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Barbara Watson Andaya, Leonard Y. Andaya

First published in 1982, this text is widely regarded as a leading general history of the country. This new and revised edition brings the story of this fascinating country up to date, incorporating the latest scholarship on every period of Malaysian history, including recent research into pre-modern times. This text thus provides a historical framework that helps explain the roots of the issues dominating Malaysian life today, and the difficulties of creating a multicultural state where r...

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Barbara Watson

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Gavin Bruce

This is a book of letters between a soldier, RIP, and his family and friends during the wars with Iraq, first with President George H. W. Bush, then with George W. Bush - the “Bush Wars”.When RIP first deployed for Desert Storm, his baby daughter, Vicky, was three months old. RIP wrote heartfelt letters to her for posterity, not knowing if he’d get to see her grow up but wanting to tell her of his hopes and dreams. She grew into a teenager before he retired, and he wrote to her abo...

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Barbara Angle, Marc Watson

Man’s Selection sets the scientific record straight by taking a fresh look at Charles Darwin’s phenomenal theories regarding Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design. In The Origin of Species, Darwin stated that “the Creator” originated one or more forms of life, that “the Creator” established the laws governing nature, and that “the works of the Creator” were superior to those of man. Darwin also addressed intelligent Design through the inclusion of Joseph Butler’s affirmation that “wh...

The arena in which the preparation of student-teachers for the teaching of mathematics takes place is shifting its foundations and moving its boundaries. The whole basis of teacher education at secondary level is in flux with a move towards teacher-education programmes which are largely school based. Increasingly, there is seen to be an important role for the school teacher who acts as mentor to the student teacher in some relationship with a tutor from the initial training i nstitution.; ...

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Barbara Watson Andaya, Leonard Y. Andaya

Written by two experienced teachers with a long history of research, this textbook provides students with a detailed overview of developments in early modern Southeast Asia, when the region became tightly integrated into the world economy because of international demand for its unique forest and sea products. Proceeding chronologically, each chapter covers a specific time frame in which Southeast Asia is located in a global context. A discussion of general features that distinguish the per...

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Martin de Jong, Trish Harris, Adrienne Jansen, Judy McMillan, Anne Powell, Peter Rawnsley, Miriam Richardson, Barbara Sampson, Wendy Vink, Michael Watson

Eleven Poets coming from a range of backgrounds and experiences present a collection of poems. Their spiritual roots are varied – Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, no category. But they share a common sense of a bigger reality. The collection explores life, but always underneath there is that strong, or faint, sense of mystery.This collection of poems comes from two decades of writing together. The poets are Martin de Jong, Trish Harris, Adrienne Jansen, Amanda Keogh, Judy McMil...

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Jenny Barker Devine, Lia Bryant, Anne Byrne, Nata Duvvury, Sara Egge, Gro Follo, Marit S. Haugen, Julie C. Keller, Belinda Leach, Mona Livholts, Susan Machum, Áine Macken-Walsh, Nicole Power, Jennifer Rogers-Brown, Sally Shortall, Maarit Sireni, Tanya Watson, Kate Cairns, Professor Imelda Whelehan

Feminist concern with difference has rarely extended to rurality even if it is now widely recognized that experiences of inequality depend on intersections of several identities in each individual life. This lack of concern may reflect the urban background of the majority of feminist academics or at least their urban positionality once in the academy. It may equivalently be that feminists have been influenced by stereotypes of rural women as traditional and reactionary, and thus seen them ...

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Krystine Donato, Maurice Feldman, Beverley Fedoroff, Voula Marinos, Jocelin Lecomte, Diane Cox-Lindenbaum, Paul Fedoroff, William R Lindsay, J Gregory Olley, Barbara Vyrostko, Shelley L. Watson, Marjorie Aunos, Donato Tarulli, Kajsa Klassen, Jennifer Robinson, Tricia Vause, Marion Trent-Kratz, Karen Stoner, Christine Tardiff-Williams, Jacqueline Murphy, Nancy Miodrag, Deborah Richards, Kaleigh Regehr, Yona Lunsky, Carol Sales, Celine Mercier, Susan Havercamp, Carolyn Gracey, Leanne Gosse

A book such as this both demonstrates the progress that has been made over recent years, and will also serve to enhance respect for the human rights of persons with intellectual disabilities in the years to come.'- From the Foreword by Orville EndicottThis wide-ranging volume provides a multidisciplinary examination of human rights and the lives of people with intellectual disabilities.The book combines historical, psychological, philosophical, social, educational, ...

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John Wyndham

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Barbara Shelley, Full Cast, Gary Watson, Marjorie Westbury, Peter Sallis

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Classic Radio Sci-Fi

Bill Masen wakes in his hospital bed, eyes bandaged. Something is wrong: it’s unusually quiet and no one has come to his room. When he removes his bandages he finds a world that has changed utterly. Most of the population are completely blind – only those who didn’t watch the night sky can still see. And, as law and order break down, a new menace appears – Triffids, walking carnivorous plants that can kill a human with their lethal sting. For Bill and the other survivors, it’s now a battle...

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Peter Straub

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Phil Gigante

First setting: an all-male prep school in Arizona, where two sensitive freshmen form a bond based on their interest in magic tricks. Second setting: the labyrinthine house of a weird magician uncle in New England, where the two boys spend a memorable summer being trained in the art of illusion. Or is it real magic? Third setting: an alternate world where dark forces are at play—forces that first show up at the school, but intensify their power throughout the summer.Only one of them...

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Annelise Ryan

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Susan Bennett

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A Monster Hunter Mystery

A potential Bigfoot sighting is linked to a vicious murder, but skeptical cryptozoologist Morgan Carter is on the case in this new Monster Hunter Mystery by USA Today bestselling author Annelise Ryan.Business has been booming since Morgan Carter solved the case of the monster living in Lake Michigan. The Odds and Ends bookstore is thriving, of course, but Morgan is most excited by the doors that were opened for her as a cryptid hunter.Recently, the...

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Ananda Lima

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Taylor Harvey

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life, and she writes him stories about beautiful and impossible things. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is an intoxicating and unsettling linked collection that lures listeners into surreal pockets of the United States and Brazil, where they’ll find bite-size Americans in vending machines and the ghosts of people who are not dead. With a singular voice in the narrative-bending trad...