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Analyses the nature of human courage, the uses of memory, the true purposes of education, love and charity, and the approach of the Grim Reaper. This book considers the public ideas and events, with examples on family, politics, the intellectual life, beliefs and morals, words and writing. Its arguments are illustrated from life.

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Red Adair is now a multimillionaire, but he has worked his way up from a poor childhood in Houston where he spent years on the railways and on bomb-disposal before becoming an expert on oil-well firefighting. This is an account of his heroic life fighting fires all over the world.

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From slave to Doctor of Philosophy to preacher, Thomas Nelson Baker exemplifies the struggles and rewards of becoming and being an educated Black man in Jim Crow America. His biography is both a lesson in history and a source of inspiration.

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In Romances with Schools, John Goodlad steps out from behind the public persona of distinguished scholar and advocate for public schooling to offer a moving personal account of a life devoted to educating the young. He deftly interweaves fascinating personal details with refl...

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A powerful and telling account of a mother's ongoing battle to help her daughter Jessie recover from heroin addiction, which affects more than 100,000 Australians. The story is not just about Jessie's addiction but the affect it has had on her family and friends - how they dealt with it, and what they have learned from the experience.

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Four neglected siblings were taken into care following the breakdown of their parents' marriage. Sent to a small croft in north-east of Scotland, they endured an onslaught of physical and mental abuse at the hands of an elderly foster mother. For ten years the children's cries for help were ignored in the naive social-work climate of late 1950s.

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Through a unique combination of narrative history and primary documents, this book provides an engrossing biography of Sequoyah, the creator of the Cherokee writing system, and clearly documents the importance of written language in the preservation of culture.

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The three waves of feminism are explored through the lives of the women who made history in bringing women's issues to the forefront of American society. It was women's fundamental need for independence and an identity of their own, separate from that of men, which thrust the women's movement forward and continues to propel it today.

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She's Not the Man I Married is an extraodinarily written examination of relationships, not just those of cross-dressers with their partners, but also of those who question and bend gender roles, whether heterosexual or homosexual and those comprised couples who fall along the gender continuum.

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Sickened exposes the twisted bonds of terror and love that made a child willing to sacrifice herself to win her mother's happiness. Interlaced with a fierce humour that somehow makes this story even more powerful, this book leaves an indelible mark on anyone who reads it.

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Traces the lives of eight women - Caroline Norton, Elizabeth Blackwell, Florence Nightingale, Emily Davies, Josephine Butler, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, Emma Goldman - each of whom pioneered vital changes in the spheres of law, education, the professions, morals or politics. All fought to make lasting difference to women's lives.

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From the author of Sunday Times bestsellers One Child and Ghost Girl comes a heartbreaking story of a boy trapped in silence and the teacher who rescued him.

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The day Koren turned fourteen she tasted alcohol for the first time. At fifteen she was piecing together forgotten fragments of drink, men and misplaced clothes. This is the story of a young woman coming of age within a society that finds it easier to turn a blind eye to binge-drinking than address the problem head on.

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Snake Dancing is the second volume of Roberta Sykes' three volume autobiography, Snake Dreaming.

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From the author of Sunday Times bestsellers One Child and Ghost Girl comes a heartbreaking story of one teacher's determination to turn a chaotic group of damaged children into a family.

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This work goes beyond the basics of classroom management to consider the path of both teacher and student toward authentic intellectual maturity and spiritual growth.

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This work goes beyond the basics of classroom management to consider the path of both teacher and student toward authentic intellectual maturity and spiritual growth.

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Three short but powerful and engaging biographies of three former PMs' wives - full of intrigue and revelation!

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