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Reading My Mother Back

A Memoir in Childhood Animal Stories

By: Timothy C. Baker

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Reading My Mother Back

A Memoir in Childhood Animal Stories

By: Timothy C. Baker

An innovative memoir connecting ideas of grief, memory, and animals to illustrate the importance of storytelling. When his mother died, Timothy C. Baker discovered that there was almost no record of her existence, and no stories that were his to tell: the only way to bring her back was through reading. Reading My Mother Back is a genre-bending memoir that explores a life marked by trauma, illness, religion, and abuse through a focus on the books Baker and his mother shared. The book combines accounts of rereading childhood classics with true and apocryphal stories of a quiet life, marked by great sorrow and great joy. The book is about grief and memory and how our childhood reading shapes the way we see the world; it’s about loneliness and the search for belonging; it’s about how ordinary lives are transfigured by storytelling. Moving from accounts of American evangelical communities to kidney failure, from literary criticism to psychoanalysis, and from guilt to love, Baker shows how literature provides a framework for understanding our experiences, and offers a way of connecting with everything we have lost. The book illustrates how children’s animal stories bring us into a love of the world, and how acts of rereading become a way not of assuaging grief, but of bringing the past and present together. Reading My Mother Back offers a bold and personal view of why the stories we read and share matter so much. And there are bunnies.

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MIT Press

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1913380467

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9781913380465

Writing Animals

Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

By: Timothy C. Baker

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Writing Animals

Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

By: Timothy C. Baker

This book surveys a broad range of contemporary texts to show how representations of human-animal relations challenge the anthropocentric nature of fiction. By looking at the relation between language and suffering in twenty-first-century fiction and drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches, Baker suggests new opportunities for exploring the centrality of nonhuman animals in recent fiction: writing animal lives leads to new narrative structures and forms of expression. These novels destabilise assumptions about the nature of pain and vulnerability, the burden of literary inheritance, the challenge of writing the Anthropocene, and the relation between text and image. Including both well-known authors and emerging talents, from J.M. Coetzee and Karen Joy Fowler to Sarah Hall, Alexis Wright, and Max Porter, and texts from experimental fiction to work for children, Writing Animals offers an original perspective on both contemporary fiction and the field of literary animal studies.

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Springer

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3030038807

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Reading My Mother Back

A Memoir in Childhood Animal Stories

By: Timothy C. Baker

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A Memoir in Childhood Animal Stories

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The Jacobean Grand Tour

Early Stuart Travellers in Europe

By: Edward Chaney,Timothy Wilks

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The Jacobean Grand Tour

Early Stuart Travellers in Europe

By: Edward Chaney,Timothy Wilks

Although the eighteenth century is traditionally seen as the age of the Grand Tour, it was in fact the continental travel of Jacobean noblemen which really constituted the beginning of the Tour as an institutionalized phenomenon. James I's peace treaty with Spain in 1604 rendered travel to Catholic Europe both safer and more respectable than it had been under the Tudors and opened up the continent to a new generation of aristocratic explorers, enquirers and adventurers. This book examines the political and cultural significance of the encounters that resulted, focusing in particular on two of England's greatest, and newly united, families: the Cecils and the Howards. It also considers the ways in which Protestants and Catholics experienced the aesthetic and intellectual stimulus of European travel and how the cultural experiences of the travellers formed the essential ingredients in what became the Grand Tour.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857735314

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9780857735317

Improving Learning Transfer in Organizations

By: Elwood F. Holton, III,Timothy T. Baldwin

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Improving Learning Transfer in Organizations

By: Elwood F. Holton, III,Timothy T. Baldwin

Improving Learning Transfer in Organizations features contributions from leading experts in the field learning transfer, and offers the most current information, ideas, and theories on the topic and aptly illustrates how to put transfer systems into action. In this book, the authors move beyond explanation to intervention by contributing their most recent thinking on how best to intervene in organizational contexts to influence the transfer of learning. Written for chief learning officers, training and development practitioners, management development professionals, and human resource management practitioners, this important volume shows how to create systems that ensure employees are getting and retaining the information, skills, and knowledge necessary to accomplish tasks on the job. Improving Learning Transfer in Organizations addresses learning transfer on both the individual and organizational level. This volume shows how to diagnose learning transfer systems, create a transfer-ready profile, and assess and place employees to maximize transfer. The book includes information on how to determine what process should be followed to design an organization-specific learning transfer system intervention. The authors focus on the actual learning process and show how to use front-end analysis to avoid transfer problems. In addition, they outline the issues associated with such popular work-based learning initiatives as action learning and communities of practice, and they also present applications on learning transfer within e-learning and team training contexts.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0787971871

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9780787971878

Anglo-American Life Insurance, 1800-1914 Volume 1

By: Timothy Alborn

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Anglo-American Life Insurance, 1800-1914 Volume 1

By: Timothy Alborn

By the eve of the Great Depression, there existed in America the equivalent of a policy for every man, woman and child, and in Britain it grew from its narrow aristocratic base to cover all social classes. This primary resource collection is the first comparative history of British and American life insurance industries.

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Routledge

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1351576542

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9781351576543

George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community

By: Timothy C Baker

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George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community

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In this book Timothy C. Baker situates George Mackay Brown's work within a broad literary and philosophical context to articulate how his novels engage with the question of community.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748640932

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9780748640935

New Forms of Environmental Writing

Gleaning and Fragmentation

By: Timothy C. Baker

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New Forms of Environmental Writing

Gleaning and Fragmentation

By: Timothy C. Baker

Surveying a wide range of contemporary poetry, fiction, and memoir by women writers, this book explores our most pressing environmental concerns and shows how these texts find innovative new ways to respond to our environmental crisis. Arguing for the centrality of individual encounter and fragmentary form in 21st-century literature, as well as themes of attention, care, and loss, Baker highlights the ways that fragmentary texts can be seen as a mode of resistance. These texts provide new ways to consider the role of individual agency and enmeshment in a more-than-human world. The author proposes a new model of 'gleaning' to encompass ideas of collection, assemblage, and relinquishment and draws on theoretical perspectives such as ecofeminism, new materialism and posthumanism. Examining works by writers including Sara Baume, Ali Smith, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Bhanu Kapil and Kathleen Jamie, Baker provides important new insights into understanding our planetary predicament.

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257

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350271330

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9781350271333

Forest Conservation Genetics

Principles and Practice

By: Andrew Young,David Boshier,Timothy Boyle

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Forest Conservation Genetics

Principles and Practice

By: Andrew Young,David Boshier,Timothy Boyle

Forest management must be sustainable not only in ecological, economic and social, but also genetic terms. Many forest managers are advocating and developing management strategies that give priority to conserving genetic diversity within production systems, or that recognise the importance of genetic considerations in achieving sustainable management. Forest Conservation Genetics draws together much previously uncollected information relevant to managing and conserving forests. The content emphasises the importance of conserving genetic diversity in achieving sustainable management. Each chapter is written by a leading expert and has been peer reviewed. Readers without a background in genetics will find the logical sequence of topics allows easy understanding of the principles involved and how those principles may impact on day-to-day forest planning and management decisions. The book is primarily aimed at undergraduate students of biology, ecology, forestry, and graduate students of forest genetics, resource management policy and/or conservation biology. It will prove useful for those teaching courses in these fields and as such help to increase the awareness of genetic factors in conservation and sustainable management, in both temperate and tropical regions.

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CSIRO PUBLISHING

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0643102574

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9780643102576

The Fungal Kingdom

By: Joseph Heitman,Barbara J. Howlett,Pedro W. Crous,Eva H. Stukenbrock,Timothy Yong James,Neil A. R. Gow

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The Fungal Kingdom

By: Joseph Heitman,Barbara J. Howlett,Pedro W. Crous,Eva H. Stukenbrock,Timothy Yong James,Neil A. R. Gow

Fungi research and knowledge grew rapidly following recent advances in genetics and genomics. This book synthesizes new knowledge with existing information to stimulate new scientific questions and propel fungal scientists on to the next stages of research. This book is a comprehensive guide on fungi, environmental sensing, genetics, genomics, interactions with microbes, plants, insects, and humans, technological applications, and natural product development.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1555819583

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Synthetic Methods in Organic Electronic and Photonic Materials

A Practical Guide

By: Timothy Parker,Seth Marder

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Synthetic Methods in Organic Electronic and Photonic Materials

A Practical Guide

By: Timothy Parker,Seth Marder

With the development of courses on materials synthesis and the need to carry out specific chemical transformations in the laboratory, good practical advice will be needed for those requiring more detail on conjugated materials synthesis. The purpose of this book is to give researchers and students an introduction and reference that efficiently provides general information for each important synthetic method category and a number of examples from the literature to convey practically important variations. It is useful as an outline for advanced organic and materials science courses as well as a good introduction and desk reference for new and experienced researchers in the field.

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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1788018141

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9781788018142

George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community

By: Timothy C Baker

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George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community

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In this book Timothy C. Baker situates George Mackay Brown's work within a broad literary and philosophical context to articulate how his novels engage with the question of community.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748640932

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New Forms of Environmental Writing

Gleaning and Fragmentation

By: Timothy C. Baker

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Gleaning and Fragmentation

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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Writing Animals

Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

By: Timothy C. Baker

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Writing Animals

Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

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Book's by Timothy C. Baker

Reading My Mother Back

Reading My Mother Back

Writing Animals

Writing Animals

Reading My Mother Back

Reading My Mother Back

The Jacobean Grand Tour

The Jacobean Grand Tour

Improving Learning Transfer in Organizations

Improving Learning Transfer in Organizations

Anglo-American Life Insurance, 1800-1914 Volume 1

Anglo-American Life Insurance, 1800-1914 Volume 1

George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community

George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community

New Forms of Environmental Writing

New Forms of Environmental Writing

Forest Conservation Genetics

Forest Conservation Genetics

The Fungal Kingdom

The Fungal Kingdom

Synthetic Methods in Organic Electronic and Photonic Materials

Synthetic Methods in Organic Electronic and Photonic Materials

George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community

George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community

New Forms of Environmental Writing

New Forms of Environmental Writing

Writing Animals

Writing Animals

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