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Goodbye to the Hill

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This is a rich novel, narrated by young Paddy Maguire, of his life growing into young adulthood in a Dublin slum of the late 1930s and 40s Ireland. Consider it a Dublin version of The Catcher in the Rye with lustful, lusty, thirsty, hard-working Paddy--a character as memorable as Holden Caulfield or Studs Lonigan--drolly detailing his adventurous adolescence. Goodbye to the Hill tells the story of ... Read more

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A Bed in the Sticks

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A Bed in the sticks, Lee Dunne's sequel to Goodbye to the Hill opens with the hero, Paddy Maguire returning to Ireland after a short and dismal sojourn to England. He is bowed but undeaten and with his usual optimism embarks on an exploration of stage craft with a touring theatrical company as it winds its way through the small towns of 1950s rural Ireland. Paddy's theatrics on and off the stage, ... Read more

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A Bed in the sticks, Lee Dunne's sequel to Goodbye to the Hill opens with the hero, Paddy Maguire returning to Ireland after a short and dismal sojourn to England. He is bowed but undeaten and with his usual optimism embarks on an exploration of stage craft with a touring theatrical company as it winds its way through the small towns of 1950s rural Ireland. Paddy's theatrics on and off the stage,
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The Student Assessment Handbook

New Directions in Traditional and Online Assessment

by Lee Dunn, Chris Morgan, Meg O'Reilly, Sharon Parry ...

A guide to current practice in assessment, particularly for those professionals coming to terms with new pressures on their traditional teaching practices. Increased use of IT, flexible assessment methods and quality assurance all affect assessment, and the need to diversify and adapt traditional assessment practices to suit new modes of learning is clearer than ever.The Student Assessment ... Read more

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A guide to current practice in assessment, particularly for those professionals coming to terms with new pressures on their traditional teaching practices. Increased use of IT, flexible assessment methods and quality assurance all affect assessment, and the need to diversify and adapt traditional assessment practices to suit new modes of learning is clearer than ever.The Student Assessment
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The Beautiful: An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics

Enriched edition. Exploring Beauty: A Journey into Psychological Aesthetics

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In "The Beautiful: An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics," Vernon Lee embarks on an innovative exploration of aesthetics, interweaving philosophical discourse with psychological insights. Lee's prose, rich in metaphor and intelligence, deftly navigates the intersection of beauty and human emotion, positioning aesthetic experience as a vital component of psychological understanding. With a ... Read more

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In "The Beautiful: An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics," Vernon Lee embarks on an innovative exploration of aesthetics, interweaving philosophical discourse with psychological insights. Lee's prose, rich in metaphor and intelligence, deftly navigates the intersection of beauty and human emotion, positioning aesthetic experience as a vital component of psychological understanding. With a
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Blackbird House

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Narrated by various narrators, John Lee, Xe Sands, Amy Rubinate, Bernadette Dunne, Tavia Gilbert, Cassandra Campbell, Hillary Huber, Laura Hicks, Kate Reading, Carrington MacDuffie, Kirsten Potter, Richard Powers ...

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With "incantatory prose" that "sweeps over the reader like a dream" (Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years.In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird ... Read more

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With "incantatory prose" that "sweeps over the reader like a dream" (Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years.In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird
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Nightmare Carnival

by Katherine Dunn, N. Lee Wood, Priya Sharma, Nick Mamatas, A.C. Wise, Terry Dowling, Joel Lane, Glen Hirshberg, Jeffrey Ford, Dennis Danvers, Genevieve Valentine, Stephen Graham Jones, Robert Shearman, Nathan Ballingrud, Laird Barron, Livia Llewellyn ...

Encounter the scariest clowns and freakiest curiosities under the big top, in stories by Stephen Graham Jones, Laird Barron, Priya Sharma, and others.With an introduction from Katherine DunnLadies and gentlemen, step right up for fifteen tales of terrifying rides, supernatural sideshows, and petrifying performers guaranteed to keep you up all night—with Hugo and Bram Stoker Award–winning editor ... Read more

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Encounter the scariest clowns and freakiest curiosities under the big top, in stories by Stephen Graham Jones, Laird Barron, Priya Sharma, and others.With an introduction from Katherine DunnLadies and gentlemen, step right up for fifteen tales of terrifying rides, supernatural sideshows, and petrifying performers guaranteed to keep you up all night—with Hugo and Bram Stoker Award–winning editor
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Hortus Vitae

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In "Hortus Vitae," Vernon Lee crafts a poignant exploration of life and mortality through the lens of a richly allegorical garden. Utilizing a lushly descriptive literary style, Lee immerses readers in a tapestry of nature that serves as a metaphor for the human experience. The work is marked by its philosophical depth, with reflections on the transient beauty of life interwoven with Gothic ... Read more

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In "Hortus Vitae," Vernon Lee crafts a poignant exploration of life and mortality through the lens of a richly allegorical garden. Utilizing a lushly descriptive literary style, Lee immerses readers in a tapestry of nature that serves as a metaphor for the human experience. The work is marked by its philosophical depth, with reflections on the transient beauty of life interwoven with Gothic
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Teaching in Transnational Higher Education

Enhancing Learning for Offshore International Students

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Teaching in Transnational Higher Education examines current trends and challenges that face students, teachers and institutions of higher education around the globe. This book comes at a pivotal moment where many universities are offering their courses in offshore locations. Students who could once not access an international qualification can now do so without leaving their home country.The book ... Read more

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Teaching in Transnational Higher Education examines current trends and challenges that face students, teachers and institutions of higher education around the globe. This book comes at a pivotal moment where many universities are offering their courses in offshore locations. Students who could once not access an international qualification can now do so without leaving their home country.The book
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Barry Commoner's Contribution to the Environmental Movement

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by Mary Lee Dunn ...

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Few people have made greater contributions to protecting and improving the environment than the scientist, teacher, activist Dr. Barry Commoner. For half a century, Dr. Commoner has been an international leader in the environmental movement. On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, a symposium was held at which invited speakers discussed his contributions to a wide range of environmental issues. ... Read more

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Few people have made greater contributions to protecting and improving the environment than the scientist, teacher, activist Dr. Barry Commoner. For half a century, Dr. Commoner has been an international leader in the environmental movement. On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, a symposium was held at which invited speakers discussed his contributions to a wide range of environmental issues.
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Vanitas: Polite Stories

Enriched edition. Exploring love, vanity, and human nature through elegant tales of the late Victorian era

by Vernon Lee, Julia Dunn ...

In "Vanitas: Polite Stories," Vernon Lee artfully navigates the delicate interplay of beauty, decay, and the complexities of human existence within a collection of intricately woven narratives. Written in a rich, languid prose style typical of the fin de siècle period, each story reveals a nuanced exploration of aestheticism and moral ambiguity. Thematically, Lee engages with the concept of ... Read more

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The Girl with Seven Names

A North Korean Defector’s Story

by Hyeonseo Lee ...

Narrated by Josie Dunn ...

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom.As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by a secretive and brutal communist regime. Her home on the border with China ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom.As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by a secretive and brutal communist regime. Her home on the border with China
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The Cotton Dust Papers

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"The Cotton Dust Papers" is the story of the 50-year struggle for recognition in the U.S. of this pernicious occupational disease. The authors contend that byssinosis could have and should have been recognized much sooner, as a great deal was known about the disease as early as the 1930s. Using mostly primary sources, the authors explore three instances from the 1930s to the 1960s in which ... Read more

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"The Cotton Dust Papers" is the story of the 50-year struggle for recognition in the U.S. of this pernicious occupational disease. The authors contend that byssinosis could have and should have been recognized much sooner, as a great deal was known about the disease as early as the 1930s. Using mostly primary sources, the authors explore three instances from the 1930s to the 1960s in which
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