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|  | The Journey to Peace by Alphonse P. Spilly, Jeremy Langford, Joseph Louis Bernardin
Description not available.Excerpts from the homilies of the late Archbishop of Cincinnati focus on the relevance of Jesus' suffering, death, and resurrection to the lives of modern believers. Reprint. AUTHOR: Alphonse P. Spilly, Jeremy Langford, Joseph Louis Bernardin
PUBLISHER: Doubleday Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Florence Nightingale & the Nursing Legacy by Monica Baly
This revised edition presents an examination of the Nightingale Fund and how it was used to finance various experiments in nursing and midwifery training during mid- to late-19th Century England and abroad all of which formed the foundation of modern nursing. The author, a noted nursing historian, uses the archives of the Nightingale Fund Council to shed light on the early Nightingale schools and their influence on the nursing profession. Chapters include a discussion of the Fund; founding of the Nightingale School; training of midwifery muses; poor law nursing; nursing in military hospitals; Nightingale nurses in Germany, Sweden, India, Canada, and Australia; The Training School 1875-1890; nursing politics; and the Florence Nightingale legacy at the beginning of the 20th Century. The book contains a bibliography, appendices, and index. AUTHOR: Monica Baly
PUBLISHER: BainBridgeBooks
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Eric Liddell by Catherine Swift
The Scottish hero of the 1924 Paris Olympics whose story was portrayed in Chariots of Fire and who went on to become a missionary to China. AUTHOR: Catherine Swift
PUBLISHER: Bethany House Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Shining Eyes, Cruel Fortune by Gernando Colombardo, Irma B. Jaffe
Shining Eyes, Cruel Fortune presents the life stories of twelve extraordinary women who lived passionately and recorded in poetry their happiness and heartbreaks. The setting is the Italian sixteenth century, the cinquecento, the period of the High Renaissance. AUTHOR: Gernando Colombardo, Irma B. Jaffe
PUBLISHER: Fordham University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Losing My Mind by Thomas DeBaggio
Thomas DeBaggio has Alzheimer's. In this memoir, the 57-year-old former journalist and freelance writer tells about the gradual disintegration of his memory in order to provide the existing literature on the disease with a much needed patient's perspective. AUTHOR: Thomas DeBaggio
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Audio
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Captain Cook
Description not available.The author charts Captain Cook's legendary voyage of exploration and examines his place in history as the discoverer of Australia, looking at evidence that the Portuguese may have stumbled upon Australia more than a century earlier.
PUBLISHER: Globe Pequot Press, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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