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Seasonal Fare

Recipes for Family and Friends

By: Susan Johnston

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Seasonal Fare

Recipes for Family and Friends

By: Susan Johnston

Susan Johnston is passionate about food and her cooking is a marvelous amalgam of farm-gathered ingredients and recipes inspired by her travels. In Seasonal Fare she emphasises the importance of the basic steps, the necessity of fresh produce, and the need for meticulous preparation, while the 200 recipes link ingredients to time and place, celebrating food for every season.

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Wakefield Press

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1862546932

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9781862546936

Beyond Party Members

Changing Approaches to Partisan Mobilization

By: Susan E. Scarrow

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Beyond Party Members

Changing Approaches to Partisan Mobilization

By: Susan E. Scarrow

This book offers a broad overview of an important and ongoing transformation in relations between political parties and their closest supporters. It focuses on established parliamentary democracies, showing how the changing nature of party membership is affecting how political parties define themselves and the choices presented to voters.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199661863

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9780199661862

I Escaped Egypt's Deadliest Train Disaster

A Train Fire Survival Story

By: Scott Peters,Susan Wyshynski

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I Escaped Egypt's Deadliest Train Disaster

A Train Fire Survival Story

By: Scott Peters,Susan Wyshynski

Sam has one mission: to survive. 15-year-old Sam is vacationing in Egypt when he's trapped in a burning train that's speeding out of control. The Survival Series that celebrates the awesome history of us. Based on Egypt's 2002 El Ayyat railway accident. From bestselling author and creator of over 300 museum exhibits Scott Peters comes a wild escape adventure based on the true story of Egypt's deadliest train disaster. Short attention spans — Chapter Book — Ages 8-12 — B&W Illustrations 15-year-old Sam is thrilled to be riding a rickety train with his parents in Egypt. It sure is different from America! Sam sets off alone, searching for snacks, as the train screeches through the night. Suddenly, a fire erupts and a wall of flames split the train in half, trapping Sam in the rear cars. Unable to return to his mom and dad, Sam is shoved to and fro by the panicked crowd. The train picks up speed, racing through the dark night. Should Sam jump to save himself? He's no stuntman. He's just a kid, a rower from Washington, DC. He's way out of his element. Soon, sparks swirl and smoke fills his nostrils. As the flames push him back into the final car, Sam is determined to escape. Because if he gives up, he'll never see his parents again. Can Sam survive the worst train disaster in Egypt's history? This is the 9th Escaped adventure in the children's series about brave boys and girls who face real-world challenges and find ways to escape disaster. Follow these inspiring kids while they brainstorm, help others, and hone their problem-solving skills. The short chapters make for easy wins, and Sam's gripping situation keeps even reluctant readers turning pages just to find out what's going to happen next. Great for kids book clubs and classrooms. Packed with a special fact section on Egyptian pyramids and mummies for kids, ancient Egyptian curses, and much more. Includes survivor quotes. An adrenaline-charged, nonstop action book for boys age 8-12 and girls who love tales of values and courage. Collect the whole I Escaped Series "a must for every reading list" * Please note: Stock may be limited closer to Christmas, so buy early. Can Sam survive disaster? Read it and find out!

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111

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Best Day Books For Young Readers

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1951019296

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9781951019297

Rin Tin Tin

The Life and the Legend

By: Susan Orlean

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Rin Tin Tin

The Life and the Legend

By: Susan Orlean

One of the most acclaimed nonfiction books of 2011, Susan Orlean's New York Times bestseller Rin Tin Tin is "an unforgettable book about the mutual devotion between one man and one dog" (The Wall Street Journal). He believed the dog was immortal. So begins Susan Orlean's sweeping, powerfully moving account of Rin Tin Tin's journey from abandoned puppy to movie star and international icon. Spanning almost one hundred years of history, from the dog's improbable discovery on a battlefield in 1918 to his tumultuous rise through Hollywood and beyond, Rin Tin Tin is a love story about "the mutual devotion between one man and one dog" (The Wall Street Journal) that is also a quintessentially American story of reinvention, a captivating exploration of our spiritual bond with animals, and a stirring meditation on mortality and immortality.

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352

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Simon and Schuster

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1439190143

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9781439190142

When the World Closed Its Doors

Struggling to Escape Nazi-occupied Europe

By: Ida Piller-Greenspan,Susan M. Branting

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When the World Closed Its Doors

Struggling to Escape Nazi-occupied Europe

By: Ida Piller-Greenspan,Susan M. Branting

[A] memoir of one couple's escape from the Nazis ...[full of] ingenuity and determination." Michael R. Marrus, Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto At the beginning of World War II, the US and other countries erected a "paper wall"-- a bureaucratic maze that prevented all but a small number of Jewish refugees from emigrating from Nazi-Occupied Europe.When the World Closed Its Doors tells the true story of a young couple who, like many European Jews, were caught between the Nazis and the "paper wall". Ida Piller-Greenspan was married in Belgium on May 9, 1940. That night the Nazis invaded Belgium. She and her new husband survived the next four months hitchhiking through occupied territory, hiding in barns and tunnels, dodging bombs near Dunkirk, crossing the Pyrenees on foot, and enduring weeks with little food and no money. Ultimately they arrived in Portugal, certain they would find sanctuary somewhere in the world beyond Europe's borders. But their trials were not over. It took nine anxious months for them to find a country that would let them in -- months spent watching in horror as most refugees were forced back to uncertain lives in their home countries. Forty years later, Ida, an accomplished artist, created a pictorial diary of their journey. Her prints -- lyrical, haunting, and compelling -- are accompanied by a page-turning narrative that bears witness to this treacherous and largely forgotten chapter of World War II history.

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Routledge

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1317249186

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9781317249184

A Poetics of Editing

By: Susan L. Greenberg

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A Poetics of Editing

By: Susan L. Greenberg

This original and authoritative book offers a first-ever attempt to define a poetics of the editing arts. It proposes a new field of editing studies, in which the ‘ideal editor’ can be understood in relation to the long-theorised author and reader. The book’s premise is that editing, like other forms of ‘making’, is mostly invisible and can only be brought into full view through a comparative analysis that includes the insights of practitioners. The argument, laid down in careful layers, is supported by a panoramic historical narrative that tracks the shifts in textual authority from religious and secular institutions to the romanticised self of the digital present. The dangers posed by the anti-editing rhetoric of this hybrid romanticism are confronted head-on. To the traditional perception of editing as the imposition of closure, A Poetics of Editing adds a perspective on a dynamic process with a sense of the possible.

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272

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Springer

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3319922467

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9783319922461

Foolsgold

Making Something from Nothing and Freeing Your Creative Process

By: Susan G. Wooldridge

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Foolsgold

Making Something from Nothing and Freeing Your Creative Process

By: Susan G. Wooldridge

In this personal, inspiring guide to a creative life, Wooldridge shares her own journey of the heart—from loss and grief to a return to wholeness and joy. Offering poetry exercises, journal writing, and other practices to encourage creative play—including foraging and assembling collages with found objects—Foolsgold: Making Something from Nothing and Freeing Your Creative Process will motivate you to reevaluate what’s most important in your world. Through intimate stories about transforming what life brings your way, the book will help open your heart to more creativity—DELIGHT AND VITALITY—whether it’s through photography, dance, gardening, cooking, songwriting, or poetry. Foolsgold includes dozens of suggestions to help you free the artist within by cultivating a creative lifestyle that will not only expand and inspire you but may also ground and heal you.

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Harmony

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030749554X

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9780307495549

Sojourner Truth

Slave, Prophet, Legend

By: Carleton Mabee,Susan Mabee Newhouse

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Sojourner Truth

Slave, Prophet, Legend

By: Carleton Mabee,Susan Mabee Newhouse

Using original sources, Mabee and Newhouse construct a biography of Truth that seeks to shed the myths that have grown up around her. Though serving a positive function, these myths, they say, distort perceptions about the history of blacks and women in America. While they preserve her reputation as a leader and visionary, they burst some bubbles--among them, the authenticity of the famous "Ar'n't I A Woman?" speech. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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NYU Press

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ISBN 10

0814754848

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9780814754849

Queechy; In Two Volumes

Volume 1 - in large print

By: Susan Warner

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Queechy; In Two Volumes

Volume 1 - in large print

By: Susan Warner

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3387322437

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9783387322439

The Banana Sculptor, the Purple Lady, and the All-night Swimmer

Hobbies, Collecting, and Other Passionate Pursuits

By: Susan Sheehan,Howard B. Means

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The Banana Sculptor, the Purple Lady, and the All-night Swimmer

Hobbies, Collecting, and Other Passionate Pursuits

By: Susan Sheehan,Howard B. Means

Swimming the Great Lakes, growing bonsai trees, hunting big game, carving the Last Supper, spinning, skating, sculling, and baking are just some of the serious hobbies of the people portrayed in this intriguing work on how Americans spend their leisure time.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743201221

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9780743201223

Modeling of Mn/ROAD Test Sections with the CRREL Mechanistic Pavement Design Procedure

By: Susan R. Bigl

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Modeling of Mn/ROAD Test Sections with the CRREL Mechanistic Pavement Design Procedure

By: Susan R. Bigl

The U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory is developing a mechanistic pavement design procedure for use in seasonal frost areas. The procedure was used to predict pavement performance of some test sections under construction at the Mn/ROAD facility. Simulations were conducted in three phases, investigating the effects on predictions of water table position, subgrade characteristics, asphalt model, and freeze season characteristics. The procedure predicted significantly different performance by the different test sections and highly variable results depending on the performance model applied. The simulated performance of the tests sections also was greatly affected by the subgrade conditions, e.g., density, soil moisture, and water table depth. In general, predictions for the full depth asphalt sections indicate that they will not fail due to cracking, but two of the three criteria for subgrade rufting indicate failure before the five or 10 year design life of the sections. Conventional sections are predicted not to fail due to subgrade rutting; however, sections including the more frost susceptible bases in their design are predicted to fail due to asphalt cracking relatively early in their design life, and sections with nonfrost susceptible bases are predicted to fail towards the end of the design life.

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DIANE Publishing

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1428913955

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9781428913950

The Snow Fox

A Novel

By: Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

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The Snow Fox

A Novel

By: Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

A great samurai and a beautiful poet fall in love in this novel of medieval Japan that examines a renewed love that's fraught by the Japanese concept of "mono no aware"--life's ephemeral nature--that weighs on the lovers.

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452

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W. W. Norton & Company

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ISBN 10

0393326527

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9780393326529

Whale Watch

By: Susan Griffiths

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Whale Watch

By: Susan Griffiths

Bookwise is a carefully graded reading scheme organized into five cross-curricular strands, encouraging links to other subjects. Comprising 16 fiction and ten non-fiction titles, the 25 books at each level span a two-year reading age and the three-tier levelling system within each level facilitates an accurate match of reading ability and text. The full-colour readers are accompanied by teacher's guides and resource sheets to help teachers get the most out of their guided reading and writing sessions.

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Nelson Thornes

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0748759301

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9780748759309

Burnt Out

By: Susan Koefod

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Burnt Out

By: Susan Koefod

CAN SHE FORGET THE PAST TO SAVE HER OWN LIFE? A burnt-out social worker is reluctantly caught up in the suspicious disappearance of a world-famous geologist and learns her own life is in danger. Will she be able to forget the disaster of her failed love affair and reach out to the only person who can truly help her—detective Arvo Thorson? "Prickly-but-principled social worker Christine Ivory is feeling burned out on the job and retreats to the family place in Minnesota's north woods. Burnt Out the third in a richly realized series from Susan Koefod, captures the complex push-pull of home and family, not to mention the dark underbelly of idyllic small-town life. Add a missing geologist and a ripped-from-the-headlines clash over oil and gas rights, and Koefod hits a gusher of motives for murder." —Erin Hart, award-winning author of The Book of Killowen "Koefod skillfully captures the many layers of drama and tension underlying small town life." —Brian Freeman, international bestselling author of Spilled Blood

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Speaking Volumes

ISBN 10

1645403947

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9781645403944

Rockville Pike

A Suburban Comedy of Manners

By: Susan Coll

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Rockville Pike

A Suburban Comedy of Manners

By: Susan Coll

Jane Kramer never imagined a life selling discount furniture and commuting between grocery stores and soccer fields via minivan. But when her father-in-law has a heart attack, she and her husband, Leon, trade in their glamorous New York life for a stint running the family business on Rockville Pike, a tributary of the suburban sprawl line extending outward from Washington, D.C. Kramer's Discount Furniture Depot sits away from several lanes of traffic, near the tombstone of Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is here that Jane escapes each day at lunchtime to ponder her confusing turn in life. At age forty-one, she has a teenage Goth son, her husband is increasingly overweight and quick-tempered, and their business is in a state of crisis, both financially and legally. Jane finds herself wishing for something more. First, add to the mix Delia, a mysterious and strangely predatory patio-furniture saleswoman who seems to have her sights set on Leon, and then an attack on the store expansion plans by historic preservationists. When potentially disturbing findings about Delia's past come to light, Jane finds herself learning that, despite life's reversals, it is possible to reinvent herself by tapping into talents and desires she didn't realize she still had. Rockville Pike is a smart, witty, and funny read that revels in the joy of discovering what life has in store.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439104077

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9781439104071

Clare: A Novel

By: Susan Lynn Peterson

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Clare: A Novel

By: Susan Lynn Peterson

Clare Keane is fourteen years old when her mother dies of pneumonia in the tenement room they share in turn-of-the-century Cork, Ireland. Left with two younger brothers, her closest family thousands of miles away in St. Paul, Minnesota, Clare begins a dangerous journey that takes her from Cork through the port of Queenstown to Ellis Island, New York, and finally St. Paul. Rich in historical detail, Clare allows the reader to live the sights, sounds, and smells of a 1906 journey of immigration. "Clare" was named a Reader Favorite Award finalist for 2011.

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Alcuin House Publishing

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0983065217

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9780983065210

Forensic Nursing

Evidence-Based Principles and Practice

By: Rose E Constantino,Patricia A Crane,Susan E Young

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Forensic Nursing

Evidence-Based Principles and Practice

By: Rose E Constantino,Patricia A Crane,Susan E Young

Explore the role of the forensic nurse in both the health care and criminal justice systems with this text written by experts in the field with contributions from well-known specialists. Inside you’ll find an overview of the forensic nursing field as well as crucial coverage on specific issues of evidence collection, prison health care, human trafficking, sexual abuse, and domestic violence. Step-by-step, you will build a solid foundation in forensic nursing practice by developing competencies in deductive analysis, critical thinking, evaluation, application, and communication.

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F.A. Davis

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0803639120

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9780803639126

Art of the Cherokee

Prehistory to the Present

By: Susan C. Power

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Art of the Cherokee

Prehistory to the Present

By: Susan C. Power

In addition to tracing the development of Cherokee art, Power reveals the wide range of geographical locales from which Cherokee art has originated. These places include the Cherokee's tribal homeland in the southeast, the tribe's areas of resettlement in the West, and abodes in the United States and beyond to which individuals subsequently moved. Intimately connected to the time and place of its creation, Cherokee art changed along with Cherokee social, political, and economic circumstances. The entry of European explorers into the Southeast, the Trail of Tears, the American Civil War, and the signing of treaties with the U.S. government are among the transforming events in Cherokee art history that Power discusses."--BOOK JACKET.

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328

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University of Georgia Press

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0820327662

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9780820327662

Microsoft Encarta Thesaurus

By: Microsoft,Susan Jellis

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Microsoft Encarta Thesaurus

By: Microsoft,Susan Jellis

This portable guide features over 200,000 synonyms and antonyms in a quick-reference A-to-Z format of over 25,000 entries, including clearly labeled slang, informal, technical, and literary terms. Also features panels to compare and contrast words with similar meanings, "Word bank" panels with lists for selected topics, and a "Test Your Wordpower" section enabling users to assess their vocabulary range and verbal speed. Martin's Press. (July)

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612

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Macmillan

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0312983638

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9780312983635

Nurse as Educator

Principles of Teaching and Learning for Nursing Practice

By: Susan Bacorn Bastable

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Nurse as Educator

Principles of Teaching and Learning for Nursing Practice

By: Susan Bacorn Bastable

Designed to teach nurses about the development, motivational, and sociocultural differences that affect teaching and learning, this text combines theoretical and pragmatic content in a balanced, complete style. --from publisher description.

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689

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0763746436

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9780763746438

Sociability and Power in Late-Stuart England

The Cultural Worlds of the Verneys, 1660-1720

By: Susan E. Whyman

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Sociability and Power in Late-Stuart England

The Cultural Worlds of the Verneys, 1660-1720

By: Susan E. Whyman

This highly original study looks at rituals of sociability in new and creative ways. Based upon thousands of personal letters, it reconstructs the changing country and London worlds of an English gentry family and reveals intimate details about the social and cultural life of the period. Challenging current views, the book observes strong connections, instead of deep divisions, between country and city, land and trade, sociability and power. Its very different view undermines established stereotypes of omnipotent male patriarchs, powerless wives and kin, autonomous elder sons, and dependent younger brothers. Gifts of venison and visits in a coach reveal unexpected findings about the subtle power of women over the social code, the importance of younger sons, and the overwhelming impact of London. Successfully combining storytelling and historical analysis, the book recreates everyday lives in a period of overseas expansion, financial revolution, and political turmoil.

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Clarendon Press

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0199250235

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9780199250233

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