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Talking About Death

By: Virginia Morris

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Even in this candidly confessional age, we've been conditioned to avoid discussions of death. Our youth-worshipping culture does everything to deny death, which is why, when the end nears, most of us are inadequately prepared to deal with it. And the cost of that is great: many are haunted by memories of how inappropriately or painfully or uncomfortably their parents and grandparents died. Many of us avoid even considering the options, in all their complexity, that we will most likely face one day, given our new longevity and the profound advances in medicine. With its wise and very compelling argument that all of us, at any age, can and should face death before it faces us, Talking About Death addresses the cultural, personal, medical, and legal concerns that are necessary for us--as individuals and as a society--to prepare for a good death, a death where the dying are in control and not, as is too often the case, caught in a downward spiral of medical intervention and misunderstood intentions. Virginia Morris skillfully weaves together personal stories and practical matters, scientific fact and spiritual sensitivity into an important book about how we can achieve a greater sense of peace in dying, and rediscover the art of living.

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Algonquin Books

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ISBN 10

1565128478

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9781565128477

How to Care for Aging Parents

By: Virginia Morris

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How to Care for Aging Parents

By: Virginia Morris

Thoroughly updated and expanded, a compassionate, single-volume reference to the many emotional, legal, financial, medical, and logistical issues associated with caring for aging parents covers such areas as nursing homes, finances, finding a good doctor, legal arrangements, redefining parental relationships, and handling emotional challenges. Original.

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722

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Workman Publishing

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0761134263

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9780761134268

Twenty Thousand Roads

Women, Movement, and the West

By: Virginia Scharff

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Twenty Thousand Roads

Women, Movement, and the West

By: Virginia Scharff

Virginia Scharff's wonderfully readable account of women in motion complicates and enriches our understanding of the nineteenth and twentieth century Wests. Her gendered remapping of the regional landscape explodes traditional notions of western movement. All students of women and gender, travel and place, the West and America, would do well to read this excellent book."—David M. Wrobel, author of Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory, and the Creation of the American West "Virginia Scharff claims for women what has long been central to the masculine mythology of the West—free movement and its many gifts, real and imagined. Her book is as exhilarating and as intellectually and emotionally expansive as our enduring dream of flight across the American land."—Elliott West, author of The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado "Brilliant is not a word that is often a part of my critical vocabulary, but brilliantly is how Twenty Thousand Roads begins. When writing of Sacagawea and Susan Magoffin, Virginia Scharff shows vividly how a single life can be a source of sophisticated cultural analysis without becoming an academic artifact or an object of condescension."—Richard White, author of It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A New History of the American West

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252

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Univ of California Press

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0520237773

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9780520237773

Genealogies of West Virginia Families

By: West Virginia Historical Magazine Quarte

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Genealogies of West Virginia Families

By: West Virginia Historical Magazine Quarte

Wise's Eastern Shore of Virginia is a history of the counties of Accomack and Northampton; however, genealogists will be drawn to the book's numerous references to families prominent on the Eastern Shore and to the extensive lists of early settlers and patentees of land.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806346922

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9780806346922

List of the Colonial Soldiers of Virginia

Special Report of the Department of Archives and History for 1913

By: Virginia State Library. Archives Division,Hamilton James Eckenrode

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List of the Colonial Soldiers of Virginia

Special Report of the Department of Archives and History for 1913

By: Virginia State Library. Archives Division,Hamilton James Eckenrode

This is a basic list of the colonial soldiers of Virginia known to have been engaged in active service, including names of those who participated in the French and Indian War, the Indian Wars, Lord Dunmore's War, and various engagements and campaigns prior to the Revolution. The list was drawn from company rolls, bounty applications, the Washington Papers in the Library of Congress, Hening's Statutes at Large, and Journals of the House of Burgesses, and it is believed to represent a large proportion of the entire Virginia militia, particularly after the year 1754, when muster rolls were more carefully kept. It is believed that few members of the Virginia regiment under George Washington are unaccounted for. In all some 6,700 soldiers are identified in this work, each with references to the exact source of information.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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080630099X

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9780806300993

Sims Index to Land Grants in West Virginia

By: West Virginia. Auditor's Office

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Sims Index to Land Grants in West Virginia

By: West Virginia. Auditor's Office

The land grants listed herein were made by Lord Fairfax prior to the creation of the Virginia Land Office; by the Commonwealth of Virginia, of lands now embracing the State of West Virginia; and, by the State of West Virginia, under its first Constitution."--Page [1].

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806317140

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Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Virginia Baptist Historical Society, Supplement No 1

Index to Obituary Notices in the Religious Herald, Richmond, Virginia 1828-1938

By: Historical Records Survey of Virginia

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Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Virginia Baptist Historical Society, Supplement No 1

Index to Obituary Notices in the Religious Herald, Richmond, Virginia 1828-1938

By: Historical Records Survey of Virginia

The deed abstracts identify the principals to the deeds, dates, location of the property, and, sometimes, the names of heirs and other relatives. The Minute Book abstracts refer primarily to deeds and wills, with the latter providing the names of the intestate, date of the will, and the names and relationships of the heirs.

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0806346256

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9780806346250

Book's by Virginia Morris

Talking About Death

Talking About Death

How to Care for Aging Parents

How to Care for Aging Parents

Twenty Thousand Roads

Twenty Thousand Roads

Genealogies of West Virginia Families

Genealogies of West Virginia Families

List of the Colonial Soldiers of Virginia

List of the Colonial Soldiers of Virginia

Sims Index to Land Grants in West Virginia

Sims Index to Land Grants in West Virginia

Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Virginia Baptist Historical Society, Supplement No 1

Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Virginia Baptist Historical Society, Supplement No 1

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