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Lightning Mary
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 214

Lightning Mary

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-04-04
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  • Publisher: Random House

Ordinary is what most people are and I am not. I am not ordinary at all. I am a scientist. One stormy night, a group of villagers are struck by lightning. The only survivor is a baby - Mary Anning. From that moment on, a spark is lit within her. Growing up poor but proud on the windswept Dorset coast, Mary follows after her father, hunting for fossils uncovered by waves and landslips: ancient creatures, turned to stone. Ignoring other people's taunts, Mary faces danger to bring back valuable treasures to help feed her family. But tragedy and despair is never far away. Mary must depend upon her unique courage and knowledge to fulfil her dream of becoming a scientist in a time when girls have no opportunities for such ambitions. What will happen when she makes her greatest discovery of all...? With a factual section about Mary Anning, her life, and the discoveries she made.

The Rose Legacy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 185

The Rose Legacy

This sweeping, emotionally-resonant fantasy from beloved author Jessica Day George is perfect for fans of Princess Academy and Black Beauty. When orphaned Anthea Cross-Thornley receives a letter from a long-lost uncle, she wonders if she will finally find a true home. But she is shocked to learn that her uncle secretly breeds horses--animals that have been forbidden in her kingdom for centuries. More alarming is Anthea's strange ability to sense the horses' thoughts and feelings, an ancient gift called The Way. Confused and terrified, Anthea is desperate to leave, but when her family and kingdom are put at risk, can she embrace The Way and the exciting future it might bring her? A Mighty Girl Best Book of the Year

Repudiating Feminism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 176

Repudiating Feminism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-08
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Gender equality is a widely shared value in many western societies and yet, the mention of the term feminism frequently provokes unease, bewilderment or overt hostility. Repudiating Feminism sheds light on why this is the case. Grounded in rich empirical research and providing a timely contribution to debates on engagements with feminism, Repudiating Feminism explores how young German and British women think, talk and feel about feminism. Drawing on in-depth interviews with women from different racial and class backgrounds, and with different sexual orientations, Repudiating Feminism reveals how young women's diverse positionings intersect with their views of feminism. This critical and refl...

Pleasures and Pastimes in Victorian Britain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 536

Pleasures and Pastimes in Victorian Britain

Richly illustrated with artwork and contemporary cartoons, this is a fascinating and engaging account of a neglected aspect of Victorian life.

Educational Diversity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 396

Educational Diversity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-09-26
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  • Publisher: Springer

This collection explores the relationship between new equality regimes and continued societal inequalities, exploring change, ambivalence and resistance specifically in relation to compulsory and post-compulsory education, seeking to more fully situate the educational journeys and experiences of staff and students.

The Entrepreneurial University
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

The Entrepreneurial University

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-05-05
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  • Publisher: Springer

The entrepreneurial university has been tasked with making an impact. This collection presents professional-personal reflections on research experience and interpretative accounts of navigating fieldwork and broader publics, politics and practices of (dis)engagement primarily through a feminist, queer and gender studies lens.

The Death of Sleep
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 381

The Death of Sleep

Volume two in the "Planet Pirates" series. Like every other citizen of the Federation of Sentient Planets, Lunzie Mespil believed that no harm would come to her, but when the planet pirates attack the space liner on which she is a passenger, she might have to suffer more than just inconvenience. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

A Lucky Star
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 154

A Lucky Star

Jilted by her faithless fiancé and at risk of cruel gossip from the debutantes and dowagers of London Society, Anthea Preston is rescued by her papa's proposed Grand Tour of Europe. But when he suddenly marries a woman who seems intent on marrying Anthea off to the first rich man that asks, she escapes and establishes herself as as chaperone to Lady Linette Hayworth.

The Money Moon, A Romance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 184

The Money Moon, A Romance

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-08-01
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  • Publisher: DigiCat

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Money Moon, A Romance" by John Jeffery Farnol. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The BERA Guide to Decolonising the Curriculum
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 263

The BERA Guide to Decolonising the Curriculum

Led by international educationalists across all phases of education, The BERA Guide to Decolonising the Curriculum is a powerful evocation, direction, and call to action for epistemological equity in knowledge production, teaching, and learning.