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Tate/Tait Family History from the Orkney's to Canada 1696-2002

Tate/Tait Family History from the Orkney's to Canada 1696-2002

Jackie Hobbs

Thomas Tait was born in 1727 in Orphir, Orkney Islands, Scotland.
Darkness Visible: With an introduction by Philip Hensher

Darkness Visible: With an introduction by Philip Hensher

William Golding

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize Darkness Visible opens at the height of the London Blitz, when a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire.
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences: HSPS

Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences: HSPS

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Tait,BritishAssociationfortheAdvancementofScience, Report, 1871, 1-8, on6. William Thomson had stated essentially the same message in 1 854, also at a meeting of the British Association: Thomson, "On mechanical antecedents of motion, ...
No, Nancy, No!

No, Nancy, No!

Alice Tait

Synopsis coming soon.......
The Lancet

The Lancet

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Warneford Iredase, and George Eric Warner Lacey, College of Medicine, .... William Stobie, Adam Tait, A. L. Taylor, G. P. Taylor, J. Gordon Thomson, M.A., J. J. Thomson (with distinction), N. G. Thornley, R. W. Lang Todd, Mary M. M. Turpie, Raymond ... F. W. Water. worth, Alexander P. Watson, M.A., Hugh B. Watson, M.A., H. Watson Wemyss. ... W. P. Ferguson, M.A., B.Sc., Mary S. Finlayson, W. S. Forbes, John Fraser, J. B. Gibson, M.A., R. M. Glover, J. M. Grant, D. G. Gray, A. R. Gunn, ...
Mind in Matter: A Short Argument on Theism

Mind in Matter: A Short Argument on Theism

James Tait

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Mary Queen of Scots

Mary Queen of Scots

Antonia Fraser

This biography won the James Tait Black Prize. It provides an enlightening, scholarly yet moving account of the life and death of one of the most romantic figures in British history.
Cinematography

Cinematography

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Critics Andrew deWaard and R. Colin Tait have described an oscillation in Soderbergh's films between classical formalism and a “chaotic” style focused on speed, mobility, and independence from the traditional mode of production.34 An  ...
Crossing the River

Crossing the River

Caryl Phillips

Crossing the River won the James Tait Black Memorial Award in 1994, and was shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize.
The Fast Forward MBA Pocket Reference

The Fast Forward MBA Pocket Reference

Paul A. Argenti

I would also like to thank Lorri Hamilton, Kimberley Tait, and Jamie Neidig for their assistance with this edition. Finally, Iwould like to thank Larry Alexander and Paula Sinnott at Wiley for their patience and interest in this second edition.
Fergus Lamont

Fergus Lamont

Robin Jenkins

Introduced by Bob Tait. ‘Half Scotland sniggered and the other half scowled, when in letters to the Scotsman and the Glasgow Herald, I put forward my suggestion that prisoners in Scottish jails be allowed to wear their kilts as their ...
The Insurance Year Book: Fire and marine

The Insurance Year Book: Fire and marine

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Jerusalem the Golden

Jerusalem the Golden

Margaret Drabble

In this captivating story of growing up and moving on, Margaret Drabble explores what it means to leave a disregarded childhood and family behind. WINNER of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
The Navy List

The Navy List

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Discourses delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. James ...

Discourses delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. James ...

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... a painful providence, to exercise the right and privilege of choosing for themselves a Pastor, have, after due reflection and consultation, invited our much valued friend and brother, the Rev. James Tait to take the oversight of them in the Lord.
Digital Strategies for Powerful Corporate Communications

Digital Strategies for Powerful Corporate Communications

Paul A. Argenti

... who contributed their time, research, ideas, and advice to us during every stage of this project—namely, Annette Lyman, Jennifer Farrelly, Adam Carson, Abbey Nova, Peter Verrengia, and Kimberley Tait. Each of you provided unique ...
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing

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“Scenes in the Life of an Authoress,” Tait's Edinburgh Magazine 99 (December 1843), 765–75; (January 1844), 36–42; and (April 1844), 245–54. These were extracts from the first volume of the novel, not a full serialization. 10. Kay Boardman ...
The Poisoned Chalice: Eucharistic Grape Juice and ...

The Poisoned Chalice: Eucharistic Grape Juice and ...

Jennifer L. Woodruff Tait

For the frequent appropriation of Baconian ideas by methodist authors—and those authors' assumption of scientifically aware readers— see maura Jane Farrelly, “'god is the author of Both': Science, Religion, and the intellectualization of ...
Tait's Edinburgh Magazine

Tait's Edinburgh Magazine

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And now bright sunbeams danced in heaven's atmosphere ; and the great choir raised their glad voices in a hymn of praise ; the golden harps, touched by those seraph hands, echoed the strains as a pale blue vapour of ethereal beauty rose ...
William in Trouble

William in Trouble

Richmal Crompton

In William in Trouble William Brown is back in a collection of ten Just William Stories - now with a brand-new cover look illustrated by Alex T. Smith. There is only one William.
William the Outlaw

William the Outlaw

Richmal Crompton

. . In William the Outlaw everyone's favourite troublemaker, William Brown, is back in a collection of ten Just William stories - now with a brand-new cover look illustrated by Sara Ogilvie. There is only one William.
Fake Plastic Love: A Novel

Fake Plastic Love: A Novel

Kimberley Tait

Dazzling, whimsical, and full of yearning, Fake Plastic Love is the transporting story of bright young things tested by the unsentimental realities of post-graduate life.

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