Mary Hamilton: 35 books
Kentucky Folktales
Revealing Stories, Truths, and Outright Lies
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
The storytelling tradition has long been an important piece of Kentucky history and culture. Folktales, legends, tall tales, and ghost stories hold a special place in the imaginations of inventive storytellers and captive listeners. In Kentucky Folktales: Revealing Stories, Truths, and Outright Lies...
by Mary Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Scottish writer and thinker Mary Hamilton was a staunch early supporter of equal rights for women. In her bestselling novel, Munster Village, Hamilton imagines a utopian community which opens its arms to women and children who have suffered as a result of society's strict mores and constraints.
by Mary Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017
What if your mother told you she didn't want you anymore?
If Brady could figure out what he did wrong, he'd fix it. Instead, he has to deal with poison ivy, a bully, and Rustic Knoll's summer version of PE class. Only his blind cabin mate and a spunky blonde with cute dimples make life at camp...
by Mary Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
Dad drilled into Steven that blindness should never be used as an excuse. So when Steven, 17, finds an old triathlon medallion among Dad’s belongings, he’s inspired to follow in his footsteps. Maybe it’ll quiet the guilt he’s carried since Dad’s death three years ago.
Steven continues...
by Mary Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017
Having his little sister at camp would be a pain, but Taylor never imagined the pain would go so deep.
To achieve his dream, Taylor must stay out of trouble. Only his younger sister believes in his dream, but she can also destroy it.
Taylor sizes up his snobbish cabin mate on first sight....
Local Literacies
Reading and Writing in One Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Local Literacies is a unique detailed study of the role of reading and writing in people’s everyday lives. By concentrating on a selection of people in a particular community in Lancaster, England, the authors analyse how they use literacy in their day-to-day lives. It follows four people in detail...
by Cicely Mary Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
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by Jim Crowther, Mary Hamilton, Lyn Tett
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2001
As the gap increases between those with access to information and those denied it, redistributing information and making it accessible become ever more important educational and political tasks. While some people now have greater access to a wide range of information, they do not necessarily have...
Academics Writing
The Dynamics of Knowledge Creation
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Academics Writing recounts how academic writing is changing in the contemporary university, transforming what it means to be an academic and how, as a society, we produce academic knowledge. Writing practices are changing as the academic profession itself is reconfigured through new forms of governance...
by Mary Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
In the history of the ancient world the Romans played the part that men of our race have played in the history of the modern world. They knew, as we claim to know, how to govern: how to govern themselves, and how to govern other people. To this day much in our laws and in our system of government...
by Mary Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Literacy is a key indicator for comparing individuals and nations in contemporary society. It is central to public debates about the nature of the public sphere, economic markets, citizenship and self-governance.
Literacy and the Politics of Representation aims to uncover the constructed nature...
by Mary Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
More than two thousand years ago, at a time when the people in the British Isles and in most parts of Western Europe were living the lives of savages, occupied in fighting, hunting, and fishing, dwelling in rude huts, clad in skins, ignorant of everything that we call civilization, Rome was the centre...
Trials of the Earth
The True Story of a Pioneer Woman
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
The astonishing first-person account of Mississippi pioneer woman struggling to survive, protect her family and make a home in the early American South
Near the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866 - c.1936) began recording her experiences in the backwoods of the Mississippi Delta. The...
Of Gratitude & Happiness - The Thanksgiving Storybook
60+ Holiday Tales & Poems: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, The Genesis of the Doughnut Club, The Purple Dress, Thankful, The Kingdom Of Greedy, The Night before Thanksgiving, The Master of the Harvest…
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Enjoy this meticulously edited collection, dedicated to the holiday of gratefulness and forgiveness: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery) The Genesis of the Doughnut Club (Lucy Maud Montgomery) Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen (O....