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The Highland Furies

By: Victoria Schofield

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As the oldest of the Highland Regiments, The Black Watch has an enviable roster of Battle Honors and a mystique born of repeated service on behalf of King, Queen and country. On the strength of her acclaimed biography of Field Marshal Earl Wavell, the regimental trustees commissioned Victoria Schofield to write this, the first volume of her magisterial history of The Black Watch, and have fully cooperated with her as she traces the story of the Regiment from its early 18th-century beginnings through to the eve of the South African War at the end of the 19th-century. Originating as companies of highland men raised to keep a watch over the Highlands of Scotland, they were formed into a regiment in 1739. Its soldiers would go on to fight with extraordinary bravery and elan in almost every major engagement fought by the British Army during this period, from the American War of Independence, the Peninsular Wars, Waterloo, the Crimea, Indian Mutiny to Egypt and the Sudan. Drawing on diaries, letters and memoirs, Victoria Schofield skillfully weaves the multiple strands of this story into an epic narrative of a valiant body of officers and men over one-and-a-half centuries. In her sure hands, the story of The Black Watch is no arid recitation of campaigns, dates and battle honors, but is instead a rich and compelling record of the soldier's experience under fire and on campaign. It is also a celebration of the deeds of a regiment that has played a unique role in British history and a vivid insight into the lives of the many remarkable figures who have marched and fought so proudly under its Colors. It is supported by more than 170 pages of appendices, bibliography, maps, and notes, as well as a brilliant array of illustrations' Military History Monthly.

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1623655935

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The Black Watch

Fighting in the Frontline 1899-2006

By: Victoria Schofield

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The Black Watch

Fighting in the Frontline 1899-2006

By: Victoria Schofield

The heroic and inspiring story of the fortunes of the Black Watch, whose soldiers have distinguished themselves in theatres of war across the world. Formed into a regiment in 1739 and named for the dark tartan of its soldiers' kilts, The Black Watch has fought in almost every major conflict of nation and empire between 1745 and the present, and has a reputation second to none. Following on from The Highland Furies, in which she traced the regiment's history to 1899, Victoria Schofield tells the story of The Black Watch in the 20th and 21st centuries. She tracks its fortunes through the 2nd South African War, two World Wars, the 'troubles' in N Ireland and the war in Iraq – up to The Black Watch's merger with five other regiments to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland in 2006. Drawing on diaries, letters and interviews, Victoria Schofield weaves the many strands of the story into an epic narrative of a heroic body of officers and men. In her sure hands, the story of The Black Watch is no arid recitation of campaigns and battle honours, but a rewarding account of the fortunes of war of a regiment that has played a distinguished role in British, and world, history.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1784979961

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9781784979966

Hopeful Hearts at Glendale Hall

The cosiest, most uplifting read to warm your heart this winter!

By: Victoria Walters

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Hopeful Hearts at Glendale Hall

The cosiest, most uplifting read to warm your heart this winter!

By: Victoria Walters

‘Emotional, moving, funny, heartwarming - this novel has got it all. Highly recommended!’ Samantha Tonge, author of The Winter We Met What happens when love takes you to unexpected places? Heather Douglas appears to have it all. But living on a farm in the Scottish Highlands with her partner, Rory Fraser, all while bringing up their adorable toddler, Harry, isn’t easy. As a former librarian, Heather is worried that she’ll never fully fit into life on Fraser Farm. And after the death of her beloved mum eight years ago, Heather feels lost, as well as guilty for holding back accepting Rory’s marriage proposal because she can’t imagine her wedding without her mother. So when ex-boyfriend, Stewart, appears in the village of Glendale, it’s a shock to the system. The man who broke her heart years ago now has big plans for the neighbouring farm and wants Heather to be part of the development. Knowing that she’s living a very different life to the one they had planned at university leaves Heather wondering if she has made the right choices since she and Stewart broke up. Especially when things start to go very wrong on the farm ... This Christmas, Heather will need to face her fears and let go of the past or risk losing everything. She will need love, faith, and a whole lot of hope! Return to the beautiful Highlands village of Glendale with the latest book in the bestselling Glendale series – the perfect cosy, uplifting, romantic read for fans of Heidi Swain, Milly Johnson and Holly Martin. Praise for Hopeful Hearts at Glendale Hall: 'A delightful and heartwarming read. I really enjoyed escaping to Glendale, and getting to know the warm and varied characters.' Caroline Roberts, author of The Cosy Teashop in the Castle series and Rachel's Pudding Pantry ‘a gorgeous feel-good story...I'm already looking forward to the next one!’ Jessica Redland, author of Finding Love at Hedgehog Hollow 'A festive farmland treat with deep snow and even deeper heart!' Isla Gordon, author of A Season in the Snow ‘a magical setting, characters that feel like family, and plenty of drama...the best one yet in this enchanting series’ Books of All Kinds ‘I absolutely loved this book... beautifully written and a really easy, feel good read and a perfect escape.’ A Girl Who Loves to Read ‘A brilliantly written, deliciously witty and highly moving tale... sheer perfection from beginning to end!’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Bookish Jottings ‘a truly magical and enchanting read. I absolutely loved it’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Little Miss Book Lover ‘read at any time when you need something comforting and cosy and want to escape from the world for a while.’ Book Lover Worm ‘If you’re looking for a feelgood story to make you smile, then look no further!’ Roberta Reads I’ve fallen in love with this uplifting story and with the entire town of Glendale...I wish the characters were real!’ ☆☆☆☆☆ ReadwithAbi ‘I’d love to move to Glendale... I truly hope there will be more books in the series because this is a triumph!!! An easy ☆☆☆☆☆ from me!’ Head in a Book ‘This was a fun, heartfelt read which I really enjoyed and would highly recommend it.’ Cheryl’s Bookworm Reads ‘totally captured my heart and left me with a feeling of loss as I reached the end.’ Love the Smell of a Book

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1912973456

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9781912973453

Prisoners on Prison Films

By: Jamie Bennett,Victoria Knight

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Prisoners on Prison Films

By: Jamie Bennett,Victoria Knight

This book explores how an audience of men serving sentences in an English prison responded to viewing five contemporary British prison films. It examines how media representations of prison vary in style and content, how film can influence public attitudes, and how this affects people in prison. The book explains the ways in which film acts as a power resource, presenting an ideological vision of criminal justice. The audience used these films to map the social terrain of prison, including issues of power and resistance; race and racism; corruption and the illicit economy; and staff-prisoner relationships, themes which are explored in the films screened. The authors argue that media consumption is one of the ways in which people in prison construct and maintain an ideal of the prisoner culture and what it is to be a ‘prisoner’. The book also reveals the ways in which audience members’ media choices and readings are part of the ongoing process of constructing their self-identity. This book illuminates the complex ways in which media consumption is an integral part of social power, cultural formation and identity construction. Recognising and engaging with audiencehood offers one potential route for supporting more progressive penal practice. This book speaks to those interested in prisons, crime, media and culture, and film studies.

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Springer Nature

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3030609499

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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

By: Victoria Bream,Fiona Challacombe,Asmita Palmer,Paul M. Salkovskis

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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

By: Victoria Bream,Fiona Challacombe,Asmita Palmer,Paul M. Salkovskis

Obsessive-compulsive disorder can be a very disabling and distressing problem. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) has been shown to be very effective in helping people to overcome OCD. This book provides the reader with an understanding of the background to and principles of using CBT for OCD in a clear practical 'how to' style.

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Oxford University Press

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0198703260

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Murder on Bank Street

A Gaslight Mystery

By: Victoria E. Thompson

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Murder on Bank Street

A Gaslight Mystery

By: Victoria E. Thompson

Widowed midwife Sarah Brandt teams up with Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to investigate the murder of her late husband, Dr. Tom Brandt, but what they discover could destroy Sarah, as well as Malloy's hopes for building a new future with her.

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0425221512

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9780425221518

For the Love of a Soldier

By: Victoria Morgan

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For the Love of a Soldier

By: Victoria Morgan

From an enthralling new voice in historical romance comes a heartfelt tale of love, deception, and redemption in the face of mortal danger… Captain Garrett Sinclair, the Earl of Kendall, has returned to England a changed man. As a survivor of the legendary Charge of the Light Brigade, he has spent months as a remorseless rake and dissolute inebriate in order to forget it. But Garrett has also made powerful enemies who want him dead… Desperate and down to her last pound, Lady Alexandra Langdon has disguised herself as a man for a place at the gaming tables. But when a hard-eyed, handsome man wins the pot, he surprises her by refusing her money. Indebted, she divulges an overheard plot against his life, and promises to help him find his foes—for a price. But even as Alexandra fights her growing desire to reveal herself—and her heart—to the determined Garrett, she cannot shed the fear that the cost of her alliance with the earl may be a price too dear: her own secret betrayal.

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1101609214

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Misreading Law, Misreading Democracy

By: Victoria Nourse

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Misreading Law, Misreading Democracy

By: Victoria Nourse

American law schools extol democracy but teach little about its most basic institution, the Congress. Interpreting statutes is lawyers’ most basic task, but law professors rarely focus on how statutes are made. This misguided pedagogy, says Victoria Nourse, undercuts the core of legal practice. It may even threaten the continued functioning of American democracy, as contempt for the legislature becomes entrenched in legal education and judicial opinions. Misreading Law, Misreading Democracy turns a spotlight on lawyers’ and judges’ pervasive ignorance about how Congress makes law. Victoria Nourse not only offers a critique but proposes reforming the way lawyers learn how to interpret statutes by teaching legislative process. Statutes are legislative decisions, just as judicial opinions are decisions. Her approach, legislative decision theory, reverse-engineers the legislative process to simplify the task of finding Congress’s meanings when statutes are ambiguous. This theory revolutionizes how we understand legislative history—not as an attempt to produce some vague notion of legislative intent but as a surgical strike for the best evidence of democratic context. Countering the academic view that the legislative process is irrational and unseemly, Nourse makes a forceful argument that lawyers must be educated about the basic procedures that define how Congress operates today. Lawmaking is a sequential process with political winners and losers. If lawyers and judges do not understand this, they may well embrace the meanings of those who opposed legislation rather than those who supported it, making legislative losers into judicial winners, and standing democracy on its head.

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Harvard University Press

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0674974271

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9780674974272

Obeste the Biography of Sissy Weathers

By: Victoria Barlow

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Obeste the Biography of Sissy Weathers

By: Victoria Barlow

Obeste is the story of a young girl searching for freedom and escape from her abusive family. As a teenager, Sissy Weather's parents and older brother, who are morbidly obese, force her two work to support the family, take care of all the domestic chores, mentally, physically, and sexually abuse her, forcing her into child-prostitution. As we read, Sissy begins to make her own friends and judgments about the life she is living. She begins to understand things are not right. It is not a pretty tale, but is timely. The story addresses the largely ignored international and growing domestic crisis of women and children forced into the sex trade. It also addresses the health crisis facing the United States, the rising number of morbidly obese children and adults.

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Lulu.com

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0557382386

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9780557382385

Quicksand: a Family Foundation

Book One

By: VICTORIA THOMAS

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Quicksand: a Family Foundation

Book One

By: VICTORIA THOMAS

Quicksand A Family Foundation begins a family saga in the early 1800s that stretches across France, England, Wales, and eventually America. Deceit, lies, secrets, and character flaws weave their way into the lives of each family member and corrupt the quest for a solid foundation. Joseph and Emma experience love at first sight. He awakens in her dormant lust and unquenchable desire, but their love story is besieged by powerful circumstances beyond her control and his dedication to England and the British Royal Navy. What starts as a romantic journey ends in tragedy. Fate deals the couple a disastrous blow and the irony that follows is so twisted that the next generations suffer the consequences.

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1491834145

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Matrons and Maids

Regulating Indian Domestic Service in Tucson, 1914Ð1934

By: Victoria K. Haskins

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Matrons and Maids

Regulating Indian Domestic Service in Tucson, 1914Ð1934

By: Victoria K. Haskins

From 1914 to 1934 the US government sent Native American girls to work as domestic servants in the homes of white families. Matrons and Maids tells this forgotten history through the eyes of the women who facilitated their placements. During those two decades, Òouting matronsÓ oversaw and managed the employment of young Indian women. In Tucson, Arizona, the matrons acted as intermediaries between the Indian and white communities and between the local Tucson community and the national administration, the Office of Indian Affairs. Based on federal archival records, Matrons and Maids offers an original and detailed account of government practices and efforts to regulate American Indian women. Haskins demonstrates that the outing system was clearly about regulating cross-cultural interactions, and she highlights the roles played by white women in this history. As she compellingly argues, we cannot fully engage with cross-cultural histories without examining the complex involvement of white women as active, if ambivalent, agents of colonization. Including stories of the entwined experiences of Indigenous and non-Indigenous women that range from the heart-warming to the heart-breaking, Matrons and Maids presents a unique perspective on the history of Indian policy and the significance of ÒwomenÕs work.Ó

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University of Arizona Press

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0816529604

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9780816529605

Ladies of the House

By: Victoria Pearle Hart

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Ladies of the House

By: Victoria Pearle Hart

Liz wasn’t always in a wheel chair, but she was going to prove to the world that she could do it, she was intelligent and still had a great mined. Her man Mitchell Maxwell has stood by Liz for nearly twenty years and he wants her more than ever. She had Bertha, who was there for her one hundred percent, helping her through her pregnancy, teaching how to be a mother. What Liz didn’t know was Bertha had a secret, one she will never share, it was to bad to share. Taking care of Liz’s son, her house and her was all Bertha needed. It wasn’t what she wanted. Denise was in love with Liz’s son, Robert, Denise was lovingly known as Denny, a shy nondescript girl with more love than she knew she had. There are other ladies in this story that will intrigue you. Caitlin the police officer, she loves her job, just not her chief. She cares about her town and the people that live there. She can wait for Stan, but not much longer. You will also meet Carol, shy, easily hurt and used by the men around her. Liz does a good job of pulling them all into the family and getting them on their feet.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1664136509

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9781664136502

You Are the Music

How Music Reveals What it Means to be Human

By: Victoria Williamson

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You Are the Music

How Music Reveals What it Means to be Human

By: Victoria Williamson

You are the music / While the music lasts' T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets Do babies remember music from the womb? Can classical music increase your child's IQ? Is music good for productivity? Can it aid recovery from illness and injury? And what is going on in your brain when Ultravox's 'Vienna', Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht or Dizzee Rascal's 'Bonkers' transports you back to teenage years? In a brilliant new work that will delight music lovers of every persuasion, music psychologist Victoria Williamson examines our relationship with music across the whole of a lifetime. Along the way she reveals the amazing ways in which music can physically reshape our brains, explores how 'smart music listening' can improve cognitive performance, and considers the perennial puzzle of what causes 'earworms'. Requiring no specialist musical or scientific knowledge, this upbeat, eye-opening book reveals as never before the extent of the universal language of music that lives deep inside us all.

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1848316879

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Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, 1848-1861 & More Leaves, 1862-1882

By: Queen Victoria

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Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, 1848-1861 & More Leaves, 1862-1882

By: Queen Victoria

This solitude, the romance and wild loveliness of everything here . . . all make beloved Scotland the proudest, finest country in the world.' Queen Victoria (1819-1901) wrote a diary nearly every day of her life. Originally intended for private circulation, later expanded to appeal to a wider public, these published diary entries cover not only the family holidays at Balmoral Castle in the Scottish Highlands which the Queen and Prince Albert enjoyed up until his death in 1861, but also the Queen's journeys - as sovereign and as "Royal Tourist" - around Scotland, Ireland, and other regions within the British Isles. The books offer intimate views of the most important woman of her time as she shares her love of her family and of the Highlands, and demonstrates her intense interest in all corners of her realm and in the lives of individuals from all classes of society. Queen Victoria's writings about her life and travels in Scotland and the British Isles are fascinating and entertaining to read. Extremely popular when they first appeared, they shaped Victoria's image in the nineteenth century, and their impact on public perceptions of the monarchy continues to this day. This volume includes complete and authoritative texts of the two journals; an introduction and explanatory endnotes providing historical and cultural contexts and new information about the Queen's work as author and editor; maps of the Queen's travels; a Cast of Characters briefly identifying many of the individuals the Queen meets or mentions; a Glossary of unfamiliar terms; and Suggestions for Further Reading. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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0192646087

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English Landscapes and Identities

Investigating Landscape Change from 1500 BC to AD 1086

By: Chris Gosden,Chris Green,Anwen Cooper,Miranda Creswell,Victoria Donnelly,Tyler Franconi,Zena Kamash,Sarah Mallet

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English Landscapes and Identities

Investigating Landscape Change from 1500 BC to AD 1086

By: Chris Gosden,Chris Green,Anwen Cooper,Miranda Creswell,Victoria Donnelly,Tyler Franconi,Zena Kamash,Sarah Mallet

The project on which the book was based synthesized all the major available sources of information on English archaeology for the period from 1500 BC to AD 1086, providing an overview of the history of the English landscape from the Bronze Age to the Norman invasion. The result is the first account of the English landscape over a crucial 2500-year period when people created many of the features still visible today. It also provides a celebration of many centuries of archaeological work, especially the intensive investigations that have taken place since the 1960s, when frequent large-scale work has transformed our understanding of England's past"--Publisher's description.

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0198870620

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Book's by Victoria Stewart

The Highland Furies

The Highland Furies

The Black Watch

The Black Watch

Hopeful Hearts at Glendale Hall

Hopeful Hearts at Glendale Hall

Prisoners on Prison Films

Prisoners on Prison Films

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Murder on Bank Street

Murder on Bank Street

For the Love of a Soldier

For the Love of a Soldier

Misreading Law, Misreading Democracy

Misreading Law, Misreading Democracy

Obeste the Biography of Sissy Weathers

Obeste the Biography of Sissy Weathers

Quicksand: a Family Foundation

Quicksand: a Family Foundation

Matrons and Maids

Matrons and Maids

Ladies of the House

Ladies of the House

You Are the Music

You Are the Music

Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, 1848-1861 & More Leaves, 1862-1882

Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, 1848-1861 & More Leaves, 1862-1882

English Landscapes and Identities

English Landscapes and Identities

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