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My Daddies!

Gareth Peter, Garry Parsons (illus.)

A board-book edition of this game-changing own-voices celebration of two gay dads and their adopted daughter - and the shared adventure of reading.

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The Last Wish

Peter Parsons

Tom isn’t anything to anyone, or at least he wasn’t until the dying wish of his father sent him on a seemingly impossible trek to find a lost wartime lover…

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The Last Wish

Peter Parsons

Tom isn’t anything to anyone, or at least he wasn’t until the dying wish of his father sent him on a seemingly impossible trek to find a lost wartime lover…

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In the Mountains Green

Peter Owen Jones

a series of biographical and nature essays following the yearly cycle.

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Culture In Pieces: Essays on Ancient Texts in Honour of Peter Parsons

This volume of essays is chiefly concerned with the problems of interpretation raised by fragmentary evidence, especially by the partial or imperfect survival of texts from the classical world. The…

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City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Lives in Roman Egypt

Prof Peter Parsons

In 1897 two Oxford archaeologists began digging a low sand-covered mound a hundred miles south of Cairo. When they had finally finished, ten years later, they had uncovered 500 000…

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New Platform Papers Volume 3: The Arts and Soft Diplomacy

Bryan Brown

What does Australianness look like in practice-on screen and in our theatres, in the private life of the family and the soft diplomacy of international relations? In 2023 the authors…

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Mood of the Moment

An exploration of fashion designer Gaby Aghion's life, career, and legacy at the French fashion house Chloe

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The Evolutionary Biology of Colonizing Species

Peter Angas Parsons

In The Evolutionary Biology of Colonizing Species, Professor Parsons examines the research of over 20 years to show that the fields of ecology, genetics, and behaviour should be integrated and…

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The Evolutionary Biology of Colonizing Species

Peter Angas Parsons

In The Evolutionary Biology of Colonizing Species, Professor Parsons examines the research of over 20 years to show that the fields of ecology, genetics, and behaviour should be integrated and…

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The Oxyrhynchus Papyri

Papyri nos 2999-3087. (Egypt Exploration Society, Graeco-Roman Memoirs 58, 1974)

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The Young Parson

Peter Seibert Davis

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1868 Original Publisher: Smith, English Subjects: Clergy Biography

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Talcott Parsons: Critical Assessments

Talcott Parsons (1904-79) is widely regarded as one of the most important sociologists of the twentieth century. These four volumes provide an essential guide to the thought and work of…

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The Young Parson (1863)

Peter Seibert Davis

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…

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The Young Parson (1863)

Peter Seibert Davis

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The Town Parson, His Life and Work

Peter Green

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

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The Old-Time Parson (1908)

Peter Hampson Ditchfield

The Old-Time Parson is a book written by Peter Hampson Ditchfield and published in 1908. It is a historical account of the life and work of the parson in England…

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The Parson of Panamint and Other Stories

Peter B Kyne

Contents: The Parson of Panamint; The Land Just Over Yonder; A Motion to Adjourn; Silver Threads Among the Gold; Salt of the Earth; Bread Upon the Waters; The Sheriff of…

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The Parson of Panamint and Other Stories

Peter B Kyne

A collection of short stories set in the Wild West.

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The Parson of Panamint and Other Stories

Peter B. Kyne

Contents: The Parson of Panamint; The Land Just Over Yonder; A Motion to Adjourn; Silver Threads Among the Gold; Salt of the Earth; Bread Upon the Waters; The Sheriff of…

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The Old-Time Parson (1908)

Peter Hampson Ditchfield

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…

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Parsons and Widows, by the Author of ‘Peter Priggins’.

Joseph Thomas J Hewlett

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…

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Stress: Evolutionary, Biosocial and Clinical Perspectives

The collected papers in this volume cover the effects of environmental stress under a biological and energetic model. Examples are taken from fossil and living animal populations, and from human…

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Papyri Greek and Egyptian Edited by Various Hands in Honour of Eric Gardner Turner on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday

Fifty-five literary and documentary texts, from various sources, in honour of Eric Turner.

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The Old-time Parson

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public…

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The Old-time Parson

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public…

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The Old-Time Parson (1908)

Peter Hampson Ditchfield

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The Parson of Panamint and Other Stories

Peter B Kyne

Contents: The Parson of Panamint; The Land Just Over Yonder; A Motion to Adjourn; Silver Threads Among the Gold; Salt of the Earth; Bread Upon the Waters; The Sheriff of…

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Tom of Bedlam’s Answer to His Brother Ben Hoadly, St. Peter’s-Poor Parson, Near the Exchange of Principles

Luke Milbourne

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

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A Woman’s Quest for Science: Portrait of Anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons

Peter H. Hare

Before Margaret Mead, even before Ruth Benedict, it was Elsie Clews Parsons who paved the way as the first woman president of the American Anthropological Association. Born into a prominent…

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The Fighting Parson of the American Revolution: A Biography of General Peter Muhlenberg

Edward W Hocker

Originally published in Philadelphia by the author in 1936. -- title page verso.

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First and Second Peter

Terrance D. Callan,Duane F. Watson,Mikeal Parsons,Charles Talbert

In this addition to the well-received Paideia series, New Testament scholars Duane Watson and Terrance Callan examine cultural context and theological meaning in First and Second Peter. This commentary, like…

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Ethical Decision Making: A Guide for Counselors in the 21st Century

Peter Boccone,Richard Parsons

Emphasizes the importance of ethical decision making while simultaneously recognising the complexity and nuance involved in decision making in the counseling profession. Urging readers beyond simple comprehension of a code…

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The Tooth Fairy’s Royal Visit

Peter Bently

The Tooth Fairy meets the Royal Family in this hilarious sequel to The Tooth Fairy’s Christmas!

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Happy Easter, Tooth Fairy!

Peter Bently

The Tooth Fairy meets the Easter Bunny in this hilarious picture book. From the illustrator of the bestselling Dinosaur That Pooped books.

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Adventures with My Daddies

Gareth Peter

First published in Great Britain as My daddies in 2021 by Puffin Books… –Copyright page.

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My Daddies!

Gareth Peter

Join a book-loving family - two gay dads and their adopted daughter - as they go on a roller-coaster-ride of story-themed adventures in this moving, magical, one-of-a-kind picture book.

A…

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Happy Easter, Tooth Fairy!

Peter Bently

The Tooth Fairy meets the Easter Bunny in this hilarious story by the illustrator of the bestselling The Dinosaur That Pooped series.

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Extreme Environmental Change and Evolution

Ary A. Hoffmann (La Trobe University, Victoria),Peter A. Parsons (La Trobe University, Victoria)

An overview of how environmental stress affects the rate of evolutionary change.

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Extreme Environmental Change and Evolution

Ary A. Hoffmann (La Trobe University, Victoria),Peter A. Parsons (La Trobe University, Victoria)

This book discusses how stressful environments can influence evolutionary change, and how periods of stress must be taken into consideration when long term conservation strategies are planned. It provides an…

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The Vienna Epigrams Papyrus: (G 40611)

Contains c. 200 incipits of Greek epigrams with a numeral at the end of each line that gives the number of lines of the complete epigram.

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Contraception: the Facts

Peter Bromwich,Tony Parsons

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William Cowper (1778-1858) The Indispensable Parson. The Life and Influence of Australia’s First Parish Clergyman (Commemorative Pictorial)

Peter G Bolt

A short biography of Rev. William Cowper (1778-1858), Australia’s first Parish Clergyman, illustrated with pictures of his times. The minister of St Philip’s Sydney, Cowper exercised a profound influence on…

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Empires and Bureaucracy in World History: From Late Antiquity to the Twentieth Century

This book provides a global history of the power and limits of imperial rule from antiquity to the present. Written by a team of leading scholars, it sheds new light…

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A Northanger Abbey Double Feature: The Castle of Wolfenbach by Eliza Parsons & The Necromancer by Lawrence Flammenberg

Eliza Parsons,Lawrence Flammenburg

For fans of Jane Austen-A Northanger Abbey Double Feature!

In Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, the main character, Catherine, receives a reading list of gothic novels. Once thought to be fabricated…

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