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Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Shadow of a Secret ...

Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Shadow of a Secret ...

Kristen Iversen

It is the early 1950s. Kristen Iversen is enjoying a carefree childhood surrounded by desert and mountains. But just a few miles down the road, the US government decides to build a secret nuclear weapons facility at Rocky Flats.
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Trade Unions and the State: The Construction of Industrial ...

Trade Unions and the State: The Construction of Industrial ...

Chris Howell

Iversen, Torben, and Jonas Pontusson. “Comparative Political Economy: A Northern European Perspective.” In Torben Iversen, Jonas Pontusson, and David Soskice, eds., Unions, Employers, and Central Banks: Macroeconomic Coordination ...
Writing Art History: Disciplinary Departures

Writing Art History: Disciplinary Departures

Margaret Iversen

Since art history is having a major identity crisis as it struggles to adapt to contemporary global and mass media culture, this book intervenes in the struggle by laying bare the troublesome assumptions and presumptions at the field's ...
The Crafting of Chaos: Narrative Structure in Margaret ...

The Crafting of Chaos: Narrative Structure in Margaret ...

Hildegard Kuester

1n 1981, Patricia Morley published the monograph Margaret Laurence9 in Twayne's World Authors series; with a few additions, it reappeared on the market ten years later under the title Margaret Laurence: The Long Journey Home.
Margaret Weis' Testament of the Dragon: An Illustrated Novel

Margaret Weis' Testament of the Dragon: An Illustrated Novel

Margaret Weis

Here begins Justin Sterling's centuries-spanning story, as told by bestselling author Margaret Weis and her chosen band of dark fantasists, in the world's first major illustrated novel.
Royal Representations: Queen Victoria and British Culture, ...

Royal Representations: Queen Victoria and British Culture, ...

Margaret Homans

Homans considers versions of Victoria in the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, John Ruskin, Margaret Oliphant, Lewis Carroll, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Julia Margaret Cameron.
Wildflowering: The Life and Places of Kathleen McArthur

Wildflowering: The Life and Places of Kathleen McArthur

Margaret Somerville

When author Margaret Somerville met her in 1991 she was still painting and writing, and continued to produce a monthly play for the Lunch Hour Theatre well into her eighties.In Wildflowering the conversations between Kathleen and Margaret ...
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Judy Blume

It’s Me Margaret is very special.” —Amy Poehler quoted on Vulture.com “Generations of teenage girls have grown up reading the tales of teenage angst told by beloved author Judy Blume.” —Mashable.com Margaret Simon, almost twelve ...
The Ice Age

The Ice Age

Margaret Drabble

Set against a backdrop of the Cold War and the political turmoil that led England to Margaret Thatcher, The Ice Age tells the story of three people desperately seeking firm ground amidst chaos with Margaret Drabble’s characteristically ...
Recipes for Life After Weight-Loss Surgery, Revised and ...

Recipes for Life After Weight-Loss Surgery, Revised and ...

Margaret M. Furtado

... on Lower-BMI Gastric Banding Procedures Margaret M. Furtado, Margaret Furtado, Lynette Schultz, Joseph Ewing. About the Authors lVI&I'g&II'€T F1lI'T&d0 , M.S., R.D., L.D.N., R.Y.T., is a registered and licensed dietitian with over twenty ...
Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman

Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman

Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence, John Lennox, Ruth Panofsky, Adele Wiseman. from the Grade 13 English curriculum at Lakefield District Secondary School pending a decision by the Textbook Review Committee of the Peterborough Board of Education.
Margaret Dow Gebby Diaries

Margaret Dow Gebby Diaries

Margaret Dow Gebby

Margaret Dow Gebby recorded in her eleven diaries daily work and leisure activities as well as income and expenses on a grain and livestock farm near Bellefontaine, Ohio.
Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady

Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady

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Margaret Thatcher - The Iron Lady is the biography of Margaret Thatcher, a former British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 until 1990.
One woman's Charlottetown: diaries of Margaret Gray Lord, ...

One woman's Charlottetown: diaries of Margaret Gray Lord, ...

Margaret Gray Lord

This report is based on three diaries of Margaret Pennefather Stukely Gray, daughter of Father of Confederation John Hamilton Gray and wife of Artemas Lord, a prominent businessman and federal civil servant.
How Happy We Shall Be

How Happy We Shall Be

Margaret Thornton

A heartwarming World War Two saga for fans of Kate Flynn, Annie Murray and Margaret Dickinson.
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky ...

Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky ...

Kristen Iversen

" It's the story of a childhood and adolescence in the shadow of the Cold War, in a landscape at once startlingly beautiful and--unknown to those who lived there--tainted with invisible yet deadly particles of plutonium.
Neverland: J. M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers, and the Dark Side ...

Neverland: J. M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers, and the Dark Side ...

Piers Dudgeon

What Every Woman Knows 216, 222n When AMan's Single 92, 119n Who's Here154 Barrie, Margaret (Barrie's mother) see Ogilvy, Margaret Barrie, Margaret 'Maggie' (Barrie's sister)59, 172,211 Barrie, Mary(Barrie's sister) 58 Barrie, Mary ...
Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth

Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth

Kristen Iversen

Inaccurately portrayed by Hollywood as a vulgarian, reveals the true nature of the Titanic survivor, philanthropist, and social reformer who fought for women's, children's, labor, and race equality causes and challenged her church on social ...
Unions, Employers, and Central Banks: Macroeconomic ...

Unions, Employers, and Central Banks: Macroeconomic ...

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Macroeconomic Coordination and Institutional Change in Social Market Economies Torben Iversen, Jonas Pontusson, David Soskice. PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Pitt Building, ...
Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree

Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree

Margaret Thornton

A heartwarming World War Two saga for fans of Kate Flynn, Annie Murray and Margaret Dickinson.
Margaret Truman's Experiment in Murder: A Capital Crimes Novel

Margaret Truman's Experiment in Murder: A Capital Crimes Novel

Margaret Truman

Margaret Truman thrills again with Experiment in Murder, the riveting next installment in her Capital Crimes series. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Iron Coffin: War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS ...

Iron Coffin: War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS ...

David A. Mindell

29, 1862. 39. Margaret Creighton and Lisa Norling, introduction to Margaret Creighton and Lisa Norling, eds., Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World 1700–1920 (Baltimore, 1996), xiii; Margaret Creighton, Rites ...
Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction

Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction

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Toward a Theory of Nonfiction Jill Talbot. kRisten iVeRsen “Many writers of meta- nonfiction, as well as those who write metafiction, take ironic pleasure in pointing to the status of the narrative as dramatic construction, as artifact, as illusion.” ...
Early Tudor translators: Margaret Beaufort, Margaret More ...

Early Tudor translators: Margaret Beaufort, Margaret More ...

William Atkinson

This volume presents the texts of three Englishwomen remarkable both for writing and publishing their work during the first half of the sixteenth century.
Ceramics Before Farming: The Dispersal of Pottery Among ...

Ceramics Before Farming: The Dispersal of Pottery Among ...

Peter Jordan

Palestine in the Bronze and Iron Ages Paula J. Turner, Roman Coins from India Margaret M. Roxan, Roman Military Diplomas 1985 to 1993 Margaret M. Roxan, Roman Military Diplomas 1978 to 1984 Margaret M. Roxan, Roman Military ...
The Sacrifice

The Sacrifice

Margaret Iggulden

Petra, the ancient city of rose-coloured rock 'half as old as time', feels strangely familiar to Margaret and Barbara as they explore it. But why? Is it possible to discover in the present... and, if so, can it be changed?
Margaret Atwood: Works and Impact

Margaret Atwood: Works and Impact

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A collection of new essays on the multi-talented Canadian writer Margaret Atwood.

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