This first book-length study of D. H. Lawrence’s lifelong engagement with music surveys his extensive musical interests and how these permeate his writing, while also situating Lawrence within a growing body of work on music and modernism. A twin focus considers the music that shaped Lawrence’s novels and poetry, as well as contemporary developments in music that parallel his quest for new forms of expression. Comparisons are made with the music of Debussy, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Wagner, and British composers, including Bax, Holst and Vaughan Williams, and with the musical writings of Forster, Hardy, Hueffer (Ford), Nietzsche and Pound. Above all, by exploring Lawrence and music in historical context, this study aims to open up new areas for study and a place for Lawrence within the field of music and modernism.
Architect Iris Reid is arrested when the police identify her as one of the bank robbers who shot a guard. Scrambling to defend herself against an airtight case, Iris discovers that her mail's been diverted to an abandoned apartment. She's able to find a clue and pick up her doppelganger's trail. But her adversary is watching her every move.
In telling Creelman's fascinating story, Susan Armstrong-Reid helps readers learn about the transformation of the nursing profession and global health governance in the twentieth century.
The Sino-Japanese War (1937–45) had a devastating impact on China’s civilian population. Braving bandits, disease, and dangerous roads, the China Convoy – a Quaker-sponsored humanitarian unit – delivered medical supplies and provided famine relief in the unoccupied territory of “Free China” and later to both sides in the ensuing civil war. China Gadabouts examines the contested roles played by Western and Chinese nurses in the Convoy’s humanitarian efforts from 1941 to 1951. In so doing, it re-examines the quandaries of Quakers’ purportedly apolitical global engagement that remain salient for contemporary humanitarians. Susan Armstrong-Reid explores how this work gave meaning to the women’s lives and how they attempted to carve out personal and professional space despite a chaotic, unfamiliar, and occasionally hostile environment. China Gadabouts illuminates the ethical dilemmas, professional challenges, and opportunities presented by humanitarian nursing within a Western-based relief organization, while acknowledging its contentious imperial role. In doing so, it spotlights an understudied area of global nursing – its role within INGOs, now more active than ever in global health care.
Start Chasing Nothing is a practical guide filled with life-changing knowledge and easy to use techniques to help anyone plagued by daily dread to find joy and peace from within. This book is for people who want lasting happiness and fulfillment through the happenings of everyday life. The three-step Formula and the Emergency List introduced in this book are transformative and easy to use anytime you need relief from the drama swirling around you. Youll learn how to use the Formula to go inward to discover the source from which all happiness flows. The Emergency List helps you shift from turmoil to peace, one second at a time. These techniques help us simply turn our attention within, and be happy now, instead of chasing something that we think will give us fulfillment in the future. It doesnt matter if your life is ordinary or extraordinary. It doesnt matter if you have a little money or a lot. The only thing you need is a desire to attain lasting inner peace and fulfillment. These techniques point our way back to the place of true happiness and help us shift from turmoil to peace, one second at a time.
SQL: Access to SQL Server is more than just a comprehensive reference tool for Access developers. You'll also find efficient SQL solutions for common Access problems and tasks, as well as helpful hints and warnings about what to avoid. Learning Jet SQL is an important step from just using Access to developing with Access. In addition to learning Jet SQL, readers will embark on a journey into the world of SQL Server 2000. The journey starts when you learn how to install SQL Server and ends with an introduction to XML and ASP. Along the way, using Access Data Projects, you'll see features new to SQL Server 2000, including functions that return tables, instead of triggers and gotchas with upsizing. The authors highlight not only the enormous opportunities awaiting you as an Access developer, but also the potential challenges and pitfalls you may face as you move from Access to SQL Server 2000.
Sizzling Susan Mallery Reid Buchanan was always a fan favourite on the baseball diamond. But between the sheets? A spiteful article about the former pitcher and current playboy questions his talent in the bedroom. And the newspaper is just the first bad news. Reid's grandmother's broken hip means she needs constant care, but Reid hires Nurses 1 and 2 for their bedside manner with him. So for Number 3 he chooses Lori Johnston, the first candidate who seems immune to his charm. Lori's never wasted her time with amoebas like Reid Buchanan. So why are her defences starting to crumble under the force of his sexy smile? There's only one explanation for the feelings flaring between them–chemistry. Chemistry so hot, it's sizzling!
No one knows WHEN the world will end but how do you go on, when you've seen HOW it will end? If the dark ones don't kill me first...I'll tell everyone."--- Starling Marie Roberts. College Sophomore Starling Roberts is afraid of the dark because she has known this all her life. The shadow beings are real and she can see them. Plagued with nightmares of the invasion of Earth by the Dark fallen and ultimately Morning Star isn't an easy burden to carry, especially when the darkness is after you for the very thing that makes each one of us stand apart from them...our Divinity. Starling is rare and unique. Her past obstacles and devastations have wilted her own beliefs, leaving her to begin questioning her own purpose and faith. But that begins to change when the dark shadows begin attacking her mentally...and physically. Starling has been chosen, one of hundreds of thousands. But her rare divinity has placed her on the top most wanted list by the dark fallen and she has become the target of a planned catastrophic and deadly event gathered, controlled and led by Morning Star himself. Star's only hope to remain alive and sane---Camael, a renegade, dark fallen Incubus who lusts for her and Drakael-an Angel determined to keep her from him. This is her Chronicle, pulled and put together from her own personal journals now known as The Book of Starling. Combined with the journals of Camael; Former Chief Angel of all Powers in his own words and at his own personal request. Scholar Disciple Keiko-San
Beatrice, The Secret Mission is a fresh take for contemporary children's literature. An unusual blend of chapter book and storybook for young readers, it tells a funny, compelling yet innocent story usually found only in the classics. Every parent or grandparent will love its life lessons and savor its delightfully rich language when reading aloud. Young readers are hooked by the characters and story and can hardly wait to get to the next chapter. They easily tune into this impetuous, bossy and thoroughly endearing young mouse who gets herself into one scrape after another as she tries to forge a friendship between sworn enemies: Consuela, a jealous, snooty parrot, and Jasper, a dog with a sad tale, rootbeer brown eyes, and a gentle soul. The story has at its heart a challenging odyssey that tests the three as they duck detection by humans, a villainous cat, bloodthirsty rats and a gang of dangerous geese. As with all odysseys, what they went for wasn't necessarily what they found. They did learn, however, about friendship, courage, teamwork, tolerance, honesty, perseverance, humor, and even good manners! BOOK REVIEW BEATRICE is a charming, captivating and instructive adventure story for elementary school children seeking a book that looks up to them not down on them. Reviewed by Dr.Roland S.Barth Former Public Elementary School Principal Professor Emeritus, Harvard Graduate School of Education Contact information: rsb44@ao1.com
Reid Haliburton, a skilled gunsmith, resolves to keep his revolutionary handgun away from those who would abuse its power. But a vicious pirate decides the gun will be his. The price of refusing is Reid's life and those of his three young sons. Reid's only chance to save his sons is to send them away and face the pirate's wrath alone. Widowed Leena Cullane Adair is stunned to find the three lads hiding in her cart. Although she only met their father a week ago, he has wakened her interest in life and love. He holds her heart and her dreams, and she will do whatever it takes to keep him and his sons alive.
Reid Buchanan was always a fan favorite on the baseball diamond. But between the sheets? A spiteful article about the former pitcher and current playboy questions his talent in the bedroom. And the newspaper's just the first bad news. Reid's grandmother Gloria's broken hip means she needs constant care—but Reid hired Nurses 1 and 2 for their bedside manner with him. So for Number 3 he chooses Lori Johnson, the first candidate who seems immune to his brand of charm. Lori's never wasted her time with amoebas like Reid Buchanan. So why are her well-fortified defenses starting to crumble under the force of his sexy smile—and the kindness he shows her at every turn? There's only one explanation for the feelings flaring between them—chemistry. Chemistry so hot, it's sizzling!
This book argues that the performance-based work in the featured case studies contributes to the construction of food democracy where the public takes back decision-making in shaping the food system. It explores how contemporary artists translate scientific research about local and global agricultural issues into life stories that inform and engage their audiences and, in so doing, transform passive food consumers into proactive food citizens. The pairing of performing and farmscapes (complex webs of farmlands and storylines) enables artists to use embodied practices to encourage audiences to imagine a just and sustainable agri-food system and to collaborate on making it a reality. The book arranges the case studies on a trajectory that moves from projects that foreground knowledge acquisition to ones that emphasize social engagement by creating conversations and coalitions between farming and nonfarming communities to a final one that pairs protest art and political activism to achieve legally-binding changes in the agricultural landscape.
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