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Colchester's Victorian Doctors

The Business of Healing

by Jane Pearson ...

Important medical discoveries were made during Queen Victoria' s reign but in this study Jane Pearson is not so much concerned with medical progress as with the question of how the profession of medicine developed. The book shows how doctors working in Colchester during the Victorian period developed professionally and also investigates the extent to which they effected medical and social change ... Read more

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Important medical discoveries were made during Queen Victoria' s reign but in this study Jane Pearson is not so much concerned with medical progress as with the question of how the profession of medicine developed. The book shows how doctors working in Colchester during the Victorian period developed professionally and also investigates the extent to which they effected medical and social change
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Prostitution in Victorian Colchester

Controlling the Uncontrollable

by Jane Pearson, Maria Rayner ...

The decision to build a new army camp in the small market town of Colchester in 1856 was well received and helped to stimulate the local economy after a prolonged period of economic stagnation. Before long the Colchester garrison was one of the largest in the country and the town experienced an economic upturn as well as benefiting from the many social events organised by officers. But there was a ... Read more

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The decision to build a new army camp in the small market town of Colchester in 1856 was well received and helped to stimulate the local economy after a prolonged period of economic stagnation. Before long the Colchester garrison was one of the largest in the country and the town experienced an economic upturn as well as benefiting from the many social events organised by officers. But there was a
... Read more
Australian Contributions to Strategic and Military Geography

Edited by Stuart Pearson, Jane L. Holloway, Richard Thackway ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Drawing from military geography’s spatial roots, its embrace of dynamic systems, and integration of human and biophysical environments, this book helps in understanding the value of analyzing patterns, processes and systems, and cross-scale and multi-disciplinary ways of acting in a complex world, while making the case for a resurgence of strategic and military geography in Australia. Here, ... Read more

$107.99 USD

Drawing from military geography’s spatial roots, its embrace of dynamic systems, and integration of human and biophysical environments, this book helps in understanding the value of analyzing patterns, processes and systems, and cross-scale and multi-disciplinary ways of acting in a complex world, while making the case for a resurgence of strategic and military geography in Australia. Here,
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Hero Within - Rev. & Expanded Ed.

Six Archetypes We Live By

by Carol S. Pearson ...

Narrated by Jane Oppenheimer ...

Unabridged

11 hours 8 min

The Classic Guide, Updated for Our Contemporary WorldA modern classic of Jungian psychology, The Hero Within has helped hundreds of thousands of people enrich their lives by revealing how to tap the power of the archetypes that exist within. Drawing from literature, anthropology, and psychology, author Carol S. Pearson clearly defines six heroic archetypes—the Innocent, the Orphan, the Wanderer, ... Read more

$28.99 USD

The Classic Guide, Updated for Our Contemporary WorldA modern classic of Jungian psychology, The Hero Within has helped hundreds of thousands of people enrich their lives by revealing how to tap the power of the archetypes that exist within. Drawing from literature, anthropology, and psychology, author Carol S. Pearson clearly defines six heroic archetypes—the Innocent, the Orphan, the Wanderer,
... Read more
Pastoral Australia

Fortunes, Failures & Hard Yakka: A Historical Overview 1788-1967

by Michael Pearson, Jane Lennon ...

Pastoral Australia tells the story of the expansion of Australia's pastoral industry, how it drove European settlement and involved Aboriginal people in the new settler society. The rural life that once saw Australia 'ride on the sheep's back' is no longer what defines us, yet it is largely our history as a pastoral nation that has endured in heritage places and which is embedded in our self-image ... Read more

$45.99 USD

Pastoral Australia tells the story of the expansion of Australia's pastoral industry, how it drove European settlement and involved Aboriginal people in the new settler society. The rural life that once saw Australia 'ride on the sheep's back' is no longer what defines us, yet it is largely our history as a pastoral nation that has endured in heritage places and which is embedded in our self-image
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A Memoir of My Former Self

A Life in Writing

by Hilary Mantel ...

Narrated by Anne Enright, Aurora Dawson-Hunte, Ben Miles, Bill Hamilton, Lydia Leonard, Sarah Waters, Jane Wymark, Nicholas Pearson ...

Unabridged

16 hours 21 min

"Throughout, short sentences give pause, descriptions invite, and all make listeners appreciate and miss the genius of the late Mantel." - AudioFileTHE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERSIn addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. “Ink is ... Read more

$32.99 USD

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"Throughout, short sentences give pause, descriptions invite, and all make listeners appreciate and miss the genius of the late Mantel." - AudioFileTHE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERSIn addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. “Ink is
... Read more

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I'll Walk with You

by Carol Lynn Pearson ...

Illustrated by Jane Sanders ...

Help little ones learn to show love for the people around them, no matter how they look, sound, pray, love, or think.Beloved author of The Lesson and Will You Still Be My Daughter, Carol Lynn Pearson is known for her heartfelt, sometimes tear-jerking poetry and stories. Her newest title, illustrating her popular song written for children in 1987, will enchant children with a sweet, tender poem ... Read more

$10.99 USD

Help little ones learn to show love for the people around them, no matter how they look, sound, pray, love, or think.Beloved author of The Lesson and Will You Still Be My Daughter, Carol Lynn Pearson is known for her heartfelt, sometimes tear-jerking poetry and stories. Her newest title, illustrating her popular song written for children in 1987, will enchant children with a sweet, tender poem
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Happy-Go-Lucky

by David Sedaris ...

Narrated by David Sedaris ...

Unabridged

7 hours 30 min

David Sedaris returns with his first collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso.Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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David Sedaris returns with his first collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso.Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms
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Study for Obedience

A novel

by Sarah Bernstein ...

Narrated by Sarah Bernstein ...

Unabridged

3 hours 59 min

**WINNER OF THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEShortlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeIncluded in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023Longlisted for the Dublin Literary AwardFor readers of Shirley Jackson, Iain Reid, and Claire-Louise Bennett, a haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction.**A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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**WINNER OF THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEShortlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeIncluded in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023Longlisted for the Dublin Literary AwardFor readers of Shirley Jackson, Iain Reid, and Claire-Louise Bennett, a haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction.**A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

by George Saunders ...

Narrated by George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, Glenn Close, Keith David, Rainn Wilson, BD Wong, Renée Elise Goldsberry ...

Unabridged

14 hours 44 min

From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today.For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today.For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in
... Read more

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Oh William!

A Novel

by Elizabeth Strout ...

Narrated by Kimberly Farr ...

Unabridged

7 hours

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they’ve come from—and what they’ve left behind.ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air“Elizabeth Strout is one of my very favorite write ... Read more

$20.99 USD

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they’ve come from—and what they’ve left behind.ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air“Elizabeth Strout is one of my very favorite write
... Read more

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The Running Grave

A Cormoran Strike Novel

by Robert Galbraith ...

Narrated by Robert Glenister ...

Series Audiobook 7 - A Cormoran Strike Novel
Unabridged

34 hours 14 min

**In this New York Times bestselling installment of the Strike series, detective duo Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in the trap of a dangerous cult."Outrageously entertaining." —Financial Times**Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside.The Universal Humanitarian ... Read more

$49.99 USD

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**In this New York Times bestselling installment of the Strike series, detective duo Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in the trap of a dangerous cult."Outrageously entertaining." —Financial Times**Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside.The Universal Humanitarian
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