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Night Watch (Paperback)
Jayne Anne Phillips
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'Breathtaking in both its scope and intensity' TAYARI JONES
'Shatteringly particular and audaciously universal' ALICE RANDALL
'Gorgeous prose, attention to detail and masterful characters.
Haunting storytelling and a refreshing look at history' KIRKUS,
STARRED REVIEW From one of our most accomplished novelists, a
mesmerising story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in a
mental asylum in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War. In 1874,
in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt
civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and
runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee and her mother, Eliza, who hasn't
spoken in more than a year, arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic
Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital's entrance by a
war veteran who has forced himself into their lives. There, far
from family, a beloved neighbor, and the mountain home they knew,
they try to reclaim their lives. The omnipresent vagaries of war
and race rise to the surface as we learn their backstory: their
flight to the highest mountain ridges of western Virginia; the
disappearance of ConaLee's father, who left for the war and never
returned. Meanwhile in the asylum, they begin to find a new path.
ConaLee pretends to be her mother's maid; Eliza responds slowly to
treatment. They get swept up in the life of the facility - the
mystery behind the man they call the Night Watch; the child called
Weed; the fearsome woman who runs the kitchen; the remarkable
doctor at the head of the institution. Epic, enthralling and
meticulously crafted, Night Watch is a brilliant portrait of family
endurance against all odds, and a stunning chronicle of surviving
war and its aftermath.
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Night Watch (Hardcover)
Jayne Anne Phillips
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R689
R562
Discovery Miles 5 620
Save R127 (18%)
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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'Breathtaking in both its scope and intensity' TAYARI JONES
'Shatteringly particular and audaciously universal' ALICE RANDALL
'Gorgeous prose, attention to detail and masterful characters.
Haunting storytelling and a refreshing look at history' KIRKUS,
STARRED REVIEW From one of our most accomplished novelists, a
mesmerising story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in a
mental asylum in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War. In 1874,
in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt
civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and
runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee and her mother, Eliza, who hasn't
spoken in more than a year, arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic
Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital's entrance by a
war veteran who has forced himself into their lives. There, far
from family, a beloved neighbor, and the mountain home they knew,
they try to reclaim their lives. The omnipresent vagaries of war
and race rise to the surface as we learn their backstory: their
flight to the highest mountain ridges of western Virginia; the
disappearance of ConaLee's father, who left for the war and never
returned. Meanwhile in the asylum, they begin to find a new path.
ConaLee pretends to be her mother's maid; Eliza responds slowly to
treatment. They get swept up in the life of the facility - the
mystery behind the man they call the Night Watch; the child called
Weed; the fearsome woman who runs the kitchen; the remarkable
doctor at the head of the institution. Epic, enthralling and
meticulously crafted, Night Watch is a brilliant portrait of family
endurance against all odds, and a stunning chronicle of surviving
war and its aftermath.
"Rigby Rocket" is designed to offer links from guided to
independent reading. It is linked to guided reading objectives,
allowing children to practise valuable skills following a guided
reading session. The titles are levelled to "Book Bands for Guided
Reading", and provide stories that children are able to read
independently. Each title contains reading notes written
specifically for parents/Learning Support Assistants. These focus
on key reading skills and encourage discussion to improve
children's comprehension. The "Red Level" titles are aimed at
children in Reception and follow on from the "Pink Level".
Five fantastic stories and one non-fiction book from Star Reading.
With brilliant parent notes to help you get the most out of every
book with your child, all at red book band level.
Religious and spiritual engagement has undergone multiple
significant changes in recent decades. Researching Female Faith is
a collection of essays based on recent and original field research
conducted by the contributors, and informed by a variety of
theoretical perspectives, into the faith lives of women and girls -
broadly from within a Christian context. Essays describe and
recount original qualitative research that identifies, illuminates
and enhances our understanding of key aspects of women's and girls'
faith lives. Offered as a contribution to feminist practical and
pastoral theology, the essays arise out of and feed back into a
range of mainly UK pastoral and practical contexts. While the
essays in this volume will contribute to an enhanced appreciation
and analysis of female faith, the core focus is on feminist
qualitative research methods and methodology. Thus, they demystify
and illuminate the process of research, including features of
research which are frequently under-examined. The book is a first
in bringing together a specific focus on feminist qualitative
research methodology with the study of female faith lives. It will
therefore be of great interest to students, academics and
practitioners with interests in faith and gender in theology,
religious studies and sociology.
Identifying, illuminating and enhancing understanding of key
aspects of women and girls' faith lives, The Faith Lives of Women
and Girls represents a significant body of original qualitative
research from practitioners and researchers across the UK.
Contributors include new and upcoming researchers as well as more
established feminist practical theologians. Chapters provide
perspectives on different ages and stages of faith across the life
cycle, from a range of different cultural and religious contexts.
Diverse spiritual practices, beliefs and attachments are explored,
including a variety of experiences of liminality in women's faith
lives. A range of approaches - ethnographic, oral history, action
research, interview studies, case studies and documentary analysis
- combine to offer a deeper understanding of women's and girls'
faith lives. As well as being of interest to researchers, this book
presents resources to enhance ministry to and with women and girls
in a variety of settings.
Why equality cannot be conditional on a shared human "nature" but
has to be for all For centuries, ringing declarations about all men
being created equal appealed to a shared human nature as the reason
to consider ourselves equals. But appeals to natural equality
invited gradations of natural difference, and the ambiguity at the
heart of "nature" enabled generations to write of people as equal
by nature while barely noticing the exclusion of those marked as
inferior by their gender, race, or class. Despite what we commonly
tell ourselves, these exclusions and gradations continue today. In
Unconditional Equals, political philosopher Anne Phillips
challenges attempts to justify equality by reference to a shared
human nature, arguing that justification turns into conditions and
ends up as exclusion. Rejecting the logic of justification, she
calls instead for a genuinely unconditional equality. Drawing on
political, feminist, and postcolonial theory, Unconditional Equals
argues that we should understand equality not as something grounded
in shared characteristics but as something people enact when they
refuse to be considered inferiors. At a time when the supposedly
shared belief in human equality is so patently not shared, the book
makes a powerful case for seeing equality as a commitment we make
to ourselves and others, and a claim we make on others when they
deny us our status as equals.
Religious and spiritual engagement has undergone multiple
significant changes in recent decades. Researching Female Faith is
a collection of essays based on recent and original field research
conducted by the contributors, and informed by a variety of
theoretical perspectives, into the faith lives of women and girls -
broadly from within a Christian context. Essays describe and
recount original qualitative research that identifies, illuminates
and enhances our understanding of key aspects of women's and girls'
faith lives. Offered as a contribution to feminist practical and
pastoral theology, the essays arise out of and feed back into a
range of mainly UK pastoral and practical contexts. While the
essays in this volume will contribute to an enhanced appreciation
and analysis of female faith, the core focus is on feminist
qualitative research methods and methodology. Thus, they demystify
and illuminate the process of research, including features of
research which are frequently under-examined. The book is a first
in bringing together a specific focus on feminist qualitative
research methodology with the study of female faith lives. It will
therefore be of great interest to students, academics and
practitioners with interests in faith and gender in theology,
religious studies and sociology.
Exploring the spirituality and faith of girls on the verge of
adolescence, this book presents fresh insights into children's
spirituality and their transition to adulthood. Phillips has
listened to girls' voices speaking in depth on the themes of self,
God, church, and world, and reflected on their experiences and
understandings in the light of current psychological, philosophical
and sociological thinking, all placed into dialogue with a feminist
approach to contemporary theology and bible. Phillips offers
'wombing' as a metaphor for their transition to young adulthood,
and suggests strategies faith communities might adopt to companion
girls more effectively through the fragility of puberty. This book
will appeal to all those exploring areas of youth ministry,
pastoral care, Christian education, nurture and childhood studies,
psychology and theology.
Identifying, illuminating and enhancing understanding of key
aspects of women and girls' faith lives, The Faith Lives of Women
and Girls represents a significant body of original qualitative
research from practitioners and researchers across the UK.
Contributors include new and upcoming researchers as well as more
established feminist practical theologians. Chapters provide
perspectives on different ages and stages of faith across the life
cycle, from a range of different cultural and religious contexts.
Diverse spiritual practices, beliefs and attachments are explored,
including a variety of experiences of liminality in women's faith
lives. A range of approaches - ethnographic, oral history, action
research, interview studies, case studies and documentary analysis
- combine to offer a deeper understanding of women's and girls'
faith lives. As well as being of interest to researchers, this book
presents resources to enhance ministry to and with women and girls
in a variety of settings.
Exploring the spirituality and faith of girls on the verge of
adolescence, this book presents fresh insights into children's
spirituality and their transition to adulthood. Phillips has
listened to girls' voices speaking in depth on the themes of self,
God, church, and world, and reflected on their experiences and
understandings in the light of current psychological, philosophical
and sociological thinking, all placed into dialogue with a feminist
approach to contemporary theology and bible. Phillips offers
'wombing' as a metaphor for their transition to young adulthood,
and suggests strategies faith communities might adopt to companion
girls more effectively through the fragility of puberty. This book
will appeal to all those exploring areas of youth ministry,
pastoral care, Christian education, nurture and childhood studies,
psychology and theology.
In the past decade the central principles of western feminist
theory have been dramatically challenged. many feminists have
endorsed post-structuralism's rejection of essentialist theoretical
categories, and have added a powerful gender dimension to
contemporary critiques of modernity. Earlier 'women' have been
radically undermined, and newer concerns with 'difference',
'identity', and 'power' have emerged. Destabilizing Theory explores
these developments in a set of specially commissioned essays by
feminist theorists. Does this change amount to a real shift within
feminist theory, or will feminism's links with an emancipatory
modernism reinstate an older political agenda? Can we transcend the
common counterposition of equality and difference, or is feminism
condemned to argue within the terms of this binary opposition?
Jayne Anne Phillips's reputation-making debut collection paved the way for a new generation of writers. Raved about by reviewers and embraced by the likes of Raymond Carver, Frank Conroy, Annie Dillard, and Nadine Gordimer, Black Tickets now stands as a classic.
With an uncanny ability to depict the lives of men and women who rarely register in our literature, Phillips writes stories that lay bare their suffering and joy. Here are the abused and the abandoned, the violent and the passive, the impoverished and the disenfranchised who populate the small towns and rural byways of the country. A patron of the arts reserves his fondest feeling for the one man who wants it least. A stripper, the daughter of a witch, escapes from poverty into another kind of violence. A young girl during the Depression is caught between the love of her crazy father and the no less powerful love of her sorrowful mother. These are great American stories that have earned a privileged place in our literature.
Why equality cannot be conditional on a shared human “nature”
but has to be for all For centuries, ringing declarations about all
men being created equal appealed to a shared human nature as the
reason to consider ourselves equals. But appeals to natural
equality invited gradations of natural difference, and the
ambiguity at the heart of “nature” enabled generations to write
of people as equal by nature while barely noticing the exclusion of
those marked as inferior by their gender, race, or class. Despite
what we commonly tell ourselves, these exclusions and gradations
continue today. In Unconditional Equals, political philosopher Anne
Phillips challenges attempts to justify equality by reference to a
shared human nature, arguing that justification turns into
conditions and ends up as exclusion. Rejecting the logic of
justification, she calls instead for a genuinely unconditional
equality. Drawing on political, feminist, and postcolonial theory,
Unconditional Equals argues that we should understand equality not
as something grounded in shared characteristics but as something
people enact when they refuse to be considered inferiors. At a time
when the supposedly shared belief in human equality is so patently
not shared, the book makes a powerful case for seeing equality as a
commitment we make to ourselves and others, and a claim we make on
others when they deny us our status as equals.
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Quiet Dell (Paperback)
Jayne Anne Phillips
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R510
R430
Discovery Miles 4 300
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A spectacularly riveting novel based on a real life crime by a con
man who preyed on widows: "a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction,
Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year" (Stephen
King)--"think "In Cold Blood" meets "The Lovely Bones--"but sexy"
("People").
In Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, a lonely mother of three, is
desperate for money after the sudden death of her husband. She
begins to receive seductive letters from a chivalrous, elegant man
named Harry Powers, who promises to cherish and protect her,
ultimately to marry her and to care for her and her children. Weeks
later, Asta and her three children are dead.
Emily Thornhill, one of the few women journalists in the Chicago
press, wants to understand what happened to this beautiful family,
particularly to the youngest child, Annabel, an enchanting girl
with a precocious imagination and sense of magic. Determined, Emily
travels to West Virginia to cover the murder trial and to
investigate the story herself, accompanied by a charming and
unconventional photographer equally drawn to the case. These heroic
characters, driven by secrets of their own, will stop at nothing to
ensure Powers is convicted.
A tragedy, a love story, and a tour de force of obsession, Jayne
Anne Phillips's "Quiet Dell" "hauntingly imagines the victims'
hopes, dreams, and terror" ("O, The Oprah Magazine"). It is a
mesmerizing and deeply moving novel from one of America's most
celebrated writers.
No one wants to be treated like an object, regarded as an item
of property, or put up for sale. Yet many people frame personal
autonomy in terms of self-ownership, representing themselves as
property owners with the right to do as they wish with their
bodies. Others do not use the language of property, but are
similarly insistent on the rights of free individuals to decide for
themselves whether to engage in commercial transactions for sex,
reproduction, or organ sales. Drawing on analyses of rape,
surrogacy, and markets in human organs, "Our Bodies, Whose
Property?" challenges notions of freedom based on ownership of our
bodies and argues against the normalization of markets in bodily
services and parts. Anne Phillips explores the risks associated
with metaphors of property and the reasons why the commodification
of the body remains problematic.
What, she asks, is wrong with thinking of oneself as the owner
of one's body? What is wrong with making our bodies available for
rent or sale? What, if anything, is the difference between markets
in sex, reproduction, or human body parts, and the other markets we
commonly applaud? Phillips contends that body markets occupy the
outer edges of a continuum that is, in some way, a feature of all
labor markets. But she also emphasizes that we all have bodies, and
considers the implications of this otherwise banal fact for
equality. Bodies remind us of shared vulnerability, alerting us to
the common experience of living as embodied beings in the same
world.
Examining the complex issue of body exceptionalism, "Our
Bodies, Whose Property?" demonstrates that treating the body as
property makes human equality harder to comprehend.
Diabetes affects a large proportion of the population and it is
essential that student nurses, dietitians, podiatrists and other
health practitioners and allied healthcare professionals be up to
date with the support and treatment that people with diabetes need.
Diabetes Care at a Glance contains the latest evidence-based and
practical information underpinning diabetes care, illustrating the
essential principles of partnership, individualised, and informed
care in an easily accessible format. Edited by an expert in the
field, with contributions from academics, practitioners and
specialist nurses, Diabetes Care at a Glance covers topics such as:
Diabetes prevention, diagnosis of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, and
consultation approaches and language matters Promotion of healthy
eating, physical activity promotion, promoting weight loss, and
structured education in type 1 and type 2 diabetes Prescriptions,
emotional and psychological support, person-centred goal setting
and assessing risk, and partnership working and adjustment
Anti-diabetes oral hypoglycaemics and GLP-1s, insulin options,
administration and injection technique, pumps, and self-blood
glucose monitoring Written for student nurses, allied healthcare
professionals and newly qualified practitioners, Diabetes Care at a
Glance is a highly valuable quick reference text, ideal for those
looking for an introduction to the topic of diabetes, revision, or
for those in need of a refresher.
Characters: 9 male, 3 female "The Great Grey Ghost of Old Spook
Lane" is about a little boy, Roger, who is new in town. The kids at
school tell him about a haunted house and dare him to go in. Roger
feels he has to do it to get "in" with the gang. So on a rainy
night they all meet and push him in through a window. The lights go
on. The house isn't empty. An elderly man lives there quietly. He
used to be a sound effects man back in radio days he has all the
equipment in the basement. They play a trick on the kids and invite
them back for dinner. The house is filled with scary sound effects
as the "Ghost" serves his "Ghostly Repast" of evil eye soup,
phantom pie, etc. Everyone is scared except brave Roger. The kids
learn a lesson about accepting new people and Roger learns there
are limits to what you should do to be accepted.
With an introduction by Jayne Anne Phillips Shortlisted for the
Orange Prize for Fiction, a novel inspired by the shocking true
story of the Scottsboro boys. Even after all these years, the
injustice still stuns. Innocent boys sentenced to die, not for a
crime they did not commit, but for a crime that never occurred.
Lives splintered as casually as wood being hacked for kindling.
Alabama, 1931. A freight train is stopped in Scottsboro, nine black
youths are brutally arrested and, within minutes, the cry of rape
goes up from two white girls. In the shocking aftermath, one sticks
to her story whilst the other keeps changing her mind, and an
impassioned young journalist must try to save nine boys from the
electric chair, one girl from a lie and herself from the clutches
of the past . . . Stirring racism, sexism and the politics of a
divided America into an explosive brew, Scottsboro gives voice to
the victims - black and white - of this infamous case. Shortlisted
for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2009, Ellen Feldman's classic
charts a fight for justice during the burgeoning civil-rights
movement.
In the past decade the central principles of western feminist
theory have been dramatically challenged. many feminists have
endorsed post-structuralism's rejection of essentialist theoretical
categories, and have added a powerful gender dimension to
contemporary critiques of modernity. Earlier 'women' have been
radically undermined, and newer concerns with 'difference',
'identity', and 'power' have emerged. Destabilizing Theory explores
these developments in a set of specially commissioned essays by
feminist theorists. Does this change amount to a real shift within
feminist theory, or will feminism's links with an emancipatory
modernism reinstate an older political agenda? Can we transcend the
common counterposition of equality and difference, or is feminism
condemned to argue within the terms of this binary opposition?
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