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Empty Cradles (Oranges and Sunshine)

Empty Cradles (Oranges and Sunshine)

Margaret Humphreys

In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker, investigated a woman's claim that, aged four, she had been put on a boat to Australia by the British government.
Yellow Fever and the South

Yellow Fever and the South

Margaret Humphreys

Margaret Humphreys explores the ways in which this tropical disease hampered commerce, frustrated the scientific community, and eventually galvanized local and federal authorities into forming public health boards.
Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States

Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States

Margaret Humphreys

In Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States, Margaret Humphreys presents the first book-length account of the parasitic, insect-borne disease that has infected millions and influenced settlement patterns, economic ...
Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the ...

Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the ...

Margaret Humphreys

In the archival collections of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, Humphreys found evidence that the high death rate among black soldiers resulted from malnourishment, inadequate shelter and clothing, inferior medical attention, and assignments ...
The River:

The River:

Helen Humphreys

This is what celebrated writer Helen Humphreys sets out to do in this beautiful, groundbreaking examination of place. For more than a decade Humphreys has owned a small waterside property on a section of the Napanee River in Ontario.
Some Descendants of Capt. John Bissell

Some Descendants of Capt. John Bissell

Edwin W. Strickland

Humphreys, Humphreys Family with Suppliment, p428.; Arline V. Rickabaugh, Our Heritage (n.p.: n.pub., n.d.), v3:430. b. Rickabaugh, Our Heritage, v3:430. c. Humphreys, Humphreys Family with Suppliment, p428.; Rickabaugh, Our Heritage, ...
I Have Called You Friends: New Testament Images That ...

I Have Called You Friends: New Testament Images That ...

Fisher Humphreys

Nobody is more the master of the clear intriguing sentence than Fisher Humphreys. He beckons us toward those important and difficult ideas of Scripture we need to grasp, and soon we find ourselves engaged in effortless, enjoyable learning.
Nocturne: On the Life and Death of My Brother

Nocturne: On the Life and Death of My Brother

Helen Humphreys

Helen Humphreys’ younger brother was gone before she could come to terms with the fact that he was terminally ill.
Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War

Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War

Margaret Humphreys

Kelly Kennington, now assistant professor of history at Auburn University, worked for me during her graduate training at Duke. She managed the many mundane tasks of editing the journal of the History of Medicine, acted as teaching assistant  ...
Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War

Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War

Margaret Humphreys

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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.

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