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Abrams Standing Up Against Hate: How Black Women in the Army Helped Change the Course of WWII
Standing Up Against Hate tells the stories of the African American women who enlisted in the newly formed Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in World War II. They quickly discovered that they faced as many obstacles in the armed forces as they did in everyday life. However, they refused to back down. They interrupted careers and left family, friends, and loved ones to venture into unknown and sometimes dangerous territory. They survived racial prejudice and discrimination with dignity, succeeded in jobs women had never worked before, and made crucial contributions to the military war effort. The book centers around Charity Adams, who commanded the only black WAAC battalion sent overseas and became the highest ranking African American woman in the military by the end of the war. Along with Adams’s story are those of other black women who played a crucial role in integrating the armed forces. Their tales are both inspiring and heart-wrenching. The book includes a timeline, bibliography, and index.
£14.99
£29.38
Hay House Inc Simplify Your Life: Waste Less, Value More, Go Minimalist
A new and accessible approach to minimalism as a means to unburden your physical and mental space.Minimalism is so much more than decluttering. Find gratitude, richness and value in your everyday life as you create space for contentment, purpose and joy.Minimalism is about living more mindfully. It's about letting your life work smarter, not harder. It's about releasing anything that doesn't serve you, whether that be clutter in your kitchen or your mind. It's about connecting with what you hold as valuable and designing your life around it.In Simplify Your Life, Mary Conroy explains how simplicity is the key. This book will help you to make sense of your choices, to put you back in control of your life. Minimalism is not just for nomadic entrepreneurs or burnt out CEOs. It's for you.This practical guide is for anyone who wants to:· liberate themselves from the cost of their clutter· cut down on waste and consume consciously· spend more time with the people they love· stop scrolling aimlessly through the day· return to a point of mental clarity· Simplify Your Life will help you to do all that, and more.
£12.99
Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc) Building the Christian Family you Never Had: A Practical Guide for Pioneer Parents
£13.99
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company Up on Bob
Bob the dog doesn’t mind hard work when it means he can reward himself with a nap. But Someone is watching him sleep! Hopefully they will just go away if Bob lies really still. But Someone, who happens to be a cat, has other things in mind. Up on Bob is a humorous tale about sharing, working hard - and sleeping even harder. With irresistibly sly illustrations and pitch perfect pet dynamics, Geisel Honor–winning author-illustrator Mary Sullivan tells a sweet tale of friendship with a fresh new spin on the age-old cat-and-dog rivalry.
£13.99
WW Norton & Co Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. From the Space Shuttle training toilet to a crash test of NASA’s new space capsule, Mary Roach takes us on the surreally entertaining trip into the science of life in space and space on Earth.
£14.50
Glitterati Inc PMAT: The Perfect Marriage Aptitude Test
Using over 100 multiple-choice questions that gauge each partner's personality and his or her typical responses to everyday dilemmas, relationship expert Mary Carty tackles the issues that plague every marriage and provides insightful wisdom and advice on how to successfully navigate tricky situations. While society provides training programs, degree majors, and a variety of standardised tests, like the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), the Graduation Record Exam (GRE), and the Medical College Admission test (MCAT), to prepare people for their career paths, there are no degree programs, internships, or required training for marriage. PMAT: The Perfect Marriage Aptitude Test contains two hundred multiple-choice questions, designed to prepare brides, grooms, and civil-union couples in their quest to building healthy marriages and partnerships. Part communication tool kit and part reference book, PMAT has everything you need to test your aptitude for a compatible relationship. Delving into everything from common pet peeves, like leaving clothes on the floor, to weightier issues, like money management, The Perfect Marriage Aptitude Test is a self-guided counselling course designed to get every couple past the small stuff to the truly enriching life of happily-ever after. The two sections of the book provide first, tests and answer sheets on subjects that range from home to fitness to finance; and the second section, 'Making Sense of Your Answers' offers analysis and means for every couple to productively collaborate to work out any issues of concern or conflict and enhance the areas in which they are already in harmony.
£12.30
Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd The Boosey Voice Coach Singing in French for Mediumlow Voice Piano
£24.92
Holiday House Inc Game On!
£17.99
Holiday House Inc The Final Goal
£16.19
Holiday House Inc Pip Sits
£8.09
Great Outdoors Publishing Company Manatees: Gentle Giants in Peril
£5.95
Beacon Press Many Miles: Mary Oliver reads Mary Oliver
£19.80
Beacon Press Evidence: Poems
£21.60
Beacon Press Red Bird: Poems
£16.00
Beacon Press Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
£22.50
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£18.99
Baker Publishing Group Too Far Down
Cowboys, Action, Humor, and History Collide in Connealy's Latest When an explosion kills men and damages the CR Mining Company, the Bodens realize their troubles are not behind them as they thought. Shadowy forces are still working against them. Cole Boden finds himself caught between missing his time back East and all that New Mexico offers. Sure he fights with his siblings now and then, but he does care for them. He enjoys running the mine and, when he's honest, he admits that Melanie Blake captures his interest in a way no other woman ever has. Melanie has been a friend to the Bodens forever. A cowgirl who is more comfortable with horses and lassoes than people, she never expected to find herself falling for someone. Particularly for refined Cole Boden, a Harvard graduate who may not stay long at the ranch. She's determined, however, to help the Bodens finally put an end to the danger that's threatened all of them. But will putting herself in harm's way be more dangerous than anyone expected?
£16.12
Candlewick Press,U.S. Are You My Mommy?
£8.47
Candlewick Press,U.S. The Fairy Ring: Or Elsie and Frances Fool the World
£16.99
Pebble Books 10 Ways to Create Less Waste
£26.99
Compass Point Books Journey to Shark Island: A Shark Photographer's Close Encounters
£31.18
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Incest: A New Perspective
In this major new book, Mary Hamer offers a new perspective on incest, making a link with the scandal of sexual abuse on the part of priests. She places sexual abuse in the context of the whole social order. Hamer's novel and innovative approach challenges the taboo on clear thinking around the subject of incest. She demonstrates the inherent contradictions in official accounts of the subject, from genetics and anthropology to law. Drawing on the work of American psychotherapist Judith Herman, she invites readers to focus on the neurological damage caused by traumatic experience, arguing that it is the overwhelming of one person by another that constitutes abuse, and it is this which causes the damage, not the fact of a close relationship. She brings together, in accessible form, key descriptions of the effects of abuse from analysts Sandor Ferenczi, Estela Welldon and Valerie Sinason She revisits the two real-life cases of Father Porter from Massachusetts and Sappho Durrell, daughter of the British writer Lawrence Durrell. She also draws on the work of artists and filmmakers to explain the way film and literature have helped to preserve our understanding of abuse and of its place in the world Films and novels featured: Murmur of the Heart, Art for Teachers of Children, Suddenly Last Summer, Through a Glass Darkly, Lolita, The Bluest Eye, The God of Small Things. Includes 16 film stills
£27.73
Simon & Schuster Frankenstein Enriched Classics
£8.88
Rowman & Littlefield Mobilizing Soviet Peasants: Heroines and Heroes of Stalin's Fields
In the Soviet Union in the late 1930s, a number of peasants turned to shock work (working to produce as much as humanly possible) and became local heroines and heroes, serving as role models for the rest of the rural community. In this compelling work, Mary Buckley explores the neglected story of rural shock work and Stakhanovism in the Soviet countryside and analyzes its relevance for Soviet subjects, society, state and propaganda. Why were some peasants keen to become Stakhanovites? Certainly there were rewards_these workers were glorified in ideology and blazoned in the press as role models for others to emulate. However, local conditions were difficult and Stakhanovites often suffered a lack of support, were ridiculed, and endured hostility and violence. Some gave up, but others remained resolute. The reader is introduced to individuals like Mariia Demchenko, a twenty-two-year-old peasant from the Comintern collective farm in Kiev oblast, Ukraine, who urged those working in sugar beet production to step up their pace and to bombard the country with sugar. Mobilizing Soviet Peasants contextualizes Stakhanovism, considering historical context, changing party priorities, propaganda, the press, the nature of farm leaderships, shortages, peasant attitudes, gender, purges, and local organizations. An innovative look at the complexities of rural Stakhanovism, this book probes behind the ideological lines and jubilant cries of the movement's resounding successes into the handling of the movement by political structures from the Politburo and Central Committee party departments all the way down to the local party, procuracy, farm leadership, and families.
£141.31
Lexington Books Imagining Illegitimacy in Classical Greek Literature
In Imagining Illegitimacy, Mary Ebbott investigates metaphors of illegitimacy in classical Greek literature, concentrating in particular on the way in which the illegitimate child (nothos) is imagined in narratives. Employing an approach that maintains that metaphors are a key to understanding abstract ideas, Ebbott connects the many complex metaphors associated with illegitimacy to the ancient Greek conception of illegitimacy. The nothos as imagined in ancient Greek literature is metaphorically connected to concerns about gender, reproduction, marriage, and concepts of polity. By decoding the metaphors of nothos mapped to these concepts, readers gain access into these ideas and their relationship to one another. The complex portrait of nothos portrayed here examines a wide variety of works, from Euripides, Homer, Sophocles, Herodotus, and many others. By analyzing the imagery connected to illegitimate persons, Ebbott arrives at deep insights on how legitimacy and illegitimacy in Greek culture were deeply connected to the concepts of family, procreation, and citizenry, and how these connections influenced cultural imperatives of determining and controlling legitimacy.
£93.29
Arcadia Publishing The Virginia Housewife
£19.79
Irish Academic Press Ltd Retreat from Revolution: Dail Courts, 1920-24
£44.83
Simon & Schuster Trouble In Pembrook: Dog Watch #1
£7.58
Atheneum Books for Young Readers Spider and the Fly
£19.99
Penguin Publishing Group Dream Work
£15.30
Faber Music Ltd At The Edge Of Time
£13.99
Faber Music Ltd Bags Of Folk for Cello
Bags of Folk for Cello by Mary Cohen is a wonderful introduction to the world of traditonal music and is ideal for cellists of Grades 1-2 standard. The pieces are gently progressive and are all based around the first two finger patterns. They are ideal for consolidation work, for using alongside any method or tutor and are enjoyable sight-reading practice.
£8.53
Faber Music Ltd Scaley Monsters
Scaley Monsters is a comprehensive guide to scale practice for young musicians (grades 1-2) by one of the UK's most highly regarded string teachers and educational writers, Mary Cohen. Each scale and arpeggio is accompanied by a Dinosaur footprint map, indicating finger patterns, with lots of handy tips incuding rhythmic variants. Each scale also has a special solo piece in the same key, using the scale and arpeggio patterns, so that the young players can understand the importance of scale practice, and how it relates to successful performance. Delightfully illustrated throughout with dinosaur cartoons, guaranteed to take the performance out of practice!
£11.99
Faber Music Ltd Fingerprints (Violin Part)
This volume of fourteen pieces for violin is a great collection of original, new music for players of Grade 1-4 standard. Music written by 'real people' who go about their daily business in much the same way as the rest of us, eating breakfast, feeling tired and with a selection of favourite things. Each composer has tried to capture the essence of what makes them who they are and have left it a a musical 'Fingerprint' for you to discover.
£12.99
Faber Music Ltd Violin All Sorts (Initial-Grade 1)
An assortment of 19 pieces to pick and mix - from easy classics to great new pieces, this collection covers it all! All Sorts is designed to fit the technique and capabilities of the young player, with easy-to-play piano accompaniments for the teacher. Also available for violin: **Trinity College London selected pieces (Violin 2010-2012): Pineapple, Pineapple, Mango (Cohen) Lullaby (Brahms) Nobody Knows the Trouble (Trad.)
£13.99
Faber Music Ltd Superduets Book 1
Superduets Book 1 provides a wonderful new repertoire of original and entertaining duets for beginner violinists. It can be started as soon as pupils have mastered basic playing technique. Encouraging rhythmic confidence and listening skills, and exploring a wide range of techniques, sound effects and movements, Mary Cohen's Superduets are tailor-made for players at the very earliest stages of learning. These delightful pieces serve as a unique introduction to the joys of social music-making and help pupils to develop the invaluable skills required for ensemble playing at an early stage. The violin books are also compatible with the cello books, opening up possibilities for mixed ensemble playing.
£10.99
Faber Music Ltd Space It! Introduction To 2nd Finger Spacing
Space It is Mary Cohen's tuneful introduction to 2nd finger spacing. Comprising a collection of easy well-known pieces for violin, each tune is presented on a double-page spread in two versions: first in finger pattern one, then, at a different octave, in finger pattern two. Useful hints and fingering charts ease the pupil through each piece and brilliant 'alien' characters are guaranteed to liven up violin lessons. This book is an ideal introduction to Mary Cohen's Scaley Monsters series and offers a fun way to introduce new finger techniques .
£10.03
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company Frankie
Frankie is EXCITED! A new home? A new bed? A new ball? But wait. Nico is already here. Nico's home. Nico's bed. Nico's ball. Sharing is hard . . . Will Frankie find a place here too? The latest book from the Geisel Honorwinning author-illustrator Mary Sullivan features not one but two adorable pups with big personalites as they struggle to get along and find their places in the pack. At turns humorous and heartfelt, it appears that man isn't dog's only best friend when there is another dog to play with . . . AUTHOR: In her formative years, Mary Sullivan spent a great deal of time drawing. Though she received a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, she considers herself a self-trained illustrator. Ms. Sullivan has shown her work at galleries and coffees shops in Dallas and Austin. She channels her considerable creative energy into projects for Highlights for Children, Scholastic, Innovative Kids, School Zone, Oxford Press U.K., Pearson and many more. Her first picture book for HMH, Ball, was a 2014 Geisel Honor Book. Visit her website at www.marysullivan.com.
£11.07
HarperCollins Publishers Inc This Old Souse
£8.17
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Legs Benedict
£8.16
Vintage Canada Road Ends
£17.95
Random House USA Inc There Your Heart Lies: A Novel
£13.23
Random House USA Inc The Alpine Traitor: An Emma Lord Mystery
£8.24
Heinemann USA Workshop Help Desk: A Quick Guide to Teaching Reading Through Fantasy Novels: Grades 5–8
£10.20
Little, Brown & Company Twelve Moons
£16.19
Redhook The Book of Gothel
£25.20