wires for seamless communication: an efficient and impersonal mode of sharing thoughts, demands, and desires. This embrace of seemingly unmediated communication obscured the labor involved in the smooth operation of the network, much as our reliance on social media and app interfaces does today. Serving a Wired World is a history of information service work embedded in the daily maintenance of liberal Britain and the status quo in the early years of the twentieth century. As Katie Hindmarch-Watson shows, the administrators and engineers who crafted these telecommunications systems created networks according to conventional gender perceptions and social hierarchies, modeling the operation of the networks on the dynamic between master and servant. Despite attempts to render telegraphists and telephone operators invisible, these workers were quite aware of their crucial role in modern life, and they posed creative challenges to their marginalized status—from organizing labor strikes to participating in deviant sexual exchanges. In unexpected ways, these workers turned a flatly neutral telecommunications network into a revolutionary one, challenging the status quo in ways familiar today.

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Univ of California Press

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0520975669

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Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing - E-Book

By: Ruth Elder,Debra Nizette,Katie Evans

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Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing - E-Book

By: Ruth Elder,Debra Nizette,Katie Evans

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0729578771

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Microcrafts

Tiny Treasures to Make and Share

By: Margaret Mcguire,Alicia Kachmar,Katie Hatz

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Microcrafts

Tiny Treasures to Make and Share

By: Margaret Mcguire,Alicia Kachmar,Katie Hatz

It is a small world, after all! Here are step-by-step instructions for making tiny teddy bears, little ladybugs, petite porcupines, itsy-bitsy bikinis, and much, much more! Microcrafts shows crafters how to create dozens of miniature treasures, each no larger than a spool of thread. No previous crafting experience or pricey materials are necessary—just a love of all things small!

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Quirk Books

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1594747032

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Where Wizards Stay Up Late

The Origins Of The Internet

By: Matthew Lyon,Katie Hafner

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Where Wizards Stay Up Late

The Origins Of The Internet

By: Matthew Lyon,Katie Hafner

Twenty five years ago, it didn't exist. Today, twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net. Where Wizards Stay Up Late is the exciting story of the pioneers responsible for creating the most talked about, most influential, and most far-reaching communications breakthrough since the invention of the telephone. In the 1960's, when computers where regarded as mere giant calculators, J.C.R. Licklider at MIT saw them as the ultimate communications devices. With Defense Department funds, he and a band of visionary computer whizzes began work on a nationwide, interlocking network of computers. Taking readers behind the scenes, Where Wizards Stay Up Late captures the hard work, genius, and happy accidents of their daring, stunningly successful venture.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684872161

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9780684872162

Companion Animal Economics

The Economic Impact of Companion Animals in the UK

By: Sophie Hall,Luke Dolling,Katie Bristow,Ted Fuller,Daniel S Mills

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Companion Animal Economics

The Economic Impact of Companion Animals in the UK

By: Sophie Hall,Luke Dolling,Katie Bristow,Ted Fuller,Daniel S Mills

Succinct, highly readable and thought provoking, this important new text is designed to raise awareness of the potential economic impact of companion animals in the UK. It discusses the potential benefits and costs of companion animals to the economy and highlights the need for this matter to be thoroughly researched, given the potential scale of impact and the potential costs of ignoring this matter. Inspired by the seminal Council for Science and Society (CSS) Report, Companion Animals in Society (1988), this work updates and extends its evaluation of the economic impact of companion animals on society and lays a benchmark for future development. This pivotal new book is important for policy makers at national and international levels and all those involved in animal welfare.

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1786391724

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Legacies of British Slave-Ownership

Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain

By: Catherine Hall,Nicholas Draper,Keith McClelland,Katie Donington,Rachel Lang

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Legacies of British Slave-Ownership

Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain

By: Catherine Hall,Nicholas Draper,Keith McClelland,Katie Donington,Rachel Lang

This book re-examines the relationship between Britain and colonial slavery in a crucial period in the birth of modern Britain. Drawing on a comprehensive analysis of British slave-owners and mortgagees who received compensation from the state for the end of slavery, and tracing their trajectories in British life, the volume explores the commercial, political, cultural, social, intellectual, physical and imperial legacies of slave-ownership. It transcends conventional divisions in history-writing to provide an integrated account of one powerful way in which Empire came home to Victorian Britain, and to reassess narratives of West Indian 'decline'. It will be of value to scholars not only of British economic and social history, but also of the histories of the Atlantic world, of the Caribbean and of slavery, as well as to those concerned with the evolution of ideas of race and difference and with the relationship between past and present.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316061248

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The Furies

A Novel

By: Katie Lowe

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The Furies

A Novel

By: Katie Lowe

This page-turning, harrowing debut is the story of a girl trying to fit in, whose obsessive new friends and desperation to belong leads her to places she’d never imagined...dark, dangerous, and possibly even violent. "Fans of Greer Macallister, Paula Hawkins, and Janelle Brown will devour Violet’s journey.” —Booklist ~~~ In 1998, a sixteen-year-old girl is found dead. She’s posed on a swing on her boarding school’s property, dressed all in white, with no known cause of death. Whispers and rumors swirl, with no answers. But there are a few who know what happened; there is one girl who will never forget. One year earlier: a new student, Violet, steps on the campus of Elm Hollow Academy, an all-girl’s boarding school on the outskirts of a sleepy coastal town. This is her fresh start, her chance to begin again in the wake of tragedy, leave her demons behind. Bright but a little strange, uncertain and desperate to fit in, she soon finds herself invited to an advanced study group, led by her alluring and mysterious art teacher, Annabel. There, with three other girls—Alex, Grace, and Robin—the five of them delve into the school’s long-buried grim history: of Greek and Celtic legends; of the school founder’s “academic” interest in the occult; of gruesome 17th century witch trials. Annabel does her best to convince the girls that her classes aren’t related to ancient rites and rituals, and that they are just history and mythology. But the more she tries to warn the girls off the topic, the more they are drawn to it, and the possibility that they can harness magic for themselves. Violet quickly finds herself wrapped up in this heady new world of lawless power—except she is needled by the disappearance of a former member of the group, one with whom Violet shares an uncanny resemblance. As her friends’ actions take a turn for the darker and spiral out of control, she begins to wonder who she can trust, all the while becoming more deeply entangled. How far will these young girls go to protect one another...or to destroy one another?

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St. Martin's Press

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1250297915

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Challenges and Change in Middle America

Perspectives on Development in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean

By: Katie Willis,Cathy Mcilwaine

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Challenges and Change in Middle America

Perspectives on Development in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean

By: Katie Willis,Cathy Mcilwaine

A comprehensive introduction to the important economic, social and political processes and development issues in this extremely popular region. The Central American nations and those of the Caribbean (including Guyana, Surinam and French Guiana on the mainland) share many historical processes as well as experiencing similar development problems today. These include European colonialism, structural adjustment, small size, reliance on primary production, influence of the United States and moves towards democratisation. While Mexico is obviously a much larger country in area, economy and population terms, it is included in this volume because of its close ties to the other countries in the region through processes such as trade and migration.

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Routledge

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1317876881

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9781317876885

Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing

By: Katie Evans,Debra Nizette

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Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing

By: Katie Evans,Debra Nizette

Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing has established itself as Australia and New Zealand's foremost mental health nursing text and is an essential resource for all undergraduate nursing students. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect current research and changing attitudes about mental health, mental health services and mental health nursing in Australia and New Zealand. Set within a recovery and consumer-focused framework, this text provides vital information for approaching the most familiar disorders mental health nurses and students will see in clinical practice, along with helpful suggestions about what the mental health nurse can say and do to interact effectively with consumers and their families. Visit evolve.elsevier.com for your additional resources: eBook on Vital Source Resources for Students and Instructors: Student practice questions Test bank Case studies Powerful consumer story videos 3 new chapters:- Physical health care: addresses the physical health of people with mental health problems and the conditions that have an association with increased risk of mental health problems - Mental health promotion: engages with the ways in which early intervention can either prevent or alleviate the effects of mental health problems - Challenging behaviours: presents a range of risk assessments specifically focused upon challenging behaviours Now addresses emerging issues, such as:- The transitioning of mental health care to primary care- The development of peer and service user led services, accreditation and credentialing- Mental Health Nurse Incentive Program

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0729585433

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9780729585439

A Kiss And A Promise

By: Katie Flynn

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A Kiss And A Promise

By: Katie Flynn

Sometimes hope is all you need... Liverpool, 1917: When Irish seaman Michael Gallagher docks in Liverpool after years of fighting with the British Navy, he never expects to fall in love. But the moment he glimpses Stella Bennett standing on the quayside, all thoughts of returning to his homeland vanish. Determined to be together, the young couple defy Stella’s parents’ wishes. But their plans to marry are soon derailed by the arrival of baby Ginny. Her crop of fiery red hair plants a seed of doubt in her father’s mind and it’s not long before their world begins to fall apart. As Michael returns to Ireland, Stella dies unexpectedly, leaving Ginny to be brought up in the slums at the mercy of her grandmother. Will she escape the shackles of her new life and find a way back to her father?

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Random House

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1446427625

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Between Market and Myth

The Spanish Artist Novel in the Post-Transition, 1992-2014

By: Katie J. Vater

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Between Market and Myth

The Spanish Artist Novel in the Post-Transition, 1992-2014

By: Katie J. Vater

Between Market and Myth is a study of novels about artists and the art world written in Spain in the years following the Transition to democracy after Francisco Franco's death. The novels studied portray a clash between the myth of artistic freedom and artists' willing recruitment or cooptation by market forces or political influence.

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Rutgers University Press

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1684482216

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Rewena and Rabbit Stew

The Rural Kitchen in Aotearoa, 1800–1940

By: Katie Cooper

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Rewena and Rabbit Stew

The Rural Kitchen in Aotearoa, 1800–1940

By: Katie Cooper

Cookhouses and wharekai, hangi pits and coal ranges, boil-ups and mutton &– this book tells the hearty story of sustenance and manaakitanga in rural New Zealand. The rhythms and routines of country life are at the heart of this compelling account of the rural kitchen in Aotearoa. Historian Katie Cooper explores how cooking and food practices shaped the daily lives, homes and communities of rural Pakeha and Maori throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Delving into cooking technologies, provisions, gender roles and hospitality, the story of New Zealand' s rural kitchen highlights more than just the practicalities of putting food on the table.Thoroughly researched and richly illustrated, Rewena and Rabbit Stew reveals the fascinating social and cultural milieu in which rural people produced, cooked and shared food in Aotearoa.

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Auckland University Press

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1776711335

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Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle

A History of the American Cowboy in Song, Story, and Verse

By: Katie Lee

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Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle

A History of the American Cowboy in Song, Story, and Verse

By: Katie Lee

This classic of cowboy lore including illustrations by cowboy artist William Moyers, first published in 1976, is now available only from the University of New Mexico Press. "A beautiful job, exact, comprehensive and witty. Should remain a basic history of the subject for many years to come."--Edward Abbey

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UNM Press

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0826323359

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Men on trial

Performing emotion, embodiment and identity in Ireland, 1800–45

By: Katie Barclay

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Men on trial

Performing emotion, embodiment and identity in Ireland, 1800–45

By: Katie Barclay

Men on Trial provides the first history of masculinity and the law in early nineteenth-century Ireland. It combines cutting-edge theories from the history of emotion, performativity and gender studies to argue for gender as a creative and productive force in determining legal and social power relationships.

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Manchester University Press

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152613294X

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Midcentury Modern Art in Texas

By: Katie Robinson Edwards

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Midcentury Modern Art in Texas

By: Katie Robinson Edwards

Before Abstract Expressionism of New York City was canonized as American postwar modernism, the United States was filled with localized manifestations of modern art. One such place where considerable modernist activity occurred was Texas, where artists absorbed and interpreted the latest, most radical formal lessons from Mexico, the East Coast, and Europe, while still responding to the state's dramatic history and geography. This barely known chapter in the story of American art is the focus of Midcentury Modern Art in Texas. Presenting new research and artwork that has never before been published, Katie Robinson Edwards examines the contributions of many modernist painters and sculptors in Texas, with an emphasis on the era's most abstract and compelling artists. Edwards looks first at the Dallas Nine and the 1936 Texas Centennial, which offered local artists a chance to take stock of who they were and where they stood within the national artistic setting. She then traces the modernist impulse through various manifestations, including the foundations of early Texas modernism in Houston; early practitioners of abstraction and non-objectivity; the Fort Worth Circle; artists at the University of Texas at Austin; Houston artists in the 1950s; sculpture in and around an influential Fort Worth studio; and, to see how some Texas artists fared on a national scale, the Museum of Modern Art's "Americans" exhibitions. The first full-length treatment of abstract art in Texas during this vital and canon-defining period, Midcentury Modern Art in Texas gives these artists their due place in American art, while also valuing the quality of Texan-ness that subtly undergirds much of their production.

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University of Texas Press

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0292756593

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Possession

A Novel

By: Katie Lowe

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Possession

A Novel

By: Katie Lowe

Possession is a chilling psychological thriller written with Katie Lowe’s signature “subtle, persistent, and unmistakable creepiness” (Kirkus, on The Furies). The past haunts her. The present hunts her. Conviction @ConvictionPod · 1m The investigating officer: “I’ve seen a lot of homicides in the years since, but...that’s the one that keeps me up at night.” The husband’s best man: “They had everybody fooled. Or at least, she did. But I always knew something was off.” Hannah, the wife: “I told you. I don’t remember anything. I don’t know.” That’s all to come, this season, on Conviction. Get ready for our most twisted season yet. ~~~ Ten years ago, Hannah’s husband was brutally murdered in their home, and she (conveniently) doesn’t remember a thing about that night. But the police charged someone else—a stranger—and put him away for life. And Hannah packed up her six-year-old daughter and left London behind. But now her hard-won countryside peace is threatened. Conviction, a viral true crime podcast known for getting cases reopened and old verdicts overturned, has turned its attention to Hannah’s husband’s murder for its new season. They say police framed the man who was found guilty, and that Hannah has more suspicious secrets than just her memory loss: a history of volatility; citations at the clinic where she worked as a psychiatrist; dependencies on alcohol and pills; and a familicidal grandmother, locked away in a Gothic insane asylum until her death. As Hannah loses the trust of everyone she loves, the only person she feels she can confide in is a former colleague, Darcy, who’s come back into her life—but who may have motives of her own. But Hannah can’t tell even Darcy her deepest secret: that she’s still tormented by the memory of her husband and the crater he carved through her life.

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St. Martin's Press

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1250200296

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Farm-Raised Kids

Parenting Strategies for Balancing Family Life with Running a Small Farm or Homestead

By: Katie Kulla

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Farm-Raised Kids

Parenting Strategies for Balancing Family Life with Running a Small Farm or Homestead

By: Katie Kulla

Learn to raise tiny agriculturists with this insightful guide full of parenting advice and strategies for engaging kids in farm life while you're running your own homestead. In this first-ever book on the topic, author Katie Kulla offers her own hard-won wisdom, gleaned from more than a decade of raising kids while running a CSA farm with her husband. The book also features invaluable advice and insights from other farmer-parents and a wealth of practical tips and ideas for how to engage children on the farm—including activities for learning and play, and suggestions for how to enlist kids in chores and other farm responsibilities. Included are experiences and stories of diverse farm families encompassing a variety of identities and backgrounds across geographic locations, race and genders, family sizes, and farm scales, to represent the real face of farming today.

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Storey Publishing, LLC

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1635867614

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Methodological Developments in Data Linkage

By: Katie Harron,Harvey Goldstein,Chris Dibben

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Methodological Developments in Data Linkage

By: Katie Harron,Harvey Goldstein,Chris Dibben

A comprehensive compilation of new developments in data linkage methodology The increasing availability of large administrative databases has led to a dramatic rise in the use of data linkage, yet the standard texts on linkage are still those which describe the seminal work from the 1950-60s, with some updates. Linkage and analysis of data across sources remains problematic due to lack of discriminatory and accurate identifiers, missing data and regulatory issues. Recent developments in data linkage methodology have concentrated on bias and analysis of linked data, novel approaches to organising relationships between databases and privacy-preserving linkage. Methodological Developments in Data Linkage brings together a collection of contributions from members of the international data linkage community, covering cutting edge methodology in this field. It presents opportunities and challenges provided by linkage of large and often complex datasets, including analysis problems, legal and security aspects, models for data access and the development of novel research areas. New methods for handling uncertainty in analysis of linked data, solutions for anonymised linkage and alternative models for data collection are also discussed. Key Features: Presents cutting edge methods for a topic of increasing importance to a wide range of research areas, with applications to data linkage systems internationally Covers the essential issues associated with data linkage today Includes examples based on real data linkage systems, highlighting the opportunities, successes and challenges that the increasing availability of linkage data provides Novel approach incorporates technical aspects of both linkage, management and analysis of linked data This book will be of core interest to academics, government employees, data holders, data managers, analysts and statisticians who use administrative data. It will also appeal to researchers in a variety of areas, including epidemiology, biostatistics, social statistics, informatics, policy and public health.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118745876

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Friendship, Love, and Hip Hop

An Ethnography of African American Men in Psychiatric Custody

By: Katie Rose Hejtmanek

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Friendship, Love, and Hip Hop

An Ethnography of African American Men in Psychiatric Custody

By: Katie Rose Hejtmanek

Friendship, Love, and Hip Hop investigates how young Black men live and change inside a mental institution in contemporary America. While the youth in Hejtmanek's study face the rigidity of institutionalized life, they also productively maneuver through what the author analyzes as the 'give' - friendship, love, and hip hop - in the system.

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Springer

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1137544732

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Trust Me!

Fantastic Adventures in Trusting Him!

By: Katie Helm

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Trust Me!

Fantastic Adventures in Trusting Him!

By: Katie Helm

An exciting, passionate thread of awareness of God's love and presence is woven throughout this author's life story. When did her unique spiritual journey begin? Was its source from imagining levitating from her bed at age three? Peering on tiptoe into her beloved grandmother's coffin at age five? Sitting on her blind grandfather's knee awed by his reading a Braille Bible? Or holding her cousin's dying baby as they were rushed from the crash scene to the hospital? At a very early age this delightful little girl with curly red hair and matching freckles became convinced that God knew her and loved her. However, there was scant evidence of her being special in a busy family with nine children moving from place to place following her dad's passion for the excitement of another oil boom. It is a candid story of a recklessly begun marriage of passion maturing into a solid and enduring love. This same passionate thread is strong, bright, and binding as she follows God's bidding to become a foster parent, yet later watches helplessly in horror as her lovely, virtuous daughter becomes a victim of violent spouse abuse. The reader will find an inspiring journey of growing faith meeting all the challenges life can throw at her, including three bouts with cancer, adopting a troubled teenager, and caring for her aged mother diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Yet that same passionate thread darkens and becomes frayed almost to the breaking point as she describes the "Great Divide." Readers will immediately identify and recall their own "black hole" as she describes an ordeal that left an ugly gaping tear in her heart. Your heart will run, skip, and jump as you relive this redhead's adventurous journey of faith.

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1438981473

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Orphans of the Storm

By: Katie Flynn

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Orphans of the Storm

By: Katie Flynn

From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a classic Katie Flynn story of hope and love, set against the backdrop of WWII Liverpool. ____________ In the tragedy of war, will love conquer all? Liverpool, 1940 When nurses Nancy Kerris and Jess Williams both lose their lovers in the trenches during the Great War, their future in Liverpool looks bleak. As the war finally ends, their lives are set on different paths, with Nancy choosing to marry an Australian, leaving behind her life - and her friend - for the Outback. Years later with the outbreak of the Second World War, Nancy's son Pete decides to join the Royal Air Force and travels to England. He promises to pay his mother's friend a visit, however when he arrives in Liverpool, he is dismayed to find half the city has been demolished by the May Blitz. Jess's home has been destroyed, and even worse, her daughter Debbie is missing. In an unknown country and war-ravaged city, Pete decides he must help find Debbie, whatever the cost . . .

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1446411133

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9781446411131

Caritas

Neighbourly Love and the Early Modern Self

By: Katie Barclay

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Caritas

Neighbourly Love and the Early Modern Self

By: Katie Barclay

This book explores caritas, the idea of neighboury love, as a key ethic that shaped how early modern people lived, loved, and thought about the self.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198868138

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9780198868132

Education

By: Katie Duckworth

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Education

By: Katie Duckworth

An informative series of resource books that focuses upon children's rights in the modern world. Each volume features real-life colourful pictures of children from around the world.

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Evans Brothers

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0237537729

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9780237537722

Oracle of the Ages

Reflections on the Curious Life of Fortune Teller Mayhayley Lancaster

By: Dot Moore,Katie Lamar Smith

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Oracle of the Ages

Reflections on the Curious Life of Fortune Teller Mayhayley Lancaster

By: Dot Moore,Katie Lamar Smith

Annotation. The life of a famous Georgia fortuneteller and eccentric, told in a chorus of oral history interviews by people who knew her. Author Dot Moore worked on this book for more than twenty years, spurred on by her own memories and encounters with the late Mayhayley Lancaster while she was growing up in Heard County, Georgia. Moore is a retired educator and Democratic Party activist, and lives in Montgomery. This is her first book.

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NewSouth Books

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1603060081

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9781603060080

The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany

By: Katie Sutton

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The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany

By: Katie Sutton

Throughout the Weimar period the so-called “masculinization of woman” was much more than merely an outsider or subcultural phenomenon; it was central to representations of the changing female ideal, and fed into wider debates concerning the health and fertility of the German “race” following the rupture of war. Drawing on recent developments within the history of sexuality, this book sheds new light on representations and discussions of the masculine woman within the Weimar print media from 1918–1933. It traces the connotations and controversies surrounding this figure from her rise to media prominence in the early 1920s until the beginning of the Nazi period, considering questions of race, class, sexuality, and geography. By focusing on styles, bodies and identities that did not conform to societal norms of binary gender or heterosexuality, this book contributes to our understanding of gendered lives and experiences at this pivotal juncture in German history.

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Berghahn Books

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0857451219

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9780857451217

The Secrets of Meadow Farmhouse

By: Katie Ginger

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The Secrets of Meadow Farmhouse

By: Katie Ginger

‘A gorgeous, romantic book, that will whisk you away to sunnier happier times... pop a smile on your face as you sink into a lovely romance’ NetGalley reviewer

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304

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HarperCollins UK

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0008422737

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9780008422738

Winter Wishes at Swallowtail Bay (Swallowtail Bay, Book 3)

By: Katie Ginger

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Winter Wishes at Swallowtail Bay (Swallowtail Bay, Book 3)

By: Katie Ginger

A moving, festive, absolutely gorgeous read! Perfect for curling up with this Christmas' Samantha Tonge, author of The Summer Island Swap Grab your cosiest jumper and escape to the beautiful Swallowtail Bay!

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384

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HarperCollins UK

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0008380570

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9780008380571

Summer Strawberries at Swallowtail Bay (Swallowtail Bay, Book 2)

By: Katie Ginger

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Summer Strawberries at Swallowtail Bay (Swallowtail Bay, Book 2)

By: Katie Ginger

Seaside, strawberries and a sexy hero – what's not to love?' Mandy Baggot, author of My Greek Island Summer

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320

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HarperCollins UK

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0008380554

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9780008380557

The Little Library on Cherry Lane

By: Katie Ginger

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The Little Library on Cherry Lane

By: Katie Ginger

The heart-warming new novel from the author of The Secrets of Meadow Farmhouse and The Perfect Christmas Gift. The ideal next read for fans of Cathy Bramley, Rachael Lucas and Heidi Swain!

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0008422753

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9780008422752

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