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1,000 Days on the River Kwai: The Secret Diary of a British ...

1,000 Days on the River Kwai: The Secret Diary of a British ...

Cary Owtram

After being captured in Singapore and transported to the infamous Burma railway Colonel Cary Owtram was appointed the British Camp Commandant at Chungkai, one of the largest POW camps.
The Pragmatics of Academic Writing: A Relevance Approach to ...

The Pragmatics of Academic Writing: A Relevance Approach to ...

Nicola T. Owtram

Hyland, Ken 1997. Scientific claims and community values: Articulating an academic culture. Language & Communication 17/1, 19-31. Hyland, Ken 1998a. Hedging in Scientific Research Articles. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
ABC of Alcohol

ABC of Alcohol

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... 95 Carsten Grimm Advice and counselling, 99 Nicola Taylor Psychological treatment and relapse prevention, 102 Nicola Taylor Alcohol and psychiatry, 105 Nicola Taylor Other resources, and alcohol and the doctor, 109 Nicola Taylor Index, ...
Crown House WJEC Psychology: AS Level

Crown House WJEC Psychology: AS Level

Nicola Taylor

AS Level Nicola Taylor, Kirsty White Nigel Holt, Rob Lewis. AUTHORS: NICOLA TAYLOR AND KIRSTY WHITE Nicola Taylor is subject leader for social science at Monmouth Comprehensive School. She has extensive experience of teaching  ...
Switzerland

Switzerland

Nicola Williams

Nicola Williams, Damien Simonis, Kerry Walker. Alternative Place Names The Authors The Authors nicOla williams coordinating Author, Geneva, Fribourg,. ABBREVIATIONS (E) English (F) French (G) German (I) Italian (R) Romansch Basel (E, ...
The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction

The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction

James A. Millward

Nicola Di Cosmo's argument regarding the Great Wall and nomadtype states: Nicola Di Cosmo, Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002); Nicola Di ...
All My Love

All My Love

Loretta Hill

If only Nicola could forgive and forget . . . What happens when you fall in love with the man you hate? Captivation by Nicola Moriarty After Juliette lost her beloved husband Danny she was tormented by her grief.
Stay

Stay

Nicola Griffith

As stylish as this year's Prada and as arresting as a razor at the throat, Stay places Nicola Griffith in the first rank of new-wave crime writers. From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Human Right to Dominate

The Human Right to Dominate

Nicola Perugini

In this book, Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon account for how human rights--generally conceived as a counter-hegemonic instrument for righting historical injustices--are being deployed to further subjugate the weak and legitimize domination ...
Powering Planet Earth: Energy Solutions for the Future

Powering Planet Earth: Energy Solutions for the Future

Nicola Armaroli

In their book Nicola Armaroli, Vincenzo Balzani and Nick Serpone uncover the background details associated with a transition to sustainable energy production that are routinely swept under the table in public discussions.
Muslims in the Western Imagination

Muslims in the Western Imagination

Sophia Rose Arjana

Nicola McDonald, “Eating People and the Alimentary Logic of Richard Couer de Lion,” in Pulp Fictions of Medieval England: Essays in Popular Romance, ed. Nicola McDonald (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004), 125.
The Three Little Pigs: Ladybird First Favourite Tales

The Three Little Pigs: Ladybird First Favourite Tales

Nicola Baxter

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Single Life and the City 1200-1900

Single Life and the City 1200-1900

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We have a hint of this in Nicola McDonald's analysis of erotic games for aristocratic women: Nicola McDonald, “Games Medieval Women Play”, in C. P. Collette (ed.), Chaucer's Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception ( Cambridge: ...
Cold Wind: A Tor.Com Original

Cold Wind: A Tor.Com Original

Nicola Griffith

"Cold Wind", by Nicola Griffith, is a dark fantasy tale about a woman who enters a Seattle bar on a cold wintry night in the midst of the Christmas holidays, searching for something...or someone.
A Study Guide for Nicola Kraus/Emma McLaughlin's "The Nanny ...

A Study Guide for Nicola Kraus/Emma McLaughlin's "The Nanny ...

Gale, Cengage Learning

The Nanny Diaries: A Novel (2002) is a humorous but revealing novel by two former nannies, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus. Drawing on their many experiences as childcare providers while in college in New York City, the pair created ...
The Meanings of Nudity in Medieval Art

The Meanings of Nudity in Medieval Art

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For more on these badges, see Nicola McDonald, ”Introduction," in Medieval Obscenities, ed. Nicola McDonald (York: York Medieval Press, 2006), esp. 2-11; and Jos Koldeweij, ”Shameless and Naked Images: Obscene Badges as Parodies ...
Plaques and Tangles

Plaques and Tangles

Nicola Wilson

I can't think. But I still feel. And most of the time I feel scared. Scared because it's too soon. I haven't finished yet. Plaques and Tangles by Nicola Wilson premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in October 2015.
Between You and Me: A Novel

Between You and Me: A Novel

Emma McLaughlin

A Novel Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus ... changed our lives in every way for the better, and who already love books—especially eating them. BETWEEN YOU AND ME EMMA MCLAUGHLIN AND NICOLA KRAUS A 259 Acknowledgments .
The First Affair: A Novel

The First Affair: A Novel

Emma McLaughlin

A Novel Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus ... Please always make sure your bike helmet light is working because she couldn't live without you. The First Affair EMMA MCLAUGHLIN and NICOLA KRAUS A Readers 239 AcKnowledgmenTs .. .
Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in ...

Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in ...

Nicola Di Cosmo

The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History Nicola Di Cosmo. In. Search. of . Grass. and. Water. Ethnography and History of the North in the Historian's Records Introduction This section is dedicated to an analysis of how the history of the ...
Rites of Passage: Cultures of Transition in the Fourteenth ...

Rites of Passage: Cultures of Transition in the Fourteenth ...

Nicola McDonald

Cultures of Transition in the Fourteenth Century Nicola McDonald, W. M. Ormrod ... Sarah. Kay. This essay is concerned with initiation not as outward rites but as inner change. What does it mean to be initiated? Using dits amoureux by the fourteenth- century French poet ... 143–4; and in Froissart and his successors, see J.- ...
An Extraordinary Sacrifice: The story of PC Nicola Hughes ...

An Extraordinary Sacrifice: The story of PC Nicola Hughes ...

Bryn Hughes

The story of PC Nicola Hughes 16.10.1988 - 18.09.2012 Bryn Hughes ... I wish I had never met Bryn Hughes, or his family - I wish that Bryn Hughes was just an ordinary man who I would pass in the street and think nothing of, an ordinary man  ...

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