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Based on a true story of a woman's struggle to escape the horrifying and degrading marriage to a police officer, who not only deceived her from the beginning, but also succeeded inhis attempt to fool his family, fellow officers and would go on to "Serve and Protect".......Himself! You...

The Reformation changed forever how the sacrament of the Eucharist was understood. This study of six canonical early modern lyric poets traces the literary afterlife of what was one of the greatest doctrinal shifts in English history. Sophie Read argues that the move from a literal to a figurative...

Dr. Read entered the Royal Canadian Navy in 1943 and worked for three years as a flight surgeon. When the war was winding down, he realized that his career as a flight surgeon was also over. But he remembered how much he had enjoyed the three weeks he spent in Charlottetown when he relieved the medical...

An updated edition of an epic and remarkable story, this is the powerful and moving history in which Peter Coppin, or Kangkushot, remembers his life in Western Australia’s Pilbara region and his involvement in the first strike of Aboriginal workers in the nation’s history. A senior Nyamal lawman,...

Up Terrapin River by Opie P. Read.

Most social science studies of local organizations tend to focus on "civil society" associations, voluntary associations independent from state control, whereas government-sponsored organizations tend to be theorized in totalitarian terms as "mass organizations" or manifestations...

The battle for control of the reefs and shoals of the South China Sea intensifies as Russia and the U.S. squeeze China from north and south, their own internal threats not yet resolved...Set immediately after the events of The Trust of the People, the story forms the final part of the Conspiracy...

The Author was among the first to respond to Kitchener’s call for volunteers in 1914. He joined 8th Battalion, The Leicestershire Regiment at the outbreak of war as a Private and, within weeks, he and the Battalion were heading for Northern France with the British Expeditionary Force. In...

Engaging with the question of the extent to which the so-called human, economic or social sciences are actually sciences, this book moves away from the search for a criterion or definition that will allow us to sharply distinguish the scientific from the non-scientific. Instead, the book favours the...

Let me tell you a story. A few stories if I might add that will surely get your blood boiling. Be warned I’m not going to hold back, so be prepared to be terrified out of your corpse. Oh I mean body.A word of caution, I warn you that some people have said these stories are of fiction. Some have...

Il Tai Chi è un' arte meravigliosa da imparare, ma in cosa consiste veramente? Cosa significa? Quali sono le sue origini e quanto può essere utile nella pratica per vivere in quest' era digitale, in questo mondo febbrile? Queste sono alcune delle 50 delle semplici ma importanti domande a cui...

An individual lives a residence which resides in a community. The community is part of a municipality which is part of a state, which we have 50 of in this great nation. However, we all share the same plant with a multitude of nations.The Environmental Protection Agency is the governments way...

More than a decade has passed since the events of Porcelain: A Gothic Fairy Tale, and Child has become Lady. Inheritor of all of Uncle’s secrets and wealth, she has continued his work, becoming equally as isolated in her quest to refine the Porcelain and put right past mistakes. With the Porcelain...

Wildfowling is the most romantic, exciting and challenging of all the field sports. All wildfowlers have a little poetry in their souls. The majority of fowlers are thoroughgoing individualists. A typical wildfowler is a true hunter, bred and born - a lone wolf pitting his wits and knowledge against...