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Cuba and the U.S. Empire

A Chronological History

by Jane Franklin ...

The 1959 Cuban Revolution remains one of the signal events of modern political history. A tiny island, once a de facto colony of the United States, declared its independence, not just from the imperial behemoth ninety miles to the north, but also from global capitalism itself. Cuba’s many achievements – in education, health care, medical technology, direct local democracy, actions of international ... Read more

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The 1959 Cuban Revolution remains one of the signal events of modern political history. A tiny island, once a de facto colony of the United States, declared its independence, not just from the imperial behemoth ninety miles to the north, but also from global capitalism itself. Cuba’s many achievements – in education, health care, medical technology, direct local democracy, actions of international
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As affecting the fate of my absent husband: Selected Letters of Lady Franklin Concerning the Search for the Lost Franklin Expedition 1848-1860

by Lady Jane Franklin,Erika Elce ...

From her optimistic requests to whaling ships to her persistent demands for Admiralty aid Lady Franklin played a crucial role in the search for her husband. Her correspondence with British prime ministers members of Parliament lords of the Admiralty and a US president presents a private domestic side to a national tragedy and sheds new light on what Sir John Franklin's disappearance meant to ... Read more

$28.99 USD

From her optimistic requests to whaling ships to her persistent demands for Admiralty aid Lady Franklin played a crucial role in the search for her husband. Her correspondence with British prime ministers members of Parliament lords of the Admiralty and a US president presents a private domestic side to a national tragedy and sheds new light on what Sir John Franklin's disappearance meant to
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Ursula Franklin Speaks

Thoughts and Afterthoughts

by Sarah Jane Freeman, Ursula Franklin ...

As a distinguished scientist, pacifist, and feminist, Ursula Franklin has been regularly invited by diverse groups to share her insights into the social and political impacts of science and technology.This collection contains twenty-two of Franklin's speeches and five interviews from 1986 to 2012 that have been retrieved and restored from audio and visual recordings with the help of her ... Read more

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As a distinguished scientist, pacifist, and feminist, Ursula Franklin has been regularly invited by diverse groups to share her insights into the social and political impacts of science and technology.This collection contains twenty-two of Franklin's speeches and five interviews from 1986 to 2012 that have been retrieved and restored from audio and visual recordings with the help of her
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The Harvard Classics & Fiction Collection [180 Books]

by Blaise Pascal, John Milton, Anonymous, Plato, René Descartes, Leo Tolstoy, Jane Austen, Cicero, Benjamin Franklin, William Shakespeare, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, Charles Eliot, John Woolman, William Penn, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, Thomas Browne, Robert Burns, Saint Augustine, Thomas á Kempis, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Adam Smith, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Virgil, Miguel Cervantes De Saavedra, John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, Aesop, Grimm Brothers, Hans Christian Andersen, John Dryden, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Oliver Goldsmith, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christopher Marlowe, Dante Alighieri, Alessandro Manzoni, Golden Deer Classics, Homer, Richard Henry Dana Jr, Edmund Burke, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Molière, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich von Schiller, Michael Faraday, Hermann von Helmholtz, Lord Kelvin, Simon Newcomb, Sir Archibald Geikie, Benvenuto Cellini, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Ernest Renan, Immanuel Kant, Giuseppe Mazzini, Herodotus, Tacitus, Philiip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, Walter Raleigh, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Sir Thomas Malory, William Harrison, Niccolò Machiavelli, William Roper, Sir Thomas More, Martin Luther, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Charles Lyell, Confucius, Christian, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, John Webster, Philip Massinger, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Sir Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Francis Bret Harte, Samuel L. Clemens, Edward Everett Hale, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Juan Valera, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Alexander L. Kielland ...

Contents:Compiled and Edited by Charles W. Eliot LL D in 1909, the Harvard Classics is a 51-volume Anthology of classic literature from throughout the history of western civilization. The set is sometimes called "Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf."This e-book is all 51 volumes, the equivalent of over 20,000 printed pages in one e-book. It is fully searchable with a completely linked table of contents.+- All ... Read more

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Contents:Compiled and Edited by Charles W. Eliot LL D in 1909, the Harvard Classics is a 51-volume Anthology of classic literature from throughout the history of western civilization. The set is sometimes called "Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf."This e-book is all 51 volumes, the equivalent of over 20,000 printed pages in one e-book. It is fully searchable with a completely linked table of contents.+- All
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The New Politics of Home

Housing, Gender and Care in Times of Crisis

by Eleanor Jupp, Sophie Bowlby, Jane Franklin, Sarah Marie Hall ...

Home and care are central aspects of everyday, personal lives, yet they are also shaped by political and economic change. Within a context of austerity, economic restructuring, worsening inequality and resource rationing, the policies and experiences around these key areas are shifting. Taking an interdisciplinary and feminist perspective, this book illustrates how economic and political changes ... Read more

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Home and care are central aspects of everyday, personal lives, yet they are also shaped by political and economic change. Within a context of austerity, economic restructuring, worsening inequality and resource rationing, the policies and experiences around these key areas are shifting. Taking an interdisciplinary and feminist perspective, this book illustrates how economic and political changes
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History's Greatest Speeches - Vol. IV

by Cicero, St. Francis of Assisi, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Emmet, Jane Addams, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Nelson Mandela ...

Narrated by Brad Armacost, Tim Lee, Mike Nussbaum, Kevin Theis, Diane Sintich, Ajay Naidu, Amir Abdullah ...

Unabridged

3 hours 4 min

The most profound and important speeches ever delivered are here collected in this anthology, featuring some of the most influential figures in world history.From ancient times to the American Revolution to as recently as this past century, Fort Raphael Publishing has here collected seven of the most important and iconic speeches of all time. Featuring such disparate historical characters as ... Read more

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The most profound and important speeches ever delivered are here collected in this anthology, featuring some of the most influential figures in world history.From ancient times to the American Revolution to as recently as this past century, Fort Raphael Publishing has here collected seven of the most important and iconic speeches of all time. Featuring such disparate historical characters as
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As affecting the fate of my absent husband

Selected Letters of Lady Franklin Concerning the Search for the Lost Franklin Expedition, 1848-1860

by Lady Jane Franklin, Erika Elce ...

Series Book 56 - McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
The tragic fate of the lost Franklin expedition (1845-48) is a well-known part of exploration history, but there has always been a gap in the story - a personal account that begs to be told. In As affecting the fate of my absent husband, Erika Behrisch Elce has collected the poignant letters of Sir John Franklin's wife, Jane, which provide a vital new perspective on the tragedy. From her ... Read more

$41.99 USD

The tragic fate of the lost Franklin expedition (1845-48) is a well-known part of exploration history, but there has always been a gap in the story - a personal account that begs to be told. In As affecting the fate of my absent husband, Erika Behrisch Elce has collected the poignant letters of Sir John Franklin's wife, Jane, which provide a vital new perspective on the tragedy. From her
... Read more
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Forgotten Voices

by Jane A. Adams ...

Narrated by Julia Franklin ...

Series Audiobook 7 - Rina Martin
Unabridged

8 hours 48 min

Who would want to kill widowed mother of two Ellen Tailor, a seemingly innocent, inoffensive woman, and leave her body for her children to find? Rina Martin's policeman friend Mac can't find anything that looks like a motive and not much more in terms of suspects. While it is true Ellen didn't get on with her mother-in-law, it seems hard to believe their arguments escalated into a brutal killing. ... Read more

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Who would want to kill widowed mother of two Ellen Tailor, a seemingly innocent, inoffensive woman, and leave her body for her children to find? Rina Martin's policeman friend Mac can't find anything that looks like a motive and not much more in terms of suspects. While it is true Ellen didn't get on with her mother-in-law, it seems hard to believe their arguments escalated into a brutal killing.
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Religion, Culture, and International Conflict

A Conversation

by David Bloom, David Brooks, Peter Brown, Carl M. Cannon, Colleen Carroll, John Cochran, Patricia Cohen, Alan Cooperman, Michael Cromartie, E. J. Dionne0, Nina Easton1, Jane J. Eisner2, Franklin Foer3, Hillel Fradkin4, David Frum5, John H. Fund6, William A. Galston7, Jeffrey Goldberg8, Barbara Bradley Hagerty9, Christopher Hitchens0, Bruce Hoffman1, Samuel P. Huntington2, Philip Jenkins3, James Turner Johnson4, John B. Judis5, Wendy Kaminer6, Gilles Kepel7, John Leo8, Ruth Marcus9, Jane Mayer0, Duncan Moon1, Dan Morgan2, Roy Mottahedeh3, Caryle Murphy4, Paul Richter5, Jeffery L. Sheler6, David Shribman7, Judith Shulevitz8, Peter Steinfels9, Jay Tolson0, Karen Tumulty1, David Van Biema2, George Wiegel3, Paul West4, Kenneth L. Woodward5 ...

As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often worked to distort the public discourse on important policy issues. Pope John Paul II's pronouncements ... Read more

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As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often worked to distort the public discourse on important policy issues. Pope John Paul II's pronouncements
... Read more
Creativity Through Design

A Step-by-Step Guide to Better Composition

by Linda B Franklin, Jane E. Jones ...

Creativity Through DesignFilled with hundreds of illustrations, Creativity Through Design· was developed for artists at any level of expertise.· guides you step-by-step through exercises in 2D art to aid in mastering the elements and principles of design.· illustrates the elements and principles of design through many preliminary drawings with finished pain... ... Read more

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Creativity Through DesignFilled with hundreds of illustrations, Creativity Through Design· was developed for artists at any level of expertise.· guides you step-by-step through exercises in 2D art to aid in mastering the elements and principles of design.· illustrates the elements and principles of design through many preliminary drawings with finished pain...
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The Reproductive Industry

Intimate Experiences and Global Processes

by Nicola J. Marks, Sarah Ferber, Jane Adams, Sarah Franklin, Jaya Keaney, Vasudha Mohanka, Robyn Morris, Damien W. Riggs, Sonja Van Wichelen0, Vera Mackie2, Andrea Whittaker3 ...

Series series Critical Perspectives on the Psychology of Sexuality, Gender, and Queer Studies
Starting in 1978, when the first babies conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF) were born in the UK and India, assisted reproduction has become a global industry. Contributors to this edited collection reflect on the global dimensions of IVF and assisted reproductive technologies, examining how people have used these technologies to create diverse family forms, including gay, lesbian, and ... Read more

$93.19 USD

Starting in 1978, when the first babies conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF) were born in the UK and India, assisted reproduction has become a global industry. Contributors to this edited collection reflect on the global dimensions of IVF and assisted reproductive technologies, examining how people have used these technologies to create diverse family forms, including gay, lesbian, and
... Read more
The Elusive Road Towards Effective Cancer Prevention and Treatment

by Franklyn De Silva, Jane Alcorn ...

Cancer will remain a global major health problem unless new diagnostic, prognostic, and management approaches are discovered to address both loss of life and quality of life. Here we summarize the general physiology, pathology, heterogeneity, and evolution of cancer, current status, limitations and challenges associated with prevention, incidence, treatment, survival, and mortality, as well as ... Read more

$60.99 USD

Cancer will remain a global major health problem unless new diagnostic, prognostic, and management approaches are discovered to address both loss of life and quality of life. Here we summarize the general physiology, pathology, heterogeneity, and evolution of cancer, current status, limitations and challenges associated with prevention, incidence, treatment, survival, and mortality, as well as
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