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Given away by her mother at five months old, raped on the day of her first communion at age seven - when Celine Roberts was told 'No one wants you', she believed it.

Illegitimate and unwanted, Celine was forced by her foster mother into prostitution.

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"[Aronson] offers a revealing portrait both of himself and of social psychology in the past half-century."-Nature

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This volume presents biographical essays on 59 women from around the world who have made significant contributions to mathematics. Designed for secondary schools and the general public, each profile describes major life events, obstacles faced and overcome, and career milestones.

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Notable Women in the Physical Sciences features substantive biographical essays on 96 world and American women scientists who have made significant contributions to the physical sciences from antiquity to the present.

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In this fascinating book, Darwish speaks out against the dark side of her native culture--women abused by Islamic traditions, the poor and uneducated mistreated by the elites, and bribery and corruption as a way of life. She calls on the Arab world to embrace the values of democracy, respect for women, and tolerance for all religions.

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How can you forget your past when it keeps coming back to haunt you Judy Westwater, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Street Kid, was determined to turn her back on her cruel and violent childhood. She didn't stand a chance. All too soon hope turned to fear and she knew she'd have to run again.

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Roy Douglas ("Pansy") Wright was one of the great Australians of the 20th century. Born on a hill-country farm, he became a medical scientist and a builder of institutions such as the Australian National University. This biography reveals the many contradictions in this complex man.

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Her work changed the image of the Chinese people in the American mindultimately facilitating the 1943 repeal of the 61-year-old Chinese Exclusion Act and arousing Americans' support of the Chinese resistance against the Japanese aggression in World War II.

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The selections are geographically representational of the broad railroad network.

There is renewed interest in the Underground Railroad, exemplified by the new National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati and energized scholarly inquiry.

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Star Parker tells the inspirational story of how she turned her life around from a world of drugs, crime, and welfare to success as an entrepreneur, founder of the Coalition on Urban Affairs, and spokesperson for African-American conservatives. Reprint.

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If it had been the other way round, I know Gina would have done the same for me.

Jane and Gina were the best of friends. And after cancer claimed Shaun's life, Jane stepped in to care for the two orphans, becoming the mother her best friend could no longer be.

This is the moving true story behind an incredible act of love.

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The harrowing true story of one boys experiences in a brutal approved school for young offenders in 50s London, run by Catholic monks where violence and abuse were rife.

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Karl Popper has been hailed as the greatest philosopher of all time and as a thinker whose influence is ackowledged by a variety of scholars. This work demonstrates Popper's importance across the whole range of philosophy and provides an introduction to the main themes of philosophy itself.

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Tells the fascinating story of three talented and energetic 19th-century women: Mary Lamb, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Sarah Disraeli. While not as public a figure as Mary Lamb and Dorothy Wordsworth, Sarah Disraeli was her brother's trusted and intimate political adviser.

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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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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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