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  • Freedom and the Wolves
    Dietmar Schönherr / Patricia Hughes
    This charming allegory, suitable for all age groups, is about a boy called Freedom. Born the son of gipsy tinkers, the boy is left outside a monastery when his parents are refused help in the coldest of winters. The story ends with the realisation that mutual support can always rebuild democracy for social well-being, and it counters opposition because he - Freedom - always con...
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    25,00 €

  • The History of My Family
    Patricia Hughes
    The author clarifies controversial events in William Butler Yeats’s life, such as sudden heart troubles and depression from June 1925, his notorious Divorce Bill speech, the riots over O’Casey’s production of ’The Plough and the Stars’ and Yeats’s obsession with Purgatory. His wife George was his amanuensis; this essay explains her motivation for altering details in his works a...
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    28,06 €

  • Good Signs
    Iakovos Kambanellis / Patricia Hughes
    Iakovos Kambanellis wrote ’Freedom came in May’ as a result of time spent in Mauthausen Concentration camp in Upper Austria, and the title refers to his unexpected release by American forces in May 1945. His personal memoir is of being arrested with no recourse in law, and of freight journeys between different camps. At the same time ordinary people completely ignored those hea...
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    23,03 €

  • Gentleman Jack
    Patricia Hughes
    From the multitude of papers collected and filed by Anne Lister come the diaries of herself and an Indian heiress, and their letters to each other, some in secret code. This is the first part of their story. As far as possible their own words have been used to tell their tale, and the letters and notes in secret code have been translated to give insight into their lives. This b...
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    33,07 €

  • Gentleman Jack
    Patricia Hughes
    Anne Lister was born in 1791, the eldest living child of an extended landed family in Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire in northern England. As a girl with two brothers she would not inherit, so she decided to write for a living. From 1806 she wrote notes and described events in her life, but from 1817 her life changed - and she wrote her extensive journal every day until...
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    22,37 €

  • An Analysis of Selected Poetry by William Butler Yeats between 1918 and 1928
    Patricia Hughes
    Selections from William Butler Yeats’ poetry revealing an autobiographical account of his sudden heart problem and severe depression.Both my father and I loved poetry; we quoted it to each other all the time.He had racks of it on his bookshelves and delighted in showing me the beauty and honesty of the mere arrangement of words.When I began to systematically read the later poet...
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    26,33 €

  • Gentleman Jack
    Patricia Hughes
    ''I propose from this day to keep an exact journal, to accustom me to set a due value on my time.''For Gentleman Jack - Anne Lister - 1817 marks the end of many ambitions, and the start of the rest of her life. Her true love is gone forever; she knows she is an ’oddity’; and she has no money.She returns to live quietly with her aunt and uncle. But slowly her life begins to chan...
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    19,30 €

  • Gentleman Jack’s Secret Diary for 1817
    Patricia Hughes
    For Anne Lister 1817 was a year of letting go of the past and starting again. The coded entries for this year reveal decisions and events that form the rest of her adult life. ...
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    26,36 €

  • Procurement in the Construction Industry
    David Greenwood / Patricia M. Hillebrandt / William Hughes
    Evidence-based assessment of new procurement processes in relation to collaborative working patterns, weighing up the costs and benefits to the construction industry. ...
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    88,25 €

  • Tommy Learns It’s Not So Scary
    Patricia A. Hughes / Patricia AHughes
    I don’t know if there are words strong enough to explain just how brave and amazing a young child is that faces what us adults fear most. When a child becomes sick, their whole world is a day-to-day scary place that is full of new challenges almost every day. They truly are amazing! No matter how much we want to endure their pain and fear for them, it’s just not possible. I bel...
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    11,69 €

  • Tommy Learns a Great Secret
    Patricia A. Hughes / Patricia AHughes
    The purpose of my stories is to teach children that they can accomplish anything if they have the right attitude and confidence in themselves. I want to share these valuable secrets about life that I have learned with young children in hopes of making a difference in their lives. I believe that anyone can accomplish anything when they put their mind to it. This story shows chil...
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    14,60 €

  • Friends Stick Together
    Patricia Hughes
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    12,85 €

  • The Royals and the Roaches
    Patricia L. Hughes / Patricia LHughes
    'I belly-crawled across the floor after a bomb exploded outside our garden in Yemen...I had tea with Barbara Bush in the Yellow Room of the White House...I drove blindly into the midst of an anti-American riot in Venezuela...I joined in a folk dance led by Queen Margrethe in Denmark and I ate dinner with a prime minister in Israel.'Patricia Hughes gives us a candid, tough-minde...
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    18,16 €