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Express Series English for Cabin Crew

By: Sue Ellis,Lewis Lansford

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Express Series English for Cabin Crew

By: Sue Ellis,Lewis Lansford

Please note that the Print Replica PDF digital version does not contain the audio. English for Cabin Crew is part of the EXPRESS SERIES. It is the ideal quick course for flight attendants who need to use English on the ground or in the air. It’s also suitable for students who are interested in a career in cabin service and are preparing for an entry test or interview with an airline. It can be used to supplement a regular coursebook, on its own as a stand-alone intensive specialist course, or for self-study. With English for Cabin Crew the sky’s the limit.

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Oxford University Press

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019420121X

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9780194201216

The Last Leonardo

The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting

By: Ben Lewis

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The Last Leonardo

The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting

By: Ben Lewis

An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, the recently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million—and might not be the real thing. In 2017, Leonardo da Vinci’s small oil painting the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction. In the words of its discoverer, the image of Christ as savior of the world is “the rarest thing on the planet.” Its $450 million sale price also makes it the world’s most expensive painting. For two centuries, art dealers had searched in vain for the Holy Grail of art history: a portrait of Christ as the Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci. Many similar paintings of greatly varying quality had been executed by Leonardo’s assistants in the early sixteenth century. But where was the original by the master himself? In November 2017, Christie’s auction house announced they had it. But did they? The Last Leonardo tells a thrilling tale of a spellbinding icon invested with the power to make or break the reputations of scholars, billionaires, kings, and sheikhs. Ben Lewis takes us to Leonardo’s studio in Renaissance Italy; to the court of Charles I and the English Civil War; to Amsterdam, Moscow, and New Orleans; to the galleries, salerooms, and restorer’s workshop as the painting slowly, painstakingly emerged from obscurity. The vicissitudes of the highly secretive art market are charted across six centuries. It is a twisting tale of geniuses and oligarchs, double-crossings and disappearances, in which we’re never quite certain what to believe. Above all, it is an adventure story about the search for lost treasure, and a quest for the truth. Praise for The Last Leonardo “The story of the world’s most expensive painting is narrated with great gusto and formidably researched detail in Ben Lewis’s book. . . . Lewis’s probings of the Salvator’s backstory raise questions about its historical status and visibility, and these lead in turn to the fundamental question of whether the painting is really an autograph work by Leonardo.”—Charles Nicholl, The Guardian “As the art historian and critic Ben Lewis shows in his forensically detailed and gripping investigation into the history, discovery and sales of the painting, establishing the truth is like nailing down jelly.”— Michael Prodger, The Sunday Times

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402

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Ballantine Books

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1984819259

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9781984819253

Edith Kermit Roosevelt

Creating the Modern First Lady

By: Lewis L. Gould

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Edith Kermit Roosevelt

Creating the Modern First Lady

By: Lewis L. Gould

Few first ladies have enjoyed a better reputation among historians than Edith Kermit Roosevelt. Aristocratic and sophisticated, tasteful and discreet, she managed the White House with a sure hand. Her admirers say that she never slipped in carrying out her duties as hostess, mother, and adviser to her husband. Lewis Gould's path-breaking study, however, presents a more complex and interesting figure than the somewhat secularized saint Edith Roosevelt has become in the literature on first ladies. While many who knew her found her inspiring and gracious, family members also recalled a more astringent and sometimes nasty personality. Gould looks beneath the surface of her life to examine the intricate legacy of her tenure from 1901 to 1909. The narrative in this book thus uncovers much new about Edith Roosevelt. Far from being averse to activism, Edith Roosevelt served as a celebrity sponsor at a New York musical benefit and also intervened in a high-profile custody dispute. Gould traces her role in the failed marriage of a United States senator, her efforts to secure the ambassador from Great Britain that she wanted, and the growing tension between her and Helen Taft in 1908-1909. Her commitment to bringing classical music artists to the White House, along with other popular performers, receives the fullest attention to date. Gould also casts a skeptical eye over the area where Edith Roosevelt's standing has been strongest, her role as a mother. He looks at how she and her husband performed as parents and dissents from the accustomed judgment that all was well with the way the Roosevelt offspring developed. Most important of all, Gould reveals the first lady's deep animus toward African Americans and their place in American society. She believed "that any mixture of races is an unmitigated evil." The impact of her bigotry on Theodore Roosevelt's racial policies must now be an element in any future discussion of that sensitive subject. On balance, Gould finds that Edith Roosevelt played an important and creative part in how the institution of the first lady developed during the twentieth century. His sprightly retelling of her White House years will likely provoke controversy and debate. All those interested in how the role of the presidential wife has evolved will find in this stimulating book a major contribution to the literature on a fascinating president. It also brings to life a first lady whose legacy must now be seen in a more nuanced and challenging light.

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182

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University Press of Kansas

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0700626514

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9780700626519

Preventing Corruption

Investigation, Enforcement and Governance

By: G. Brooks,D. Walsh,C. Lewis,H. Kim

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Preventing Corruption

Investigation, Enforcement and Governance

By: G. Brooks,D. Walsh,C. Lewis,H. Kim

This book reveals the extent, types, investigation, enforcement and governance of international corruption. Providing a unique international coverage, it reveals the limits of current anti-corruption strategies and explores the involvement of western democratic states in corruption.

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283

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Springer

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1137023864

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9781137023865

The Mammoth Book of the West

New edition

By: Jon E. Lewis

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The Mammoth Book of the West

New edition

By: Jon E. Lewis

Revised and expanded edition of Jon E. Lewis's ever-popular account of the American West. The book is at once a history and a compendium of western lore. It tells what life on the frontier was really like and gives a human portrait of the tough and sometimes violent way of life experienced by the early pioneers. The gunfighters and the cowboys, women, Indians and others, all have their part to play - and as well as the historical accounts there are intriguing anecdotes of everyday life on the plains, from how Montana cowboys warmed up their horses' bits, to the words of the Navajo medicine chants.

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352

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Robinson

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1780337000

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9781780337005

The Rise of Consciousness and the Development of Emotional Life

By: Michael Lewis

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The Rise of Consciousness and the Development of Emotional Life

By: Michael Lewis

Synthesizing decades of influential research and theory, Michael Lewis demonstrates the centrality of consciousness for emotional development. At first, infants' competencies constitute innate reactions to particular physical events in the child's world. These "action patterns" are not learned, but are readily influenced by temperament and social interactions. With the rise of consciousness, these early competencies become reflected feelings, giving rise to the self-conscious emotions of empathy, envy, and embarrassment, and, later, shame, guilt, and pride. Focusing on typically developing children, Lewis also explores problems of atypical emotional development. Winner/m-/William James Book Award, Society for General Psychology (APA Division 1)

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362

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Guilford Publications

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1462512615

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9781462512614

Sibling Therapy

The Ghosts from Childhood That Haunt Your Clients' Love and Work

By: Karen Gail Lewis

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Sibling Therapy

The Ghosts from Childhood That Haunt Your Clients' Love and Work

By: Karen Gail Lewis

Just mention the word "sibling," and everyone has a story to share. It might be a happy story or a miserable one, but they want to tell it. And according to the US Census Bureau (2021), with at least 78.3% of Americans having at least one sibling, that's a lot of stories"--

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233

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Oxford University Press

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0197670261

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9780197670262

Welsh Americans

A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields

By: Ronald L. Lewis

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Welsh Americans

A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields

By: Ronald L. Lewis

In 1890, more than 100,000 Welsh-born immigrants resided in the United States. A majority of them were skilled laborers from the coal mines of Wales who had been recruited by American mining companies. Readily accepted by American society, Welsh immigrants experienced a unique process of acculturation. In the first history of this exceptional community, Ronald Lewis explores how Welsh immigrants made a significant contribution to the development of the American coal industry and how their rapid and successful assimilation affected Welsh American culture. Lewis describes how Welsh immigrants brought their national churches, fraternal orders and societies, love of literature and music, and, most important, their own language. Yet unlike eastern and southern Europeans and the Irish, the Welsh--even with their "foreign" ways--encountered no apparent hostility from the Americans. Often within a single generation, Welsh cultural institutions would begin to fade and a new "Welsh American" identity developed. True to the perspective of the Welsh themselves, Lewis's analysis adopts a transnational view of immigration, examining the maintenance of Welsh coal-mining culture in the United States and in Wales. By focusing on Welsh coal miners, Welsh Americans illuminates how Americanization occurred among a distinct group of skilled immigrants and demonstrates the diversity of the labor migrations to a rapidly industrializing America.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807887900

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9780807887905

History of Patrick and Henry Counties, Virginia

By: Virginia G. Pedigo,Lewis Gravely Pedigo

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History of Patrick and Henry Counties, Virginia

By: Virginia G. Pedigo,Lewis Gravely Pedigo

After an illuminating account of the history of Patrick and Henry counties, which occupies the first third of the book, the authors turn their attention to genealogy, providing authoritative histories of no fewer than 110 families. The genealogies generally begin with the first settler in either Patrick or Henry County and proceed to enumerate descendants in several generations, providing incidental detail according to the materials available. In addition to the remarkable collection of genealogies, the book also contains transcriptions of important genealogical source materials, such as the Patrick and Henry land grants and patents registered in the old Land Office in Richmond.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806380101

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9780806380100

Principles of Development

By: Lewis Wolpert,Cheryll Tickle

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Principles of Development

By: Lewis Wolpert,Cheryll Tickle

Principles of Development reveals the universal principles that govern the process of development, illustrating how a highly-complex living organism forms from just a single fertilized egg.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199549079

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9780199549078

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Express Series English for Cabin Crew

Express Series English for Cabin Crew

The Last Leonardo

The Last Leonardo

Edith Kermit Roosevelt

Edith Kermit Roosevelt

Preventing Corruption

Preventing Corruption

The Mammoth Book of the West

The Mammoth Book of the West

The Rise of Consciousness and the Development of Emotional Life

The Rise of Consciousness and the Development of Emotional Life

Sibling Therapy

Sibling Therapy

Welsh Americans

Welsh Americans

History of Patrick and Henry Counties, Virginia

History of Patrick and Henry Counties, Virginia

Principles of Development

Principles of Development

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