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Sins of the Flesh

Responding to Sexual Disease in Early Modern Europe

By: Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

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Sins of the Flesh

Responding to Sexual Disease in Early Modern Europe

By: Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

Few illnesses in the early modern period carried the impact of the dreaded pox, a lethal sexually transmitted disease usually thought to be syphilis. In the early sixteenth century the disease quickly emerged as a powerful cultural force. Just as powerful were the responses of doctors, bureaucrats, moralists, playwrights, and satirists. These ten essays gauge the impact of sexual disease on early modern society by exploring the ways in which European culture reacted to the presence of a new deadly sexual infection. Articles about scientific and medical responses analyze how physicians incorporated the disease within existing intellectual frameworks. Studies in literary and metaphoric responses examine how early modern writers put images of sexual infection and the diseased body to a range of rhetorical and political uses. Finally, essays about institutional and policing responses chronicle how authorities responded to the crisis and how these public health responses linked up with wider campaigns to police sexuality.

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Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

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0772720290

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9780772720290

Fisheries and Sustainability

A Legal Analysis of EU and West African Agreements

By: Emma Victoria Witbooi

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Fisheries and Sustainability

A Legal Analysis of EU and West African Agreements

By: Emma Victoria Witbooi

Marine living resources are currently under severe threat from unsustainable use. International law urges a precautionary approach in the use of remaining fish stocks, necessitating rational domestic management of coastal fisheries and requiring foreign nations accessing these stocks to cooperate to this end. The manner in which bilateral fishing relations between the EU and various West African states have historically played out, however, has not followed this route. This book is a legal study of these relations from an inter-disciplinary and contextual perspective with particular reference to sustainability questions using three broad conceptual lenses: common resource management, integration towards sustainable development and the colonial legacy to interrogate the extent to which these interactions operated as legal instruments of sustainability.

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Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

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9004206760

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9789004206762

Sierra’s Dreams

Featuring the Sixth Rib

By: Victoria Jones

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Sierra’s Dreams

Featuring the Sixth Rib

By: Victoria Jones

SATAN: The Heavens is not the only place that knows about the creation of Sierra. Lurking around is Satan, and he knew how essential Maxwell and Sierra would be to God. Even from hell, he could see how exquisite Sierra’s beauty is. He discerned she is the very nature and reason for every living thing place here on earth. With the power of the Lord bestow in them to succeed, their purpose also became important to the angles in heaven and envied by the demons in hell. Lucifer knew that he was incapable of removing them unless he found a way that he could destroy them. His desire was to destroy the very thing itself and its Character. The women, The Sixth rib...

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iUniverse

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1491790032

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9781491790038

Wavell

Soldier and Statesman

By: Victoria Schofield

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Wavell

Soldier and Statesman

By: Victoria Schofield

Archibald Wavells life and career makes a marvelous subject. Not only did he reach the highest rank (Field Marshal) and become an Earl and Viceroy of India but his character was complex. He joined the Black Watch in 1901. He stood out during the Great War, quickly earning the Military Cross but losing an eye. He was at Versailles in 1918 but between the Wars his career advanced with Brigade and General commands notably in Palestine where he spotted Orde Wingate. By the outbreak of war he was GOC-in-C Middle East. Early successes against the Italians turned into costly failures in Greece and Crete and Wavell lost the confidence of Churchill; their temperaments differed completely. Wavell was sent to India as C-in-C. After Pearl Harbor Wavell was made Supreme Allied Commander for the SW Pacific and bore responsibility for the humiliating loss of Singapore (he quickly recognized that it could not be held). Problems in Burma tested Churchills patience and he was removed from command to be Viceroy and Governor General of India. As civil unrest and demands for independence grew, in 1947 Prime Minister Attlee replaced Wavell with Mountbatten who oversaw Partition. Wavell died in 1950, after a life of huge achievement tempered with many reverses, most of which were not of his making.

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Casemate Publishers

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1844683427

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9781844683420

Sunol

By: Victoria Christian

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Sunol

By: Victoria Christian

In 1839, Antonio Sunol acquired this beautiful valley, originally inhabited by Ohlone Indians, to raise his cattle. Thirty years passed, and the First Transcontinental Railroad was poised to make history, completing the last segment of rail from Sacramento to Oakland. The final link was laidstraight through the middle of Sunoland a small village was suddenly transformed. The valley prospered with new wealth; hotels and railroad depots were built along with hay warehouses, a grocery and a mercantile, a blacksmith shop, post office, five schools, and a church. San Francisco families built summer homes in the new resort destination. The Spring Valley Water Company purchased property in the valley, where some of their largest water mains to San Francisco would flow, and even commissioned famed architect Willis Polk to design his Italian-style masterpiece, The Water Temple. Early prosperity eventually gave way to the grim realities of the Depression and the war years, however, and families began occupying the summer cabins lining Kilkare Road year-round. But as the towns permanent population grew, a new and unique community emerged.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439635870

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9781439635872

Murder on Waverly Place

A Gaslight Mystery

By: Victoria Thompson

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Murder on Waverly Place

A Gaslight Mystery

By: Victoria Thompson

Reluctantly attending two séances in order to help her mother to make peace with the death of Sarah's older sister, Sarah Brandt is shocked when one of their fellow attendees dies during a séance, a situation that forces Sarah to protect her mother from an ensuing scandal. Original.

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Penguin

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0425227758

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9780425227756

We Called It Culture - The Story Of Chautauqua

By: Victoria Case

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We Called It Culture - The Story Of Chautauqua

By: Victoria Case

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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256

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Read Books Ltd

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1473381991

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9781473381995

Martha Graham's Cold War

The Dance of American Diplomacy

By: Victoria Phillips

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Martha Graham's Cold War

The Dance of American Diplomacy

By: Victoria Phillips

I am not a propagandist," declared the matriarch of American modern dance Martha Graham while on her State Department funded-tour in 1955. Graham's claim inspires questions: the United States government exported Graham and her company internationally to over twenty-seven countries in Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, the Near and Far East, and Russia representing every seated president from Dwight D. Eisenhower through Ronald Reagan, and planned under George H.W. Bush. Although in the diplomatic field, she was titled "The Picasso of modern dance," and "Forever Modern" in later years, Graham proclaimed, "I am not a modernist." During the Cold War, the reconfigured history of modernism as apolitical in its expression of "the heart and soul of mankind," suited political needs abroad. In addition, she declared, "I am not a feminist," yet she intersected with politically powerful women from Eleanor Roosevelt, Eleanor Dulles, sister of Eisenhower's Dulles brothers in the State Department and CIA, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Betty Ford, and political matriarch Barbara Bush. While bringing religious characters on the frontier and biblical characters to the stage in a battle against the atheist communists, Graham explained, "I am not a missionary." Her work promoted the United States as modern, culturally sophisticated, racially and culturally integrated. To her abstract and mythic works, she added the trope of the American frontier. With her tours and Cold War modernism, Graham demonstrates the power of the individual, immigrants, republicanism, and, ultimately freedom from walls and metaphorical fences with cultural diplomacy with the unfettered language of movement and dance"--

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0190610360

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9780190610364

Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750

Defending the Union

By: Victoria Henshaw

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Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750

Defending the Union

By: Victoria Henshaw

The wholesale assimilation of Scots into the British Army is largely associated with the recruitment of Highlanders during and after the Seven Years War. This important new study demonstrates that the assimilation of Lowland and Highland Scots into the British Army was a salient feature of its history in the first half of the 18th century and was already well advanced by the outbreak of the Seven Years War. Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750 analyses the wider policing functions of the British Army, the role of Scotland's militia and the development of Scotland's military roads and institutions to provide a fuller understanding of the purpose and complexity of Scotland's military organisation and presence in Scotland in the turbulent decades between the Glorious Revolution and the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie, which has been too often simplified as an army of occupation for the suppression of Jacobitism. Instead, Victoria Henshaw reveals the complexities and difficulties experienced by Scottish soldiers of all ranks in the British Army as nationality, loyalty and prejudice clouded Scottish desires to use military service to defend the Glorious Revolution and the Union of 1707.

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A&C Black

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1472514890

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9781472514899

Afghan Frontier

At the Crossroads of Conflict

By: Victoria Schofield

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Afghan Frontier

At the Crossroads of Conflict

By: Victoria Schofield

The most dangerous place in the world' - Barack Obama The borderlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan have become the arena for a global conflict with consequences that defy prediction. At the crossroads of Central Asia, gateway to India and the West, Afghanistan has tempted countless invaders in their quest for domination. Written by leading regional expert Victoria Schofield, Afghan Frontier traces the history of this region as a hotly contested battlefield for millennia. As the borderlands - now dubbed 'Af-Pak' - assume an increasingly crucial role in international politics, understanding the history and geopolitical significance of this region has never been more important. Afghan Frontier is a gripping portrait of the frontier territories, militant fighters and resilient tribesmen who shaped Afghanistan.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857710052

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9780857710055

Kashmir in Conflict

India, Pakistan and the Unending War

By: Victoria Schofield

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Kashmir in Conflict

India, Pakistan and the Unending War

By: Victoria Schofield

How has the valley of Kashmir, famed for its beauty and tranquility, become the focus of a dispute with the potential for nuclear conflict? How does the Kashmir separatist movement challenge the integrity of the Indian state and threaten the stability of a region of tremendous strategic importance? As Pakistan and India square up for what may become a major regional conflict, Victoria Schofield's timely book examines the Kashmir question, from the period when the valley was an independent kingdom to its current status as a battleground for two of the world's newest nuclear powers: India and Pakistan. Schofield now traces the origins of the conflict in the 19th century and explains the serious issues that divide India and Pakistan and assesses the military positions of both states as their troops mass along the border.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857713981

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9780857713988

Parenting the First Twelve Years

What the Evidence Tells Us

By: Victoria Cooper,Heather Montgomery,Kieron Sheehy

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Parenting the First Twelve Years

What the Evidence Tells Us

By: Victoria Cooper,Heather Montgomery,Kieron Sheehy

Concrete, research-driven advice on humanity's oldest, hardest job Why is parenting so fraught and so difficult in today's society? There has never been a time when advice was so readily available, and yet there is also a prevailing sense that parents are getting it wrong. This book examines the arguments and counter-arguments supported by research on how best to parent children, from birth to twelve years. By taking an impartial approach to the evidence and, by discussing case studies from across the world and from a number of academic disciplines, this book is designed to show how good parenting comes in many shapes and forms.

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258

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Penguin UK

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0241270510

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9780241270516

Animal Omens

By: Victoria Hunt

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Animal Omens

By: Victoria Hunt

As fellow creatures who are uniquely attuned to the earth's energies, animals provide us with hidden messages every day--we just need to learn how to read them. This personal and engaging book shows you how each animal carries a particular omen--a personal and significant message helping to guide you on your life path. Twenty-nine true animal encounter stories are followed by insightful explanations of each animal's corresponding omen, and how their messages can help you make important life decisions. Not sure whether it's the right time to switch jobs or relocate? An unexpected visit from a lingering butterfly can signal a period of imminent change and transformation in your life. Organized alphabetically by animal and compact enough to carry, this inspirational reference guide can be taken along on introspective nature walks. Foster a closer connection with nature and learn about yourself--with a little bit of animal wisdom.

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Llewellyn Worldwide

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0738713775

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9780738713779

Creativity and the Performing Artist

Behind the Mask

By: Paula Thomson,Victoria S. Jaque

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Creativity and the Performing Artist

Behind the Mask

By: Paula Thomson,Victoria S. Jaque

Creativity and the Performing Artist: Behind the Mask synthesizes and integrates research in the field of creativity and the performing arts. Within the performing arts there are multiple specific domains of expertise, with domain-specific demands. This book examines the psychological nature of creativity in the performing arts. The book is organized into five sections. Section I discusses different forms of performing arts, the domains and talents of performers, and the experience of creativity within performing artists. Section II explores the neurobiology of physiology of creativity and flow. Section III covers the developmental trajectory of performing artists, including early attachment, parenting, play theories, personality, motivation, and training. Section IV examines emotional regulation and psychopathology in performing artists. Section V closes with issues of burnout, injury, and rehabilitation in performing artists. - Discusses domain specificity within the performing arts - Encompasses dance, theatre, music, and comedy performance art - Reviews the biology behind performance, from thinking to movement - Identifies how an artist develops over time, from childhood through adult training - Summarizes the effect of personality, mood, and psychopathology on performance - Explores career concerns of performing artists, from injury to burn out

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502

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Academic Press

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0128041080

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9780128041086

The Kimberley

Australia's Last Great Wilderness

By: Victoria Laurie

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The Kimberley

Australia's Last Great Wilderness

By: Victoria Laurie

In a highly biodiverse part of Australia, the Kimberley conveys the excitement of discovering a new species, the resurgence of life in once fire-ravaged places, and the effect of humans on the landscape. This is the Kimberley at its most beautiful, from teeming bird life to elusive desert animals; from cascading waterfalls and tangled vine thickets to wide savannah plains. The book offers world-class photography, information on up-to-date scientific discoveries, and an in-depth understanding of the balance between flora, fauna, land, and sea. Featuring over 200 stunning images in full color, The Kimberley is well-written, accessible, and engaging.

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UWA Publishing

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192140132X

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9781921401329

Teresa - A Woman

A Biography of Teresa of Avila

By: Victoria Lincoln

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Teresa - A Woman

A Biography of Teresa of Avila

By: Victoria Lincoln

She was a saint, a mystic, a reformer, a legend, and she was a fascinating and complex woman. This is the first full-scale biography of Saint Teresa of Avila from a human, nonconfessional point of view. Victoria Lincoln immersed herself thoroughly in all of Saint Teresa's writings, including her extensive correspondence. She has reconstructed the inner life of this rigorous reformer of the Carmelite Order and disciplined explorer of mystical experience. The relation between Saint Teresa's inner and outer life is defined with new insight and profundity.

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State University of New York Press

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1438410913

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9781438410913

Katy's Pony Summer

Book 5

By: Victoria Eveleigh

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Katy's Pony Summer

Book 5

By: Victoria Eveleigh

The latest adventure in Victoria Eveleigh's KATY'S EXMOOR PONIES series. Perfect for fans of pony and animal stories, Michael Morpurgo and Lauren St John. It's summertime at Barton Farm in Victoria Eveleigh's latest Exmoor adventure. Katy is looking forward to a carefree summer on the farm, riding and having fun with her best friend, Alice. But all that changes when an injured foal leads to a mystery that no one can solve. It's up to Katy and her friends to discover exactly what's going on.

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Orion Children's Books

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1444014544

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9781444014549

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