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Creative Lives

Personal Papers of Australian Writers and Artists

By: Penelope Hanley

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Creative Lives

Personal Papers of Australian Writers and Artists

By: Penelope Hanley

Henry Lawson - Miles Franklin - Henry Handel Richardson - Kenneth Slessor - Eleanor Dark - Christina Stead - Kylie Tennant - Patrick White - Thomas Keneally - Mem Fox.

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National Library Australia

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0642276560

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9780642276568

The Blue Bottle Club

By: Penelope J. Stokes

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The Blue Bottle Club

By: Penelope J. Stokes

Brendan Delaney, a television news reporter, embarks on a quest to find the women who left messages in a blue cobalt bottle detailing their hopes and dreams during the Depression.

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Thomas Nelson Inc

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1595540512

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The Secret World of Sleep

The Surprising Science of the Mind at Rest

By: Penelope A. Lewis

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The Secret World of Sleep

The Surprising Science of the Mind at Rest

By: Penelope A. Lewis

Neuroscientist Penny Lewis explores the latest research into the nighttime brain to understand the real benefits of sleep, showing how, while our body rests, the brain practices tasks it learned during the day, replays traumatic events to mollify them, and forges connections between distant concepts.

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Macmillan

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0230107591

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9780230107595

Without a Trace and Blue Bottle Club 2 in 1

By: Colleen Coble,Penelope J. Stokes

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Without a Trace and Blue Bottle Club 2 in 1

By: Colleen Coble,Penelope J. Stokes

Without a Trace Bree thinks a plane crash took the lives of her husband and young son, but her son Davy survived the accident. Can she find him before it’s too late? It’s been months since the crash. K-9 search-and-rescue worker Bree Nicholls knows the chances of finding her husband and son in the vast wilderness of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula grow more remote by the day. But her heart and her faithful dog, Samson, demand she keep searching. Deep in the woods a young boy wakes in a tiny cabin. He’s being nursed back to health by a reclusive woman, but he can’t figure out why she calls him by a name he doesn’t recognize. Or why she’s calling herself his mother. He wants to leave, but as winter sets in, his very life depends on her care. Meanwhile, Bree’s relentless determination to find her family has uncovered a violent crime. With the help of Park Ranger Kade Matthews, she discovers the violence may be linked to the plane crash that took her family. Could solving the crime bring her peace with her own loss? Or, more incredibly, reunite her family? Set in the untamed beauty of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the Rock Harbor novels draw readers into the life and adventures of a canine search-and-rescue team as it unravels the secrets of an enchanting wilderness. “Colleen is a master storyteller.” —Karen Kingsbury, New York Times Best-Selling Author The Blue Bottle Club Four friends gathered in a cold, dusty attic on Christmas day to make a solemn pact. “Our dreams for the future,” they whispered, placing tiny pieces of paper into a shimmering blue bottle. But that event happened in 1929, and it is decades later when local news reporter Brenna Delaney stumbles upon that bottle . . . and into the most meaningful story of her career. Life has taken those four girls’ dreams of love, fame, and faith on a path fraught with seduction, betrayal, and loss. Little has turned out as expected—and yet every choice, every tear has led each of them to a special place. Brenna’s search will uncover the secrets of that Blue Bottle Club . . . and her own life will never be the same. “A beautiful novel about friendship and the power of faith to renew our dreams.” —Angela Hunt, author of Magdalene

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141855541X

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Africare

Black American Philanthropy in Africa

By: Penelope Campbell

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Africare

Black American Philanthropy in Africa

By: Penelope Campbell

Africare is a US-based non-profit organization specializing in development aid for Africa. It is also the oldest and largest African-American led organization in the development field. Since its founding in 1970, Africare has delivered more than $710 million in assistance through over 2,500 projects to thirty-six African countries. The organization employs over 1,000 people, largely indigenous to the countries affected. This is a study in leadership and competing African and American black interests. Africare has sought to become the leading voice speaking on Africa within the US, a goal more difficult to attain than becoming the premier NGO in Africa. Sources of opinion and channels of expression about American policy in Africa are fragmented. They do not have name recognition or influential sponsors. There is poor coverage of African affairs in the US, except for key, often tragic, events. Africare has a heritage and has filled a niche in American society. Penelope Campbell argues that unless the organization reclaims these unique assets, it may lose the distinctiveness enabling its survival. The challenge for Africare is spreading its story and message. The author raises disturbing fundamental issues. Has foreign aid become such an industry that the patient is not allowed to get well? As the military cannot afford peace, it seems the world cannot afford the cessation of poverty. Campbell argues that success in Africa has been elusive not because of the failures of development organizations, but the magnitude of the issues involved. The author presents a convincing case for aid to Africa, the pitfalls involved, and for Africare's potential as a leader in meeting the continent's needs.

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Transaction Publishers

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1412852544

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The Novels of Thomas Hardy

Illusion and Reality

By: Penelope Vigar

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The Novels of Thomas Hardy

Illusion and Reality

By: Penelope Vigar

What he himself characteristically called 'his idiosyncratic mode of regard' is a factor few readers of Hardy's novels can overlook and one with which all serious students of his fiction must come to terms. The fact that there is nevertheless little final agreement about the nature of his achievement has prompted Miss Vigar to make a fresh study of Hardy's own notes and essays on the art of the novel and to analyse his fictional technique in the light of these unduly neglected observations. Her approach centres on Hardy's pervasive theme of the contrast between appearance and reality and on his frequent use of 'pictorial' devices to express his imaginative vision. She is able to develop a critical account of Hardy's work that can convincingly explain, by reference to the same criteria, both its strengths and its weaknesses, its successes and failures.

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A&C Black

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1472509986

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The Georgians

The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain

By: Penelope J. Corfield

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The Georgians

The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain

By: Penelope J. Corfield

A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes today The Georgian era is often seen as a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, global exploration and settlements overseas, the world’s first industrial revolution, deep transformations in religious and cultural life, and Britain’s role in the international trade in enslaved Africans. But how were these changes perceived by people at the time? And how do their viewpoints compare with attitudes today? In this wide-ranging history, Penelope J. Corfield explores every aspect of Georgian life—politics and empire, culture and society, love and violence, religion and science, industry and towns. People’s responses at the time were often divided. Pessimists saw loss and decline, while optimists saw improvements and light. Out of such tensions came the Georgian culture of both experiment and resistance. Corfield emphasizes those elements of deep continuity that persisted even within major changes, and shows how new developments were challenged if their human consequences proved dire.

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Yale University Press

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0300265069

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9780300265064

Health, Ethnicity, and Well-Being

By: Penelope J. Kinsey, PhD (Editor) and D

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Health, Ethnicity, and Well-Being

By: Penelope J. Kinsey, PhD (Editor) and D

This book speaks to those who influence the delivery of health care services to African Americans, especially policy makers, politicians, and health care providers whose attitudes and beliefs affect the extent to which provided services are effective, reliable, humane, and compassionate. In addition, the purpose is to be of use to a full range of professionals who provide education, health care, and social services for African Americans, irrespective of the program, the service, or the professional discipline. the goal is to facilitate cultural competence in health care delivery.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1483653900

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Intelligent Kindness

Rehabilitating the Welfare State

By: John Ballatt,Penelope Campling,Chris Maloney

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Intelligent Kindness

Rehabilitating the Welfare State

By: John Ballatt,Penelope Campling,Chris Maloney

A powerful examination of intelligently applied kindness in rehabilitating the welfare state, particularly health and social care.

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Cambridge University Press

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1911623222

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9781911623229

Sculpture 1900-1945

After Rodin

By: Penelope Curtis

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Sculpture 1900-1945

After Rodin

By: Penelope Curtis

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the significant growth of sculpture as an artistic form in Europe and America from 1900-1945. Using a clearly-defined thematic structure it identifies key issues and developments throughout this important period in the history of art. Individualchapters cover: public sculpture, the monument, the object, image-making, the built environment, the figurative ideal, and different materials. These themes broadly reflect the changing cultural and political climate of a turbulent period which included two world wars, each preceded by widespreadrising nationalism. The practice of sculpture is considered within the wider artistic context of painting and architecture and the development of international art markets. Auguste Rodin, whose ground-breaking exhibition opened in Paris in 1900, serves as the book's point of departure, and as arecurrent point of reference.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0192842285

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After She Left

By: Penelope Hanley

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After She Left

By: Penelope Hanley

When young Irish artist Deirdre O’Mara emigrates from the remote Blasket Islands to Sydney’s The Rocks in the 1920s, she makes an indelible mark on conservative society with her surrealist art and bohemian ways. Just after the Second World War, Deirdre leaves for Europe to be with her lover – leaving behind her estranged daughter and a family secret. Years later, Deirdre’s granddaughter Keira is determined to discover the secret and her mother, Maureen, clinging to her own fears of the past and a desire to change her future, fights to stop her. When the three women’s lives intersect amidst the emerging women’s liberation movement and political tension in 1970s Sydney, what price will be paid for the deceptions of the past?

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Simon and Schuster

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1925384837

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The Outsider

By: Penelope Williamson

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The Outsider

By: Penelope Williamson

Penelope Williamson’s classic bestseller blends the best of historical western and Amish romance in a sweeping tale “sure to please any fan of good old-fashioned storytelling” (Library Journal). A daughter of the faith…a stranger with a gun…a forbidden love. Throughout the years on her Montana homestead, Rachel Yoder had never been afraid—the creed of the Plain People had been her strength. Then the day came when lawless men killed Rachel’s husband in an act of blind greed. Now, at her darkest hour, an outsider walks across her meadow and into her life… Johnny Cain is bloody, near death, and armed to the teeth. A man hardened by his violent past, Cain has never known a woman like Rachel—someone who offers him a chance to heal more than his physical wounds. Cain’s lazy smile and teasing ways steal Rachel's heart and confound her soul. Soon she must choose between all she holds dear—her faith, her family, perhaps her very salvation—and the man they call the Outsider.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476740070

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9781476740072

The Sibling Relationship After Acquired Brain Injury

Family Dynamics Across the Lifespan

By: Penelope Analytis

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The Sibling Relationship After Acquired Brain Injury

Family Dynamics Across the Lifespan

By: Penelope Analytis

Unique focus: gives a voice to the siblings affected by ABI A unique resource to help inform how to help families who have experienced acquired brain injury both in the acute period and across the lifespan Reflects a broader movement within the disability literature to acknowledge and actively include the voices of people with disabilities, treating them as equals in the dialogue about their lives and relationships.

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Routledge

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1000386120

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Communal Justice in Shakespeare's England

Drama, Law, and Emotion

By: Penelope Geng

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Communal Justice in Shakespeare's England

Drama, Law, and Emotion

By: Penelope Geng

Providing a fresh examination of the relationship between literary and legal communities, Communal Justice in Shakespeare's England examines the literature of the communal justice in early modern England.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487508042

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9781487508043

Patina on Historic Glass

A Case Study from Cossack, Western Australia

By: Penelope Clifford,Vic Semeniuk

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Patina on Historic Glass

A Case Study from Cossack, Western Australia

By: Penelope Clifford,Vic Semeniuk

This book explores patina, a micro-crust of interlaminated silica and calcite developed on bottle glass that was partially buried for 70-100 years in dunes at Cossack, Western Australia, and is a world-first in the detailed, holistic study of this phenomenon. It maps out a multifaceted approach involving soil chemistry, granulometry, mineralogy, soil water hydrochemistry, glass chemistry, SEM mapping of patina, and XRD and SEM/EDS analyses, as well as experimental leaching and pellicular water analyses of sand and dust in which the glass was embedded to highlight that, to fully use patina for archaeological, hydrochemical, geochemical, and climate studies, there must be a multidisciplinary approach. The patina on glass from Cossack yielded a wealth of micro-structures providing insights into the processes of its formation. Patination is complex, reflecting wet and dry vadose conditions, alternating acid and alkaline conditions, and requiring many factors to be taken into account to obtain a comprehensive understanding of its development. In practical terms, properly used, patina and its internal structures can date glass for use in archaeology, determine soil and hydrochemical processes of solution, precipitation, and illuviation, and unravel local intra-decadal climate patterns. The weathering metastability of glass also points to potential problems in recycling glass for use in infrastructure, construction materials, and containers for toxic waste and nuclear waste.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527563642

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The Monsters We Defy

By: Leslye Penelope

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The Monsters We Defy

By: Leslye Penelope

[P]itch perfect, with wit, romance, and a lovable found family." ―Publishers Weekly (starred review) "This smart and entertaining, magical heist novel hits all the right notes!" ―T.L. Huchu NPR Best Book of 2022! Paste Best Fantasy Book of 2022! "Never make a deal with shadows at night, especially ones that know your name.” Washington D. C., 1925: Clara Johnson can talk to spirits—a gift that saved her during her darkest moments, now a curse that’s left her indebted to the cunning spirit world. So when a powerful spirit offers her an opportunity to gain her freedom, Clara seizes the chance, no questions asked. The task: steal a magical ring from the wealthiest woman in the District. Clara can’t pull off this daring heist alone. She’ll need the help of an unlikely team, from a handsome jazz musician able to hypnotize with a melody to an aging actor who can change his face, to pull off the impossible. But as they race along DC’s legendary Black Broadway, conflict in the spirit world begins to leak into the human one—an insidious mystery is unfolding, one that could cost Clara her life and change the fate of an entire city. The Monsters We Defy is a timely and dazzling historical fantasy that weaves together African American folk magic, history, and romance.

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Redhook

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031637802X

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9780316378024

Playing the Game

Western Women in Arabia

By: Penelope Tuson

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Playing the Game

Western Women in Arabia

By: Penelope Tuson

The lives of the Western women who lived, worked and travelled in Arabia in the first half of the 20th century have been largely ignored by historians. Penelope Tuson tells the stories of these women. Sometimes flamboyant and unconventional, sometimes conservative and conformist, all of them wanted in some way to be a part of British imperial life. Some were prepared to "play the game", others were not and could even be regarded as difficult and dangerous. "Playing the Game" explores how these women negotiated power and position in the Empire and how conventional female roles were defined by the masculine perspecitves and hierarchies of imperial authority, often with the collusion of the women themselves actively, but also sometimes despite their attempts to subvert the stereotypes.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857715704

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9780857715708

Primary Mathematics

Integrating Theory with Practice

By: Penelope Baker,Rosemary Callingham,Tracey Muir

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Primary Mathematics

Integrating Theory with Practice

By: Penelope Baker,Rosemary Callingham,Tracey Muir

Primary Mathematics: Integrating Theory with Practice is a comprehensive introduction to teaching mathematics in Australian primary schools. Closely aligned with the Australian Curriculum, it provides a thorough understanding of measurement, geometry, patterns and algebra, data and statistics, and chance and probability. The fourth edition provides support for educators in key aspects of teaching: planning, assessment, digital technologies, diversity in the classroom and integrating mathematics content with other learning areas. It also features a new chapter on the role of education support in the mathematics classroom. Each chapter has been thoroughly revised and is complemented by classroom snapshots demonstrating practical application of theories, activities to further understanding and reflection questions to guide learning. New in this edition are 'Concepts to consider', which provide a guided explanation and further discussion of key concepts to support pre- and in-service teachers' learning and teaching of the fundamentals of mathematics.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009265172

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9781009265171

Primary Mathematics

By: Penelope Serow,Rosemary Callingham,Tracey Muir

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Primary Mathematics

By: Penelope Serow,Rosemary Callingham,Tracey Muir

Provides a comprehensive introduction to teaching and learning mathematics in today's classrooms.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108456464

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The East India Company and Religion, 1698-1858

By: Penelope Carson

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The East India Company and Religion, 1698-1858

By: Penelope Carson

An overview of the East India Company's policy towards religion throughout its period of rule in India. This wide-ranging book charts how the East India Company grappled with religious issues in its multi-faith empire, putting them into the context of pressures exerted both in Britain and on the subcontinent, from the Company's early mercantile beginnings to the bloody end of its rule in 1858. Religion was at the heart of the East India Company's relationship with India, but the course of its religious policy has rarely been examined in any systematic way. The free exercise of religion, the policy the Company adopted in its early days in order to safeguard the security of its possessions, was challenged by Evangelicals in the late eighteenth century. They demanded that the Company should grant free access to Christians of all Protestant denominations and an end to 'barbaric' Indian religious practices. This gave rise to an unprecedented petitioning movement in 1813, comparable in strength to that for theabolition of the slave trade the following year. It was an important milestone in British domestic politics. The final years of the Company's rule were dominated by its attempts to withstand Evangelical demands in the face of growing hostility from Indians. In the end it pleased no one, and its rule came to a gory and ignominious end. In this compelling account, Penny Carson examines the twists and turns of the East India Company's policy on religious issues. The story of how the Company dealt with the fact that it was a Christian Company, trying to be equitable to the different faiths it found in India, has resonances for Britain today as it attempts to accommodate the religions of all its peoples within the Christian heritage and structure of the state. Penelope Carson is an independent scholar with a doctorate from King's College, London.

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Boydell Press

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1843837323

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9781843837329

Science and Spirit

Exploring the Limits of Consciousness

By: Charles F. Emmons,Penelope Emmons

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Science and Spirit

Exploring the Limits of Consciousness

By: Charles F. Emmons,Penelope Emmons

Are you out of your body? At least part of you may be, if consciousness can extend beyond the brain in your skull. In Science and Spirit, authors Charles F. Emmons and Penelope Emmons explore some intriguing questions: What evidence is there for consciousness apart from the body, and what evidence is there for survival of consciousness after bodily death? Through ethnographic interviews with scientists, observations at conferences, and visits to research institutes, they investigate the existence and meaning of ESP, out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, reincarnation, spirit mediumship, lucid dreaming, and ghost experiences. In this study, they share a variety of scientific frames for looking at these questions and happenings, and they disclose their own paranormal experiences. Science and Spirit uses a unique blend of strong academic and scientific theory and methodology and applies it to the examination of paranormal topics.

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iUniverse

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147594263X

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The Village Bike

By: Penelope Skinner

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The Village Bike

By: Penelope Skinner

Isn't she gorgeous? Hardly been ridden. She's been in the garage just gathering dust. Becky's pregnant and frustrated. But her husband is more interested in the baby manual than her new underwear, so she turns to the porn stash under the bed. As the summer heats up, a brief encounter sends her speeding downhill towards reckless abandon. A provocative and darkly comic look at fantasy and romance, The Village Bike by Penelope Skinner premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in June 2011. Penelope Skinner won the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright 2011.

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Faber & Faber

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057127949X

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9780571279494

Politeness

Some Universals in Language Usage

By: Penelope Brown,Stephen C. Levinson

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Politeness

Some Universals in Language Usage

By: Penelope Brown,Stephen C. Levinson

This study is about the principles for constructing polite speeches. The core of it first appeared in Questions and Politeness, edited by Esther N. Goody (now out of print). It is here reissued with a fresh introduction that surveys the considerable literature in linguistics, psychology and the social sciences that the original extended essay stimulated, and suggests distinct directions for research. The authors describe and account for some remarkable parallelisms in the linguistic construction of utterances with which people express themselves in different languages and cultures. A motive for these parallels is isolated and a universal model is constructed outlining the abstract principles underlying polite usages. This is based on the detailed study of three unrelated languages and cultures: the Tamil of South India, the Tzeltal spoken by Mayan Indians in Chiapas, Mexico, and the English of the USA and England. This volume will be of special interest to students in linguistic pragmatics, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, anthropology, and the sociology and social psychology of interaction.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107392969

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Battling Boxing Stories

Thrilling Tales of Pugilistic Puissance

By: Stan Trybulski,Wayne D. Dundee,Ron Fortier,Robert S. P. Lee,G. D. McFetridge,Arlette Lees,Terence Butler,Marc Spitzer,C. J. Henderson,Garnett Elliott,Penelope Stanhope,Michael A. Black,Lonni Lees,William Boyle

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Battling Boxing Stories

Thrilling Tales of Pugilistic Puissance

BATTLING BOXING STORIES presents 15 of the most intense and hard-hitting stories about the puglisitic arts collected in one place and written by some of the best of today's new crop of exciting writers. The stories in this book highlight all types of boxers and all aspects of the sport, from amateur bouts and illegal street fights, to heavyweight championship events. These are wonderful stories with unforgettable characters who are full of passion and emotion, action and rage--heartfelt tales about real people fighting for their lives, their honor, and sometimes their very souls. Each story captures that rare magic--the combination of violence and magesty that takes place in the boxing ring. Your ears will still be ringing with the sting of these battles long after you finish this book! The authors featured include: Wayne D. Dundee, Stan Trybulski, Ron Fortier, Robert S. P. Lee, G. D. McFetridge, Arlette Lees, Terence Butler, Marc Spitzer, C. J. Henderson, Gary Lovisi, Garnett Elliott, Penelope Stanhope, Michael A. Black, Lonni Lees, and William Boyle.

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Wildside Press LLC

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1434448894

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9781434448897

Paupers, Poor Relief and Poor Houses in Western Australia, 1829- 1910

By: Penelope Hetherington

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Paupers, Poor Relief and Poor Houses in Western Australia, 1829- 1910

By: Penelope Hetherington

Based on meticulous research, Paupers, Poor Relief and Poor Houses in Western Australia 1829-1910 throws light upon those who are neglected within the celebratory history of Western Australia’s past. Who fed the indentured servants who were cast adrift by their masters? What was the government’s solution to the problem of unemployed paupers, many of them ex-convicts? And what became of the destitute women and children and the sick and insane? The overt wealth of present-day Western Australia makes for a problematic consideration of a colonial society characterised by the fundamental lack of resources and charitable institutions, and inadequate Governmental administration. With a sense of simplicity, Hetherington guides us toward contemplation of Western Australia as a state whose present wealth was built on the backs of indentured labourers, ex-convicts and penniless immigrants.

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UWA Publishing

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1742580327

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New Law and Ethics in Mental Health Advance Directives

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Right to Choose

By: Penelope Weller

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New Law and Ethics in Mental Health Advance Directives

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Right to Choose

By: Penelope Weller

The recognition of positive rights and the growing impact of human rights principles has recently orchestrated a number of reforms in mental health law, bringing increasing entitlement to an array of health services. In this book, Penelope Weller considers the relationship between human rights and mental health law, and the changing attitudes which have led to the recognition of a right to demand treatment internationally. Weller discusses the ability of those with mental health problems to use advance directives to make a choice about what treatment they receive in the future, should they still be unable to decide for themselves. Focusing on new perspectives offered by the Conventions on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), Weller explores mental health law from a variety of international perspectives including: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, where policies differ depending on whether you are in England and Wales, or Scotland. These case studies indicate how human rights perspectives are shifting mental health law from a constricted focus upon treatment refusal, towards a recognition of positive rights. The book covers topics including: refusing treatment new approaches in human rights international perspectives in mental health law the right to demand treatment. The text will appeal to legal and mental health professionals as well as academics studying mental health law, and policy makers.

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Routledge

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0415532949

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9780415532945

Reading the Wampum

Essays on Hodinöhsö:ni’ Visual Code and Epistemological Recovery

By: Penelope Myrtle Kelsey

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Reading the Wampum

Essays on Hodinöhsö:ni’ Visual Code and Epistemological Recovery

By: Penelope Myrtle Kelsey

Since the fourteenth century, Eastern Woodlands tribes have used delicate purple and white shells called “wampum” to form intricately woven belts. These wampum belts depict significant moments in the lives of the people who make up the tribes, portraying everything from weddings to treaties. Wampum belts can be used as a form of currency, but they are primarily used as a means to record significant oral narratives for future generations. In Reading the Wampum, Kelsey provides the first academic consideration of the ways in which these sacred belts are reinterpreted into current Haudenosaunee tradition. While Kelsey explores the aesthetic appeal of the belts, she also provides insightful analysis of how readings of wampum belts can change our understanding of specific treaty rights and land exchanges. Kelsey shows how contemporary Iroquois intellectuals and artists adapt and reconsider these traditional belts in new and innovative ways. Reading the Wampum conveys the vitality and continuance of wampum traditions in Iroquois art, literature, and community, suggesting that wampum narratives pervade and reappear in new guises with each new generation.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815652992

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Blooms and Brushstrokes

A floral history of Australian art

By: Penelope Curtin,Tansy Curtin

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Blooms and Brushstrokes

A floral history of Australian art

By: Penelope Curtin,Tansy Curtin

Blooms and Brushstrokes takes you on a unique journey through the history of Australian art, one flower at a time, examining the blooms depicted in still lifes, floral portraits, decorative interiors and botanical illustrations by a long line of Australian artists. Mother-and-daughter team Penelope and Tansy Curtin start this fascinating journey in the late eighteenth century, when the traditions adhering to the Western art canon were transplanted into the newly colonised Australia. They follow it through the rapidly developing artistic styles of the early twentieth century, to the new media of the contemporary period. These works of art also shine a light on the role and importance of plants and flowers in everyday life. They illustrate changing floral fashions, as well as highlighting flowers in their various forms - cut flowers, pot plants and gardens. And along the way you'll encounter many of Australia's most significant artists, including John Glover, Arthur Streeton, Margaret Preston, Grace Cossington Smith, John Brack and Margaret Olley, as well as some of Australia's most beautiful, and sometimes intriguing, native flora, such as the waratah and Sturt's desert pea, not to mention perennial garden favourites like roses, sweet peas and daisies. Spectacular, intimate, engaging and meticulously researched - and full of interesting and quirky facts about the flowers and the artists themselves, Blooms and Brushstrokes is a book for art, flower and history lovers alike.

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Wakefield Press

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1743056494

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9781743056493

Loving Lies

By: Penelope Neri

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Loving Lies

By: Penelope Neri

Green-eyed Seraphina wanted nothing more than her best friend's inheritance when she agreed to wed Joel McCaleb. Then she saw the virile stranger and knew she should flee his hot gaze and overpowering male physique. But it was too late to tell him she was an impostor. Historical romance by the author of Passion's Betrayal and Sea Jewel.

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Zebra Books

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0821720341

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9780821720349

The Amber Photograph

Newly Repackaged Edition

By: Penelope J. Stokes

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The Amber Photograph

Newly Repackaged Edition

By: Penelope J. Stokes

Before Diedre McAlister's mother dies, she gives her daughter an old photograph and says: "Find yourself. Find your truth. Just don't expect it to be what you thought it would be." The truth will shake up Diedre's world, threaten lives, challenge her faith-and quite possibly save her life.

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Thomas Nelson

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1418512737

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Once in a Blue Moon

By: Penelope Williamson

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Once in a Blue Moon

By: Penelope Williamson

A richly emotional story of love and passion, from the bestselling author of Keeper of the Dream. To Jessalyn Letty, a wild, flame-haired child of the storm-tossed Cornish moors, McCady Trelawny was the most fascinating man she had ever met. Returning from a long journey, McCady found that the laughing, barefoot girl had blossomed into a bold, ravishing woman. Theirs was a love that comes along only once in a blue moon. . . .

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0440211085

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