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Sarah E. Wright, Jennifer Campbell

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Contemporary Classics by Women

"[An] exploration of the black experience from a woman's perspective, anticipating fiction by writers like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker."— The New York TimesOriginally published in 1969 to broad critical acclaim, This Child's Gonna Live is an unsurpassed testament to human endurance in the face of poverty, racism, and despair. Set in a fishing village on Maryland's Eastern Shore in the 1930s, this story has as its main character the unforgettable...

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SARAH WRIGHT

The nerve of the vagus... You heard about it, did you? It's an incredible nerve that links our brain to our body, also known as "The Wanderer" The nerve starts in the medulla oblongata (the part of the brainstem that regulates involuntary processes such as chewing, digestion, and heart rate), branches up into the brain, crosses the digestive tract through the mouth, branches off into the lungs and heart, and goes down to the esophagus, uterus, liver, kidneys, and intestines. I know you are...

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Sarah Wright

Kestrel lives to inspire others, but has her own mysterious past that remains a ghost story. She is the co-founder of Thriving Through Seasons Ministries, an organization that heals the broken and teaches them how to heal other broken souls. With her fellow characters (Andreya, Andra, and Eijaz), she finds peace and love through Jesus Christ, despite their tragic circumstances. Join Kestrel as she experiences suffering, loss, illness, abandonment, tragedies, and deception. Her journey delv...

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Sarah Wright

Kestrel lives to inspire others, but has her own mysterious past that remains a ghost story. She is the co-founder of Thriving Through Seasons Ministries, an organization that heals the broken and teaches them how to heal other broken souls. With her fellow characters (Andreya, Andra, and Eijaz), she finds peace and love through Jesus Christ, despite their tragic circumstances.Join Kestrel as she experiences suffering, loss, illness, abandonment, tragedies, and deception. Her journ...

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Sarah Wright

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Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity

Following a relational, Indigenous-led approach grounded in 25 years of collaborative work, this book looks to weather and climate, tracing the embodied, emplaced and affective ways weather co-constitutes people, place and time/s raising critical questions of ethics, politics and becoming.Becoming weather leads the reader through a reflexive engagement with weather, seeking to shed light on pressing issues around climate change and its entanglements: from the body where contours of...

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Sarah Wright

In this, the first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema, Sarah Wright explores the ways that the cinematic child comes to represent ‘prosthetic memory’. The central theme of the child and the monster is used to examine the relationship of the self to the past, and to cinema.Concentrating on films from the 1950s to the present day, the book explores religious films, musicals, ‘art-house horror’, science-fiction, social realism and fantasy. It includes reference to Er...

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Sarah Wright

This accessible guide explores how our brains react to stress and offers a fresh perspective on how we define "trauma." Probing how the words we use can influence our understanding of distress, this text focuses on expanding awareness of excess stress and reducing judgment of its potential impact on relationships and day-to-day life.Helpfully split into three parts, the book introduces the terms "cortisprinkled," "cortisaturated," and "cortisoaked" and provides a rationale for why ...

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Elgar Handbooks in Energy, the Environment and Climate Change

This thought-provoking Handbook explores the spatially and socially differentiated nature of climate change vulnerability. Expert authors discuss the ways that climate change vulnerability is materially and discursively produced as well as the agency, capacity and resilience of affected communities.Interdisciplinary in scope, this book features both leading and emerging international academics, offering diverse perspectives. Chapters delve into the conceptual origins and theoretica...

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Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Fanny Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Henrik Ibsen, Kate Chopin, Grant Allen, Ethel Sybil Turner, Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett, H. G. Wells, Gene Stratton-Porter, Theodore Dreiser, Ada Cambridge, Mary Johnston, Marietta Holley, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Virginia Woolf, Christopher Morley, Zona Gale, Elizabeth von Arnim, Edna Ferber, Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Raden Adjeng Kartini, Emma Goldman, Julia Ward Howe, Emmeline Pankhurst, Mother Jones, Helen Wright, Helen Keller, Catherine H. Birney, Rebecca Deming Moore, D. H. Lawrence, Margaret Oliphant, Harriet Martineau, Margaret Sanger, Sinclair Lewis, Sarah H. Bradford, Kate Stephens

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Alfred Edward Chamot

The anthology 'The True Women Influencers of the Past' presents an intricate tapestry of voices that define the evolving roles and perceptions of women across centuries. Engaging with key works from a pantheon of illustrious authors like Willa Cather to Virginia Woolf, the collection showcases a breathtaking range in literary style—from the incisive social realism of Elizabeth Gaskell to the pioneering feminist arguments of Mary Wollstonecraft. This compelling volume not only traverses geo...

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Julia Ward Howe, Emmeline Pankhurst, Mother Jones, Helen Wright, Margaret Sanger, Helen Keller, Catherine H. Birney, Sarah H. Bradford

The Most Influential Women in History: Over 100 Memoirs & Biographies gathers a capacious archive of female achievement, dissent, and public service across political, social, intellectual, and humanitarian spheres. Blending memoir, biography, speech, reform writing, and historical portraiture, the volume places intimate testimony beside accounts of collective struggle. Its selections illuminate suffrage campaigns, labor activism, reproductive autonomy, abolitionist memory, disability advoc...

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The Emma Press Poetry Anthologies

We're all ageing, all of the time. As a society we're getting even older, but we seldom seem to stop and think about the huge mental and physical changes that happen to us as we get old, or what it's like to live as an old person. The Emma Press Anthology of Age is a collection of poems which challenge, celebrate and give age a voice, finding humour amidst the heartbreak and comfort within the pain.

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Routledge Research in Nursing and Midwifery

Focussing on end-of-life care for people who use, or have used, substances, this book explores their social and health care needs and the multiple disadvantages they have often experienced, discussing the complexities around access to care that result.Presenting models of good practice, case studies and empirically based evidence, Substance Use, End-of-Life Care is informative, rigorous and useful for policy and practice development. The first section foregrounds the perso...