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This monograph chronicles the life of an eminent pioneer of surgery, K.H. Digby, the important milestones in his professional life and the hardship he faced to fulfill his dreams.Digby was a remarkabl

A Mother for America tells the remarkable story of how Philadelphia Quaker Betsy Ross, unknown beyond her family until 1870, became one of the most famous women in US history, despite sustained scholarly skepticism about her role in making the first American flag. Charles Hardy III traces the transformation of family memory into historical "fact" by her grandson in 1870 and shows how artists, teachers, marketers, reformers, and politicians repeatedly refashioned Betsy Ross to promote competing visions of patriotism, gender roles, citizenship, and national identity--and to sell goods and make money. A parallel narrative follows the controversial transformation of a small colonial Philadelphia rowhouse from a beer saloon into a patriotic shrine, tourist destination, and then as the nation's first historic house museum, The Betsy Ross House, devoted to women's labor during the era of the American Revolution. From schoolrooms and civic pageants to world fairs, war-bond drives, thirteen-sta

This book of stunning maps is packed with fascinating facts, wonderful wildlife, and extraordinary stories that young readers will love getting lost inDiscover the history of humankind from a new perspective. This fascinating first snapshot of the world's past, present, and future presents the world through the lens of latitude. Traveling north to south, kids will explore how great ideas spread around the globe from the earliest civilizations through to the industrial revolution, how climate has impacted people from the equator to the poles, and how wildlife has adapted.Featuring ten detailed maps, including: The Arctic Circle Northern LightsPioneers of CultureTrade and TravelTropic of CancerEquatorTropic of CapricornOceans and DesertsFire and IceThe Antarctic Circle

A remarkable collaboration - that brings together giants of the picture book world - to create a funny, anarchic and utterly delightful picture book. A classic of the future.Beep! Beep!Hilda Snibbs is taking her three mischievous monkeys to visit her mother in the country. But what is supposed to be a calm and peaceful holiday is soon filled with chaos and hilarious havoc!Quentin Blake's delightfully funny story is brought to life by Emma Chichester Clark's beautiful mixed-media illustration in this landmark follow up to Three Little Monkeys.

Our eyes were carved from our tears. We wrestled with our turbulences & became our own laments. Sara Shagufta's significance as one of Urdu's most remarkable poets is often eclipsed by controversies surrounding her life as a working-class woman searching for love and liberation within sexist poetic milieus and the repressive patriarchal laws of US-funded militarized Islamist rule in 1980s Pakistan. In this innovative translation of Shagufta's posthumous collection, Aankhein, Javeria Hasnain enters into contemporary dialogue with the poet's words, reminding us of how her uncanny metonyms and estranged metaphors unsettled conventions of respectable Urdu poetry. With startling leaps of association, and stark imagery, these moving poems delve into the sensual and erotic realm of the female body, invoking "eyes," "colours," and "dirt" to grieve the loss of a child, mourn a failed motherhood, and dismantle the patriarchal and societal forces that seek to eliminate womanhood. The spare and co

Dorothy Sayers was a pioneer in many diverse fields, including the British tradition of detective fiction, religious radio drama, first-wave feminism, and the Classical Christian School movement—this volume explores all of these facets of her life and more. It is a compelling, dramatic, and occasionally very funny story of a remarkable life.

Logical Positivism: An American History tells the remarkable story of a group of European philosophers and scientists who fled fascism and reshaped American philosophy. Drawing on extensive archival materials, it traces the conflicted reception of their ideas-- once hailed as a model of scientific clarity and yet condemned as a sterile and reductive approach to philosophy. Rather than treating logical positivism as a purely European export, this book argues that it was a product of transatlantic exchange. It reconstructs the rise of an American network of scientists and philosophers whose ideas were defined by twentieth-century revolutions in logic and modern physics; and it shows how their encounters with European 幦igr廥 helped shape a new 'analytic' style of philosophy that has dominated the field ever since. Combining narrative reconstruction with innovative digital humanities methods, this book illuminates the intellectual, institutional, and cultural conditions that enabled logical

十年前，Lily 曾是 Cathy 照顧過的寄養孩子。十年後的節禮日深夜，她卻突然出現在 Cathy 家門前，冷得發抖，也沒有其他地方可去。眼前的 Lily 已經長大，但她沉默、戒備，明顯藏著難以開口的事情。面對這個曾經走進自己家庭的孩子，Cathy 決定再次陪她尋找出路。Cathy Glass 擁有三十多年寄養經驗，照顧過超過 150 名孩子，並將許多真實經歷寫成暢銷作品。本書從一次意外重逢開始，隨著 Lily 的處境逐漸明朗，也一步步拼湊她不願面對的過去。故事延續 Cathy Glass 作品對寄養、家庭關係與孩子成長處境的細膩書寫。● 從昔日寄養孩子十年後突然登門展開，帶有逐步拼湊真相的懸念● 作者以長年的寄養照顧經驗為寫作基礎，持續關注孩子、照顧者與家庭關係● 推薦給 Cathy Glass 長期讀者，尤其喜愛 Hidden、Mummy Told Me Not to Tell、Helpless 的讀者The brand new, long-awaited book from THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Cathy GlassONE REMARKABLE WOMAN.OVER 30 YEARS OF FOSTERING.CARER TO MORE THAN 150 CHILDREN.Can Cathy help troubled Lily sort her life out and piece together the truth?Late on boxing day, Cathy hears a strange noise outside her house, only to find Lily, a child she fostered ten years ago, shivering on her front step.But she is no longer the vulnerable girl Cathy once knew. Withdrawn and on edge, Lily has nowhere else to turn – and it soon becomes clear she is hiding something far more serious.Can Cathy sav