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Constructing Girlhood

Popular Magazines For Girls Growing Up In England, 1920-1950

By: Penny Tinkler

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Constructing Girlhood

Popular Magazines For Girls Growing Up In England, 1920-1950

By: Penny Tinkler

This text explores the contribution of magazines to the social construction of female adolescence during a historical period of rapid change and locates the role of magazines in the lives of contemporary girls. In addressing this theme, the book explores the changing social, economic, political and cultural conditions which shaped, and continue to influence, the experience of girlhood. The author discusses key concepts such as adolescence and "girlhood" and outlines theories concerning the interpretation of gender relations, cultural production, meaning and reading.; The chapters use life-course events and changes such as schooling, work, entrance into relationships, marriage and motherhood as their main themes. The author discusses the importance attached to age and social class for the form and content of the magazines and explores the interlinked factors which contributed to decisions about what were legitimate concerns for girls - for example, publisher's objectives and culture; reader interests; and ideologies of femininity. The final chapter outlines the patterns of leisure consumption in this era, providing insights into the changing role of leisure in today's society.

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Taylor & Francis

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1135344612

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9781135344610

Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn

The Complete Guide

By: Penny Simkin,Janet Whalley,Ann Keppler,Janelle Durham,April Bolding

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Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn

The Complete Guide

By: Penny Simkin,Janet Whalley,Ann Keppler,Janelle Durham,April Bolding

Feel informed and empowered with this thoroughly updated, full-color pregnancy guide, which recognizes that “one size fits all” doesn’t apply to maternity care. Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn provides the comprehensive guidance you need to make informed decisions about having a safe and satisfying pregnancy, birth, and postpartum period–decisions that reflect your preferences, priorities, and values. This sixth edition includes: -CDC guidelines regarding COVID-19 -Updated dietary guides and breastfeeding and surrogacy information -Birth plans including doulas and caesarians when necessary -Tips on how to reduce stress -And so much more Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn is inclusive, reflecting today's various family configurations such as single-parent families, blended families formed by second marriages, families with gay and lesbian parents, and families formed by open adoption or surrogacy. This pregnancy guide speaks to today's parents-to-be like no other.

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Da Capo Lifelong Books

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0738285021

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9780738285023

Preconception: Improve Your Health and Enhance Fertility

A free prequel to Pregnancy, Childbirth, & the Newborn

By: Penny Simkin,Janet Whalley,Ann Keppler,Janelle Durham,April Bolding

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Preconception: Improve Your Health and Enhance Fertility

A free prequel to Pregnancy, Childbirth, & the Newborn

By: Penny Simkin,Janet Whalley,Ann Keppler,Janelle Durham,April Bolding

Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn is one of the bestselling and most comprehensive books about pregnancy, childbirth, and newborn care on the market. Now completely updated, expanded, and redesigned, this authoritative book is the “bible” for expectant parents and childbirth educators. Here is a free sample chapter for you! In this chapter, "Preconception: Improve Your Health and Enhance Fertility", you’ll learn about: • Emotional wellness • Health • Health care • Hazards • Enhancing fertility and the odds of conception • Concerns about infertility • Planning ahead: maternity care choices If you like this sample chapter, look for Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn. The Award-Winning Resource Recommended by Experts & Loved by Parents Parents love this book because it puts them in control by explaining a wide range of options, information, and questions to ask, so parents can find what works best for their health situation, personal goals, and priorities. Experts love this book because it’s based on the latest medical research and recommendations from leading health organizations. It’s practical—rooted in the real-life experiences of new families. The five authors bring a combined total of 150 years of experience working with expectant and new families as educators, nurses, counselors, doulas, physical therapists, and lactation consultants. They have attended hundreds of births, heard thousands of birth stories, and assisted innumerable new parents in adapting to their new lives. Not only that, the authors have a combined total of 12 children and 12 grandchildren. All of this experience allows them to write with compassion, understanding, and wisdom based on what really works in the real-world of parenting. The companion website offers even more details on select subjects, including lists of all the best resources on each topic and worksheets to guide parents’ decision-making process. The website also includes a bonus chapter on pre-conception, which provides ways to improve your health and fertility before pregnancy begins.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451671245

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The History of Bethlem

By: Jonathan Andrews,Asa Briggs,Roy Porter,Penny Tucker,Keir Waddington

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The History of Bethlem

By: Jonathan Andrews,Asa Briggs,Roy Porter,Penny Tucker,Keir Waddington

Bethlem Hospital, popularly known as "Bedlam", is a unique institution. Now seven hundred and fifty years old, it has been continuously involved in the care of the mentally ill in London since at least the 1400s. As such it has a strong claim to be the oldest foundation in Europe with an unbroken history of sheltering and treating the mentally disturbed. During this time, Bethlem has transcended locality to become not only a national and international institution, but in many ways, a cultural and literary myth. The History of Bethlem is a scholarly history of this key establishment by distinguished authors, including Asa Briggs and Roy Porter. Based upon extensive research of the hospital's archives, the book looks at Bethlem's role within the caring institutions of London and Britain, and provides a long overdue re-evaluation of its place in the history of psychiatry.

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Routledge

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1136098526

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9781136098529

Palliative Care in Neurological Disease

A Team Approach

By: Judi Byrne,Penny McNamara,Jane Seymour,Pam McClinton

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Palliative Care in Neurological Disease

A Team Approach

By: Judi Byrne,Penny McNamara,Jane Seymour,Pam McClinton

The particular needs of people with progressive long-term neurological conditions - including Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease (MND), Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Huntington's disease - may make care delivery and planning the last stages of life ethically, practically and clinically challenging.

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CRC Press

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1785230689

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9781785230684

Joan of Kent

The First Princess of Wales

By: Penny Lawne

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Joan of Kent

The First Princess of Wales

By: Penny Lawne

The story of the beautiful wife of the Black Prince and mother of Richard II.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445644711

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9781445644714

Life Reconnected – How Women Can Make Simple and Powerful Change

A Hero's Journey

By: Penny C McClean

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Life Reconnected – How Women Can Make Simple and Powerful Change

A Hero's Journey

By: Penny C McClean

“I have written this book for women who feel their life is out of whack in some way. You may feel bored, directionless, hurt or angry or are struggling to make meaningful and lasting change. It explains why women find it hard to keep motivated and offers a way to make simple and powerful change by making the most of our differences.” Illustrated by one woman's personal journey, the psychological backdrop to how we create meaning in our lives is explained. Using Penny’s NLP and coaching experience, the book offers a creative process that every woman can use, whether they are young and just setting out into the world of career paths, relationships and finding their purpose in life, or whether they are mid-life and reflecting both on what has been and what is yet to unfold. In a world of digital communication, a shout-out for positive role models and how we can support each other to become leaders in our own lives, as well as positively influence those around us, is made. It offers another way to find inspiration and ultimately our own intuitive wisdom that is inside each and every one of us. It teaches us that by incorporating a sense of balance, love, connection and purpose in our lives, we will have lives we love to live. Deeply moving, bluntly honest and elegantly written, Life Reconnected – How Women Can Make Simple and Powerful Change: A Hero’s Journey will take you on a profound personal journey so you can find, voice and take your heart-centered purpose to the world.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1780885105

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9781780885100

Tigers' Tales

The story of two young men from Countesthorpe

By: Penny Mount, Harold Varnam, Patsy Paterson, Ian Paterson

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Tigers' Tales

The story of two young men from Countesthorpe

By: Penny Mount, Harold Varnam, Patsy Paterson, Ian Paterson

Countesthorpe’s Active Arts group decided to arrange a concert by the local Helix Ensemble, as part of our Heritage Lottery Funded programme marking the centenary of WWI. At the accompanying exhibition of memorabilia from that time we were all impressed with the information Penny Mount has of the life of William Buckingham VC who had come to the village Cottage Homes (as that forward looking offshoot of Leicester’s workhouse became known) when his family could no longer care for him. Penny was persuaded to present these facts in book form. It was felt that some more information about the village at that time would make those facts, press cuttings and photographs into the interesting book we now offer as ‘Tigers’ Tales, recalling the local name for the regiment. Jimmy’s tale came from a story told by Harold at the November memorial church service to recognise the centenary.

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1784625329

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Alex

By: Penny Avis,Joanna Berry

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Alex

By: Penny Avis,Joanna Berry

Never Mind the Botox is a book series about four professional women all working on the sale of high profile cosmetic surgery business the Beau Street Group. Each book reveals how the women cope with one of the most glamorous but challenging deals of their careers and the dramatic impact it has on their personal lives. With a briefcase in one hand and a glass of wine in the other, can they navigate their way through a surreal world of boob jobs by day and intrigue by night – and still keep their own love lives on track? Alex Fisher is a high-flying lawyer close to making partner and busy planning her perfect wedding to Elliott. But life suddenly becomes complicated when she’s faced with a hot junior lawyer on her team and an actress threatening to jeopardise the deal by exposing her dodgy surgery. Soon Alex is forced into a series of impossible choices that are all inextricably linked and life will never be the same again. The series can be read in any order.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1848766610

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9781848766617

The Unflappable Organizer

By: Penny Davis

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The Unflappable Organizer

By: Penny Davis

With a degree under her belt, Colleen secured employment as PA to a team of solicitors in her village just outside Dublin. She settled down into a sedated life, then along came Frank. A gifted musician, his ambition when they marry is to open a chain of music shops in Dublin. But like a flash of lighting, three weeks before their wedding Colleen by sheer chance discovered he had emptied their joint bank account and scampered to London...will Colleen get her revenge?

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1848761724

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9781848761728

Numerical Methods

Using MATLAB

By: George Lindfield,John Penny

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Numerical Methods

Using MATLAB

By: George Lindfield,John Penny

The fourth edition of Numerical Methods Using MATLAB® provides a clear and rigorous introduction to a wide range of numerical methods that have practical applications. The authors' approach is to integrate MATLAB® with numerical analysis in a way which adds clarity to the numerical analysis and develops familiarity with MATLAB®. MATLAB® graphics and numerical output are used extensively to clarify complex problems and give a deeper understanding of their nature. The text provides an extensive reference providing numerous useful and important numerical algorithms that are implemented in MATLAB® to help researchers analyze a particular outcome. By using MATLAB® it is possible for the readers to tackle some large and difficult problems and deepen and consolidate their understanding of problem solving using numerical methods. Many worked examples are given together with exercises and solutions to illustrate how numerical methods can be used to study problems that have applications in the biosciences, chaos, optimization and many other fields. The text will be a valuable aid to people working in a wide range of fields, such as engineering, science and economics. - Features many numerical algorithms, their fundamental principles, and applications - Includes new sections introducing Simulink, Kalman Filter, Discrete Transforms and Wavelet Analysis - Contains some new problems and examples - Is user-friendly and is written in a conversational and approachable style - Contains over 60 algorithms implemented as MATLAB® functions, and over 100 MATLAB® scripts applying numerical algorithms to specific examples

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Academic Press

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0128123702

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9780128123706

Where Everything Seems Double

By: Penny Freedman

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Where Everything Seems Double

By: Penny Freedman

“It was your sleuthing that brought us here. If you feel any responsibility, find out what has really happened to Ruby. You owe it to us, Gina.” This is the message that takes Gina Gray to the Lake District to unravel a mystery in circumstances which undermine even her boundless self-confidence.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1800468091

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9781800468092

Never Mind the Botox: Rachel

By: Penny Avis,Joanna Berry

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Never Mind the Botox: Rachel

By: Penny Avis,Joanna Berry

Never Mind the Botox is a series about four professional women all working on the sale of high-profile cosmetic surgery business the Beau Street Group. Each book reveals how the women cope with one of the most glamorous but challenging deals of their careers, and the dramatic impact it has on their personal lives. With a briefcase in one hand and a glass of wine in the other, can they navigate their way through a surreal world of boob jobs by day and intrigue by night and still keep their own love lives on track?Rachel Altman is a corporate financier with a prestigious accounting firm who's desperately trying to keep on the straight and narrow. Hopelessly led astray by her bar-diving boyfriend, she gets the chance to turn things around when her boss gives her the break she's been waiting for. But when the deal doesn't go as planned Rachel panics, sparking off a chain of betrayal and lies that threatens to ruin both her love life and career. The series can be read in any order.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1848766629

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9781848766624

Chronicles of the Time

By: Penny Freedman

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Chronicles of the Time

By: Penny Freedman

March 2020. Gina Gray returns to the Lake District to share COVID isolation with her oldest friend, Eve. They are joined by Gina’s teenage granddaughter, Freda, who is finding her own home too crowded for comfort.

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1800466250

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9781800466258

The Dance of Nurture

Negotiating Infant Feeding

By: Penny Van Esterik,Richard A. O’Connor

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The Dance of Nurture

Negotiating Infant Feeding

By: Penny Van Esterik,Richard A. O’Connor

Breastfeeding and child feeding at the center of nurturing practices, yet the work of nurture has escaped the scrutiny of medical and social scientists. Anthropology offers a powerful biocultural approach that examines how custom and culture interact to support nurturing practices. Our framework shows how the unique constitutions of mothers and infants regulate each other. The Dance of Nurture integrates ethnography, biology and the political economy of infant feeding into a holistic framework guided by the metaphor of dance. It includes a critique of efforts to improve infant feeding practices globally by UN agencies and advocacy groups concerned with solving global nutrition and health problems.

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Berghahn Books

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1785335634

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9781785335631

Placement Learning in Cancer & Palliative Care Nursing

A guide for students in practice

By: Penny Howard,Becky Whittaker (nee Chady)

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Placement Learning in Cancer & Palliative Care Nursing

A guide for students in practice

By: Penny Howard,Becky Whittaker (nee Chady)

Are you unsure about your cancer and palliative care placement? Do you need guidance on what to prepare to get the most out of your practice learning? Will you have the range of clinical skills to care for people with cancer? What learning opportunities will there be to meet your competencies? How can you maximise your learning during this placement? This book will help you with all these concerns. It will advise you on what to expect from the placement, what you can learn, how to link theory and practice, and how to make the most of your learning opportunities and meet your competencies. Takes a logical, step-by-step approach to preparing for learning on a cancer and palliative care placement Provides the principles of care, treatment and management of someone with a cancer diagnosis, linking university-learned theory to clinical practice Gives helpful evidence-based practice examples and resources to support placement learning Identifies clinical skills that underpin care of an individual with cancer Highlights potential learning opportunities and experiences available on a cancer and palliative care placement Explains how to develop your clinical portfolio by completing specific exercises and activities Maps all activities and exercises to the NMC competencies Advises on approaches to a range of situations that may arise as a student nurse Adopts a case-study approach to consolidating learning and to explore the patient pathway from pre-diagnosis, through a range of treatment options to living beyond cancer or end-of-life care. Series features: A unique guide to getting the most from clinical placements How to prepare for your placement What you can expect to learn during a placement Clear links to, and examples of, achieving NMC competencies Guidance on what to use as evidence for your portfolio Case studies that link theory with practice How to consolidate your experience and learn from the placement Tips, activities, further reading suggestions and useful websites.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702051748

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9780702051746

Sisters of the Somme

True Stories from a First World War Field Hospital

By: Penny Starns

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Sisters of the Somme

True Stories from a First World War Field Hospital

By: Penny Starns

With First World War casualties mounting, there was an appeal for volunteers to train as front-line medical staff. Many women heeded the call: some responding to a vocational or religious calling, others following a sweetheart to the front, and some carried away on the jingoistic patriotism that gripped the nation in 1914. Despite their training, these young women were ill-prepared for the anguished cries of the wounded and the stench of gangrene and trench foot awaiting them at the Somme. Isolated from friends and family, most discovered an inner strength, forging new and close relationships with each other and establishing a camaraderie that was to last through the war and beyond. Based on the previously unpublished true stories of its nurses and medical staff, this book is a heart-warming account of the joys and sorrows of life in an extraordinary Somme field hospital.

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The History Press

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0750968850

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9780750968850

Little Honour

By: Penny Freedman

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Little Honour

By: Penny Freedman

The sixth in a series of gripping crime novels featuring Gina Gray and DCI David Scott. Following on from the last book in the series, Drown My Books.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1789011949

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9781789011944

One May Smile

By: Penny Freedman

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One May Smile

By: Penny Freedman

Struggling, as ever, with the demands of work, family and a precarious love life, Gina Gray finds herself in the world of Scandinavian noir. A trip with students to perform Hamlet in Denmark, at the very castle where Shakespeare sets the play, starts out as an adventure: ‘I like young people, I like Hamlet, I have a predilection in favour of Denmark as a rational, civilised not-too-hot country,’ she tells us. What could possibly go wrong? Almost everything, as it turns out. At the last minute, Gina has to take her three-year-old granddaughter, Freda, with her, David Scott, her ‘boyfriend, partner, lover or significant other’ breaks off contact and the student group turns out to be seething with neurosis, envy, conflict and soured relationships. Even before the first death, Gina is wishing she could go home... but when one of the students dies in a car crash and the local police suspect foul play, she is drawn into the investigation. As other attacks follow and Gina stumbles towards the truth, hidden deep in Hamlet itself, police suspicion lights on her and a murderer’s net closes in around her. I could come over, David Scott texts.No need, she replies. Can she really cope alone? One May Smile is another of Penny Freedman’s popular series of novels, providing a classic ‘whodunit’ story with a modern twist. The crimes take place in a ‘cosy’ Middle England context, but take us to dark emotional places with a lot of humour, black and otherwise. Fans of classic crime will find this a gripping read.

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1783061669

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9781783061662

Wonderful Tonight

George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me

By: Pattie Boyd,Penny Junor

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Wonderful Tonight

George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me

By: Pattie Boyd,Penny Junor

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the first time, rock music’s most famous muse tells her incredible story “A charming, lively and seductive book . . . The appeal of Wonderful Tonight is as self-evident as the seemingly simple but brash opening chord of ‘A Hard Day’s Night.’”—The New York Times Book Review Pattie Boyd, former wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton, finally breaks a forty-year silence and tells the story of how she found herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuous musical geniuses of the twentieth century and became the most legendary muse in the history of rock and roll. The woman who inspired Harrison’s song “Something” and Clapton’s anthem “Layla,” Pattie Boyd has written a book that is rich and raw, funny and heartbreaking—and totally honest.

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Crown

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0307407837

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9780307407832

An Outrageous Affair

A Novel

By: Penny Vincenzi

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An Outrageous Affair

A Novel

By: Penny Vincenzi

“Gives readers more of what they’ve come to expect from Penny Vincenzi: a thoroughly enjoyable family saga with glamour, romance and drama to spare.” —Bookreporter A mysterious, tragic accident in the 1950s. An inexplicable suicide twenty years later. What was the strange link between the two—and Caroline Hunterton’s long-buried past? A secret which could not be kept forever, especially from her two daughters, Chloe and Fleur. Fate had separated the sisters in time and distance—but bound them in mutual hatred—until journalist Magnus Phillips decided to tell the story that would tear their lives apart. Moving from wartime Suffolk to 1950s Hollywood, from glitzy Madison Avenue to London’s theatrical aristocracy and the machinations of checkbook publishing, An Outrageous Affair explores the extraordinary, sometimes fatal, consequences of truth—sure to please Penny’s legions of readers. “Fans of Barbara Taylor Bradford’s multigenerational stories will likely flock to Vincenzi’s latest . . . the mystery will likely keep them turning the pages.” —Booklist “Vincenzi provides plenty of heat and intrigue.” —Publishers Weekly Praise for Penny Vincenzi “The doyenne of the modern blockbuster.” —Glamour “Soap opera? You bet—but with her well-drawn characters and engaging style, Vincenzi keeps things humming.” —People “Nobody writes smart, page-turning commercial women’s fiction like Vincenzi.” —USA Today “Will draw you in against your better judgment and keep you awake reading all night.” —The Boston Globe “Vincenzi does it again with another captivating and entertaining family saga that combines power, riches, lies, and greed . . . For fans of Barbara Taylor Bradford and Danielle Steel.” —Library Journal

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Abrams

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1590207904

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9781590207901

BBH: Southampton

By: Penny Legg

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BBH: Southampton

By: Penny Legg

The people of Southampton have had a lot to put up with over the centuries. If the Danes of French weren't attacking it, pirates from further along were. Treasonous plots were hatched behind its ancient walls and mutiny hit its shipping. This book looks at such bloody events as the Black Death in the city, what happens when you cross a king, the ill-fated Titanic and the Blitz. Yes, the best bits of Southampton's history are surely the bloodiest!

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The History Press

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0752481932

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Neanderthal Marries Human

A Smarter Romance

By: Penny Reid

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Neanderthal Marries Human

A Smarter Romance

By: Penny Reid

After just five months of dating Janie, Quinn-former Wendell and unapologetic autocrat-is ready to propose marriage. In fact, he's more than ready. If it were up to Quinn, he would efficiently propose, marry, and beget Janie with child all in the same day. But Janie, much to Quinn's dismay, tosses a wrench in his efficacious endeavors and challenges him to prove his devotion by going through the matrimonial motions, no matter how minute and mundane. Will Quinn last until the wedding day?

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Cipher-Naught

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0989281078

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9780989281072

Political Parties and Primaries in Kentucky

By: Penny M. Miller,Malcolm E. Jewell

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Political Parties and Primaries in Kentucky

By: Penny M. Miller,Malcolm E. Jewell

This is a study of Kentucky political parties: how they are organized and how they nominate and elect candidates. Because state politics in Kentucky is dominated by the Democratic Party, a major portion of the study is devoted to the Democratic primary candidates, campaign techniques, funding, of elections, and voting patterns. As in other slates, campaign techniques in Kentucky are changing. During the 1950s and 1960s the Democratic Party had two dominant factions, and candidates for statewide office sought factional allies among local party organizations. Now factional alignments have disappeared, and candidates for statewide office build campaign organizations from thousands of active party workers. The characteristics, motivations, and allegiances of these party activists form one major focus of this book. Another focus is television, which has assumed ever greater importance in statewide primary campaigns. Because it is expensive, candidates who are wealthy or can raise large sums for television advertising enter the primaries with a substantial advantage, and those who use that medium most effectively are most likely to win. Two wealthy candidates who proved to be talented campaigners in person and on television were nominated by the Democrats in 1987: Wallace Wilkinson in the gubernatorial race and Brereton Jones in the race for lieutenant governor. The book features case studies of these two campaigns, which in many ways typify modern primary elections in Kentucky. Finally, since the 1950s, the Republican Party has been highly successful in campaigns for national office in Kentucky but has been unable to elect a governor since 1967. This study provides some answers to two questions: What is wrong with the Republican Party in Kentucky? And why are so many Kentuckians voting Republican in national races and Democratic in state races?

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813194849

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9780813194844

Drown My Books

By: Penny Freedman

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Drown My Books

By: Penny Freedman

Gina Gray, disappointed by work, love and life, has settled on a bleak stretch of Kent coast, where she walks her surly dog, coaches unpromising A level students and teaches English to asylum seekers in Dover whose stories break her heart.

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1785896253

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9781785896255

Research Methods in Early Childhood

An Introductory Guide

By: Penny Mukherji,Deborah Albon

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Research Methods in Early Childhood

An Introductory Guide

By: Penny Mukherji,Deborah Albon

Research methods is a challenging topic for many students. When you are new to research you need a step-by-step guide which introduces the subject area in a clear and accessible way. This book does exactly that. Designed with the early childhood student in mind, this book is the companion to your research journey. Following a progressive structure this book leads you logically through the processes needed to design and carry out meaningful and ethical research. This Fourth Edition includes: Two new chapters, separating out quantitative data analysis and qualitative data analysis A reader guide at the beginning of the book to aid navigation. Research in Focus boxes, which introduce you to real world examples of international research Activities to help cement knowledge and understanding. Case Studies which describe examples and scenarios of real student research, which demonstrate best practice and show how to present findings. An extended glossary to support readers in learning complicated terminology. Online resources complement this new edition, offering valuable resources for instructions and students including: Author videos, offering tips and explanations. Flashcard glossary to consolidate learning MCQs to test understanding Free journal articles for wider reading PowerPoint slides

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The Writing on the Wall and Other Stories

By: Penny Edwards

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The Writing on the Wall and Other Stories

By: Penny Edwards

Peter Bayer was seventy-three. He’d taught at the school just up the road for most of his life and, when the wall came down, saw no reason to move. Nobody could say life had been easy, and when it was built, he’d lost contact with many friends, but he’d learnt to enjoy life as best he could and had had the good fortune of a happy marriage to Elsa. It’s 2006. Peter Bayer and his wife, Elsa, live on the East side of Berlin, as they’ve always done, even when that wasn’t an attractive proposition. What limits Peter’s freedom nowadays isn’t a concrete wall but often feels like one. Elsa has dementia and barely recognises him, so his life is not only hard work, but it’s lonely. What makes it lonelier is that his wife’s illness has given her a distorted view of the past and one that would horrify the woman he married. When Helen, a recently widowed English woman, rents the flat Peter owns nearby, he experiences the kinds of conversations that used to be normal for him, which makes his current reality all the more painful. Helen’s come to Berlin to find out more about her husband’s past in the city and learns things from their German friends that she was unaware of when he was alive. During her struggle to come to terms with her present life, Helen sees that the terrible demands on Peter’s life are almost impossible to endure. Other stories in the book show the toll of war, as fear is passed from one generation to another and we see how the power of secrecy never disappears. They also reveal how gratitude can take various forms and how intergenerational friendships really are all they’re cracked up to be. The Writing on the Wall and Other Stories is a collection of tales, spanning the 1980s to the present day, that will appeal to fans of Anne Tyler, Alan Bennett and Alice Munro, whom Penny Edwards takes inspiration from.

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The Golden Pig

By: Mark Penny,Jonathan Penny

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The Golden Pig

By: Mark Penny,Jonathan Penny

When inept private investigator Hymie Goldman is hired to find the golden pig, he little suspects he will be embarking on a journey fraught with danger, beset by blonde bombshells and terrorized by a Triads turf war. Armed only with a stubborn streak a mile wide and the desire to stay one step ahead of his creditors, he pursues the case to the very edge of his reason and beyond, confronting his darkest demons in the process. Can he hope to succeed? Will he live to tell the tale? Join Hymie on a gripping and hilarious odyssey through the surreal streets of an alternative North London, and one thing is almost certain - Hendon will never seem the same again.

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The Penny Brothers

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0955939704

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The Wigapom Quest

By: Penny Gillman

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The Wigapom Quest

By: Penny Gillman

When unhappy young Willerby dreams of a new name, experiences real magic and receives a strangely marked pulsating stone, he hopes his life is about to change. But it is only when he receives a similar stone with instructions to earn five more that his mystical Quest for Hidden Wisdom begins, giving him the opportunity to discover who he really is…Each stone leads him further along a magical pathway of self-discovery through the land of his birth, the creative depths of his psyche and his relationship with his inner child. It also threatens his life and his relationship with his oldest friend, and leads to a future he never imagined in his wildest dreams. As you read this gripping adventure, with its magical, monstrous and surreal events, you are encouraged to undertake your own personal and spiritual Quest into self-awareness, inner wisdom and the concept of Oneness. The Wigapom Quest is a unique, exciting, multi-layered story, delivering its message of hope to the Child in every Adult and the Adult in every Child. Penny Gillman is a Counsellor, Hypnotherapist, Inner Childtherapist, teacher and spiritual healer. She is also a tutor for the NFSH, The Healing Trust.

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1848765312

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Ursula's Arm

By: Penny Kline

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Ursula's Arm

By: Penny Kline

Why does Ursula’s right arm hang limply by her side? The doctors can find nothing wrong – is she faking it or is it all in the mind? Her husband, Leo, wants Ursula to see Mrs Moberley, a psychoanalyst, but her sister tells her Freud’s ideas are the work of the devil. Sick of being surrounded by so-called experts, Ursula takes herself off to see Mrs Moberley anyway. What happens next will change her life forever. Mrs Moberley lends her Marie Stopes Married Love but her husband is appalled – and her sister’s view on sex proves to be more ‘grin and bear it’. Ursula’s enlightened friend visits from Paris, and confesses that she is in love with another woman – which causes Ursula to question her own feelings for Mrs Moberley. Leo, who had once advocated therapy, now starts to backtrack; while her sister confesses to the trauma in Ursula’s childhood which everyone assumed she was too young to understand. Freud viewed 'hysterical limbs' as the result of early psychological trauma, but Mrs Moberley is more interested in Ursula’s present circumstances than her childhood. Gradually Ursula’s arm regains its strength – but was it such a good idea to get everything out in the open?

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184876734X

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This is a Dreadful Sentence

By: Penny Freedman

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This is a Dreadful Sentence

By: Penny Freedman

In the library of a university college, in a small English town, a Turkish student, known to be a government spy, is found dead one morning, crushed between two rolling stacks. In the days that follow, puzzling messages relating to his death start appearing on the board in the seminar room where English language classes take place. Suspicion falls on the other students in the class as the police start to investigate their backgrounds and motives, and their teacher, Gina Gray, is drawn into the mystery. When Gina Gray sets out to discover who murdered her student, she is an unlikely detective: a harassed mother and grandmother with difficult teenage daughters and a baby granddaughter in tow, she has nothing on her side but stubbornness, bravado - and a detailed knowledge of English grammar. As the lives, relationships and secrets of the thirteen students involved begin to be revealed, the police uncover links with opium production in Turkey and with the Russian mafia. DCI David Scott, leading a murder investigation for the first time, believes that these hold the key to the murder, but as the police investigation stalls, two of the students disappear and another is killed. Told in alternate chapters from the point of view of Gina and of DCI Scott, the novel weaves and unravels a complex mystery, while exploring the edgy, combative relationship that develops between the two of them.

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1848764200

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All the Daughters

By: Penelope Freedman,Penny Freedman

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All the Daughters

By: Penelope Freedman,Penny Freedman

In this explosive follow-up to This is a Dreadful Sentence, featuring Gina Gray and DCI Scott, a twelve-year-old girl is killed, pushed down the stairs at her home and beaten over the head with a golf club. Scott leads the investigation and finds himself crossing paths again with Gina, a university lecturer, linguistics expert, harassed daughter, mother and grandmother, and all-round know-all and busybody.Gina’s daughter, Ellie, was the dead girl’s teacher and when the police suspect her of involvement in the murder, Gina steps into the fray and launches her own parallel investigation. What she lacks in forensic evidence and IT wizardry she makes up for in linguistic acuteness, an extensive network of informants and sheer chutzpah. Scott is determined that she will be kept well away from the inquiry but a serious attempt on her life persuades him to work with her again and together they bring the case to a startling conclusion. Gina’s view of the world is often comic but the crime she unravels is as wicked as it is possible to be.Penny cites Susan Hill and Kate Atkinson among her inspirations. ‘I love murder mysteries,’ she says, ‘but there aren’t enough good female detectives, and those there are fail to convince as having the kinds of lives most women lead. There’s not enough multi-tasking!’

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