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  • Detroit's Detroit's Eastern Market

    A Farmers Market Shopping and Cooking Guide

    by Lois Johnson, Margaret Thomas ...
    Series series Painted Turtle Press
    The guide to Detroit's renowned open-air farmers market, featuring stories and recipes from four generations of families, with new information, photos, and recipes.Since 1887, Detroit's Eastern Market, the largest open-air market of its kind in the United States, has been home to an amazing community of farmers, merchants, and food lovers. Specialty shops, bakeries, spice companies, meat and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Making A Diffrence

    by Margaret Thomas ...
    Being authentic is the gateway to creativity. The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.Making A Difference is focused on getting people to discover their innate abilities, developing capacity and learning the required skills and strategic positioning to impact their world by releasing what they have in a manner that has never been seen toward the service ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Why Not?

    Thinking About Singapore's Tomorrow

    by Margaret Thomas, Kanwaljit Soin ...
    What is the society you want to see take shape in Singapore in the years ahead? How can we ensure it will be a society where there is gender equality, where every person can live the life they want? A diverse group of writers — women and men, teenagers and octogenarians, artists. academics, caregivers, journalists, doctors, lawyers, and many others — offer their thoughts about these questions and ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • We Are Not the Enemy: The Practice of Advocacy in Singapore

    by Cherian George, Kok Hoe Ng, Thirunalan Sasitharan, Carol Yuen, Daryl Yang, Haolie Jiang, Joel Yew, Remy Choo, Kirsten Han, Isaac Neo, Kristian-Marc James Paul, Alfian Sa'at, Walid Jumblatt Abdullah, Irie Aman, Reetaza Chatterjee, Kenneth Paul Tan, Corinna Lim, Alex Au, Suraendher Kumarr ...
    Advocates and activists in Singapore contribute to policy discussions and positive change through a combination of deft manoeuvres and patient politics. Yet civil society is often unacknowledged, their skill and labour instead frequently misunderstood, even earning them the label of “troublemakers” or “enemies of the state”.This collection of essays and interviews is a candid reflection on the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Thomas Chandy

    by Various ...
    This book is a tribute to a man, who was born and raised in an unassuming Kerala town; rose up the corporate ladder, only to leave it all behind to help found Save The Children India, working towards better living and rights for the most vulnerable children of India. The book brings together many memories and anecdotes, shared by family, friends, colleagues, industry doyens, corporate heads, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Art of Advocacy in Singapore

    Edited by Constance Singam, Margaret Thomas ...
    Advocacy is a tricky pursuit in Singapore. Your motives can be questioned, your activities monitored, and your scope for action limited. Despite the constraints, civil society activists have persisted, finding ways to pursue their cause and to try to bring about the changes they believe important for Singapore.In 2013 a small group of civil society stalwarts set out to acknowledge the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Representing Rural Women

    by Whitney Womack Smith, Margaret Thomas-Evans, Agatha Beins, Jim Coby, Nancy Cook, H. Louise Davis, Amy Easton-Flake, Julie R. Enszer, Eli Erlick0, Wendy Keys1, Adam Nemmers2, Jimmy Dean Smith3, Jericho Williams4, Amanda Zastrow5, Laurie J. C. Cella6, Elizabeth F. Thompson7, Holly M. Kent8, Barbara Pini9 ...
    Representing Rural Women highlights the complexity and diversity of representations of rural women in the U.S. and Canada from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The 15 chapters in this collection offer fresh perspectives on representations of rural women in literature, popular culture, and print, digital, and social media. They explore a wide range of time periods, geographic spaces, and ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • In The Footsteps of Florence Nightingale

    Memoirs of a QA (Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps)

    by Margaret Thomas ...
    ‘Remember when you are far away up country, possibly the only Englishwoman there, that these men will note and remember your every action not only as a nurse but as a woman.’ Florence Nightingale. When a young northern girl quietly dropped home economics in favour of the three sciences, against her parents’ wishes, little did she expect to rise through the ranks of the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Formalism and Functionalism in Linguistics

    The Engineer and the Collector

    by Margaret Thomas ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Linguistics
    This volume is a concise introduction to the lively ongoing debate between formalist and functionalist approaches to the study of language. The book grounds its comparisons between the two in both historical and contemporary contexts where, broadly speaking, formalists’ focus on structural relationships and idealized linguistic data contrasts with functionalists’ commitment to analyzing real ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Love and Limits In and Out of Child Care

    What Your Child Care Provider and Your Pediatrician Want You to Know

    by Margaret Thomas, Richard Thomas, Lisa Dobberteen, MD, Susanna Natti ...
    Love and Limits In and Out of Child Care is a roadmap for parenting happy, healthy children. Coauthored by day care provider Margaret (Peggy) Thomas, her husband, Richard, and Lisa Dobberteen, a pediatrician who entrusted her own children to Peggy's care, this is an enjoyable and educational guide to everything from TV watching to toilet training.Drawing on the authors' expertise in their ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Picture Man

    The Legacy of Southeast Alaska Photographer Shoki Kayamori

    by Margaret Thomas ...
    In 1912, Shoki Kayamori and his box camera arrived in a small Tlingit village in southeast Alaska. At a time when Asian immigrants were forbidden to own property and faced intense racial pressure, the Japanese-born Kayamori put down roots and became part of the Yakutat community. For three decades he photographed daily life in the village, turning his lens on locals and migrants alike, and gaining ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Our Lives To Live: Putting A Woman's Face To Change In Singapore

    by Kanwaljit Soin, Margaret Thomas ...
    Series series World Scientific Series On Singapore's 50 Years Of Nation-building
    Our Lives to Live: Putting a Woman's Face to Change in Singapore explores and documents how women's roles, choices, and voices in Singapore have changed in the last 50 years; how women, from all sectors of society, have helped to shape the Singapore we know today. The 31 chapters, some with a more academic slant, others with a distinctly personal tone, reflect the rich diversity and depth of women ... Read more

    $14.29 USD