Sharon Wheeler's Books

Dark Water

By: Sharon Sala

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In the New York Times–bestselling author’s tale of romantic suspense, a woman returns home to find her father’s killer and gets caught in a web of deceit. Twenty years ago, Sarah Whitman’s father Frank disappeared from Marmet, Maine, after stealing a fortune from the local bank, leaving his wife and daughter to face the town’s vitriol. Now, Frank Whitman’s body has been found at the bottom of Flagstaff Lake, leading Sarah back home, determined to find the real thief-turned-killer and clear her father’s name. But there are those in Marmet who aren’t keen on Sarah stirring up the past. And what she uncovers will put a target on her back. Her childhood crush, Tony DeMarco, claims to be concerned for her safety. But Sarah isn’t sure she can trust anyone in a place where everyone has something to hide . . . “Sala keeps the tension high and the pace hopping” in this suspenseful romance that reveals the depths to which greed can sink a human soul (Publishers Weekly).

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Rosetta Books

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0795345186

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Rape and Sexual Power in Early America

By: Sharon Block

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Rape and Sexual Power in Early America

By: Sharon Block

In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and 1820, Sharon Block exposes the dynamics of sexual power on which colonial and early republican Anglo-American society was based. Block analyzes the legal, social, and cultural implications of more than nine hundred documented incidents of sexual coercion and hundreds more extralegal commentaries found in almanacs, newspapers, broadsides, and other print and manuscript sources. Highlighting the gap between reports of coerced sex and incidents that were publicly classified as rape, Block demonstrates that public definitions of rape were based less on what actually happened than on who was involved. She challenges conventional narratives that claim sexual relations between white women and black men became racially charged only in the late nineteenth century. Her analysis extends racial ties to rape back into the colonial period and beyond the boundaries of the southern slave-labor system. Early Americans' treatment of rape, Block argues, both enacted and helped to sustain the social, racial, gender, and political hierarchies of a New World and a new nation.

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UNC Press Books

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0807838934

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9780807838938

Prenuptial Agreements and the Presumption of Free Choice

Issues of Power in Theory and Practice

By: Sharon Thompson

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Prenuptial Agreements and the Presumption of Free Choice

Issues of Power in Theory and Practice

By: Sharon Thompson

This book provides an alternative perspective on an issue fraught with difficulty – the enforcement of prenuptial agreements. Such agreements are enforced because the law acknowledges the rights of spouses to make autonomous decisions about the division of their property on divorce. Yet this book demonstrates that, in the attempt to promote autonomy, other issues, such as imbalance of power between the parties, become obscured. This book offers an academic and practical analysis of the real impact of prenuptial agreements on the relationships of those involved. Using a feminist and contractual theoretical framework, it attempts to produce a more nuanced understanding of the autonomy exercised by parties entering into prenuptial agreements. This book also draws on an empirical study of the experiences and views of practitioners skilled in the formation and litigation of prenuptial agreements in New York. Lastly, it explores how the court might address concerns regarding power and autonomy during the drafting and enforcement processes of prenuptial agreements, which in turn may enhance the role that 'prenups' can play in the judicial allocation of spousal property on the breakdown of marriage.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1782255591

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9781782255598

Oh My! What a Life!

By: Sharon Terry

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Oh My! What a Life!

By: Sharon Terry

Sharon Terry tells the story of her family's struggle to escape poverty at the end of the Great Depression and how she became a registered nurse, married, divorced, remarried happily for forty years, raised four successful sons and overcame two separate cancers and two heart attacks. She was the youngest member of a family of seven children. Her beloved father died when she was nine years old, leaving her mother desperately providing for and holding together her family. Sharon describes her small town life in southern Indiana and her life as a teenager on a large farm outside the small Indiana farm community of Poseyville. Leaving southern Indiana for Indianapolis, she attends nurses training, works hard and frolics some, becoming a registered nurse. She marries and then discovers the sorrows of her failed marriage and her difficulties and joys raising three young boys as a single parent. Then she entered her happy, forty year marriage to her second husband. They move to Carmel, Indiana, where she has her fourth son. She recounts how the new family bonded, how the sons were educated and given tough love, became successful, married and produced eight grandchildren. She describes how she coped with two cancers and two heart attacks, showing the same strength, endurance, courage and good nature that her mother earlier showed through years of near poverty. Finally, she introduces the grandchildren and shows that there will be a future and that it will be good.

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Dog Ear Publishing

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1608447693

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9781608447695

Death of a Garage Sale Newbie

By: Sharon Dunn

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Death of a Garage Sale Newbie

By: Sharon Dunn

Solving a murder mystery is much more than the BHN bargained for! What could Ginger the baby boomer, Kindra the college student, Suzanne the pregnant mother of three, and Mary Margret the silver-haired real-estate agent possibly have in common? Who would’ve guessed…a passion for garage sales! This motley crew forms the Bargain Hunters Network–bonding while clipping coupons, attending half-price sales, and scouting clearance racks in their hometown of Three Horses, Montana. But when one of the four turns up missing, these shop-till-you-drop women must set their bargain hunting aside to take up an entirely new venture altogether–solving a crime. As the three amateur sleuths retrace their friend’s fateful steps, they discover clues that lead them to suspect her murder is linked to an unusual garage sale purchase made on the morning of her death. But when their search unearths a disturbing secret that’s been carefully concealed for over twenty years, the women are drawn into a dark underworld filled with bribery, greed, and deception. With determined criminals who will stop at nothing to keep their secret safe, will these fiscally conscious females end up paying the ultimate price?

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Multnomah

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0307561984

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9780307561985

Jack Sprat Could

By: Sharon Ervin

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Jack Sprat Could

By: Sharon Ervin

Success has always come easy to socialite MaryBeth Gilland. Following her father’s death, however, she needs some cash, quick. As head of an in-house detective agency owned by her father, Gray Wheeler has had it cushy as well. Suddenly, he’s got to turn a profit to stay in business. But when MaryBeth sashays in looking for a job with adventure, he hires her on the spot. Now he really needs to produce. Enter a client who claims her sister is being murdered, even as they speak. The victim is in a coma, but it's only a matter of time. The client insists her brother-in-law Leland “Jack” Sprat is to blame, and she’ll pay big money to see him behind bars. Time for MaryBeth to show she's more than just a pretty face and Wheeler to prove he can actually investigate. If they don’t kill each other first.

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The Wild Rose Press Inc

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1509215921

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9781509215928

Out of Options

By: Sharon V. Agar

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Out of Options

By: Sharon V. Agar

Murder, corporate sabotage, and an impulsive tropical romance catapult two young professionals into a complex Wall Street mystery that leaves both their lives in jeopardy.

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Archway Publishing

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1480804533

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Forgotten Healers

Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy

By: Sharon T. Strocchia

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Forgotten Healers

Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy

By: Sharon T. Strocchia

Winner of the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize A new history uncovers the crucial role women played in the great transformations of medical science and health care that accompanied the Italian Renaissance. In Renaissance Italy women played a more central role in providing health care than historians have thus far acknowledged. Women from all walks of life—from household caregivers and nurses to nuns working as apothecaries—drove the Italian medical economy. In convent pharmacies, pox hospitals, girls’ shelters, and homes, women were practitioners and purveyors of knowledge about health and healing, making significant contributions to early modern medicine. Sharon Strocchia offers a wealth of new evidence about how illness was diagnosed and treated, whether by noblewomen living at court or poor nurses living in hospitals. She finds that women expanded on their roles as health care providers by participating in empirical work and the development of scientific knowledge. Nuns, in particular, were among the most prominent manufacturers and vendors of pharmaceutical products. Their experiments with materials and techniques added greatly to the era’s understanding of medical care. Thanks to their excellence in medicine urban Italian women had greater access to commerce than perhaps any other women in Europe. Forgotten Healers provides a more accurate picture of the pursuit of health in Renaissance Italy. More broadly, by emphasizing that the frontlines of medical care are often found in the household and other spaces thought of as female, Strocchia encourages us to rethink the history of medicine.

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Harvard University Press

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0674241746

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SNCC's Stories

The African American Freedom Movement in the Civil Rights South

By: Sharon Monteith

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SNCC's Stories

The African American Freedom Movement in the Civil Rights South

By: Sharon Monteith

Formed in 1960 in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was a high-profile civil rights collective led by young people. For Howard Zinn in 1964, SNCC members were “new abolitionists,” but SNCC pursued radical initiatives and Black Power politics in addition to reform. It was committed to grassroots organizing in towns and rural communities, facilitating voter registration and direct action through “projects” embedded in Freedom Houses, especially in the South: the setting for most of SNCC’s stories. Over time, it changed from a tight cadre into a disparate group of many constellations but stood out among civil rights organizations for its participatory democracy and emphasis on local people deciding the terms of their battle for social change. Organizers debated their role and grappled with SNCC’s responsibility to communities, to the “walking wounded” damaged by racial terrorism, and to individuals who died pursuing racial justice. SNCC’s Stories examines the organization’s print and publishing culture, uncovering how fundamental self- and group narration is for the undersung heroes of social movements. The organizer may be SNCC’s dramatis persona, but its writers have been overlooked. In the 1960s it was assumed established literary figures would write about civil rights, and until now, critical attention has centered on the Black Arts Movement, neglecting what SNCC’s writers contributed. Sharon Monteith gathers hard-to-find literature where the freedom movement in the civil rights South is analyzed as subjective history and explored imaginatively. SNCC’s print culture consists of field reports, pamphlets, newsletters, fiction, essays, poetry, and plays, which serve as intimate and illuminative sources for understanding political action. SNCC's literary history contributes to the organization's legacy.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820358045

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9780820358048

The Mind and the Brain

By: Jeffrey M. Schwartz,Sharon Begley

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The Mind and the Brain

By: Jeffrey M. Schwartz,Sharon Begley

A leading researcher in brain dysfunction and a "Wall Street Journal" science writer demonstrate that the human mind is an independent entity that can shape and control the physical brain.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0061961981

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9780061961984

Political Woman

Florence Luscomb and the Legacy of Radical Reform

By: Sharon Hartman Strom

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Political Woman

Florence Luscomb and the Legacy of Radical Reform

By: Sharon Hartman Strom

Countering traditional narratives that place men at the centre of political thinking and history, this text tells the life story of Florence Hope Luscomb, a political activist who's life spanned nearly all of the 20th century.

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Temple University Press

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1566398193

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9781566398190

Backroads & Byways of New Mexico: Drives, Day Trips, and Weekend Excursions (First) (Backroads & Byways)

By: Sharon Niederman

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Backroads & Byways of New Mexico: Drives, Day Trips, and Weekend Excursions (First) (Backroads & Byways)

By: Sharon Niederman

15 drives and detours in “The Land of Enchantment” In this brand-new first edition guide, Sharon Niederman presents the best of New Mexico through 15 scenic tours designed to make the most of every mile. Readers will journey across the state and take in New Mexico’s unparalleled diversity in both natural beauty and cultural heritage. Drives will include peaceful side roads through quiet towns, highways with stunning canyon vistas, the streets of Spanish missions and stone cities, sweeping views of New Mexico’s famous mesas, and much more. Included with each drive are recommendations for food, shopping, sightseeing, and lodging, as well as detailed directions and fascinating local history from a veteran Southwestern travel writer. Expert navigation, curation, and beautiful photography will have readers eager to explore New Mexico in a whole new light.

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The Countryman Press

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168268363X

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9781682683637

80s Chart-Toppers

Every Chart-Topper Tells a Story

By: Sharon Davis

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80s Chart-Toppers

Every Chart-Topper Tells a Story

By: Sharon Davis

The '80s were a decade of musical change. As the '70s disco stranglehold was broken, rock, gay, dance and pop music competed with funk and soul, romantic ballads and political protest, computerised music and controversy. The glamour of costume, greasepaint and cross-dressing was put to good use by New Romantic groups like Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, Soft Cell, Culture Club and the Human League, while the world also looked to Britain for the most exciting pop acts such as the multi-million-selling Wham!, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Eurythmics and the Pet Shop Boys. Mainstream dance music was at its peak, spearheaded by Stock, Aitken and Waterman, and their stable of artists, including Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Rick Astley, were all chart-topping names. From the USA came the artist of the decade, Michael Jackson, while Madonna and Whitney Houston provided the 'Girl Power' of the '80s. The decade also saw the philanthropic side of the music industry as the stars responded to famine in Ethiopia with the charity records 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' and 'We Are The World'. The'80s catered for all musical tastes, no matter how bizarre, and was far more eclectic than any other decade. From bubble-gum pop with Bucks Fizz to the stadium rock of Simple Minds,'80s Chart-Toppers brings a comprehensive year-by-year, month-by-month guide to the hottest sounds of the decade.

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Random House

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1780574118

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9781780574110

Living among Free-Range Humans

A Collection of Humor on the Species

By: Sharon May

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Living among Free-Range Humans

A Collection of Humor on the Species

By: Sharon May

Living among Free-Range Humans: A Collection of Humor on the Species is a collection of her readers? favorite columns over the six years since author Sharon May began writing her humor column for the Hurricane Valley Journal, a newspaper serving the fast-growing southern Utah community of the Hurricane Valley, doorway to the Grand Circle of National Parks of the Southwest. The book?s eight chapters focus on the ordinary craziness of life that we all experience, such as modern life?s droll ironies, the universally humorous scuffles in the female-male relationship, the not-always delightful whimsy of Mother Nature, the weirdness of pet behavior, a witty take on the holiday experience, the sometimes peculiar regionalisms encountered in moving to and taking up life in small-town southern Utah, a comic look inside the high school classroom, and the laughable personal foibles we can all relate to, not the least of which is encountering the disconcerting changes of middle age?all delivered in an entertaining mix of intelligent wit and gentle sarcasm. This is a book that is universal in its appeal to both genders and to all ages. You are bound to recognize something of your own experiences in its pages, something sure to elicit a knowing chuckle, brighten your outlook, and keep a grin on your face.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462804845

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The Imagineers of War

The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World

By: Sharon Weinberger

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The Imagineers of War

The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World

By: Sharon Weinberger

The definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and technology for nearly sixty years. Founded in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik, the agency’s original mission was to create “the unimagined weapons of the future.” Over the decades, DARPA has been responsible for countless inventions and technologies that extend well beyond military technology. Sharon Weinberger gives us a riveting account of DARPA’s successes and failures, its remarkable innovations, and its wild-eyed schemes. We see how the threat of nuclear Armageddon sparked investment in computer networking, leading to the Internet, as well as to a proposal to power a missile-destroying particle beam by draining the Great Lakes. We learn how DARPA was responsible during the Vietnam War for both Agent Orange and the development of the world’s first armed drones, and how after 9/11 the agency sparked a national controversy over surveillance with its data-mining research. And we see how DARPA’s success with self-driving cars was followed by disappointing contributions to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Weinberger has interviewed more than one hundred former Pentagon officials and scientists involved in DARPA’s projects—many of whom have never spoken publicly about their work with the agency—and pored over countless declassified records from archives around the country, documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, and exclusive materials provided by sources. The Imagineers of War is a compelling and groundbreaking history in which science, technology, and politics collide.

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Vintage

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0804169721

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Good Lil’ Boys and Girls from the Tar Heel State of North Carolina

Black Children Speak Series!

By: Sharon Kaye Hunt RD

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Good Lil’ Boys and Girls from the Tar Heel State of North Carolina

Black Children Speak Series!

By: Sharon Kaye Hunt RD

The book is one of twelve books of the Black Children Speak series. The books are compiled interviews taken from slaves by the interviewers of the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 19361938. Most of the ex-slaves giving the interviews were children during slavery and gave interviews of their experiences and insights about living on plantations. The ex-slaves answered questions on all aspects of the plantations in seventeen states of the United States before the Civil War. African Americans were freed from slavery after the Civil War in 1865. The series is dedicated to all people of the world.

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Xlibris Corporation

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152458388X

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Accidental Bodyguard

By: Sharon Hartley

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Accidental Bodyguard

By: Sharon Hartley

She can't make the same mistake again Claudia Goodwin loved and trusted once. Now she's running from the man she thought would never hurt her. Hiding in the breathtaking beauty of a private Florida island until she can testify against her ex-husband, a ruthless terrorist, she has to stay focused on survival. Sexy security expert Jackson Richards is the perfect man to have on her side, but trusting anyone—even him— isn't an option. The one thing she can't keep hidden is the crackling attraction between them. And desire for the man keeping her safe might not be enough to protect her heart…or her life.

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Harlequin

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1488006873

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Schroeder's Collectible Toys

Antique to Modern Guide

By: Collector Books,Sharon Huxford

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Schroeder's Collectible Toys

Antique to Modern Guide

By: Collector Books,Sharon Huxford

Toys are the happening collectible for the '90s. To meet the market explosion, this monumental value guide devoted entirely to toys has been created. Providing identification and values for more than 20,000 collectible toys of all kinds, this easy-to-use book puts buyers in touch with sellers, magazines, clubs, and newsletters that cover specific fields of collector interest.

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0891456619

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9780891456612

Professional Liability and Property Transactions

By: Sharon Christensen,W. D. Duncan

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Professional Liability and Property Transactions

By: Sharon Christensen,W. D. Duncan

This book examines in detail the principles underpinning professional liability both at common law (tort and contract) and by reason of statute (Trade Practices Act and Fair Trading Acts) in the context of property professionals. It includes comprehensive coverage of the Civil Liability Acts. The early chapters deal with the sources of professional liability. They include an analysis of remedies for breach of professional obligations generally and of procedural issues, such as limitation of actions, expert evidence, apportionment and contributory negligence in the setting of professional liability. The heart of the book is original and accessible material on the measure of damages as it relates to the liability of the various professionals who become involved in property transactions. There are further chapters on the liability of lenders and local authorities as organisations commonly involved. It is an essential reference for any barrister, solicitor or other professional directly or indirectly involved in litigation in this area, as well as property lawyers. With a Foreword by The Hon Justice Ian Callinan. For more detailed information about the book's purpose and structure, please read the extract from the Preface, below.

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Federation Press

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1862875111

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9781862875111

Harlequin Superromance May 2017 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Tara Taylor Quinn,Claire McEwen,Kristina Knight,Sharon Hartley

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Harlequin Superromance May 2017 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Tara Taylor Quinn,Claire McEwen,Kristina Knight,Sharon Hartley

Harlequin® Superromance brings you a collection of four new novels, available now! Experience powerful relationships that deliver a strong emotional punch and a guaranteed happily ever after. This Superromance box set includes: THE FIREMAN’S SON Where Secrets are Safe By Tara Taylor Quinn Fire chief Reese Bristow is blindsided with the news that his new paramedic is the same woman who left him nine years ago. Like it or not, Faye Walker is back in his life…and she has a son. HIS LAST RODEO Sierra Legacy By Claire McEwen Rodeo star Tyler Ellis is ready for his next challenge: running a bar. Thing is, he knows nothing about the business, so he’ll need the expertise of Kit Hayes. Unfortunately, she’s in no hurry to work with him. And the spark between them isn’t part of the arrangement she grudgingly agrees to. FAMOUS IN A SMALL TOWN A Slippery Rock Novel By Kristina Knight After a disgrace in Nashville unexpectedly slams the brakes on Savannah’s music career, she finds herself back in the town she was trying to escape—is still trying to escape. Slippery Rock is Collin Tyler’s home, and while Savannah is irresistible, she’s also dangerously unpredictable…and he’s not going anywhere. STRANDED WITH THE CAPTAIN The Florida Files By Sharon Hartley Cat Sidran and her friends get more than they bargained for when they charter a sailboat, sexy captain Javi Rivas included. When disaster strikes, she and Javi have to work together to save the day. But once the excitement is over, can their love weather the storm? Look for 4 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Superromance!

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1488017050

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Sharon

By: Sharon Historical Society

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Sharon

By: Sharon Historical Society

At the turn of the 20th century, Sharon's very existence was threatened by the collapse of the local iron industry as the town's economy and population began to decline. However, the popularity of automobile transportation and Sharon's accessible distance from New York attracted a class of wealthy visitors who fell in love with the rolling hills and quiet valleys. This new weekend population purchased land and built stately country homes, reigniting interest in the area. Steady growth in construction provided much-needed work, and commerce began to thrive again. Early businesses expanded, and new operations opened. Local residents could shop at stores run by the Gillette brothers and A.R. Woodward, fill their tanks at Herman Middlebrook's gas station, and have their health care needs attended to by doctors at the state-of-the-art Sharon Hospital, built in 1916. Eastern Europeans became the town's newest residents, taking advantage of the affordable, cleared land to fuel a large number of highly successful farms. Sharon's residents thrived as they reshaped their town, welcoming newcomers and nurturing a community of inclusion that lasts to the present day.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467121886

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Huxford's Old Book Value Guide

By: Bob Huxford,Sharon Huxford

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Huxford's Old Book Value Guide

By: Bob Huxford,Sharon Huxford

Nearly 25,000 titles with current values fill this hardbound book. Much more than just a typical price guide, the book is a directory with scores of actual buyers listed by the subject matter they are searching for, as well as dealers offering the books at listed prices. It will put you in touch with a person interested in buying or selling the books you have piled on your bookshelves

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0891456449

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Social Work Practice with Culturally Diverse People

By: Surjit Singh Dhooper,Sharon E Moore

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Social Work Practice with Culturally Diverse People

By: Surjit Singh Dhooper,Sharon E Moore

The image of society is rapidly changing, challenging the social worker to adjust to a more culturally diverse clientele. Social workers are dealing with individuals who are from more diverse backgrounds, better informed, more politically active, and more aware of his or her rights. How does today′s helping professional address the growing gaps in societal needs? Social Work Practice with Culturally Diverse People addresses the ambivalent and ambiguous changes in society, which have conditioned and constrained the willingness, ability, and efforts of social workers to provide culturally competent services to those different from mainstream society. Dhooper and Moore outline each of the major disadvantaged groups and give a historical overview, highlight the major needs, identify intragroup differences, and discuss intervention at the micro, mezzo and macro levels. They discuss how the social worker needs self-awareness of his or her own culture to treat clients as culturally equal to them. This is an essential text for students entering social work at both the direct and community practice levels. Additionally, it is an excellent reference for the practitioner dealing with these changes in his or her own practice.

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SAGE Publications

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1452267715

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Workplace Justice

Organizing Multi-identity Movements

By: Sharon Kurtz

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Workplace Justice

Organizing Multi-identity Movements

By: Sharon Kurtz

In 1991, Columbia University's one thousand clerical workers launched a successful campaign for justice in their workplace. This diverse union -- two-thirds black and Latina, three-fourths women -- was committed to creating an inclusive movement organization and to fighting for all kinds of justice. How could they address the many race and gender injustices members faced, avoid schism, and maintain the unity needed to win? Sharon Kurtz, an experienced union activist and former clerical worker herself, was welcomed into the union and pursued these questions. Using this case study and secondary studies of sister clerical unions at Yale and Harvard, she examines the challenges and potential of identity politics in labor movements. With the Columbia strike as a point of departure, Kurtz argues that identity politics are valuable for mobilizing groups, but often exclude members and their experiences of oppression. However, Kurtz believes that identity politics should not be abandoned as a component in building movements, but should be reframed -- as multi-identity politics. In the end she shows an approach to organizing with great potential impact not only for labor unions but for any social movement.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816633142

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Climate Change and the People's Health

By: Sharon Friel

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Climate Change and the People's Health

By: Sharon Friel

Climate Change and the People's Health" offers a brave and ambitious new framework for understanding how our planet's two greatest existential threats comingle, complement, and amplify one another -- and what can be done to mitigate future harm. With insights from physical science, social science, and the humanities, this short book examines how climate change and social inequity are indelibly linked, and considering them together can bring about effective change in social equity, health, and the environment. -- From publisher's description.

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0190492732

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Explorer's Guide New Mexico (Second Edition)

By: Sharon Niederman

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Explorer's Guide New Mexico (Second Edition)

By: Sharon Niederman

An illuminating, in-depth guide that ventures beyond the major destinations and interstates to the real, living New Mexico and its small towns, two-lane roads, hometown cafés, ghost towns, sacred sites, historic structures, and spectacular natural landscapes. New Mexico author Sharon Niederman has been traveling, writing about, and photographing her home state for over two decades. In this second revised and updated edition of Explorer’s Guide New Mexico, she brings home the best of New Mexico’s cuisine, lodging, and natural environment. With this comprehensive guide, you can explore spectacular, breathtaking hikes and drives; discover treasures created by local artists; find festivals that celebrate native traditions; get indispensable advice on local attractions; and meet the people who will make your visit to the Land of Enchantment the experience of a lifetime. As with all Explorer’s Guides, handy icons point out places of extra value, family-friendly establishments, wheelchair access, and lodgings that accept pets. An introductory section provides an outstanding overview of facts and figures, recreational opportunities, scenic byways, monuments, and historic timelines.

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1581577362

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Spirits of the Border V

The History and Mystery of the Lone Star State

By: Ken Hudnall,Sharon Hudnall

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Spirits of the Border V

The History and Mystery of the Lone Star State

By: Ken Hudnall,Sharon Hudnall

This is the fifth volume of the Spirits of the Border Series covering all hauntings and unsolved mysteries in the State of Texas.

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Omega Press

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0962608793

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Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture

By: Sharon Alker,Leith Davis

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Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture

By: Sharon Alker,Leith Davis

While recent scholarship has usefully positioned Burns within the context of British Romanticism as a spokesperson of Scottish national identity, Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture considers Burns's impact in the United States, Canada, and South America, where he has served variously as a site of cultural memory and of creative negotiation. Ambitious in its scope, the volume is divided into five sections that explore: transatlantic concerns in Burns's own work, Burns's early publication in North America, Burns's reception in the Americas, Burns's creation as a site of cultural memory, and extra-literary remediations of Burns, including contemporary digital representations. By tracing the transatlantic modulations of the poet and songwriter and his works, Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture sheds new light on the circuits connecting Scotland and Britain with the evolving cultures of the Americas from the late eighteenth century to the present.

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Routledge

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1317062299

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Back to the Basics of Teaching and Learning

Thinking the World Together

By: David W. Jardine,Patricia Clifford,Sharon Friesen

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Thinking the World Together

By: David W. Jardine,Patricia Clifford,Sharon Friesen

This book is about an ecological-interpretive image of "the basics" in teaching and learning. The authors explore the challenges of an interpretive approach in relation to child development, mathematics education, science curriculum, teacher education, n

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1135643253

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9781135643256

Appalachian Rose

By: Sharon Rose McCormick

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Appalachian Rose

By: Sharon Rose McCormick

This book is a mostly humorous look at life in traditional rural Appalachia. It is based on true stories either in her lifetime or those handed down in the oral tradition of the culture. It is a collection of short stories, vignettes, and poetry. It is a testament to the tenacity and heart of these hearty people.

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1449061052

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Cornfield Hollow

By: Sharon Berti

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Cornfield Hollow

By: Sharon Berti

Penelope Wheeler lives in a hollow that is being threatened to be turned into a reservoir for a nearby city. The year is 1927 and her family as well as others see a display at the general store that is suppose to cure a lot of things, but turns out to have some consequences.

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Lulu.com

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130446203X

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9781304462039

Texas K-9 Unit Series Books 1-3

An Anthology

By: Shirlee McCoy,Margaret Daley,Sharon Dunn

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Texas K-9 Unit Series Books 1-3

An Anthology

By: Shirlee McCoy,Margaret Daley,Sharon Dunn

Love Inspired Suspense authors Shirlee McCoy, Margaret Daley and Sharon Dunn will get your pulse racing with tales of Texas cops and their loyal K-9 dogs tracking down a crime ring. Enjoy three action-packed Texas K-9 Unit romantic suspense novels in one box set! When a boy goes missing from his bedroom, a police detective must assure a desperate single mother that he and his trusty bloodhound will find her son. A woman with amnesia has to rely on an officer and his border collie to stay alive when she can't remember who tried to kill her. An FBI agent is called in to protect a single mother when the rookie K-9 officer witnesses a murder and becomes the killer's target. This box set includes: TRACKING JUSTICE BY SHIRLEE MCCOY DETECTION MISSION BY MARGARET DALEY GUARD DUTY BY SHARON DUNN Look for more Texas K-9 Unit books sold separately: EXPLOSIVE SECRETS BY VALERIE HANSEN SCENT OF DANGER BY TERRI REED LONESTAR PROTECTOR BY LENORA WORTH TEXAS K-9 UNIT CHRISTMAS BY SHIRLEE MCCOY AND TERRI REED

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Harlequin

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1460352203

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9781460352205

A to Z of Physicists

By: Darryl J. Leiter,Paul Ward, Dr,Sharon Leiter

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A to Z of Physicists

By: Darryl J. Leiter,Paul Ward, Dr,Sharon Leiter

Profiles more than 150 scientists from around the world who made important contributions to the field of physics, including John Bardeen, Marie Curie, Robert Hooke, Lise Meitner, and Chien-Shiung Wu.

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1438109229

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The Enchanted Life

Reclaiming the Magic and Wisdom of the Natural World

By: Sharon Blackie

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The Enchanted Life

Reclaiming the Magic and Wisdom of the Natural World

By: Sharon Blackie

A book of natural wonders, practical guidance and life-changing empowerment, by the author of the word-of-mouth bestseller If Women Rose Rooted. 'To live an enchanted life is to pick up the pieces of our bruised and battered psyches, and to offer them the nourishment they long for. It is to be challenged, to be awakened, to be gripped and shaken to the core by the extraordinary which lies at the heart of the ordinary. Above all, to live an enchanted life is to fall in love with the world all over again.' The enchanted life has nothing to do with escapism or magical thinking: it is founded on a vivid sense of belonging to a rich and many-layered world. It is creative, intuitive, imaginative. It thrives on work that has heart and meaning. It loves wild things, but returns to an enchanted home and garden. It respects the instinctive knowledge, ethical living and playfulness, and relishes story and art. Taking the inspiration and wisdom that can be derived from myth, fairy tales and folk culture, this book offers a set of practical and grounded tools for reclaiming enchantment in our lives, giving us a greater sense of meaning and of belonging to the world.

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September Publishing

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1910463892

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9781910463895

Victorians on Broadway

Literature, Adaptation, and the Modern American Musical

By: Sharon Aronofsky Weltman

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Victorians on Broadway

Literature, Adaptation, and the Modern American Musical

By: Sharon Aronofsky Weltman

Broadway productions of musicals such as The King and I, Oliver!, Sweeney Todd, and Jekyll and Hyde became huge theatrical hits. Remarkably, all were based on one-hundred-year-old British novels or memoirs. What could possibly explain their enormous success? Victorians on Broadway is a wide-ranging interdisciplinary study of live stage musicals from the mid- to late twentieth century adapted from British literature written between 1837 and 1886. Investigating musical dramatizations of works by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others, Sharon Aronofsky Weltman reveals what these musicals teach us about the Victorian books from which they derive and considers their enduring popularity and impact on our modern culture. Providing a front row seat to the hits (as well as the flops), Weltman situates these adaptations within the history of musical theater: the Golden Age of Broadway, the concept musicals of the 1970s and 1980s, and the era of pop mega-musicals, revealing Broadway’s debt to melodrama. With an expertise in Victorian literature, Weltman draws on reviews, critical analyses, and interviews with such luminaries as Stephen Sondheim, Polly Pen, Frank Wildhorn, and Rowan Atkinson to understand this popular trend in American theater. Exploring themes of race, religion, gender, and class, Weltman focuses attention on how these theatrical adaptations fit into aesthetic and intellectual movements while demonstrating the complexity of their enduring legacy.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813944333

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9780813944333

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