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Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World
Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the extraordinary diary of plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood. Thistlewood's diary, kept over the course of forty years, describes in graphic detail how white rule over slaves was predicated on the infliction of terror on the bodies and minds of slaves. Thistlewood treated his slaves cruelly even while he relied on them for his livelihood. Along with careful notes on sugar production, Thistlewood maintained detailed records of a sexual life that fully expressed the society's rampant sexual exploitation of slaves. In Burnard's hands, Thistlewood's diary reveals a great deal not only about the man and his slaves but also about the structure and enforcement of power, changing understandings of human rights and freedom, and connections among social class, race, and gender, as well as sex and sexuality, in the plantation system..
Price: $17.95
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I Spy in the Ocean
In this playful rendition of the traditional game of "I Spy," very young readers will meet a menagerie of their favorite animals. Turn the pages of I Spy in the Jungle and see if you can spy lions and great, big gorillas lurking among the trees. Then, strap on your flippers and go under the sea where angelfish swim and sharks dive between the pages of I Spy in the Ocean. Bright, lush illustrations accompany these fun board books that are perfect for nature lovers of all ages!.
Price: $1.99
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A Good House: A Novel
A Good House begins in 1949 in Stonebrook, Ontario, home to the Chambers family. The postwar boom and hope for the future color every facet of life: the possibilities seem limitless for Bill, his wife Sylvia, and their three children In the fifty years that follow, the possibilities narrow. Sylvia’s untimely death marks her family indelibly but in ways only time will reveal. Paul’s perfect marriage yields an imperfect child. Daphne unabashedly follows an unconventional path, while Patrick discovers that his happiness requires a series of compromises. Bill confronts the onset of old age less gracefully than anticipated, and throughout, his second wife, Margaret, remains, surprisingly, the family anchor. This extraordinarily moving and beautifully crafted first novel was a number one bestseller in Canada where it won one of the country’s most prestigious literary awards, the Giller Prize, in 1999. .
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Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691-1776 (New World in the Atlantic World)
Examining the lives of 460 of the wealthiest men who lived in colonial Maryland, Burnard traces the development of this elite from a hard-living, profit-driven merchant-planter class in the seventeenth century to a more genteel class of plantation owners in the eighteenth century. This study innovatively compares these men to their counterparts elsewhere in the British Empire, including absentee Caribbean landowners and East Indian nabobs, illustrating their place in the Atlantic economic network..
Price: $24.93
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Vital Notes for Nurses: Research for Evidence-Based Practice
Vital Notes for Nurses: Research for Evidence-based Practice provides a concise, accessible introduction to research and evidence based practice for pre-registration students and newly qualified nurses. It places research and evidence in the context of clinical practice, introduces the main methodological approaches in qualitative and quantitative research and describes the processes of research appraisal, dissemination and implementation. Vital Notes for Nurses: Research for Evidence-based Practice engages students with the research and evidence agenda, demonstrates the relevance of research and evidence to nursing practice, and provides them with the skills needed to explore these areas in greater detail. Each chapter stands alone but contains links to other chapters, together with further reading for students wanting to pursue methods in more detail..
Price: $28.34
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Reflective Practices in Arts Education (Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education)
This book is focused on the role of reflective practice, as a source and resource for teaching and learning and research in the arts (here being Art and Design, Dance, Drama and Music). It aims to investigate the concept of reflection and its application to a range of contemporary arts education contexts for both teachers and learners. Authors investigate how and in what ways reflection is practised in arts education, and argue for the central importance of reflection within the professional arts community. The book will provide a resource for those seeking to engage in individual and collective professional development which, by its nature, involves reflecting on practice. Many of the authors are both arts educators and researchers who reflect current trends in arts education, and consider the relationships between teachers, artists and learners in and across disciplines. Through explanation and discussion of examples of practice both in and out of school, and in with a range of age phases, readers will gain insight into a variety of ways of working and ways of understanding how learning in the arts is nurtured. .
Price: $55.43
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The Amazing Adventures of Soupy Boy!
Ashely Fugg is no ordinary boy. After a horrific accident at the Gloop Soup factory, he is transformed into a can of soup. You see, the vat of tomato soup Ashley's mother accidentally dropped him into was made with tomatoes that had been covered by radioactive cosmic dust after being struck by a meteor. And Ashley isn't just any old walking, talking soup can - oh no! With a twirl and a spin he can transform into SOUPY BOY! SOUPY HERO! His very name strikes fear into the hearts of villains the world over! And soon he's on the trail of the sick and twisted Mortimer Napkin!!! Soupy Boy is sure to become a favorite character of early readers. The integration of text and illustration, the zany plot with puzzles, and the other interactive devices will make fans of even the most reluctant readers..
Price: $1.44
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I Spy in the Jungle
In this playful rendition of the traditional game of "I Spy," very young readers will meet a menagerie of their favorite animals. Turn the pages of I Spy in the Jungle and see if you can spy lions and great, big gorillas lurking among the trees. Then, strap on your flippers and go under the sea where angelfish swim and sharks dive between the pages of I Spy in the Ocean. Bright, lush illustrations accompany these fun board books that are perfect for nature lovers of all ages!.
Price: $30.54
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