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Florence Nightingale To Her Nurses: A Selection From Miss Nightingale's Addresses Edited, With Preface By Rosalind Nash

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Report copyright infringementby Florence Nightingale (Author), Rosalind Nash (Editor), Rosalind Nash (Preface by)Florence Nightingale To Her Nurses: A Selection From Miss Nightingale's Addresses To Probationers And Nurses Of The Nightingale School At St. Thomas's Hospital Edited, With Preface By Rosalind Nash This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate...

Letters of Humfrey Wanley: Palaeographer, Anglo-Saxonist, Librarian, 1672-1726

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Report copyright infringementby P. L. Heyworth (Editor)This collection of 243 letters, only a handful of which have previously appeared in print, covers the years from Wanley's arrival at Oxford until his death and illustrates the full range of his interests as Anglo-Saxonist, palaeographer, librarian, and historian. Number of Pages: 556 Dimensions: 1.7 x 8.7 x 5.78 IN Publication Date: October 20, 2001

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Report copyright infringementby Mariia K. Bashlzirtseva (Author)"Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff" offers a fascinating glimpse into the life and mind of a young, ambitious artist in late 19th-century Europe. Marie Bashkirtseff (1858-1884), a Russian expatriate living in France, recorded her thoughts, aspirations, and observations in this intimate diary. Her writings provide a candid and insightful perspective on the social and cultural milieu of her time, particularly concerning the challenges ...

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Gingell (Author)E.J. Pratt (1882-1964) is one of Canada's best-known poets. This volume collects, for the first time, his own comments on his life and work. Pratt's good humour, his sincerity, and his extraordinary capacity for friendship emerge in these pages. Number of Pages: 272 Dimensions: 0.61 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: December 15, 1983

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Report copyright infringementby Jaya McIntyre (Author), Roxanne McCarty-O'Kane (Author)Every woman has a story of strength worth sharing.They move among us as business leaders, quiet achievers and intellectual giants. They are our neighbours, mothers, friends, aunts and daughters. They are motivated, innovative and relentless. They are the vision upon which our current and future feminine power are created. They are Women Inspired. Number of Pages: 112 Dimensions: 0...

Gossamer Years: Love, Passion and Marriage in Old Japan - The Intimate Diary of a Female Courtier

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Report copyright infringementby Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator), Dennis Washburne (Foreword by)"A self-portrait devastating in its honesty...written passionately and without a thought to how readers might judge her actions."--Donald Keene Gossamer Years is a remarkably frank diary written by an unnamed noblewoman in Tenth-century Japan--the same period as Murasaki Shikibu's celebrated Tale of Genji. In her diary, the author describes her tempestuous and unhappy marriage and growing indig...

Get Out Of Your Own Way: 11 Life-Changing Stories on How to Face Everything & Rise!

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Report copyright infringementby Charron Monaye (Compiled by)After the success of the book Get Out of Your Own Way, Vol. 1 and its hit stage play, Charron Monaye comes back with a cutting-edge sequel.Get Out of Your Own Way: 11 Life-Changing Stories on How to Face Everything & Rise! is brutally honest and pulls no punches in getting to the root of why we let life get in the way of our dreams. Charron Monaye along with ten others weave through their journey of letting go and overcoming the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Greenberg (Author)Michael Greenberg entertainingly chronicles the hardships, delights, and moral dilemmas of being a writer and a New Yorker in this "darkly comic" essay collection (The New York Review of Books).To eke out a living, Greenberg doctors doomed movie scripts, peddles cosmetics on the street, and waits tables at a posh restaurant, all while raising his son on the Lower East Side. Along the way, he meets a host of fascinating city characters,...

Selected Misdemeanors: Essays at the Mercy of the Reader

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Report copyright infringementby Sue William Silverman (Author)Longlisted for the 2026 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayThe essays in Selected Misdemeanors are unapologetic word grenades lobbed into an otherwise complacent forgetfulness. Throughout the collection, Sue William Silverman focuses on pivotal, often fleeting moments that defined the course of her life, such as a fraught family vacation; an evening watching the Chippendale dancers' extravaganza; a Pac-Man-and...

Pass-Through Place: Essays on Home, Hope, and Following the Horizon

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Report copyright infringementby Jenna Brack (Author), Lindsey Bartlett (Editor)Ride along with Jenna Brack as she explores the vast and varied Kansas landscape, a place some consider flat and uninteresting. In this collection of personal essays that unfold as a coming-of-age memoir, Brack reveals how the land and people of Kansas have been catalysts for growth, healing, and identity. As Brack passes through wheatfields, historic ice storms, or the sprawling Flint Hills, she also travels throu...

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Report copyright infringementby Erin Vincent (Author)Studded with moments of surprise, wit, and intellectual delight, this light-footed, piercing memoir of grief tracks reverberations of loss and acceptance across a lifetime.When Erin Vincent was fourteen years old, both of her parents were killed in a traffic accident. Almost forty years later, the number fourteen began haunting Erin, appearing everywhere--in the books she was reading, in films, TV shows, and on the news.The repetition felt ...

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Report copyright infringementby Lauren Elkin (Author)A love letter to Paris and a meditation on how it has changed in two decades, evolving from the twentieth century into the twenty-first, from analog to digital. Your telephone is precious. It may be envied. We recommend vigilance when using it in public. --Paris bus public notice In fall 2014 Lauren Elkin began keeping a diary of her bus commutes in the Notes app on her iPhone 5c, writing down the interesting things and people she saw in a ...

Restless Winds: Memoirs of an Outdoorsman

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Report copyright infringementby Donald C. Jackson (Author)Donald C. Jackson's newest book of outdoor essays, Restless Winds: Memoirs of an Outdoorsman, takes the reader on a journey from America's Deep South out into the world. Jackson's essays explore landscapes, waters, and cultures that have defined Jackson's career and life. Hunting and fishing stories from his Mississippi farm blend with stories from Africa, Alaska, Asia, Australia, Europe, and South America.As a fisheries professor at M...

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Report copyright infringementby Howard Hunter (Author)Conversations with Jason Berry offers an intimate look at the life and mind of one of America's most fearless investigative journalists and cultural historians. Across twenty-three compelling interviews, Berry reflects on the forces that have shaped his work--from uncovering corruption in the Catholic Church to chronicling the rich cultural and political landscape of Louisiana. Berry's groundbreaking exposés on clerical abuse established ...

Return to Elkins Creek: A Fishing Odyssey

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Report copyright infringementby Evan Peacock (Author)Return to Elkins Creek combines a series of fishing stories, descriptions of changing cultural norms, and the peculiar history of freshwater fishing gear. Beginning with subsistence fishing in very rural Mississippi at a time "when the poorest among us in the Deep South still took our water from holes in the ground and high school was considered an optional step along the career path," the stories continue chronologically, with descriptions...

Saving Lives: The Stories of Corpsmen, Medics, Dustoff Pilots, Nurses, and Doctors Who Served During the Vietnam War

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Report copyright infringementby Norton Usmc (Ret ). (Editor), Harry J. Kantrovich (Editor)Saving Lives is a tribute to the "life savers" during the Vietnam War: the medics, corpsmen, nurses, doctors, and dustoff pilots who not only rescued but tried desperately to repair the estimated 200,000 soldiers, sailors, Marines, and civilians who were sick or wounded during that war. The stories contained in these pages are "in their own words" from interviews conducted many years later with these inc...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Harper Webb (Author)Beguiled by Webb's poetry since October '99, when I found myself in a bookstore poetry section unable to tear myself from Liver's marvelous poems, when a screaky voice, breaking my concentration, asks, Are you going to buy that book? 25 years go by, and Old Gnu-- this latest collection of driven, deeply remembered, funny/tragic, linguistically brilliant, brilliantly composed and moving explorations of the human experiment-- once agai...

If I Could Convince You of Only One Thing: essays

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Report copyright infringementby Zelda Leah Gatuskin (Author)Stemming from the author's involvement with the Humanist Society of New Mexico and the Feminist Caucus of the American Humanist Association, these essays include strong appeals for women's equality, social justice and economic fairness for all, support of fine arts and media education, and rejection of dehumanizing violence in screen entertainment. The collection is introduced with an adaptation of a talk presented in 2010, Art and R...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffrey R. Schweitzer (Author), Jeffrey R. Schweitzer (Illustrator), Jeffrey R. Schweitzer (Created by)Home is an illustrated semi-autobiographical journal by artist and author Jeffrey Schweitzer created between 2016 and 2019. During this period the artist spent a significant amount of time rebuilding a 1957 Stearling travel trailer and using it as a mobile studio space in which to work on art projects. The text for this project is essentially a group of very s...

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Report copyright infringementby Pablo Neruda (Author), W. S. Merwin (Translator), Cristina García (Introduction by)Brilliant English translation of beloved poems by Pablo Neruda, who is the subject of the film Neruda starring Gael García Bernal and directed by Pablo Larraín A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with French flapsFirst published in 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada remains among Pablo Neruda's most popular work. Daringly metaphorical and sensuous, this collecti...

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Report copyright infringementby Emma Florence Langdon (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is im...

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Report copyright infringementby Jalal Al-Din Rumi (Author), Jawid Mojaddedi (Author)Rumi's Masnavi is widely recognized as the greatest Sufi poem ever written, and has been called "the Koran in Persian." The thirteenth-century Muslim mystic Rumi composed his work for the benefit of his disciples in the Sufi order named after him, better known as the whirling dervishes. In order to convey his message of divine love and unity he threaded together entertaining stories and penetrating homilies. D...

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Report copyright infringementby Will Self (Author)Will Self is one of the most important British novelists of his generation, and he is as acclaimed in the UK for his outstanding, daring journalism as he is for his fiction. Now finally available in America, Junk Mail is an original selection of pieces from Self's nonfiction and journalism that will introduce American readers to Self as a literary journalist par excellence. Animated by the scathing brilliance and unflinching determination to w...

Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded): The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction

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Report copyright infringementby Jeff VanderMeer (Author)From New York Times bestselling author Jeff VanderMeer, Wonderbook is the definitive guide to writing science fiction and fantasy, offering an accessible, example-rich, illustrated approach for writers and would-be writers that emphasizes the importance of playfulness as well as pragmatism. "If worldbuilding gives you an S-class migraine, never fear. There's one book that every speculative fiction writer should read to learn about proper...

English Public Finance, From The Revolution Of 1688: With Chapters On The Bank Of England (1920)

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Report copyright infringementby Harvey Edward Fisk (Author)English Public Finance, From The Revolution Of 1688: With Chapters On The Bank Of England (1920) is a book written by Harvey Edward Fisk. The book provides a comprehensive account of the public finance system of England from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 to the early 20th century. The author delves into the history of taxation, public debt, and government spending during this period, as well as the role of the Bank of England in sha...

Economic History Of Virginia In The Seventeenth Century, Volume 2

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Alexander Bruce (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in th...

Speaking While Female: 75 Extraordinary Speeches by American Women

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Report copyright infringementby Dana Rubin (Author)This monumental collection of speeches charts the story of America as it unfolded through the decades, showing that at every critical juncture, women were speaking. It's a long-needed corrective to the story we have always told ourselves about whose ideas and voices shaped the nation--a search for long-buried truths, a celebration, and an inspiration. Number of Pages: 408 Dimensions: 1.2 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN P...

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Report copyright infringementby R. H. Charles (Author)The Parables in the Book of Enoch is a book written by Charles R. H. that explores and analyzes the parables found in the Book of Enoch, an ancient Jewish religious text that has been discovered in Ethiopia. The Book of Enoch is believed to have been written between the third century BC and the first century AD and contains various parables that were used to teach moral and ethical lessons to its readers. In this book, Charles R. H. provid...

Signals of Being, or Verbum Caro Factum Est: A Play in Three Acts

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Report copyright infringementby Volodymyr Rafeyenko (Author), Mark Andryczyk (Translator)In the early days of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the residents of a small co-op community outside of Kyiv find themselves in increasingly desperate circumstances, surrounded by occupying Russian forces. Pinched between Bucha and Borodianka, cut off from aid, and unable to escape, their attempts at survival rely on connection: a cellphone signal in the forest, their bonds with each other, and, ultim...

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Report copyright infringementby Edmund Burke (Author), L. G. Mitchell (Editor)This new and up-to-date edition of a book that has been central to political philosophy, history, and revolutionary thought for two hundred years offers readers a dire warning of the consequences that follow the mismanagement of change. Written for a generation presented with challenges of terrible proportions--the Industrial, American, and French Revolutions, to name the most obvious--Burke's Reflections of the Rev...

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded Edition - Hardcover

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by J. R. R. Tolkien (Author)The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world's greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing new insights into The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.J.R.R. Tolkien, creator of the languages and history of Middle-earth as recorded in The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, was one of the most prolific letter-writers of the la...

The Psychology of Advertising: A Simple Exposition of the Principles of Psychology in Their Relation to Successful Advertising

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Dill Scott (Author)The Psychology of Advertising is a book written by Walter Dill Scott that explores the principles of psychology in relation to successful advertising. This book provides a simple exposition of the psychological principles that are commonly used in advertising, such as motivation, attention, perception, memory, and emotion. It explains how these principles can be used to create effective advertising campaigns that appeal to the target a...