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Haley's Star

Book Three of the Shooting Star Series

By: Lesley Esposito

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Haley's Star

Book Three of the Shooting Star Series

By: Lesley Esposito

In the last book of the Shooting Star Series we follow Allie back to New York City. She is ready to embark on her new career and discover all that the city that never sleeps has to offer. On a chance meeting she meets James who has sworn off women yet somehow agrees to be her city tour guide. As Allie builds the life she wants she is forced to move past her attraction for James, Will he choose to let her go and stay in his funk forever and if not will he be too late?

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1524658774

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9781524658779

Religion & Life Issues and Religion & Morality

GCSE Religious Studies for AQA B

By: Lesley Parry,Jan Hayes,Kim Hands

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Religion & Life Issues and Religion & Morality

GCSE Religious Studies for AQA B

By: Lesley Parry,Jan Hayes,Kim Hands

The only book on the market combining the two most popular AQA B GCSE Religious Studies units; Religion and Life (Unit 2) and Religion and Morality (Unit 3), ensuring that students have everything they need in one place. - Helps students engage with the content by providing an informed view of issues which affect the lives of young people today - Guides students through exam preparation and develops their exam skills with revision outlines, Top Tips and techniques sections - Helps students understand the structure and types of questions in exams with a practice paper at the end of each unit - Provides a trusted resource informed by the expert authors' many years of experience providing AQA Religious Studies content

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Hodder Education

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1471833259

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9781471833250

I Love My Job But It's Killing Me

The Teacher's Guide to Conquering Chronic Stress and Sickness

By: Lesley Moffat

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I Love My Job But It's Killing Me

The Teacher's Guide to Conquering Chronic Stress and Sickness

By: Lesley Moffat

I Love My Job But It’s Killing Me is the step-by-step guide teachers need to get back to the career they love without compromising their health any longer. I Love My Job But It’s Killing Me is a no-nonsense and practical guide to help get teachers started today on the path to improved health and more energy, so they can get back their career – and their life. Within I Love My Job But It’s Killing Me, teachers learn techniques that will: Improve their ability to fall and stay asleep Reduce brain fog and exhaustion brought on by stress Eliminate or greatly minimize aches and pains that interfere with daily work Help them reclaim the energy needed to support their work and family life Gives concrete steps to take when it feels like it’s all falling apart

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Morgan James Publishing

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1642796220

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9781642796223

Real English

The Grammar of English Dialects in the British Isles

By: James Milroy,Lesley Milroy

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Real English

The Grammar of English Dialects in the British Isles

By: James Milroy,Lesley Milroy

While it is accepted that the pronunciation of English shows wide regional differences, there is a marked tendency to under-estimate the extent of the variation in grammar that exists within the British Isles today. In addressing this problem, Real English brings together the work of a number of experts on the subject to provide a pioneer volume in the field of the grammar of spoken English.

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Routledge

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1317896955

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9781317896951

The Breakup Book

20 Steps to Heal a Broken Heart

By: Lesley Robins

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The Breakup Book

20 Steps to Heal a Broken Heart

By: Lesley Robins

“This book is written in a funny, straightforward, no B.S. kind of way and reminds me how delicate relationships and breakups really are” (Kevin Connolly, actor, Entourage). If you’re struggling to get back on your feet and reclaim your life after a breakup, this book will give you a roadmap to finding yourself again—a stronger, wiser self. With wit and honesty, Lesley Robins shares her own experiences to show that she too has suffered the lack of self-worth many women experience after a difficult breakup. She shapes the lessons she learned into frank and practical advice, providing simple and effective ways to move on with your life. With time and the right approach, your heart will heal and you will be ready to face the world with new-found strength and wisdom. The Breakup Book will help thousands, perhaps millions, of women who are struggling to find their life, their path, their soul when it seems that all is lost forever. “Pure inspiration in a fresh voice that will make readers feel they have a smart and sassy new best friend.” —Giuliana Rancic, anchor, E! News “Lesley Robins rocks and here’s why: I have a beautiful, young daughter, and as a young father who knows what it’s like out there in the world, what I fear most about her growing up is . . . boys. I look forward to passing on these words of wisdom to her. This book is awesome. Read it.” —Constantine Maroulis, American Idol finalist, Tony Nominee, Rock of Ages

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Morgan James Publishing

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1630471224

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9781630471224

Murder in Steeple Martin

a completely gripping English cozy mystery in the village of Steeple Martin

By: Lesley Cookman

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Murder in Steeple Martin

a completely gripping English cozy mystery in the village of Steeple Martin

By: Lesley Cookman

THERE'S A BAFFLING MYSTERY IN THE VILLAGE OF STEEPLE MARTIN...BUT ACTRESS AND AMATEUR SLEUTH LIBBY SARJEANT IS ON THE CASE! 'The characters are so likeable. I would love to visit the mythical Steeple Martin!' ***** GoodReads review Libby Sarjeant, former actress and artist, loves life in the idyllic English countryside. She's busy with her friends preparing a play for the pretty new Oast House Theatre in Steeple Martin when there's suddenly news of a baffling mystery - the murder of a cast member. Written by Libby's friend Peter, the play is based on real events from his family's history, and it seems that these events still cast a long shadow in Steeple Martin. From the Pink Geranium restaurant to the Manor Farm, Libby risks causing a scene as she uncovers secrets hidden in the village. Can Libby, with best friend Fran and Sidney the cat in tow, find the culprit and get her show on the road? The first book in Lesley Cookman's bestselling series featuring amateur sleuth Libby Sarjeant, this unputdownable cozy crime novel is perfect for fans of Betty Rowlands, Faith Martin, J.R. Ellis, LJ Ross, Miss Marple and Midsummer Murders. _________________________________________________________________ Praise for the bestselling series: 'Cozy village mystery with an amateur theater and links to the past. What's not to love?' ***** Goodreads reviewer 'Absolutely fabulous read. I couldn't put it down and had to finish it, reading through bath, breakfast and getting dressed' ***** Goodreads review 'I'm surprised this is not a BBC series... it's that good and I for one intend to read more of Libby's adventures' ***** Goodreads review

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Accent Press

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1908917075

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9781908917072

General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend

By: Lesley J. Gordon

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General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend

By: Lesley J. Gordon

A critical biography of the best known and least accurately understood Civil War general, including the legends perpetrated by his widow, LaSalle Corbell Pickett.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807854271

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9780807854273

Improving Transition Planning For Young People With Special Educational Needs

For Young People with Special Educational Needs

By: Dee, Lesley

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Improving Transition Planning For Young People With Special Educational Needs

For Young People with Special Educational Needs

By: Dee, Lesley

Offers practical ideas for facilitating the transition from school to career for young people with learning difficulties and/or disabilities.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335216269

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9780335216260

Touched by God

By: Bobby Jones,Lesley Sussman

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Touched by God

By: Bobby Jones,Lesley Sussman

In a soul-lifting collection that resounds with joy, today's black gospel superstars tell how the Lord has changed their lives, shaped their music -- and led them to triumph over life's most incredible trials. Dr. Bobby Jones, host of Black Entertainment Television's Bobby Jones Gospel and Video Gospel, joins nineteen acclaimed gospel performers whose personal stories, like the healing, hopeful music they were called to sing, are celebrations of God's glory. Kirk Franklin reveals how it took the violent death of his close friend for God to reach out and touch him, and turn him from a gang-banger to a minister for Christ. John P. Kee affirms that God saved him from drugs and the fast-money lifestyle of the streets. Shirley Caesar remembers how she fell apart when her mother died, and how the Lord helped put the pieces of her life back together. Given only a few months to live by his doctors, blind minister and gospel star Rev. James Moore praises God for a different kind of prognosis that keeps him singing to this very day. Gospel matriarch Albertina Walker's testimony affirms her God-given stamina in a harsh world that has tried to knock her down more than once. Dottie Peoples describes an encounter with an angel that took her out of nightclubs and returned her to singing gospel music in church. As rousing as a gospel choir in full swing, these and other inspiring accounts of hope and transformation confirm the power of music and faith -- and will stir the hearts of those looking to strengthen their own ties with the Lord.

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Simon and Schuster

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067102003X

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9780671020033

Yours Mine Ours

By: Bridgitte Lesley

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Yours Mine Ours

By: Bridgitte Lesley

In so many families there is a ‘yours’ and a ‘mine’ scenario. Your children. My children. And sometimes ‘ours’. Dawn and Dutch had both had it rough. Their partners had both moved on. Leaving them both thinking that they were pretty useless. In everything including the bedroom duties. Which really was not the case. It was a Sunday afternoon when Dawn had taken her family out to lunch that she met Dutch. Dutch was with his family doing the karaoke. At a little pub come restaurant. Dawn became the star performer but soon had to run off. Soon enough Dutch and Dawn started dating. They weren’t youngsters. But the feelings coursing through their bodies were both new and strange. They hadn’t lived their lives when they should have. They had one tiny little tiff which provoked the little jealous monster. But it soon blew over. Dutch’ family soon became Dawn’s. Dawn’s family admired Dutch. It ended up as ours. A chuckle awaits you! Enjoy!

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XinXii

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3959261993

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9783959261999

Voicing American Poetry

Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present

By: Lesley Wheeler

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Voicing American Poetry

Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present

By: Lesley Wheeler

This book is a study of voice in poetry, beginning in the 1920s when modernism rose to the surface of poetry and other arts, and when radio expanded suddenly in the United States.

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Cornell University Press

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0801474426

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9780801474422

Jane Austen's England

Daily Life in the Georgian and Regency Periods

By: Roy Adkins,Lesley Adkins

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Jane Austen's England

Daily Life in the Georgian and Regency Periods

By: Roy Adkins,Lesley Adkins

An authoritative account of everyday life in Regency England, the backdrop of Austen’s beloved novels, from the authors of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018) Nearly two centuries after her death, Jane Austen remains the most cherished of all novelists in the English language, incomparable in the wit, warmth, and insight with which she depicts her characters and life. Yet the milieu Austen presents is only one aspect of the England in which she lived, a time of war, unrest, and dramatic changes in the country’s physical and social landscape. Jane Austen’s England offers a fascinating new view of the great novelist’s time, in a wide-ranging and richly detailed social history of English culture. As in their bestselling book Nelson’s Trafalgar, Roy and Lesley Adkins have drawn upon a wide array of contemporary sources to chart the daily lives of both the gentry and the commoners, providing a vivid cultural snapshot of not only how people worked and played, but how they struggled to survive.

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Penguin

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0143125729

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9780143125723

New Interchange and Passages Placement and Evaluation Package

By: Tay Lesley,Christa Hansen,Jean Zukowski-Faust

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New Interchange and Passages Placement and Evaluation Package

By: Tay Lesley,Christa Hansen,Jean Zukowski-Faust

Passages is a two-level, multi-skills course that takes students of English from the high-intermediate to the advanced level. The New Interchange/Passages Placement and Evaluation Package contains three versions of a placement test designed to help teachers determine the level of Interchange Third Edition or Passages best suited to their students. The package also contains two versions of midterm and final tests for each level of Interchange and Passages, which assess students' mastery of materials introduced in both series. The package is composed of a photocopiable testing book and two Audio CDs and includes all answer keys and scripts, as well as complete guidelines on how to administer the tests.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521628822

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9780521628822

The Unofficial Guide to London

By: Lesley Logan

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The Unofficial Guide to London

By: Lesley Logan

From the publishers of The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World "A Tourist's Best Friend!" - Chicago Sun-Times "Indispensable" - The New York Times Five Great Features and Benefits offered ONLY by The Unofficial Guide : Over 50 detailed profiles of hotels rated and ranked for value and quality The best restaurants for every taste and budget All the details on London's attractions - which ones are worth your while, and how much time to budget for the must-sees Money-saving tips, including how to get into museums for free or reduced prices, and how to tour London on a double-decker bus for a All the details on how to enjoy London with your kids

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470138297

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9780470138298

This Far-Off Wild Land

The Upper Missouri Letters of Andrew Dawson

By: Lesley Wischmann,Andrew Dawson

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This Far-Off Wild Land

The Upper Missouri Letters of Andrew Dawson

By: Lesley Wischmann,Andrew Dawson

In the mid-1800s, Andrew Dawson, self-exiled from his home in Scotland, joined the upper Missouri River fur trade and rose through the ranks of the American Fur Company. A headstrong young man, he had come to America at the age of twenty-four after being dismissed from his second job in two years. His poignant sense of isolation is evident throughout his letters home between 1844 and 1861. In This Far-Off Wild Land, Lesley Wischmann and Andrew Erskine Dawson—a relative of this colorful figure—couple an engaging biography of Dawson with thirty-seven of his previously unpublished letters from the American frontier. Three years after he landed in St. Louis, Dawson went up the Missouri in 1847 to what is now North Dakota and Montana, taking command of Fort Berthold, Fort Clark, and eventually Fort Benton, the premier fur trade post of the day. Fort Berthold and Fort Clark, where Dawson worked until 1854, remain two of the least documented American Fur Company posts. His letters infuse life, and occasional high drama, to the stories of these forgotten outposts. At Fort Benton, his insight in establishing commercial warehouses helped the company keep pace with the changing frontier. By the time Dawson returned to Scotland—after twenty years in what he labeled a far-off, wild land—he had risen to become the last “King of the Upper Missouri.” Thoughtfully annotated, Dawson’s letters, discovered only recently by his relatives, provide a rare glimpse into the lonely life of a fur trader in the 1840s and 1850s. Unlike the impersonal business correspondence that makes up most fur trade writings, Dawson’s letters are wonderfully human, suffused with raw emotion. Combining careful research with a compelling story, the authors flesh out the forces that shaped Dawson’s personality and the historical events he recorded.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806189339

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9780806189338

Modern Love

The Lives of John and Sunday Reed

By: Kendrah Morgan,Lesley Harding

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Modern Love

The Lives of John and Sunday Reed

By: Kendrah Morgan,Lesley Harding

Much has been written about the lives and art of Heide, but finally the remaining members of the inner circle have entrusted the full story to be told through this intimate biography of John and Sunday Reed. Part romance, part tragedy, Modern Love explores the complex lives of these champions of successive generations of Australian artists and writers, detailing their artistic endeavours and passionate personal entanglements. It is a story of rebellion against their privileged backgrounds and of a bohemian existence marked by extraordinary achievements, intense heartbreak and enduring love. John and Sunday’s was a remarkable partnership that affected all those who crossed the threshold into Heide and which altered the course of art in Australia.

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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0522862829

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9780522862829

Ben Jonson's Antimasques

A History of Growth and Decline

By: Lesley Mickel

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Ben Jonson's Antimasques

A History of Growth and Decline

By: Lesley Mickel

First published in 1999, this volume examines how under the patronage of James I and then Charles I, Ben Jonson wrote no less than 28 court masques. Paying particular attention to the antimasque, Lesley Mickel discusses in detail those court entertainments which contributed significantly to the genre’s evolution and development. Her approach is innovative in that she examines these court entertainments in relation to Jonson’s poetry and dramatic works. This reveals some idea of the way in which Jonson perceived the relationship between satire and panegyric, as well as highlighting the related, if oppositional, views of state power which he expresses in the Roman plays and in the masques.

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Routledge

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0429864442

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9780429864445

The Murder Mile

A Yorkshire Crime Thriller

By: Lesley McEvoy

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The Murder Mile

A Yorkshire Crime Thriller

By: Lesley McEvoy

Jo, it's me. We've found another body." A body is discovered on a canal towpath in the small Yorkshire town of Shipley. DCI Callum Ferguson calls on forensic psychologist Jo McCready to help investigate the mysterious crime. The victim is the second to be found on the canal in as many weeks, and Jo believes a single killer is responsible. Then, when one of her troubled patients is found brutally murdered, a puzzling connection emerges: is the murderer taking inspiration from the most notorious serial killer in Britain's history? As DCI Ferguson and Jo McCready race to find the killer, the investigation takes more twists and turns than Yorkshire's canals. And with more questions than answers, can they solve it before another body turns up? *** 'McEvoy really knows her stuff.' IAN RANKIN *** Author Lesley McEvoy uses her insider knowledge to create unbelievably gripping, unputdownable crime novels - perfect for fans of Rachel McLean, J.R. Ellis and Elly Griffiths.

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Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.

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1838775986

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9781838775988

Developing Practical Adult Nursing Skills

By: Lesley Baillie,Thomas L.

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Developing Practical Adult Nursing Skills

By: Lesley Baillie,Thomas L.

This is the third edition of the highly successful textbook, Developing Practical Nursing Skills, which has been revised specifically for nursing and health care students working with adult patients, offering a more comprehensive guide that will last throughout initial training and beyond. Maintaining the practical and easy-to-use style o

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CRC Press

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1444154915

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9781444154917

Fallout

The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World

By: Lesley M.M. Blume

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Fallout

The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World

By: Lesley M.M. Blume

The picture does not tell the whole story -- Scoop the world -- MacArthur's closed kingdom -- Six survivors -- Some events at Hiroshima -- Detonation -- Aftermath.

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Simon and Schuster

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1982128534

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9781982128531

Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies

Death, Mourning, and Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer

By: Lesley Alexandra Sharp

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Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies

Death, Mourning, and Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer

By: Lesley Alexandra Sharp

The human body defines a lucrative site of reusable parts, ranging from whole organs to minuscule and even microscopic tissues. Although the medical practices that enable the transfer of parts from one body to another most certainly relieve suffering and extend lives, they have also irrevocably altered perceptions of the cultural values assigned to the body. In Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies, Lesley A. Sharp probes the ideological assumptions underlying the transfer of body parts, the social significance of donors' deaths, and the medico-scientific desires surrounding complex forms of body repair. She also considers the experimental realm, in which nonhuman species and artificial devices present further opportunities for recovery and controversy. A compelling scientific investigation and social critique, Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies explores the pervasive, and at times pernicious, practices shaping American biomedicine in the twenty-first century.

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Columbia University Press

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0231138393

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9780231138390

REMNANT

By: Lesley Barklay

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REMNANT

By: Lesley Barklay

When the old world is overcome by nuclear holocaust, Talina is drawn into a land of wizards, kings and intrigue. Uncertain of her past, plagued by memories of times long gone, and bound to her future, Talina is left to decide whether to follow her heart or the destiny of magic that is the legacy of a forgotten race. ‘And it shall come to pass that the Old World will be tested, and found wanting, it will pass through the fi res of destruction. One must journey to the wronged land and pay the price; the blood of the Saviour must be spilled to renew the land.’

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Xlibris Corporation

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1450008348

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9781450008341

Developing Practical Nursing Skills

By: Lesley Baillie

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Developing Practical Nursing Skills

By: Lesley Baillie

Developing Practical Nursing Skills, Fourth Edition helps you learn and perfect the practical skills required to become a qualified nurse. Patient-focussed and adopting a caring approach, this essential text will also help you to integrate nursing values alongside physical skills in your daily practice. Key features include:Full colour text de

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1444175963

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9781444175967

Fictions of Integration

American Children's Literature and the Legacies of Brown v. Board of Education

By: Naomi Lesley

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Fictions of Integration

American Children's Literature and the Legacies of Brown v. Board of Education

By: Naomi Lesley

This book examines how children’s and young adult literature addresses and interrogates the legacies of American school desegregation. Such literature narrates not only the famous battles to implement desegregation in the South, in places like Little Rock, Arkansas, but also more insidious and less visible legacies, such as re-segregation within schools through the mechanism of disability diagnosis. Novelizations of children’s experiences with school desegregation comment upon the politics of getting African-American children access to white schools; but more than this, as school stories, they also comment upon how structural racism operates in the classroom and mutates, over the course of decades, through the pedagogical practices depicted in literature for young readers. Lesley combines approaches from critical race theory, disability studies, and educational philosophy in order to investigate how the educational market simultaneously constrains how racism in schools can be presented to young readers and also provides channels for radical critiques of pedagogy and visions of alternative systems. The volume examines a range of titles, from novels that directly engage the Brown v. Board of Education decision, such as Sharon Draper’s Fire From the Rock and Dorothy Sterling’s Mary Jane, to novels that engage less obvious legacies of desegregation, such as Cynthia Voigt’s Dicey’s Song, Sharon Flake’s Pinned, Virginia Hamilton’s The Planet of Junior Brown, and Louis Sachar’s Holes. This book will be of interest to scholars of American studies, children’s literature, and educational philosophy and history.

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311

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Routledge

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1315472279

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9781315472270

Little White Lies

By: Lesley Lokko

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Little White Lies

By: Lesley Lokko

The glorious novel from the bestselling Lesley Lokko; an epic tale of three women whose lives interweave over decades. In a beachfront mansion in Martha's Vineyard, Annick and Rebecca relax, safe in the knowledge that their young children are in the care of life-long friend Tash. But by the end of the afternoon, one of the children will have vanished... Annick, daughter of an actress and an assassinated president, has spent her life running from the truth of her family's wealth. Rebecca has always done the right thing. Perfect daughter. Perfect wife. Perfect mother. She's beginning to wonder if she'll ever get chance to live for herself. And Tash, free from the poverty of her heritage, has the world at her feet. So why is she struggling to keep a grip on her life? This is the sweeping story of three very different women; their pasts, their secrets, and their friendship.

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Orion

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1409142493

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9781409142492

John Huston's Filmmaking

By: Lesley Brill

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John Huston's Filmmaking

By: Lesley Brill

John Huston's Filmmaking offers an analysis of the life and work of one of the greatest American independent filmmakers. Always visually exciting, Huston's films sensitively portray humankind in all its incarnations, chronicling the attempts by protagonists to conceive and articulate their identities. Fundamental questions of selfhood, happiness and love are intimately connected to the idea of home, which for the filmmaker also signified a congenial place among other people in the world. In this study, Lesley Brill shows Huston's films to be far more than formulaic adventures of masculine failure, arguing instead that they demonstrate the close connection between humanity, the natural world, and divinity.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521586704

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9780521586702

Ghost Ranch

By: Lesley Poling-Kempes

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Ghost Ranch

By: Lesley Poling-Kempes

For more than a century, Ghost Ranch has attracted people of enormous energy and creativity to the high desert of northern New Mexico. Occupying twenty-two thousand acres of the Piedra Lumbre basin, this fabled place was the love of artist Georgia O’Keeffe’s life, and her depictions of the landscape catapulted Ghost Ranch to international recognition. Building on the history of the Abiquiu region that she told in Valley of Shining Stone, Ghost Ranch historian Lesley Poling-Kempes now unfolds the story of this celebrated retreat. She traces its transformation from el Rancho de los Brujos, a hideout for legendary outlaws, to a renowned cultural mecca and one of the Southwest’s premier conference centers. First a dude ranch, Ghost Ranch became a magical sanctuary where the veil between heaven and earth seemed almost transparent. Focusing on those who visited from the 1920s and ’30s until the 1990s, Poling-Kempes tells how O’Keeffe and others—from Boston Brahmin Carol Bishop Stanley to paleontologist Edwin H. Colbert, Los Alamos physicists to movie stars—created a unique community that evolved into the institution that is Ghost Ranch today. For this book, Poling-Kempes has drawn on information not available when Valley of Shining Stone was written. The biography of Juan de Dios Gallegos has been enhanced and definitively corrected. The Robert Wood Johnson (of Johnson & Johnson) years at Ghost Ranch are recounted with reminiscences from family members. And the memories of David McAlpin Jr. shed light on how the Princeton circle that included the Packs, the Johnson brothers, the Rockefellers, and the McAlpins ended up as summer neighbors on the high desert of New Mexico. After Arthur Pack’s gift of the ranch to the Presbyterian Church in 1955, Ghost Ranch became a spiritual home for thousands of people still awestruck by the landscape that O’Keeffe so lovingly committed to canvas; yet the care taken to protect Ghost Ranch’s land and character has preserved its sense of intimacy. By relating its remarkable story, Poling-Kempes invites all visitors to better appreciate its place as an honored wilderness—and to help safeguard its future.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816548994

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Australia's Biodiversity and Climate Change

By: Will Steffen,Andrew A. Burbidge,Lesley Hughes,Roger Kitching,David Lindenmayer,Warren Musgrave,Mark Stafford Smith,Patricia A. Werner

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Australia's Biodiversity and Climate Change

By: Will Steffen,Andrew A. Burbidge,Lesley Hughes,Roger Kitching,David Lindenmayer,Warren Musgrave,Mark Stafford Smith,Patricia A. Werner

Australia's unique biodiversity is under threat from a rapidly changing climate. The effects of climate change are already discernible at all levels of biodiversity - genes, species, communities and ecosystems. Many of Australia's most valued and iconic natural areas - the Great Barrier Reef, south-western Australia, the Kakadu wetlands and the Australian Alps - are among the most vulnerable. But much more is at stake than saving iconic species or ecosystems. Australia's biodiversity is fundamental to the country's national identity, economy and quality of life. In the face of uncertainty about specific climate scenarios, ecological and management principles provide a sound basis for maximising opportunities for species to adapt, communities to reorganise and ecosystems to transform while maintaining basic functions critical to human society. This innovative approach to biodiversity conservation under a changing climate leads to new challenges for management, policy development and institutional design. This book explores these challenges, building on a detailed analysis of the interactions between a changing climate and Australia's rich but threatened biodiversity. Australia's Biodiversity and Climate Change is an important reference for policy makers, researchers, educators, students, journalists, environmental and conservation NGOs, NRM managers, and private landholders with an interest in biodiversity conservation in a rapidly changing world."--Publisher.

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CSIRO PUBLISHING

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0643096051

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9780643096059

The Killer Wore Cranberry

By: Barb Goffman,Stephanie Beck,Laird Long,Beth Mathison,Earl Staggs,Lance Zarimba,Lesley A. Diehl,Jack Bates,Kathleen Gerard

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The Killer Wore Cranberry

By: Barb Goffman,Stephanie Beck,Laird Long,Beth Mathison,Earl Staggs,Lance Zarimba,Lesley A. Diehl,Jack Bates,Kathleen Gerard

Nothing says Thanksgiving like food and murder. If you've ever thought about knocking off Uncle Seymour when he grabs the last slice of pumpkin pie or you think the turkey might be giving you the evil eye, this is the anthology for you!Authors Barb Goffman, Stephanie Beck, Laird Long, Beth Mathison, Earl Staggs, Lance Zarimba, Lesley A. Diehl, Jack Bates and Kathleen Gerard bring you servings of your favorite Thanksgiving dishes with a dash of mystery and a hearty helping of humor. You may still have to deal with the in-laws, but this anthology may make Aunt Esmerelda's green bean casserole a bit more tolerable to handle. Think you'll be too full trying to digest an entire anthology? Each short story is also available individually.

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Untreed Reads

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1611870135

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Cubism & Australian Art

By: Lesley Harding,Sue Cramer

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Cubism & Australian Art

By: Lesley Harding,Sue Cramer

Cubism was a movement that changed fundamentally the course of twentieth-century art. It had far-reaching effects, both conceptual and stylistic, which are still being felt today. Described in 1912 by French poet and commentator Guillaume Apollinaire as 'not an art of imitation, but an art of conception', Cubism irreversibly altered art's relationship to visual reality. 'I paint things as I think them, not as I see them', Picasso said. Cubism and Australian Art examines for the first time the impact of this transformative art movement on the work of Australian artists, from the early 1920s to the present day. The authors argue that by its very nature, Cubism was characterised by variation and change, that the idea of a pure or original Cubism was short lived, and that its appearance in Australian art parallels its uptake and re-interpretation by artists internationally. In the words of French artist Andr Lhote, mentor to several Australians who studied at his Academy in Paris: 'There are a thousand defi nitions of Cubism, because there are a thousand painters practising it'. More than eighty international and Australian artists are showcased with over 300 works, featuring Sam Atyeo, Ralph Balson, Grace Crowley, Frank Hinder, Roger Kemp, Godfrey Miller, Stephen Bram and Daniel Crooks, as well as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Fernand L ger.

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The Miegunyah Press

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052285673X

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9780522856736

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