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Silver Wings for Vicki is the first in a sixteen book series
featuring young air-hostess 'career girl' sleuth Vicki Barr. Set in
the days when flying was glamorous, the story follows Vicki as a
trainee and her early days as a stewardess. It's old school romance
in the skies with wide-eyed career girls falling for dashing young
pilots - and, of course, there's a crime to solve!
The Fast and The Furious: Drivers, Speed Cameras and Control in a
Risk Society presents a sociological and criminological perspective
critical to understanding the driver's role at the centre of road
safety interventions. Such an approach is, it is argued, as crucial
to an understanding of attempts to reduce road crashes, deaths and
injuries as approaching such questions from an engineering or
educational perspective. The book offers an explanation for the
continued debate about one road safety intervention - the speed
camera - by situating that debate within contemporary literature
about the 'risk society' (Beck, 1992) and more broadly understood
experiences of risk faced on a daily basis by drivers. Rather than
a focus on risk as something that can be objectively assessed,
measured and managed separately from the social context in which it
is encountered, it suggests that 'risk' is something that permeates
this particular debate from every angle. The book achieves its aims
by utilising sociological and criminological perspectives to
investigate issues such as: - the social context in which it is
possible for drivers to reject official scientific expertise about
crash causation and camera effectiveness - the self-defined
'respectability' of the population being problematised and its
juxtaposition with a 'proper' police focus on 'real criminals' -
the reconceptualisation of law-breaking as risk-taking rather than
inherently 'wrong' behaviour and its consequences for the
enforcement of laws based on risk assessment - the experience of
being controlled by technology and of receiving what is essentially
'automated justice'. These and other issues are explored and
suggested as illuminating of both the real concerns underpinning
this debate and potentially instructive for future attempts to
control risky behaviour both within and beyond a road safety
context.
The Fast and The Furious: Drivers, Speed Cameras and Control in a
Risk Society presents a sociological and criminological perspective
critical to understanding the driver's role at the centre of road
safety interventions. Such an approach is, it is argued, as crucial
to an understanding of attempts to reduce road crashes, deaths and
injuries as approaching such questions from an engineering or
educational perspective. The book offers an explanation for the
continued debate about one road safety intervention - the speed
camera - by situating that debate within contemporary literature
about the 'risk society' (Beck, 1992) and more broadly understood
experiences of risk faced on a daily basis by drivers. Rather than
a focus on risk as something that can be objectively assessed,
measured and managed separately from the social context in which it
is encountered, it suggests that 'risk' is something that permeates
this particular debate from every angle. The book achieves its aims
by utilising sociological and criminological perspectives to
investigate issues such as: - the social context in which it is
possible for drivers to reject official scientific expertise about
crash causation and camera effectiveness - the self-defined
'respectability' of the population being problematised and its
juxtaposition with a 'proper' police focus on 'real criminals' -
the reconceptualisation of law-breaking as risk-taking rather than
inherently 'wrong' behaviour and its consequences for the
enforcement of laws based on risk assessment - the experience of
being controlled by technology and of receiving what is essentially
'automated justice'. These and other issues are explored and
suggested as illuminating of both the real concerns underpinning
this debate and potentially instructive for future attempts to
control risky behaviour both within and beyond a road safety
context.
Expressive Sketchbooks shares a host of creative ideas and prompts,
tools and techniques, methods for working around obstacles and
barriers, and tons of visual inspiration to help you grow in your
sketchbooking practice. An expressive sketchbook is a place for you
to explore, express, and enjoy your own innate creativity on your
own terms. It is a safe playground for the imagination-a place to
mess about, play, and experiment-and to gain confidence in your
abilities as you develop your skills. Expressive Sketchbooks offers
techniques and creative exercises that incorporate mark making,
watercolor, mixed media, collage, words and text, and more. It
unpacks some of the obstacles and barriers that you may face along
the way and offers wisdom and encouragement to help you decide why
and how to start your sketchbook and how to develop and expand your
artistic practice. This book is packed with ideas and exercises,
including: Exploratory drawing exercises How to utilize color in
your sketchbook How to create dynamic and varied sketchbook pages
How to find inspiration in nature and in your everyday life Ways to
mix media and art supplies Ways to kickstart your creativity How to
find and develop a process that feels personal to you Through this
book, you'll find out what lights you up, what makes you curious
and fascinated, and what makes you expansive. Discover how to
magnify your creativity and enliven your art skills by using an
expressive sketchbook as your daily companion.
As a doctor's office nurse in New York City, Cherry Ames faces new
challenges and makes some extraordinary new friends. First in
importance is her dynamo of an employer, Dr. William Fairall.
Glamorous theatrical patients flock to his Victorian brownstone
offices. His assistant, young Dr. Grey Russell, plays a vital role
in Cherry's eventful summer--and so do funny little elderly Dr.
Lamb and the strangely moody medical secretary Irene Wick.Among the
interesting, colourful people Cherry meets are a stricken ballet
dancer, her handsome actor husband, and their adorable baby, who
move into the vacant top floor of the brownstone. And when her
nurse friends, with whom she shares an apartment in Greenwich
Village, inherit an old house near a beach in a charming summer
resort area of eastern Long Island, Cherry foresees especially gay,
carefree weekends. But Cherry's expectations are soon shattered.
Confronted by a mysterious, alarming series of events, the pretty
nurse finds that she needs all of her detective skills when the
clue of the dinosaur plunges her into the centre of intrigue.
One of the strangest cases of Cherry Ames' absorbing career comes
her way while working as a staff nurse at Hilton Hospital in her
home town. A young man, victim of a car accident, is brought to
Emergency with a broken leg. Shortly after he is admitted to the
hospital, the doctors discover that "Bob Smith" has been suffering
from amnesia for several months.Who is he? Where is his home? What
tragic happening caused such distress that his memory is a blank?
Answers to these questions must be found if "Bob" is to be cured.
Working under the direction of the medical and psychiatric doctors,
Cherry plays a crucial role in helping the patient to get well and
to find a solution to the dilemma that caused his "flight from
memory." Clues develop as the psychiatrist uses various techniques
to help the patient recapture his lost memory. "Bob Smith" insists
that he is guilty--but of what he cannot recall. During her free
time, Cherry follows up obscure clues and encounters suspiciously
difficult people and an alarmingly tangled situation. Here is a
fascinating story that will be long remembered by the lovable nurse
heroine's legions of admirers, both young and young at heart.
When Cherry Ames is offered a temporary assignment to help
establish a health clinic in a small native African village, she
sees it as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Not only will she be
visiting a strange and exciting part of the world--but, more
importantly, she will have a chance to help the underprivileged
people of a very poor country.But no sooner has the clinic been
built than Cherry finds herself caught up in the midst of a
mysterious chain of events. Rough diamonds are being smuggled out
of Africa--and Cherry's acute observations lead her to believe that
the clinic itself is the base of the smugglers' operations! By
carefully putting together obscure bits and pieces of evidence, and
at great personal danger to herself, Cherry sets a trap for the
criminals. How the alert and pretty young nurse from the United
States manages to put an end to an international smuggling ring
provides a whirlwind finish to a fascinating story of mystery and
intrigue.
In order to become a flight nurse, Cherry Ames, already a
professional nurse of skill, compassion, and courage, completes six
weeks of intensive training that prepares her and others to fly in
winged ambulances to every American battlefront on the globe to
places where wounded men need their help fast. Her home base turns
out to be in England, and when her childhood mentor, Dr. Joe
Fortune learns of this, he entrusts Cherry with the story about an
English family whose house had been bombed, killing the mother and
leaving a small child to be cared for by her grandmother, Mrs.
Eldridge. It was the behavior of the child's father, Mark Grainger,
that disturbed Mrs. Eldridge sufficiently for her to have contacted
Dr. Joe. Now Dr. Joe turns over this mysterious set of
circumstances over to Cherry, asking her to do all she can to help
this family, while managing to be discrete.
Cherry's job as nurse to the well-known historical novelist Martha
Logan would be an exciting assignment for any young RN. And it is
doubly exciting for Cherry, for when the author goes to England to
do research for her next book, Cherry goes along as companion
nurse.But the glamour of new acquaintances and the thrill of seeing
famous historic places is soon overshadowed by disturbing events.
Martha Logan and Cherry visit the Selsam Gallery in London--it is
robbed of a fortune in art treasures. Several days later they are
enjoying the famous Carewe private collection--when four
masterpieces are cut from their frames!Are the thefts somehow
connected with their visits? Have some of their new acquaintances
used Martha to help them perpetrate the thefts? Or is it merely
coincidence that the places the two visit are robbed? Cherry thinks
the evidence says NO. It takes all the ingenuity and courage of the
alert and pretty young nurse to fit the odd, baffling clues
together and unmask the criminals in time to prevent another theft
of priceless art.
Cherry Ames is thrilled to be working in a picturesque ski resort
town in the Swiss Alps. The town's only doctor has employed her to
assist him in his ten-bed hospital.Within 24 hours after starting
her new assignment, Cherry encounters a hostile, menacing patient
who seeks emergency medical care at the hospital. A few days later,
other suspicious persons turn up at the hotel where she is living,
and Cherry finds herself deeply enmeshed in an unknown danger. Val
Nicholas, a handsome ski instructor, helps Cherry to track down the
source of the mysterious danger. Together, Val and Cherry undertake
a perilous journey on skies, to protect her own life and to save
the life of a sick man who is being victimized. It takes all of the
vivacious and pretty young nurse's courage and stamina to expose an
ingenious racket and trap a group of ruthless criminals.
The war is over, and Cherry is sent home. Her new assignment is
working in a veteran's hospital, where she finds her biggest
challenge in raising the spirits of men who have lost arms, legs,
or other body parts. Will they be welcomed back to their families
and able to work again? Jim Travers, the woodworker who has lost a
leg and was the sole support of his elderly mother, isn't
convinced. But he finds he is of critical assistance to Cherry as
she tracks the mysterious thief who has robbed the Veteran's Center
of a medicine that can help a small boy recover from a deadly
disease.
Cherry has finally been discharged from the Army and is back to
civilian life. What should she do next after her intense years of
Army nursing? Dr. Joe finds her a job as the private nurse of a
celebrated musician suffering from a dangerous heart condition. How
can Cherry help him avoid the deadly stress his devoted sister
unintentionally causes when she visits fortuneteller after
fortuneteller? Will their family secret be revealed?
Cherry's natural curiosity leads her to discover a secret room in
the reconstructed chateau now used as a girls' boarding school.
There she finds a formula that when reconstructed to its exact
specifications produces a perfume that saves the school from
bankruptcy.
While working as a camp nurse, Cherry follows a trail that
ultimately leads to the true perpetrator of a series of robberies
and exonerates a hard-working young man who had been under
suspicion.
Cherry's first aid center is adjacent to the antiques department of
a large department store, where a series of thefts have pointed the
finger of suspicion at a young, recently widowed employee. But
Cherry's instincts say otherwise, and her tenacity helps uncover
the truth.
When Cherry Ames learns that the new patient in her ward is using
the proceeds from her deceased husband's life insurance to
speculate in stock, she judges her foolish. And when the young
woman explains the Pell Corporation investment program, Cherry
suspects that her patient is being swindled.Even more serious,
Peggy Wilmot is jeopardizing her health. For emotional tension over
the delayed arrival of her weekly dividend check is retarding her
recovery. But how can Cherry influence the headstrong young woman
who seeks financial help from the wrong people? Find out the truth
about the Pell Corporation, Cherry decides, and let the facts speak
for themselves. Some of the vital questions to which Cherry must
find the answers are: What are the Pell Corporation's actual
operations as distinguished from the fantastic claims made in its
impressive brochures? Is the mysterious Cleveland Pell really the
financial wizard he claims to be? Busy with ward duty and a
training program for teen-age junior volunteers at Hilton Hospital,
Cherry does not have much time for another extracurricular task.
But the plight of Peggy Wilmot is too serious to be ignored. What
Cherry learns in the mysterious world of the "high finance"
confidence game will surprise the reader as much as it does
America's favorite nurse heroine.
Cherry reunites with her old Spencer classmates Gwen, Bertha,
Josie, Vivian, and Mai Lee, when they all decide to take an
apartment together in New York City, and work for the Visiting
Nurse Service of New York. Greenwich Village is a far cry from
Hilton, Illinois, and farm-raised Bertha is ready to mutiny when
she tries to cook in their tiny kitchen. Assigned to a specific
neighborhood, Cherry marvels at the many countries her patients
come from--and is determined to resolve the loneliness of a few of
them by having them all meet at an "Around the World" Dinner at the
local settlement house. But who is the mysterious woman who lives
in the Victorian mansion at the center of her district? Why hasn't
she been seen by anyone in the past 18 years?
As a public health nurse in Iowa, Cherry works with federal
authorities to quash the manufacture and distribution of a bogus
remedy and discovers the secret of a decrepit, abandoned farmhouse.
Little does Nurse Cherry realize when distinguished Sir Ian Barclay
is rushed by his nephew Lloyd to Hilton Hospital that her newest
case will carry her north to misty, sea-beaten Balfour Island, off
the rugged coast of wind-swept Newfoundland. "Sudden hemorrhage of
a peptic ulcer," Dr. Joe Fortune had quickly diagnosed, and Cherry
is assigned to care for the truculent but endearing old Scotsman.
Cherry soon suspects that more than illness is worrying the peppery
owner of the Balfour Iron Mines, and her suspicions only deepen
upon their arrival at Barclay House on Balfour Island.True, there
is trouble at the mines. But the mysterious actions of Sir Ian's
erstwhile friend, Jock Cameron, force Cherry to conclude that
trouble of even greater consequence is in the making. What hold
does the industrialist Broderick have over Sir Ian? Who is "Little
Joe" Tweed, and why does his trawler Heron ride at anchor off
Balfour Island? The startling solution to this baffling mystery
waits for Cherry in three different places: deep in the
salt-stained recesses of Rogues' Cave, in the musty tower room of
Barclay House, and in the hole on the hill. But first Cherry must
face the effects of an island storm, as she and the island doctor
struggle to save the crew of a shoal-wrecked boat.
In Book 2 of the Vicki Barr Flight Stewardess series, Vicki Barr is
now a graduate of the Federal Airlines Stewardess School or, a
?proud possessor of a career in the clouds.? On a flight to New
York, Vicki meets a troubled passenger named Joan Purnell.
Reluctantly, Joan confides in Vicki that she is running away from
home because her father is in debt and may lose his lumber
business. Vicki convinces Joan to stay with her aunt that night,
promising to take her back home the next day. Determined to help
her new friend, Vicki persuades hot shot pilot Dean to fly her out
to the Purnell's lumbermill in Norfolk, Virginia. There Vicki
discovers that Mr. Purnell's partner is sending shipments of lumber
via more expensive routes than necessary, creating false losses in
an attempt to pressure Joan's father into selling his half the
business. Vicki has no proof of her suspicions and must work
quickly before Mr. Parnell loses everything and before Joan does
something rash in an attempt to help her father?
Silver Wings for Vicki is the first in a sixteen book series
featuring young air-hostess sleuth Vicki Barr. Set in the days when
flying was glamorous, the story follows Vicki as a trainee and her
early days as a stewardess. It's old school romance in the skies
with wide-eyed 'career girls' falling for dashing young pilots -
and, of course, there's a crime to solve!
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
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++++ King Kindness And The Witch: And Other Stories Helen Wells
C.W. Bardeen, 1900 Language Arts & Disciplines; Library &
Information Science; Language Arts & Disciplines / Library
& Information Science
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Helen Wells Seymour; Foreword by Laura Seymour Doolittle
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