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Our Lady of Mile End

by Sarah Gilbert ...

**Recommended in *The New York Times.***Our Lady of Mile End is a neighbourhood of stories about gentrification and displacement in a once affordable area that is feeling the squeeze of social and cultural transformation. The overlapping lives of girls and women, tenants and landlords, neighbours and strangers, the old generation and the next chart the tensions and affections among people living ... Read more

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**Recommended in *The New York Times.***Our Lady of Mile End is a neighbourhood of stories about gentrification and displacement in a once affordable area that is feeling the squeeze of social and cultural transformation. The overlapping lives of girls and women, tenants and landlords, neighbours and strangers, the old generation and the next chart the tensions and affections among people living
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Lonely Planet Costa Rica

by Elizabeth Lavis, Cassandra Brooklyn, Marco Ferrarese, Sarah Gilbert, Christa Jimenez, Anna Kaminski, Marisa Megan Paska ...

Series series Travel Guide
Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime in this latest edition of our guide to Costa Rica.Discover Costa Rica's most popular experiences and best kept secrets from catching a glimpse of shy sloths and white-faced monkeys in Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio; to marvelling at the five scenic cascades in the Central Valley's La Paz Waterfall ... Read more

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Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime in this latest edition of our guide to Costa Rica.Discover Costa Rica's most popular experiences and best kept secrets from catching a glimpse of shy sloths and white-faced monkeys in Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio; to marvelling at the five scenic cascades in the Central Valley's La Paz Waterfall
... Read more
Vaxxers

A Pioneering Moment in Scientific History

by Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green ...

'Moving and awe-inspiring... The story of the decade'Mail on Sunday**'Vaxxers is so good that the book will be read for long after the pandemic is over'Financial Times'The amazing tale of a vaccine that has saved so many of our lives. It's a dramatic, page-turning read, and incredibly moving'**Chris Evans'I dare anyone to read this and not come away impressed'<... ... Read more

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'Moving and awe-inspiring... The story of the decade'Mail on Sunday**'Vaxxers is so good that the book will be read for long after the pandemic is over'Financial Times'The amazing tale of a vaccine that has saved so many of our lives. It's a dramatic, page-turning read, and incredibly moving'**Chris Evans'I dare anyone to read this and not come away impressed'<...
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Vaxxers

A Pioneering Moment in Scientific History

by Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green ...

Narrated by Heather Long, Nicky Diss ...

Unabridged

10 hours 36 min

*The inside story of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine, from two of the leading scientists who created it. Fully updated for paperback publication with a preface and a new chapter .*This is the story of a race - not against other vaccines or other scientists, but against a deadly and devastating virus.On 1 January 2020, Sarah Gilbert, Professor of Vaccinology at Oxford University, read an article ... Read more

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*The inside story of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine, from two of the leading scientists who created it. Fully updated for paperback publication with a preface and a new chapter .*This is the story of a race - not against other vaccines or other scientists, but against a deadly and devastating virus.On 1 January 2020, Sarah Gilbert, Professor of Vaccinology at Oxford University, read an article
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Unconventional Women

The story of the last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia

by Sarah Gilbert ...

In the 1950s and 60s, six young women left their families to join a strictly enclosed order of nuns in Melbourne. They could leave the convent only for medical appointments and rarely received visitors, who they would meet from behind a partition built into the parlour. Their lives were confined by the convent walls, the rhythms of the Divine Office and the dictates of the Mother Superior. By the ... Read more

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In the 1950s and 60s, six young women left their families to join a strictly enclosed order of nuns in Melbourne. They could leave the convent only for medical appointments and rarely received visitors, who they would meet from behind a partition built into the parlour. Their lives were confined by the convent walls, the rhythms of the Divine Office and the dictates of the Mother Superior. By the
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The Equality Act 2010 in Mental Health

A Guide to Implementation and Issues for Practice

by Marcel Vige, Scott and Jourdan Durairaj, Tony Jameson-Allen, Melba Wilson, Sue Waterhouse, Peter Gilbert, Sarah Carr, Barbara Vincent, Cheryl Brodie, Jo Honigmann, Eleanor Hope ...

The Equality Act 2010 in Mental Health provides a critical guide to the Act: what it means for mental health services and how it should be implemented.It addresses each of the nine characteristics protected by the Act in turn, examining the research and practice issue associated with each and offering positive guidance. Contributors also highlight the broader issues associated with achieving ... Read more

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The Equality Act 2010 in Mental Health provides a critical guide to the Act: what it means for mental health services and how it should be implemented.It addresses each of the nine characteristics protected by the Act in turn, examining the research and practice issue associated with each and offering positive guidance. Contributors also highlight the broader issues associated with achieving
... Read more
Conradology

A celebration of the work of Joseph Conrad

by Paul Theroux, Kamila Shamsie, Wojciech Orlinski, Sarah Schofield, Zoe Gilbert, Farah Ahamed, Grazyna Plebanek, SJ Bradley, Agnieszka Dale, Giles Foden, Jacek Dukaj, Jan Krasnowolski, Dr Richard Niland, Prof Robert Hampson ...

A merchant sailor works for a decade, captaining a yacht up and down the coasts of Malaysia, in the hope that his crooked employer will stay true to a promise...Years after a pandemic sweeps across Europe, wiping out its all-white population, a pilgrim returns to his Polish birthplace in search of the only other non-white kid he knew at school...An inscrutable hotelier loses his composure when a ... Read more

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A merchant sailor works for a decade, captaining a yacht up and down the coasts of Malaysia, in the hope that his crooked employer will stay true to a promise...Years after a pandemic sweeps across Europe, wiping out its all-white population, a pilgrim returns to his Polish birthplace in search of the only other non-white kid he knew at school...An inscrutable hotelier loses his composure when a
... Read more
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Seven Days in the Art World

by Sarah Thornton ...

Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

Unabridged

8 hours 21 min

The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative religion.In a series of beautifully paced narratives, Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christie's auction, the workings in Takashi Murakami's studios, the ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative religion.In a series of beautifully paced narratives, Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christie's auction, the workings in Takashi Murakami's studios, the
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Paper Love

Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind

by Sarah Wildman ...

Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

Unabridged

12 hours 54 min

Years after her grandfather's death, journalist Sarah Wildman stumbled upon a cache of his letters in a file labeled "Correspondence: Patients A–G." What she found inside weren't dry medical histories; instead what was written opened a path into the destroyed world that was her family's prewar Vienna. One woman's letters stood out: those from Valy—Valerie Scheftel, her grandfather's lover who ... Read more

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Years after her grandfather's death, journalist Sarah Wildman stumbled upon a cache of his letters in a file labeled "Correspondence: Patients A–G." What she found inside weren't dry medical histories; instead what was written opened a path into the destroyed world that was her family's prewar Vienna. One woman's letters stood out: those from Valy—Valerie Scheftel, her grandfather's lover who
... Read more

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Hivemind

The New Science of Tribalism in Our Divided World

by Sarah Rose Cavanagh, PhD ...

Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

Unabridged

8 hours 59 min

At the crossroads between The Shallows and Presence, Hivemind is a provocative look at how communities can sync up around shared ideas, and how this hive mentality is contributing to today's polarized times.Hivemind: A collective consciousness in which we share consensus thoughts, emotions, and opinions; a phenomenon whereby a group of people function as if with a single mind.Our views of the ... Read more

$27.99 USD

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At the crossroads between The Shallows and Presence, Hivemind is a provocative look at how communities can sync up around shared ideas, and how this hive mentality is contributing to today's polarized times.Hivemind: A collective consciousness in which we share consensus thoughts, emotions, and opinions; a phenomenon whereby a group of people function as if with a single mind.Our views of the
... Read more

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33 Artists in 3 Acts

by Sarah Thornton ...

Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

Unabridged

11 hours 16 min

33 Artists in 3 Acts offers unprecedented access to a dazzling range of artists, from international superstars to unheralded art teachers. Sarah Thornton's beautifully paced, fly-on-the-wall narratives include visits with Ai Weiwei before and after his imprisonment and Jeff Koons as he woos new customers in London, Frankfurt, and Abu Dhabi. She meets Yayoi Kusama in her studio around the corner ... Read more

$20.49 USD

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33 Artists in 3 Acts offers unprecedented access to a dazzling range of artists, from international superstars to unheralded art teachers. Sarah Thornton's beautifully paced, fly-on-the-wall narratives include visits with Ai Weiwei before and after his imprisonment and Jeff Koons as he woos new customers in London, Frankfurt, and Abu Dhabi. She meets Yayoi Kusama in her studio around the corner
... Read more

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Just Like Magic

by Sarah Hogle ...

Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

Unabridged

11 hours

The holidays were never her thing, until she accidentally conjures the Holiday Spirit...before her very eyes.Bettie Hughes once knew the comfort of luxury, flaunting a collection of designer purses and an enviable dream home in Hawaii. That was before she lost all her money. Long obsessed with her public image, Bettie boasts an extravagant lifestyle on social media. But the reality is Bettie is ... Read more

$20.00 USD

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The holidays were never her thing, until she accidentally conjures the Holiday Spirit...before her very eyes.Bettie Hughes once knew the comfort of luxury, flaunting a collection of designer purses and an enviable dream home in Hawaii. That was before she lost all her money. Long obsessed with her public image, Bettie boasts an extravagant lifestyle on social media. But the reality is Bettie is
... Read more

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