Maria

Author : Jay Hardwig
Publisher : Fitzroy Books
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1646030826

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Just Maria by Jay Hardwig Pdf

Just Maria is the story of Maria Romero, a blind sixth-grader who is trying her hardest to be normal. Not amazing. Not inspiring. Not helpless. Not weird. Just normal. Normal is hard enough with her white cane, glass eyes, and bumpy books, but Maria's task is complicated by her neighbor and classmate JJ Munson, an asthmatic overweight oddball known in the halls of Marble City Middle as a double-dork paste-eater. When JJ draws Maria into his latest hare-brained scheme--a series of public challenges to prove their worth as gumshoes for his Twinnoggin Detective Agency--she fears she's lost her last chance to go unnoticed. When a young girl goes missing on the streets of Marble City, Maria's new-found confidence is tested in ways she never anticipated. Use your cane and your brain, and figure it out . . . Aimed at middle-grade readers, Just Maria explores difference and disability without resorting to the saccharine and engages universal themes about the price of popularity and the meaning of independence.

Author : Julie Nash
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754651754

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New Essays on Maria Edgeworth by Julie Nash Pdf

Devoted to the varied writings of the influential novelist, children's author, and educator, this collection combines postcolonial, historical, and gender criticism to offer fresh readings of Edgeworth's novels, stories, letters, and educational texts. The collection will be invaluable to established scholars working in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, women's studies, and children's literature, as well as to students encountering Edgeworth for the first time.

Author : Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813511305

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The Marriage of Maria Braun by Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pdf

Commentary and criticism on Fassbinder's film "The marriage of Maria Braun"

Author : Erin Griffey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351931007

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Henrietta Maria by Erin Griffey Pdf

Compiled by art historians, literary scholars, musicologists, and historians, this essay collection is an innovative and interdisciplinary study of Queen Henrietta Maria and her multi-faceted roles and responsibilities. Elements of the queen's popular biography - her European identity and devout Catholic faith - are only a part of the backdrop against which Henrietta Maria is re-considered. Drawing on the expertise of an international group of scholars from different disciplines, these essays explore and shed new light on the Queen's various roles: a patron of performing and visual arts with taste and influence comparable to her husband's, her salient political position between the French and English courts, and her political sentiments at the outbreak of the English Civil War. Through cutting-edge archival research that includes investigations into household accounts and personal correspondence, this collection ultimately presents a new assessment of female power and influence at the early modern court. What becomes strikingly evident is that Henrietta Maria had a distinct and profound influence on material and political culture that deserves the attention of art history, literature, theatre, and musicology scholars.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621968764

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Maria Graham by Anonim Pdf

Author : Deborah Hopkinson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442484580

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Maria's Comet by Deborah Hopkinson Pdf

Maria longs to be an astronomer -- wish that burns as brightly as a star. But girls in the nineteenth century don't grow up to be scientists, especially those who are needed at home. Each night when her papa sweeps the sky with his telescope, Maria sweeps the floor below, imagining all the strange worlds he can travel to from the rooftop of their Nantucket home. Then one night Maria finally gets her chance to look through her papa's telescope. For the first time, she beholds the night sky stretching endlessly above her, and her dream of exploring the comets and constellations seems close enough to touch. Loosely based on the childhood of Maria (pronounced ma-RYE-ah) Mitchell, America's first woman astronomer, and illuminated by Deborah Lanino's star-swept illustrations, here is an exquisitely told story of a girl who yearns for adventure beyond her limited circumstances, and sets out to follow her heart.

Author : Clare Copeland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191088131

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Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi by Clare Copeland Pdf

This work offers a detailed reconstruction of the campaigns for and trials resulting in the beatification (in 1626) and subsequent canonization in 1169 of the Florentine mystic nun, Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (1566-1607). Clare Copeland places her findings in the wide context of the politics of saint-making at a time of particular significance for the history of Roman Catholic canonization. The Protestant Reformation had put the Roman Catholic Church on the defensive in this area of devotional practice and the period covered in this volume (ca. 1600-1669) saw far-reaching reforms in the ways in which sanctity was measured and adjudicated by Rome. Copeland shows how these developments need to be seen less in terms of a top-down attempt by the central organs of ecclesiastical control to impose a hegemony of holiness and more in terms of negotiation over the meanings of sanctity—and how it relates to canonization-between the various stakeholders.

Author : Cinzia Recca
Publisher : Springer
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319319872

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The Diary of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples, 1781-1785 by Cinzia Recca Pdf

This work offers a new portrayal of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples as a woman of power with weaknesses and ambitions, and analyzes the Queen's actions, from her political choices to her alliance and betrayals. A careful examination of the period (1781-1785) covered by the diary shows that the daily life of the Queen and offers key evidence of her political acumen and her personal relationships. Recca cross-analyses unpublished personal documents, which include the integral diary and private correspondence. The book focuses on the political influence that Queen Maria Carolina wielded beside her husband, King Ferdinand IV, and the criticism that has been made by contemporary historians and intellectuals who have often tended to discredit the sovereign for personal rather than political reasons.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022787633

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Domestic Misery, Or The Adventures & Misfortunes of Maria Allanby, the Victim of Seduction by Anonim Pdf

Author : John G. Deaton MD,John G. Deaton
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781938908248

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The Death of Maria Chavarria by John G. Deaton MD,John G. Deaton Pdf

It is 1963 at Memorial Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, as young intern John Deaton dashes madly through the corridors. Overwhelmed yet invigorated by his new challenge, Deaton soon realizes that an intern's life can be exemplary one moment and hopeless the next. Unfortunately, Deaton has no idea that he is about to witness an event that will change his life forever. It is a hot summer day when Maria, one of Deaton's OB/ GYN patients, slips into a coma after mysterious abdominal pain even after she delivers a healthy baby. Exasperated after repeatedly expressing his concerns for her care to his superiors, Deaton is devastated as he watches his crucially ill patient suffer death by neglect, an unthinkable crime brazenly covered up by those in authority. As Deaton details his early life and hospital events, he highlights a shocking phenomenon present behind the White Curtain that tells a story as powerful as it is important. This thoughtful, gripping memoir portrays an untold side of the field of medicine and relays an unforgettable message: when a doctor sacrifices everything to save a patient, the doctor is saved too.

Author : Julie Nash
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 075465639X

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Servants and Paternalism in the Works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell by Julie Nash Pdf

"Servant characters, Nash contends, enable these writers to give voice to the contradictions inherent in the popular paternalistic philosophy of their times because the situation of domestic servitude itself embodies such inconsistencies. Servants, whose labor was essential to the economic and social function of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British society, made up the largest category of workers in England by the nineteenth century and yet were expected to be socially invisible. At the same time, they lived in the same houses as their masters and mistresses and were privy to the most intimate details of their lives. Both Edgeworth and Gaskell created servant characters who challenge the social hierarchy, thus exposing the potential for dehumanization and corruption inherent in the paternalistic philosophy. Nash's study opens up important avenues for future scholars of women's fiction in the nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Abby Morton Diaz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : WISC:89098020506

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Lucy Maria by Abby Morton Diaz Pdf

Author : José-Maria de Heredia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UCAL:$B595965

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Sonnets of José-Maria de Heredia by José-Maria de Heredia Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038733452

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An Account of the Life of that Celebrated Actress, Mrs. Susannah Maria Cibber... by Anonim Pdf

Author : m C.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026562638

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Little Arthur's History of England. The Preface Signed: M. C., I.e. Maria Graham, Afterwards Lady Callcott by m C. Pdf