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Escape to Japanese Captivity

A Couple's Tragic Ordeal in Sumatra, 1942–1945

By: C.O. Mick Jennings,Margery Jennings

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Escape to Japanese Captivity

A Couple's Tragic Ordeal in Sumatra, 1942–1945

By: C.O. Mick Jennings,Margery Jennings

This harrowing WWII memoir recounts the tragic ordeal of a British couple separated by war and taken prisoner by Japanese forces in Sumatra. Captain C.O. “Mick” Jennings and his wife Margery were living in British Singapore when the Japanese invaded in 1941. Margery was on her way to Australia with other British families when their ship was bombed, leading to her capture in Sumatra. When Singapore fell in February 1942, Mick and other soldiers commandeered a junk and sailed to Sumatra. With a fellow soldier, he set sail for Australia in a seventeen-foot dinghy. But after an appalling ordeal at sea, he was also captured. Despite their close proximity, Mick and Margery never saw each other again. Though they managed to exchange a few letters, Margery died of deprivation and exhaustion in May 1945, shortly before VJ day, while Mick miraculously survived. Based on personal accounts and Margery’s secret diary, this outstanding book describes in graphic detail their attempted escapes and horrific imprisonments. Above all it is a moving testimony to the couple’s courage, resilience, and ingenuity.

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Pen and Sword Military

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152678310X

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9781526783103

Professional Development, Reflection and Enquiry

By: Christine Forde,Margery McMahon,Alastair D McPhee,Fiona Patrick

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Professional Development, Reflection and Enquiry

By: Christine Forde,Margery McMahon,Alastair D McPhee,Fiona Patrick

′Wow, this book has some inspiring ideas... It comes at a perfect time as schools try to mesh school improvement with performance management, new standards for various career stages and staff development... Well written, with an attractive layout and a consistently clear voice, it draws on wide and up-to-date research and writing from all parts of the United Kingdom... There are no easy answers in this book, but plenty of powerful ideas that might help us ask useful questions about how CPD encourages a commitment to professional and personal growth, and increases self-confidence, job satisfaction and enthusiasm for working with children and colleagues. This is what being a professional is all about′ - Times Educational Supplement, Book of the Week Teaching professionals need to be able to successfully respond to change, and when necessary drive change within schools. To accomplish this, teachers need to be secure in their understanding of their place within the profession and their teaching identity. The focus of this book is upon enabling teachers to explore new ways of working with children, with colleagues and with communities. This book provides teachers working towards Advanced Skills Teacher or Chartered Teacher status, and those on other Continuing Professional Development courses, with an essential text to assist in this process of personal and professional reflection and development planning. The authors focus upon the social, cultural and political aspects of professional development, and explore issues of professional identity.

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202

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SAGE

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1847878555

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9781847878557

Evanston: A Tour Through the City's History

A Tour Through the City's History

By: Margery Blair Perkins

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Evanston: A Tour Through the City's History

A Tour Through the City's History

By: Margery Blair Perkins

Local historian Margery Blair Perkins (1907-1981) provides a detailed narrative charting the growth and development of the North Shore city of Evanston, Illinois, a place boasting a rich and multi-layered history. Perkins brings the citys past to life through stories of its residents, architecture, and growth over the years. She charts the development of the city from its earliest days when it was known as the settlement of Grosse Pointe and later Ridgeville to its modern manifestation as a bustling city just outside of Chicago. Within a larger historical narrative, Perkins provides biographies of noted residents as she documents the evolution of the citys organizations, cultural life and institutions, such as Northwestern University.

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219

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Lulu.com

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0615771793

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9780615771793

Dissenters and Mavericks

Writings about India in English, 1765-2000

By: Margery Sabin

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Dissenters and Mavericks

Writings about India in English, 1765-2000

By: Margery Sabin

This study reinstates the author at the centre of the relationship between literature and history. It explores the tension between "discourse analysis" and literary criticism, then discusses writers who have achieved a measure of freedom from the limitations of their historical moments.

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250

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195150171

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9780195150179

Edwin and Willa Muir

A Literary Marriage

By: Margery Palmer McCulloch

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Edwin and Willa Muir

A Literary Marriage

By: Margery Palmer McCulloch

This is the story of a literary marriage. It tells of the partnership between Edwin and Willa Muir, two intellectuals from small town Scottish backgrounds and their discovery of Europe in the years after the first and second world wars. It tells us about the cultural, social, and political issues of those dynamic and difficult years and much else, in intimate detail, about their own personal struggles. Edwin Muir was to become a leading poet in the twentieth century Scottish literary renaissance, but to make a living the couple also worked as translators of modern German literature, including key works by Hermann Broch and, most famously, Franz Kafka. They were intimate with many of the leading writers of their time, both at home and abroad, and these contacts, and their travels in Europe gave them a special and sometimes painful insight into the trials of the twentieth century. Dr Margery McCulloch's study draws on personal travel and a wealth of new sources from private correspondence, publishers' archives, the recollections of friends, and the diaries, unpublished journals, and autobiographical memoirs of Edwin and Willa themselves. This is the fullest account of the couple's life and times together during a long and loving marriage, not without its difficulties as Willa struggled to find proper acknowledgement of her translation skills, and space for her own creativity as a novelist in the shadow of her own ill health and Edwin's growing status as a major modern poet.

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Oxford University Press

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0192672819

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9780192672810

Teacher Quality, Professional Learning and Policy

Recognising, Rewarding and Developing Teacher Expertise

By: Christine Forde,Margery McMahon

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Teacher Quality, Professional Learning and Policy

Recognising, Rewarding and Developing Teacher Expertise

By: Christine Forde,Margery McMahon

This book examines the significance of teacher expertise in the drive to improve quality and effectiveness. Scrutinising both key conceptual issues and current policy developments and approaches, the authors analyse educational systems from around the world and question how different cultural contexts and systems can implement measures to improve teacher effectiveness. The book analyses factors such as policy change and teacher evaluation as well as the regulation of the teaching profession to determine how these aspects can influence the expertise of individual teachers. As numerous policy interventions have tried to define and enhance teacher quality to raise pupil achievement, this book calls for an interrogation of this stance and signals a need to consider an alternative approach. This book will appeal to students and scholars of teacher effectiveness and professional learning, as well as researchers and policymakers.

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293

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Springer

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1137536543

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9781137536549

Park City

A Knoxville Neighborhood History

By: Margery Weber Bensey

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Park City

A Knoxville Neighborhood History

By: Margery Weber Bensey

Park City's tree-shaded streets frame a neighborhood with an identity all its own. The distinctive homes designed by famed architect George Barber lend Park City its unique visual appeal and local flavor. Yet behind the well-preserved, innovative architectural designs is a history that stretches back to Knoxville's earliest beginnings. Knox County's first sheriff, Robert Houston, was a Park City resident, establishing the county's first court in the late 1700s. Since then, Park City residents have helped shape Knoxville's history by shaping their community. Longtime Park City resident and local historian Margery W. Bensey tracks the history of its development from village to vibrant residential neighborhood. From stories of the first settlers and community events to the dramatic tale of a neighborhood duel, this is the complete Park City chronicle.

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164

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Arcadia Publishing

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1614237689

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9781614237686

Fiske WordPower

The Most Effective System for Building a Vocabulary That Gets Results Fast

By: Edward B Fiske,Jane Mallison,Margery Mandell

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Fiske WordPower

The Most Effective System for Building a Vocabulary That Gets Results Fast

By: Edward B Fiske,Jane Mallison,Margery Mandell

The Exclusive Method You Can Use to Learn—Not Just Memorize—Essential Words A powerful vocabulary expands your world of opportunity. Building your word power will help you write more effectively, communicate clearly, score higher on standardized tests like the SAT, ACT, or GRE, and be more confident and persuasive in everything you do. Using the exclusive Fiske method, you will not just memorize words, but truly learn their meanings and how to use them correctly. This knowledge will stay with you longer and be easier to recall—and it doesn't take any longer than less-effective memorization. How does it work? This book uses a simple three-part system: 1. Patterns: Words aren't arranged randomly or alphabetically, but in similar groups based on meaning and origin that make words easier to remember over time. 2. Deeper Meanings, More Examples: Full explanations—not just brief definitions—of what the words mean, plus multiple examples of the words in sentences. 3. Quick Activities: Frequent short quizzes help you test how much you've learned, while helping your brain internalize their meanings.

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409

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1492650757

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9781492650751

Louisa Catherine

The Other Mrs. Adams

By: Margery M. Heffron

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Louisa Catherine

The Other Mrs. Adams

By: Margery M. Heffron

“Spiced with sexual mischief, political conflict and family tragedy . . . Her biography is nothing less than captivating, an engrossing read.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, wife and political partner of John Quincy Adams, became one of the most widely known women in America when her husband assumed office as sixth president in 1825. Shrewd, intellectual, and articulate, she was close to the center of American power over many decades, and extensive archives reveal her as an unparalleled observer of the politics, personalities, and issues of her day. Louisa left behind a trove of journals, essays, letters, and other writings, yet no biographer has mined these riches until now. Margery Heffron brings Louisa out of the shadows at last to offer the first full and nuanced portrait of an extraordinary first lady. The book begins with Louisa’s early life in London and Nantes, France, then details her excruciatingly awkward courtship and engagement to John Quincy, her famous diplomatic success in tsarist Russia, her life as a mother, years abroad as the wife of a distinguished diplomat, and finally the Washington, D.C., era when, as a legendary hostess, she made no small contribution to her husband’s successful bid for the White House. Louisa’s sharp insights as a tireless recorder provide a fresh view of early American democratic society, presidential politics and elections, and indeed every important political and social issue of her time. “[A] sparkling biography . . . [A] fascinating, if partial, portrait of an exceptional woman.”—The New York Times Book Review (cover review) “Superb . . . Heffron is a spirited, elegant writer.”—Open Letters Monthly

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Yale University Press

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0300206909

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9780300206906

Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers)

By: Margery Post Abbott

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Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers)

By: Margery Post Abbott

The modern reputation of Friends in the United States and Europe is grounded in the relief work they have conducted in the presence and aftermath of war. Friends (also known as Quakers) have coordinated the feeding and evacuation of children from war zones around the world. They have helped displaced persons without regard to politics. They have engaged in the relief of suffering in places as far-flung as Ireland, France, Germany, Ethiopia, Egypt, China, and India. Their work was acknowledged with the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947 to the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and the Friends Service Council of Great Britain. More often, however, Quakers live, worship, and work quietly, without seeking public attention for themselves. Now, the Friends are a truly worldwide body and are recognized by their Christ-centered message of integrity and simplicity, as well as their nonviolent stance and affirmation of the belief that all people—women as well as men—may be called to the ministry. The expanded second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers) relates the history of the Friends through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 700 cross-referenced dictionary entries on concepts, significant figures, places, activities, and periods. This book is an excellent access point for scholars and students, who will find the overviews and sources for further research provided by this book to be enormously helpful.

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600

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Scarecrow Press

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0810870886

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9780810870888

Understanding American Government

By: Susan Welch,John Gruhl,John Comer,Susan M. Rigdon,Margery M. Ambrosius

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Understanding American Government

By: Susan Welch,John Gruhl,John Comer,Susan M. Rigdon,Margery M. Ambrosius

UNDERSTANDING AMERICAN GOVERNMENT is highly respected and trusted for its attention to research and issues of diversity, its award-winning team of authors, and its brief length, made so by not covering policy. While covering the basic foundations and features of American Government, this text also moves beyond the nuts and bolts, to explain why and how important features of government have evolved, their impact on government and individuals, and why these features are controversial (if they are) and worth learning. More than just narrating facts and current issues, UNDERSTANDING AMERICAN GOVERNMENT attempts to leave the students with an understanding of the "why," so their knowledge can be applied long after the course is completed. AMERICAN GOVERNMENT (with policy chapters) is a three-time winner of the American Government Textbook Award for the Best Treatment of Women in Politics, by the Women's Caucus for Political Science.

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614

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Wadsworth Publishing Company

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0534596444

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9780534596446

Escape to Japanese Captivity

A Couple's Tragic Ordeal in Sumatra, 1942–1945

By: Captain Mick Jennings,Margery Jennings

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Escape to Japanese Captivity

A Couple's Tragic Ordeal in Sumatra, 1942–1945

By: Captain Mick Jennings,Margery Jennings

Mick and Margery Jennings's comfortable life in Singapore ended with the Japanese invasion in late 1941. Margery was captured in Sumatra after HMV Mata Hari, the ship taking her and other families to safety in Australia, was bombed. Mick left Singapore after the surrender in February 1942 when he and other soldiers commandeered a junk and sailed to Sumatra. After crossing the island, he and Bombardier Jackson set sail for Australia in a seventeen-foot dinghy. After an appalling ordeal at sea he too was captured and, having recovered in hospital, was incarcerated on Sumatra until moved to Changi Goal in May 1945. Despite not being far apart, Mick and Margery never saw each other again, although they managed to exchange a few letters. Tragically Margery died of deprivation and exhaustion in May 1945, shortly before VJ day, while Mick miraculously survived. Based on personal accounts and Margery’s secret diary, this outstanding book describes in graphic detail their attempted escapes and horrific imprisonments. Above all it is a moving testimony to the couple’s courage, resilience and ingenuity.

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217

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Pen and Sword Military

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1526783126

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9781526783127

Canine Crimes

By: Margery Allingham,Cynthia Manson,John Lutz,Rex Stout

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Canine Crimes

By: Margery Allingham,Cynthia Manson,John Lutz,Rex Stout

From the pages of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine--classic canine capers that will delight dog lovers and mystery fans everywhere. Includes mystery tales by Edward D. Hoch, John Collier, Rex Stout, Jean Potts, John Lutz, and more.

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244

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Jove

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051511250X

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9780515112504

Spare Parts for People

By: Margery Facklam,Howard Facklam

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Spare Parts for People

By: Margery Facklam,Howard Facklam

Discusses current accomplishments in the field of replacing parts in the human body, including organ transplants, artificial organs and implants, and artificial joints and limbs.

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HMH Books For Young Readers

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0152774106

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9780152774103

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Escape to Japanese Captivity

Escape to Japanese Captivity

Professional Development, Reflection and Enquiry

Professional Development, Reflection and Enquiry

Evanston: A Tour Through the City's History

Evanston: A Tour Through the City's History

Dissenters and Mavericks

Dissenters and Mavericks

Edwin and Willa Muir

Edwin and Willa Muir

Teacher Quality, Professional Learning and Policy

Teacher Quality, Professional Learning and Policy

Park City

Park City

Fiske WordPower

Fiske WordPower

Louisa Catherine

Louisa Catherine

Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers)

Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers)

Understanding American Government

Understanding American Government

Escape to Japanese Captivity

Escape to Japanese Captivity

Canine Crimes

Canine Crimes

Spare Parts for People

Spare Parts for People

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