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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

    $13.09 USD

  • 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

    $65.99 USD

  • 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

    $36.89 USD

  • Feminist Perspectives on the Body

    by Barbara Brook ...
    Series series Feminist Perspectives
    Feminist Perspectives on the Body provides an accessible introduction to this extremely popular new area and is aimed at students from a variety of disciplines who are interested in gaining an understanding of the key issues involved. The author explores many important topics including: the Western world's construction of the body as a theoretical, philosophical and political concept; the body and ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Bluejackets and Contrabands

    African Americans and the Union Navy

    by Barbara Brooks Tomblin ...
    One of the lesser-known stories of the Civil War is the role played by escaped slaves in the Union blockade along the Atlantic coast. From the beginning of the war, many African American refugees sought avenues of escape to the North. Due to their sheer numbers, those who reached Union forces presented a problem for the military. Fortunately, the First Confiscation Act of 1861 permitted the ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • When the Bishop Comes to Visit

    An Activity Book for All Ages

    by Brook H. Packard ...
    A bishop comes to visit a congregation for many reasons—a parish celebration, baptism, confirmation, or a pastoral visit. With black and white illustrations, this interactive book for children and families describes the ministry of a bishop, including symbols and apparel, in preparation for the visit and worship. Confirmands will find this book particularly helpful as it walks them through the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    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

    $15.99 USD

  • 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

    $7.99 USD

  • 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

    $12.99 USD 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

    $28.69 USD

  • Audiobook

    Miss Switch to the Rescue

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

    Unabridged

    3 hours 16 min

    As they begin fifth grade, Rupert and Amelia discover that their teacher, Miss Switch, is a witch. Using his scientific mind, Rupert helps her solve a spooky dilemma. In return, the witch teaches Rupert and Amelia some magic. But soon Miss Switch disappears, and another teacher takes her place. One night that winter, a dark figure delivers a strange bottle to the children. Scientific curiosity ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Twin in the Tavern

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

    Unabridged

    5 hours 1 min

    Outside the wind is howling. Inside the empty house Taddy is shivering beneath a ragged blanket. He has been alone ever since his aunt and uncle died suddenly from a terrible fever. As his uncle was taking his final breath, he warned of danger in nearby Alexandria. Now Taddy is hiding, afraid of the unknown. When two rough-sounding men sneak in to steal the furniture, they force Taddy into their ... Read more

    $15.99 USD