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Jane Austen’s Favourite Brother, Henry

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Henry Austen, Jane Austen’s witty and loyal brother, led a colorful and turbulent life that influenced her work and reflected Regency society’s complexities.Henry Austen, Jane Austen’s favourite brother, was born into a large and lively clergy family in Hampshire. Of her seven siblings, Henry most shared Jane’s mischievous wit and facility with words and his support enabled the publication of her ... Read more

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Henry Austen, Jane Austen’s witty and loyal brother, led a colorful and turbulent life that influenced her work and reflected Regency society’s complexities.Henry Austen, Jane Austen’s favourite brother, was born into a large and lively clergy family in Hampshire. Of her seven siblings, Henry most shared Jane’s mischievous wit and facility with words and his support enabled the publication of her
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Gold Rush Manliness

Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope

by Christopher Herbert ...

Series series Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography
The mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes bring to mind raucous mining camps and slapped-together cities populated by carousing miners, gamblers, and prostitutes. Yet many of the white men who went to the gold fields were products of the Victorian era: educated men who valued morality and order. Examining the closely linked gold rushes in California and British Columbia, historian Christopher Herbert ... Read more

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The mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes bring to mind raucous mining camps and slapped-together cities populated by carousing miners, gamblers, and prostitutes. Yet many of the white men who went to the gold fields were products of the Victorian era: educated men who valued morality and order. Examining the closely linked gold rushes in California and British Columbia, historian Christopher Herbert
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Simple Faith: Health

by Christopher Herbert ...

None of us can escape the pain and suffering of ill-health at times, and most of us will also at other times have to adopt the role of carer to loved ones who are sick. Such experiences bring into sharp focus our vulnerability, and can force some difficult questions to be asked, Why me? Why our family? Illness takes us out of our normality and routine, hinders our work and pleasure, and takes away ... Read more

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None of us can escape the pain and suffering of ill-health at times, and most of us will also at other times have to adopt the role of carer to loved ones who are sick. Such experiences bring into sharp focus our vulnerability, and can force some difficult questions to be asked, Why me? Why our family? Illness takes us out of our normality and routine, hinders our work and pleasure, and takes away
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The Calling of Clemo Trelawney

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An honest and straightforward boy, Clemo grows up in the Wye Valley in Henry VIII’s reign. Working on the family farm and at a foundry, he is also attracted by the serenity of the Cistercian Abbey at Tintern, but family tragedies and secrets change his life, and, like Dick Whittington, he leaves to seek his fortune in London. He is welcomed by the family of the lively and beautiful Alice who help ... Read more

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An honest and straightforward boy, Clemo grows up in the Wye Valley in Henry VIII’s reign. Working on the family farm and at a foundry, he is also attracted by the serenity of the Cistercian Abbey at Tintern, but family tragedies and secrets change his life, and, like Dick Whittington, he leaves to seek his fortune in London. He is welcomed by the family of the lively and beautiful Alice who help
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Evangelical Gothic

The English Novel and the Religious War on Virtue from Wesley to Dracula

by Christopher Herbert ...

Series series Victorian Literature and Culture Series
Evangelical Gothic explores the bitter antagonism that prevailed between two defining institutions of nineteenth-century Britain: Evangelicalism and the popular novel. Christopher Herbert begins by retrieving from near oblivion a rich anti-Evangelical polemical literature in which the great religious revival, often lauded in later scholarship as a "moral revolution," is depicted as an evil ... Read more

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Evangelical Gothic explores the bitter antagonism that prevailed between two defining institutions of nineteenth-century Britain: Evangelicalism and the popular novel. Christopher Herbert begins by retrieving from near oblivion a rich anti-Evangelical polemical literature in which the great religious revival, often lauded in later scholarship as a "moral revolution," is depicted as an evil
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War of No Pity

The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma

by Christopher Herbert ...

On May 11, 1857, Hindu and Muslim sepoys massacred British residents and native Christians in Delhi, setting off both the whirlwind of similar violence that engulfed Bengal in the following months and an answering wave of rhetorical violence in Britain, where the uprising against British rule in India was often portrayed as a clash of civilization and barbarity demanding merciless retribution. ... Read more

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On May 11, 1857, Hindu and Muslim sepoys massacred British residents and native Christians in Delhi, setting off both the whirlwind of similar violence that engulfed Bengal in the following months and an answering wave of rhetorical violence in Britain, where the uprising against British rule in India was often portrayed as a clash of civilization and barbarity demanding merciless retribution.
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Mather's Odds

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Cadence Colo is a student, struggling with a heritage he doesn't want and a beautiful girl he does.Cadence Colo is a nightmare-ridden war veteran, struggling to rebuild his life but caught in the same war that ruined him before.Cadence Colo is a man on a mission to destroy the Old Gods, but what he must do may break him for good.Cadence Colo is the last Storykeeper. This is the story he has kept. ... Read more

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Cadence Colo is a student, struggling with a heritage he doesn't want and a beautiful girl he does.Cadence Colo is a nightmare-ridden war veteran, struggling to rebuild his life but caught in the same war that ruined him before.Cadence Colo is a man on a mission to destroy the Old Gods, but what he must do may break him for good.Cadence Colo is the last Storykeeper. This is the story he has kept.
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Literary Journeys

by Christophe Herbert ...

Against his winemaker parents' wishes in Médoc (France), Julien leaves for Paris with Clémence, aspiring to become writers. They fail and must return to accept Julien's predestined fate. Clémence then suggests they join forces by writing together under a pseudonym. It works. While Julien increasingly dedicates himself to the family vineyard, Clémence faces an inner struggle, desiring to fulfill ... Read more

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Against his winemaker parents' wishes in Médoc (France), Julien leaves for Paris with Clémence, aspiring to become writers. They fail and must return to accept Julien's predestined fate. Clémence then suggests they join forces by writing together under a pseudonym. It works. While Julien increasingly dedicates himself to the family vineyard, Clémence faces an inner struggle, desiring to fulfill
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The Brass Band Story

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A lively and engaging history of the brass band in Britain and beyondBrass bands have played a unique role in the cultural history of Britain. Amidst the industrial revolution, an increasingly urban population turned to music for mass entertainment. Brass bands became intimately associated with working men and spread across the country at breathtaking speed. At their height in the late Victorian ... Read more

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A lively and engaging history of the brass band in Britain and beyondBrass bands have played a unique role in the cultural history of Britain. Amidst the industrial revolution, an increasingly urban population turned to music for mass entertainment. Brass bands became intimately associated with working men and spread across the country at breathtaking speed. At their height in the late Victorian
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The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State

Edited by Kimberly J. Morgan, Herbert Obinger, Christopher Pierson, Daniel Béland ...

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This is the comprehensively-revised second edition of a volume that was welcomed at its first appearance as 'the most authoritative survey and critique of the welfare state yet published'. Its fifty-one chapters have been written by acknowledged experts in the field from across Europe, Australia, and North America. Some chapters are brand new; all have been systematically revised, and they are ... Read more

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This is the comprehensively-revised second edition of a volume that was welcomed at its first appearance as 'the most authoritative survey and critique of the welfare state yet published'. Its fifty-one chapters have been written by acknowledged experts in the field from across Europe, Australia, and North America. Some chapters are brand new; all have been systematically revised, and they are
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Faith and Ethics in Health and Social Care

Improving Practice Through Understanding Diverse Perspectives

Edited by Ann Gallagher, Christopher Herbert ...

Care facilities often reflect the multifaith and multicultural nature of society, not least in a very diverse population of health and social care staff and care-recipients. This book, written by expert practitioners from 11 different world faiths, helps health and social care-givers to articulate and reflect on how their own faith informs the way they work. It also helps develop understanding of ... Read more

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Care facilities often reflect the multifaith and multicultural nature of society, not least in a very diverse population of health and social care staff and care-recipients. This book, written by expert practitioners from 11 different world faiths, helps health and social care-givers to articulate and reflect on how their own faith informs the way they work. It also helps develop understanding of
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Homeownership Built to Last

Balancing Access, Affordability, and Risk after the Housing Crisis

Edited by Eric S. Belsky, Christopher E. Herbert, Jennifer H. Molinsky ...

The ups and downs in housing markets over the past two decades are without precedent, and the costs-financial, psychological, and social-have been enormous. Yet Americans overwhelmingly still aspire to homeownership, and many still view access to homeownership as an important ingredient for building wealth among historically disadvantaged groups.This timely volume reexamines the goals, risks, and ... Read more

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The ups and downs in housing markets over the past two decades are without precedent, and the costs-financial, psychological, and social-have been enormous. Yet Americans overwhelmingly still aspire to homeownership, and many still view access to homeownership as an important ingredient for building wealth among historically disadvantaged groups.This timely volume reexamines the goals, risks, and
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