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Author : Church of England children's society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Our waifs and strays written by Church of England children's society and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles De Lint
Publisher : Viking Juvenile
ISBN 13 : 9780670035847
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Waifs and Strays written by Charles De Lint and published by Viking Juvenile. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles de Lint's remarkable novels and shorter fiction are, in a very real sense, coming of age stories. Here, for the first time, is a collection of his stories about teenagers collection for teen and adult readers alike. From the streets of his famed Newford to the alleys of Bordertown to the realms of Faerie, this is storytelling that will transfix and delight, with characters who will linger in the mind of them from his novels. Featuring an illuminating preface by acclaimed author, anthologist, and critic Terri Windling, Waifs and Strays is a must-own for de Lint fans, and an ideal introduction to his work for newcomers.
Author : O. Henry
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775456676
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (754 download)
Download or read book Waifs and Strays written by O. Henry and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the minds of many critics, scholars and loyal readers, American author William Sydney Porter -- better known as O. Henry -- perfected the art of the short story. Waifs and Strays collects some of the short fiction he penned toward the end of his illustrious literary career. Long-time fans and first-time readers alike are sure to be charmed.
Author : Colin Rochester
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1837642028
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)
Download or read book Understanding the Roots of Voluntary Action written by Colin Rochester and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on a range of empirical studies of aspects of the history of voluntary action. This title includes chapters that range across two centuries and a variety of fields of activity, geographical areas and organisational forms.
Author : Frederic Henry Balfour
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Waifs and Strays from the Far East written by Frederic Henry Balfour and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Claudia Soares
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192651889
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book A Home from Home? written by Claudia Soares and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering study of children's social care in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, A Home From Home? presents new information and develops conceptual thinking about the history of children's care by investigating the centrality of key ideas about home, family, and nurture that shaped welfare provision. Departing from narratives of reform and discipline which have dominated scholarship, and drawing on material culture and social history approaches, as well as the extensive archives of the Waifs and Strays Society, Claudia Soares provides a new type of study of social care by offering a 'bottom-up' study of children's welfare, and studying the significance of specific types of care practices that held particular cultural and ideological meaning. At its core, the book uses unique first-hand accounts, individual case records, and personal correspondence of children in care in Britain to locate the voices and subjectivities of institutionalised children and their families within the voluntary welfare system between 1870 and 1920. In doing so, it uncovers the real lives, experiences, and attitudes of the children and their families, and offers a timely new approach to understanding the history of children's social care.
Author : Emma Claire Sweeney
Publisher : Legend Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1785079662
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Owl Song at Dawn written by Emma Claire Sweeney and published by Legend Press Ltd. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tender and unflinching, a beautifully observed novel about familial love and stoicism in the face of heartbreak.”—Carys Bray, award-winning author of The Museum of You Maeve Maloney is a force to be reckoned with. Despite nearing 80, she keeps Sea View Lodge just as her parents did during Morecambe’s 1950s heyday. But now only her employees and regular guests recognize the tenderness and heartbreak hidden beneath her spikiness. Until, that is, Vincent shows up. Vincent is the last person Maeve wants to see. He is the only man alive to have known her twin sister, Edie. The nightingale to Maeve’s crow, the dawn to Maeve’s dusk, Edie would have set her sights on the stage—all things being equal. But, from birth, things never were. If only Maeve could confront the secret past she shares with Vincent, she might finally see what it means to love and be loved—a lesson that her exuberant yet inexplicable twin may have been trying to teach her all along. Stylist Magazine Top “Books to Read on a Staycation” “Funny, heartbreaking and truly remarkable.”—Susan Barker, New York Times bestselling author “I found the novel most poignant and tender in its depiction of disability, without a whiff of sentimentality . . . it crept under my skill and will stay there for a long time.”—Emma Henderson, Orange Prize-shortlisted author of Grace Williams Says It Loud “Amazing: fierce, intelligent, compassionate and deeply moving . . . an important and very beautiful book.”—Edward Hogan, Desmond Elliot Prize-winning author of Blackmoor “Fresh, poignant and unlike anything else.”—Jill Dawson, Whitbread and Orange Prize-shortlisted author of The Crime Writer
Author : Kate Hennessy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501133969
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty written by Kate Hennessy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the life and work of the provocative Catholic social reformer from the personal point of view of someone who knew her well, her granddaughter.
Author : Jane Smiley
Publisher : Mantle
ISBN 13 : 1760984566
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (69 download)
Download or read book The Strays of Paris written by Jane Smiley and published by Mantle. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley, The Strays of Paris is a captivating story of three extraordinary animals – and one little boy – whose lives cross paths in Paris. Paras is a spirited young racehorse living in a stable in the French countryside. That is until one afternoon, when she pushes open the gate of her stall and, travelling through the night, arrives quite by chance in the dazzling streets of Paris. She soon meets a German shorthaired pointer named Frida, two irrepressible ducks and an opinionated crow, and life amongst the animals in the city’s lush green spaces is enjoyable for a time. But everything changes when Paras meets a human boy, Étienne, and discovers a new, otherworldly part of Paris: the secluded, ivy-walled house where the boy and his nearly-one-hundred-year-old great grandmother live quietly and unto themselves. As the cold weather of Christmas nears, the unlikeliest of friendships bloom among humans and animals alike. But how long can a runaway horse live undiscovered in Paris? And how long can one boy keep her all to himself? Charming and beguiling in equal measure, Jane Smiley’s novel celebrates the intrinsic need for friendship, love, and freedom, whomever you may be . . .
Author : Perry Allan Snow
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781581127584
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Neither Waif Nor Stray written by Perry Allan Snow and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's father, Frederick George Snow (1909-1994), became a ward of the Church of England Society for Providing Homes for Waifs and Strays when he was four years old in 1913. He was sent from England to Canada as one of the "Home Children" when he was fifteen. This book contains the author's search for his father's identity and family in England as well as information on the British child emigration system between 1880 and 1930.
Author : E. Wayne Carp
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472024639
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Adoption in America written by E. Wayne Carp and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Includes research on adoption documents rarely open to historians . . . an important addition to the literature on adoption." ---Choice "Sheds new light on the roots of this complex and fascinating institution." ---Library Journal "Well-written and accessible . . . showcases the wide-ranging scholarship underway on the history of adoption." ---Adoptive Families "[T]his volume is a significant contribution to the literature and can serve as a catalyst for further research." ---Social Service Review Adoption affects an estimated 60 percent of Americans, but despite its pervasiveness, this social institution has been little examined and poorly understood. Adoption in America gathers essays on the history of adoptions and orphanages in the United States. Offering provocative interpretations of a variety of issues, including antebellum adoption and orphanages; changing conceptions of adoption in late-nineteenth-century novels; Progressive Era reform and adoptive mothers; the politics of "matching" adoptive parents with children; the radical effect of World War II on adoption practices; religion and the reform of adoption; and the construction of birth mother and adoptee identities, the essays in Adoption in America will be debated for many years to come.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Animal's Defender and Zoophilist written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris W. Kim
Publisher : SelfMadeHero
ISBN 13 : 9781910593998
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (939 download)
Download or read book Strays written by Chris W. Kim and published by SelfMadeHero. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enigmatic parable of the modern city, where strangers can become friends and vice versa A young man flees a disaster at home and comes to live in the city with his sister. He makes ends meet by taking a job as a deliveryman--only to encounter a flood of old friends and past acquaintances on his daily route . . . At first elated by the company of these waifs and strays, eventually, their own desperation for work begins to trouble his conscience--but what happens when you can't deliver help to everyone? Chris W. Kim's distinctively detailed graphic style embodies an elusively disquieting parable of modern isolation and the ties that bind--or fail to bind--society together.
Author : K. Ellinghaus
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230101283
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Re-Orienting Whiteness written by K. Ellinghaus and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together historians from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe to historicize constructions of whiteness as a colonial formation. Confronting the privilege inherent in the invisibility of contemporary whiteness requires that the historical roots of racial power be interrogated, and the history of European colonialism is of much more than passing significance to this task. This collection functions to read the colonial back into whiteness by demonstrating how this racial category traveled around the routes of empire. It shows how a transnational focus can bring historical and spatial specificity to the study of whiteness and thus re-orients the frames of whiteness for American and non-American scholars alike.
Author : Jean Genet
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802194249
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Our Lady of the Flowers written by Jean Genet and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 1994-01-12 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shattering novel of underground life the New York Times called “a cry of rapture and horror . . . the purest lyrical genius.” Jean Genet’s debut novel Our Lady of the Flowers, which is often considered to be his masterpiece, was written entirely in the solitude of a prison cell. A semi- autobiographical account of one man’s journey through the Paris demi-monde, dubbed “the epic of masturbation” by no less a figure than Jean-Paul Sartre, the novel’s exceptional value lies in its exquisite ambiguity.
Author : Clare Rose
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351920596
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Making, Selling and Wearing Boys' Clothes in Late-Victorian England written by Clare Rose and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a great deal of recent interest in masculine clothing, examining both its production and consumption, and the ways in which it was used to create individual identities and to build businesses, from 1850 onwards. Drawing upon a wide range of sources this book studies the interaction between producers and consumers at a key period in the development of the ready-made clothing industry. It also shows that many innovations in advertising clothing, usually considered to have been developed in America, had earlier British precedents. To counter the lack of documentary evidence that has hitherto hampered research into the dress practices of non-elite groups, this book utilises thousands of unpublished visual documents. These include hundreds of manufacturers' designs, which underline an unexpected degree of investment by manufacturers in boys' clothing, and which was matched by heavy investment in advertising, with thousands of images of boys' clothing for shop catalogues in the Stationers' Hall copyright archive. Another key source is the archives of Dr Barnardo's Homes. This extraordinary collection contains over 15,000 documented photographs of boys entering between 1875 and 1900, allowing us to look beyond official polarization of 'raggedness' and 'respectability' used by charities and social reformers of all stripes and to establish the clothing that was actually worn by a large sample of boys. A close analysis of 1,800 images reveals that even when families were impoverished, they strove to present their boys in ways that reflected their position in the family group and in society. By drawing on these visual sources, and linking the design and retailing of boys' clothing with social, cultural and economic issues, this book shows that an understanding of the production and consumption of the boys clothing is central to debates on the growth of the consumer society, the development of mass-market fashion, and concepts of childhood and masculinity.
Author : Malcolm Welshman
Publisher : Metro Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1843585944
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (435 download)
Download or read book Pets in a Pickle written by Malcolm Welshman and published by Metro Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on his own experiences of working as a vet, Malcolm Welshman brings to life a wealth of colourful characters -- including the formidable practice receptionist, Beryl, with her one steely eye -- and an ark's worth of marvellous animals. As enchanting as it is funny, this wonderful story will delight any animal fan. When Paul Mitchell arrives for his first day's work at Prospect House Veterinary Hospital, he never expects this...Oh his very first day, he is bitten by a feisty hamster...but this is a mere prelude to a cavalcade of hilarious -- and often painful -- encounters with fish, flesh and fowl. From stalking a feral cat to rescuing a cow stuck in a gravel pit, life is never short of animal adventures for the newly qualified vet. On top of treating all manner of creatures at the practice, Paul and his girlfriend Lucy, also nurse a host of waifs and strays back to health at their home. Besides six budgerigars, two love birds, a hoard of guinea pigs and three tabby cats, their menagerie includes Gertie the Goose, whose talent for house security saves her from the Christmas Day table, and Nelson, their lovable -- and stone deaf -- Jack Russell.
