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Getting a Job in Canada

Find the Right Job and Secure a Great New Lifestyle

By: Valerie Gerrard

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Getting a Job in Canada

Find the Right Job and Secure a Great New Lifestyle

By: Valerie Gerrard

The idea of working in Canada is an attractive prospect for many with the range of opportunities available. This title guides you through the process of gaining permission to work, finding the job needed and settling into a new way of life.

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How To Books Ltd

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1857039165

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9781857039160

Mary I and the Art of Book Dedications

Royal Women, Power, and Persuasion

By: Valerie Schutte

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Mary I and the Art of Book Dedications

Royal Women, Power, and Persuasion

By: Valerie Schutte

In this revisionist approach to book history and Marian studies Valerie Schutte argues that manuscript and printed book dedications reveal contemporary perceptions of statecraft, religion, and gender. She offers the first comprehensive catalogue of all book and manuscript dedications to Mary and all books known to have been in Mary's possession.

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Springer

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1137541288

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9781137541284

The Dictionary of Alternatives

Utopianism and Organization

By: Doctor Martin Parker,Valerie Fournier,Patrick Reedy

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The Dictionary of Alternatives

Utopianism and Organization

By: Doctor Martin Parker,Valerie Fournier,Patrick Reedy

There is no alternative to free market liberalism and managerialism', is the orthodoxy of the twenty-first century. All too often, ordinary people across the world are being told that the problem of organization is already solved, or that it is being solved somewhere else, or that it need not concern them because they have no choices. This dictionary provides those who disagree with the evidence. Using hundreds of entries and cross-references, it proves that there are many alternatives to the way that we currently organize ourselves. These alternatives could be expressed as fictional utopias, they could be excavated from the past, or they could be described in terms of the contemporary politics of anti-corporate protest, environmentalism, feminism and localism. Part reference work, part source book, and part polemic, this dictionary provides a rich understanding of the ways in which fiction, history and today's politics provide different ways of thinking about how we can and should organize for the coming century.

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Zed Books Ltd.

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1848136471

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9781848136472

Mary Poppins, She Wrote

The Life of P. L. Travers

By: Valerie Lawson

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Mary Poppins, She Wrote

The Life of P. L. Travers

By: Valerie Lawson

THE ONLY TRUE STORY BEHIND THE CREATOR OF MARY POPPINS The remarkable life of P.L. Travers, the creator of Mary Poppins—perfect for fans of the movie Mary Poppins Returns and the original Disney classic! “An arresting life…Lawson is superb at excavating the details.” —Library Journal The spellbinding stories of Mary Poppins, the quintessentially English and utterly magical nanny, have been loved by generations. She flew into the lives of the unsuspecting Banks family in a children’s book that was instantly hailed as a classic, then became a household name when Julie Andrews stepped into the title role in Walt Disney’s hugely successful and equally classic film. But the Mary Poppins in the stories was not the cheery film character. She was tart and sharp, plain and vain. She was a remarkable character. The story of Mary Poppins’ creator, as this definitive biography reveals, is equally remarkable. The fabulous English nanny was actually conceived by an Australian, Pamela Lyndon Travers, who came to London in 1924 from Queensland as a journalist. She became involved with Theosophy, traveled in the literary circles of W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot, and became a disciple of the famed spiritual guru, Gurdjieff. She famously clashed with Walt Disney over the adaptation of the Mary Poppins books into film. Travers, whom Disney accused of vanity for “thinking you know more about Mary Poppins than I do,” was as tart and opinionated as Julie Andrews’s big-screen Mary Poppins was cheery. Yet it was a love of mysticism and magic that shaped Travers’s life as well as the character of Mary Poppins. The clipped, strict, and ultimately mysterious nanny who emerged from her pen was the creation of someone who remained inscrutable and enigmatic to the end of her ninety-six years. Valerie Lawson’s illuminating biography provides the first full look whose personal journey is as intriguing as her beloved characters.

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416

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Simon and Schuster

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1476762937

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9781476762937

Movement

A Novel

By: Valerie Miner

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Movement

A Novel

By: Valerie Miner

This novel in stories tracks ten years in the life of Susan, a journalist and feminist, during a time of transition in America Susan is an activist. And yet, though her political ideals form the center of her life, she questions her convictions. At the heart of this string of interconnected stories are tensions among ideas, feelings, and action. Miner deftly interweaves Susan’s story with the tales of women whom Susan will never meet. The result is a textured and enveloping book that creates a sense of universality. Written with a deep understanding of activism, Miner’s novelistic retrospective of the feminist movement questions everything from marriage to Marxism. This fascinating work gives a true and unflinching view of what it means to be a woman in the world.

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175

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Open Road Media

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1497612314

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9781497612310

Sigmund

By: Valerie Baxter

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Sigmund

By: Valerie Baxter

Author Valerie Baxter explores the life-and-death existence of partisans fighting in the French Resistance during World War II. Nicole du Bois, a young Anglo/French woman, sets out for France as a patriot to help the ever-decreasing Resistance. Her old family home in Blois becomes her base. The Chateau at Blois is occupied by the SS and the Gestapo, so Nicole ingratiates herself to a very handsome high-ranking SS Officer named Sigmund, in the hope she can glean more information to pass on to the Allies. Set in 1941, the novel tells of Nicole’s bravery in France and Poland, and her unexpected romance with Sigmund. The story shows that some Germans involved in death camps were not cruel and unfeeling, and Sigmund was one of the very few who aided the enemy. Nicole’s relationship results in a passionate affair between the two of them, marriage, and the union of two opposites becoming of like mind. Nicole’s time as a resistance member enables her to save many lives, but it also causes her to commit murder and to make the ultimate sacrifice. This unforgettable war story honours brave and selfless people who overcame many obstacles … with the help of love.

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266

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Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

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1681813912

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9781681813912

The Life and Loves of Laurie Lee

By: Valerie Grove

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The Life and Loves of Laurie Lee

By: Valerie Grove

Millions of readers know and love him for his lyrical portraits of his life, from the moving and nostalgic tales of childhood and innocence found in the pages of Cider with Rosie, to the nomadic wanderings through Spain retold in As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, to his dramatic experiences fighting Franco's forces in A Moment of War. As a poet, playwright, broadcaster and writer, Laurie Lee created a legend around himself that would see him safely secured in the literary canon even within his own lifetime. Yet, though he wrote exclusively about his own life, Lee never told the whole story. His readers know him as a man devoted to two women: his wife and his daughter, 'the firstborn'. Among the pages of his published works there is little trace of the girls he left behind. He never identifi ed in print the girl who inspired him to go to Spain, or the woman who supported him there. He never named the beautiful mistress he came home to, who was the great love of his young life and who led him into literary London, bore his child and broke his heart. In The Life and Loves of Laurie Lee, acclaimed biographer Valerie Grove delves into the letters and diaries he kept hidden from the world, building on her magisterial study of the charismatic poet to capture the essence of this romantic, elusive enigma and bring him to life once more.

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382

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Biteback Publishing

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1849547688

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9781849547680

Roger Quilter

His Life and Music

By: Valerie Langfield

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Roger Quilter

His Life and Music

By: Valerie Langfield

In the remainder of the book, Valerie Langfield discusses and contextualises all his music: songs, chamber, orchestral and theatre music, and his light opera, Julia, performed at Covent Garden in 1936."--BOOK JACKET.

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Boydell & Brewer

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0851158714

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9780851158716

Women's Place in Pope's World

By: Valerie Rumbold

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Women's Place in Pope's World

By: Valerie Rumbold

How was Alexander Pope's personal experience of women transformed into poetry? How characteristic of his age was Pope's attitude toward women? What was the influence of individual women such as his mother, Patty Blount and Lady Mary Montagu on his life and work? Valerie Rumbold's is the first full-length study to address these issues. Referring to previously unexploited manuscripts, she focuses both on Pope's own life and art, and on early eighteenth-century assumptions about women and gender. She offers readings of some of the well-known poems in which women feature prominently, and follows Pope's response throughout his writings in general. The poet's own alienation from the dominant culture (through religion, politics and physical handicap), and his troubled fascination with certain kinds of women, make this subject complex and compelling, with wide implications. Dr. Rumbold provides new insight, and shows how women with whom Pope dealt can themselves be seen as individuals with presence and dignity.

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342

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Cambridge University Press

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052136308X

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9780521363082

An Introduction to Religious Language

Exploring Theolinguistics in Contemporary Contexts

By: Valerie Hobbs

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An Introduction to Religious Language

Exploring Theolinguistics in Contemporary Contexts

By: Valerie Hobbs

Religious language is all around us, embedded in advertising, politics and news media. This book introduces readers to the field of theolinguistics, the study of religious language. Investigating the ways in which people talk to and about God, about the sacred and about religion itself, it considers why people make certain linguistic choices and what they accomplish. Introducing the key methods required for examining religious language, Valerie Hobbs acquaints readers with the most common and important theolinguistic features and their functions. Using critical corpus-assisted discourse analysis with a focus on archaic and other lexical features, metaphor, agency and intertextuality, she examines religious language in context. Highlighting its use in both expected locations, such as modern-day prayer and politics, and unexpected locations including advertising, sport, healthcare and news media, Hobbs analyses the shifting and porous linguistic boundaries between the religious and the secular. With discussion questions and further readings for each chapter, as well as a companion website featuring suggested answers to the reflection tasks, this is the ideal introduction to the study of religious language.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350095761

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9781350095762

White Unwed Mother ; The adoption mandate in postwar Canada

By: Valerie J Andrews

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White Unwed Mother ; The adoption mandate in postwar Canada

By: Valerie J Andrews

In postwar Canada, having a child out-of-wedlock invariably meant being subject to the adoption mandate. Andrews describes the mandate as a process of interrelated institutional power systems which, together with socio-cultural norms, ideals of gender heteronormativity, and emerging sociological and psychoanalytic theories, created historically unique conditions in the post WWII decades wherein the white unmarried mother was systematically separated from her baby by means of adoption. This volume uncovers and substantiates evidence of the mandate, ultimately finding that at least 350,000 unmarried mothers in Canada were impacted.

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236

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Demeter Press

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177258214X

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9781772582147

Comparative Cognition

By: Mary C. Olmstead,Valerie A. Kuhlmeier

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Comparative Cognition

By: Mary C. Olmstead,Valerie A. Kuhlmeier

Integrating developments from psychology, ethology and neuroscience, this is an undergraduate introduction to cognitive processes across species. The authors merge classic studies and contemporary research to give students a full picture of the evolving field of comparative cognition. Engaging students in the discipline from its roots in animal learning and evolutionary biology through to current research, the chapters cover both controlled laboratory and comparative cross-species studies in the natural environment. This approach provides students with complementary ethological and neurobiological perspectives on cognition. Feature boxes encourage active and engaged learning, giving a deeper understanding of topics discussed in the main text. These are supported by end-of-chapter questions to check understanding and encourage wider thinking around topics. Online resources include solutions to questions in the book, advanced material, PowerPoint lecture slides and additional questions, all available at www.cambridge.org/cognition.

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485

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Cambridge University Press

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1316194213

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9781316194218

Married to the Guv'nor

By: Valerie McLean,Peter Gerrard

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Married to the Guv'nor

By: Valerie McLean,Peter Gerrard

When his autobiography The Guv'nor was published, it turned bareknuckle champion Lenny McLean into an unlikely cult hero. His widow here takes up the pen on his behalf, to reveal more colourful incidents - Lenny's winning match against the Mafia's best boxer, and his acting career.

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314

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Pan Macmillan Adult

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033049323X

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9780330493239

Getting a Job in Canada

Find the Right Job and Secure a Great New Lifestyle

By: Valerie Gerrard

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Getting a Job in Canada

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By: Valerie Gerrard

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Book's by Valerie Gerrard

Getting a Job in Canada

Getting a Job in Canada

Mary I and the Art of Book Dedications

Mary I and the Art of Book Dedications

The Dictionary of Alternatives

The Dictionary of Alternatives

Mary Poppins, She Wrote

Mary Poppins, She Wrote

Movement

Movement

Sigmund

Sigmund

The Life and Loves of Laurie Lee

The Life and Loves of Laurie Lee

Roger Quilter

Roger Quilter

Women's Place in Pope's World

Women's Place in Pope's World

An Introduction to Religious Language

An Introduction to Religious Language

White Unwed Mother ; The adoption mandate in postwar Canada

White Unwed Mother ; The adoption mandate in postwar Canada

Comparative Cognition

Comparative Cognition

Married to the Guv'nor

Married to the Guv'nor

Getting a Job in Canada

Getting a Job in Canada

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