The Delphinium Girl of the title is Sarah Keville, a young woman, housewife and mother, who has never thought of what she might be because she has a lifetime ahead of her in which to become the interesting, eccentric 'grande dame' she envisions for herself in old age. Suddenly she is caught in the grip of a mysterious terminal illness which forces her to come to terms with herself and the limitations of her character.

The Delphinium Girl

Smith,Mark

Literature & Fiction

Harper&Row

Student's Solutions Manual for use with Beginning and Intermediate Algebra, The Language and Symbolism of Mathematics

Science & Math

Hall,James

Mercer,Brian

Mathematics

McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math.

Widespread concerns about the effects of trenching by the utility services and especially the nationwide installation of cable communications have revealed that the knowledge of root form and function and of their impact in the built environment lags behind our understanding of foliage and trees. This title details information on a wide range of practical problems in this area. It provides a comprehensive and authoritative review of the many aspects of root biology including assessments of the effects of roots on man-made structures and vice versa.

Tree Roots in the Built Environment (Research for Amenity Trees)

Roberts, John

Jackson, Nick

Reference

The Stationery Office/Tso

This book studies Egyptian ideas about death and the afterlife during the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods. Mark Smith analyses Egyptian attitudes toward death, looks at the various means by which the Egyptians attempted to ensure a smooth transition from existence in this world to that in the next, and examines how they envisaged life in the hereafter. Traversing Eternity is based on a corpus of sixty texts specially selected for the light which they throw upon these topics. Some of the texts are ritual in character, and were recited for the benefit of the deceased by priests, while others were interred along with the dead so that they themselves could make use of them in the afterlife. Each text is translated in its entirety, with annotation to elucidate obscure points, and each is supplied with a detailed introduction. Smith also addresses key issues such as that of continuity and change in Egyptian religious beliefs during the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods and attempts to answer the question of why the composition of texts for the afterlife flourished to such a remarkable extent at this time.

Traversing Eternity: Texts for the Afterlife from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt

History

Ancient Civilizations

Oxford University Press

This book analyses the way British churches sought to meet the challenge of industrialization and urbanization during the period 1740-1865. Based on a case-study of Oldham and Saddleworth, it challenges the received view that the Anglican church in the eighteenth century was characterized by complacency and intertia, and it reveals Anglicanism's vigorous and creative response to the new conditions. M.A. Smith reassesses the significance of the centrally directed church reforms of the mid-nineteenth century, and emphasizes the importance of local energy and enthusiasm.

Religion in Industrial Society: Oldham and Saddleworth, 1740-1865 (Oxford Historical Monographs)

Religion & Spirituality

This volume contains a collection of compositions from cave 4 at Qumran written during the Second Temple period and linked to the Hebrew Bible through text, characters, themes, or genre. While some of the documents represent a reworking, rewriting, or paraphrase of biblical books, all greatly enhance our understanding of biblical interpretation during the period and the phenomenon of pseudepigraphy.

Qumran Cave 4: XIV: Parabiblical Texts, Part 2 (Discoveries in the Judaean Desert)

Newsom, Carol

Stone, Michael

Broshi, Magen

Strugnell, John

Larson, Erik.

Fitzmyer, Joseph

Eshel, Esther

Schiffman, Lawrence

Yardeni, Ada.

Clarendon Press

Osiris, god of the dead, was one of ancient Egypt's most important deities. The earliest secure evidence for belief in him dates back to the fifth dynasty (c.2494-2345BC), but he continued to be worshipped until the fifth century AD. Following Osiris is concerned with ancient Egyptian conceptions of the relationship between Osiris and the deceased, or what might be called the Osirian afterlife, asking what the nature of this relationship was and what the prerequisites were for enjoying its benefits. It does not seek to provide a continuous or comprehensive account of Egyptian ideas on this subject, but rather focuses on five distinct periods in their development, spread over four millennia. The periods in question are ones in which significant changes in Egyptian ideas about Osiris and the dead are known to have occurred or where it has been argued that they did, as Egyptian aspirations for the Osirian afterlife took time to coalesce and reach their fullest form of expression. An important aim of the book is to investigate when and why such changes happened, treating religious belief as a dynamic rather than a static phenomenon and tracing the key stages in the development of these aspirations, from their origin to their demise, while illustrating how they are reflected in the textual and archaeological records. In doing so, it opens up broader issues for exploration and draws meaningful cross-cultural comparisons to ask, for instance, how different societies regard death and the dead, why people convert from one religion to another, and why they abandon belief in a god or gods altogether.

Following Osiris: Perspectives on the Osirian Afterlife from Four Millennia

Young People, Inequality and Youth Work

Politics & Social Sciences

Jeffs, Tony

Politics & Government

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

There has been growing concern and debate over the impact of social and economic change upon young people and the consequences of this for welfare practice. Within social policy, working with young people has become increasingly important. This book brings together a series of specially commissioned essays which direct attention to both the realities of youth work and the structuring of youth policy. In an area of welfare where the boundaries of responsibility and control are shaped by the competing interest of government, central and local, and a historically powerful voluntary sector, little has actually been written about those who specialise in this area or the structures and policy context in which they operate and from which policies emerge. Welfare and Youth Work Practice is designed to fill a number of long-standing gaps in the literature and thinking about youth work and youth policy.

Welfare and Youth Work Practice

Social Sciences

Red Globe Press

Using the practices and artifacts of everyday life as a launchpad, Understanding Culture and Society explores the cultures of ethnicity, gender, identity, class, age, shopping, and more. It uses a range of illustrations and case studies from music and computer games to sports and local clubs. Key themes include:  How "meaning" is manufactured The construction of identity Classifications of cultures The politics of power How cultures are transformed

Understanding Culture and Society

Open University Press

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