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  • A History of New Zealand Women

    by Barbara Brookes ...
    What would a history of New Zealand look like that rejected Thomas Carlyle’s definition of history as ‘the biography of great men’, and focused instead on the experiences of women? One that shifted the angle of vision and examined the stages of this country’s development from the points of view of wives, daughters, mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and aunts? That considered their lives as distinct ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Peppermints in the Parlor

    by Barbara Brooks Wallace ...
    Emily Luccock is looking forward to living at Sugar Hill Hall....She remembers her aunt and uncle's grand old mansion well, with its enormous, elegant parlor, marble fireplace, and white china cups filled with hot chocolate. But this time things are different. Her aunt's once bright and lively home is now dead with silence. Evil lurks in every corner, and the dark, shadowed walls watch and whisper ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Abortion in England 1900-1967

    by Barbara Brookes ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
    Over the decades from 1900 to 1967 abortion was transformed from an important female-centred form of fertility control into a medical event, closely monitored by the State. This transition, the author argues here, took place against a background of debate over fertility control and its implications for women’s maternal role.The book, originally published in 1988, suggests that the inter-war years ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Knowledge Making

    Historians, Archives and Bureaucracy

    Edited by Barbara Brookes, James Dunk ...
    Paper has been the material of bureaucracy, and paperwork performs functions of order, control, and surveillance. Knowledge Making: Historians, Archives and Bureaucracy explores how those functions transform over time, allowing private challenges to the public narratives created by institutions and governments.Paperwork and bureaucratic systems have determined what we know about the past. It seems ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Miss Switch Online

    by Barbara Brooks Wallace ...
    If you think nothing much is going on when Rupert P. Brown III begins sixth grade at Pepperdine Elementary School, you'd be dead wrong. Consider the following: a new teacher with the unlikely name of Miss Blossom; a new principal who has all the girls swooning; a talking bird who thinks he's a math whiz; a computer that goes berserk and produces a Web site called computowitch.com that not only ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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  • At Home in New Zealand

    History, Houses, People

    Edited by Barbara Brookes ...
    Homes and housing are an essential part of everyday life, but we rarely stop to think about what they mean to us. In this vigorous exploration of the idea of 'home' in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a series of experts examine the house as a place of emotional intimacy, a physical structure and an institution. Combining detailed historical research and social analysis, this fascinating ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Civil War on the Mississippi

    Union Sailors, Gunboat Captains, and the Campaign to Control the River

    by Barbara Brooks Tomblin ...
    The naval historian presents a "well-written, fast-paced" study of Civil War riverine combat based on the personal accounts of officers and sailors (Civil War News).As one of the most important transportation systems in the country, the Mississippi River became a strategically vital asset to both sides of the Civil War. The Confederacy relied on the river for cotton exportation as well as food and ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • G.I. Nightingales

    The Army Nurse Corps in World War II

    by Barbara Brooks Tomblin ...
    Weaving together information from official sources and personal interviews, Barbara Tomblin gives the first full-length account of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in the Second World War. She describes how over 60,000 army nurses, all volunteers, cared for sick and wounded American soldiers in every theater of the war, serving in the jungles of the Southwest Pacific, the frozen reaches of Alaska and ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

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    The Trouble with Miss Switch

    by Barbara Brooks Wallace ...
    Narrated by Jeff Woodman ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 58 min

    Rupert P. Brown III is a scientist. In his room he has an aquarium experiment, a turtle experiment, and a nutrition experiment (two guinea pigs). But when he starts fifth grade, things happen that he has to label, "No known way to prove scientifically." The new teacher, Miss Switch, has eyes in the back of her head. She can control spitballs and water fountains. Eventually, Rupert discovers her ... Read more

    $19.22 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Sparrows in the Scullery

    by Barbara Brooks Wallace ...
    Narrated by Steven Crossley ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 27 min

    Life has been difficult for 10-year-old Colley Trevelyan ever since he lost his mother and father in a fatal carriage accident. Most of the servants have been dismissed, and the house feels empty. To make matters worse, soon he will be living with his aunt and uncle who have never liked him. One night he suddenly wakes up wrapped tightly in a rough blanket. As he struggles to free himself, a ... Read more

    $26.10 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bodily Subjects

    Essays on Gender and Health, 1800-2000

    by Tracy Penny Light, Barbara Brookes, Wendy Mitchinson ...
    Series Book 42 - McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
    From the nineteenth-century British Poor Laws, to an early twentieth-century Aboriginal reserve in Queensland Australia, to AIDS activists on the streets of Toronto in the 1990s*, Bodily Subjects* explores the historical entanglement between gender and health to expose how ideas of health - a concept whose meanings we too often assume to understand - are embedded in assumptions about femininity ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Unfortunate Folk

    Essays on Mental Health Treatment, 1863-1992

    Edited by Barbara Brookes, Jane Thomson ...
    From electro-convulsive therapy to epilepsy, from criminal lunacy to community care, Unfortunate Folks: Essays on Mental Health Treatment, 1863-1992, opens windows on to the history of mental health treatment in New Zealand. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus