Margaret Wilson

The Able McLaughlins

Judy McGregor

Sylvia Bell

'The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted while the world remained deeply shocked by the atrocities committed during the Second World War, was an inspirational creation. ... It is hard to conceive of this document being adopted today. Like most other nations, New Zealand has succumbed to a kind of world-weary acceptance that full enjoyment of universal human rights remains a distant dream.' Preface, Dame Silvia Cartwright, PCNZM, DBE, QSO New Zealand is proud of its human rights record with good reason. It was the first country in the world to give women the vote and it played a prominent part in the establishment of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. New Zealand recently took a leading role in the creation of the world’s newest human rights treaty, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. But just how good are things in practice? Are our governments living up to the promises they make when they ratify human rights treaties? Human Rights in New Zealand is a comprehensive survey of the seven major international human rights treaties which New Zealand has signed and ratified, as well as the Universal Periodic Review. Based on four years of research, undertaken with the support of the New Zealand Law Foundation, this book concludes that significant faultlines are emerging in the human rights landscape. It sets out an agenda for change with recommendations for practical action.

Emerging Faultlines

Human Rights in New Zealand

James Wilson

A Genealogy, History, Directory of the Killorens, Killorans, Killorins, Belledune, Richmond, Erinsville

All Our Yesterdays

Ralph J. Crane

Set in the Punjab in the early twentieth century, Margaret Wilson's Daughters of India focuses on the relationship between two American missionaries, Davida Baille and John Ramsey.

Daughters of India

Jane Austen's Family and Tonbridge

What an Abnormal Pap Smear Means

Spanish Drama of the Golden Age describes this little-known field of European drama. This book describes and analyzes Spanish plays and drama. It reviews the Spanish plays from the 1580s to the death of Pedro Calderon de la Barca in 1681. This text also discusses the controversy to which direction the Spanish theater would take: whether it is for entertainment or a representation of the intellect and emotions. This book describes Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, and the rise of the Spanish comedia. The text describes how Lope wrote his plays and how he sold them outright to the manager of an acting company, which became its property. The text also describes the life of Tirso de Molina who was often criticized for his cavalier treatment of a historical fact. This book also discusses the works of Ruiz de Alarcon, Guillen de Castro, Velez de Guevara, and Mira de Amescua. This book also assess this period of Spanish drama in terms of the influence of other countries in Europe such as Britain and France. This book can prove valuable for university students of Spanish, Spanish literature teachers to students of sixth forms, and Spanish historians.

The Commonwealth and International Library: Pergamon Oxford Spanish Division

Spanish Drama of the Golden Age

The riveting Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, available as an e-book for the first time. Wully McLaughlin returns to his family’s Iowa homestead at the end of the Civil War to find his sweetheart, Chirstie McNair, alone and in distress, her mother dead and her wayward father gone. Perplexed by a new aloofness in Chirstie, Wully soon discovers that she has been raped and is pregnant. To the shock of his parents and the tight-knit Scottish community in which they live, he marries Chirstie and claims the child, and the shame of its early birth, as his own. But the lingering presence of Chirstie’s attacker sets in motion a series of events that pit the desire for revenge against a reluctance to perpetuate the cycle of violence. Often compared to Willa Cather’s One of Ours and Edna Ferber’s So Big for its earthy realism, its portrait of an immigrant community, and its depiction of Midwestern farm life, Margaret Wilson’s provocative debut novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for 1924, is ripe for rediscovery. In a recent reappraisal Judy Cornes commends the novel’s “feeling for time and place: a sense of the unrelenting forces that both history and nature impose on the individual. . . . The Able McLaughlins remains an engrossing story with characters who constantly engage our attention.”

A Library of America eBook Classic

Leland Edward Scott

Charles Orval Appleman

The Discoloration of Sweet Potatoes During Preparation for Processing and the Oxidase in the Root

Leslie Rees

The book tells the story of a very special friendship between Silver the seagull and young Vic Vincent, their shared passion for fishing and cricket - and the trouble it causes!

The Seagull who Liked Cricket

Geoff Taylor

Shropshire has inspired many writers over the centuries: its bucolic rolling fields and orchards, its dramatic wild hills and moors, its ramshackle market towns, its patchwork of copses and hedgerows, its bleak and beautiful mountains.Extracts from Charles Dickens to Henry James, from Kathy Swift to AE Housman, from Bill Bryson to Pete Postlethwaite, are matched with stunning photographs by Shropshire's Geoffrey Taylor, who has captured the landscapes that drew out the words.Also featuring extracts from Samuel Johnson, Roger Evans, DH Lawrence, Henry Kingsley, Wilfred Owen, Mary Webb, John Milton, Simon Evans, Tom Sharpe, Edith Pargeter, Phil Rickman, John Masefield, John Betjeman, Ellis Peters and many more.

The Literary Landscape of Shropshire

Nearest Earthly Place to Paradise

Janet Martin and Faith Kingston are two young American medical interns who are closer than sisters. When Faith’s mother died, Janet’s family took her in, and they’ve been inseparable since. Now, in the midst of World War II, they embark from San Francisco Harbor on their greatest adventure yet. They travel to China during the Japanese occupation. They face incredible challenges, like bombings, lack of proper supplies, general chaos, and the constant threat of danger. Still, these brave women will not give up on their patients. During a time in history when many women did not work, Janet and Faith buck cultural norms in Asia. They cling to their intense friendship even as the world seems to fall apart around them. War is hell, but these young women bring peace as they heal both bodies and souls.

The Inseparables

By Margaret Wilson

Tirso de Molina

Margaret Dyson Wilson

The Life of Frank Watson Dyson

Ninth Astronomer Royal

The Valiant Wife

Glenna Batson

Western contemporary dance and body-mind education have engaged in a pas de deux for more than four decades. The rich interchange of Somatics and dance has altered both fields, but scholarship that substantiates these ideas through the findings of twentieth-century scientific advances has been missing. This book fills that gap and brings to light contemporary discoveries of neuroscience and somatic education as they relate to dance. Drawing from the burgeoning field of “embodiment”—itself an idea at the intersection of the sciences, humanities, arts, and technologies—Body and Mind in Motion highlights the relevance of somatic education within dance education, dance science, and body-mind studies.

Dance and Neuroscience in Conversation

Body and Mind in Motion

A Pilgrim with Plastic on the Camino de Santiago

My Husband Made Me Do It!

Margaret Wilson

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