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Histories of Exhibition Design in the Museum

Makers, Process, and Practice

Edited by Kate Guy, Hajra Williams, Claire Wintle ...

Series series Museum Making
Histories of Exhibition Design in the Museum: Makers, Process, and Practice offers a new model for understanding exhibition design in museums as a human and material process. It presents diverse case studies from around the world, from the nineteenth century to the recent past.It moves beyond the power of the finished exhibition over both objects and visitors to highlight historic exhibition ... Read more

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Histories of Exhibition Design in the Museum: Makers, Process, and Practice offers a new model for understanding exhibition design in museums as a human and material process. It presents diverse case studies from around the world, from the nineteenth century to the recent past.It moves beyond the power of the finished exhibition over both objects and visitors to highlight historic exhibition
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Adventures with Waffles

by Maria Parr ...

Illustrated by Kate Forrester ...

Lena is Trille’s best friend, even if she is a girl. And there is never an ordinary day when you’ve got a best friend like Lena.Hardly a day passes without Trille and Lena inventing some kind of adventure that often ends in trouble. Whether it’s coaxing a cow onto a boat or sledding down the steepest and iciest hill with a chicken, there is always a thrill—and sometimes an injury—to be had. Trille ... Read more

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Lena is Trille’s best friend, even if she is a girl. And there is never an ordinary day when you’ve got a best friend like Lena.Hardly a day passes without Trille and Lena inventing some kind of adventure that often ends in trouble. Whether it’s coaxing a cow onto a boat or sledding down the steepest and iciest hill with a chicken, there is always a thrill—and sometimes an injury—to be had. Trille
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Ysabel

A Novel

by Guy Gavriel Kay ...

Narrated by Kate Reading ...

Unabridged

14 hours 39 min

The internationally best-selling fantasy novels of Guy Gavriel Kay have won the author numerous awards and immense critical acclaim. Ysabel is a contemporary fantasy that centers on the Saint-Sauveur Cathedral of Aix-en-Provence, where a 15-year-old boy accompanies his father on a photo shoot. Befriending a whip-smart American girl and confronting a knife-wielding maniac, the boy finds that the ... Read more

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The internationally best-selling fantasy novels of Guy Gavriel Kay have won the author numerous awards and immense critical acclaim. Ysabel is a contemporary fantasy that centers on the Saint-Sauveur Cathedral of Aix-en-Provence, where a 15-year-old boy accompanies his father on a photo shoot. Befriending a whip-smart American girl and confronting a knife-wielding maniac, the boy finds that the
... Read more
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Lessons from Literature - Stories About the Dangers of Greed

Learn from the oldest form of communication and education - storytelling

by Leo Tolstoy, D H Lawrence, Guy de Maupassant, Kate Chopin, Anton Chekhov, Anton Chekhov, Alexander Pushkin, Oscar Wilde, Mary Shelley, Ambrose Bierce, W W Jacobs0, Barry Pain1, Vera Jelihovsky2, Maxim Gorky3 ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker4, Richard Mitchley5, Elliot Fitzpatrick6 ...

Unabridged

8 hours 34 min

Being curious, learning from all of our experiences, is one of our most pleasing traits as human beings.In this series we examine particular facets of ourselves and, with the aid of many classic authors, delve into characters and stories that not only entertain us, but inform us on how short stories can help us both deal and understand issues that touch and weave into our lives with the words and ... Read more

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Being curious, learning from all of our experiences, is one of our most pleasing traits as human beings.In this series we examine particular facets of ourselves and, with the aid of many classic authors, delve into characters and stories that not only entertain us, but inform us on how short stories can help us both deal and understand issues that touch and weave into our lives with the words and
... Read more
Best Authors Best Stories - 8

A Father's Confession

by Guy de Maupassant, Kate Chopin, Ambrose Bierce, O. Henry, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Anton Chekhov, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark twain, T.S. Arthur ...

Series Book 8 - BEST AUTHORS BEST STORiES
A Blunderby Anton ChekhovILYA SERGEITCH PEPLOV and his wife Kleopatra Petrovna were standing at the door, listening greedily. On the other side in the little drawing-room a love scene was apparently taking place between two persons: their daughter Natashenka and a teacher of the district school, called Shchupkin."He's rising!" whispered Peplov, quivering with impatience and rubbing his hands. "Now ... Read more

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A Blunderby Anton ChekhovILYA SERGEITCH PEPLOV and his wife Kleopatra Petrovna were standing at the door, listening greedily. On the other side in the little drawing-room a love scene was apparently taking place between two persons: their daughter Natashenka and a teacher of the district school, called Shchupkin."He's rising!" whispered Peplov, quivering with impatience and rubbing his hands. "Now
... Read more
Applying Strengths-Based Approaches in Social Work

by Guy Shennan, Steve Myers, Lauren Bailey, Simone Fox, Mhairi Fleming, Anne Edmondson, Michaela Rogers, Jennifer Cooper, Emily Weygang, David Miiligan-Croft, Sarah Pollock, Alex Withers, Will Golden, Ursula Lane, Bryan Thornton, Kirsten Wildbore, Alicia Lee, Mel Davidson, Lynne Robinson, Mica Halstead, Stacey Davies, Amy Udall ...

This textbook offers students and practitioners an accessible introduction to strengths-based approaches in Social Work and Social Care practice. Covering the theory and research in support of these approaches, and packed full of case studies, the book will allow readers to develop a critical understanding of how strengths-based approaches work, and how they can be successfully applied in order to ... Read more

$38.99 USD

This textbook offers students and practitioners an accessible introduction to strengths-based approaches in Social Work and Social Care practice. Covering the theory and research in support of these approaches, and packed full of case studies, the book will allow readers to develop a critical understanding of how strengths-based approaches work, and how they can be successfully applied in order to
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7 best short stories - Morality Tales

by Stephen Leacock, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Kate Chopin, Guy de Maupassant, Matsuo Bashō, August Nemo ...

Series Book 6 - 7 best short stories - specials
One of the functions of literature is to share experiences and reflections, thus improving the community as a whole. It is in this spirit that the authors compiled here wrote stories full of important lessons. Critic August Nemo selected seven short stories with timeless messages: The Aged Mother by Matsuo Basho - The Five Boons of Life by Mark Twain - The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones by Stephen ... Read more

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One of the functions of literature is to share experiences and reflections, thus improving the community as a whole. It is in this spirit that the authors compiled here wrote stories full of important lessons. Critic August Nemo selected seven short stories with timeless messages: The Aged Mother by Matsuo Basho - The Five Boons of Life by Mark Twain - The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones by Stephen
... Read more
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Kiss. A Short Story Trilogy, The

by Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin, Guy de Maupassant ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

1 hour 2 min

Anton Chekhov, Guy de Maupassant, Kate Chopin. These three names thrill the literary world as well as our own. They have gravitas, they have knowledge, experience and they have the literary style and panache to seduce our imagined world.Each has written a short story on pleasured lips placed on another’s flesh.For Chekhov it was a kiss in a darkened room that happened by mistake. Who was she?For ... Read more

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Anton Chekhov, Guy de Maupassant, Kate Chopin. These three names thrill the literary world as well as our own. They have gravitas, they have knowledge, experience and they have the literary style and panache to seduce our imagined world.Each has written a short story on pleasured lips placed on another’s flesh.For Chekhov it was a kiss in a darkened room that happened by mistake. Who was she?For
... Read more
7 best short stories - Death

by Kate Chopin, Guy de Maupassant, James Joyce, Ambrose Bierce, Leo Tolstoy, D. H. Lawrence, Saki (H.H. Munro), August Nemo ...

Series Book 22 - 7 best short stories - specials
In society, the nature of death and humanity's awareness of its own mortality has for millennia been a concern of the world's religious traditions and of philosophical inquiry. Literature has also been a tool for speaking and reflecting on the great mystery of life. Join us in these seven short stories specially selected by the critic August Nemo: - The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin - A Dead ... Read more

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In society, the nature of death and humanity's awareness of its own mortality has for millennia been a concern of the world's religious traditions and of philosophical inquiry. Literature has also been a tool for speaking and reflecting on the great mystery of life. Join us in these seven short stories specially selected by the critic August Nemo: - The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin - A Dead
... Read more
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Love & Deception - Short Stories

The truth hurts, but lies hurt more...

by Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Kate Chopin, Mary Shelley, Guy de Maupassant, Sherwood Anderson, Israel Zangwill, Edith Nesbit, Kenneth Grahame, Ellen Glasgow, Constance Cotterell, Ella D'Arcy, Giovanni Verga, Rudyard Kipling, Tod Robbins ...

Narrated by Janet Maw, Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker ...

Series series Love for stories, stories for love
Unabridged

8 hours 23 min

Love. Perhaps the one word solution for everything. An emotion, a state of mind that we strive for, search for. A wondrous force that binds, inspires, and a force that can spin out of control; unbalanced and fragile. Love reflects, changes and embraces us all.In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country.Love should be simple, should be ... Read more

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Love. Perhaps the one word solution for everything. An emotion, a state of mind that we strive for, search for. A wondrous force that binds, inspires, and a force that can spin out of control; unbalanced and fragile. Love reflects, changes and embraces us all.In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country.Love should be simple, should be
... Read more

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Tigana

by Guy Gavriel Kay ...

Narrated by Simon Vance ...

Unabridged

24 hours 51 min

Acclaimed author Guy Gavriel Kay has been honored with the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (Ysabel) and the International Goliardos Award for his work in fantasy. Eight of the nine Palm provinces of the Peninsula have been overcome by warrior sorcerers Brandin and Alberico. But the sorcerers don't know that a small band of survivors is plotting their removal. With tensions mounting, the ... Read more

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Acclaimed author Guy Gavriel Kay has been honored with the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (Ysabel) and the International Goliardos Award for his work in fantasy. Eight of the nine Palm provinces of the Peninsula have been overcome by warrior sorcerers Brandin and Alberico. But the sorcerers don't know that a small band of survivors is plotting their removal. With tensions mounting, the
... Read more
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The Last Light of the Sun

by Guy Gavriel Kay ...

Narrated by Holter Graham ...

Unabridged

17 hours 41 min

A powerful, moving saga evoking the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and Norse cultures of a thousand years ago from the acclaimed author of The Fionavar Tapestry.Bern Thorkellson, punished for his father’s sins, denied his heritage and home, commits an act of vengeance and desperation that brings him face-to-face with a past he’s been trying to leave behind …In the Anglcyn lands of King Aeldred, the shrewd ... Read more

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A powerful, moving saga evoking the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and Norse cultures of a thousand years ago from the acclaimed author of The Fionavar Tapestry.Bern Thorkellson, punished for his father’s sins, denied his heritage and home, commits an act of vengeance and desperation that brings him face-to-face with a past he’s been trying to leave behind …In the Anglcyn lands of King Aeldred, the shrewd
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