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Emma Betony was living out her dignified, elderly, poverty-stricken life when an appeal for help from a former student brought her to the little town of Martinmas and a nursing home transformed into a girls' school. Set in 1940, he school had recently been moved from its former English coastal location to avoid German bombers. Famed Edgar-winning mystery critic and acquisitions librarian at the University of Colorado, James Sandoe call this 19...

The victim left sketches, painted watercolors, and made clay models of his murderer's name. In spite of this, Inspector Dan Pardoe of Scotland Yard is at a loss to identify the killer. A Golden Age detective novel by a writer compared to Dorothy L. Sayers, first published in 1940.

Argues that environmentalists must expand their political involvement to include the reform of public schools and universities, and that education must be revamped to support ecologically sustainable paths for society. Bowers asks environmentalists to wake up and recognize that public schools and universities continue to promote the same elitist values and ways of thinking that produced the myth that economic and individual progress can be att...

Mindful Conservatism examines how the misuse of our political vocabulary contributes to governmental, corporate, and educational policies that degrade the Earth's natural systems, and suggests ways to overcome this linguistic confusion to help recognize the fundamental connections between communities, sustainability, and the conservation of the world's diverse cultures.

This book is a wake-up call for environmentalists who need to consider how current educational ideals and practices undermine efforts to create a more sustainable future. It is also a wake-up call for educators who continue to base their reform efforts on the primacy of the individual, while ignoring the fact that the individual is nested in culture, and culture is nested in (and thus dependent upon) natural ecosystems. Bowers argues that the ...

This work explains how technological and progressive programmes of educational reform operate on deep cultural assumptions that came out of the Enlightenment and led to the Industrial Revolution.

This useful book is the compilation of bibliographical information accumulated over eleven years (1986-1996) in the annual publication of the New Chaucer Society, Studies in the Age of Chaucer. Features of this comprehensive work include an extensive subject index and a descriptive annotation for each entry that identifies the nature of the study and clarifies its utility or argument. These annotations are the work of a large number of scholar...

This book is a story of triumph and victory over the evils of divorce. At the time of my divorce I had come to a crossroads in my life. I would either submit to the will of evil or I would seek to embrace what was good and right in this world. In my seeking I found the greatest good the world has ever known, and His name is Jesus Christ. For the past twenty-one years my wife Julie and I have grown stronger in our faith together, and we have wi...

Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization, a study of an important horticultural Plains Indian tribe, synthesizes the rich material Alfred W. Bowers recorded in the early 1930s from the last generation of Hidatsas who lived in the historic village of Like-a-Fishhook.

Jason Pryser was a high school student who lived in a small Texas suburb. He was brutally tortured by nearly very kid who went to his school. It got to be so hard for him to deal with that he felt he needed to go to the school principal for help, but when the principal told him to get over it, he turned to his friends for advise. In desperation, they devised a plan to shoot up their school. Will they actually go through with it? Will they come...

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In this important volume, Bill Bowers has compiled an in-depth look at the 47th Georgia Regiment that should prove invaluable for anyone interested in the history or genealogy of Georgians who served in the 47th, which is shown to be a constantly evolving unit due to casualties, captures, promotions, transfers, illness, absentees, and other factors. His rosters are made even more useful by a chronological updating of personnel changes, along w...

Whenever the team wins, everyone wins and whenever the team loses, we do so as a team but we play giving 100% until the game is over." Readers who are not into sports need not worry, this title focuses more on the off-field drama and personal lives of the players, parents, and coaches more than it does on-field performance of the Knight's team. Great for fans of the sport, parents, children, and readers who enjoy pre-adolescent drama fiction, ...

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If you are determined to work from home and are beginning your journey to know how it is done this book is for you. It will help you get started especially if your budget is no longer than a shoe string. If you are overflowing with ideas about a work from home business or trying to establish a work life balance or just curious about an a business idea which you have been dreaming of, wishing to try it out at minimal cost to you, this book is a...

With more than 30 volumes now available, this series is one of the best sources of information for modellers and aviation enthusiasts. Each volume is jam packed full of excerpts, drawings, exploded views, cutaways, assembly line, and repair depot photographs taken from original tech manuals. The photos in this edition are black and white.

In An Introduction to the Gawain Poet, John Bowers surveys an expanded selection of the works of Chaucer's anonymous contemporary, considering Sir Gawain and the Green Knight alongside the poet's lesser known but no less brilliant works.

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Nevada's politics has been formed in large measure by its turbulent history and harsh environment. Bowers' concise volume explains the dynamics of this process, which is strikingly unique among the fifty states. This is a readable and insightful explanation of how Nevada's history has shaped its political culture and how its government works today. The Sagebrush State includes the full text of the state constitution, with extensive annotations...

Recipes and projects for parents and children"--P. [1] of cover.