The Governess is the latest exciting literary romance novel in Margaret Bowker's Modern Classics Series. Raised by wealthy Mrs Mallory, twenty-two year old Mary Charlton goes to Princeton Court to be an assistant governess to Harry Toille, the young son of Lord Bryam. She soon takes on the additional role of chaperone and friend to his elder sister, Jocasta Cecil, a pretty, wilful girl of twenty with forty thousand pounds. Mary yhelps Jocasta through a number of scrapes and is attracted to Nicholas Hammick, heir to the hazeley Hall estate, and a veru suitable match for the young heiress, but the arrival of John Feltham, a trainee schoolmaster, diverts Jocasta and Mary has to try hard to keep her to her mother's plan, even though her step-father, Lord Bryam, is plotting to disgrace her. When Lord Bryam arranges for Jocasta to dance in transparent clothing, Mary has to intervene. She discovers a secret link with Jocasta and continues to save her reputation, until she pushes Lord Bryam too far and nearly loses her life.
In CRUEL INHERITANCE, the sixth novel of the Modern Classics Series, Jane Austen admirer, Margaret Bowker tells an intriguing tale of an unfair codicil. Two cousins, Silvia Gough and Vivienne Malmais, have the tantilising prospect of a large inheritance from their maiden aunt, subject to the condition they marry in order of age. Silvia, the elder, has until she is thirty to decide whether to marry or follow her inclination of entering a convent; and lovely, naive Vivienne must wait patiently or lose the money. The gentleman in her life will have her without the twenty-five thousand, but one is rich and one poor. Vivienne must grow into a women to decide her future; meanwhile her cousin George and her best friend, Ursula Mason, rekindle a romance blighted five years before by a misunderstanding. Three other novels in the series are available in paperback through Amazon and all good bookshops. www.margaret bowker. deep-ice.com
FARINA HOUSE is the fifth in the Modern Classics Series.Our heroine, Alice, and some would dispute that title, considering her sweet, but modest looks and disappointing health, has a very restrictive life. Her father, a man of great position and respect, is ashamed of her and will not let her outside the grounds. Alice improves and is allowed to meet people. Luckily for her, the people are amazing especially Rupert Ellison, the son of a very handsome family. She falls in love, a superb feeling, which improves her health even more and gives her ideas. She enlists the aid of her cousin, John Crewe and he, whilst succumbing to the beauty of Rupert's sister, Antonia, condones the secret romance and opens up both their lives to excitement, romance and risk in a way neither of them had expected.Four other novels in the series are available in paperback and hardback through Amazon and all good bookshops: http://margaretbowker.deep-ice.com
Margaret is one of the main novelists producing modern day literary romance and Evenside is the most popular of her cyber novels, now in a highly revised form in paperback. It tells the story of Anne Graham, beautiful but strict and of the three men who love her. Anne has her father's looks and her mother's temperament. When James Vincent comes to visit, she falls in love, but finds his impulsive, intrusive nature unacceptable. She is urged to dismiss him by Robert Butler, a man of strong convictions and self-awareness. Torn by James's defiance, she quarrels with him and drives him away, ignoring her third suitor Arthur Morris, whom she sees as a brother. Arthur is soon in deadly peril and James rushes to his assistance, but is he doing it merely to serve his own purposes? The fifth novel in the nineteenth century literary romance series, The Interloper, is presently available in paperback on Amazon and many other sites and warehouses, see http: //margaretbowker.deep-ice.co
Margaret is one of the main novelists producing modern day literary romance. This is the fifth novel in the series, containing strong female characters, engrossing storylines and accessible style. The Interloper tells the tale of Rosaria and Rolf Markham, legally separated in their early twenties and seventeen years later, inhabiting the same large residence in early nineteenth century Northamptonshire. When their daughter, Ria, falls in love with an unsuitable young man, it reawakens all the issues that caused their violent quarrels and a more mature Rosaria gradually makes the journey towards tolerance and affection for her husband. This intriguing interplay takes place alongside the passionate love story of Ria and Ross Westwood and the disappointments and machinations of their friends. The fourth novel in the literary romance series, The Long Engagement, is presently available in hardback on Amazon. http: //margaretbowker.yolasite.co
The arrival of Jeremy Carfax at Radley Grange brings excitement and change into the lives of Julia Mariot and her niece, Vanessa Grey. Julia is on the verge of becoming a confirmed spinster after devoting a decade to her late sister's family and Vanessa suffers from a nervous condition, made worse by her father's controlling temperament. Jeremy is attractive and dangerous to know. He wreaks emotional havoc in the area until a rare holiday in London gives Julia the chance to experience love, while Vanessa becomes more independent, but should she be allowed to marry?
This is a detailed study of the large and important diocese of Lincoln under three sixteenth-century bishops, Smith, Wolsey and Atwater. Little detailed work of this kind has been done on the state of the clergy before the Reformation. General studies have tended to rely on the literature of the time, and consequently more is known about what contemporaries thought of the Church, particularly of its shortcomings, than about the actual state of the church itself. Mrs Bowker has used a wide range of diocesan material to fill in this side of the picture. She describes the machinery of diocesan administration and the organization of the ecclesiastical courts, and indicates the extent to which benefit of clergy was abused. There is an important analysis of the reasons for non-residence and its effect on the parishes. Mrs Bowker discusses the educational opportunities and requirements of the priesthood, and the impact on clerical education of the introduction of the printing press.
Revealing their secrets for monitoring competitive forces and keeping on top of the trends, opportunities, and threats within their industries, this book presents 15 leading CI researchers and their hard-earned secrets.
This unique text provides a comprehensive framework for creating, managing, and interpreting qualitative research studies that yield valid and useful information. Examples of studies from a wide range of disciplines illustrate the strengths, limitations, and applications of the primary qualitative methods: in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, ethnography, content analysis, and case study and narrative research. Following a consistent format, chapters show students and researchers how to implement each method within a paradigm-neutral and flexible Total Quality Framework (TQF) comprising four interrelated components: Credibility, Analyzability, Transparency, and Usefulness. Unlike other texts that relegate quality issues to one or two chapters, detailed discussions of such crucial topics as construct validity, inter-researcher reliability, researcher bias, and verification strategies are featured throughout. The book also addresses applications of the TQF to the writing, review, and evaluation of qualitative research proposals and manuscripts. KEY WORDS/SUBJECT AREAS: case study, content analysis, ethnographic, ethnography, focus groups, interviews, narrative, proposal writing, qualitative research, reliability, research designs, research methods, standards, studies, the literacy, total quality framework, transparency AUDIENCE: Graduate students and instructors in education, sociology, psychology, social work, management, communications, and nursing; researchers and evaluators seeking guidance for their qualitative research work. "--
In Diabetes in Native Chicago Margaret Pollak explores experiences, understandings, and care of diabetes in a Native American community made up of individuals representing more than one hundred tribes from across the United States and Canada. Today Indigenous Americans have some of the highest rates of diabetes worldwide. While rates of diabetes climbed in reservation areas, they also grew in cities, where the majority of Native people live today. Pollak’s central argument is that the relationship between human culture and human biology is a reciprocal one: colonial history has greatly contributed to the diabetes epidemic in Native populations, and the diabetes epidemic is being incorporated into contemporary discussions of ethnic identity in Native Chicago, where a vulnerability to the development of diabetes is described as a distinctly Native trait. This work is based upon ethnographic research in Native Chicago conducted between 2007 and 2017, with ethnographic and oral history interviews, observations, surveys, and archival research. Diabetes in Native Chicago illustrates how local understandings of diabetes are shaped by what community members observe in cases of the disease among family and friends. Pollak shows that in the face of this epidemic, care for disease is woven into the everyday lives of community members. Diabetes is not merely a physical disease but a social one, perpetuated by social policies and practices, and can only be thwarted by changing society.
Covering every essential topic ranging from circulation and literacy instruction to reference and security, this benchmark text provides an up-to-date, broadly based view of library public service and its functions. Supplying essential, foundational reading for students of library public services as well as an up-to-date overview for practitioners who wish to refresh their knowledge or acquaint themselves with a new area of responsibility, this book's broad and solid coverage will benefit anyone concerned with developing or maintaining the public face of the library. A revision and expansion of Libraries Unlimited's Introduction to Library Public Services: Seventh Edition, this edition has new chapters covering such topics as e-resources, collections, print and other media, and facilities and funding. Additionally, every chapter has been substantially updated and reorganized to better reflect the role of technology in library services today. The book begins with background information on public services in libraries and an analysis of the library's public service philosophy. Then, the authors delve into staffing and assessment of services, moving logically to major functional areas of public services—reference, instruction, document delivery, circulation and reserves, collections, programming, safety and security issues, and facilities and funding. Real-life anecdotes from public, academic, and school libraries illustrate principles and concepts throughout the book. For each topic, the authors detail its role and philosophy, and offer key points to remember, references, and lists for further reading.
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