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The Adventures of Fat Rice

Recipes from the Chicago Restaurant Inspired by Macau [A Cookbook]

By: Abraham Conlon,Adrienne Lo

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The Adventures of Fat Rice

Recipes from the Chicago Restaurant Inspired by Macau [A Cookbook]

By: Abraham Conlon,Adrienne Lo

With 100 recipes, this is the first book to explore the vibrant food culture of Macau—an east-meets-west melting pot of Chinese, Portuguese, Malaysian, and Indian foodways—as seen through the lens of the cult favorite Chicago restaurant, Fat Rice. An hour’s ferry ride from Hong Kong, on the banks of the Pearl River in China, lies Macau—a modern, cosmopolitan city with an unexpected history. For centuries, Macau was one of the world’s greatest trading ports: a Portuguese outpost and crossroads along the spice route, where travelers from Europe, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and mainland China traded resources, culture, and food. The Adventures of Fat Rice is the story of how two Chicago chefs discovered and fell in love with this fascinating and, at least until now, unheralded cuisine. With dishes like Minchi (a classic Macanese meat hash), Po Kok Gai (a Portuguese-influenced chicken curry with chouriço and olives), and Arroz Gordo (if paella and fried rice had a baby), now you, too, can bring the eclectic and wonderfully unique—yet enticingly familiar—flavors of Macau into your own kitchen.

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Ten Speed Press

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1607748967

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9781607748960

Sunday Best

Cooking Up the Weekend Spirit Every Day: A Cookbook

By: Adrienne Cheatham

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Sunday Best

Cooking Up the Weekend Spirit Every Day: A Cookbook

By: Adrienne Cheatham

JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE • Make everyday meals something to celebrate with more than 100 recipes inspired by the Southern roots and Sunday suppers of Top Chef finalist Adrienne Cheatham’s upbringing. “Adrienne channels so much joy and care into her delicious recipes, you can feel the warmth and knowledge on every page.”—Gail Simmons ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: Epicurious At the core of chef Adrienne Cheatham’s debut book is the deep sense that everyday moments should be appreciated, celebrated, and made special for those you love. In this stunning personal collection, Adrienne showcases her signature style of cooking, sharing more than 100 recipes that combine her family’s Southern roots, her classical training in professional kitchens, and her distinct point of view, full of multicultural influences. Adrienne captures the culinary essence of “Sunday best” with fresh but familiar recipes that include a feast-worthy pork roast crusted with pecans, charred okra roasted with tomatoes and warm spices, skirt steak topped with chimichurri of sharp mustard greens, and Brussels sprouts tossed with a nutty brown butter. She also shares tips and methods for upgrading classic, staple recipes into a dish worth talking about, like a roasted chicken that gets incredibly deep flavor from a marinade made with stout and soy sauce or a split pea salad that suddenly feels special when tossed with a bacon-sherry vinegar glaze. Full of dishes that will soon be part of your own family’s beloved repertoire, Sunday Best will help you celebrate home cooking every day of the week.

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Clarkson Potter

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0593233131

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9780593233139

The Lung Block

Plagues, Parks, and Power in Progressive-Era New York

By: Adrienne deNoyelles

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The Lung Block

Plagues, Parks, and Power in Progressive-Era New York

By: Adrienne deNoyelles

Public health, housing, poverty, and immigration dominated social and political discourse in early twentieth-century New York, much as they do today. The Lower East Side provided an urban environment where infectious disease and other public health concerns flourished. One city block in particular, known in muckraking circles as “The Lung Block,” housed four thousand first- and second-generation Americans in dilapidated tenements where deadly tuberculosis spread uninhibited. The Lung Block looks at a 1903 reform crusade to demolish this working-class tenement neighborhood and replace it with a park. Progressive reformers aimed to confront the area’s moral and environmental dangers, but their conceptualization of the problem and methods for addressing it placed them into direct conflict with the hand-to-mouth priorities of the residents. The campaign and its eventual failure illuminate the formidable social barriers distancing urban reformers and the marginalized populations they intend to help.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822990016

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9780822990017

Diet to Lose Weight: Lose Weight Fast with DASH Diet Recipes and Grain Free Goodness

By: Adrienne Simmons,Kristina Harper

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Diet to Lose Weight: Lose Weight Fast with DASH Diet Recipes and Grain Free Goodness

By: Adrienne Simmons,Kristina Harper

The Diet to Lose Weight Lose Weight Fast with DASH Diet Recipes and Grain Free Goodness contains both grain free recipes and DASH diet recipes. In this book, you will find weight loss tips in addition to the two weight loss plans. Receive help with the DASH diet menu as you plan your meals for a couple of weeks in advance. The grain free diet and the DASH diet plans each help to lose weight fast. The DASH diet is good for helping to control blood pressure a person can go on the DASH diet for weight loss as well since it promotes eating healthy foods. The Diet to Lose Weigh book features these sections DASH Diet, What Is The Dash Diet, What Is Hypertension and Why Is It Dangerous, How Does the DASH Diet Work DASH Study Daily Nutrient Goals, DASH Diet Guidelines, Using DASH for Weight Loss, Intuitive Eating with the DASH Diet, Making DASH Dieting Easy, Exercise and the DASH Diet, Recipes for the DASH Diet, Appetizers, Beverages, Breakfast, Main Dishes, Sides, Salads, Soups, DASH Diet 5-Day Sample Menu, Modifying the 5-Day Meal Plan, Grain Free Recipes, Tasty Grain Free Recipes, and Your Grain Free Meal Plan. A sampling of the included recipes are Grain-free Pizza, Gluten-Free Turkey Club, Stuffed Bell Peppers, Curried Quinoa, Hearty Turkey Soup, Low Cholesterol Potato Salad, Spicy Sweet and Tangy Herbal Tea, Fresh Mushroom Quesadillas, DASH Spinach Dip, and Vegetable Sushi.

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Speedy Publishing LLC

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1633830756

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9781633830752

Being Rita Hayworth

Labor, Identity, and Hollywood Stardom

By: Adrienne L. McLean

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Being Rita Hayworth

Labor, Identity, and Hollywood Stardom

By: Adrienne L. McLean

Being Rita Hayworth' considers the ways in which this actress has been treated by film scholarship over the years to accomplish its own goals, sometimes at her expense.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813533899

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9780813533896

A Strange Fish Swimming in a Foreign Sea

By: Adrienne Nash

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A Strange Fish Swimming in a Foreign Sea

By: Adrienne Nash

Sierra Leone prior to and post-Independence in the early 1960s, seemed a place of tranquillity to Tim May, just twenty-one years old. He and his companions worked and played hard but Tim was labelled a failure in Freetown, in work and in health and as his manager Mr Enk said, ‘I’m sending you to manage Port Loko branch, you will bloody well sink or swim.’ It was the time-honoured treatment of a failure in the old Empire. Management was a daunting prospect, especially without a knowledge of Bank accounting, but Tim faces the future with fatalistic hope. Immature and wracked by personal problems the prospect is bleak, particularly dealing with the wily, cunning mostly Lebanese customers who grubbed a living thousands of miles from their nation’s internecine wars. It is not only the customers Tim has to combat, but the climate, diseases and general ill health and his mental state, a strange fish in a foreign sea. It seemed the bugs and creatures, the customers, his fellow expatriates and most of all his real persona all combined to defeat him. Tim though is a strong fish swimming amongst predators and escapes to fight other.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1398486582

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9781398486584

The 'Ohana Grill Cookbook

Easy and Delicious Hawai'i-Inspired Recipes from BBQ Chicken to Kalbi Short Ribs

By: Adrienne Robillard,Dawn Sakamoto Paiva

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The 'Ohana Grill Cookbook

Easy and Delicious Hawai'i-Inspired Recipes from BBQ Chicken to Kalbi Short Ribs

By: Adrienne Robillard,Dawn Sakamoto Paiva

You don't have to go on vacation to enjoy the tropical flavours of the Pacific! With The 'Ohana Grill, you can have your own personal luau every night with delicious recipes made for your outdoor grill. Written by two Honolulu-based writers, this book uses their island upbringing to explore the diverse cultures and flavours that make up Hawaiian grilling. 'Ono (delicious) recipes include: Grilled Mahi Mahi; Kalua Pork Quesadillas; Grilled S'mores; And much more! Whether you're new to lighting the grate or an experienced BBQ chef, these accessible recipes will bring the flavours of Hawai'i to your taste buds, regardless of where you live.

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Simon and Schuster

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164604536X

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9781646045365

Staying in the Game

The Playbook for Beating Workplace Sexual Harassment

By: Adrienne Lawrence

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Staying in the Game

The Playbook for Beating Workplace Sexual Harassment

By: Adrienne Lawrence

A practical guide to shutting down workplace sexual harassment so it doesn't derail your career or your life, from the first on-air personality to sue ESPN for sexual harassment. Even in the #MeToo era, studies show that women in the workforce continue to harbor misconceptions about sexual harassment and are unprepared to respond when it happens. Lawyer and former ESPN anchor Adrienne Lawrence has learned to advocate for herself and other women. In this book, she offers much-needed insight on topics such as: • Identifying the five types of harassers and the five types of coworkers who enable them • Researching company culture and history to identify sexual harassment hotbeds • Properly documenting inappropriate behavior • Preparing for retaliation and mental health hurdles such as anxiety and depression • Managing public exposure and figuring out when to leverage the power of the media and/or lawyer up This essential guide helps women navigate the complicated realities of sexual harassment and teaches them how to be their own best advocates in toxic work environments.

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Penguin

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0593084128

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9780593084120

Nonfiction Reading Power

By: Adrienne Gear

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Nonfiction Reading Power

By: Adrienne Gear

Help students think while they read in all subject areas, with the key skills of connecting, questioning, visualizing, inferring, and synthesizing.

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Pembroke Publishers Limited

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1551388022

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9781551388021

Environmental Standards

Combined Exposures and Their Effects on Human Beings and Their Environment

By: Christian Streffer,Josef Bücker,Adrienne Cansier,Dieter Cansier,Carl Friedrich Gethmann,Robert Guderian,Gerd Hanekamp,Dietrich Henschler,Gerald Pöch,Eckard Rehbinder,Ortwin Renn,Marco Slesina,Kerstin Wuttke

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Environmental Standards

Combined Exposures and Their Effects on Human Beings and Their Environment

The rapid growth of the world population - nearly six-fold over the last hundred years - combined with the rising number of technical installations especially in the industrialized countries has lead to ever tighter and more strained living spaces on our planet. Because ofthe inevitable processes oflife, man was at first an exploiter rather than a careful preserver of the environment. Environmental awareness with the intention to conserve the environment has grown only in the last few decades. Environmental standards have been defined and limit values have been set largely guided, however, by scientific and medical data on single exposures, while public opinion, on the other hand, now increasingly calls for astronger consideration of the more complex situations following combined exposures. Furthermore, it turned out that environmental standards, while necessarily based on scientific data, must also take into account ethical, legal, economic, and sociological aspects. A task of such complexity can only be dealt with appropriately in the framework of an inter disciplinary group.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540440976

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9783540440970

Amanda Berry Smith

From Washerwoman to Evangelist

By: Adrienne Israel

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Amanda Berry Smith

From Washerwoman to Evangelist

By: Adrienne Israel

Now available in paperback! This biography is the compelling story of Amanda Berry Smith, a former slave and washer-woman with less than a year of formal education who rose to become one of the nineteenth century's most important and successful Christian evangelists. Based on letters published in Christian newspapers, copies of her own newspaper The Helper, and numerous public records and documents, this biography puts Amanda Berry Smith's eventful life in a proper historical perspective, evaluating the significant impact of her deeds. It traces her beginnings as the child of freed blacks in antebellum Pennsylvania, her turbulent marriages, her search for communities and faith in New York City, and her eventual prominence as a camp-fire missionary and as a world traveler of spiritual faith. This thoughtful individual study probes the complex relationship between herself and other contemporary reformers, black and white, and answers many questions left unanswered by Smith's own autobiography.

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Scarecrow Press

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1461656249

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9781461656241

Powerful Understanding

Helping students explore, question, and transform their thinking about themselves and the world around them

By: Adrienne Gear

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Powerful Understanding

Helping students explore, question, and transform their thinking about themselves and the world around them

By: Adrienne Gear

Powerful Understanding explores effective ways to build social-emotional skills and help students make connections, question what they read, and reflect on their learning as they develop into stronger readers and learners. Lessons based in both strategic and critical thinking revolve around core anchor books that help integrate inquiry into everything you teach — from social responsibility, to immigration, to life cycles. This highly readable book includes a wealth of classroom examples and extensive hands-on activities designed to help students to think more deeply, learn more widely, and develop a more powerful understanding of what it means to be a responsible and compassionate person.

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Pembroke Publishers Limited

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1551389290

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9781551389295

Adrienne AG Galloway Said, You Can Eat This

A Fitness Cookbook For A Stronger, Happier and Healthier You, At Any Age

By: Adrienne Galloway

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Adrienne AG Galloway Said, You Can Eat This

A Fitness Cookbook For A Stronger, Happier and Healthier You, At Any Age

By: Adrienne Galloway

Adrienne Galloway Says, You Can Eat This Cookbook is a cookbook that helps you find a healthier, stronger and happier you at any age and at anytime. You'll enjoy Adrienne's personal recipes and stories of helping her clients get and stay fit.

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BLI Publishing

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0692024735

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9780692024737

The Godfather of New England Stock Car Racing

D. Anthony Venditti

By: Adrienne J Venditti

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The Godfather of New England Stock Car Racing

D. Anthony Venditti

By: Adrienne J Venditti

This book is dedicated to the man whose life inspired me to tell his story. His name is D. Anthony Venditti, widely known as the Godfather of Stock Car Racing in New England. It is also dedicated to my mother, with her eternal love and devoted support of her beloved Anthony, her family, and racing. She and the Godfather enabled and empowered our family to persevere in the sport. This is to all those with unending convictions in the Godfather and to the Seekonk Fraternity of racing. This book is a pictorial and a closer look at the life of the Godfather. He was the youngest promoter in motor sports in the United States in the 1940s. And as a twenty-five-year-old, he planned, engineered, and built his speedway. He was young and full of ambition. It was his dream, an American dream, to build, open, and operate his speedway at the end of World War II, in 1946. Yet when in his advanced years, he then became known as the oldest living promoter in stock car racing. He consecutively ran his race plant each year, faithfully opening his facility, without fail. He never missed a season under his reign—an unheard-of feat of forty-five years as a stock car racing promoter. Seekonk Speedway continues to run without any ambiguity by the same family. The speedway is proudly still in business all these seventy-three consecutive years of racing in the books. Anthony is celebrated and acclaimed for his pioneering in the American sport of auto racing, awarded RPM’s “1978 Promoter of the Year.” It was with great adoration of the sports community that he is acknowledged for his forethought and far-reaching ideas of innovation pertaining to mechanical engineering, safety features in facility construction, and administrative procedures. Mr. Venditti is attributed to numerous awards for his devotion for the betterment of the sport of auto racing.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1796010774

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9781796010770

The First Fossil Hunters

Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times

By: Adrienne Mayor

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The First Fossil Hunters

Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times

By: Adrienne Mayor

The fascinating story of how the fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths, and other extinct animals influenced some of the most spectacular creatures of classical mythology Griffins, Centaurs, Cyclopes, and Giants—these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? What if monstrous creatures once roamed the earth in the very places where their legends first arose? This is the arresting and original thesis that Adrienne Mayor explores in The First Fossil Hunters. Through careful research and meticulous documentation, she convincingly shows that many of the giants and monsters of myth did have a basis in fact—in the enormous bones of long-extinct species that were once abundant in the lands of the Greeks and Romans. As Mayor shows, the Greeks and Romans were well aware that a different breed of creatures once inhabited their lands. They frequently encountered the fossilized bones of these primeval beings, and they developed sophisticated concepts to explain the fossil evidence, concepts that were expressed in mythological stories. The legend of the gold-guarding griffin, for example, sprang from tales first told by Scythian gold-miners, who, passing through the Gobi Desert at the foot of the Altai Mountains, encountered the skeletons of Protoceratops and other dinosaurs that littered the ground. Like their modern counterparts, the ancient fossil hunters collected and measured impressive petrified remains and displayed them in temples and museums; they attempted to reconstruct the appearance of these prehistoric creatures and to explain their extinction. Long thought to be fantasy, the remarkably detailed and perceptive Greek and Roman accounts of giant bone finds were actually based on solid paleontological facts. By reading these neglected narratives for the first time in the light of modern scientific discoveries, Adrienne Mayor illuminates a lost world of ancient paleontology.

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Princeton University Press

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0691245606

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9780691245607

Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws

And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities

By: Adrienne Mayor

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Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws

And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities

By: Adrienne Mayor

A treasury of astonishing mythic marvels—and the surprising truths behind them Adrienne Mayor is renowned for exploring the borders of history, science, archaeology, anthropology, and popular knowledge to find historical realities and scientific insights—glimmering, long-buried nuggets of truth—embedded in myth, legends, and folklore. Combing through ancient texts and obscure sources, she has spent decades prospecting for intriguing wonders and marvels, historical mysteries, diverting anecdotes, and hidden gems from ancient, medieval, and modern times. Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws is a treasury of fifty of her most amazing and amusing discoveries. The book explores such subjects as how mirages inspired legends of cities in the sky; the true identity of winged serpents in ancient Egypt; how ghost ships led to the discovery of the Gulf Stream; and the beauty secrets of ancient Amazons. Other pieces examine Arthur Conan Doyle’s sea serpent and Geronimo’s dragon; Flaubert’s obsession with ancient Carthage; ancient tattooing practices; and the strange relationship between wine goblets and women’s breasts since the times of Helen of Troy and Marie Antoinette. And there’s much, much more. Showcasing Mayor’s trademark passion not to demythologize myths, but to uncover the fascinating truths buried beneath them, Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws is a wonder cabinet of delightful curiosities.

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Princeton University Press

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0691217823

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9780691217826

Justice Team and Schock Sisters Starter Set

A Romantic Suspense and Mystery Box Set

By: Adrienne Giordano,Misty Evans

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Justice Team and Schock Sisters Starter Set

A Romantic Suspense and Mystery Box Set

By: Adrienne Giordano,Misty Evans

READY FOR YOUR NEXT BINGE READ? This special Starter Set collection includes the first book in the fast paced, action-packed romantic suspense Justice Team Series, PLUS the gritty first book in the Schock Sisters Mystery Series. Undercover agents, dangerous missions, undeniable passion. This set will keep you reading late into the night, and get you started on both of these bestselling series. In Stealing Justice, you’ll meet Justice “Grey” Greystone and the agents of his secret, off-the-books group who risk their lives every day against criminals, gunrunners, and terrorists, and fall in love along the way. “Hot and exciting! Romantic suspense at its best!” ~ Heather, Goodreads reviewer In 1st Shock, you’ll meet two very different sisters who make one killer team. Meg and Charlie run Schock Investigations and specialize in missing persons and cold cases. Their claim to fame is taking on the cases law enforcement has failed to solve. ★★★★★ “…will hook you from the beginning and make you wish you could work alongside the sisters to solve this mystery!” ~ Goodreads reviewer Grab this starter set and find your new binge series today!

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ALG Publishing LLC

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1942504683

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9781942504689

The Philosophy of Susanne Langer

Embodied Meaning in Logic, Art and Feeling

By: Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin

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The Philosophy of Susanne Langer

Embodied Meaning in Logic, Art and Feeling

By: Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin

This book is a comprehensive study of one of the most insightful and fertile but also most neglected philosophers of the twentieth century, Susanne Langer. Failure to recognise Langer's seminal philosophical sources has led to frequent misinterpretations and misunderstandings of her unique philosophical thought. Beginning with an overview of Langer's life and education, this study provides a much-needed explanation of how Langer's thinking was shaped by four seminal sources: her mentors Henry Sheffer and Alfred North Whitehead and the European philosophers Ernst Cassirer and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Langer's ability to unite seemingly disparate fields such logic, art, and embodied cognition around the notion of symbolic form, places aesthetics not at the margins of philosophy but at its very centre. By locating Langer's work in the broader context of major developments in twentieth-century European and American philosophy, Dengerink Chaplin shows how she was often ahead of her time. Shedding new light on Langer as an American philosopher whose innovative thought crosses the customary boundaries between analytic and continental philosophy, this book confirms why she continues to have relevance today.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350030589

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9781350030589

A Powerful Mind

The Self-Education of George Washington

By: Adrienne M. Harrison

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A Powerful Mind

The Self-Education of George Washington

By: Adrienne M. Harrison

His formal schooling abruptly cut off at age eleven, George Washington saw his boyhood dream of joining the British army evaporate and recognized that even his aspiration to rise in colonial Virginian agricultural society would be difficult. Throughout his life he faced challenges for which he lacked the academic foundations shared by his more highly educated contemporaries. Yet Washington’s legacy is clearly not one of failure. Breaking new ground in Washington scholarship and American revolutionary history, Adrienne M. Harrison investigates the first president’s dedicated process of self-directed learning through reading, a facet of his character and leadership long neglected by historians and biographers. In A Powerful Mind, Harrison shows that Washington rose to meet these trials through a committed campaign of highly focused reading, educating himself on exactly what he needed to do and how best to do it. In contrast to other famous figures of the revolution—Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin—Washington did not relish learning for its own sake, viewing self-education instead as a tool for shaping himself into the person he wanted to be. His two highest-profile and highest-risk endeavors—commander in chief of the Continental Army and president of the fledgling United States—are a testament to the success of his strategy.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1612347916

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9781612347912

Walking Brooklyn

30 tours exploring historical legacies, neighborhood culture, side streets and waterways

By: Adrienne Onofri

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Walking Brooklyn

30 tours exploring historical legacies, neighborhood culture, side streets and waterways

By: Adrienne Onofri

Adrienne Onofri has created an exceptional guide to and through Brooklyn’s most interesting and notable neighborhoods, providing a mix of information about culture, history, architecture, places to eat, venues to visit, and more. From a walk through the Russian-influenced Brighton Beach, to the expansive Prospect Park, and out to Red Hook, Walking Brooklyn reveals the many layers and sites of Manhattan’s lesser-known neighbor. This two-color book features 30 routes, a clear neighborhood map for each walk, black-and-white photographs, and critical public transportation information for every trip. Route summaries make each walk easy to follow, and a “Points of Interest” section outlines each walk’s highlights.

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Wilderness Press

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0899974309

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9780899974309

Tit for Tat

By: Adrienne Fox

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Tit for Tat

By: Adrienne Fox

When Geoff Pollard, epitome of middle class middle England, is entrapped by ex-pupil Catherine Hosker into an affair through which she enacts her revenge on society, both he and his family are precipitated into a series of bizarre events. Eleanor, his beautiful but unstable wife vows revenge, but thanks to her HRT, a holiday in France and the advent of new friends loses interest in wreaking the havoc she has vowed. Their three talented offspring reap unexpected good fortune in the face of family financial ruin, and although they hover on the brink of disaster, there is always someone around to avert catastrophe. Best of all is the great boost to the family morale coming from Jake, the attractive ex-boyfriend of Jo, who has come to lodge with the Pollards. Jake is not only entertaining but helpful, decorative and generally adored by Eleanor, Andrew, and Anitra. He is the answer to a family prayer; a lodger who contributes not only financially but personally. However, Jake's personal contributions turn out to be very personal indeed, and while the family negotiates its way through a minefield of crises, Jake leaves his mark on them all in his own exceedingly charming fashion. As skeletons are bundled into cupboards, and Eleanor takes refuge in histrionic unconventionality, Geoff is gradually diminished by despair, only to find some path to redemption as a result of Jake's opportunistic behaviour. When Eleanor takes stock of their plight and concludes, "In the History of Evolution, this sort of situation ranks way down the spectrum as a cosmic joke." she utters the only understatement of her dramatic role in this turbulent family.

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1491895918

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9781491895917

How We Hope

A Moral Psychology

By: Adrienne Martin

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How We Hope

A Moral Psychology

By: Adrienne Martin

What exactly is hope and how does it influence our decisions? In How We Hope, Adrienne Martin presents a novel account of hope, the motivational resources it presupposes, and its function in our practical lives. She contends that hoping for an outcome means treating certain feelings, plans, and imaginings as justified, and that hope thereby involves sophisticated reflective and conceptual capacities. Martin develops this original perspective on hope--what she calls the "incorporation analysis"--in contrast to the two dominant philosophical conceptions of hope: the orthodox definition, where hoping for an outcome is simply desiring it while thinking it possible, and agent-centered views, where hoping for an outcome is setting oneself to pursue it. In exploring how hope influences our decisions, she establishes that it is not always a positive motivational force and can render us complacent. She also examines the relationship between hope and faith, both religious and secular, and identifies a previously unnoted form of hope: normative or interpersonal hope. When we place normative hope in people, we relate to them as responsible agents and aspire for them to overcome challenges arising from situation or character. Demonstrating that hope merits rigorous philosophical investigation, both in its own right and in virtue of what it reveals about the nature of human emotion and motivation, How We Hope offers an original, sustained look at a largely neglected topic in philosophy.

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Princeton University Press

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1400848709

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9781400848706

Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina

By: Adrienne Spinozzi,Michael J. Bramwell,Vincent Brown,Katherine C. Hughes,Ethan W. Lasser,Simone Leigh,Jason R. Young

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Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina

By: Adrienne Spinozzi,Michael J. Bramwell,Vincent Brown,Katherine C. Hughes,Ethan W. Lasser,Simone Leigh,Jason R. Young

A reckoning of the central role of enslaved and free Black potters in the long-standing stoneware traditions of Edgefield, South Carolina Recentering the development of industrially scaled Southern pottery traditions around enslaved and free Black potters working in the mid-nineteenth century, this catalogue presents groundbreaking scholarship and new perspectives on stoneware made in Edgefield, South Carolina. Among the remarkable works included are a selection of regional face vessels as well as masterpieces by enslaved potter and poet David Drake, who signed, dated, and incised verses on many of his jars, even though literacy among enslaved people was criminalized at the time. Essays on the production, collection, dispersal, and reception of stoneware from Edgefield offer a critical look at what it means to collect, exhibit, and interpret objects made by enslaved artisans. Several featured contemporary works inspired by or related to Edgefield stoneware attest to the cultural and historical significance of this body of work, and an interview with acclaimed contemporary artist Simone Leigh illuminates its continued relevance.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588397262

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9781588397263

Postfeminism and Health

Critical Psychology and Media Perspectives

By: Sarah Riley,Adrienne Evans,Martine Robson

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Postfeminism and Health

Critical Psychology and Media Perspectives

By: Sarah Riley,Adrienne Evans,Martine Robson

Winner of the 2021 BPS Book Award: Academic Text category, this groundbreaking book employs a transdisciplinary and poststructuralist methodology to develop the concept of ‘postfeminist healthism,’ a twenty-first-century understanding of women’s physical and mental health formed at the intersections of postfeminist sensibilities, neoliberal constructs of citizenship and the notion of health as an individual responsibility managed through consumption. Postfeminist healthism is used in this book to explore seven topics where postfeminist sensibility has the most impact on women’s health: self-help, weight, surgical technologies, sex, pregnancy, responsibilities for others’ health and pro-anorexia communities. The book explores the ways in which the desire to be normal and live a good life is tied to expectations of ‘normal-perfection’ circulated across interpersonal interactions, media representations and expert discourses. It diagnoses postfeminist healthism as unhealthy for both those women who participate in it and those whom it excludes and considers how more positive directions may emerge. By exploring the under-researched intersection of postfeminism and health studies, this book will be invaluable to researchers and students in psychology, gender and women’s studies, health research, media studies and sociology.

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Routledge

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1317301536

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9781317301530

The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess

The Polemics of Sameness in Medieval English Anti-Judaism

By: Adrienne Williams Boyarin

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The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess

The Polemics of Sameness in Medieval English Anti-Judaism

By: Adrienne Williams Boyarin

In the Plea Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews, Trinity Term 1277, Adrienne Williams Boyarin finds the case of one Sampson son of Samuel, a Jew of Northampton, arrested for impersonating a Franciscan friar and preaching false Christianity. He was sentenced to walk for three days through the centers of London, Canterbury, Oxford, Lincoln, and Northampton carrying the entrails and flayed skin of a calf and exposing his naked, circumcised body to onlookers. Sampson's crime and sentence, Williams Boyarin argues, suggest that he made a convincing friar—when clothed. Indeed, many English texts of this era struggle with the similarities of Jews and Christians, but especially of Jewish and Christian women. Unlike men, Jewish women did not typically wear specific identifying clothing, nor were they represented as physiognomically distinct. Williams Boyarin observes that both before and after the periods in which art historians note a consistent visual repertoire of villainy and difference around Jewish men, English authors highlight and exploit Jewish women's indistinguishability from Christians. Exploring what she calls a "polemics of sameness," she elucidates an essential part of the rhetoric employed by medieval anti-Jewish materials, which could assimilate the Jew into the Christian and, as a consequence, render the Jewess a dangerous but unseeable enemy or a sign of the always-convertible self. The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess considers realities and fantasies of indistinguishability. It focuses on how medieval Christians could identify with Jews and even think of themselves as Jewish—positively or negatively, historically or figurally. Williams Boyarin identifies and explores polemics of sameness through a broad range of theological, historical, and literary works from medieval England before turning more specifically to stereotypes of Jewish women and the ways in which rhetorical strategies that blur the line between "saming" and "othering" reveal gendered habits of representation.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812297504

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9780812297508

Living Organic

Easy Steps to an Organic Family Lifestyle

By: Adrienne Clarke,Helen Porter,Helen Quested,Patricia Thomas

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Living Organic

Easy Steps to an Organic Family Lifestyle

By: Adrienne Clarke,Helen Porter,Helen Quested,Patricia Thomas

In 1948 British Rail came into being and with it a new era in railway history. The glory days of steam were numbered and when railway photographers like author Wrenford Thatcher were eagerly snapping their favorite locomotives in the 1950s and 1960s, British Rail were busily introducing many diverse diesel locomotive designs as part of the program to eliminate steam traction. Wrenford Thatcher’s collection of evocative photographs is divided into eastern, southern, western, and midland regions, revealing the changes occurring on the London railways in the post-war years. From Euston and Paddington right out to the suburbs all around London, these stunning, previously unpublished images beautifully record the last great days of steam.

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1570716803

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9781570716805

Frommer's New Zealand

By: Adrienne Rewi

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Frommer's New Zealand

By: Adrienne Rewi

Written by a New Zealand resident, and full of personal insights and opinions, this guide takes you to one of the world’s most exciting ecotourism destinations! It’s much more complete and in-depth than its major competition. Whether you’re dreaming of hiking along the Marlborough Sound, trout fishing in Lake Rotorua, driving the Milford Road, or feasting on sumptuous green-lipped mussels or succulent lamb, this detailed guide will help you plan the trip of a lifetime. You’ll also find the latest on nightlife in Auckland and Wellington and the best places to lay your head after an adventure-filled day.

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*Frommers

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0470178353

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9780470178355

Fatherhood Reclaimed

The Making of the Modern Father

By: Adrienne Burgess

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Fatherhood Reclaimed

The Making of the Modern Father

By: Adrienne Burgess

Providing an exploration of modern fatherhood, this book is based on sociological, anthropological and historical research. It draws on interviews with a wide range of fathers as well as excerpts from diaries and biographies to look at the experience of being a father.

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Random House (UK)

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0091816548

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9780091816544

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