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Contested Creations in the Book of Job

The-World-as-It-Ought- And-Ought-Not-to-Be

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Contested Creations in the Book of Job

The-World-as-It-Ought- And-Ought-Not-to-Be

By: Abigail Pelham

In Contested Creations in the Book of Job: the-world-as-it-ought- and -ought-not-to-be Abigail Pelham examines the perspectives on creation presented by Job’s characters and explores the challenges to their certainties about creative agency and power raised by its epilogue.

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9004218203

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9789004218208

Making Good Neighbors

Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia

By: Abigail Perkiss

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Making Good Neighbors

Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia

By: Abigail Perkiss

In the 1950s and 1960s, as the white residents, real estate agents, and municipal officials of many American cities fought to keep African Americans out of traditionally white neighborhoods, Philadelphia's West Mount Airy became one of the first neighborhoods in the nation where residents came together around a community-wide mission toward intentional integration. As West Mount Airy experienced transition, homeowners fought economic and legal policies that encouraged white flight and threatened the quality of local schools, seeking to find an alternative to racial separation without knowing what they would create in its place. In Making Good Neighbors, Abigail Perkiss tells the remarkable story of West Mount Airy, drawing on archival research and her oral history interviews with residents to trace their efforts, which began in the years following World War II and continued through the turn of the twenty-first century.The organizing principles of neighborhood groups like the West Mount Airy Neighbors Association (WMAN) were fundamentally liberal and emphasized democracy, equality, and justice; the social, cultural, and economic values of these groups were also decidedly grounded in middle-class ideals and white-collar professionalism. As Perkiss shows, this liberal, middle-class framework would ultimately become contested by more militant black activists and from within WMAN itself, as community leaders worked to adapt and respond to the changing racial landscape of the 1960s and 1970s. The West Mount Airy case stands apart from other experiments in integration because of the intentional, organized, and long-term commitment on the part of WMAN to biracial integration and, in time, multiracial and multiethnic diversity. The efforts of residents in the 1950s and 1960s helped to define the neighborhood as it exists today.

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Cornell University Press

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0801470846

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9780801470844

Exquisite Materials

Episodes in the Queer History of Victorian Style

By: Abigail Joseph

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Exquisite Materials

Episodes in the Queer History of Victorian Style

By: Abigail Joseph

Exquisite Materials explores the connections between gay subjects, material objects, and the social and aesthetic landscapes in which they circulated. Each of the book's four chapters takes up as a case study a figure or set of figures whose life and work dramatize different aspects of the unique queer relationship to materiality and style. These diverse episodes converge around the contention that paying attention to the multitudinous objects of the Victorian world-and to the social practices surrounding them-reveals the boundaries and influences of queer forms of identity and aesthetic sensibility that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century and have remained recognizable up to our own moment. In the cases that author Abigail Joseph examines, objects become unexpected sites of queer community and desire.

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434

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University of Virginia Press

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1644531704

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9781644531709

An Inclusive Academy

Achieving Diversity and Excellence

By: Abigail J. Stewart,Virginia Valian

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An Inclusive Academy

Achieving Diversity and Excellence

By: Abigail J. Stewart,Virginia Valian

How colleges and universities can live up to their ideals of diversity, and why inclusivity and excellence go hand in hand. Most colleges and universities embrace the ideals of diversity and inclusion, but many fall short, especially in the hiring, retention, and advancement of faculty who would more fully represent our diverse world—in particular women and people of color. In this book, Abigail Stewart and Virginia Valian argue that diversity and excellence go hand in hand and provide guidance for achieving both. Stewart and Valian, themselves senior academics, support their argument with comprehensive data from a range of disciplines. They show why merit is often overlooked; they offer statistics and examples of individual experiences of exclusion, such as being left out of crucial meetings; and they outline institutional practices that keep exclusion invisible, including reliance on proxies for excellence, such as prestige, that disadvantage outstanding candidates who are not members of the white male majority. Perhaps most important, Stewart and Valian provide practical advice for overcoming obstacles to inclusion. This advice is based on their experiences at their own universities, their consultations with faculty and administrators at many other institutions, and data on institutional change. Stewart and Valian offer recommendations for changing structures and practices so that people become successful in ways that benefit everyone. They describe better ways of searching for job candidates; evaluating candidates for hiring, tenure, and promotion; helping faculty succeed; and broadening rewards and recognition.

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529

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MIT Press

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0262545268

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9780262545266

Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction

By: Abigail Boucher

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Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction

By: Abigail Boucher

Science, Medicine, and Lineage in Popular Fiction of the Long Nineteenth Century explores the dialogue between popular literature and medical and scientific discourse in terms of how they represent the highly visible an pathologized British aristocratic body. This books explores and complicates the two major portrayals of aristocrats in nineteenth-century literature: that of the medicalised, frail, debauched, and diseased aristocrat, and that of the heroic, active, beautiful ‘noble’, both of which are frequent and resonant in popular fiction of the long nineteenth century. Abigail Boucher argues that the concept of class in the long nineteenth century implicitly includes notions of blood, lineage, and bodily ‘correctness’, and that ‘class’ was therefore frequently portrayed as an empirical, scientific, and medical certainty. Due to their elevated and highly visual social positions, both historical and fictional aristocrats were frequently pathologized in the public mind and watched for signs of physical excellence or deviance. Using popular fiction, Boucher establishes patterns across decades, genres, and demographics and considers how these patterns react to, normalise, or feed into the advent of new scientific and medical understandings.

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241

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Springer Nature

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3031411412

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9783031411410

Succeeding With Adult ADHD

Daily Strategies to Help You Achieve Your Goals and Manage Your Life

By: Abigail L. Levrini

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Succeeding With Adult ADHD

Daily Strategies to Help You Achieve Your Goals and Manage Your Life

By: Abigail L. Levrini

Stop feeling frustrated by what you are not accomplishing and start making practical steps toward achieving your goals. This expanded and updated new edition of psychologist Abigail Levrini's bestselling book offers realistic, proven strategies to help adults with ADHD lead more fulfilling and productive lives. With her extensive experience researching and treating adults with ADHD, Levrini provides user‑friendly strategies for setting meaningful and realistic goals, developing a plan to achieve the goals, and staying on track while following the plan. Slip‑ups are normal and expected, so Levrini invites readers to keep a positive, growth‑oriented outlook that focuses on progress, rather than perfection. Each chapter is full of examples and self‑help activities, such as quizzes and worksheets, enabling readers to apply strategies to multiple areas of life. Special attention is given to the areas of executive function that most adults with ADHD seek help for, and to typical challenges in living a healthy and productive life, including time management, relationships, organization, job performance, and recognizing common coexisting conditions such as depression and anxiety.

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American Psychological Association

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1433838753

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9781433838750

Struggle and Suffrage in Peterborough

Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality

By: Abigail Hamilton-Thompson

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Struggle and Suffrage in Peterborough

Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality

By: Abigail Hamilton-Thompson

Votes for Women. Handle with Care' was the message left on a hoax bomb found under the Oundle railway bridge in 1913, just two years after the leading suffrage campaigner Mrs Pankhurst visited the city. Notable women of Peterborough include Florence Saunders, a selfless dedicated nurse who regularly visited the poorer areas of Peterborough and set up the District Nursing Health Service at the Soke. Another well known nurse, Edith Cavell, spent some time at the Laurel Court School, which was run by a leading female character. The Women's United Total Abstinence Council (WUTAC) set up a coffee wagon to encourage male workers to avoid drinking, thus helping families in the war against alcoholism. The WUTAC also set up a tea room at the railway station during the First World War to discourage sailors and soldiers from the public houses. This book explores the lives of women in Peterborough between 1850 and 1950 by looking at home life, the taking on of men's roles during the First World War, the land army, nursing, the accommodating of evacuees during the Second World war, the eccentric first Freewoman of the city and the first female mayor. Struggle and Suffrage in Peterborough uncovers the stories of the leading women in the city who helped change women's lives forever.

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Pen and Sword History

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1526716747

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9781526716743

50 Gems of Hertfordshire

The History & Heritage of the Most Iconic Places

By: Abigail Hamilton-Thompson

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50 Gems of Hertfordshire

The History & Heritage of the Most Iconic Places

By: Abigail Hamilton-Thompson

Discover 50 of Hertfordshire’s landmarks and special places, which reflect the beauty, character and heritage of the county.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445693410

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9781445693415

Contested Creations in the Book of Job

The-World-as-It-Ought- and-Ought-Not-to-Be

By: Abigail Pelham

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In Contested Creations in the Book of Job: the-world-as-it-ought- and -ought-not-to-be Abigail Pelham reads the Book of Job both ‘forwards’—examining the perspectives on creation presented by Job and his friends and corrected by God’s authoritative voice from the whirlwind—and ‘backwards,’ demonstrating how the epilogue explodes readers’ certainties, forcing a reappraisal of the characters’ claims. The epilogue, Pelham argues, changes the book from one containing answers about creation to one which poses questions: What does it mean to make the world? Who has the power to create? If humans have creative power, is it divinely sanctioned, or has Job, acting creatively, set himself up as God’s rival? Engaging more thoroughly with Job’s ambiguity than previous scholars have done, Contested Creations explores the possibilities raised by these questions and considers their implications both within the book and beyond.

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BRILL

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9004230297

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9789004230293

Book's by Abigail Pelham

Contested Creations in the Book of Job

Contested Creations in the Book of Job

Making Good Neighbors

Making Good Neighbors

Exquisite Materials

Exquisite Materials

An Inclusive Academy

An Inclusive Academy

Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction

Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction

Succeeding With Adult ADHD

Succeeding With Adult ADHD

Struggle and Suffrage in Peterborough

Struggle and Suffrage in Peterborough

50 Gems of Hertfordshire

50 Gems of Hertfordshire

Contested Creations in the Book of Job

Contested Creations in the Book of Job

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