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Body Tourists

Jane Rogers

Youth is wasted on the young, isn’t it?

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Single Act

Jane Bodie

delicate force that reminds you of the fragility of all our self constructed realities - The Times

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This Year’s Ashes

Jane Bodie

Ellen lives a shiny life in the heart of a shiny city. She hates her office job, the alcohol isnt making her as drunk as it used to, and she…

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The Psychology of the Female Body

Jane M. Ussher

First published in 1989, The Psychology of the Female Body examines the role of the female body in women's identity and experience.

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The Body at Penford Priory

B D Churston

Imagine Agatha Christie crossed with Murder, She Wrote . . . Aunt Kate and Lady Jane's third lighthearted cozy mystery takes place at a priory destroyed in 1545. While Jane…

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The Body at Penford Priory

B D Churston

Imagine Agatha Christie crossed with Murder, She Wrote . . . Aunt Kate and Lady Jane's third lighthearted cozy mystery takes place at a priory destroyed in 1545. While Jane…

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Lamb

Jane Bodie

‘Sometimes people leave, they go away and you don’t see them anymore. And then sometimes they come back.’ From multi-award-winning playwright Jane Bodie, and featuring original songs by Mark Seymour…

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Body Painting

Jane Hilberry

If this is the book of the body, its lineaments are those of not only erotic but spiritual desire. Here friends and lovers, mothers and children, intermingle as in the…

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a Body of Poems

Jane Covernton

What does it mean to be in this Human Body? That was the question Jane Covernton found when she looked through her poetry over the years… so a body of…

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Thinking Through the Body

Jane Gallop

Moving between a theoretical and confessional stance, Gallop explores Sade’s relation to mothers both in his novels and his life; Barthe’s The Pleasure of the Text; Freud’s work, read not…

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THE Body Armour

Amanda-Jane Cameron

Sometimes we have to see past the reality of life and work out what's really going on. Here a family try to do just that.

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Practical Healing For Mind And Body

Jane Yarnall

Every student who takes up the study of the laws of mind, will find that many of his lifelong views and ideas must give place to the truths we find…

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Natalie Shaw: Maps and Bodies

Jane Stockwell

Natalie Shaw is an architect, and her idea of excitement is enjoying a coffee after a long day at work. Little did she know that a blood-stained map in a…

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Discover and Do: Human Body

Jane Lacey

DISCOVER the facts and DO the activities in this fun science series

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Jane Austen and the Body: ‘The Picture of Health

John Wiltshire

Jane Austen has been thought of as a novelist of manners whose work discreetly avoids discussing the physical. John Wiltshire shows, on the contrary, how important are bodies and faces…

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Jane Austen and the Body: ‘The Picture of Health

John Wiltshire

Jane Austen has been thought of as a novelist of manners whose work discreetly avoids discussing the physical. John Wiltshire shows, on the contrary, how important are bodies and faces…

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When The Mouth Can’t Speak The Body Will

Jane Herschlag

When The Mouth Can’t Speak The Body Will-through her poetry and photography readers see the progression of Jane Berger Herschlag from a sickly victim of child abuse to a triumphant…

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The Art and Science of Spa and Body Therapy

Jane Foulston

A most up to date book for students taking Level 3 courses in Spa & Beauty Therapy and is mapped to the current occupational standards.

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White Bodies: An Addictive Psychological Thriller

Jane Robins

“Immensely gripping’ Sophie Hannah Sometimes we love too much

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The Body on the Lido Deck

Jane Bennett Munro

Twin Falls pathologist Toni Day is on a Caribbean cruise with her husband and parents when she is jerked out of a peaceful slumber by a horrific scream. After several…

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The Political Body

Andrea Giunta

How a constellation of Latin American artists explored the body, power, and emancipation-and expanded the meanings of feminist art.

In The Political Body, art historian Andrea Giunta explores gender and…

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Written on the Body: The Tattoo in European and American History

Written on the Body surveys the history of the tattoo in Europe and North America from Antiquity to the present. While the subject of tattooing has previously been approached from…

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Written on the Body: The Tattoo in European and American History

Exposes the richness of the tattoo’s European and American history. This volume analyzes the tattoo’s fluctuating, often uncomfortable position from multiple angles. It explores fascinating segments of its history -…

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What The Body Cost: Desire, History, And Performance

Jane Blocker

Drawing on the work of critical theorists such as Roland Barthes and Catherine Belsey, as well as queer theory and feminism, What the Body Cost reads against patriarchal and heteronormative…

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Human Body: Understanding Anatomy

Jane de Burgh

Discover how your body and how it works with this comprehensive pocket guide to human anatomy that has everything you will ever need to know about the workings of your…

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Reflecting on Cosmetic Surgery: Body image, Shame and Narcissism

Jane Northrop

Engaging the theme of appearance dissatisfaction expressed by women who had undergone cosmetic surgery, and its subsequent impacts upon body image and self-perception, this study concludes that shame and narcissism…

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Reflecting on Cosmetic Surgery: Body image, Shame and Narcissism

Jane Northrop

Engaging the theme of appearance dissatisfaction expressed by women who had undergone cosmetic surgery, and its subsequent impacts upon body image and self-perception, this study concludes that shame and narcissism…

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Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s

Jane Nicholas

In Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s, Nicholas offers a sophisticated analysis of the place of the freak show in twentieth-century culture.

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Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s

Jane Nicholas

In Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s, Nicholas offers a sophisticated analysis of the place of the freak show in twentieth-century culture.

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The Modern Girl: Feminine Modernities, the Body, and Commodities in the 1920s

Jane Nicholas

Using a wide range of visual and textual evidence, Nicholas illuminates both the frequent public debates about female appearance and the realities of feminine self-presentation in 1920s Canada.

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Boats, Bodies and the Bee’s Knees

Jane Gorman

When her friend's uncle is accused of murder, Anna McGregor dives into the boating life to prove his innocence. She soon learns that while lounging on a luxury yacht might…

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Representing the Body of the Slave

This book looks at examples of the physical depiction of slaves, from the ancient and medieval worlds and from slave societies of more recent times in the Americas and the…

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Representing the Body of the Slave

This book looks at examples of the physical depiction of slaves, from the ancient and medieval worlds and from slave societies of more recent times in the Americas and the…

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Body-Poetics of the Virgin Mary: Mary’s Maternal Body as Poem of the Father

Jane Petkovic

The Judeo-Christian scriptures understand humans as being made in the image of God. What exactly does this mean? Basic agreement is that it means humans can only know and understand…

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Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece

Jane K. Cowan

Valued for their sensual and social intensity, Greek dance-events are often also problematical for participants, giving rise to struggles over position, prestige, and reputation. This book explores how the politics…

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Body Talk: The Material and Discursive Regulation of Sexuality, Madness and Reproduction

A collection of analyses which provides a new materialist-discursive approach to human experience, reconciling both the traditional, (realist) and socio-cultural approaches.

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Biological Naturalism and the Mind-Body Problem

Jane Anderson

This book offers a new theoretical framework within which to understand the mind-body problem . The crux of this problem is phenomenal experience, which Thomas Nagel famously described as what…

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Body-Poetics of the Virgin Mary

Jane Petkovic

The Judeo-Christian scriptures understand humans as being made in the image of God. What exactly does this mean? Basic agreement is that it means humans can only know and understand…

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Praying with Body and Soul: A Way to Intimacy with God

Jane E. Vennard

Praying with Body and Soul involves the whole person: our senses, our bodies at rest or in motion, ourimaginations, as well as our minds and emotions. By paying prayerful attention…

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Managing the Monstrous Feminine: Regulating the Reproductive Body

Jane M. Ussher

Jane Ussher takes a unique approach to the study of the material and discursive practices associated with the construction and regulation of the female body.

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Managing the Monstrous Feminine: Regulating the Reproductive Body

Jane M. Ussher

Jane Ussher takes a unique approach to the study of the material and discursive practices associated with the construction and regulation of the female body.

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What The Body Cost: Desire, History, And Performance

Jane Blocker

Drawing on the work of critical theorists such as Roland Barthes and Catherine Belsey, as well as queer theory and feminism, What the Body Cost reads against patriarchal and heteronormative…

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Identity in Animation: A Journey into Self, Difference, Culture and the Body

Jane Batkin (University of Lincoln, UK)

Identity in Animation: A Journey into Self, Difference, Culture and the Body uncovers the meaning behind some of the most influential characters in the history of animation and questions their…

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Identity in Animation: A Journey into Self, Difference, Culture and the Body

Jane Batkin (University of Lincoln, UK)

Identity in Animation: A Journey into Self, Difference, Culture and the Body uncovers the meaning behind some of the most influential characters in the history of animation and questions their…

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Models and World Making: Bodies, Buildings, Black Boxes

Annabel Jane Wharton

From climate change forecasts and pandemic maps to Lego sets and Ancestry algorithms, models encompass our lives. In this engaging book, Annabel Wharton begins with a definition drawn from the…

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Models and World Making: Bodies, Buildings, Black Boxes

Annabel Jane Wharton

From climate change forecasts and pandemic maps to Lego sets and Ancestry algorithms, models encompass our lives. In this engaging book, Annabel Wharton begins with a definition drawn from the…

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Uniting Body, Mind, and Spirit Through Art Education

Jane K Bates

Uniting Body, Mind, and Spirit Through Art Education empowers art learners to have experiences that engage the spirit along with the body and the mind in deeper ways of seeing…

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