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James II & VII

Britain's Last Catholic King

By: Laura Brennan

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James II & VII

Britain's Last Catholic King

By: Laura Brennan

James II & VII was not born to be a king. As the Duke of York he grew up in a Britain divided by civil wars and witnessed big events in British history including the Battle of Edgehill (1642). After the execution of his father Charles I at the hands of the Parliamentarians, James soldiered in Europe until his brother, Charles II was restored to the crowns of Britain. Under his brother's reign, James converted to Catholicism and subsequently became the heart of several political storms until 1681. Upon inheriting the throne from his brother Charles II, in 1685, James struggled to balance his personal faith and the evolving politics of the time, upsetting courtiers, his parliament and his subjects eventually leading to the Glorious Revolution and him losing his throne in 1688. This book examines the politics and events of James' life, both before and during his reign, to explain why he was unable to maintain the thrones of Britain, as well as the last few years of his life in exile, how he tried to regain the throne and his sad death. Often overlooked as just a king who ruled for less than four years, James II & VII was an accidental but key historical figure in the shaping of British history. The events at the end of his reign were the first steps in creating a better constitution and democratic Britain.

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210

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Pen and Sword History

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1399012614

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9781399012614

James Legge and the Chinese Classics

A brilliant Scot in the turmoil of colonial Hong Kong

By: Marilyn Laura Bowman

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James Legge and the Chinese Classics

A brilliant Scot in the turmoil of colonial Hong Kong

By: Marilyn Laura Bowman

Long interested in the history of China and in the countries of the Silk Road, she has travelled widely in Asia and Europe, seeking places with their historical connections. Her encounter with James Legge combined her professional interests with her interests in Asian history. The challenging events that James Legge experienced across his life in Hong Kong revealed his exceptional linguistic talents and steadfast resilience, her own "peculiar department", as Legge described his interests. As she discovered his rich blend of talent and resilience in a setting of great political and cultural conflict, she wanted more people to know about this outstanding man.

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625

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FriesenPress

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1460288831

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9781460288832

LeBron James: NBA Champion

By: Laura K. Murray

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LeBron James: NBA Champion

By: Laura K. Murray

LeBron James: NBA Champion examines the life and career of a player who's been in the spotlight since he was in middle school and rose out of poverty to become an NBA champion, Olympic gold medalist, and world-famous philanthropist. Features include a timeline, a glossary, further readings, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

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115

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ABDO

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1532174713

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9781532174711

Odd Girl Out

My Extraordinary Autistic Life

By: Laura James

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Odd Girl Out

My Extraordinary Autistic Life

By: Laura James

A sensory portrait of an autistic mind From childhood, Laura James knew she was different. She struggled to cope in a world that often made no sense to her, as though her brain had its own operating system. It wasn't until she reached her forties that she found out why: Suddenly and surprisingly, she was diagnosed with autism. With a touching and searing honesty, Laura challenges everything we think we know about what it means to be autistic. Married with four children and a successful journalist, Laura examines the ways in which autism has shaped her career, her approach to motherhood, and her closest relationships. Laura's upbeat, witty writing offers new insight into the day-to-day struggles of living with autism, as her extreme attention to sensory detail -- a common aspect of her autism -- is fascinating to observe through her eyes. As Laura grapples with defining her own identity, she also looks at the unique benefits neurodiversity can bring. Lyrical and lush, Odd Girl Out shows how being different doesn't mean being less, and proves that it is never too late for any of us to find our rightful place in the world.

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232

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Seal Press

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1580057799

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9781580057790

The Love Pirate and the Bandit's Son

Murder, Sin, and Scandal in the Shadow of Jesse James

By: Laura James

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The Love Pirate and the Bandit's Son

Murder, Sin, and Scandal in the Shadow of Jesse James

By: Laura James

A beautiful and ruthless lady from Ohio, Zeo Zoe Wilkins made her living as a gold digger, marrying a series of wealthy older men. She hired attorney Jesse James, Jr. to provide legal muscle to extract money from an ex-husband. On the night of March 15, 1924, she was brutally murdered in her Kansas City home. Deftly mixing historical conjecture with forensic fact, the author follows the opportunistic, eccentric, and troubled lives of Wilkins and James, while making a convincing case that their mutual avarice led to a murderous confrontation that bloody night.

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324

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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1402760698

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9781402760693

James Cook

The Voyages

By: William Frame,Laura Walker

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James Cook

The Voyages

By: William Frame,Laura Walker

The twenty-fifth of August 2018 marks the 250th anniversary of the departure of the Endeavour from Plymouth, England, and the first of three voyages by James Cook that would nearly complete the map of the world. Interweaving accounts of scientific discovery with the personal stories of the voyages’ key participants, William Frame and Laura Walker explore the charting of the Pacific and the natural world, the first encounters and exchange between Western and indigenous cultures, and the representation of the voyages in art. The illustrations, many of which have never before been published, include drawings by all the artists employed on the voyages, including Alexander Buchan, Sydney Parkinson, William Hodges, and John Webber. It also includes the only surviving paintings by Tupaia, a Polynesian high priest and navigator who joined the first voyage at Tahiti and sailed with Cook to New Zealand and Australia. A stunningly illustrated object-centred history, James Cook: The Voyages offers a once-in-a-generation opportunity to discover the extensive Captain Cook collection of the British Library, including original maps, artworks, journals, and printed books.

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225

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773554041

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9780773554047

Postmortem Postmodernists

The Afterlife of the Author in Recent Narrative

By: Laura E. Savu

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Postmortem Postmodernists

The Afterlife of the Author in Recent Narrative

By: Laura E. Savu

This book scrutinizes the genre of the author-as-character with respect to three broad issues--authorship, the posthumous, and cultural revisionism--that arise in reading such works from a contemporary perspective. Late twentieth-century fiction "postmodernizes" romantic and modern authors not only to understand them better, but also to understand itself in relation to a past (literary tradition, aesthetic paradigms, cultural formations, etc.) that has not really passed. Penelope Fitzgerald's The Blue Flower, Peter Ackroyd's The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde and Chatterton, Peter Carey's Jack Maggs, Michael Cunningham's The Hours, Colm Toibin's The Master, and Geoff Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence--"the mighty dead" (Harold Bloom) are brought back to life, reanimated and bodied forth in new textual bodies that project a post-modern understanding of the author as a historically and culturally contingent subjectivity constructed along the lines of gender, sexual orientation, class, and nationality. Laura E. Savu is a lecturer at the University of Bucharest.

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302

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Associated University Presse

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0838641814

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9780838641811

The People and Their Peace

Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-revolutionary South

By: Laura F. Edwards

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The People and Their Peace

Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-revolutionary South

By: Laura F. Edwards

This study discusses changes in the legal logic of slavery, race, and gender. Drawing on extensive archival research in North and South Carolina, Laura F. Edwards illuminates those changes by revealing the importance of localized legal practice.

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448

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UNC Press Books

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0807832634

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9780807832639

LeBron James

By: Laura Price Steele

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LeBron James

By: Laura Price Steele

LeBron James worked hard to become a National Basketball Association (NBA) star. Now he uses his fame to give back to others. Learn more about how James rose to the top of the NBA!

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Capstone Press

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1543590756

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9781543590753

James Madison

By: Laura K. Murray

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James Madison

By: Laura K. Murray

How much do you know about James Madison? Find out the facts you need to know about the fourth president of the United States. You'll learn about the early life, challenges, and major accomplishments of this important American.

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Pebble

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1977123317

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Sweet Baby James

By: Laura Simpson

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Sweet Baby James

By: Laura Simpson

This is not just a story; it is in a way, a prayer too. For couples struggling with infertility, this book provides faith and courage to continue the journey when it’s tough. It may produce some insight about why creating a family sometimes takes longer than we expect. It allows couples to rest assured that the child God has chosen for them had been planned a long, long time ago. This book provides comfort during “the wait”. For women struggling with an unplanned pregnancy, this story provides a life giving option. It shows how God can take uncertainty and transform it into beauty, fear into comfort and confusion into peace, as He walks each step with them along the way. For children who have been adopted, this story shows how God places them into their parents’ hearts long before they arrive. Sometimes families are created through non-typical measures, but those families are created just as He had planned; with an immeasurable dose of love. This is our story. We know how it feels to fail time and time again at planning a family to only have our hearts broken repeatedly. Yet, after each failure we still had a nudging inside for a child. Our Sweet Baby James was there all along and we just had to be as patient as he was waiting for God’s plan to unfold. The birth mother in this story is our beloved birth mother. Although her image in this manuscript is fictional, the love that she had for James is a testament to true agape love. She was chosen for a monumental task that she lovingly accepted and we will always cherish her for the unselfish love she demonstrated. The story of Sweet Baby James is here to speak to your heart as he has ours. May it provide comfort and assurance for those who are walking a path that is difficult. Robert Frost famously stated, “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” He was right. For us, it has made all the difference in the world! Make a difference in someone’s life. Provide the encouragement they need to take a difficult road, and remind them that this is a road that God had paved just for them. May God answer your prayers as He has answered ours.

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Xulon Press

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1545631468

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9781545631461

The Science of Psychology: An Appreciative View

By: Laura King

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The Science of Psychology: An Appreciative View

By: Laura King

The second edition of 'The Science of Psychology' brings a truly appreciative view of psychology - as a science and for exploring behavior - to introductory students.

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1990

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0073532061

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9780073532066

Little House 5-Book Collection

Little House in the Big Woods, Farmer Boy, Little House on the Prairie, On the Banks of Plum Creek, By the Shores of Silver Lake

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Little House 5-Book Collection

Little House in the Big Woods, Farmer Boy, Little House on the Prairie, On the Banks of Plum Creek, By the Shores of Silver Lake

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder

This collection of the first five books in Laura Ingalls Wilder's treasured Little House series features Garth Williams’s classic illustrations, which appear in vibrant full color on a full-color device and in rich black-and-white on all other devices. This collection includes Little House in the Big Woods, Farmer Boy, Little House on the Prairie, On the Banks of Plum Creek, and By the Shores of Silver Lake. The Little House books are inspired by Laura’s own childhood and have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America’s frontier history and as heartwarming, unforgettable stories.

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657

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HarperCollins

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0062565990

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9780062565990

A Little House Collection

The First Five Novels

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder

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A Little House Collection

The First Five Novels

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder

The first five original Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, completely unabridged, have been brought together in one exquisite volume. This omnibus collection also contains the original illustrations by Garth Williams, now in full color.

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630

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Harper Collins

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0060769092

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9780060769093

Free Your Mind: The new world of manipulation and how to resist it

By: Laura Dodsworth,Patrick Fagan

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Free Your Mind: The new world of manipulation and how to resist it

By: Laura Dodsworth,Patrick Fagan

The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller Learn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind.

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211

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HarperCollins UK

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000860083X

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9780008600839

The Beauty Defense

Femmes Fatales on Trial

By: Laura James

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The Beauty Defense

Femmes Fatales on Trial

By: Laura James

Justice is blind, they say, but perhaps not to beauty. In supposedly dispassionate courts of law, attractive women have long avoided punishment, based largely on their looks, for cold-blooded crimes. The Beauty Defense: Femmes Fatales on Trial gathers the true stories of some of the most infamous femmes fatales in criminal history, collected by attorney and true crime historian Laura James. With cases from 1850 to 1997, these 32 examples span more than a century, across cultures, ethnicities, and socioeconomic status. But all were so beautiful, as James demonstrates, that they got away with murder. When Madeline Smith, a Glasgow socialite, tried to end a relationship with one man to date another, her jilted lover proved difficult to shake. She solved the problem, James writes, with arsenic-laced chocolates. And in Warrenton, Virginia, mild-mannered heiress Susan Cummings gunned down her polo-playing boyfriend, Roberto, following a disagreement. While these two women lived in different centuries and on different continents, both of their lawyers argued that they were too beautiful to be killers. And in both cases, the juries bought it. In telling the stories of Madeline Smith and Susan Cummings--and 30 others--James proves the existence of the so-called Beauty Defense and shines a spotlight on how gender bias has actually benefited femmes fatales and affected legal systems across the world.

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