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  • The Dressmaker's War

    A Novel

    by Mary Chamberlain ...
    For readers of Amy Bloom, Sarah Waters, and Anthony Doerr, The Dressmaker’s War is the story of a brilliant English seamstress taken prisoner in Germany during World War II: about her perseverance, the choices she makes to stay alive, and the haunting aftermath of war.London, 1939. Ada Vaughan is a young working-class woman with an unusual skill for dressmaking who dreams of opening her own ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Old Wives' Tales

    The History of Remedies, Charms and Spells

    by Mary Chamberlain ...
    We may all know that dandelions make us wet the bed, and that stewed prunes are a cure for constipation, but how many of us were aware that a poultice of chicken manure is a remedy for baldness? Or that eel liver will aid a difficult labour?The woman healer is as old as history. For millennia she has been doctor, nurse and midwife, and even in the age of modern medicine her wisdom is handed down ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Art Therapy in Museums and Galleries

    Reframing Practice

    by Sue Holttum, Mary Chamberlain, Emma Hollamby, Elaine Homer, Jane Landes, Simon Hackett, Ruth McGovern, Fiona Fitzpatrick, Stephen Legari, Marilyn Lajeunesse, Louise Giroux, Sheila Grandison, Karen Lund, Michael Fischer, Whittaker Scott, Miriam Usiskin, Bobby Lloyd, Naomi Press, Andrée Salom, Nana Zhvitiashvili ...
    This is the first book to explore and evaluate the potential of museum and gallery spaces and partnerships for art therapy.Showcasing approaches by well-known art therapists, the edited collection contains descriptions of, and reflections on, art therapy in museums and galleries around the globe. Case studies encompass a broad range of client groups, including people with dementia, refugees and ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Handbook of Oral History

    by Rebecca Sharpless, Mary Chamberlain, Pamela Dean, James E. Fogerty, Jeff Friedman, Sherna Berger Gluck, Charles Hardy III, Alice M. Hoffman0, Howard S. Hoffman1, Elinor A. Mazé2, Eva M. McMahan3, Charles T. Morrissey4, Kim Lacy Rogers5, Linda Shopes6, Valerie Raleigh Yow7, Ronald J. Grele8, Mary A. Larson9, Richard Cándida Smith0 ...
    Originally intending to produce the first comprehensive scholarly reference guide to the antecedents, practices, and theory of oral history, the editors have gone even further, creating a highly readable and useful tool for scholars, students, and the general public. Covering the vast scope of this increasingly popular field, the eminent contributors discuss almost every aspect of a field that ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Family Love in the Diaspora

    Migration and the Anglo-Caribbean Experience

    by Mary Chamberlain ...
    Series series Memory and Narrative
    Colonial social policy in the British West Indies from the nineteenth century onward assumed that black families lacked morals, structure, and men, a void that explained poverty and lack of citizenship. African-Caribbean families appeared as the mirror opposite of the "ideal" family advocated by the white, colonial authorities. Yet contrary to this image, what provided continuity in the period and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Narratives of Exile and Return

    by Mary Chamberlain ...
    In this original and compelling book, Mary Chamberlain explores the nature and meaning of migration for Barbadians who migrated to Britain and elsewhere. It is a unique oral and social history, based on life-story interviews across three or more generations of Barbadian families. Locating migration within the contemporary debate on modernity, Narratives of Exile and Return highlights the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Caribbean Migration

    Globalized Identities

    Edited by Mary Chamberlain ...
    This anthology represents important and original directions in the study of Caribbean migration. It takes a comparative perspective on the Caribbean people's migratory experiences to North America, Europe, and within the Caribbean. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, the book discusses: * the causes of migration * the experiences of migrants * the historical, cultural and political processes * ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Narrative and Genre

    Edited by Mary Chamberlain, Paul Thompson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative
    Any life story, whether a written autobiography or an oral testimony, is shaped not only by the reworkings of experience through memory and re-evaluation, but also art. Any communication has to use shared conventions not only of language itself but also the more complex expectations of 'genre': of the forms expected within a given context and type of communication.This collection of essays by ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Thinking about Oral History

    Theories and Applications

    by Thomas L. Charlton, Alice M. Hoffman, Howard S. Hoffman, Kim Lacy Rogers, Eva M. McMahan, Sherna Berger Gluck, Mary Chamberlain, Valerie Raleigh Yow0, Jeff Friedman1, Charles Hardy III2, Pamela Dean3, Richard Cándida Smith4 ...
    A companion to History of Oral History, Thinking about Oral History presents parts III and IV of Handbook of Oral History, an essential resource for scholars and students. Guided by Charlton, Myers, and Sharpless, the prominent authors capture the current state-of-the-art in oral history and predict key directions for future growth in theory and application. ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Empire and nation-building in the Caribbean

    Barbados, 1937–66

    by Mary Chamberlain ...
    Series Book 82 - Studies in Imperialism
    This original and exciting book examines the processes of nation building in the British West Indies.It argues that nation building was a more complex and messy affair, involving women and men in a range of social and cultural activities, in a variety of migratory settings, within a unique geo-political context. Taking as a case study Barbados which, in the 1930s, was the most economically ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

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    The Dressmaker's War

    by Mary Chamberlain ...
    Narrated by Susan Duerden ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 37 min

    Spanning the intense years of war, The Dressmaker's War is a dramatic tale of love, conflict, betrayal and survival. It is the compelling story of one young woman's resolve to endure and of the choices she must make at every turn — choices which will contain truths she must confront.London, spring 1939. Eighteen-year-old Ada Vaughan, a beautiful and ambitious seamstress, has just started work for ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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    The Last Telegram

    by Liz Trenow ...
    Narrated by Susan Duerden ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 3 min

    Decades ago, as Nazi planes dominated the sky, Lily Verner made a terrible choice. She's tried to forget, but now an unexpected event pulls her back to the 1940s British countryside. She finds herself remembering the brilliant colors of the silk she helped to weave at her family's mill, the relentless pressure of the worsening war, and the kind of heartbreaking loss that stops time.In this ... Read more

    $17.99 USD