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Stories of Place

Geographies of Meaning, Memory and Connection

by Uma Kothari, Maria Borovnik, Phoebe Everingham, Karen Paiva Henrique, Fiona Miller, Natalie Osborne, Joseph Palis, Sarah Wright ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This Open Access book explores the role and agency of stories and storytelling in understanding places and in revealing how places tell stories. It addresses themes of colonialism, more-than-human agency, environment, atmospheres, borders, dwelling, enchantment, haunting, care and hope, revealing the power of stories to make and unmake worlds. Contending with the ethical complexities of ... Read more

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This Open Access book explores the role and agency of stories and storytelling in understanding places and in revealing how places tell stories. It addresses themes of colonialism, more-than-human agency, environment, atmospheres, borders, dwelling, enchantment, haunting, care and hope, revealing the power of stories to make and unmake worlds. Contending with the ethical complexities of
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Taps On the Shoulder

How to Transform Unwelcome Life Events Into Your Greatest Gifts

by Fiona Miller ...

What if your unwelcome life events, your greatest challenges, were in fact wake up calls? What if the tough times in your life were gifts in disguise? Gifts that, when received and carefully unwrapped, offered you clues or insights that c/would transform your life. Gifts that c/would help you create better relationships and a more fulfilling life. Fiona and those who have contributed their stories ... Read more

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What if your unwelcome life events, your greatest challenges, were in fact wake up calls? What if the tough times in your life were gifts in disguise? Gifts that, when received and carefully unwrapped, offered you clues or insights that c/would transform your life. Gifts that c/would help you create better relationships and a more fulfilling life. Fiona and those who have contributed their stories
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The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made

A Family Memoir

by Flora Miller Biddle ...

Crucial in understanding the evolution of the American art scene.”-Library JournalUntil Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney opened her studio-which evolved into the Whitney Museum almost two decades later-on Eighth Avenue in Manhattan in 1914, there were few art museums in the United States, let alone galleries for contemporary artists to exhibit their work. When the mansions of the wealthy cried out for ... Read more

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Crucial in understanding the evolution of the American art scene.”-Library JournalUntil Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney opened her studio-which evolved into the Whitney Museum almost two decades later-on Eighth Avenue in Manhattan in 1914, there were few art museums in the United States, let alone galleries for contemporary artists to exhibit their work. When the mansions of the wealthy cried out for
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The Antique Hunter's Death on the Red Sea

A Novel

by C.L. Miller ...

Narrated by Fiona Hardingham ...

Series series Antique Hunter's Series
Unabridged

9 hours 5 min

“Freya and Aunt Carole, everyone’s favorite antique-hunting, mystery-solving duo, return in a sequel that somehow manages to be even more captivating than their first adventure” (Tom Ryan, USA TODAY bestselling author) as they are on the hunt for a dangerous criminal aboard a cruise ship.When a painting vanishes from a maritime museum and a dead body is found nearby, Freya Lockwood and her Aunt ... Read more

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“Freya and Aunt Carole, everyone’s favorite antique-hunting, mystery-solving duo, return in a sequel that somehow manages to be even more captivating than their first adventure” (Tom Ryan, USA TODAY bestselling author) as they are on the hunt for a dangerous criminal aboard a cruise ship.When a painting vanishes from a maritime museum and a dead body is found nearby, Freya Lockwood and her Aunt
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Handbook on Climate Change Vulnerability, Environments and Communities

Edited by Fiona Miller, Krishna K. Shrestha, Sarah Wright ...

Series series Elgar Handbooks in Energy, the Environment and Climate Change
This thought-provoking Handbook explores the spatially and socially differentiated nature of climate change vulnerability. Expert authors discuss the ways that climate change vulnerability is materially and discursively produced as well as the agency, capacity and resilience of affected communities.Interdisciplinary in scope, this book features both leading and emerging international academics, ... Read more

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This thought-provoking Handbook explores the spatially and socially differentiated nature of climate change vulnerability. Expert authors discuss the ways that climate change vulnerability is materially and discursively produced as well as the agency, capacity and resilience of affected communities.Interdisciplinary in scope, this book features both leading and emerging international academics,
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Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Development

Edited by Andrew McGregor, Lisa Law, Fiona Miller ...

Southeast Asia is one of the most diverse regions in the world – hosting a wide range of languages, ethnicities, religions, economies, ecosystems and political systems. Amidst this diversity, however, has been a common desire to develop. This provides a uniting theme across landscapes of difference.This Handbook traces the uneven experiences that have accompanied development in Southeast Asia. The ... Read more

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Southeast Asia is one of the most diverse regions in the world – hosting a wide range of languages, ethnicities, religions, economies, ecosystems and political systems. Amidst this diversity, however, has been a common desire to develop. This provides a uniting theme across landscapes of difference.This Handbook traces the uneven experiences that have accompanied development in Southeast Asia. The
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Violent Atmospheres

Livelihoods and Landscapes in Crisis in Southeast Asia

by Wolfram Heinz Dressler, Mary Mostafanezhad, Annie Shattuck, Alison Copeland, Anthony Bebbington, Franck Billé, Helena Varkkey, Dr. Sango Mahanty, Carl Grundy-Warr0, Kimberley Anh Thomas1, Carl Middleton2, Tim Werner3, Alya Shaiful Bahari4, Dr. Ian G. Baird5, Jenny E. Goldstein6, Philip Hirsch7, Lisa C. Kelley8, McGregor, Andrew9, Dr Fiona Miller0, Dr. Sarah Milne1, Dr. Muhamad Muhdar2, K. B. Roberts3, Tessa D. Toumbourou4 ...

In Southeast Asia, atmospheric violence emerges from the haze plumes of burning of palm oil plantations, the invisible but powerful spread of viral flows, and the subordination of upland farmers who have long depended on fire to clear land for new crops. Yet only recently have political ecologists drawn attention to such events’ volumetric social and environmental character. Violent Atmospheres ... Read more

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In Southeast Asia, atmospheric violence emerges from the haze plumes of burning of palm oil plantations, the invisible but powerful spread of viral flows, and the subordination of upland farmers who have long depended on fire to clear land for new crops. Yet only recently have political ecologists drawn attention to such events’ volumetric social and environmental character. Violent Atmospheres
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The Antique Hunter's Death on the Red Sea

A Novel

by C.L. Miller ...

Narrated by Fiona Hardingham ...

Unabridged

8 hours 46 min

INSTANT BESTSELLERThe next installment in the nationally bestselling The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder series finds antique hunter Freya Lockwood and Aunt Carole one again embarking on a journey to recover priceless antiques—this time on a Red Sea cruise.Freya and Aunt Carole are back! After their successful solve at Coptham Manor, Freya and Carole return to late mentor Arthur Crockleford’s ... Read more

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INSTANT BESTSELLERThe next installment in the nationally bestselling The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder series finds antique hunter Freya Lockwood and Aunt Carole one again embarking on a journey to recover priceless antiques—this time on a Red Sea cruise.Freya and Aunt Carole are back! After their successful solve at Coptham Manor, Freya and Carole return to late mentor Arthur Crockleford’s
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The Mum Who’d Had Enough

by Fiona Gibson ...

Narrated by Paul Tyreman, Rachael Louise Miller, Sara Poyzer, Nigel Pilkington ...

Unabridged

11 hours 19 min

The voice of modern women is back! From the Sunday Times bestseller and author of Kindle sensation The Woman Who Ran Away from Everything comes a perfect page-turner for fans of Milly Johnson and Jill Mansell.‘More than funny, it’s true!’ ElleAfter sixteen years of marriage, Nate and Sinead Turner have a nice life. They like their jobs, they like their house and they love their son Flynn. Yes, it ... Read more

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The voice of modern women is back! From the Sunday Times bestseller and author of Kindle sensation The Woman Who Ran Away from Everything comes a perfect page-turner for fans of Milly Johnson and Jill Mansell.‘More than funny, it’s true!’ ElleAfter sixteen years of marriage, Nate and Sinead Turner have a nice life. They like their jobs, they like their house and they love their son Flynn. Yes, it
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High Protein, Low GI, Bold Flavor

Recipes to Boost Health and Promote Weight Loss

by Fiona Carns ...

Nearly 100 boldly flavored recipes featuring lean proteins and health-promoting, low-GI carbs—nutritious meals designed for family eating, every dayHere is boldly flavored, nutritious food at the leading edge of the dietary curve. Inspired by her long-standing interest in highly nutritious, waistline-friendly eating, caterer and cookbook author Fiona Carns developed the high-protein, low-GI eating ... Read more

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Nearly 100 boldly flavored recipes featuring lean proteins and health-promoting, low-GI carbs—nutritious meals designed for family eating, every dayHere is boldly flavored, nutritious food at the leading edge of the dietary curve. Inspired by her long-standing interest in highly nutritious, waistline-friendly eating, caterer and cookbook author Fiona Carns developed the high-protein, low-GI eating
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The Mum Who Got Her Life Back

by Fiona Gibson ...

Narrated by Caroline Guthrie, David Monteath, Angus King ...

Unabridged

10 hours 25 min

The Number One laugh-out-loud bestseller Fiona Gibson is back and funnier than ever!When her 18-year-old twins leave for university, single mum Nadia’s life changes in ways she never expected: her Glasgow flat feels suddenly huge, laundry doesn’t take up half her week, and she no longer has to buy ‘the Big Milk’. After almost two decades of putting everyone else first, Nadia is finally taking care ... Read more

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The Number One laugh-out-loud bestseller Fiona Gibson is back and funnier than ever!When her 18-year-old twins leave for university, single mum Nadia’s life changes in ways she never expected: her Glasgow flat feels suddenly huge, laundry doesn’t take up half her week, and she no longer has to buy ‘the Big Milk’. After almost two decades of putting everyone else first, Nadia is finally taking care
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The New Forest Murders

A page-turning wartime murder mystery, from the co-writer of the hit TV series Bookish

by Matthew Sweet ...

Narrated by Beth Eyre ...

Unabridged

9 hours 9 min

‘[A] witty, unusual murder mystery’ SUNDAY TIMESA compelling wartime mystery, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime and Foyle's War**.**SUMMER 1944.The tide of war is turning. The Allies are at the gates of Paris. But the Nazis have one last chance of victory – and its success depends on a traitor in the quiet English vil... ... Read more

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‘[A] witty, unusual murder mystery’ SUNDAY TIMESA compelling wartime mystery, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime and Foyle's War**.**SUMMER 1944.The tide of war is turning. The Allies are at the gates of Paris. But the Nazis have one last chance of victory – and its success depends on a traitor in the quiet English vil...
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