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The Headmaster's Daughter

by Jane Allison ...

In the sleepy Yorkshire village of Shadworth, Elizabeth Manners' childhood is steeped in tales of the Great War, recounted by her parents and older brothers. Sheltered within the idyllic countryside, she understands the trials they endured, yet always marvels at her parents' unerring resilience in the face of adversity.But as the winds of change stir, Elizabeth remains unaware of the looming ... Read more

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In the sleepy Yorkshire village of Shadworth, Elizabeth Manners' childhood is steeped in tales of the Great War, recounted by her parents and older brothers. Sheltered within the idyllic countryside, she understands the trials they endured, yet always marvels at her parents' unerring resilience in the face of adversity.But as the winds of change stir, Elizabeth remains unaware of the looming
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Start Spreading the News: A Media Relations Handbook for Nonprofits and Community Groups

by Jane Allison, Jay Robb ...

Nonprofits and community groups have great stories to tell to prospective donors, funders and volunteers. Start Spreading the News shows how to turn worthy events and announcements into newsworthy story pitches that will get the attention of reporters, editors and producers. Start Spreading the News recaps eight years worth of conversations and presentations from an annual media relations summer ... Read more

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Nonprofits and community groups have great stories to tell to prospective donors, funders and volunteers. Start Spreading the News shows how to turn worthy events and announcements into newsworthy story pitches that will get the attention of reporters, editors and producers. Start Spreading the News recaps eight years worth of conversations and presentations from an annual media relations summer
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The Gardener's Wife

by Jane Allison ...

Emma Holt has been happily married for many years to the gardener of the local Quaker school. Headmaster Philip Manners, on the other hand, has been unhappily married to the Bishop's daughter for just as long.When Philip finds Emma in the school library, he can't help but be intrigued by her. Emma, dealing with her two eldest sons going off to war, is overloading herself with work to keep her mind ... Read more

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Emma Holt has been happily married for many years to the gardener of the local Quaker school. Headmaster Philip Manners, on the other hand, has been unhappily married to the Bishop's daughter for just as long.When Philip finds Emma in the school library, he can't help but be intrigued by her. Emma, dealing with her two eldest sons going off to war, is overloading herself with work to keep her mind
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Romantic Beasts

Pervasion, Eccentricity, Exhibition

by Christopher R. Clason, Alastair Hunt, Pamela Buck, John Gardner, Jane Spencer, Allison Dushane, Kathryn Desplanque, Peter Erickson, Frederick Burwick0 ...

Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
By staging human-animal encounters, Romantic literature and art repeatedly questioned how "human" animals could be and how "animal" humans in fact are. Romantic-era authors and artists often depicted perplexing animal intrusions upon humans. Sometimes the intruders were mystifying or terrifying, like Coleridge’s albatross or Poe’s raven; sometimes they were mundane, as in “The Swallow” by Smith or ... Read more

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By staging human-animal encounters, Romantic literature and art repeatedly questioned how "human" animals could be and how "animal" humans in fact are. Romantic-era authors and artists often depicted perplexing animal intrusions upon humans. Sometimes the intruders were mystifying or terrifying, like Coleridge’s albatross or Poe’s raven; sometimes they were mundane, as in “The Swallow” by Smith or
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Gumboot Girls

Adventure, Love & Survival on British Columbia's North Coast

by Jane Wilde ...

Forty years ago, droves of young women migrated away from urban settings and settled in rural areas across North America. Many settled on the north coast of British Columbia, on Haida Gwaii or around Prince Rupert. Gumboot Girls tells the stories of thirty-four women, through their own eyes, as they moved from their comfortable city-dwelling surroundings to the rugged north coast. Part back-to-the ... Read more

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Forty years ago, droves of young women migrated away from urban settings and settled in rural areas across North America. Many settled on the north coast of British Columbia, on Haida Gwaii or around Prince Rupert. Gumboot Girls tells the stories of thirty-four women, through their own eyes, as they moved from their comfortable city-dwelling surroundings to the rugged north coast. Part back-to-the
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Dancing in Gumboots

Adventure, Love & Resilience: Women of the Comox Valley

by Jane Wilde ...

After the extraordinary success of Gumboot Girls comes the sequel anthology, Dancing in Gumboots. Having relocated to Comox, Jane encountered a new group of women who travelled to the Comox Valley in the 1970s. Fascinated by their stories, Lou Allison and Jane Wilde return to their dynamic partnership to bring us an anthology that shines a light on these trailblazing women and their unique stories ... Read more

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After the extraordinary success of Gumboot Girls comes the sequel anthology, Dancing in Gumboots. Having relocated to Comox, Jane encountered a new group of women who travelled to the Comox Valley in the 1970s. Fascinated by their stories, Lou Allison and Jane Wilde return to their dynamic partnership to bring us an anthology that shines a light on these trailblazing women and their unique stories
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What Do They Do with All That Poo?

by Jane Kurtz ...

Illustrated by Allison Black ...

Find out what happens to all of the poo at the zoo in this funny and factual picture book!There are so many different kinds of animals at the zoo, and they each make lots and lots (and sometimes LOTS!) of poo. So what do zoos do with all of that poo? This zany, fact-filled romp explores zoo poo, from cube-shaped wombat poo to white hyena scat, and all of the places it ends up, including in science ... Read more

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Find out what happens to all of the poo at the zoo in this funny and factual picture book!There are so many different kinds of animals at the zoo, and they each make lots and lots (and sometimes LOTS!) of poo. So what do zoos do with all of that poo? This zany, fact-filled romp explores zoo poo, from cube-shaped wombat poo to white hyena scat, and all of the places it ends up, including in science
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A Grown-Up Barbie

A "This I Believe" Essay

by Jane Hamill ...

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Fashion designer Jane Hamill describes the endless possibilities of clothes and imagination in "A Grown-Up Barbie", her contribution to NPR’s This I Believe series. This short audio essay is an excerpt from the audiobook edition of NPR's This I Believe anthology.This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous to the unknown, completing the thought that ... Read more

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Fashion designer Jane Hamill describes the endless possibilities of clothes and imagination in "A Grown-Up Barbie", her contribution to NPR’s This I Believe series. This short audio essay is an excerpt from the audiobook edition of NPR's This I Believe anthology.This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous to the unknown, completing the thought that
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Flood

Early Voices — Portraits of Canada by Women Writers, 1639–1914

by Mary Alice Downie, Barbara Robertson, Elizabeth Jane Errington, Susan Allison ...

This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from high-born wives of governors general, to an Icelandic immigrant and a fisherman’s wife in Labrador. ... Read more

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This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from high-born wives of governors general, to an Icelandic immigrant and a fisherman’s wife in Labrador.
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Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment

Critical Essays

by Paul Guyer, Nick Zangwill, Christopher Janaway, Anthony Savile, Eva Schaper, Malcolm Budd, Donald W. Crawford, Brigitte Sassen, Lambert Zuidevaart, Jane Kneller0, Peter McLaughlin1, Henry E. Allison2 ...

Series series Critical Essays on the Classics Series
Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment, first published in 1790, was the last of the great philosopher's three critiques, following on the heels of Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and Critique of Practical Reason (1788). In the first two, Kant dealt with metaphysics and morality; in the third, Kant turns to the aesthetic dimension of human experience, showing how our experiences of natural and ... Read more

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Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment, first published in 1790, was the last of the great philosopher's three critiques, following on the heels of Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and Critique of Practical Reason (1788). In the first two, Kant dealt with metaphysics and morality; in the third, Kant turns to the aesthetic dimension of human experience, showing how our experiences of natural and
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Novel Ideas

Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process

by Barbara Shoup, Margaret-Love Denman, Charles Johnson, Dorothy Allison, Ha Jin, Jane Smiley, Jill McCorkle, Lee Smith, Lewis Nordan, Michael Chabon, Michael Cunningham, Patricia Henley, Peter Cameron, Richard Ford, Robb Forman Dew, S. J. Rozan, Sheri Reynolds, Theodore Weesner, Tom Rankin, Valerie Martin, Wally Lamb, Sena Jeter Naslund ...

Novel Ideas provides a substantial introduction to the elements of fiction followed by in-depth interviews with successful novelists who speak with candor and insight into the complex process by which a novel is made. This edition includes new and updated interviews as well as writing exercises to enhance its use in the writing classroom.Dorothy Allison recalls "deliciously self-indulgent" days of ... Read more

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Novel Ideas provides a substantial introduction to the elements of fiction followed by in-depth interviews with successful novelists who speak with candor and insight into the complex process by which a novel is made. This edition includes new and updated interviews as well as writing exercises to enhance its use in the writing classroom.Dorothy Allison recalls "deliciously self-indulgent" days of
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Becoming Wild

Living the Primitive Life on a West Coast Island

by Nikki van Schyndel ...

Nikki van Schyndel is not your typical grizzled survivalist. She is a contemporary, urban young woman who threw off modern comforts to spend nineteen months in a remote rainforest with her housecat and a virtual stranger.Set in the Broughton Archipelago—a maze of isolated islands near northern Vancouver Island—Becoming Wild is a story of survival in the pristine wilderness of BC. Sometimes ... Read more

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Nikki van Schyndel is not your typical grizzled survivalist. She is a contemporary, urban young woman who threw off modern comforts to spend nineteen months in a remote rainforest with her housecat and a virtual stranger.Set in the Broughton Archipelago—a maze of isolated islands near northern Vancouver Island—Becoming Wild is a story of survival in the pristine wilderness of BC. Sometimes
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