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Download or read book Ishbel's Party written by Stacy Absalom and published by Harlequin Books, 1987 [i.e. 1986]. This book was released on 1986 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ishbel's Party by Stacy Absalom released on Nov 24, 1986 is available now for purchase.
Download or read book Time written by Briton Hadden and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reels for 1973- include Time index, 1973-
Book Synopsis A Very Principled Boy by : Mark A. Bradley
Download or read book A Very Principled Boy written by Mark A. Bradley and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duncan Chaplin Lee was a Rhodes Scholar, patriot, and descendent of one of America's most distinguished families -- and possibly the best-placed mole ever to infiltrate U.S. intelligence operations. In A Very Principled Boy intelligence expert and former CIA officer Mark A. Bradley traces the tangled roots of Lee's betrayal and reveals his harrowing struggle to stay one step ahead of America's spy hunters during and after World War II. Exposed to leftist politics while studying at Oxford, Lee became a committed, albeit covert, member of the Communist Party. After following William "Wild Bill Donovan to the newly formed Office of Strategic Services, Lee rose quickly through the ranks of the U.S. intelligence service -- and just as quickly gained value as a Communist spy. As one of the chief aides to the head of the OSS, Lee was uniquely well placed to pass sensitive information to his Soviet handlers, including the likely timeframe of the D-Day invasion and the names of OSS personnel under investigation for suspected communist affiliations. In 1945, one of Lee's former handlers confessed to the FBI and named Lee as a Soviet agent. For the next thirteen years, J. Edgar Hoover would tirelessly, but futilely, attempt to prove Lee's guilt. Despite being accused of treason in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee, the increasingly paranoid Lee miraculously escaped again and again. In a move to atone for what he had done, Lee later became a Cold Warrior in China, fighting Mao Zedong's communists. He died a free but conflicted man. In A Very Principled Boy, Bradley weaves a fast-paced cat-and-mouse tale of misguided idealism, high treason, and belated redemption. Drawing on Lee's letters and thousands of previously unreleased CIA, FBI, and State Department records, Bradley tells the unlikely story of a spy who chose his conscience over his country and its dark consequences.
Book Synopsis Ishbel and the Empire by : Doris French Shackleton
Download or read book Ishbel and the Empire written by Doris French Shackleton and published by Dundurn Group (CA). This book was released on 1988 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1893, Lady Ishbel arrived in Ottawa as the wife of Lord Aberdeen, Canada's newly appointed Governor General. Her initial resentment to this posting changed as she became involved in political and social causes. She is remembered as the founder of the Victorian Order of Nurses and the National Council of Women.
Book Synopsis Colonial Lives Across the British Empire by : David Lambert
Download or read book Colonial Lives Across the British Empire written by David Lambert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of portraits of 'imperial lives' to rethink the history of the British Empire in the nineteenth century.
Download or read book Ishbel written by Maureen Keane and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sympathetic yet not uncritical biography, the author paints a picture of a woman both like and loathed, who cut her way through bureaucracy with a furious energy which left others far behind.
Download or read book The Empty Nest written by Celia Dodd and published by Piatkus. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly updated, The Empty Nest is an uplifting, practical and inspiring guide to adjusting to life after your children leave home. More than half a million parents confront the empty nest for the first time each year. It is one of the most challenging phases of parenting, often creating feelings of loss, lack of purpose and crisis of identity which can lead to depression. Yet it receives little recognition. And contrary to popular opinion it doesn't only affect women who've put their careers on hold: working mothers and fathers suffer too. Equally, it can be a period of liberation and discovery of new challenges, when marriages long overstressed by childcare can be rejuvenated. The Empty Nest includes case studies documenting a wide range of experiences of parents living through an empty nest; expert comment and advice; plenty of practical ideas, inspiration and tips. This encouraging, empowering books helps you to focus on the positive as well as how to handle the changing relationship with your children to ensure a fulfilling and good relationship going forward, an area of parenting often ignored.
Book Synopsis The Splendid Vision by : Naomi E.S. Griffiths
Download or read book The Splendid Vision written by Naomi E.S. Griffiths and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1993-10-15 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history traces the ncwc's development and assesses the effectiveness of its many interventions in the political process over the past 100 years. The author shows that through the Council, women have dealt with virtually all the major social and political issues that have faced Canada.
Book Synopsis Fortune's Many Houses by : Simon Welfare
Download or read book Fortune's Many Houses written by Simon Welfare and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and fascinating look at Victorian society through the remarkable lives of an enlightened and philanthropic aristocratic couple, the Marquess and Marchioness of Aberdeen, who tried to change the world for the better but paid a heavy price. This is a true tale of love and loss, fortune and misfortune. In the late 19th century, John and Ishbel Gordon, the Marquess and Marchioness of Aberdeen, were the couple who seemed to have it all: a fortune that ran into the tens of millions, a magnificent stately home in Scotland surrounded by one of Europe’s largest estates, a townhouse in London’s most fashionable square, cattle ranches in Texas and British Columbia, and the governorships of Ireland and Canada where they lived like royalty. Together they won praise for their work as social reformers and pioneers of women’s rights, and enjoyed friendships with many of the most prominent figures of the age, from Britain’s Prime Ministers to Oliver Wendell-Holmes and P.T. Barnum and Queen Victoria herself. Yet by the time they died in the 1930s, this gilded couple’s luck had long since run out: they had faced family tragedies, scandal through their unwitting involvement in one of the “crimes of the century” and, most catastrophically of all, they had lost both their fortune and their lands. This fascinating family quest for the reason for their dramatic downfall is also a moving and colorful exploration of society in Victorian Britain and North America and an inspirational feast for history lovers.
Book Synopsis Liberal Hearts and Coronets by : Veronica Strong-Boag
Download or read book Liberal Hearts and Coronets written by Veronica Strong-Boag and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish aristocrats John Campbell Gordon (1847–1934) and Ishbel Marjoribanks Gordon (1857–1939), known as the Aberdeens, rejected both revolution and reaction in their political careers. The aristocratic progressivism and egalitarian marriage of these fervent liberals confounded both contemporaries and historians. John, as viceroy of Ireland and governor-general of Canada, was a notable ally of feminists, workers, and Irish Home Rulers. Ishbel, his viceregal companion and the long-time president of the International Council of Women, was a liberal feminist and Home Ruler whose commitments stirred up even more controversy. Superbly written and informed by decades of research, Liberal Hearts and Coronets is the first biography to treat John Campbell Gordon as seriously as his better-known wife. Examining the Aberdeens’ remarkable careers as landlords, philanthropists, and international progressives, Veronica Strong-Boag casts the twilight of the British aristocracy in an entirely new light.
Author :Dr. Frances Carruthers with Martin Duffy Publisher :Troubador Publishing Ltd ISBN 13 :178901400X Total Pages :192 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (89 download)
Book Synopsis The Viceregal Microbe by : Dr. Frances Carruthers with Martin Duffy
Download or read book The Viceregal Microbe written by Dr. Frances Carruthers with Martin Duffy and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the start of the 20th century many Irish people were living in squalor: the country's infant mortality rate was the highest in Europe and tuberculosis was rampant. The daunting and tireless Lady Ishbel Aberdeen, wife of the British Viceroy to Ireland, devoted herself to social changes that could save lives. But she often faced ridicule because of the contrast between her own high status and her concern for the common man. Arthur Griffith, future president of Ireland, publicly nicknamed her The Viceregal Microbe. This book tells the story of the friction between the struggle for Irish independence and the 'good works' of the Anglo-Irish elite. The mainly Protestant and upper-class women who gathered around Lady Aberdeen through the Women's National Health Association she founded were all fine people with good hearts. But Irish Nationalists treated them with suspicion, and progress in the war against tuberculosis was the casualty. Lady Abderdeen became ever more radical in her campaign for better living conditions for Ireland's poor. The Chief Medical Officer of the Guinness Brewery, John Lumsden, was one of her close allies. By the end of her decades of work (most intensely 1906-1915) in Ireland, Ishbel Aberdeen became as out-spoken as the trade union rebel 'Big Jim' Larkin. She was a strong woman and often alienated people by her relentlessness. She drove herself to exhaustion and her family almost to bankruptcy in her campaign for a better life for Ireland's poor. But in the end she was doomed to be viewed as part of the system of British rule over Ireland. And history belongs to the victor. The contribution of Lady Aberdeen and her volunteers to the welfare of Ireland's poor and sick was largely forgotten in the wake of the country's independence and its nationalist fervour.
Book Synopsis In the Shadow of Cairngorm by : William Forsyth
Download or read book In the Shadow of Cairngorm written by William Forsyth and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Roua Pass by : Mrs. Mercy Grogan
Download or read book The Roua Pass written by Mrs. Mercy Grogan and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Baron Leo Von Oberg, M.D. by : Martin Cohn
Download or read book Baron Leo Von Oberg, M.D. written by Martin Cohn and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Serpent Bride by : Sara Douglass
Download or read book The Serpent Bride written by Sara Douglass and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The land of Tencendor is no more. But not everyone is dead. the land of tencendor is no more.But not everyone is dead.Many Icarii survive in the courts abroad, while StarDrifter SunSoar, father to Axis, lives within the corrupt Palace of the First in Coroleas. Not even the Star Dance is as dead as the Icarii Enchanters had believed, for a strange race living in the frozen northern wastes can still hear, and use, the music of the heavens.Other ghosts from the past wait in the shadows. the Skraelings once again gather in the north. Far across the Widowmaker Sea a pyramid broods and plots revenge on those who had once thought to destroy it. to the east, at the edge of the world, an ancient serpent god uncoils, sending an unwilling woman to be the bride of the enigmatic Lord of Elcho Falling.As men, Icarii, ice wraiths and ancient gods gather for war, a legend rises from the dead - Axis SunSoar, come to regain his heritage and the Star Dance, and to battle new dangers across a vast, mysterious land.PRAISE FOR SARA DOUGLASS'breathtaking' SYDNEY MORNIG HERALD'addictively readable' tHE AGE'a superior adventure fantasy right to the last' BOOKLISt
Book Synopsis The Complete Rebus Collection by : Ian Rankin
Download or read book The Complete Rebus Collection written by Ian Rankin and published by Orion. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 5288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The career of Scotland's greatest modern detective. '[Rebus is] the most compelling mind in modern crime fiction' Independent Contains: KNOTS AND CROSSES, HIDE AND SEEK, TOOTH AND NAIL, A GOOD HANGING, STRIP JACK, THE BLACK BOOK, MORTAL CAUSES, LET IT BLEED, BLACK AND BLUE, THE HANGING GARDEN, DEAD SOULS, SET IN DARKNESS, THE FALLS, RESURRECTION MEN, A QUESTION OF BLOOD, FLESHMARKET CLOSE, THE NAMING OF THE DEAD, EXIT MUSIC.
Download or read book Matrix written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
