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THAT'S JUST HOW IT WAS

By: Mary Thorpe

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This work is a labor of love by writer Mary Thorpe as a tribute to her much loved Granny O'Rourke (nee Nolan) in an attempt to place the stories she heard and was told into a true and historical context. As a social worker who came across many cases of social deprivation in modern times, Mary had the dawning realization regarding what her own grandmother had been through in even harder times in the late part of the nineteenth century and early part of the twentieth century in Ireland. Mary felt the driving need to record her much-loved grandmother's story as recognition of Bridget's harsh life and also as a tribute to her and the millions of others like her who made the best of things while still retaining a sense of pride, of the worth of education as a ticket out of poverty, and of the importance of retaining one's dignity and commitment to family through good and bad times.

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1491889853

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The House of the Burgesses

By: Michael Burgess,Mary Wickizer Burgess

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The House of the Burgesses

By: Michael Burgess,Mary Wickizer Burgess

A facsimile reprint of the Second Edition (1994) of this genealogical guide to 25,000 descendants of William Burgess of Richmond (later King George) County, Virginia, and his only known son, Edward Burgess of Stafford (later King George) County, Virginia. Complete with illustrations, photos, comprehensive given and surname indexes, and historical introduction.

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Wildside Press LLC

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0893704792

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9780893704797

Ansel Adams

A Biography

By: Mary Street Alinder

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Ansel Adams

A Biography

By: Mary Street Alinder

First published in 1996, Mary Street Alinder's biography of Ansel Adams remains the only full biography of one of the greatest American photographers. Alinder is a respected scholar, and also had a close connection to Adams, serving as his chief assistant in the last five years of his life. The portrait she creates of him is intimate and affectionate; it is also clear-eyed. She takes on his difficult childhood in San Francisco, the friendships and rivalries within his circle of photographers, his leadership in America's environmental movement, his marriage, his affairs, and his not-always-successful fatherhood. Enriched by her uniquely personal understanding of Adams the man, she explains the artistic philosophy that, paired with his peerless technique, produced an inimitable style. Her biography is likely to remain unrivaled. This new edition will bring the classic up to date and includes research that reveals new information and a deeper understanding of his greatest photographs. It will also include thirty-two pages of reproductions of Adams's work and snapshots of the artist and close friends.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1620408015

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9781620408018

Genres of the Credit Economy

Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Mary Poovey

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Genres of the Credit Economy

Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Mary Poovey

Banking, borrowing, investing, and even losing money - in other words, participating in the modern financial system - seem like routine activities of everyday life. This book looks at how this came to be the case by examining the history of financial instruments and representations of finance in 18th and 19th century Britain.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226675327

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The Middlebrook Guide to the Somme Battlefields

A Comprehensive Guide from Crécy to the Two World Wars

By: Mary Middlebrook

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The Middlebrook Guide to the Somme Battlefields

A Comprehensive Guide from Crécy to the Two World Wars

By: Mary Middlebrook

Since Roman times, the French department of the Somme has witnessed many wars, including Grecy (1346), Agincourt (1415), the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and, of course, the two World Wars. It is the Great War that has the dubious distinction of being the most notorious and 1 July 1916, the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, was the costliest in our nation's long history with some 60,000 British casualties. Thirty-five years ago Martin Middlebrook opened his literary career by writing The First Day on the Somme and, seven years later, The Kaiser's Battle, his description of the first day of the German 1918 Spring Offensive over much the same area. Having also taken numerous tours and given many lectures he knows the ground intimately. This superb guide book sets out to describe every place on the Somme where there is a military cemetery, memorial, preserved trench or crater not just from the First World War but throughout the ages until the Allies swept away the Nazi armies during their 1944 advance. Aided by his wife Mary, Martin has used his encyclopaedic knowledge to make this a truly formidable work. It is more than just a guide book as readers will benefit from the descriptive powers and sound research that are the hallmarks of this highly respected historian.

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Casemate Publishers

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1844155331

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9781844155330

Bump in the Night

By: J. D. Robb,Mary Blayney,Ruth Ryan Langan,Mary Kay McComas

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Bump in the Night

By: J. D. Robb,Mary Blayney,Ruth Ryan Langan,Mary Kay McComas

Follow four of today’s most provocative authors to a place where love can transform reality—and anything can happen. Here they present four paranormal stories of ethereal circumstances, magical romance, and otherworldly suspense. Beginning with "Haunted in Death," a tale from #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb featuring lieutenant-of-the-future Eve Dallas—this collection will take you on a breathtaking journey through the passions of the heart and its power to transcend the everyday…

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Penguin

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1101214937

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Mining Cultures

Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41

By: Mary Murphy

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Mining Cultures

Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41

By: Mary Murphy

Butte, Montana, long deserved its reputation as a wide-open town. Mining Cultures shows how the fabled Montana city evolved from a male-dominated mining enclave to a community in which men and women participated on a more equal basis as leisure patterns changed and consumer culture grew. Mary Murphy looks at how women worked and spent their leisure time in a city dominated by the quintessential example of "men's work": mining. Bringing Butte to life, she adds in-depth research on church weeklies, high school yearbooks, holiday rituals, movie plots, and news of local fashion to archival material and interviews. A richly illustrated jaunt through western history, Mining Cultures is the never-told chronicle of how women transformed the richest hill on earth.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252054679

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Beyond Abortion

Roe v. Wade and the Battle for Privacy

By: Mary Ziegler

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Beyond Abortion

Roe v. Wade and the Battle for Privacy

By: Mary Ziegler

For most Americans today, Roe v. Wade concerns just one thing: the right to choose abortion. But the Supreme Court’s decision once meant much more. The justices ruled that the right to privacy encompassed the abortion decision. Grassroots activists and politicians used Roe—and popular interpretations of it—as raw material in answering much larger questions: Is there a right to privacy? For whom, and what is protected? As Mary Ziegler demonstrates, Roe’s privacy rationale attracted a wide range of citizens demanding social changes unrelated to abortion. Movements questioning hierarchies based on sexual orientation, profession, class, gender, race, and disability drew on Roe to argue for an autonomy that would give a voice to the vulnerable. So did advocates seeking expanded patient rights and liberalized euthanasia laws. Right-leaning groups also invoked Roe’s right to choose, but with a different agenda: to attack government involvement in consumer protection, social welfare, racial justice, and other aspects of American life. In the 1980s, seeking to unify a fragile coalition, the Republican Party popularized the idea that Roe was a symbol of judicial tyranny, discouraging anyone from relying on the decision to frame their demands. But Beyond Abortion illuminates the untapped potential of arguments that still resonate today. By recovering the diversity of responses to Roe, and the legal and cultural battles it energized, Ziegler challenges readers to come to terms with the uncomfortable fact that privacy belongs to no party or cause.

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Harvard University Press

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0674919394

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9780674919396

Exits and Entrances

By: Mary Goodlet Clyde

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Exits and Entrances

By: Mary Goodlet Clyde

Exits and Entrances is the story of the authors early life in Belfast. It is also a story of travel to distant lands by ocean liners before the age of air travel...

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Trafford Publishing

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1425160077

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9781425160074

Why Should You Doubt Me Now?

By: Mary Breasted

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Why Should You Doubt Me Now?

By: Mary Breasted

The Virgin Mary had made an untoward appearance in Dublin. Is she real? Is she a hoax? Mary Breasted's gift for poking fun where it hurts the most has produced an irreverent, irrepressible, unforgettable book. Ireland will never be the same. "Breasted's perfectly aimed dialogue and brisk action skewer the jumbled politics--sexual, religious and marital, in academia and the governing Dail--that shape life in modern Ireland." - Publishers Weekly

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1466806001

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Sowing and Sewing

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

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Sowing and Sewing

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

Reproduction of the original.

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3732619540

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Present and Future Therapies for End-stage Renal Disease

By: Eli A. Friedman,Mary C. Mallappallil

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Present and Future Therapies for End-stage Renal Disease

By: Eli A. Friedman,Mary C. Mallappallil

The contributors include physicians who practise uremia therapy since its conception to more recent graduates, along with surgeons, pioneers and physicians who are patients themselves, thus giving readers the broadest perspective. --

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981428002X

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Gender, Authenticity, and the Missive Letter in Eighteenth-century France

Marie-Anne de La Tour, Rousseau's Real-life Julie

By: Mary McAlpin

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Gender, Authenticity, and the Missive Letter in Eighteenth-century France

Marie-Anne de La Tour, Rousseau's Real-life Julie

By: Mary McAlpin

This study will particularly appeal to scholars of gender studies, but will also interest eighteenth-century specialists, reader-response critics, and any critic interested in the epistolary genre. Dr. McAlpin compares the evidence of de La Tour's authorial consciousness with that of far better known letter writers, both women (Sevigne, Graffigny, Lespinasse, Roland, Suzanne Necker) and men (Boswell, in particular). The book also introduces the exchange of letters to the English-speaking community of eighteenth-century scholars. While the de La Tour-Rousseau exchange was republished in French in 1998, it is not yet available in English. This book provides translations of the first, most significant letters in its appendix."--BOOK JACKET.

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Bucknell University Press

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0838756522

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Geriatric

Nutrition Handbook

By: Stephen Bartlett,Mary Marian,Douglas Taren,Myra L. Muramoto

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Geriatric

Nutrition Handbook

By: Stephen Bartlett,Mary Marian,Douglas Taren,Myra L. Muramoto

The older population, defined as those 65 years and older, has been steadily increasing as a percentage of the total population since 1900. Currently, it constitutes 13% of the population. The United States Bureau of the Census predicts that the elderly will represent 20% of the U.S. population by 2030. The older population itself is getting older, with greatest percentage increases in the subgroup of elderly over 85 years of age. This segment of the elderly is now 28 times greater in number than in 1900. The aging process is associated with unique medical problems-including declining functional capacities and pbysiological reserves-that have spawned specialization in geriatric medicine. While healthy, free-living elderly appear not much more at nutritional risk than the rest of the population, the elderly who suffer from illness or other stress have a much higher incidence of nutritional prob lems than the population as a whole. Elderly are also more heterogeneous than the general population, resulting in a greater variation in nutritional requirements which requires a better understanding of how nutrition and health interact. This brings nutritional assess ment and care to the forefront of geriatric medical practice.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401169128

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Book's by Mary Bray

THAT'S JUST HOW IT WAS

THAT'S JUST HOW IT WAS

The House of the Burgesses

The House of the Burgesses

Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams

Genres of the Credit Economy

Genres of the Credit Economy

The Middlebrook Guide to the Somme Battlefields

The Middlebrook Guide to the Somme Battlefields

Bump in the Night

Bump in the Night

Mining Cultures

Mining Cultures

Beyond Abortion

Beyond Abortion

Exits and Entrances

Exits and Entrances

Why Should You Doubt Me Now?

Why Should You Doubt Me Now?

Sowing and Sewing

Sowing and Sewing

Present and Future Therapies for End-stage Renal Disease

Present and Future Therapies for End-stage Renal Disease

Gender, Authenticity, and the Missive Letter in Eighteenth-century France

Gender, Authenticity, and the Missive Letter in Eighteenth-century France

Geriatric

Geriatric

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