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Hachette Australia Tales from a Bondi Vet An international hit TV series
Book SynopsisCurrently starring in CBS''S hit series DR CHRIS: PET VET in the US and delighting audiences in Australia as the host of I''M A CELEBRITY, GET ME OUT OF HERE!, Chris Brown is a man of many talents but one thing will always stay constant in his life; his love of animals. For this son of a country vet, animals have been a part of Dr Chris Brown''s life for as long as he can remember - so it''s not surprising that he has followed in his father''s veterinary footsteps. But Chris''s life has one twist his dad never had to deal with ... a TV camera crew following him around to capture the day-to-day life of an urban vet.TALES FROM A BONDI VET is based on the hit Australian television show BONDI VET, which has become enormously popular around the world and made Dr Chris Australia''s best loved vet. It tells his story along with the funny, strange and sometimes heartbreaking tales of his patients and their owners.From the moment a trembling Rottweiler called Zenna is brough
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Hachette Books Youth to Power
Book Synopsis**Winner of the 2020 Nautilus GOLD Award for YA Nonfiction**'Jamie Margolin is among the powerful and inspiring youth activists leading a movement to demand urgent action on the climate crisis. With determined purpose and moral clarity, Jamie is pushing political leaders to develop ambitious plans to confront this existential threat to humanity. Youth To Power is an essential how-to for anyone of any age who feels called to act to protect our planet for future generations.'--- Former Vice President Al Gore Climate change activist and Zero Hour cofounder Jamie Margolin offers the essential guide to changemaking for young people. The 1963 Children's March. The 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests. March for Our Lives, and School Strike for Climate. What do all these social justice movements have in common? They were led by passionate, informed, engaged young people.<
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Xlibris Corporation Takeoff Career Adventures in General Aviation and the FAA Career Adventures in General Aviation and the FAA Memoirs of a Great Aviation Career
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Xlibris Corporation Deja Views of an Aging Orphan Growing Up in the Hebrew National Orphan Home
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Xlibris Corporation When Tears Fall Short
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Xlibris Corporation Soundtracks of a Life A Song Will Take You There A Memoir Enhanced by Musical Recollections with Stories by Celebrities and Strangers
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Xlibris Mother Jones Revolutionary Leader of Labor and Social Reform
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Xlibris Corporation In Search of the Elusive Peace Corps Moment Destination Estonia
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Xlibris Corporation Once a Pickle Joe Ys Story
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Loyal Sons and Daughters A Notre Dame Memoir
Book SynopsisIn 1972, after 125 years of all-male education, the University of Notre Dame went co-ed. These pages collect the memories of Sister Jean Lenz, OSF, who was the rectress of all-female dormitory Farley Hall during that first year when loyal daughters joined the loyal sons of Notre Dame.Trade ReviewA remarkable set of stories by a remarkable woman. Jean Lenz captures the essence of the Notre Dame Spirit. -- David T. Tyson, C.S.C., President, University of PortlandSister Jean Lenz is one of the great women in the modern history of Notre Dame. In this delightful memoir, she captures much of the community building, faith sharing, and sheer fun that characterizes the residential tradition at Notre Dame. And best of all, she captures the challenges the institution faced in moving from an all-male campus to a fully co-educational center of learning. -- Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C., President, University of Notre DameOn two counts, Sister Jean is the perfect person to have written this anecdotal history of the women’s era at Notre Dame: She lived it, and she’s a wonderful storyteller. -- Walton Collins, retired editor, Notre Dame magazineSister Jean Lenz has written a gem of a book—a wonderfully engaging narrative of some of the most important years in the development of student life at the University of Notre Dame. Loyal Sons and Daughters is a thoughtful, informative, and poignant story of the transforming power of a woman's love for the Church and the ministry of education. -- Mark L. Poorman, C.S.C., Vice President for Student Affairs, University of Notre DameI believe this book will become a classic in many ways . . . Until now, this was a warm and rich bit of history that has never been told. Now Sister Jean has told it in such a superb way that I believe her book will become a classic among a few books that chronicle the history of this wonderful institution. -- Theodore M. Hesburgh C.S.C.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Come Share Life Chapter 2 A Hallowed Hall Called Farley Chapter 3 Parent Watcher Chapter 4 The Legendary Pay Caf Chapter 5 Daring to Teach Chapter 6 Funny Bones Chapter 7 Land of Pound and Pence Chapter 8 Office Of Student Affairs Chapter 9 Zhengde and 33,000 T-Shirts Chapter 10 Father Ted Chapter 11 Forever Alums of the Alums Went Forth Chapter 12 Football Weekend Fringes Chapter 13 Burying Griff Chapter 14 A Band of Men
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Simon & Schuster Flavius Josephus
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Simon & Schuster Girls Like Us Carole King Joni Mitchell Carly
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Portraits of Women Gwen John and Her Forgotten
Book Synopsisaeo The first major group study of the lives and work of Edna Clarke Hall, Gwen John, Ida Nettleship and Gwen Smith. aeo Based upon material drawn from a wide range of previously unpublished journals, diaries and well illustrated often presenting previously unseen photos and works.Trade Review"Portraits of Women is carefully researched and sympathetically written, and comes as a timely reminder of that talented group of half-forgotten women artists, led by Edna Clarke Hall, who were at the Slade School of Fine Art with Gwen and Augustus John. A hundred years after those student days, they still command our interest." Michael Holroyd "This is an informative book ... her bleak chronicle of the women's attempts to keep working though babies, loss of love, loss of money and loss of confidence, is an eye-opening analysis of the social and psychological reasons why so many female artists do not fulfil their promise. The book provides a significant addition to the information we have about these artists and their artistic practice the material could be used in several ways by history students." The Art Book "The project offers the long-overdue prospect of tracing a network of shared professional interests and friendship throughout the four women's careers ... Thomas draws on some fascinating source material; art, letters and writings which have not been accessible are now made available to a wider audience. Especially illuminating are descriptions of the quantity and variety of work produced by Gwen Smith and Edna Clarke Hall." Art History "A main attraction is the amount of quotation made from unpublished sources." The Oxford Art JournalTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Introduction. 1. Students (1893-1898). 2. Broken Promises (1898-1905). 3. Duty and Devotion (1905-1914). 4. Whistling in the Dark (1914-1932). 5. Growing Old (1932-1979). Epilogue. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index.
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Polity Press Fanon
Book Synopsis* An outstanding introduction to the work of Franz Fanon, one of the most important and controversial thinkers of postwar period. * Fanon was an anti--colonial / postcolonial critic whose work spans across the political and academic disciplines of philosophy, psychiatry, social science, and literature.Trade Review"Caricatured as a mindless apostle of violence, Fanon emerges in Nigel Gibson's rigorous and subtle analysis as a major humanistic thinker about injustice, a serious critic of nationalism and, for the first time, as an impressively profound philosopher of modern post-colonial politics and culture." Edward W. Said, Columbia University "This definitive interpretation of Fanon brilliantly touches the heart. Gibson presents a compelling and engaging analysis of Fanon's original theory of the racial gaze, of revolution, and of Fanon's complex theory of violence. All the perennial themes of political theory are masterfully presented in this major book. Readers will feel morally civilized after they read it." Teodros Kiros, Harvard University "Gibson's prose is elegant and clear and this book is, by far, the best introduction to Fanon's life and work. But it does more than this....The key idea that runs throughout the book is that of the dialectic. Gibson argues that there is an unstable, critical and creative element in the heart of FAnon's thought that seeks to move through apparently irreconcilable contradictions. This kind of analysis is what we would expect from any responsible engagement with Fanon's work and Gibson develops it very well. But he goes further and makes an original and significant contribution by showing that for Fanon this kind of progress requires the development of a fighting culture." Richard Pithouse, Sunday IndependentTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Abbreviations for Fanon’s Works. Introduction. 1. The Racial Gaze: Black Slave, White Master. 2. Psychoanalysis and the Black’s Inferiority Complex. 3. Negritude and the Descent into a “Real Hell”. 4. Becoming Algerian. 5. Violent Concerns. 6. Radical Mutations: Toward a Fighting Culture. 7. Crossing the Dividing Line: Spontaneity and Organization. 8. Nationalism and a New Humanism. Notes. Bibliography. Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Summer Soldier
Book SynopsisGuardsman Philip Williams was 18 when he fought in the Falklands War. He was left for dead and a memorial service was held for him. On his return, the press treated him with hostility and his life turned sour. He has left the Army and is often unemployed. This book offers his account of the experience.
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New Generation Publishing Innocent In Africa
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New Generation Publishing Lands End to John O Groats Only Mad Dogs and Englishwomen
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AuthorHouse Porky My Unusual Pet
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AuthorHouse A Fathers Story
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AuthorHouse Uncle Hot and Aunt Chur An Odyssey from Mississippi to Northeast Arkansas and Then to Southern Missouri with Side Trips to Brooklyn and Iwo Ji
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AuthorHouse Good Little Soldiers
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AuthorHouse How Many Miracles Can I Have
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AuthorHouse To Catch a Shadow A Wartime Tale of Espionage and Intrigue from Africa to North Russia
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AuthorHouse Miracle Lady on 6th Floor One Womans Survival Through Cancer Its Aftereffects and NearDeath Experience
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AuthorHouse Luck God and a Good Woman A Memoir
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AuthorHouse Korea It Wasnt All Chinese and Frostbite
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Hamilton Books Rebel Reporting
Book SynopsisJohn Ross believed that journalism is not a profession, but rather a moral obligation. His bottom up investigative reporting made him an ally to the underrepresented and an enemy to the overrepresented. This book outlines the basic responsibilities of a journalist and provides instructions on how to document injustices and poetically pitch stories to audiences in order to create change in society. When Ross passed away many said he was the last of a dying breed, but this book passes on his creative knowledge as a poet, and journalist to inspire a new generation of reporters.Trade ReviewThis book passes on his [Ross'] creative knowledge as a poet and journalist to inspire a new generation of reporters. * WORT 89.9 - A Public Affair *[This is] a slim but powerful new volume titled Rebel Reporting. . . .These are lectures every journalist should sit through, whether or not they choose to follow his [Ross'] example. * The Progressive *The book . . . is a tribute to the long string of independent journalists who have helped right many wrongs throughout history. * The Capital Times *The book is a wonderful read and should make people think. * The Tico Times *This book is Ross's final gift to independent journalists. . . .Rebel Reporting is an important counterweight to traditional journalism education. The book is inspiring and realistic. It is both a useful tool and a beautiful story. Most of all, Rebel Reporting is a must-read for any journalist committed to changing the world. * SocialistWorker.org *Rebel Reporting is a posthumously published series of lectures first delivered at San Francisco‘s New College in 2006, and quite unlike anything previously produced by Ross. * Toward Freedom *John Ross was a man who lived as he chose and wrote it as he damned well pleased. A reporter with a cause in the time-honored leftwing American tradition of John Reed and I.F. Stone, Ross chose to live most of his life in Mexico in a kind of exile from his native United States. He documented the last half century from the perspective of that country's callejones, its ejidos and pueblos, and we have been enriched by his effort. Ross was a political outlaw of the utmost integrity, and this book, Rebel Reporting, is the maximum legacy of a man who fought injustice all his life with poetry, and with passion. There are some pearls of true wisdom here for the next generation, and for that handful of reporters who may choose to be defiant and brave, and to live like John Ross. -- Jon Lee Anderson, Guerrillas: Journeys in the Insurgent World and Che Guevara: A Revolutionary LifeJohn Ross was Jack Kerouac, Hunter Thompson, Roque Dalton and Che Guevara all rolled up together, but most of all he was himself, observer and participant at once, listening carefully to the poorest, challenging hypocrisy wherever he detected it oozing from the mouths of the powerful. John’s spirit permeated the stories he covered so thoroughly that his writing dazzled like that of no other reporter I know. The inimitable, take-no-prisoners voice of John Ross rings clear on every page of this book. In writing a primer for the rebel reporter, John Ross has written a primer for life. -- Mary Jo McConahay, Maya Roads: One Woman's Journey Among the People of the Rainforest and Ricochet: Two women war reporters and a friendship under fire[John’s] state of self-exile gave him a huge gift, that of imagining and describing the potential truth of things beyond the rational boundaries of journalism. His Tonatiuh's People [1998] is one of the greatest political novels I ever read, with abiding insights into the soul of a writer and a revolution. -- Tom Hayden, Writings for a Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader and editor of The Zapatista ReaderJohn Ross was uncompromising in his dedication to the poor, the downtrodden and the victims of empire. He was not welcome on the television talk show circuit frequented by journalistic elites and political players, nor was he invited to the cocktail parties of the rich and powerful. He was always most at home among the people in the slums and barrios of the world. John Ross was the personification of the peoples' reporter, a troubadour for justice who chose to cast his lot of conscience with those who have the will to live and the heart to resist against all odds. Simply put, John Ross was the Robin Hood of journalism. -- Jeremy Scahill, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army and Dirty WarsTable of ContentsEditors’ Preface Foreword Introduction PART I Handing It Down—Four Lectures on Rebel Journalism Lecture One: What Are We Doing Here? Lecture Two: The Global Beat: Covering Global Resistance to Globalization Lecture Three: How To Be an Anti-War Correspondent Lecture Four: Our Words Are Our Weapons: The Language of Rebel Journalism Photos and Illustrations PART II Who Killed Brad Will? Appendix A John Ross’s Published Works Appendix B Links and Resources for Independent Journalists Endnotes Index About the Editors
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Liguori Publications Mother Teresa in My Own Words 19101997
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Chicago Review Press Inc DBA Indepe Coal Dust in My Blood The Autobiography of a Coal Miner
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Thomas Nelson Wild Men Wild Alaska
Book SynopsisIn Wild Men, Wild Alaska professional hunting and fishing guide and outfitter Rocky McElveen tells the stories of his own adventures as well as those of some of his well-known clients. The book takes readers directly into the Alaskan bush, and shows how a majestic wilderness can push a man to his limits until there is nowhere to look but up.
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Hyperion Home
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Johns Hopkins University Press History of My Life
Book Synopsis, and his flight from the State Inquisitor's prison-each in its own way a feat of singular dash and daring.Trade ReviewTrask has written a version in an English fully contemporary yet remarkably Italian in sensibility. With admirable restraint and refinement, he has conveyed the zest and sensuous delight of the original. National Book Award Citation These memoirs are compulsive reading... they are the work not only of a highly accomplished seducer but of a literary artist of the highest talents. -- J. H. Plumb New York Times Book Review Trask expertly rendered this text into English in 1966, and his is the English version to read... Compulsively readable... Certainly, few books better convey the sheer, exuberant joy of being alive and young than these reminiscences. -- Michael Dirda New York Review of Books 2007Table of ContentsVolume 3Chapter 1-16NotesVolume 4Chapter 1-16NotesAppendix
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service History of My Life 5 Revised
Book SynopsisExiled from Venice, he goes to Munich and Paris, where he establishes himself as a cabalist, makes a fortune in Holland, helps start the French State Lottery, goes on to Switzerland where he meets Voltaire.Trade ReviewTrask has written a version in an English fully contemporary yet remarkably Italian in sensibility. With admirable restraint and refinement, he has conveyed the zest and sensuous delight of the original. National Book Award Citation These memoirs are compulsive reading... they are the work not only of a highly accomplished seducer but of a literary artist of the highest talents. -- J. H. Plumb New York Times Book Review Trask expertly rendered this text into English in 1966, and his is the English version to read... Compulsively readable... Certainly, few books better convey the sheer, exuberant joy of being alive and young than these reminiscences. -- Michael Dirda New York Review of Books 2007Table of ContentsVolume 5Chapter 1-11NotesVolume 6Chapter 1-11NotesAppendix
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Johns Hopkins University Press History of My Life
Book SynopsisThis double volume is the final part of Venetian Casanova's memoirs, translated from the French between 1966 and 1971. His rich and varied life is recalled in an unabridged work which also includes notes on the social, biographical and geographical background of its genesis.Trade ReviewTrask has written a version in an English fully contemporary yet remarkably Italian in sensibility. With admirable restraint and refinement, he has conveyed the zest and sensuous delight of the original. National Book Award Citation These memoirs are compulsive reading... they are the work not only of a highly accomplished seducer but of a literary artist of the highest talents. -- J. H. Plumb New York Times Book Review Some of the most beautiful spines I have ever seen appear collectively on the six-volume edition of Casanova's History of My Life. -- Mary Cregan Financial Times 2007 Trask expertly rendered this text into English in 1966, and his is the English version to read... Compulsively readable... Certainly, few books better convey the sheer, exuberant joy of being alive and young than these reminiscences. -- Michael Dirda New York Review of Books 2007Table of ContentsVolume 11Chapter 1-10NotesVolume 12Chapter 1-10NotesRevisionsIndex
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Philosophical Library Oscar Wilde A Biography
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Times Books George Washington
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St. Martins Press-3PL Woodrow Wilson The American Presidents Series The 28th President 19131921
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Times Books Warren G Harding The American Presidents Series The 29th President 19211923
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Letters to Friends Family and Editors
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John Wiley & Sons Maria
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