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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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Band of Gold (Hardcover)
Mark Bego, Freda Payne; Introduction by Mary Wilson
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R1,078
Discovery Miles 10 780
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This book is about a boy and girl who grow close with each other
and a teacher of their's. They set off on lots of small adventures,
when one day something happens. The events change some but
eventually go back to normal until the end of the story. They go on
a long adventure to a far away land, and end out meeting one of the
main characters family. They get to even closer, and end out
staying for a few weeks. Soon something drastic happens and the
whole story is flipped. You start seeing it from the second persons
point of view instead of just the main characters. Then at the
ending everything goes back to being just fine and though
everything has changed everybody is still okay.
Three million girls across the world are at risk of female genital
mutilation (FGM) each year. When Ann-Marie Wilson met a girl named
Fatima in West Darfur, who had experienced FGM at the age of five
and was pregnant by the age of ten, she knew she had to do
something. Her life's work since then has been geared toward
speaking out against FGM, as well as supporting the physical,
emotional, and spiritual needs of as many survivors as possible.
Built on the experience of more than 3,000 FGM survivors' stories
as well as meetings with heads of state and the Pope, Overcoming
tells the compelling story of how Ann-Marie leaned on her Christian
faith through her darkest moments to build 28 Too Many. This
international organisation offers hope to the millions of girls
who, just like Fatima, are at risk of FGM each year.
This work offers a social and cultural history of Victorian
medicine "from below," as experienced by ordinary practitioners and
patients, often described in their own words. Health, Medicine, and
Society in Victorian England is a human story of medicine in
19th-century England. It's a story of how a diverse and competitive
assortment of apothecary apprentices, surgeons who learned their
trade by doing, and physicians schooled in ancient Greek medicine
but lacking in any actual experience with patients, was gradually
formed into a medical profession with uniform standards of
education and qualification. It's a story of how medical men
struggled with "new" diseases such as cholera and "old" ones known
for centuries, such as tuberculosis, syphilis, and smallpox,
largely in the absence of effective drugs or treatments, and so
were often reduced to standing helplessly by as their patients
died. It's a story of how surgeons, empowered first by anesthesia
and later by antiseptic technique, vastly expanded the field of
surgery—sometimes with major benefits for patients, but sometimes
with disastrous results. Above all, it's a story of how gender and
class ideology dominated both practitioners and patients. Women
were stridently excluded from medical education and practice of any
kind until the end of the century, but were hailed into the new
field of nursing, which was felt to be "natural" to the gentler
sex. Only the poor were admitted to hospitals until the last
decades of the century, and while they often received compassionate
care, they were also treated as "cases" of disease and experimented
upon with freedom. Yet because medical knowledge was growing by
leaps and bounds, Victorians were fascinated with this new field
and wrote novels, poetry, essays, letters, and diaries, which
illuminate their experience of health and disease for us. Newly
developed techniques of photography, as well as improved print
illustrations, help us to picture this fascinating world. This
vivid history of Victorian medicine is enriched with many literary
examples and visual images drawn from the period.
In The Labors of Modernism, Mary Wilson analyzes the unrecognized
role of domestic servants in the experimental forms and narratives
of Modernist fiction by Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Nella
Larsen, and Jean Rhys. Examining issues of class, gender, and race
in a transatlantic Modernist context, Wilson brings attention to
the place where servants enter literature: the threshold. In
tracking their movements across the architectural borders
separating indoors and outdoors and across the physical doorways
between rooms, Wilson illuminates the ways in which the servants
who open doors symbolize larger social limits and exclusions, as
well as states of consciousness. The relationship between female
servants and their female employers is of particular importance in
the work of female authors, for whom the home and the novel are
especially interconnected sites of authorization and domestication.
Modernist fiction, Wilson shows, uses domestic service to tame and
interrogate not only issues of class, but also the overlapping
distinctions of racial and ethnic identities. As Woolf, Stein,
Larsen, and Rhys use the novel to interrogate the limitations of
gendered domestic ideologies, they find they must deploy these same
ideologies to manage the servant characters whose labor maintains
the domestic spaces they find limiting. Thus the position of
servants in these texts forces the reader to recognize servants not
just as characters, but as conditions for the production of
literature and of the homes in which literature is created.
In The Labors of Modernism, Mary Wilson analyzes the unrecognized
role of domestic servants in the experimental forms and narratives
of Modernist fiction by Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Nella
Larsen, and Jean Rhys. Examining issues of class, gender, and race
in a transatlantic Modernist context, Wilson brings attention to
the place where servants enter literature: the threshold. In
tracking their movements across the architectural borders
separating indoors and outdoors and across the physical doorways
between rooms, Wilson illuminates the ways in which the servants
who open doors symbolize larger social limits and exclusions, as
well as states of consciousness. The relationship between female
servants and their female employers is of particular importance in
the work of female authors, for whom the home and the novel are
especially interconnected sites of authorization and domestication.
Modernist fiction, Wilson shows, uses domestic service to tame and
interrogate not only issues of class, but also the overlapping
distinctions of racial and ethnic identities. As Woolf, Stein,
Larsen, and Rhys use the novel to interrogate the limitations of
gendered domestic ideologies, they find they must deploy these same
ideologies to manage the servant characters whose labor maintains
the domestic spaces they find limiting. Thus the position of
servants in these texts forces the reader to recognize servants not
just as characters, but as conditions for the production of
literature and of the homes in which literature is created.
Family Law for the Paralegal: Concepts and Applications provides a
thorough introduction to the basics of family law and procedure,
addressing all key areas most commonly encountered in a family law
practice. While the overall approach of the text is generic, each
chapter provides opportunities for students to consider issues
through the lens of individual jurisdictions and cases. The Third
Edition offers an up-to-date perspective on family law. It
incorporates coverage of the impact of marriage equality on areas
such as parenting and custody and it highlights ways in which the
Internet has revolutionized adoption, discovery, and family
violence. This interesting and readable text helps prepare students
to enter the workforce with strong cognitive and practical skills.
More than 40 years ago, three girls from the Detroit projects made
the world 'Stop!' and take notice of their fresh harmonies and
classy style. Cultivated by the Motown star machine, Mary Wilson,
Diana Ross, and Florence Ballard popped onto the charts with hits
like "Baby Love" and "Where Did Our Love Go" and made the Supremes
not only a household name, but rock and roll legends. The story of
their journey to fame is one that fairy tales are made
of—complete with battles, tragedies, and triumphs. It's a story
that only one of the founders of this talented trio is able or
willing to share with the world. In Dreamgirls & Supreme Faith:
My Life as a Supreme, Supremes' co-founder Mary Wilson boldly
brings to life all the intimate details of the group's struggle to
top the charts. This is the first book to tell the complete story
of Mary's courageous life from childhood through the height of the
Supremes, to the turn of the century. This beautiful paperback
edition combines the best-selling Dreamgirls with the sequel,
Supreme Faith: Someday We'll Be Together, for the first time in one
volume. The new afterword brings Mary's intriguing story up to date
with details on. . . · The tragic car accident that claimed her
son's life · The death of her mother, Johnnie Mae, and her dear
friend, Mary Wells · Becoming a grandmother · Making her peace
with Berry Gordy and Diana Ross · Being inducted into the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame and receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of
Fame The Supremes wonderful music isn't the only thing to remain in
the public's mind. Diana Ross' push for dominance in the trio has
become legendary. Mary Wilson speaks candidly about Ross' tactics
to latch onto Berry Gordy, and force her will on the group's
activities. For example, while on the early tours, Diana would
threaten to call Gordy from the road if the men on the bus didn't
behave to her approval. She also openly pushed for Flo's removal
from the group. Wilson also openly shares her thoughts on . . .The
group's never-ending b
A poetry collection that employs intuition, humor, and celebration
while seeking to break out of restrictive social structures. Mary
Wilson's Both, Apollo speaks from inside the bodies and binaries
that so often act as constraints. It sometimes tries to negotiate
its way out. It laments, celebrates, reasons, jokes, and
occasionally begs. It runs into a wall and hugs it, offers it
pizza, and speeds through grammars and cities until dizziness
catapults it from the grid. It tries to queer the echoes of its
language in the hope that a rhyme might break the logic of
"either/or" and give rise to "both/and." Both, Apollo is a love
poem to whatever has the grace to appear, quietly finding hope.
Moments of humor and tenderness accompany the speaker with each act
of crossing and circling back. The poems in Both, Apollo are
constantly in flux, and Wilson's lyricism acts as a teaching tool
for using both the real and the imagination to guide us in
moment-by-moment navigation of our world. Both, Apollo won the
Omnidawn Chapbook contest, selected by Victoria Chang.
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