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Wingfield's World

Author : Dan Needles
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307360849
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Wingfield's World written by Dan Needles and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walt Wingfield, the character beloved by thousands in every part of the country, is back with a new and complete book, with a new introduction from the author. Walt Wingfield is a Bay Street stockbroker who quits his job and buys a hundred-acre farm in Persephone Township, Ontario. In a series of letters to the editor of the local newspaper, Walt chronicles his modest successes and spectacular defeats in an age when farming has become difficult for farmers old and new. Dan Needles' rich and charming rural neighbourhood may be difficult to find on a map but it is very close to the Canadian soul. Including a new introduction from Dan Needles, the writer who brought this marvellous world to life 27 years ago, and all your favourite mishaps, triumphs and eccentric neighbours Wingfield's World is the full story of one man's attempt to embrace a less complicated world and how he ends up with more complication and drama, and more love and richness than he could have imagined.

The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria

Author : Nancy Meriwether Wingfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198801653
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria written by Nancy Meriwether Wingfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of prostitution addresses issues of female agency and experience, as well as contemporary fears about sexual coercion and the forced movement of girls/women, and police surveillance. Rather than treating prostitutes solely as victims or problems to be solved, as so often has been the case in much of the literature, Nancy M. Wingfield seeks to find the historical subjects behind fin-de-si cle constructions of prostitutes, to restore agency to the women who participated in commercial sex, illuminate their quotidian experiences, and to place these women, some of whom made a rational economic decision to sell their bodies, in the larger social context of late imperial Austria. Wingfield investigates the interactions of both registered and clandestine prostitutes with the vice police and other supervisory agents, including physicians and court officials, as well as with the inhabitants of these women's world, including brothel clients and madams, and pimps, rather than focusing top-down on the state-constructed apparatus of surveillance. Close reading of a broad range of primary and secondary sources shows that some prostitutes in late imperial Austria took control over their own fates, at least as much as other working-class women, in the last decades before the end of the Monarchy. And after 1918, bureaucratic transition did not necessarily parallel political transition. Thus, there was no dramatic change in the regulation of prostitution in the successor states. Legislation, which changed regulation only piecemeal after the war, often continued to incorporate forms of control, reflecting continuity in attitudes about women's sexuality.

Letters from Wingfield Farm

Author : Dan Needles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781550131574
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Letters from Wingfield Farm written by Dan Needles and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Businessman Walt Wingfield yearns for a simpler life, so he buys a 100-acre farm and decides to use horse-drawn equipment. In these humorous letters to a local newspaper, Wingfield chronicles his first three years, including his battles with developers and barnyard disease, and his trials with a former racehorse that can only turn left.

True Confessions from the Ninth Concession

Author : Dan Needles
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN 13 : 1771621702
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book True Confessions from the Ninth Concession written by Dan Needles and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2017-08-26 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author and playwright Dan Needles has long delighted readers and audiences alike with his insightful and laugh-out-loud perspective on small-town life, published in such bestselling books as Wingfield's World (Random House, 2011), Wingfield's Hope (Key Porter, 2005), With Axe and Flask (McFarlane, Walter and Ross, 2002) and Letters From Wingfield Farm (Key Porter, 1988). In 1988, Needles and his wife left the city to start a family in a country community located two hours north of Toronto. Together they stocked their farm with sheep, cattle, chickens, pigs and, eventually, four children. Needles' charming chronicle unfolds in essays dated from 1997 to 2016, offering homespun advice for successful country living--like whether to wave from the elbow or to merely raise one finger from the steering wheel when passing a neighbour in the car. He cautions on rural superstitions, such as when his neighbour hesitated before selling him weaner pigs because every time he does the wife of the farmer who's buying them becomes pregnant--which turned out to be true. Here too is the tale of an unlikely friendship between a "borderline" collie ("he's never bitten anything in his life and the sheep are catching on") and an odd duck named Ferdinand, as well as other hilarious stories involving an assortment of farm animals, including the weapon of choice to properly dispatch a rooster-gone-bad; the risks of giving a name to a potential Sunday dinner entrée; and how to outsmart a free-range pig. With his witty insight, Needles shares the art of neighbouring in the country--a place made for visits, and "where a figure walking across your field is more of a reason to put the kettle on than to call the police." True Confessions from the Ninth Concession is a sesquicentennial crop of antics and aphorisms by Canada's funniest farmer--one that presents a wonderful escape for world-weary city dwellers, and affirmative reading for anyone who is from, or has moved to, rural Canada.

Flag Wars and Stone Saints

Author : Nancy Meriwether Wingfield
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674025820
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Flag Wars and Stone Saints written by Nancy Meriwether Wingfield and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a new perspective on the formation of national identity in Central Europe, Wingfield analyzes what many historians have treated separately--the construction of the Czech and German nations--as a single phenomenon. Illustrations show how people absorbed, on many levels, visual clues that shaped how they identified themselves and their groups.

George Wingfield

Author : C. Elizabeth Raymond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book George Wingfield written by C. Elizabeth Raymond and published by . This book was released on 1992-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banker, hotel owner, and political powerhouse George Wingfield was a significant figure in Nevada history. He was influential in developing Reno's gambling-and-divorce-related tourism. Raymond's biography depicts the man and his times, from his birth in Arkansas in 1876 until his death in Reno in 1959. Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities.

Flatlining

Author : Adia Harvey Wingfield
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520971787
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Flatlining written by Adia Harvey Wingfield and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to black health care professionals in the new economy, where work is insecure and organizational resources are scarce? In Flatlining, Adia Harvey Wingfield exposes how hospitals, clinics, and other institutions participate in “racial outsourcing,” relying heavily on black doctors, nurses, technicians, and physician assistants to do “equity work”—extra labor that makes organizations and their services more accessible to communities of color. Wingfield argues that as these organizations become more profit driven, they come to depend on black health care professionals to perform equity work to serve increasingly diverse constituencies. Yet black workers often do this labor without recognition, compensation, or support. Operating at the intersection of work, race, gender, and class, Wingfield makes plain the challenges that black employees must overcome and reveals the complicated issues of inequality in today’s workplaces and communities.

Anomia

Author : Harold Goodglass
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0080527272
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Anomia written by Harold Goodglass and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1997-06-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anomia is the inability to access spoken names for objects, most often associated with the elderly or those with brain damage to the left hemisphere. Anomia offers the state-of-the-art review of disorders of naming, written by acknowledged experts from around the world, approached from both clinical and theoretical viewpoints. Goodglass, known around the world for his research in aphasia and speech pathology, edits this first book devoted exclusively to naming and its disorders. Wingfield is known for his classic studies of lexical processing in aphasic and normal speakers. The book includes comprehensive literature reviews, a summary of relevant research data, as well as astudy of recent advances in cognitive analysis and anatomic findings. Anomia is an immensely useful work for all those involved in the study of language, particularly those in cognitive neuroscience, neurology, speech pathology, and linguistics. - Devoted entirely to naming and its disorders - Includes up-to-date descriptions of advances in cognitive analysis - Contains approaches from both clinical and theoretical viewpoints - Brings together the top researchers from the U.S., England, and Italy

Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe

Author : Nancy M. Wingfield
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253111937
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe written by Nancy M. Wingfield and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the role of gender on both the home and fighting fronts in eastern Europe during World Wars I and II. By using gender as a category of analysis, the authors seek to arrive at a more nuanced understanding of the subjective nature of wartime experience and its representations. While historians have long equated the fighting front with the masculine and the home front with the feminine, the contributors challenge these dichotomies, demonstrating that they are based on culturally embedded assumptions about heroism and sacrifice. Major themes include the ways in which wartime experiences challenge traditional gender roles; postwar restoration of gender order; collaboration and resistance; the body; and memory and commemoration.

Still a Man's World

Author : Christine L. Williams
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520915224
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Still a Man's World written by Christine L. Williams and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men who do "women's work" have consistently been the butt of jokes, derided for their lack of drive and masculinity. In this eye-opening study, Christine Williams provides a wholly new look at men who work in predominantly female jobs. Having conducted extensive interviews in four cities, Williams uncovers how men in four occupations—nursing, elementary school teaching, librarianship, and social work—think about themselves and experience their work. Contrary to popular imagery, men in traditionally female occupations do not define themselves differently from men in more traditional occupations. Williams finds that most embrace conventional, masculine values. Her findings about how these men fare in their jobs are also counterintuitive. Rather than being surpassed by the larger number of women around them, these men experience the "glass escalator effect," rising in disproportionate numbers to administrative jobs at the top of their professions. Williams finds that a complex interplay between gendered expectations embedded in organizations, and the socially determined ideas workers bring to their jobs, contribute to mens' advantages in these occupations. Using a feminist psychoanalytic perspective, Williams calls for more men not only to cross over to women's occupations, but also to develop alternative masculinities that find common ground with traditionally female norms of cooperation and caring. Until the workplace is sexually integrated and masculine and feminine norms equally valued, it will unfortunately remain "still a man's world." This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995. Men who do "women's work" have consistently been the butt of jokes, derided for their lack of drive and masculinity. In this eye-opening study, Christine Williams provides a wholly new look at men who work in predominantly female jobs. Having conducted ex

Journal of American Culture

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Journal of American Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

United States Lawn Tennis Association and the World War

Author : Paul Benjamin Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book United States Lawn Tennis Association and the World War written by Paul Benjamin Williams and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Winning the Race Every Day

Author : Steve Winfield
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1441267573
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Winning the Race Every Day written by Steve Winfield and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2013-06-12 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drive to Win The apostle Paul compared the Christian life to a race--and races are meant to be won! Put yourself into the driver's seat and keep an eye out for the green flag. Like a NASCAR driver, you'll need all the skill, guts, and heart in the world . . . and that's where Winning the Race Every Day comes in. These daily readings--one for every day of the year--will inspire and train you to drive the race of your life with boldness, courage, and an unquenchable longing to know God. Each day's short meditation ends with a "Pit Stop" prayer, promise, praise, or point to ponder that will supercharge you for the next lap. So drive your life this year as if the finish line is just around the next curve. That's the only way to win!

American Literature, Realism to 1945

Author : Frank Northen Magill
Publisher : Magill Surveys
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Literature, Realism to 1945 written by Frank Northen Magill and published by Magill Surveys. This book was released on 1981 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

With Axe and Flask

Author : Dan Needles
Publisher : MacFarlane Walter & Ross
ISBN 13 : 1551990881
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book With Axe and Flask written by Dan Needles and published by MacFarlane Walter & Ross. This book was released on 2002 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour for 2003 The creator of the hugely popular Wingfield Farm plays lays bare a beguiling corner of rural Canada Just a few hours north of the city, you’ll find the familiar features of Persephone Township: the hardscrabble farms, the timeless small towns, the laconic local citizens. The fabled turf that is home to Wingfield Farm (immortalized by Dan Needles in five one-man stage productions), Persephone is hard to find on any map but very near the Canadian soul. In Persephone anything can happen and often does. Towering local figures dating back to the township’s murky colonial beginnings land-grabbing speculators, shady railway promoters, heedless despoilers of natural wonders, and spectacularly slippery politicians cross paths with the likes of Sir John A. Macdonald and Wilfrid Laurier, not to mention the rebel William Lyon Mackenzie and the future King Edward VII. With Axe and Flask tells it all, sparing no Canadian sacred cow in uncovering the township’s checkered past, from the displacement of its original native inhabitants to the recent invasion of the weekenders. You are about to enter a world at once strange and recognizable, where past and present, fact and fiction combine in a potent mix of comedy, pathos and national identity.

The World's Great Masterpieces

Author : Harry Thurston Peck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The World's Great Masterpieces written by Harry Thurston Peck and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Library of the World's Best Literature

Author : Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Library of the World's Best Literature written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: