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Shayla

By: Regina LaFrance

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SHAYLA is a calling and a movement dedicated to survivors of abuse. This semi-autobiographical novel and explosive bombshell lifts controversial veil on long-held trauma and reveals all. Inspired by real-life tragic events, SHAYLA is novelized to where only the names have been changed in this shattering account that takes on the persona of author, Regina LaFrance, as a child; when her nightmare started to unfold and escalate to unconscionable enormity. This heart-wrenching story spans to the time when young Shayla (Regina) was robbed of her youth, deflowered at the tender age of nine, as she was sexually attacked by the pedophile priest from her old village. By age 10 she became pregnant with his baby and was forced into an unfathomable, barbaric abortion. Trying to move forward in Shayla's adult life, away from her haunted past of pain, shame and suffering, this story is also about finding peace, redemption and emotional freedom. The bed of flowers on original cover make up picturesque scenery that young Regina would daydream (mentally escape) to when she was being raped by the priest as young girl—and why this imagery is a key part of the concept for her desired cover.

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First Edition Design Pub.

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1506911498

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9781506911496

Symbols, Myths and Images of the French Revolution

Essays in Honour of James A. Leith

By: James A. Leith,University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center,University of Regina. Department of History

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Symbols, Myths and Images of the French Revolution

Essays in Honour of James A. Leith

By: James A. Leith,University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center,University of Regina. Department of History

From 18-26 September 1996, the Department of History of the University of Regina hosted a colloquium entitled, Symbols, Myths and Images of the French Revolution, in honour of James A. Leith (Queen's University), a leading historian of revolutionary France for over three decades who began his teaching career in Saskatchewan. The colloquium brought together an international panel of scholars to discuss the visual imagery, propaganda, and cultural dimensions of the French Revolution--a subject which, since Professor Leith began his career, has come to occupy an ever larger place in revolutionary historiography.

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University of Regina Press

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0889771081

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9780889771086

Singing Our Way to Victory

French Cultural Politics and Music during the Great War

By: Regina M. Sweeney

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Singing Our Way to Victory

French Cultural Politics and Music during the Great War

By: Regina M. Sweeney

Winner of the International Book Award from International Association for the Study of Popular Music (2003) The practice of singing and songwriting in France during the Great War provides an intriguing tool for the exploration of the French cultural politics of the epoch. Responding to the dearth of cultural studies of the First World War, Regina Sweeney's unique cross-disciplinary study illuminates many of the hitherto unexplored corners of an era that many historians consider to exhibit a break with recognizable trends. In early twentieth century Europe, singing was considered a part of education integral to the formation of good citizens. Singing was especially important to the French, for whom it was historically associated with authenticity of feeling and purity of character, and thereby with the very roots of French democracy; it was particularly associated with the image of France as a victorious nation. But as Sweeney shows, different performances of the same patriotic song could carry vastly different meanings. By focusing on singing, Sweeney is able to provide a more nuanced reading of French Great War cultures than ever before, and to show that cultures previously held to be exclusive — those of the home front and the Western front, for example — existed in dialectical tension and were themselves far from homogenous.

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370

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819501387

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9780819501387

A Social Laboratory for Modern France

The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State

By: Janet Regina Horne

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A Social Laboratory for Modern France

The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State

By: Janet Regina Horne

DIVDocuments the early days of the French welfare state through the Musée Social, an early think tank./div

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Duke University Press

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0822327929

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9780822327929

Spontaneous Spoken Language

Syntax and Discourse

By: J. E. Miller,Regina Weinert

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Spontaneous Spoken Language

Syntax and Discourse

By: J. E. Miller,Regina Weinert

Jim Miller and Regina Weinert investigate syntactic structure and the organization of discourse in spontaneous spoken language. Using data from English, German, and Russian, they develop a systematic analysis of spoken English and highlight properties that hold across languages.

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482

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OUP Oxford

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0198236565

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9780198236566

The Phantom of the Opera Carmen

By: Regina Goncalves

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The Phantom of the Opera Carmen

By: Regina Goncalves

You and Caius Zip will uncover a mystery in Paris, 1885. The characters will be on the stage of the Opera of Paris, and in rehearsals, watching and participating in the staging of Bizet's opera, Carmen. Behind the scenes, a phantom lurks. But is he from the opera? Murders take place that you and Caius, together with the young H.G. Wells and Sherlock Holmes, must solve by using deduction. The entire cast of the opera will concentrate on performing the whole four acts of Carmen, and will do whatever is in their power to lift those curtains, facing the fear and uncertainty of the final outcome. In the meantime, impressionist art will show the extent to which it is interrelated with science. How? Read about the meeting at Monet's house with the painters Van Gogh, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne, Lautrec, Rodin, Berth Morisot, and the participation of Sherlock, Wells and Caius who, like the great painters, will add their own brushstrokes to the discussion on creative forms of time travel.

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Lulu.com

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1445210215

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9781445210216

Conversations in a Park

By: Regina Ryan

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Conversations in a Park

By: Regina Ryan

Conversations in a Park is a light hearted book of motivational musings peppered with research and wisdom from the worlds of psychology, philosophy and classic literature. Dr Regina Ryan argues that the chaos that accompanies motherhood should be countered by creating 'stolen moments' throughout the day and using these with discipline and consistency to connect to your inner self through solitude, daily rituals, expressing creativity and learning how to condition yourself to choose one thought over another. The main philosophy is to think small and in time you will find that the big has been hiding in the small all along.

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Regina Ryan

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1925427609

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9781925427608

Distant Tyranny

Markets, Power, and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800

By: Regina Grafe

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Distant Tyranny

Markets, Power, and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800

By: Regina Grafe

Spain's development from a premodern society into a modern unified nation-state with an integrated economy was painfully slow and varied widely by region. Economic historians have long argued that high internal transportation costs limited domestic market integration, while at the same time the Castilian capital city of Madrid drew resources from surrounding Spanish regions as it pursued its quest for centralization. According to this view, powerful Madrid thwarted trade over large geographic distances by destroying an integrated network of manufacturing towns in the Spanish interior. Challenging this long-held view, Regina Grafe argues that decentralization, not a strong and powerful Madrid, is to blame for Spain's slow march to modernity. Through a groundbreaking analysis of the market for bacalao--dried and salted codfish that was a transatlantic commodity and staple food during this period--Grafe shows how peripheral historic territories and powerful interior towns obstructed Spain's economic development through jurisdictional obstacles to trade, which exacerbated already high transport costs. She reveals how the early phases of globalization made these regions much more externally focused, and how coastal elites that were engaged in trade outside Spain sought to sustain their positions of power in relation to Madrid. Distant Tyranny offers a needed reassessment of the haphazard and regionally diverse process of state formation and market integration in early modern Spain, showing how local and regional agency paradoxically led to legitimate governance but economic backwardness.

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Princeton University Press

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0691144842

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9780691144849

Napoleon Bonaparte in Russia

By: Regina Goncalves

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Napoleon Bonaparte in Russia

By: Regina Goncalves

Caius Zip takes part in the invasion of the French army in the city of Moscow, commanded by the legendary Napoleon. He also meets the Russian marshal, Kutuzov, the man with the mission to block the huge Napoleonic army.The participation of Caius will be important in this historical moment, as he solves enigmas and learns with the Russian marshal how some mathematical calculations can be crucial in taking strategic decisions in this battle of empires.After the story, in a very original manner, Napoleon tells us his memories of that time.A great lesson of strategy and of a notable human virtue: patience!

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Lulu.com

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1409202070

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9781409202073

Book's by Regina LaFrance

Shayla

Shayla

Symbols, Myths and Images of the French Revolution

Symbols, Myths and Images of the French Revolution

Singing Our Way to Victory

Singing Our Way to Victory

A Social Laboratory for Modern France

A Social Laboratory for Modern France

Spontaneous Spoken Language

Spontaneous Spoken Language

The Phantom of the Opera Carmen

The Phantom of the Opera Carmen

Conversations in a Park

Conversations in a Park

Distant Tyranny

Distant Tyranny

Napoleon Bonaparte in Russia

Napoleon Bonaparte in Russia

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